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Manuals. We have them for our cars, our washing machines, and our fitness equipment. But did you know there is a manual for living a successful life? It's called the Bible, and it holds the answers to every problem you will ever face in life. Check it out! You will be amazed!
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WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/The_Truth_about_the_Great_Reset.mp3 ___________________________________________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, June 27, 2022, and this is Episode #26 of Series 2022. This episode is titled The Truth about 'The Great Reset.' _________________________________________ If you have not yet heard of "The Great Reset." you will soon. In today's post, we will explore this topic and expose the lies at its foundation. So, what is The Great Reset and why do you need to know about it? The Great Reset is the name given to the 50th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum held in Davos, Switzerland, in 2020. Convened by Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, and the World Economic Forum (or WEF), this meeting brought together top business and political leaders from around the world for the purpose of taking advantage of the then current COVID crisis and to use that crisis as the launching pad for creating the New World Order.   The stated goal of the 2020 World Economic Forum meeting, as published on the official WEF website, was “to overcome income inequality, societal division and the climate crisis.” This remains the WEF's goal, and they are pursuing it with relentless passion. While, at first glance, the WEF's goal may sound noble, it is rooted in deception. In truth, the nice-sounding terminology masks anti-Biblical lies whose ultimate purpose is to enslave humanity and to usher in the New World Order under the brutal dictatorship of the Anti-Christ. A frequent expression used by the Great Resetters is "Never let a crisis go to waste." Interestingly, one of the chief topics discussed at the 2020 Conference was how best to use the COVID-19 pandemic and the theory of climate change to reset global structures. Klaus Schwab, current CEO of the World Economic Forum, said this in a statement posted on the official World Economic Forum website: “The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world.”   Reflect. Reimagine. Reset. What the Great Resetters mean by these words is not what most people mean by these words. The Great Resetters want to turn our world into a global kingdom where we own nothing and are happy. A kingdom where they call all the shots and we call none. A kingdom where we do what they say or we die.  The social structures included in their nefarious reset goals are education, health care, finance, and energy production, among others. The aim of the World Economic Forum is to restructure our world according to a model that makes the liberal, wealthy élite rulers over the rest of us. Those who promote the Great Reset are brazenly open about the fact that they want to control every human being in every aspect of his life. For the past two years, we have already witnessed and experienced that control infiltrate our daily lives in the form of lockdowns and mask mandates. Now that same control is expanding to the imminent use of a Social Score Card that will ration food, gasoline, and other life-sustaining products according to the degree of one's compl...
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. AN INVITATION TO YOU: To follow this blog, click here.  If this blog has blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! ______________________________________ Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today's blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/WWW_02_01_21_band-How_to_Think_like_a_Winner.mp3   ______________________________________   Have you ever wondered why some people are more successful in life than others? Is it a question of so-called "luck"? Or is there something more to this thing called success? The answer, as always, is found in the Bible. In this best-selling book of all time, God has clearly outlined the principles of success. The problem is that, sad-to-say, most people don't read the Bible. Or they read it after the fact. After the problem has arisen and nearly devastated their lives. Yet, the Bible contains the answer to every single situation you will ever face in life. In fact, the Bible is God's Manual for Life. It is the book He gave us to navigate our time on this earth successfully. Isn't it a tragedy that most of the world neglects it? The Bible is all about winning. Not only winning in this life, but, far more importantly, about winning in the life after this one. The life that will last forever.  In the Bible, God has set in place certain principles, or laws, that govern success. If we live according to these principles, we will experience a wonderful, blessed life. But if we don't, we won't. It's as simple as that. So, what are these principles of success? And how can we apply them to our lives? One of the fundamental principles is found in Proverbs 23: 7: This verse reads as follows: "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Let's unpack this verse to discover what it means and how it can affect the entire course of our lives.  First of all, this verse clearly connects the way we think in our hearts with the way we are: "As a man thinks in his heart, so is he." Note the phrase in his heart. The verse does not simply say as a man thinks, but as he thinks in his heart. Well, what is meant by the heart?  The word heart as used here does not refer to the physical heart, the organ that pumps blood throughout our bodies. No, the word heart as used in this verse implies that intangible entity within us that we all recognize but cannot adequately define. Yet, the Bible gives us a picture of what this intangible entity called the heart really is. The heart is that part of us that connects our soul with our spirit. We are made in the image of God, and we have a spirit, a soul, and a body.  Each of these three parts is also made up of three parts. The spirit is made up of the conscience, the intuition, and the imagination. The soul is comprised of the mind, the will, and the emotions. The body is made up of bone, fluid, and soft tissue.  The heart is the bridge between the spirit and the soul. In other words, the heart is connected simultaneously to the spirit and to the soul. On the one hand, the heart is connected to the conscience part of the spirit. On the other hand, the heart is connected to the emotions, the will, and the mind parts of the soul. The Bible makes many references to the heart. Each of these references gives us a partial definition of the heart. For example, in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 9, verse 4, we read this: “And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, 'Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?'” The act of thinking occurs in the mind. But in this verse, Jesus connected thinking with the heart as well. "Why are you thinking evil things in your hearts?
