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NCAA Football After September

The first month of the college football season has concluded. A few early overrated teams (Virginia Tech, West Virginia, North Carolina, Pittsburgh and Georgia Tech) have already been exposed and eliminated from the polls.  Likewise, underappreciated teams left out of the pre-season polls (Nevada, Arizona, Michigan State, North Carolina State, South Carolina, Michigan and Stanford) have been belatedly included. Several high-profile inter-conference games have already helped solidify the polls by reinforcing the lofty rankings of Alabama, Ohio State, Boise State, Texas Christian, Oklahoma, Wisconsin and Oregon.

With the exception of the Southeastern Conference, too few intra-conference matches have been occurred so far to distinguish the likely contenders for championships. No one in the Big East or Big Ten has played a conference game yet. No team in the Big Twelve, Pacific Ten or Western Athletic Conference has played more than one conference contest so far. Based solely on non-conference games, West Virginia appears as the favorite to win the Big East while the Big Ten race has four teams, Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State and Ohio State, in serious contention for the title. This Saturday's game between Oregon and Stanford will weigh heavily in determining the Pacific Ten championship.

Only the Southeastern Conference has played a significant number of conference matches to start to filter out the pretenders from the contenders. Nine of twelve teams in the SEC have played at least two conference games; Georgia and Mississippi State have played three already. In the Western Division, Auburn and Louisiana State have raced out ahead of the pack with two wins in their first two conference games. The two teams from the Magnolia State are already positioning themselves in the basement of the SEC West as many pundits forecasted. On the other side of the conference, Florida grabbed the early lead but South Carolina remains within striking distance. Georgia is realistically eliminated from winning the SEC East.

The Atlantic Coast Conference appears to be destined to have a conference championship game featuring two unranked divisional champions. The top two teams in the Coastal Division each have unforgiveable non-conference losses to an FCS member and to a team that lost to an FCS member respectively. In the Atlantic Division, North Carolina State is the sole undefeated team left in the ACC. If Florida State's coaching changes can end the malaise of the past several years, the Seminoles still have a great shot at winning the ACC. Miami has the talent to contend but has not tested the waters yet in conference. It appears that the fans of the Atlantic Coast Conference have to wait once again for basketball season to restore their pride.

The question in the Big Twelve revolves around Nebraska's and Colorado's impending defections. Will the other four weaklings on the Northern Division manage to upset the perceived traitors?  Otherwise, the task of salvaging conference pride will fall to Texas or Oklahoma to continue the Big Twelve South's domination of the other half of the conference. One must wonder if either traditional power is up to the task. Oklahoma narrowly escaped with home wins over Air Force and Utah State. Unranked UCLA embarrassed Texas in its own stadium. The passion of the undeclared blood feud of the remaining Big Twelve teams versus the departing members may not suffice to prevent one of those two from taking the conference title on their way out of the door.

For college football fans, many questions remain to be answered. Will Alabama navigate unscathed in the SEC once again on its way to repeating as national champions? Can Ohio State remain at least second in the polls in order to have another shot at winning the BCS title and possibly end its winless post-season streak versus the SEC in the process? Will enough BCS conference members lose games to allow Boise State or Texas Christian to land in the BCS title game, assuming either will finish undefeated? Will the Big East and Atlantic Coast Conferences manage to convince the BCS overlords that their champions still deserve automatic bids for their champions? Will the Mountain West and Western Athletic Conferences continue to make their cases to receive automatic BCS bids for their champions? Many more games need to be played, all of which will provide more fodder for debates and controversies.

COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES KASTRIOT SEPTEMBER 2010

About the Author

I am an author who writes opinion pieces about the jihad intending to destroy the Free World and the Free World's efforts to resist Islamization. My side interests include domestic politics in the United States of America and American football.

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The Heart of Thanksgiving is a Hand That Receives

The Heart of Thanksgiving is a Hand That Receives.

A man of God once said, "if you want to know a person that is an ingrate or full of ingratitude, is the one that always carry long face whenever you see him or her". I seem to angry with him, because those people in that mood are always of thinking of what God has not done for them and fail to appreciate Him for what He has done.

The truth here is that anyone born of a woman must go through challenges, from the day you were formed in the womb to the time you die. Do you know why you need these challenges?  You need it because you must go to the next level. No Exam, no promotion. No competition, no winner. No war, no Victory.

The greatest war or battle you had ever faced all your life was the battle of your birth. You fought with 999,999 individuals, competing for one or at most twelve tickets of survivor. Is either you were a single birth or twins or even a dozen at once. The truth is that God's mercy made you prevailed and you stayed in the womb just taking liquids for survival for 9 months, you escaped miscarriage, what a battle of death and life. You know what? If you didn't survive that, no one on earth and even in heaven would have known you because you never existed. Glory to God. I want to announce to you that God has just done 80% miracle for you, then what is 20% that He cannot do.

