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Many times in my life I ask myself.

How many lives will I live in a life time?

Over some decades, I wore different hats.

I’ve been a Janitor

a Recycling Agent

a Bartender

an Airplane & Helicopter Pilot

a Disc Jockey (spinning records)

a Business Owner (Dance Club, Computer & Cellphone Store, Restaurant, Construction Firm)

a Teacher (computer instructor @ STI)

a Community Organizer

a Public Servant

and then I became a Politician

until the Lord had called me and became a Pastor (a servant leader of Christ)

Only after the Lord reeled me back to Him that I realized two very important things:

That we will only live 2 lives in a lifetime,

one is with the world

and the better one is with God

That we will go through many and different seasons in our lives

That we will go through many and different seasons in our lives

Before we proceed to explore together The 4 Seasons of Life, let us first go over with...

The 5 Facts of the Seasons of Life

Beyond Our Control

Grief

Loss

Waiting

Often Confusing

What is happening to me?

We understand after they are over

Looking back gives you perspective

In our recent trip to the City of Niagara Falls, we had a free tour of NYPA

In one of their video presentation, they said that the building of Niagara Power Project (Dam) started during the “ice age”

They suggested that it was thousands of years in the making

That thought made me look back in the timeline of creation

Although the Bible did not clearly mentioned “ice age” (related to Pleistocene Epoch), Bible Scholars has all the reasons enough for us to believe that “ice age” occured sometime after the “great flood” around 6,000 - 7,000 B.C.

One clarifying fact that I’ve found out was, during the ice age, the entire earth is NOT totally covered with ice, in fact not more than a third of earth was covered with ice, only Northeastern Canada which eventually swept down to North America which are now known as Wisconsin and New York

That means that there are human civilizations down the lower latitudes of the earth, such as in Egypt and Babylonia

We all know that God scattered the people when they started to build the tower in Babylon

Their language were confused by the Lord and they were scattered all over the earth

Because of climate changes and many other factors, some animals were extinct after the great flood, and animal extinction are still true today.

Now, here are two very interesting points for you to look at:

According to archaeologist, Stone tools called “Acheulean” are found in Europe, Asia and Africa that dates back 2.5 million years ago, then on the latter part of the “ice age” they found lots of similar tools called “Mousterian”.

If the evolutionists are correct on their suggestion that “ice age” lasted for about 2.5 million of years ago, suggesting that humans evolved from monkeys, that scenario is equivalent to 50,000 human generations before us.

This scenario is not fitting the ingenuity of human beings that God created after His very own image (cellphone technology)

Acheulean are found in Europe, Asia and Africa.

If the evolutionist is correct on their suggestion that “ice age” was 2.5 million of years ago suggesting that humans evolved from monkeys, that scenario is equivalent to 50,000 human generations before us.

The biggest dinosaur discovered in 2014 is 65 feet tall, they fit in Noah’s Ark which is 75 feet in height.

Contrary to what evolutionists are saying that Dinosaurs are million years in the past, based on biblical evidences, they are actually just some thousands of years ago after the great flood.

Go visit the “Creation & Earth History Museum” in Santee

Does God owe us explanation?

No, God does not owe us explanation

We live by faith, not by explanation

If you understand all, then you’ll be God

God has a Purpose

This is not a promise to everybody

Everything that happens in the lives of those who are called are filtered by the Father

God is not the author of evil

He does not plan the bad things for your life, it’s your bad decisions that leads to you to bad things

Includes both Good and Bad Times

You’ll have your winnings and loses

Hills and valleys

There’s a time to wait, and a time to let go

You lose some friends, you win more friends

Story from the our Niagara Falls trip with James & Shelly, Ric & Luisa, Paul & Patricia and Rita

Text Message from Pastor Ric: Thanks for the memories.

Much love and blessings.

What are the odds that four ministers from different  parts of the country would plan the same trip & end up on the same tour of the Falls?

I believe the spirit of the Lord was with us.

I thank Him for his love and favor.

May he continue to grant you traveling mercies on your way home.

Rick Obuma

You will reap in Season, what you sow in another

Plant in spring and harvest in fall

You don’t harvest from your tithing instantaneously

My typewriting lessons story with my father

Remember these facts about the seasons of our lives:

Beyond our Control

Often Confusing

God has a Purpose

Includes both Good & Bad times

You will reap in season, what you sow in another

Remember the Discipline we Learned from every Season

The problem with the Israelites is that, they forget.

So the couple of weeks journey through the wilderness dragged to 40 years

I highly recommend for everybody to use a journal where you can log the things that you need to remember

3 Things that We must Remember from every Season:

What you learned from it

What you enjoyed about it

How can you use the lessons your learned going forward

In the month of September, we will look into four seasons of our lives:

The Season of Loneliness

The Season of Insecurity

The Season of Financial Stress

And the Season of Enjoyment

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Let us look at the life of apostle Paul and how he handled his loneliness

Paul was born somewhere between 9-14 AD

A student Gamaliel () and became a member of the Sanhedrin (Highest Jewish Council presided over by the High Priest)

He persecuted christians prior to his conversion when he was on his way to Damascus