Dear KKIM Family,
May God be with you this day and all days!
“Repent ye, and believe the gospel.” Mark 1:15 I would love to say that constantly on the radio……I would love to buy a bunch of Radio, TV. Newspaper, and billboards with that scripture on it. This is a message for ALL OF US, yes all of us for each day!
“Repentance is to leave
The sins we loved before,
And show what we in earnest grieve,
By doing so no more.”
AMEN!
What Darlene is about to share with us is so timely……..
The Father, our God, delights in them who hear His word and keep it.
They are truly blessed above all other children of God.
You are said to be blessed when The Heavenly Father delights in you.
That’s what blessed means (God delights in you.)
All whom the Father delights in are blessed.
Seek to please God the Father in all that you do and do that which pleases God the Father.
Jesus made a list of qualities that God the Father delights in:
The poor in spirit, The meek
They who mourn, They who hunger and thirst for justice,
The merciful, The pure of heart,
The peacemakers, They who suffer persecution for justice’s sake,
They who are persecuted for Christ’s sake.
In all these God the Father takes delight.
Darlene Quiring
Thank you so much Darlene, so thankful to have you sharing here at the CUP! Darlene is from Mt. Lake, Minnesota, love that Town! Many more folks are gathering here each day! PRAISE GOD!!!!
Now hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
— Jeremiah 5:21
One Nation Under God
Thank you Ernie Belanger for sharing!
In the CUP today two very AWESOME columns by Dr. Joe Fawcett in the Medical Bag and in the Financial News you need to know with Pastor Bill Ruhl! These two Godly men do such a great job for our LORD! I was thanking the LORD this morning for us being able to be SALT and LIGHT to New Mexico and the WORLD for HIM! Yesterday we broke more news stories on KKIM.
Please listen to New Mexico News and Views weekdays at 4:25, The LORD has put this call on my heart..that you are to listen!
Here is a note from Sam…We love Sam are her faithfulness…..Sharon and I Sam to come for a visit……..
Aww that would be great if I could Dewey, but it seems my traveling days are about over. My liver is acting up a bit. Two days ago, I woke up and my eyes were so Yellow. And I’ve been so tired. But Our Lord Knows Dewey, and it’s OK. IF I had a body that wasn’t so broken, I would have said ‘Yes to the Chemo, but the pain I’ve been thru was enough for me to add to it deliberately.. 🙂
Thank You Dewey for your Godly Daily ‘Cup’ it helps me make it thru the day. When I get on my Knees in the Mornings, I Thank Our Lord for the Life He has given me. And who knows maybe I am still here to be Praying for the ones on the ‘Cup’ that need me to Pray for them. …. Consider me one of the Prayer Warriors Dewey. As Long as I can, I Will. Aww after reading Sharon’s entry on the ‘Cup’ I had an urgent feeling to just ‘HUG’ her!!! 🙂 Who knows maybe we can visit one day face to face.. Sounds good to me my Brother in the Lord! I am assuming you have been praying for my niece Debby and her Half sisters and brother. Because I’ve been on the phone with them being able to witness. Only Our Lord can heal that family and with you joining with me in Prayer, it appears to be on their Hearts. I’m very thankful for that.
Love you two very much. You are Very Very Special to me. You are always in my Prayers also!! Love…sam
We are praying over you and your family Sam!
Please pray for us here at the CUP and Radio Ranch as we prepare for our 40th Birthday Praise and Worship service April 13th at Legacy Church. We have many things to do before the service and time is running short, please pray for us.
Please pray for Pastor Leonard and his lovely wife Diane as they travel to Texas to visit family. I am so blessed to have Leonard by my side. It is very important for us all top have Godly mentor’s and for people to hold us accountable.
Leonard has taught me this:
God has a desire to bless us all with spiritual power from heaven—-the authority, ability, and opportunity to do something beyond our imaginations.
We do not always know how others affect our lives………….until later as the years go by………when you do realize tell them.
I was just sharing with Sharon, that I understand more than ever why people fall…….they don’t have a FOUNDATION in our LORD to stand on. This is why I do what I do everyday, do reach my hands out to the World for JESUS CHRIST.
So many people are desperate, have given up…..they do not have a Godly family, they have know one, they have no Body of Christ around them, they have no mentor’s. They didn’t have the upbringing of you and me, they didn’t have a hometown like Windom, Minnesota. It is not our job to judge, but to HELP!
We are to offer the World a FOUNDATION in our LORD!
We are to reach through walls to reach others for JESUS CHRIST! AMEN!
I do not take for granted the love and peace I have when I go home to my Sharon and the doggies…..that is my happy hour time in our LORD!
Today my friends love on your family like never before, love on your co-workers like never before, love on strangers like never before in the name of JESUS CHRIST! AMEN!
Day 32 of our 40 Day Journey together…….
Psalm 34:20 Old testament Prophecy
He will protect all of their bones;
not even one bone will be broken.