by Dr. MaryAnn Diorio March 18, 2024Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of the Winning with the Word podcast. Today is Monday, March 18, 2024, and this is episode #5 in Season 2024. This episode is titled "The Event That Will Soon Turn the World Upside Down."If you're like me, you can feel it in your bones. Something big is about to happen, but most people don't know exactly what that is.When talking with others, I find that I am not alone in my feelings. Others also feel that the world is on the edge of a cliff, and that before long, it's going to fall over and fall off and break apart at the seams.So, if you're feeling this way, you are not alone. But you may not be able to pinpoint why you feel this way. So let me give you a rational explanation. A rational explanation found in the Bible. Now, before you tune me out, let me ask you a question. Have you ever read the Bible? If not, why would you dismiss it? If I've never tasted a certain dish, how can I say I don't like it?To reject the Bible without even reading it is not a sign of intelligence. I daresay you consider yourself intelligent. If you do, then read the Bible before you give an opinion on it.That said, I believe that when you read the Bible you will be amazed at what you have been missing all these years. You will wish you had read it sooner, especially since the Bible predicts everything that you are now reading in the morning newspaper headlines and watching on the evening news.Specifically, here is what I'm talking about:1) We are fast heading toward a cashless economic system as world banks prepare us for digital currency. This digital currency system will lead to the Mark of the Beast that was predicted in the Bible in Revelation 13. Read it for yourself.2) The world is fast moving to a one-world government, called the New World Order. We've all heard this term already. This was predicted in the Bible in the Book of Daniel, chapters 2 and 7, and the Book of Revelation, chapter 13. 3) Every day we hear new rumors of war as nations fight against nations. This was predicted in the Bible in Matthew 24: 7. 4) On the news we watch videos of criminals looting stores without consequence, as the law is no longer upheld. This was predicted in the Bible in Matthew chapter 24, verse 12.5) In court rooms across the country, we watch criminals being released without bail for crimes that used to earn them life imprisonment. This was predicted in the Bible in Ecclesiastes 5: 8, written by King Solomon in the 9th century B.C., and in Isaiah 59: 14, written by the prophet Isaiah in the 8th century B.C.Are you getting my point? Everything we see happening in the world around us today was predicted in the Bible, some things thousands of years ago. So why am I telling you this?I'm telling you this because there are events predicted in the Bible that have not yet happened but will soon happen just as surely as earlier predicted events have already happened, and as surely as today's events predicted in the Bible are happening. What are these future events?Here are the most salient of them:1) The Rapture of the Church. You may have heard of the Rapture. The Rapture is that future event, that may likely occur in the fall of this year, during which Jesus Christ Himself will appear in the clouds and remove from the earth all those who truly follow Him. This event was predicted in the Apostle Paul's first letter to the Thessalonians, chapter 4, verses 16 and 17. This is what it says:"For the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever." The Bible is clear that Jesus will return in the clouds to remove from the ea...
by Dr. MaryAnn DiorioHello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, March 11, 2024, and this is Episode #4 in Season 2024. This episode is titled, "The Power of Faith: How Faith Is Released."This will be our last episode of four episodes on the topic of faith for now. So let's dive right in.In our previous three podcasts, we discussed what faith is not, what faith is, and how to receive faith. If you have not listened to those podcasts, I encourage you to go back and do so. They will help you better understand today's teaching on how faith is released.So, how is faith released? Bottomline, faith is released through our words. Yes, our words.Romans 10: 9 states this: " . . . if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved."Two key words jump out at us in this verse: Confess and Believe.To confess means to declare. When we confess our sins, we declare them before God. The word confess comes from the popular Latin word confessare, which means to declare or admit.The second word that stands out is believe. When we declare, we must believe what we declare. And we must believe it in our heart. If we believe it only in our head, then that is not faith. It is only mental assent.For example, I can declare that I am healed by the stripes of Jesus, but if I don't really believe it deep down, I will not experience the healing in my body. Or I can believe that God will provide me with a job to pay my bills, but if I don't really believe it deep down where I live, in my heart, then I will not experience God's provision.If we speak something we do not believe, it is not faith. Faith is released when we declare something we believe in our heart. Mark 11: 23-24 says this: "For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, 'Be removed and be cast into the sea,' and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore, I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."Notice, when you pray believe. When you pray believe that you receive them, and you will have them.In this verse, we also see the necessity of words in releasing faith. Whoever SAYS. Those things which he SAYS. He will have whatever he SAYS. Our words have great power. Why are words so essential in releasing our faith? Here are a few reasons:1. God created the universe using words. In Genesis 1, over and over again, we read: "And God said...and there was. And God said...and there was. And God said...and there was." We are made in God's image. Therefore, we too create with our words. If we continually speak negative words over ourselves and our situation, we will create miserable lives for ourselves. If we speak positive, Scriptural words over ourselves and our situation, we will create beautiful lives.2. Words are the containers of either life or death. Proverbs 18: 21 tells us that "Death and life are in the power of the tongue."Let me ask you. What are you creating with your words? Are you creating life, or are you creating death?Are you saying, "My allergies are getting worse" Or are you saying, "Jesus has healed me of all allergies." First of all, stop saying my allergies. If you are in Christ, they don't belong to you. He took them from you when He allowed Himself to be beaten with 39 stripes on his back. So don't take ownership of anything that is not yours.Let me tell you a little story. And this is a true story. Many years ago a woman was suffering from a terrible pain in her neck. And she tried everything to get rid of this pain. She went to all kinds of doctors, but nothing helped. Finally, she went to a Christian doctor who understood the power of words. And as he listened to her complain and describe what she was feeling,
March 4, 2024Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, Novelist and Life Coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, March 4, 2024, and this is Episode #3 in Season 2024. This episode is titled, "The Power of Faith - Part 3."During our previous two podcasts, we discussed what faith is, what it is not, and the two kinds of faith. If you did not listen to those podcasts, you may wish to go back to do so before listening to this one.Today, we are going to explore how we obtain faith in the first place and then, after we've obtained it, how we develop it or strengthen it.To start off, if you are born again, you already have the faith of God residing within you. This is one of the perks of accepting Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord. In Romans 12: 3, the Bible says this: "God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith." (Emphasis mine). The measure of faith the Bible describes here is supernatural faith.If you are not born again, you do not have this special kind of supernatural faith. You have only natural faith, which won't get you very far in receiving from God. So, if you want supernatural faith, get born again. I will tell you how at the end of this podcast. Now, let's get back to the measure of supernatural faith that God gives to those who receive Jesus as Savior. Notice that the Bible says that God gives THE measure of faith, not A measure of faith. What is the difference?THE measure of faith means that God gives the same amount of faith to everyone who gets born again. He does not give more faith to one person than to another. Just as God gives every human being the same number of muscles, so He gives to every born-again believer the same amount of faith.So, now that we've established that each of us who is born again receives the same amount of faith, the next question is how do we develop that faith? How do we make it stronger?Again, back to our analogy of the body's muscles. How do we make our muscles stronger? By exercising them, right? Well, that is precisely how we make our faith stronger. By exercising it.And how do we exercise our faith? Through trials and temptations.God allows trials and temptations into our lives to give us the opportunity to exercise our faith and, thereby, to strengthen it. Why do we need to strengthen our faith? Because the Bible tells us in Hebrews 11: 6 that without faith, it is impossible to please God. WOW! That's a pretty strong statement. Without faith, it is impossible to please God. So, if we do not have faith, we cannot please God. That's quite a sobering thought, isn't it?Well, why should we want to please God?First of all, because we love Him. When we love someone, we want to please that person, don't we?Second, we need faith to receive from God what we need from Him. In Mark 11: 24, we read this: "Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them."Third, we need to receive from God not only in order to have what we need, but also to bless others. The Lord told Abraham back in Genesis 22: 17-18 that He would bless Abraham so that Abraham and his descendants would bless the earth. We are the spiritual descendants of Abraham, and God wants to us us to bless the world.But how can we bless the world with God's blessings if we ourselves have not received God's blessings?The answer is, we need to have faith to receive God's blessings so that we can then bless others.This takes us back to HOW DO WE GET FAITH? We get faith by hearing. Romans 10: 17 tells us this: "Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the Word of God." Faith comes through hearing, specifically hearing God's Word.But, interestingly, faith in anything comes by hearing it. If we hear something over and over again, we will eventually believe what we hear, even if what we hear is a lie. That is exactly what's happening in our world today. People are hearing lies repeated again and again,
This is Part 2 in our series title The Power of Faith.
