Are You Ready

On my mind right now is praying and asking others to pray for the storm that caused so much damage to areas in Louisiana from high winds. Please keep these people in your prayers. The Lord knows of it all.

Another beautiful day that the Lord has blest us with. His blessings are wonderful. He directs our paths if we but heed His voice and promptings ans if we but follow His lead. It is when we stray from the path that He has set us upon that we do err. Thankfully He is a forgiving God and if we humbly ask the Lord Jesus will forgive us. We need to be doing the work He has set forth for us and not going about our own agenda.

One may ask how do I know that I am on my own path and not on the one the Lord wants me to be on? When we are doing the Lord's work and on the path He has set us upon we will have His peace within us. Where the Lord guides the Lord provides. He tells us to not worry about what we need for He knows exactly what we need and if we abide in Him and His Word abides in us we shall ask and it shall be done unto us. He will provide the needs we have of Him if we but do His will and not our own.

There are those who think them self to be wise but their own words give them away. They profess to be something they are not. If one reads what they write long enough and listens to what a person says, if they are around a person very long, one will be able to know that the person or people boast of their own self and do not give God the praise, the honor and glory due Him. We are nothing and we can do nothing of ourselves. Without God/Jesus/ Father Creator we are lost and have nothing. We all sin and the Lord tells us this and says one who professes to not sin is deceiving oneself and they are making God a liar and His Word is not in us.

Always be mindful of what you say and do. Someone is always watching you. God/Jesus is definitely watching you but their are others who will bear witness to the Lord of what you do and who you profess to be, and their record will be truth and you will not be able to deny it before the Lord. Others see what you do in their sight and God sees both what you do in others sight and say that they hear, but God also sees what you do behind the closed doors and in the dark of the night. The things you think you are doing in secret God knows of and He is aware of it all. You are not hiding from Him, for no one can hide from Him. He sees all, He hears all, He knows all. When your time comes to face the Lord in judgement the things He will reveal of you, the things you have said and done in public and in secret He knows it all, He will reveal it all. Can you truthfully say that you will be in glory with Him or will He say unto you,"I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."

I John 1:5-10
5) This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.
6) If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth:
7) But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.
8) If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
9) If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
10) If we say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

John 15:7-8
7) If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.
8) Herein is my Father glorified, that ye bear much fruit; so shall ye be my disciples.

Matthew 7:15-27
Revelation 20:1-1

Romans 1:20-22
20) For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
21) Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22)Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Warriors For Christ Student Internships

This summer Warriors for Christ would like to invite college students to work with us.

Warriors for Christ is a Native American Discipleship ministry located in Port Townsend, WA. The vision of Warriors for Christ is to provide culturally sensitive, effective discipleship materials, and training for Native Americans.

It would be helpful if the student is able to work with computers, Facebook, the WFC website, and construction projects. We will, in turn, offer Discipleship through Warriors for Christ's Walking the New Path. It will be a time to focus on the Lord and His Word. Through this experience they will be equipped and encouraged to accept the Lord's calling on their life.



We are located on Puget Sound, just outside the historic seaport of Port Townsend. There will be plenty of time for recreation too which could include: camping, sightseeing, sailing, hiking. See the following link for more information. http://www.ptguide.com/




Warriors for Christ can provide food and lodging; stay with us for a week to a month this summer.

For more information, email or phone: warrior@wfconline.org or 360- 379-4668. Please see our website www.wfconline.org

STAFF
Executive Director:Gordon E. Shadburne

Materials Coordinator:Jan Shadburne

Vice President:Pastor Frank East
Cherokee/Apache

Secretary/Treasurer:Sandy Seubert
Omaha/Lakota/Creek

Website Assistants:
Roger Houle
Gray Woolf
Melanie Wild Horse McCoy
Nancy Jean Decker Troini
Harry Harth
Kathy Waltrip

