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West Africa

The West Indies lost the first match of the T20 series with South Africa by 13 runs. The second match, on the same ground, was a must-win situation for the home team, which was desperate to return to winning ways. On a sunny afternoon at Sir Vivian Richards Stadium, West Indies captain Chris Gayle won the toss and asked South Africa to bat first - just as in the first match. The visitors made three changes to their starting eleven. David Miller made his T20 international debut, while Lonwabo Tsotsobe and Morne Morkel got starts.

Loots Bosman opened with Graeme Smith. Just as in the first game, Bosman did not give the scorers much work to do - out for nought in the second over. The next to go was Smith, who had his bails disturbed by Jerome Taylor; South Africa was 27/2. Towards the end of the eighth over, Dwayne Bravo caught AB de Villiers at backward point; South Africa was 42/3. The Proteas lost Duminy and Petersen soon thereafter, to find themselves struggling at 59/5.

Debutant David Miller and Johan Botha, with some lusty hitting, took the score from 59/5 to 116/6 in just seven overs. Fast bowler Jerome Taylor bowled a fine last over to leave the South Africans on 120/7 off their allotted 20 overs. With 3/14 off four overs, Taylor was the pick of the bowlers. Darren Sammy (2/16) and Dwayne Brave (0/20) also bowled tidily.

Dale Steyn helped to underscore the difficult nature of the pitch as he got Chris Gayle out in the first over, lbw for nought. The clueless Andre Fletcher (4) departed with an uneducated pull shot against Morne Morkel; West Indies were 9/2. Dwayne Bravo and Shivnarine Chanderpaul reconstructed the innings very cautiously. By the tenth over, the home team had fewer than 40 runs. That is when the two batsmen opened up a bit to take the score to 77 in the 15th over before. Chanderpaul played a reverse sweep that did not work to be out for 29. Ten runs later, Bravo departed to a catch by Johan Botha off the bowling of Morne Morkel.

The West Indies slumped to 99/6 in the 19th over, needing 22 to win from 9 balls. The West Indies benefitted from four byes from the next delivery. At the start of the 20th over, bowled by Ryan McLaren, they needed 15 runs from 6 balls. The first ball went for two; 13 from 5 balls needed. Sammy hit the next ball for a boundary; 9 runs off four balls needed.

The third delivery yielded four runs, as the batsmen scampered for two and South Africa conceded two overthrows. However, off the next ball, Narsingh Deonarine was run out attempting a second run without being as fast as he should have been. The West Indies required three runs from one ball and Jerome Taylor, the new batsman, had the strike. The last ball was hit for a single and South Africa took the match by the narrowest of margins - one run.

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West Africa includes Senegal, Gambia, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Togo, Liberia, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Ghana, Angola, Namibia, and Gabon.

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Socialist Federal Republic

Socialist Federal Republic

Constitutional Candidates for Congress

As recently as two years ago, Congressman Ron Paul introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve Bank that headed to oblivion. Year after year — beginning in 1983 — the bill never even won a committee hearing. Dr. Paul was ignored in Washington, and was a lonely voice for freedom back in his Texas congressional district.

Times have changed. Ron Paul is on a political roll. The bill Dr. Paul introduced in the current Congress to audit the Federal Reserve Bank (H.R. 1207) has more than 300 cosponsors — including every House Republican and more than 100 Democrats — and the backing of House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank. Frank has promised a committee vote, and it has a better-than-average chance of House passage this year. Dr. Paul’s new book End the Fed sailed into the top twenty of Amazon.com’s sales figures more than a month before it was available. It debuted on both Amazon.com and New York Times bestseller lists, and sales remain strong even today. His old presidential campaign has rolled over into a “Campaign for Liberty” that has raised more than $4 million since its founding in February of this year.

More importantly, his presidential campaign evidently inspired dozens of candidates for congressional office across the nation who seek to reform Congress from a constitutionalist perspective. And several of them are both well funded and being taken seriously by the political establishment.

Rand Paul
Rand PaulPrime among these constitutionalist “Ron Paul” candidates is the Congressman’s third child, Dr. Rand Paul. While the elder Dr. Paul was an obstetrician by trade before being elected to Congress, Dr. Rand Paul is an eye surgeon (ophthalmologist). The 46-year-old Dr. Rand Paul announced his candidacy for the open U.S. Senate seat in Kentucky in August. Days before Dr. Paul’s announcement, incumbent Republican Jim Bunning had bowed out of a reelection contest after Kentucky’s establishment Republican Senator Mitch McConnell (who is also the Senate Minority Leader) had made fundraising in Washington difficult for Bunning. “Over the past year,” Bunning said, “some of the leaders of the Republican Party in the Senate have done everything in their power to dry up my fundraising. The simple fact is that I have not raised the funds necessary to run an effective campaign for the U.S. Senate.” Time magazine on July 29 explained that the “some leaders” Bunning was talking about was his fellow Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell: “He quietly signaled to Republican moneymen that they ought to wait Bunning out. Party leaders in Washington met with a potential primary opponent.... McConnell’s strategy ultimately worked.”