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No Middle Ground

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Winning with the Word is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. NOTE: Winning with the Word will cease publication as of this post. ______________________________________   ______________________________________ Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/No_Middle_Ground.mp3 ___________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to the final episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, September 25, 2023, and this is Episode #37 of Series 2023. This episode is titled “No Middle Ground." It seems fitting that I should be writing my last blog post when the Rapture seems so imminent. Regardless of whether it is or not, God has a purpose in His timing. And because I love and revere Him, I yield to that purpose. So, as I craft this final message, I would like to leave you with a word of encouragement. And that word is to cling to the Word of God. It alone is Truth. It alone will save you. It alone will set you free. And it alone will cause you to win at life! Jesus warned us in Matthew chapter 24 that deception would run rampant in the last days. All we have to do is look around us to find a world gone mad. A world that no longer thinks straight. A world on its way to hell. It has been said that when we reject Truth, only the Lie remains. Such is the case with the world today. It has rejected Truth. Jesus Christ is Truth. In rejecting Jesus Christ, the world has rejected Truth. Jesus Himself said this in Matthew 12: 30: "He who is not with Me is against Me."  If we are not on the side of Christ—the side of Truth—we are by default on the side of the Lie. My heart's desire over the past several years that I have been writing this blog has been to point you to Jesus Christ by exploring His Word. Obeying His Word is the key to winning not only in this life but also in the life beyond. The Word is the Bible. The Word is Jesus. The Word is the center of everything. All of life—its beginning, its middle, and its end—points to Jesus Christ. All things begin and end in Him. He is the focal point of life. As our time together comes to a close, I want to thank you for being a faithful follower of Winning with the Word. You can access our archives at maryanndiorio.com. Click on the Blog tab and then click on Winning with the Word Archives. I also want to implore you to stay close to Jesus. Let every thought you think, every word you speak, and every thing you do be motivated by your love for Him and your desire to glorify Him. And if you do not yet know Him as your Savior, I urge you to receive Him now. He longs to have a personal relationship with you. He longs to be your Savior, Your Healer, Your Provider, and Your Friend. Won't you pray this simple prayer with me now? Lord Jesus, I don’t want to go to Hell when I die. I acknowledge that I am a sinner in need of a Savior. You are the Truth. You are the only One Who can save me. I receive You now as my personal Savior and as the Lord of my life. Make of me what You created me to be. In Your Name I pray. Amen. If you prayed this prayer, you are now a child of God. Write to me at info@maryanndiorio.com and I will send you a free e-booklet titled After You’re Born Again to help you in your walk with Jesus. Finally, I invite you to stay in touch with me by subscribing to my author newsletter at this link: https://landing.mailerlite.com/webforms/landing/x5i2r2 Again, thank you for your faithful support over the years. As I bid you farewell, please remember that God loves you just as you are and just where you are, and that He will always help you to keep on winning with the Word! ___________________________________________________Copyright 2023 by Mar...
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/5_Signs_That_the_End_is_Here.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, August 14, 2023, and this is Episode #32 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "5 Signs That the End is Here!"   One has to be blind not to notice the radical changes that are occurring in our world. From the rise of the New World Order with its digital currency, the increasing use of microchips, iris scanning, and other surveillance techniques, to unprecedented, apocalyptic superstorms, outrageous inflation, and the recurrence of rare diseases, like leprosy—long thought to be eradicated—we have without question entered the period of history that the Bible describes as the end times. As some Bible experts are saying, "The end is not near; the end is here!" I would like to share with you five signs that the end is not near but already here: Sign #1. This sign is found in Daniel 9: 27 GNT - "And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease . . . ." This verse is talking about the AntiChrist and it tells us that he will confirm, or make sure, a covenant with many. The covenant will be for one week, which, in Biblical terms, means seven years. Interestingly, next month, on September 18th and 19th, the United Nations will confirm a covenant that was made with its many member nations back in 2015. Specifically, Secretary General Antonio Guterres has requested that the original signers of this covenant confirm it for another seven years. If that doesn't grab your attention, I don't know what does. Sign #2. The plans of the World Economic Forum to have the entire world population microchipped by 2026.  In a 2016 interview with Swiss Radio Television, World Economic Forum founder and leader, Klaus Schwab, asserted that humans will have microchips implanted in their brains, and under their skin, by 2026. When asked back in the 2016 interview regarding when microchip implantations would begin to be used in the human body, Schwab said this: “Certainly in the next ten years, and at first we will implant them in our clothes....And then we could imagine that we will implant them in our brains or in our skin, and, in the end, maybe, there will be a direct communication between our brain and the digital world. What we see is a kind of fusion of the physical, digital, and biological world." (https://wide-awake-media.com/klaus-schwab-humans-will-have-microchip-implants-by-2026/) Already we are seeing signs of chip implantations, especially with the FDA's recent approval of Elon Musk's brain chip, called Neuralink. We are there, my friends. The end is here. Sign #3. The fulfillment of the Fig Tree Generation. Matthew 24: 34 says this: "Truly I tell you, this generation will not pass away until all these things have happened." The generation in which we are living is called "the fig tree generation." It began back in 1948 when Israel, which the Bible refers to as "the fig tree" became a nation in a single day. So these words of Jesus mean that the generation that saw the birth of Israel as a nation will not end until all of the signs of the end times as described in Matthew 24 have occurred. Sign #4. Israel's 75 Birthday. This year Israel celebrated her 75th birthday as a nation. Interestingly,