Regional Directors:
~ Plains Region ~
Don & Sandy Seubert

Webmasters:
Daniel S. McClintock
Terry Whitsitt

Cyber Signals Editor:
Daniel S. McClintock

ADVISORY BOARD

Dr. Jay Durant, Choctaw
Gary Funmaker, Winnebago
Pastor Ken Pretty on Top, Crow
Pastor Dan Lundy, Siletz
Ray Perry, Navajo
Terry Whitsitt


Oregon Corporate Representative:
Rosanne M. Paulson

Spring, Renewal, Rebirth

It is Spring. The season that the land comes back to wakefulness after a long Winter's sleep. The time when there is a crispness to the air with a hint of freshness carried upon the breezes. The Lord's creations are budding forth with new life, refreshed, renewed. Buds start to appear and soon open. Leaves start to unfurl from the tight fist they were curled into as they reach towards the sky to expand their new growth toward Heaven. The flowers raise their blooming heads gracefully towards the vast expanse of the firmament above them as if in salute to their Maker, Father Creator, above.

Spring is the time of renewal and rebirth for most of God's creations. Yet their are some that do not come to life again in this season of renewal and rebirth. The harsh elements of the Winter and the droughts have caused them to not be revived. The elements and possibly age have caused some to die and not be renewed, refreshed with this Spring season. Sometimes we do not know what has caused the plant/tree to not prosper but instead to die. Some of these plants/trees we know intimately as we have helped them along or watched them in their various stages of growth while others we know merely from passing by them often. When we look upon this we are sad at this, even the passing of a plant/tree, as it is the passing away of a life that God has created.

So too, in our daily lives, we are faced with the passing of someone dear to us or someone that we know or have known in our lifetime. We do not always know why they are taken away or when they will be taken away, but we do know that at some point in time each one of us will lose someone that we care deeply about or that we know just in passing. It is a fact. Sometimes we are warned through a sickness or illness that our loved one, those we know and care about, will be leaving us soon. At other times it comes suddenly in the form of a car accident, another type of accident, a heart attack or some other surprise ending that we never could have foreseen coming.

The thing is that why our loved ones, friends, acquaintances, flowers, trees, plants, animals are with us, we should strive to tend to them in the best ways that we can. We should show them love and tend to their needs as God has instructed us to do. Father Creator/God/Jesus Christ has entrusted not only the plants and animals into our care but He has entrusted the people in our daily lives into our care as well. Tend all with love and care.

You know how when you plant a seed, you water it and nurture it. You weed it and feed it with fertilize and cultivate the soil around it so the air will get to the roots and so the soil does not compact around the roots. So to you tend to your family and those around you. From the time a child is within it's mother's womb at the point of conception that baby is being cared for, tended to, by the mother. As it grows within her she loves babe and speaks to the baby, she nourishes it with her own body. Then it is born and the nourishment and nurturing continues int he feeding, washing , clothing, teaching and loving of that child. It grows/flourishes under a loving hand. The same goes for anyone that God has entrusted into our care and lives. We are supposed to tend, nourish, nurture, love and care for them. When we do this, as the Lord asks us to do, we watch them grow and our love for them should grow along with them. They will prosper and grow if the circumstances are right for them.

Sometimes though, even with all our love, care and tending, they fail to flourish and grow. Or they may grow and at the end of a long life they leave us, or they may leave us somewhere along our life's way. Just as the plants, flowers, trees, and animals we love and care for sometimes do not flourish and they die. Or they live for sometime then die or they live a long life and then die. Death is a part of living. We all should know this. We, our self, will one day face death.

We need to be prepared to face death and be in the Lord and His child, forgiven of our sins, born again or we will be eternally separated from God/Jesus/Father Creator. Part of loving and nurturing someone is teaching them of the Lord and letting them know about Him, of his Love and message of repentance and forgiveness. If you truly love someone you will teach them of God/Jesus, His Way and Word. Bring them up in nurture and admonition of the Lord.




Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
1) To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
2) A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
3) A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
4) A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
5) A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
6) A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
7) A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
8) A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.