Fulfilled in Jesus John 19: 32-36
The soldiers came and broke the legs of both the men crucified next to Jesus. When they came up to Jesus cross, they could see that He was dead; so they did not break His legs. Instead, one soldier took his spear and pierced His abdomen, which brought a gush of blood and water. This testimony is true. In fact, it is an eyewitness account; and he has reported what he saw so that you also may believe. It happened this way to fulfill the Hebrew Scriptures that “not one of His bones shall be broken.”
Let us pray over this for a time……….
Now here is the second half of Charles Spurgeon’s sermon on Faith and Reptance……I pray you share this with others……..
This brings me to the second half of the command, which is, “Believe the gospel.” Faith means trust in Christ. Now, I must again remark that some have preached this trust in Christ so well and so fully, that I can admire their faithfulness and bless God for them; yet there is a difficulty and a danger; it may be that in preaching simple trust in Christ as being the way of salvation, that they omit to remind the sinner that no faith can be genuine but such as is perfectly consistent with repentance for past sin; for my text seems to me to put it thus: no repentance is true but that which consorts with faith; no faith is true but that which is linked with a hearty and sincere repentance on account of past sin. So then, dear friends, those people who have a faith which allows them to think lightly of past sin, have the faith of devils, and not the faith of God’s elect. Those who say, “Oh, as for the past, that is nothing; Jesus Christ has washed all that away”; and can talk about all the crimes of their youth, and the iniquitous of their riper years, as if they were mere trifles, and never think of shedding a tear; never feel their souls ready to burst because they should have been such great offenders—such men who can trifle with the past, and even fight their battles o’er again when their passions are too cold for new rebellions—I say that such who think sin a trifle and have never sorrowed on account of it, may know that their faith is not genuine. Such men as have a faith which allows them to live carelessly in the present who say, “Well, I am saved by a simple faith”; and then sit on the ale-bench with the drunkard, or stand at the bar with the spirit-drinker, or go into worldly company and enjoy the carnal pleasures and the lusts of the flesh, such men are liars; they have not the faith which will save the soul. They have a deceitful hypocrisy; they have not the faith which will bring them to heaven.
And then, there be some other people who have a faith which leads them to no hatred of sin. They do not look upon sin in others with any kind of shame. It is true they would not do as others do, but then they can laugh at what others commit. They take pleasure in the vices of others; laugh at their profane jests, and smile at their loose speeches. They do not flee from sin as from a serpent, nor detest it as the murderer of their best friend. No, they dally with it; they make excuses for it; they commit in private what in public they condemn. They call grave offences slight faults and little defalcations; and in business they wink at departures from uprightness, and consider them to be mere matters of trade; the fact being that they have a faith which will sit down arm-in-arm with sin, and eat and drink at the same table with unrighteousness. Oh! if any of you have such a faith as this, I pray God to turn it out bag and baggage. It is of no good to you; the sooner you are cleaned out of it the better for you, for when this sandy foundation shall all be washed away, perhaps you may then begin to build upon the rock. My dear friends, I would be very faithful with your souls, and would lay the lancet at each man’s heart. What is your repentance? Have you a repentance that leads you to look out of self to Christ, and to Christ only? On the other hand, have you that faith which leads you to true repentance; to hate the very thought of sin; so that the dearest idol you have known, whatever it may be, you desire to tear from its throne that you may worship Christ, and Christ only? Be assured of this, that nothing short of this will be of any use to you at the last. A repentance and a faith of any other sort may do to please you now, as children are pleased with fancies; but when you get on a death-bed, and see the reality of things, you will be compelled to say that they are a falsehood and a refuge of lies. You will find that you have been daubed with untempered mortar; that you have said, “Peace, peace,” to yourselves, when there was no peace. Again, I say, in the words of Christ, “Repent and believe the gospel.” Trust Christ to save you, and lament that you need to be saved, and mourn because this need of yours has put the Saviour to open shame, to frightful sufferings, and to a terrible death.
III. But we must pass on to a third remark. These commands of Christ are of the most reasonable character.
Is it an unreasonable thing to demand of a man that he should repent? You have a person who has offended you; you are ready to forgive him; do you think it is at all exacting or overbearing if you ask of him an apology; if you merely ask him, as the very least thing he can do, to acknowledge that he has done wrong? “No,” say you, “I should think I showed my kindness in accepting rather than any harshness in demanding an apology from him.” So God, against whom we have rebelled, who is our liege sovereign and monarch, seeth it to be inconsistent with the dignity of his kingship to absolve an offender who expresseth no contrition; and I say again, is this a harsh, exacting, unreasonable command? Doth God in this mode act like Solomon, who made the taxes of his people heavy? Rather doth he not ask of you that which your heart, if it were in a right state, would be but too willing to give, only too thankful that the Lord in his grace has said, “He that confesseth his sin shall find mercy”? Why, dear friends, do you expect to be saved while you are in your sins? Are you to be allowed to love your iniquities, and yet go to heaven? What, you think to have poison in your veins, and yet be healthy? What, man, keep the thief in doors, and yet be acquitted of dishonesty? Be stained, and yet be thought spotless? Harbour the disease and yet be in health? Ridiculous! Absurd! Repentance is founded on the necessity of things. The demand for a change of heart is absolutely necessary; it is but a reasonable service. O that men were reasonable, and they would repent; it is because they are not reasonable that it needs the Holy Spirit to teach their reason right reason before they will repent and believe the gospel.