Dr. Rand Paul is the founder of the conservative Kentucky Taxpayers United and has also campaigned for his father, so he isn’t a stranger to politics. But he hasn’t seen McConnell open the monetary floodgates from Washington on his behalf either. Politico.com has noted that “the GOP establishment has lined up behind Secretary of State Trey Grayson.” Perhaps Grayson is favored by the Washington Republican establishment because Grayson’s campaign website is bereft of mention of bringing the federal government back within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution. By way of contrast, Rand Paul has made the Constitution a centerpiece of his campaign. “The Federal Government must return to its constitutionally enumerated powers and restore our inalienable rights,” the younger Dr. Paul says on his campaign website, in an echo of his father’s principles. “America can prosper, preserve personal liberty, and repel national security threats without intruding into the personal lives of its citizens.”

The fact that the establishment isn’t behind him hasn’t hurt Rand Paul in the crucial fundraising part of the race; he raised more than $1.1 million by the end of the third quarter of this year. Grayson’s Washington fundraising, which included a $500 per plate fundraiser hosted by McConnell on September 23, has been matched by Dr. Paul’s vibrant Internet strategy dollar-for-dollar thus far. “We actually outraised both Democrats and our primary opponents this past quarter,” Dr. Paul told The New American.

Rand Paul is quick to say that his first problem was “name recognition,” though he told The New American “we are now probably very close to being on a par with our primary opponent now.” Of the two, Grayson has been far better known in Kentucky; he’s been the Secretary of State for five years. Therefore, even though Grayson’s polling numbers were stronger back in August, 40 percent to Dr. Paul’s 25 percent according to an August poll, Rand Paul is being given a good chance of prevailing by professional political observers. Dr. Paul has numbers to back up his statement that he’s pulled up to a par with Grayson. An October Rasmussen poll put Paul’s and Grayson’s “favorability” percentages within the poll’s margin of error, and a November WHAS11/Survey USA poll put Paul ahead at 35 to 32 percent.

If the younger Dr. Paul survives the Republican primary, he has a better-than-even chance of winning the GOP-leaning Kentucky general election. Democrats who face a Republican candidacy of Rand Paul would not only face a united conservative base but also significant crossover from some traditionally Democratic voting groups, especially those opposing unnecessary wars and assaults on civil liberties under the guise of the “war on terror.” Dr. Paul told The New American that he maintains a bipartisan appeal that criticizes both parties when they are at fault, “On the stump I promise that I will vote against any budget that is not balanced, either Republican or Democrat.” The crossover phenomenon may even impact the primaries, as many have changed from independents or Democratic registration to vote for him in the primary. “We re-register people a lot of the time, and there is a lot of crossover.”

Peter Schiff
Peter SchiffAnother well-funded Ron Paul presidential campaign supporter is Connecticut-based Peter Schiff, who had been an economic adviser to the Ron Paul presidential campaign. Schiff has become an Internet sensation on his own as president of Euro-Pacific Capital, largely because he accurately predicted the current economic recession with astonishing precision on a variety of financial television talk shows. He not only predicted the current recession in 2006 and 2007, he also explained why it would happen to pundits who often laughed at him for predicting the housing boom would go bust. In 2008, some of his friends put together a montage of his television clips called “Peter Schiff Was Right” and posted it on YouTube. The clips received several million views and dramatically increased demand for Schiff’s guest appearances on national television shows.

Schiff is an acolyte of the free-market “Austrian School” of economics, is for ending America’s military interventions abroad, and is emphatic about returning the federal government to the limits of the U.S. Constitution’s delegated powers.

Schiff announced in September that he would run for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut against longtime incumbent Christopher Dodd. Dodd would ordinarily be considered a safe incumbent. On paper, Dodd is an entrenched Democrat in a Democratic-leaning state, but the 28-year incumbent is considered highly vulnerable this time around. As chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, he was the Senator who could have — and should have — raised the alarm about the housing bubble. But instead, Dodd built a cozy relationship with sub-prime lender Countrywide. Although technically cleared of ethics violations in a recent investigation concluded August 7, the Senate inquiry criticized Dodd’s efforts as less than cautious. “The committee does believe that you should have exercised more vigilance in your dealings with Countrywide in order to avoid the appearance that you were receiving preferential treatment based on your status as a senator,” the Senate Ethics Committee concluded. Dodd also has personal health issues to deal with this time around. Last summer he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, so he may not be able to wage as vigorous a campaign as in the past.

As a result of Dodd’s recent missteps, Schiff will have to get in line to have a crack at him. The Republican Party smells blood, and a number of other Republicans have declared their candidacies as well. Among the better known are World Wrestling Entertainment CEO Linda McMahon and former Congressman Rob Simmons, who appears to be the early front-runner. Schiff’s greatest challenge may be winning the Republican primary. With his financial background and his accurate economic predictions, he’s the perfect constitutionalist foil for the leftist Dodd in a general election. But despite already having raised more than $1.1 million in Internet donations for his campaign, he barely registers in polling data. That’s perhaps expected, since he’s a political novice in the Republican Party and outside his coterie of YouTube followers he’s virtually unknown in Connecticut.

Schiff will definitely need that impressive $1.1 million he’s already raised, and more, in order to introduce himself to more Connecticut primary voters if he wants to win. He’ll also have to mobilize a local army of volunteers in Connecticut. If he can do that, Schiff could become the next Senator from Connecticut.