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Why_YOU_Need_to_Be_Born_Again.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, August 7, 2023, and this is Episode #31 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "Why You Need to Be Born Again." One of Satan's tactics to thwart God's plan and a person's destiny is to cast aspersions on Biblical principles and terms. Chief among these, in my opinion, is the term "born again." For various reasons, and sad to say, the term "born again" has acquired a negative connotation for many people.  So in this week's message, I would like to set the record straight and explain exactly what "born again" means and why you need to be born again. The term "born again" originates with Jesus Christ Himself. He was the first to "coin" the expression, so to speak, in the Gospel of John, chapter 3, verse 3 where He said this: “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God” (NKJV). Let's look at these words of Christ one by one in order to grasp their meaning. First, Jesus used the words most assuredly. Why did He use these specific words? The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines assuredly as meaning certainly or without a doubt [whatsoever][Brackets mine]. Most assuredly, then, means most certainly. So Jesus is saying here that most certainly you need to be born again. In other words, there is absolutely no doubt that you need to be born again.  So, the next question becomes, what does it mean to be born again? Simply put, to be born again means to be reconnected to God by receiving a new nature, a nature compatible with God's holy nature. When we are born physically into this world, we are born with a sin nature, a nature that has been corrupted by sin. Some people call this "original sin" because we received this sin nature by default from our original parents, Adam and Eve. When they rebelled against God, Papa Adam and Mama Eve lost their holy nature and got a sin nature instead. This sin nature, therefore, was the only nature they could pass on to their descendants. And that's exactly what they did. All the way down to you and me. Since a sin nature is not compatible with God's holy nature, there can be no spiritual connection between God and us. And since we were created to have a spiritual connection with God, we soon discover, to our great dismay, that we face a huge dilemma. We have a sin nature but we need a holy nature. But we can't acquire a holy nature on our own. We need help. We need a Savior. Someone who can take away our sin nature and give us a holy nature in its place. So the next question becomes, why do we need a holy nature? That is, why do we need to be born again?  Jesus gives us the reason in the second part of the verse. He explains that we need to be born again in order to see the Kingdom of God. Jesus lives in the Kingdom of God. So, if we want to see Jesus and to reconnect with Him, we need to be born again. We need a holy nature.  Okay, but what is this Kingdom of God that Jesus wants us to see? The Kingdom of God is where Jesus lives. We normally call it Heaven. It is the place of eternal life, the place where people who are born again go when they die, and where they live forever and ever and ever. Moreover, the Kingdom of God is the home for which we were originally created.
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Is_Daniel_927_About_to_Be_Fulfilled_.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, July 31, 2023, and this is Episode #30 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "Is Daniel 9: 27 About to Be Fulfilled?" Bible prophecy is being fulfilled at astounding speed right before our very eyes. In this week's message, I would like to bring to your attention the significance from a prophetic standpoint of the upcoming United Nations Summit meeting to be held in New York City on September 18-19 of this year. Please check all sources cited at the end of this post. (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/category/sustainable-development-summit/) First, a little background. Back in 2015, UN member nations signed an agreement to implement 17 Sustainable Development Goals, also known as SDGs, as part of their agenda to control the world. Of course, the UN did not say that the ultimate purpose of this agenda was to control the world. Instead, they called the agenda a (quote) "Agenda for Sustainable Development" (end of quote). Its express purpose was to implement 17 goals that the UN thinks will make this world a much better place for everyone. Following are the 17 goals: Goal #1: No poverty. Goal #2: Zero Hunger Goal #3: Good Health & Well-Being Goal #4: Quality Education Goal #5: Gender Equality Goal #6: Clean Water & Sanitation Goal #7: Affordable & Clean Energy Goal #8: Decent Work & Economic Growth Goal #9: Industry, Innovation, & Infrastructure Goal #10: Reduced Inequalities Goal #11: Sustainable Cities & Communities Goal #12: Responsible Consumption & Production Goal #13: Climate Action Goal #14: Life below Water Goal #15: Life on Land Goal #16: Peace, Justice & Strong Institutions Goal #17: Partnerships This all sounds very good, but in truth, it is a coverup for the real agenda which is to depopulate the world and to subjugate humanity under a one-world government called 'the New World Order." This UN agreement signed back in 2015 launched a 15-year plan for achieving their 17 goals to make the world more "sustainable."  Here is a statement about these 17 SDGs taken directly from the United Nations website. And I quote: "The Sustainable Development Goals are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve them all by 2030." (https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/) As time went by, the name of the UN Agenda became Agenda 2030. In other words, as mentioned in its official statement, the United Nations determined to achieve its 17 sustainable goals by the year 2030. Well, progress on the goals has fallen far below what the UN had hoped to achieve by this point. So, UN Secretary Antònio Guterres recently sent out a special edition report to the member nations urging them to reconfirm their original agreement for another seven years in order to speed up the process. I quote now from his report: "First, I [Antònio Guterres] urge Heads of State and Government to recommit to seven years of accelerated, sustained and transformative action,
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/They_re_Coming_for_Your_Children.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, July 24, 2023, and this is Episode #29 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "They're Coming for Your Children!" Communism has always had on its agenda the complete control of our children in order to indoctrinate them in the ways of Satan with the ultimate purpose of subjugating nations. Vladimir Lenin once said, "Give me a child for the first five years of his life and he will be mine forever." Lenin's philosophy is alive and well today, right here in America. It is being implemented through our educational system that is no longer focusing on teaching reading, writing, and arithmetic but, rather, on teaching a socialist philosophy that deifies the government as the supplier of every need. Most Americans now look to the government to supply them with income, healthcare, and direction. We have become a culture of dependent, fear-ridden puppets who, when the government tells us to jump, we ask "how high?"  