David understood the power of thanksgiving. Psalm 119:164    "Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments". No wonder David was a man after God's heart, because anytime David wants God attention, he lobbies his way in with thanksgiving and being cheerful.

2 Cor. 9:7 " Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver". You cannot praise God well with a long face and with a heart full of complains and ingratitude. Sometimes in Church, when it is time for testimony, you will hear the coordinator saying,  "For the fact that you are alive is a testimony" And it is has been a custom now and very familiar with us, that it doesn't make meaning anymore to us.  My brother and sister, if you must receive from God especially on issues that has been prayed for and you are experiencing delay, switch to be a grateful person and have a cheerful heart. Until Hannah switched from sorrowful heart to a grateful and a cheerful heart woman, she remained barren.

1 Samuel 1:15-19

" And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord. [16] Count not thine handmaid for a daughter of Belial: for out of the abundance of my complaint and grief have I spoken hitherto. [17] Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him. [18] And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

[19] And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the Lord, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the Lord remembered her."

The only way to make God know you are grateful person and attend  to your prayer request,  is to be cheerful and be grateful for the other things He has done.

 

How Do I Know Am An Ingrate Towards God.

1. Whenever I become over familiar with God, I tend to ignore things that are more important to God and do what is in my mind and probably feel God is merciful. Some people feel they are busy for God, but in God's eye, they are busy doing nothing.

Romans 1:21

"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. "

 

1. Whenever I become rebellious to God's word or disrespectful to parents and leaders.

Psalm 106:7

" Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt; they remembered not the multitude of thy mercies; but provoked him at the sea, even at the Red sea. "

 

1. When I suddenly feel is by my power that I have attained the height I am and disregard people and make people feel bad for not being blessed because I oppress them.

Deut. 32:6

Do ye thus requite the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? is not he thy father that hath bought thee? hath he not made thee, and established thee?

 

Deut. 32:15

"But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. "

 

1. Whenever my prayer request is more than the thank you to God.

Psalm 119:164

Seven times a day do I praise thee because of thy righteous judgments.

 

1. Whenever I find it hard to worship God with my substance and all He has blessed me with.

Psalm 103:1-2

" Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. [2] Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: "

 

 

1. Whenever I fail to see the bigness of God in front and put the scorch and the heat of my problems behind me, that is, the thought of my problem doesn't take the very large portion of my heart.

Psalm 55:22

"Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."

 

1 Peter 5:7

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

 

1. Whenever I fail to tell my fellow beings about God's faithfulness to me through evangelism, giving to the needy or through my actions and expressions.

Psalm 105:1-2

"O give thanks unto the Lord; call upon his name: make known his deeds among the people. [2] Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. "

 

 

Is it Possible For me to be Thankful even after I have suffered so much loss or I just losed something or someone dear to me?

Humanly, is not possible not to feel pains when you are hurt. But what I want you to understand here is that you need to be spiritually alert, so that you won't loose God's sympathy and His presence. Is better God pitied me than human beings. The devil is very cunning and crafty. He tries to take away your joy by making you believe in lies or put more emphasis on things that are less important. So try to be joyful always. Don't give room for sorrowful atmosphere around you If possible.

Let me give you a testimony about my Pastor and myself. My Pastor, despite how God was using her to display His glory, the devil was really causing havoc in her life. She became so sick that she couldn't walk for months. If she must go anywhere, she will be carried. She said, anytime she tries to walk, the ground  looks like potholes and sinking in her eyes. So, if she makes up her mind to walk, that fear of falling comes on her. She said despite her prayer, things were still worse. Until she rose up the Lion of tribe of Judah in her, who is the joy of her strength,  she got up and started to run and never cared if she fell. And after she ran for a while, she discovered she never fell and that is how her healing came. Glory to God.

NOTE: Don't get me wrong here. Am not saying when uncertainties happen, you shouldn't pray hard about it. All am saying is, don't let it get you worked up to the point you become sorrowful and start to discredit God and empower the devil.

In the case of myself, I will pray and put more effort to the things of God, but the devil kept having fun on my life. I will have dreams that are weird, seeing myself in primary school or secondary school writing exams despite being a university graduate for eight years. I also see myself eating in the dream, flying in the dream and having sex. Even after I have gone for deliverance and many men of God have laid hands on me, it still persists. There was one that was annoying, anywhere I go I see cobwebs physically on my face, even where you don't expect cobwebs, sometimes in a field or open place, is so absurd to me. I will pray and pray but nothing keeps happening. And I was really losing my Joy. Even a stranger could look at my face and see through that something is wrong. One day, I met the woman of God, and she told me her story that I earlier on shared above, and she said, there are things you have to ignore, the way you see things, that is the way it will work for you, so I decided to see the cobwebs as Gods glory. And anytime it comes on me, I see it as information carrier, telling me that there is good news ahead. And since then, good things started to unfold itself. My long time dream and God's promise to me to travel abroad started to unfold and since then it worked for me. Glory to God!