Ephesians 6:1-4
1) Children, obey your parents in the Lord: for this is right.
2) Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
3) That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.
4) And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

I was led, of the Lord, to share this with you all. He blesses us in so many ways and I am thankful to Him for all the blessings, the trials and testings. Please share the Lord with those you love and with those you meet each day. The Lord was not afraid to speak to others that He met along the way and we are to do as He did, for He instructs us to do the same as He did in sharing Him and His Word with others.

Ephesians 6:1-18

Two Choices, Two Paths

Two choices, that is what it comes down to when your life, on this earth, is ended. Heaven or hell. It does not matter whether, in this life you lived upon the earth, if you were a famous actor, a singer, a reporter, a doctor, a lawyer, a preacher, an ordinary person ( just as I am and so many others are), or who or what your profession in this life is or was. What matters is how you lived the life that God allowed you to live. Was it in His service or did you serve self and others for your own benefit? Did you do things for your own glory or did you do things for God's glory?

The talents/gifts each one of us has was given to us by God. We too often take those talent/gifts for granted or think that we , our self, are something special, above other people, because we have a gift/talent that others do not have. Yes, we do work to fine tune/hone the talents/gifts that we have but God is the one who gave us that gift/talent and put the desire for us to use that gift and talent to the best of our ability within us. We are supposed to use any gift/talent that we have for God's glory not for our own. All we do we are supposed to do for God's glory. If it were not for God/Father Creator/ Jesus Christ then you would not have breath to breathe so you would not be able to use the gift/talent, that God/Jesus/Father Creator blest you with, if it were not for God. Do not say I did this I am a great man/woman. Say instead God allowed me to be an actor, a singer, a doctor, a lawyer, a preacher and so on and I praise Him and give Him the glory. It is not us who deserves the praise, the honor, and glory. It is God who deserves the praise, the honor, and glory. Never take for granted what God has blest you with for in the blink of an eye it could all be taken away from us.

Anything we do, we need to praise God in it and for it. Give Him the glory. The next time you start to say," see what I did", stop and think. It is not " I" who did this but it is God who gave me the ability to do this and is allowing me to do this that deserves the praise, the honor, and the glory. We are to use our talents/ gifts for Him and in His service, not for self and self service. Did you know that our deeds will be tried in the fire to see if they will stand the test? Did you do what you did for God or for self? Now you may say to yourself I did this for God but it truth did you actually do it for self because you like to hear people praise you and say to you, " Wow that was such a great thing you did. You were awesome in doing that. That was so nice." Do you, when someone says this to you, say," thank you I have worked so hard to be able to do this or thank you I did this because I am a Christian, thank you I did this because I felt it was the right thing, the best thing to do." Instead of putting the emphasis on I, we should be putting the emphasis on God/Jesus/Father Creator. Next time when someone gives you a compliment or says something about a good deed you did give God the glory and honor due Him, do not give that honor and glory to self instead. You can always see that God has given you the opportunity to serve Him and share Him in all you do if you truly are His child. Say instead next time " Thank You, I give God the praise for blessing me to be able to help", " I give God the praise for He has blest me with this talent/gift to use to bring Him honor and glory and it is He, not I, Who deserves the praise, the honor, and the glory for without Him I would be nothing and I am as nothing."

Use that gift/talent to bring God the praise, the honor, and the glory, for we are supposed to use our gift/talents for Him and in His service not for self gain or self glory. That is where we fall into the devil's trap, when we start to think of our self as someone big, self importance. We are nothing without God/Jesus/Father creator. This is what hurts me to my soul and heart is that so many , every day they live, think of them self as someone big, self important and do not take the time to honor God in their day or to thank Him for all He has blest them with. So many go on in their lives not caring for others or for God, thinking they, them self, are in control and they can use that gift/talent to serve self and self glory. How much time did you give God today? Anything you give more time to than God is ruling your life.