We wear muzzles—I mean, masks—when we are told to wear them. We allow security cameras to scan our faces and record our location. We freely give out our personal information without batting an eye.  All in the name of safety and convenience. As if this weren't bad enough, the culture is now coming after our children. This pursuit has taken the form of horrific pedophilia—the bold and brazen sexual exploitation of our children in the form of child trafficking, the promiscuous promotion of pornography in the classroom, and the raping of our children's innocence in the name of progress.  Make no mistake about it. God is not pleased. In fact, as far as God is concerned, this wicked pursuit of our children is the straw that will break the camel's back for God. In Luke 17: 2, Jesus said this about those who harm children by robbing them of their innocence: "It would be better to be thrown into the sea with a millstone hung around your neck than to cause one of these little ones to fall into sin." So, how are the wicked coming after our children? They are doing it deliberately, intentionally, and openly. Through educational materials in our classrooms, materials that promote the globalist agenda to capture the minds and hearts of our children. Through drag queen appearances and performances at our local libraries. Through online chat rooms for children to discuss their sexual identity. Through books, movies, and cartoons that promote the lies of transgenderism, homosexuality, and pornography. Through the insane advocacy for cross-sex medical interventions for children supposedly confused about their gender. And implementing such advocacy without the knowledge or the consent of the parents. And, unbelievably, through churches that have strayed so far from the Bible that they can no longer be associated with Jesus Christ. All this in the name of wokism. These evil ideas are being deliberately implanted in the minds and hearts of our children for the purpose of brainwashing them. Recently, I heard of a ten-year-old child who was asked at his pediatric visit if he wer...
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/How_to_Stop_Being_Too_Busy_to_Live.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, July 17, 2023, and this is Episode #28 of Series 2023. This episode is a replay of a post from October 3, 2016, titled "How to Stop Being Too Busy to Live". It is just as relevant today as it was back then, perhaps even more so. Read or listen, and be blessed. __________________________________________ “Busy” has become today’s buzzword. Have you noticed that when you ask people how they are, the first words that usually come out of their mouths are, “I’m so busy.”  Not only is “busy” a buzzword, it has also become a badge of honor. The busier one is, the more important one is. But, the busyness lie has a way of finding us out. Sooner or later, our busyness will catch up with us and expose the truth that we are too busy mostly about nothing. This happened to me when my children were small many years ago. I was complaining to the Lord one day that I did not have enough time to do everything I had to do. Expecting a little sympathy from the Lord, I was taken aback when He said to me, lovingly but firmly, “MaryAnn, you always have enough time to do what I have called you to do.” Whoa! “O-O-O-kay,  Lord,” I replied. “Either I’m totally disorganized, or I’m doing some things You have not called me to do.”  In my case, it was the latter, as I am an organized person by nature. As I asked the Lord what I was doing that He had not called me to do, I was surprised when He pointed out several church ministries in which I was involved at the time. Good things. But not good for me. Besides, other church members were called to those ministries, and I was effectively robbing them of their ministries. A bad thing! So, I gave up those ministries and began earnestly to seek God as to what He had called me to do. As I let go of what I wanted, God gave me what I needed. A writing ministry to glorify Him, to get to know Him more intimately, and to teach me His ways in the process. One of the biggest bonuses I received from stopping the aimless busyness was that I finally started to live. No longer was I barely keeping my head above water and merely surviving. I started to enjoy my life. I started to smell the roses and to seize the precious moments of life as they presented themselves in quiet, subtle ways.  In short, I began experiencing the abundant life Jesus died to give me (John 10: 10). How? By making my time with Jesus the most important priority in my life. By sitting continually at His feet. By refusing to take a step without first seeking Holy Spirit’s direction. In Luke 10: 41-42, Jesus is having a conversation with Martha. Martha, you may recall, was the sister in the Mary-Martha duo who was constantly busy. Her busyness kept her in a continual state of anxiety, worry, and stress. Sound familiar? In talking to Martha one day while she was busy, busy, busy, Jesus said this: “Martha, Martha, you are worried and bothered about so many things; but only one thing is necessary, for Mary has chosen the good part, which shall not be taken away from her.” – Luke 10: 41-42
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Signs_Seasons_of_Christ_s_Return.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, July 10, 2023, and this is Episode #27 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "Signs & Seasons of Christ's Return". There is a very interesting Scripture passage in Mark 13: 28-29 that says this: “Now learn a lesson from the fig tree. When its branches bud and its leaves begin to sprout, you know that summer is near. In the same way, when you see all these things taking place, you can know that His [Jesus Christ's] return is very near, right at the door." (Brackets mine.) Prophecy expert and teacher T.W. Tramm has pointed out that summer as used in this Scripture is a metaphor for the end times. Keeping this in mind, Tram discusses five signs of summer that indicate that our Lord Jesus is coming soon to take us home in the Rapture. Let's take a look at these five signs. 1. The 8th Anniversary of the Appearance of the Star of Bethlehem in 2015. July 1st of this year marked eight years since the Jupiter-Venus conjunction, referred to as the Star of Bethlehem, reappeared in 2015. While this recurrent conjunction is not necessarily rare, as Tramm points out, the one that occurred in 2015 was unique in that it occurred on the Jewish fall feasts of harvest. Also, like the original Star of Bethlehem that appeared around 2 B.C., this 2015 Bethlehem Star was a rare triple conjunction that occurred in the constellation Leo, or the Lion. It is this constellation that represents Jesus as the Lion of Judah, as we read in Revelation 5: 5, where John writes: "But one of the twenty-four elders said to me, 'Stop weeping! Look, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the heir to David’s throne, has won the victory. He is worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals.'” Also, the appearance of the Bethlehem Star in 2015 occurred in a sabbatical year, just as did the original Bethlehem Star. The sabbatical year is the seventh of seven years during which the Israelites are not to plant crops but to let the ground rest for a year. This command is found in Leviticus 25: 3-5:  "For six years sow your fields, and for six years prune your vineyards and gather their crops. But in the seventh year the land is to have a year of sabbath rest, a sabbath to the Lord. Do not sow your fields or prune your vineyards. Do not reap what grows of itself or harvest the grapes of your untended vines. The land is to have a year of rest.” So every seventh year, there was to be no planting or pruning of crops. The land was to rest. It is possible, as Tramm points out, that the Bethlehem Star and eclipses of 2015 were a seven-year warning about the Sabbatical week that will begin in September of this year on Rosh Hashanah, September 15-17.  2. The Full Moon. On July 3rd of this year, the first full moon of summer appeared. This moon was a super moon and indicates the type of moon that will usher in the return of the "goodman" of the house—namely, Jesus Christ—as described in Proverbs 7: 20: "...at the full moon he [the goodman or husband] will come home."   The full moon represents the Bride of Christ,