Adam Kokesh
Adam KokeshAdam Kokesh is best known as an Iraq War veteran who returned opposed to the war and was a keynote speaker at Ron Paul’s “Rally for the Republic” that competed with the Republican National Convention in the summer of 2008. He volunteered for service in Iraq, where he witnessed the bureaucracy, waste, and corruption in the U.S. reconstruction of that country. According to his campaign website, he emerged from the military a strict noninterventionist in foreign policy and defender of Congress’ constitutional authority to declare war:

Inherent with the right to self-defense is the right to collective self-defense, and in the world that we live in, this is the most important function of the federal government. To ensure that this power is used responsibly, Congress, as the best representation of the people, was given the exclusive power to declare war.... The executive branch has set a dangerous precedent by taking powers that are supposed to be vested in the Congress. By not abiding by the Constitution and using the collective wisdom of the Congress to ensure judicious use of force, we find ourselves spending hundreds of billions more than is necessary for legitimate defense.

Kokesh has echoed Rep. Paul’s position on the Federal Reserve Bank, called for a smaller government role in the management of healthcare, and pronounced a nuanced view about the immigration issue.

Kokesh has an uphill battle as a Republican in New Mexico’s heavily Democratic Third District against freshman Democrat Ben R. Luján. Luján hasn’t had much time to dig in as an incumbent, but his northern New Mexico district hasn’t been won by a Republican since 1996. Kokesh, in his favor, was able to tell The New American that he has raised over $100,000 in donations in the first few months of his candidacy. “What was shocking for me was that for the third quarter we actually beat Luján,” he told The New American. That goes a long way toward making up for the $100,000 Washington, D.C., fundraiser Democratic Majority Leader Steny Hoyer hosted earlier this year for Luján. Neither candidate is even close to the $1 million or so they’ll have to raise to wage winning a House campaign, but Kokesh’s early fundraising numbers suggest that he won’t be at a financial disadvantage on this front.

Kokesh told The New American that the traditional political wisdom in New Mexico is that “if you want to play and you want to win, you’re going to run as a Democrat.” Yet, the state has elected conservative Republicans occasionally because “a lot of those people would be Republicans anywhere else.” Kokesh notes that the local Democratic Party still postures as pro-gun and as socially conservative, and he sees a “great potential for a crossover vote, just because of those Democratic voters that have been sucked into the machine.”

And Kokesh’s anti-war, noninterventionist foreign policy, and pro-civil liberties positions just may have the decisive bipartisan appeal he’ll need. “People [are] calling to say they are changing their party registration so they can vote in the primary” for him, he told The New American. But if people can see through to the principles of the Constitution, the liberal media is still seeing things in terms of the phony left-right spectrum. The local weekly news magazine Santa Fe Reporter published an article on congressional candidates called “The Early Birds” on July 29, labeling Kokesh a right-winger. “They gave me a 4.2 out of 5 for being true conservative,” Kokesh said, “then two or three months later, they wrote about how I had all of these liberal ideologies.” The Marine Corps veteran says, “To me … one of the biggest frustrations and also one of the most rewarding things about this race is taking on the left-right spectrum.”

Also in Kokesh’s favor is the expectation that most analysts believe 2010 will be a Republican year, just as 1994 and 1996 were. Count Kokesh as an underdog, but he may have a shot.

Other Candidates
R.J. HarrisThese are only three of the better known among more than a dozen candidates nationwide who have been inspired by Ron Paul’s 2008 candidacy to run for the House or Senate. It has almost taken on the form of a slate in some quarters, as Internet fundraisers like ThisNovember5th.com are seeking to raise funds for more than a dozen candidates on the same day as Ron Paul’s 2007 “money bomb” when he raised a then-record $4 million in a single day. The idea of Internet “money bombs” has proliferated among the constitutionalist movement, often resulting in more frequent but smaller one-day fundraising numbers for candidates. This year’s money bomblets have netted from tens of thousands to several hundred thousand dollars on a single day for the better-known candidates. And while this article will be at press on November 5, tens of thousand dollars were pledged two weeks in advance of the day. But ThisNovember5th.com is only one of many independent efforts to raise funds for constitutionalist candidates and enable them to become independent of the Washington, D.C., fundraisers and not beholden to power-brokers in the same quarters.

Among the ThisNovember5th.com candidates is Marine Corps veteran David W. Hedrick, who is running against five-term liberal Democratic Congressman Brian Baird of Washington’s Third Congressional District. Before announcing his candidacy, Hedrick confronted Baird at an August 18 town hall, telling him: “I also heard you say that you were going to let us keep our health insurance. Well thank you! It’s not your right to decide whether I keep my current plan or not. That’s my decision.” But that’s not all. Directly confronting the claim made by some leading Democrats that attempts to “disrupt” town hall meetings display a fascist tendency, he also told Baird:

A little history lesson. The Nazis were the National Socialist Party. They were leftists. They took over finance. They took over the car industry. They took over the health care in that country. If Nancy Pelosi wants to find a swastika, maybe the first place she should look is the sleeve of her own arm.