Don't you realize that when your life ends upon this earth there will only be two alternatives? Heaven or hell. Each one of us every day are faced with choosing Heaven or hell. It is just that some do not see this, for their eyes have been blinded, their ears have been shut up, and their hearts have become hardened for they serve self and not God. What are your earthly treasures, your gold, your silver, your awards, your titles, your self works going to get you in the end? Nothing for they will all fade away, they will rust, rot, and decay. They will not stand the test of God. They will be destroyed in the fire when our deeds are tried by fire, for they were done for self glory not for God's glory. Do not seek your praises among mankind. As it says in His written Word, the Holy Bible, lay up your treasures in Heaven. Choose to praise and honor God not self for when your life end comes, the treasures upon this earth will stand as naught, only the treasures you have laid up in Heaven and for the glory of God will stand and remain. I encourage you to examine your life and see what treasures you have truly laid up. Do you have treasures laid up in heaven or are your treasures of the earthly sort? When it is all said and done , in this life, did you truly serve God/Jesus/Father Creator or did you serve self for your own glory and honor? It is not too late to turn your life around and serve God and use your talents/gifts to bring God/Jesus/Father Creator the praise, the honor and the glory that are due Him.

So will your works stand the test of God? Will they make it through the fire refined and showing his reflection? Or will your deeds reflects elf and destruction? Remember that God/ Jesus/Father Creator knows each one of our hearts and He knows who we truly serve, whether it is He whom we serve or whether we serve self. The choice is yours to make every moment of every day. Which of the two choices do you daily choose? Which of the two paths do you daily walk down? Ponder these questions and pray for God to guide you on your way. Remember He is always with you just waiting for you. He is always watching and He knows our hearts and whom we truly serve. Two choices. Two paths. Which one have you chosen?

Matthew 6:19-24

19)Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

20) But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal

21) For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

22) The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

23) But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!

24) No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

God Answers Prayers

Praising the Lord for letting my daughter's cat, Sephiroth be okay. Someone ran over him yesterday while I was looking out the window. I saw the whole thing and the person just sped off when I ran out the door waving them down. I even ran after them down the road , they braked then they went on. I know they saw me. I called the police and reported it. We located Seph under our outbuilding and I took him to the vet. The kiddo's and I prayed on the way to the vet that Seph would be okay. Thankfully all Seph got was a scraped hind leg with two gouge marks on it. He is in the house and we have him on antibiotics for a week.



God cares for His creations, all of them. Remember what it says in the Bible about God even notes when the sparrow falls. For those of you who intentionally harm animals think twice before you do it cause God is watching and He takes note of what you are doing to His creatures. Accidents happen but when you speed away knowing you ran over an animal that is someone's pet that is not right, especially when that person saw it happen and you know they were trying to flag you down. That animal is part of someone's family, not just a pet, not just an animal, but a family member. I forgive you ( I hope you did not mean to run over Sephiroth, even though you sped up and swerved towards him, I forgive you). If you run over someone's pet have the decency to stop and speak with them and let them know you did not mean to run over their pet, offer your apology, offer to pay the vet bill, that is the least you could do instead of speeding away as if the pet was nothing.



My daughter is still hurting because of this happening. She may be 20 but she knows the hurt that people can cause to others. I have to use this as a lesson in forgiveness to her and her younger brother who is 12. The Lord tells us that if we do not forgive others than He will not forgive us. Sometimes it is hard to forgive when you are the recipient of the hurt but you can forgive and release the hurt to God/Jesus Christ/ Father Creator. He knows your pain and your heartache and He can bear it more than you or I can. So I encourage each one that has been hurt, whether intentionally or unintentionally, by another to forgive and to give it over to the Lord. You'll feel better in the long run for when you hold onto hurts, unforgiveness, and grudges you are hurting yourself as you are allowing yourself to be held captive by your emotions and by the person who has caused you to have these feelings.



You have the power, through Jesus Christ, to be free from all of that. Let go and let God be in control of it all, as He truly is the One who is in control of it all. Sometimes things happen to see how we will react to that situation. We are all daily tested and being refined into whom God wants us to be as silver is refined in the furnace.