The Lunatic Age

The Lunatic Age

2023-07-0306:59

WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/The_Lunatic_Age.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, July 3, 2023, and this is Episode #26 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "The Lunatic Age". Those who are honest among us–and who still can think straight—will not be afraid to acknowledge that we are living in an age of utter lunacy, an age when logical thinking has gone out the window and has been replaced by insanity, idiocy, and every form of stupidity possible to human beings. If my parents were alive today, they would not recognize the world in which we live. So, you may be wondering, like a lot of people, how did we get here? The answer is very simple. We got here by turning away from God and, thereby, turning away from Truth, because God is Truth. The Bible is very clear that if we turn away from God, He will turn away from us. And when God, Who is Truth, turns away, we have no Truth left on which to base our thinking. Romans 1: 28 says this: "And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done."  In other words, when we choose not to honor and reverence God and to obey His commands, then He will leave us to our own devices. He will turn away from us and leave us to fend for ourselves without the benefit of Truth. All we have to do is to look around us to see what happens to people who lead lives without truth. They become lunatics. A life without truth is a life of deception. A life of lies. Our culture has abandoned God. He has said, "Enough! Do what you want, and see what happens." Well, we are seeing what happens. Some men think they are women. Some women think they are men. Some people think they are cats. Drag queens lead story hour at our public libraries. So-called churches have transgenders as pastors. If this is not lunacy, I do not know what is.  Lunacy is what happens when people turn away from God. They become their own god, and they surely make a mess of their lives as a result.  God will not strive with man forever. In other words, God will not go chasing man down forever. God gives us many chances, but at some point, we run out of chances. That is what has happened to our world today. It has run out of chances because it has scorned God's continual calls to repentance. If God has turned you over to a reprobate mind, then you can no longer think logically. Why? Because logical thinking is founded on Truth. When one strays from Truth, one automatically strays from logical thinking.  We have no excuses. We are getting what we deserve. And things will only get worse for those who persist in their rebellion. While they may think they are living the good life, they will soon find out that it leads to Hell. So, is there any hope for a reprobate mind to be restored to sanity? Yes. But it will require a fierce commitment to the following: 1. Sincere repentance. This means a sincere turning away from sin and an acceptance of Jesus Christ Who alone is Truth. 2. Unflinching obedience to the Word of God at all costs, even in the face of the worst temptation.
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Are_We_in_the_Last_Hour_of_Human_History_2.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, June 26, 2023, and this is Episode #25 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "Are We in the Last Hour of Human History?" If you're like many people, you may be taking a look at the culture around you and wondering if we are near the end of the world. Well, I for one, think we are. Very near. What reasons do I have for thinking that we are in the last hour of human history? To answer that question, join me in exploring an eye-opening Scripture passage about the times in which we live. This passage is in 1 John 2: 18-20:  "Dear children, the last hour is here. You have heard that the AntiChrist is coming, and already many such antiChrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come. These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left, it proved that they did not belong with us. But you are not like that, for the Holy One has given you his Spirit, and all of you know the truth." This passage provides three significant reasons that reveal we are in the final hours of human history. Let's take a look at each reason: 1) The rise of many anti-Christs, leading to the rise of THE AntiChrist. Verse 18 says this. "You have heard that the AntiChrist is coming, and already many such antiChrists have appeared. From this we know that the last hour has come." An antiChrist is not only a person who opposes Christ, but also a person who attempts to supplant Christ. Today, we have the majority of the world population openly opposing Christ by deliberately mocking Him and any one who loves and follows Him. We also have millions of people who brazenly disobey God's commandments and live in utter rebellion to His ways. The rise of many antiChrists is a sign of the imminent rise of THE AntiChrist, the global dictator who will soon dominate the world through the use of terror tactics toward all those who do not comply with his agenda. I believe that the AntiChrist is already alive and waiting in the wings to emerge. His appearance will be revealed through the confirming or expansion or strengthening of a covenant or agreement that will already be in place at the time of his arrival.  I believe that the current Abrahamic  Accords agreement is that very covenant. Already there is talk of adding more nations to the Abrahamic Accords, what could be considered a "strengthening" of that agreement.  What we do know for sure is that the confirming of this major agreement--whatever it is--will mark the beginning of the horrific seven-year period known as the Tribulation. At the end of the Tribulation, Jesus Christ will return to judge the world, to separate the just from the wicked, and to begin His 1000-year reign of peace known as the Millennium.  2) The great apostasy or falling away from God. Verse 19 of our passage says this: "These people left our churches, but they never really belonged with us; otherwise they would have stayed with us. When they left,
Are You a Laodicean?

Are You a Laodicean?