Meanwhile, R.J. Harris is opposing three-term incumbent Republican Tom Cole in Oklahoma’s Fourth Congressional District. A veteran commentator on Judge Andrew Napolitano’s Freedom Watch Internet show on Fox News’ website, Harris encapsulates his decision to run against a fellow Republican in a video advertisement: “How can we Republicans demand to replace the Democrat bailout voters without doing anything about our own? If we don’t clean our own house, we can expect the Democrats to do it for us.” Cole voted for the Bush bailout bill, the TARP legislation. Harris calls himself a “constitutional conservative Republican” and says, “I will never vote for bailouts, required servitude, taxation without representation or give your money to foreign governments. However, Tom Cole has voted for all of these things.”

Jake TowneJake Towne of Pennsylvania’s 15th District will also try to make Republicans honest by running against liberal Republican incumbent Charlie Dent (The New American’s Freedom Index rating: 40 percent).

Minuteman founder Chris Simcox, though not a newcomer to politics as a result of the Ron Paul 2008 presidential bid, has announced a challenge against John McCain’s Senate seat in Arizona and has been put on the ThisNovember5th.com fundraising list.

Dr. Mike Vasovski in South Carolina’s Third District will run in a crowded Republican primary for an open congression-al seat.

Other House of Representatives candidates ThisNovemer5th.com will be raising funds for include John Dennis (California), Jaynee Germond (Oregon), David Ratowitz (Illinois), Bob Parker (Missouri), and both Collins Baily and Robert Broadus of Maryland.
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Ron Paul and his dedicated followers were the tail of the GOP dog during the 2008 campaign, but a proliferation of “Paulite” constitutional candidates in 2010 may find the tail wagging the dog.

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Why do liberals want to change our government from a federalist republic to a socialist state?

The ever-expanding government is far above and beyond what was envisioned by the founding fathers and provisioned for in the constitution. For example, how is it the federal government's responsibility to provide universal health-care?
Protection of life and property right is the primary responsibility of the federal government. This protection is extended by the Bill of Rights and ammendments to the constitution. No where does it say that health care is a right. It's a privilege. Those who cannot afford it must rely on the generosity of those who can. The same goes for any other welfare program.
I also acknowledge the distinction between the terms Liberal and Democrat or Conservative and Republican. Many Republicans are as guilty of expanding government as Democrats are.

Ten years after they socialize medicine in this country without an alternative will be disastrous.

There are very few hospitals worth being in, even in a life threatening situation, in Europe.

Socialized medicine may provide for everyone in a non-emergency situation, but what would be the quality?

Capitalism works. In economics they call it the invisible hand principle.

With their taxes, the rich help pay for:
public schools (while sending their own kids to private schools)
police (while paying for private security and private security systems... most police patrol worse neighborhoods)
Public transportation (while paying for Limos)
The rich are the highest taxed even though they don't use much of the benefits.

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British One

British One

Speak With a British Slang Tend to Over Stress

If you are a British in America try to speak without the British slang and save quite a big deal of bewilderment.  Well, it is not a disease it is just a regional dialect and sometimes you might feel funny and sometimes embarrassed.  By all means it becomes enjoyable for a future joke, when you are applying your British slang in a place where it is not used widely. Truly Americans use less slang than the British contrary to popular beliefs but still there is slang for Americans too.  Slang changes pretty quickly some term that mean a way 10 years before might not mean the same today.  If a British is going to mention knocked up for someone that is rapping on the door to an American, the situation can be funny, because Knock up in American slang means pregnant.

There are many words that are used in American with a totally different pronunciation when put in to use in the British slang like schedule spelt “sh” and schedule “sk” in American.  Many Americans that are trying to speak with a British slang tend to over stress on “mahss” and “fahncy” when truly they might not need to be doing it.  When we are trying to mimic the British slang without knowing where to place the stress on we tend to kill the richness and naturalness of that speech.  Similarly people that are used to British slang if they try to be American they will be using the term “too often” in wrong places!

•    CUPPA is a British slang word to say cup tea or.  They tend to use it as would you like to have a nice cuppa?
•    GIT in British refers to a silly fool
•    Full of Beans in British slang refers to someone with loads of energy.
•    Loo in British slang refers to a room with a toilet or just a toilet fixture.  It is commonly used as going to the Loo.
•    Sister in British slang refers to the Nurse.
•    Straight away in British slang refers to do something immediately.
•    Surgery is a British slang for the doctor’s office.

Well, there is truly no complete book that gives a comprehensive explanation of all the British slang in existence. However, learning new slang words can be like remembering a lot of your high school friend who was British! Enjoy learning British Slang with any of the online British slag resource.

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Facts about british soldiers uiniform in world war one?

I want to know at least 5 facts about the uniform of the averge british soldier in wourld war one (the great war)