Don't celebrate sorrow. Rejoice. Do anything godly to bring about joy around you because that is where your  vision will be clearer and hear God well and from there you draw strength, courage, wisdom, anointing and power to overcome.

 

Neh. 8:10.

" Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength. "

1 Thes. 5:16.

"Rejoice evermore. "

Philip. 4:4

"Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice. "

David, Hannah and even our Lord Jesus got to a place in their lives that they had to suffer heavy loss but until they got that point of seeing the mightiness of God in their situation the problem remained. They overcame at last by accepting their challenge and created that room of joy where they can receive instructions from God on how to be an overcomer.

Romans 8:37

"Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. "

1 Samuel 30:6

" And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God. "

1 Samuel 30:8

" And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all."

1 Samuel 1:5, 6, 15, 17, 18 & 20

" But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb. [6] And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.

[15]    And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunken neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the Lord.

[17]    Then Eli answered and said, Go in peace: and the God of Israel grant thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him. [18] And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way, and did eat, and her countenance was no more sad.

[20]    Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord. "

 

"Matthew 26:26-28

And as they were eating, Jesus took bread, and blessed it, and brake it, and gave it to the disciples, and said, Take, eat; this is my body. [27] And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; [28] For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Matthew 26:38-39

Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: tarry ye here, and watch with me. [39] And he went a little farther, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt. "

 

How can I develop a thankful heart?

1. Occupy your mind with testimonies of the Past.

Philippines 4:8, "Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things."

 

1. Pray that the Holy Spirit helps you.

1 Cor. 12:3

" Wherefore I give you to understand, that no man speaking by the Spirit of God calleth Jesus accursed: and that no man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost."

 

 

1. Learn to depend on God's promises.

Psalm 125:1

"They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever. "

 

Proverbs 3:5

"Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding."

 

 

1. See every challenges as exam that must be passed for your next level. So Appreciate God for challenges.

Ezekiel 21:13

"Because it is a trial, and what if the sword contemn even the rod? it shall be no more, saith the Lord God."

 

2 Cor. 8:2

"How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality."

 

1 Peter 1:7

"That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ: "

 

1 Peter 4:12

"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:"

 

James 1:2

" My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; "

 

 

 

 

1. Sing song of Joy most times.

Psalm 32:11

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

 

 

1. Occupy your time with godly things that makes you happy.

 

1. Make friends with People that are grateful to God even in their calamities.

 

 

1. Learn to relax in His Presence.

Job 22:21

" Acquaint now thyself with him, and be at peace: thereby good shall come unto thee. "

Matthew 11:28

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest."

 

Sometimes sow seeds for things you are believing God for, either in Kind or cash. In kind I mean, if for example am believing God for a child, I could join the children Church department and make a child happy to the point that they might even start calling you mummy or daddy. That is try to make others grateful to God on your behalf because of the great good impact you have over them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the Author

My name is Ikechukwu James Agbapulu. A Nigerian. An Account Officer by profession and An IT officer too. Ilove God so much. I play keyboard and sing and I write inspirational works a lot.

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Permanent Muscle by Reuben Bajada – Is It a Scam?

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Permanent Muscle focuses on solving problems. Reuben gives you a blueprint that he himself has used, so you can be sure you are getting something that works because it has proven to work over and over.

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Halloween! Kids Love Gifts

Halloween is my favorite time of year!  Welcome to my Get Ready for Halloween article series.  I will be writing and sharing about many Halloween ideas to help all my loyal readers prepare to make their Halloween the best it can be.

 

Yes, Halloween is a great time to give gifts.  Sure it is not vintage Halloween custom to be giving Halloween gifts to your kids and I'm not saying you should spoil your kids, but maybe the gift can be "earned".  The kids have been in school for a couple months and maybe if they've been doing well they might have "earned" a opportunity for something a little extra.

 

Now, I am in no way saying you should spoil your kids.  They need to learn that with good work, behavior, etc., they can earn special privileges.   What should they do to earn  Halloween gifts?  Well, as I already stated, they could do well in school, help around the house, rake up the fall leaves, or maybe even volunteer somewhere in your community.  Heck, I just made my 3 and 5 year olds do chores around the house for four weeks to earn a new Clone Wars toy.

 

What makes good Halloween gifts?  An obvious one might be that you buy them a nicer or more elaborate costume or some new lawn or home decorations.  However, gifts don't always have to be material items.  A great "gift" might be to host a party or allow your child to go to a party.  Maybe a special trip to your local haunted house would be fun.  Lastly, another idea might be to do a special weekend away from home at a water park hotel or such.

 

Hope these have been good tips and guidelines for your Halloween.  Kids love to please and Halloween gifts are a great way to give a bit back.

 

Have a Happy and Safe Halloween!

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Brian Dick

 

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