2023-06-1908:30

WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Are_You_a_Laodicean_.mp3 __________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, June 19, 2023, and this is Episode #24 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "Are You a Laodicean?" So, what is a Laodicean? To understand what a Laodicean is, we need to go back to the Book of Revelation 3: 14-22: Here Jesus is speaking to the Apostle John: Let's take a look at that passage now: “Write this letter to the angel of the church in Laodicea. This is the message from the one who is the Amen—the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God’s new creation: 'I know all the things you do, that you are neither hot nor cold. I wish that you were one or the other! But since you are like lukewarm water, neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth! You say, "I am rich. I have everything I want. I don’t need a thing!" And you don’t realize that you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. So I advise you to buy gold from me—gold that has been purified by fire. Then you will be rich. Also buy white garments from me so you will not be shamed by your nakedness, and ointment for your eyes so you will be able to see. I correct and discipline everyone I love. So be diligent and turn from your indifference. Look! I stand at the door and knock. If you hear my voice and open the door, I will come in, and we will share a meal together as friends. Those who are victorious will sit with me on my throne, just as I was victorious and sat with my Father on his throne. Anyone with ears to hear must listen to the Spirit and understand what he is saying to the churches.'” Laodicea was a city in what is now modern-day Turkey. It was a wealthy city situated in the valley of the Lycos River. Laodicea was founded about 260 B.C. by King Antiochus II, a king of Syria, and it was named after his wife Laodice.  The city lay not far from two other cities, Hierapolis and Colossae. Both Hierapolis and Colossae provided water to Laodicea from their springs. Hierapolis had hot springs where people would go for physical therapy for their aches and pains. Colossae had cold springs that were clean and perfect for drinking. Laodicea's water supply came from the merging of these two springs into an aqueduct located six miles south of the city. But the problem was that the hot and cold water mingled in the aqueduct so that by the time it reached Laodicea, it was unfit for drinking. In other words, it was useless. The water contained inedible minerals from the hot springs of Hierapolis, blended with the clean water from the cold springs of Colossae. By the time the water reached Laodicea, it was lukewarm, unclean, and undrinkable. It made the people sick. Sick enough to vomit it out of their mouths. Jesus used this metaphor to describe the condition of the church at Laodicea. Prior to addressing this church, Jesus had already addressed six other churches. But, Laodicea was the only church about which Jesus had nothing good to say.  Using the analogy of the lukewarm water that entered Laodicea, Jesus described this church as spiritually lukewarm.
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast.  https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Are_You_Worried_about_Your_Financial_Future_.mp3 _________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, June 12, 2023. Today's episode will be a replay of a podcast I did on November 14, 2022 titled "Are You Worried about Your Financial Future?" _________________________________________ Originally published and broadcast on Monday, November 14, 2022 . . . If you've had your eyes open at all, you know about the predicted food shortages and famines, the projected stock market crash, and the move toward a digital world currency. All of these ominous events are causing great anxiety among the world population. Already I've read that some families here in America have reduced their daily meals to two a day instead of the usual three. Drought has ruined many crops throughout the world, and, if things don't change, the world is heading to famine. But today I'd like to encourage you not to be anxious nor to fear,  I'm going to share with you some promises from God for His children. (If you are not His child, then listen closely so you can become His child and receive these benefits as well.) The world is fast heading into a time period that the Bible calls "the time of Jacob's trouble" (Jeremiah 30: 7). This will be a seven-year time period, also known as the Tribulation, during which God will judge the Jews for rejecting the Messiah. The Book of Revelation speaks extensively of the time of Jacob's trouble. During this time, there will be widespread famine. The fact that we are witnessing the approach of global famine now means that the Tribulation is not far off, and the return of Jesus is even closer. The Bible tells us that Jesus will return to remove His followers from the earth before the Tribulation. He said that when we see all these things converging—wars, rumors of wars, increase in the number and intensity of earthquakes, violent storms, and food shortages—we can know that His return is imminent. So, what can you do? 1. The most important thing you need to do is to get born again if you are not yet born again. What does the term "born again" mean? It means to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior and Lord so that you can experience the new birth He died to give you. You see, when we were born physically into this world, we received a fallen, corrupted spirit that separated us from God. Jesus wants to give us a new spirit that connects us back to God. Jesus died and paid the price for the sin that caused our corrupted spirits in the first place and, in exchange, He gives us eternal life. So, the first order of business is to get born again. Do it now! How? 1. Acknowledge before God that you are a sinner. 2. Repent of your sin. This means turn away from it and go in the opposite direction.  3. Receive Jesus into your heart by asking Him to come in. Once you do these three things, you become a child of God (John 1: 12). And as His child, You become eligible for His blessings. One of His blessings includes financial provision. He promises in Philippians 4: 19 that He will supply all your need. This means that He will provide everything you need because yo...
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Prepare_for_Persecution.mp3 ________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, June 5, 2023, and this is Episode #23 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "Prepare for Persecution".    No one likes to talk of persecution, especially those being persecuted. But, as we look around, we cannot help but see that persecution against Christians is on the rise. Why? Because we adhere to absolute Truth, and the world wants no part of truth these days. Yet, all around us, we are seeing the consequences of straying from the truth and embracing the lie. For example, our culture no longer knows the difference between men and women. Our culture calls good evil and evil good. Our culture promotes harm to children through the lies it is teaching them about transgenderism, authority, and rebellion.  The farther man strays from truth, the more perverse he becomes. Why? Because man was created for truth. But Satan tempted him to renounce truth and to choose the lie. And, sadly, man did.  Satan's tactics haven't changed. He still tempts man to choose the lie over truth. And, tragically, most men fall into Satan's trap. The horrendous evil we are witnessing around us today is the result of man's choosing the lie over the truth. So, what is truth? Truth is a Person. Truth is Jesus Christ. Jesus Himself said this about Himself: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me" (John 14: 6).  Without Jesus, there can be no recognition of truth because Jesus is Truth. Today's world has replaced the Truth with the Lie. It has replaced Jesus with Satan. And all we have to do is to look around us to see the consequences of replacing the Truth with the Lie. Of replacing Jesus with Satan. As the world continues to embrace Satan over Jesus, the world will eventually realize what Satan is really like. He is the essence of evil. He is the Lie itself. The Bible tells us that Satan is a liar and the father of lies. There is no truth in him.  Since Satan is evil personified, all evil comes from him. The bad things that happen in the world are the result of man's acceptance—and even his exaltation—of the lie. Today the world is exalting sin like never before. It is openly advocating sin. And it is scoffing at truth. But one day, unless those who follow Satan repent, they will reap the consequences of their rebellion. And it won't be pretty. Satan has already begun to show his true colors in the insanity that has taken over the world. In the transgender movement, the Satan worship movement, the pedophilia movement, and every other abhorrent movement that mocks God and His Word. We Christians will be increasingly marginalized and persecuted. We will be called "terrorists" and "enemies of the state".  Already we are seeing signs of this. We must be prepared for what is to come. To that end, I have written a book called The Iron Saint. In this short book, I delve into Biblical principles that we, as the Body of Christ, must adopt and adhere to if we want to remain strong in the day of persecution. Based on the training principles of The Iron Man Triath...
WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/Fear_The_Thief_of_Freedom.mp3 ________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, May 29, 2023, and this is Episode #22 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "Fear: The Thief of Freedom."   The past few years have exposed an alarming truth: Fear will motivate people to give up their freedom. Now, before you balk at my statement, let me ask you a few questions: During the pandemic . . .  Did you wear a mask? Did you stay locked down in your home? Did you give fist bumps instead of handshakes? If you're like most people, you did all three. But have you ever asked yourself why? Most likely, the reason you did all three is that you were afraid. Afraid of what? Afraid of getting sick. Why? Because you were afraid of dying. 1. You wore a mask because you were afraid of getting sick and dying. 2. You stayed in lockdown for the same reason. You were afraid of possibly exposing yourself to sick people, getting sick yourself, and dying. 3. You gave fist bumps instead of handshakes because you were afraid of getting sick and dying. In each case, you gave up some of your freedom in exchange for safety and protection from dying.  Studies have shown that the root of all fear is the fear of physical death. A person will give up anything, even his freedom, in order to be relieved of the fear of death. In order to be safe and protected from death. During the pandemic, did you ever ask yourself if the mask was really protecting you? If the lockdown was really keeping you safe? If the fist bump really warded off sickness and death? Most likely, you did not. Most likely, your fear was so great that you didn't stop to think. Or challenge. Most likely, you just went along with the crowd. You just believed everything the government told you. You did exactly what the government said to do. You never questioned the government's advice nor its motives. You just followed along in lockstep with the rest of the world. All because you were afraid. Today, nearly a full four years later, we are paying the price for our fear. We are facing an increasingly controlling government--both national and global--who has used and continues to use fear to implement its ulterior motive of subjugating us. And, frankly, they've done a good job. The pandemic did not happen by chance. It was planned. And fear was the catalyst to getting the results we are witnessing today: the rise of a one-world government that will control every aspect of your life and rob you of your freedom.  All of this was prophesied in the Bible, especially in the Books of Daniel, Ezekiel, and Revelation. A world that has rejected Truth will live in fear. And fear is the thief of freedom. Yet, God has given us the antidote to fear. His Name is Jesus Christ. But the world refuses to believe in Him. It amazes me that people will sooner believe the government than believe God. Yet, that is what we have done. We have trusted a government that does not have the best interests of the people at heart. We have trusted a government that has its own agenda called the New World Order.
The Lie of A.I.

The Lie of A.I.

2023-05-2208:52

WINNING WITH THE WORD “Winning with the Word” is a weekly blog that will help you to be a winner in life by applying God’s principles for living the abundant life as found in the Bible, God’s manual for life. An invitation for you: To subscribe to this blog, click here.  To subscribe to this podcast, click here. If this blog and podcast have blessed you, please encourage your family and friends to subscribe as well. Thank you! Be sure to check out our Featured Book of the Week at the end of this post. ______________________________________   Do you prefer listening instead of reading? Then click below to listen to today’s blog post on podcast. https://media.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/content.blubrry.com/winning_with_the_word/The_Lie_of_A_I_.mp3 ________________________________________ Hello and Happy Day! This is Dr. MaryAnn Diorio, novelist and life coach, welcoming you to another episode of Winning with the Word. Today is Monday, May 22, 2023, and this is Episode #21 of Series 2023. This episode is titled "The Lie of A.I." The topic of Artificial Intelligence, aka AI, has headlined the news lately and has raised a lot of serious questions. What is AI and how is it fulfilling Bible prophecy? Yes, in case you have any doubts, it is fulfilling Bible prophecy.  According to Britannica.com, AI, or Artificial Intelligence, is "the ability of a digital computer or computer-controlled robot to perform tasks commonly associated with intelligent beings. The term is frequently applied to the project of developing systems endowed with the intellectual processes characteristic of humans, such as the ability to reason, discover meaning, generalize, or learn from past experience." Generally speaking, psychology characterizes human intelligence as the combination of many abilities, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, and the ability to speak and use language. AI seeks to imitate these abilities and even to surpass them. In fact, trans-humanists are using AI to create—or to attempt to create—a species of superhuman whom they call Homo Sapiens, Version 2.0. AI is permeating every aspect of our lives and is closely linked to Bible prophecy.  How so? Well-known Bible teacher and prophecy expert, Pastor Billy Crone, describes AI as follows: "AI is in the process of taking over every aspect of society. Self-driving cars, robotic surgery, lightning-fast communication, … it all sounds so good. But the Bible tells us how these seemingly helpful benefits to society will be used to usher in the dark agenda of the Antichrist in the future." AI has already made extensive inroads into such areas as health, education, transportation, the economy, and the military. For example, doctors are doing surgery using robots run by Artificial Intelligence. The military is using AI in its operations both at home and abroad. Consider Project Maven, the Pentagon's flagship Artificial Intelligence effort that has been used to conduct military operations in all branches of the service. Through the use of unmanned drones, military robots, and equipment such as exploding dragonflies, the way the military conducts warfare has drastically changed. AI is being called "the new electricity". Just as the invention of electricity transformed society and the way we lived at that time, so is AI transforming society and the way we live now. AI has already infiltrated homes, businesses, cities, shopping, education, even law enforcement through the concept of "predictive policing".  So, what's the problem, you may ask? AI is doing a lot of good things. For one thing, it's making our lives easier. And who doesn't want that? It's doing things for us so that we don't have to do them for ourselves.  While all this sounds good, there is great danger inherent in AI. The danger in AI is that it is catering to a selfish, pleasure-loving society that wants convenience at all costs. A society that loves pleasure more than God.
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