1. The round helmet was based loosely on mediaeval helmets. The round shape and brim was designed to provide protection from artillery shrapnel coming from above. It was not designed to stop bullets, and actually no helmet until recently was actually designed to stop bullets.
2. The British had begun to switch to khaki uniforms in the late nineteenth century, and made a full transition from red to olive and khaki around 1898. Khaki was first worn by Indian troops (the word "khaki" is an Indian word) and it provided effective camouflage in the desert. The green tint came about as a result of the Boer War in South Africa in 1900. The British modernized their uniform to combat the Boer guerrillas, and as a result of that war, the British entered World War One with the most modern uniforms and equipment of any army.
3. Most British soldiers wore puttees, which are long strips of cloth wrapped around the lower legs. Puttees are another Indian invention. They provide ankle support, while also closing off the bottom of the trouser, which prevents mud and bugs getting up the trouser legs. They also save on the cost of making a tall boot with lots of leather. With puttees you only need a short ankle boot. Most armies switched to puttees by the end of the war, notably the Germans who ran out of leather to make the tall boots they are famous for.
4. The British developed unit patches for combat troops. Most armies had identifying marks on their uniforms, such as numbers, different color piping, or hat bands, but the British developed a very simple system which involved square or diamond shaped patches, usually divided into two colors, such as red and black (which was worn by ANZACs) or yellow and red. This patch was usually on the shoulder but was also painted on the side of the helmet, and occasionally on the back of the collar. The British still wear patches like this to this day.
5. In the Middle East, the British wore cork sun helmets, which look more like a tall version of the steel helmet or a wide-brimmed pith helmet. The British were more worried about heat casualties than artillery casualties, so the uniform itself was light cotton, usually khaki or tan, and I believe they occasionally wore shorts.

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Harp Bird

Visions

Visions

  Then He said, “Hear now My words; if there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, make Myself known to him in a vision; I speak to him in a dream (Numbers 12:6, emphasis added).

 The Holy Spirit shares sometimes His omniscience with us in the form of visions. Visions are one of many ways in which the Holy Spirit reveals the will of the Father to us. In revealing His will to us, God purposed to bring us forth into the image of His Son. A vision is a visual revelation, which the Holy Spirit imparts into our spirits which then filters through to our minds, concerning past, present or future events or circumstances:  knowledge and/or wisdom otherwise unknown. Occasional it includes audible communication.

Eagle and the ostrich

Why do I want to tell you about the eagle and the ostrich? It is the best way for me to explain to you how to see visions.

This morning I said to the God, “Lord I see the arrogance of my flesh.” He said to me, “My Son has nailed that to the cross. Come up here and behold what I behold.” I said Lord, “What do you see?” I could here Him say, “An army of worshippers marching to war; singing the praises of God. In their mouth is a two-edged sword and in their hearts is a song. Song of triumph; song of victory; song of Jehovah who rules and reigns.” You know what? I believe it. All I ever wanted to do was to please God. I only need to have faith in Him to bring Him joy and fulfillment.

Without a vision you will perish. The eagle soars in the heavens and with its sharp vision it can spot its prey far off. It can soar above the mountains and have horizons vaster then any other animal on earth. It is the bird with the least parasites because parasites do not survive high altitude where the air is thin. Yet, if you caged an eagle it attracts more parasites then any other bird.

The eagle builds its nest on high places. Though you make your nest as high as the eagle… (Jeremiah 49 16b). This symbolizes one that dwells in the spirit. This is the place where the mighty prophets of God and faith heroes dwell.

The eagle is depicted in the Old Testament as a bird caring for her young and as one teaches them how to fly. As an eagle stirs up its nest, hovers over its young, spreading out its wings, taking them up, carrying them on its wings (Deuteronomy 32:11). She will take her young up in the sky and dropped them. This is how she teaches them to fly. Before the young eagle will hit the ground she will scoop underneath it and catches it. She will repeat this process until the young eagle can fly.

I had an eagle when I was a child. This eagle only ate life birds that I gave him. It would not touch any dead meet, it did not matter how fresh it was. When I put his cage outside, he would turn his head to the side and gaze intently into the blue sky where he knew he belonged. One day my father told me to let him free. I did so and for some time, every day, I could see him, at certain times of the day, sitting in a huge acacia tree, about 150 yards from our farm house. One day he was gone and I never saw him again. He discovered his newfound freedom and took off.

The Ostrich is a bird of the earth because it cannot fly. It beholds only that which is earthy but the eagle beholds the sky, the higher things of God. The ostrich is depicted in the Old Testament as among the wild desert beast that dwells in desolation of wastelands. Therefore the wild desert beasts shall dwell there with the jackals, and the ostriches shall dwell in it. It shall be inhabited no more forever, nor shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation (Jeremiah 50:39).

The ostrich is illustrated as proud, unkind and stupid. The wings of the ostrich wave proudly, but are her wings and pinions like the kindly stork’s? For she leaves her eggs on the ground, and warms them in the dust; she forgets that a foot may crush them. She treats her young harshly, as though they were not hers; her labor is in vain, without concern because God deprived her of wisdom, and did not endow her with understanding (Job 39:13-17).

Ostrich chickens are difficult to rear because they die easily. Today they may seem fine but tomorrow they may die mysteriously seemingly without reason. In South Africa there are quite a number of ostrich farmers. They have the following standard joke about ostrich chickens: an ostrich chicken may get up one morning look out of the window and say to the rest, “Hi guys, it is a fine morning to die. Let’s die.” Then mysteriously most of them die.

The Ostrich loves to peck shiny objects and even diamonds were found in the gizzards of some of these birds. The Ostrich symbolizes those that live an earthy life after the dictates of the old nature. They experience the desolation of the wasteland they live in. They see the cares of this world, getting excited about side issues (shiny objects) and live a life void of faith. They cannot please God and they do not reveal much glory of the Son of God. They only exist as mere men. The love of Christ does not dwell in them but true love belongs to the realm of heaven where Christ dwells, where the eagle carries it young on its wings.

The earthy level is a level void of deep perception and revelation of spiritual matters. It is void of the fruit of the Spirit where mercy, grace and the love of God dwell. The glory of God is not to be found in the desolation of wasteland and marshes of religious flesh. It is a place where vision has ceased and the cry for godly understanding and insight is replaced with the garlic, unions and leaks of a place called Religious City. This is the level where the pointing of the finger and sitting in the chair of Moses dominates. This is the place where the clouds of condemnation wear the people down.

True freedom is to be like the eagle that dwells on high. Although you may hear the word of God preached by a man of God you need to hunt for your own fresh revelation. Just like the eagle that only catches life prey. You need to have your spirit open to God if you want to see visions. When I pray much I saw visions, almost everyday. If I am not praying much I do not see much visions. This is not a law but part of the fruit of my love unto the Lord. I just tell you my experience. It is not performing prayers or other works that cause you to see visions but the focus of your faith and the openness of your spirit in love to God. You have received the Spirit by faith and not by works. You see visions also through faith. Sometimes God intervenes but mostly you see visions through faith.

When Ezekiel was among the captives in Babylon, at the River Chebar, he saw visions of God. The captives were not in a frame of my mind to sing joyful songs because they remembered Jerusalem and Zion. They wished at the time to hang up their harps on willow trees. But Ezekiel was of a different spirit, not like them which were captives of the ostrich spirit. He soared up like an eagle in his spirit and saw visions of God. In the vision he was taken into the land of Israel and set on a very high mountain. Although he lived with the rest of the captives as a captive at the River Chebar in Babylon he was free in his spirit because his focus was on God since he served with all of his heart.

John was exiled to Patmos, a small rocky island in the Aegean Sea, because he refused to stop preaching the gospel. So, one day while he was with all other exiles on the island Patmos he was in the Spirit and he saw visions of the Son of God. Where was his body? His body was with the rest of the captives. Where were his focus and spirit? His spirit was in the presence of God.

When Abraham was called to a place, which he would receive as an inheritance he went out but did not know where he was going. He lived, through faith, in the Promised Land, as in a foreign country, living in tents, with Isaac and Jacob the heirs of the same promise. He was in the Promised Land, so, what was he actually doing? Abraham was actually looking for a city, which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. Because God has placed eternity in him, something deep inside of him said this could not be all. So he set his focus on God to receive something much greater and glorious.

How do you see visions?

Visions are visual revelation that originates in the realm of the Spirit or heaven where God dwells. Visions can also occur in the realm of the soul, as psychics also see visions but its source is the soul power of man or demonic spirits. These occur in the psychic or soulish realm. I will concentrate on visions that are visual revelation from the Holy Spirit, which came from heaven even the heart of God.

All spiritual revelation, including spiritual dreams and divine visions are gifts from heaven that is in the realm of Spirit where God dwells. If you want to experience a certain place on earth, say Greece, you will travel to Greece and do as the Greeks do to have the ultimate Greek experience. The spiritual was not first but the natural. So, if you wish to experience heaven, you as an earth dweller, need to dwell with your spirit in heaven to experience heaven. Heaven or the realm of Spirit is where one normally experience divine visions and revelation and spiritual dreams. The price to pay is to dwell in the Spirit. I do not say you will never see visions if you do not dwell in the Spirit. God is gracious and his patience with us is great.

When do you see visions? John said, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day…” (Revelation 1:10a). John was with the other exiles on the island Patmos but his spirit was in heaven seeing visions of God. What about Ezekiel? The word of the Lord came expressly to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans  by the River Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was upon him there (Ezekiel 1:3). Ezekiel was with his kinsmen at the river Chebar but his spirit was in heaven.

You behold the things where you dwell with your heart and spirit. If you live like the ostrich, your dwelling place is the earth. If you dwell with your mind and heart in heaven like the eagle you see the heavens opened. It is not about performing certain activities but where your heart is there is your treasure. You will not trick God in showing you visions. You either set your heart to love God and to dwell in His presence or you do not. To live in the Spirit is a healthy habit of practicing His presence all the time. It takes much dedication, patience and perseverance. The focus of your heart is not about seeing visions but to dwell in His presence and to abide in the shadow of the Almighty. It is much, much more than beautiful words; it is a reality. It is much, much more than religious exercises; it is true godliness. It is the way of Enoch and Elijah.

You begin to present your body, which is dead to God because of sin, as if it is alive to Him. That is your reasonable service to Him. Your body is the servant of your mind. By faith you present your mind that is enmity against God a living sacrifice as if it is alive to God by bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Christ, in hope that all disobedience will be punished when your obedience is fulfilled. You do it by meditating only on things that are true, noble, just, pure, lovely, of good report, virtues and praiseworthy that you may be renewed in the spirit of your mind. The focus of your heart is to worship God by knowing Him in all your ways. You may say I am working and must focus on my work. Well, it is a very good opportunity to discuss your work with the Lord; make Him the senior partner in everything you do. Do not live an independent life from Him, which is death; share His life with Him and discover how easy life really is. Then your whole life has become worship unto the Lord. This is the introduction to see visions. You can only see the environment that you dwell in.

I will teach you more things of the Spirit in the chapter titled, “Living in the Spirit.” It is so easy if you believe God.

When you pray you must be relaxed and pray with expectation and focus on God. God has placed eternity in your spirit, so something deep in you reaches out to God. When you are tensed you do not see visions. You must have a relaxed focus on God. Sometimes I do not want to pray with my understanding but I will rather pray in tongues. Do not worry if you fall a sleep. I have seen the most awesome visions being in a state between being awake and sleeping.

When I wait on the Lord I will wait with expectation yet in a relaxed manner. I will pray in tongues because my mind is unfruitful but not blank. I will keep my mind on God. I always see Him as a bright light or experience Him as the wind. Sometimes I envisage Jesus as I have seen Him in a vision or a dream. Find your own Biblical examples. You can see Him as the cliff of the rock, chief cornerstone, or lie on His breast like John did or any Biblical thing that works for you. Never blank out your mind, it is dangerous. Sometimes I see visions and sometimes not. Visions are not important to me but to abide in God’s presence is the passion of my life.

You must look with expectation with the eyes of your heart. The believing eyes shall see visions of heaven and dream divinely inspired dreams. It will take time to condition your spirit. It will not happen overnight so be patient and persevere in faith. Also, remind the Lord all the time that dreams and visions is according to His promise in Joel 2, confirmed in Acts 2 to you and your children.

Visions can be experienced at various levels.

Normal visions

Normal visions are those visions that you see with the eyes of faith. It is a peaceful visual impression, sometimes in color but often in black and white. I normally experience this level of vision when worshipping the Lord or during personal prayer time.

Sometimes the Holy Spirit teaches me certain things. To illustrate, while I was praying sometime ago, I saw a vision of a mature prophetess teaching a young prophetess how to see visions. So the Holy Spirit taught me how to teach others to see visions.

Clear-vision

There is a deeper level of vision, which I call clear-vision which occur normally in color and often needs no interpretation. I do not experience clear-vision very often. It can happen anytime but I normally experience it when I am praying or waiting on the Lord. Then I am calm, peaceful and just enjoying the Lord. Sometime ago, one set of our house’s keys, went missing for about two days and we could not find it. As I was waiting on the Lord, I asked Him where the keys were. Then I saw in a clear-vision my son’s trousers in his bathroom and I knew that the keys were in the right-hand pocket of his trousers. And so it was.

Open-vision

The Holy Spirit occasionally imparts revelation through an open-vision experience. Open-vision occurs when the Holy Spirit imparts revelation through a vision while one’s eyes are opened and is busy with normal daily activity.

An example of this type of vision is where Saul was on his way to Damascus and then saw a light that was so intense that he was blinded. The experience also included a conversation between the Lord and Saul. The Lord asked Saul why he was persecuting Him. After the conversation was concluded the men that were with him only heard the voice without observing anybody. It is not clear from the Scriptures if they saw the light but from their reaction it seems doubtful (Acts 9:1-9). I belief this vision was so forceful that a great deal of spiritual impartation took place. For example, he received the Spirit of Christ and his heart was also immediately changed.

More examples include, Elisha who prayed to the Lord, to open his servant’s eyes so that he may also see what he saw (2 King 6:8-17) and Belshazzar, king of Babylon, who saw a part of a man’s hand that wrote a message on the wall of the king’s palace (Daniel 5:5).

I had numerous open-vision experiences. The one that is standing out the most was an occasion when a man visited us. We sat at the kitchen table and we shared the gospel of Jesus’ saving grace with this fellow. This man started to pretend he knew God. I looked at my refrigerator and saw a vision of an African Green parrot in a cage on top of it. When the parrot saw me it fled away with a distinct noise through the bars of the cage and hid behind the refrigerator. The experience was so real that the natural and spiritual surroundings were blended into the one world of Christ. The natural and spiritual environments became one, heaven and earth was one at that moment in time. I got up to look for the parrot behind the refrigerator. It is needless to say that it was not there. In the vision I discerned that the man was in bondage (the cage) and that he was just repeating what he heard in the past (like a parrot) from his mind (color green). The Holy Spirit showed me that he was pretending.

Trance

A trance is a deep level of receiving visions from God. The Greek word ekstasis is translated as trance in some English Bible translations. Ekstasis means amazement, astonishment, and trance. The New Thayer’s Greek-English Lexicon (1981, 199) describes a trance as, “A throwing of the mind out of its normal state” or “alienation of the mind” or “A man who by some sudden emotion is transported as it were out of himself, so that in this rapt condition, although he is awake, his mind is so drawn of from all surrounding objects and wholly fixed on things divine that he sees nothing but the forms and images lying within, and thinks he perceives with his bodily eyes and ears realities shown him by God.”

Some of Ezekiel’s visions fell into this category so would John’s revelation on the Isle of Patmos. A good biblical example of a directive revelation is Peter’s trance where he saw in a vision a sheet filled with unclean animals (Acts 10).  Peter being a Jew had a natural resistance to eat anything unclean or to enter into the house of a Gentile. The Holy Spirit imparted this revelation into his spirit to equip him to overcome the stumbling blocks of the Law and to visit the household of Cornelius who was a Gentile. This vision was also given to make it clear that the Lord was given as a covenant to the people and as a light to the Gentiles (Isaiah 42:6). Paul was in a trance when the Lord warned him to get out of Jerusalem (Acts 22:17-21).

Balaam fell into a trance when he saw visions concerning his third and fourth prophecies. He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open… He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open (Numbers 24:4,16). The Hebrew text indicates that it was rather a falling to the ground than falling into a trance. So we cannot say with certainty that it was trances. That could have been open-vision experiences with him lying on the ground and with open eyes.

On three occasions in my lifetime I have experienced trances. I can describe a trance as being carried away in my conscious where I find myself as in a dream, seeing an audiovisual vision, not being aware of my physical surroundings similar to when I am asleep. After these experiences I was wide-awake and supernaturally refreshed in my whole being. I do not say this is the only description of a trance. I have only related to you my personal experience of falling into trances.

When I have experienced a trance for the first time in my life I pulled myself out of the trance in the beginning of the vision because I was fearful of what was happening to me.  As I relaxed again I found myself in the same vision again. It proved that the spirit of the seer is subject to the seer (1 Corinthians 14:32).

Man can also go astray in vision. Have you not seen a futile vision, and have you not spoken false divination? You say, “The Lord says,” but I have not spoken (Ezekiel 13:7). A person may see a vision in the church and relates it to the congregation. I may see a grass green color around the person’s head and I know that it is a product of the human imagination. I may discern the source of revelation through a word of knowledge or I might discern it through signs in my body. The Holy Spirit may also choose not to reveal it to me. I will not get up in front of the congregation and make my discovery known. I will not even get in secret and tell it to the seer or to somebody else. I will rather talk to the seer about waiting on the Lord, prayer or how to see visions. I will also encourage the person to exercise his or her gift.

Making a mistake in prophecy or in vision is no disaster, as we must all learn. Learning how to focus on the Lord in a relaxed manner will reduce visions from your own imagination. To live closely to the Holy Spirit is a sure way to keep your spirit open for revelation. He will lead and guide you in all truth. The Holy Spirit can easily be offended through thoughtless living. A constant deep underlying joy and peace of the Holy Spirit is a witness that you are pleasing to God.

Practicing the presence of the Lord, waiting upon the Lord (prayer of listening), meditating on the word of God and prayer is no legalism but the fruit of a love relationship with God. Talking as often as you can in tongues is also spiritually beneficial. This is to have prayer of unlimited faith because your mind becomes unfruitful while you praying according to the will of God. This must become second nature to you. True love is to love God for who He is and not what you can gain from Him. Love positions you to be led by the Spirit of God. A walk with God requires a life of faith in God. It will cause conflict between spirit and flesh. However, the Lord comforts us by saying that His yoke is easy and His burden is light (Matthew 11: 29-30). Just remember the Lord has provided everything for you on the cross, even to see visions. So appropriate it by faith.

All things, even visions that you receive from God are with the aim to testify and to declare His mighty works in the earth. His mighty works are all done in Christ. Jesus has fulfilled all things that pertain to life and godliness. You can never behold His works and tell of His awesome deeds by not looking at the cross. Jesus Christ is the alpha and omega of our faith, the beginning and the end of our freedom. For this reason I am determined not to know anything among you but Jesus Christ and Him crucified.

To illustrate the above let me relate the following dream that my sister had: My sister stood outside of her house not properly dressed. She saw children running and played on the lawn of her garden. While playing and running these children were declaring the mighty works and deeds of Almighty God. Close to the children stood a man with a beard. My sister walked closer to the children and said to them, “I heard you declared the mighty deeds and wondrous works of God.” Than the man with the beard approached my sister and they walk and sit some place outside the house. He asked her, “Do you know why God often not answering the prayers of the saints the first time.” She said, “No.” He answered and said, “If God would answer prayers the first time people will cease communicating with God after the answering of their prayers.” Then she started to cry uncontrollably because of this hurt that people cause God.

Then they walk into the house and she gave the man a Bible. He opened the Bible on a page with a cross printed across the page. He told her, “You must always behold the cross.” Then she looked for a similar Bible with a cross inside but could not find one. Then she woke up. This dream needs little interpretation therefore I leave it to your own judgment.

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Good card deck for yu-gi-oh gx??

(My first day Playing yu-gi-oh gx)

1Mystical Elf
2Time Wizard
3Curse of Dragon
4Giant Soldier of Stone
5Axe raider
6Red-Eyes B. Dragon
7Faith Bird
8Faith Bird
9Spirit of the Harp
10Trap master
11Axe of Despair
12Black Pendant
13Malevolent Nuzzler
14Raigeki
15Dian Keto the Cure Master
16Hinotama
17Final flame
18Ookazi
19Magician of Faith
20Colored fish
21Giant Red Seasnake
22Man-Eater Bug
23Penguin Soldier
24Metalmorph
25Meteor Dragon
26Cyber-Tech Alligator
27Trap hole x2
28Tribute to the Doomed
29Magic Jammer
30Sword of Deep-Seated
31Twin-Headed Fire Dragon
32Darkfire Soldier #1 x 2
33Darkfire Soldier #2 x 2
34Harpie's Brother
35Birdface
36Wingweaver
37Lady Assailant of flames
38United we stand
39Cyber Harpie Lady
40Spear Dragon
41Luster Dragon
42Nin-Ken Dog
43Neo Bug
44Blazing Inpachi
45Monster Reincarnation

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