And then, again, believing; is that an unreasonable thing to ask of you? For a creature to believe its Creator is but a duty; altogether apart from the promise of salvation, I say, God has a right to demand of the creature that he has made, that he should believe what he tells him. And what is it he asks you to believe? Anything hideous, contradictory, irrational? It may be above reason, but it is not contrary to reason. He asks you to believe that through the blood of Jesus Christ, he can still be just, and yet the justifier of the ungodly. He asks you to trust in Christ to save you. Can you expect that he will save you if you will not trust him? Have you really the hardihood to think that he will carry you to heaven while all the while you declare he cannot do it? Do you think it consistent with the dignity of a Saviour to save you while you say, “I do not believe thou art a Saviour, and I will not trust thee”? Is it consistent with his dignity for him to save you, and suffer you to remain an unbelieving sinner, doubting his grace, mistrusting his love, slandering his character, doubting the efficacy of his blood, and of his plea? Why, man, it is the most reasonable thing in the world that he should demand of thee that thou shouldst believe in Christ. And this he doth demand of thee this morning. “Repent and believe the gospel.” O friends, O friends, how sad, how sad is the state of man’s soul when he will not do this! We may preach to you, but you never will repent and believe the gospel. We may lay God’s command, like an axe, to the root of the tree, but, reasonable as these commands are, you will still refuse to give God his due; you will go on in your sins; you will not come unto him that you may have life; and it is here the Spirit of God must come in to work in the souls of the elect to make them willing in the day of his power. But oh! in God’s name I warn you that, if, after hearing this command, you do, as I know you will do, without his Spirit, continue to refuse obedience to so reasonable a gospel, you shall find at the last it shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah, than for you; for had the things which are preached in London been proclaimed in Sodom and Gomorrah, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and in ashes. Woe unto you, inhabitants of London! Woe unto you, subjects of the British Empire! for if the truths which have been declared in your streets had been preached to Tyre and Sidon, they would have continued even unto this day.
IV. But still, to pass on, I have yet a fourth remark to make, and that is, this is a command which demands immediate obedience. I do not know how it is, let us preach as we may, we cannot lead others to think that there is any great alarm, that there is any reason why they should think about their souls now. Last night there was a review on Wimbledon Common, and living not very far away from it, I could hear in one perpetual roll the cracks of the rifles and the thunder of cannon. One remarked to me, “Supposing there really were war there, we should not sit quite so comfortably in our room with our window open, listening to all this noise.” No; and so when people come to chapel, they hear a sermon about repentance and faith; they listen to it. “What do you think of it?” “Oh—very well.” But suppose it were real; suppose they believed it to be real, would they sit quite so comfortably? Would they be quite so easy? Ah, no! But you do not think it is real. You do not think that the God who made you actually asks of you this day that you should repent and believe. Yes, sirs, but it is real, and it is your procrastination, it is your self-confidence that is the sham, the bubble that is soon to burst. God’s demand is the solemn reality, and if you could but hear it as it should be heard you would escape from your lives and flee for refuge to the hope that is set before you in the gospel, and you would do this to-day. This is the command of Christ, I say, to-day. To-day is God’s time. “To-day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your heart, as in the provocation.” “To-day,” the gospel always cries, for if it tolerated sin a single day, it were an unholy gospel. If the gospel told men to repent of sin to-morrow, it would give them an allowance to continue in it to-day, and that would indeed be to pander to men’s lusts. But the gospel maketh a clean sweep of sin, and demandeth of man that he should throw down the weapons of his rebellion now. Down with them, man! every one of them. Down, sir, down with them, and down with them now! You must not keep one of them; throw them down at once! The gospel challengeth him that he believe in Jesus now. So long as thou continuest in unbelief thou continuest in sin, and art increasing thy sin; and to give thee leave to be an unbeliever for an hour, were to pander to thy lusts; therefore it demandeth of thee faith, and faith now, for this is God’s time, and the time which holiness must demand of a sinner. Besides, sinner, it is thy time. This is the only time thou canst call thine own. To-morrow! Is there such a thing? In what calendar is it written save in the almanack of the fool? To-morrow! Oh, how hast thou ruined multitudes! “To-morrow,” say men; but like the hind-wheel of a chariot, they are always near to the front-wheel, always near to their duty; they still go on, and on, but never get one whit the nearer, for, travel as they may, to-morrow is still a little beyond them—but a little, and so they never come to Christ at all. This is how they speak, as an ancient poet said—
“‘I will to-morrow, that I will, I will be sure to do it’;
To-morrow comes, to-morrow goes, And still thou art ‘to do it’;
Thus, then, repentance is deferred from one day to another,
Until the day of death is one, And judgment is the other.”
O sons of men, always to be blessed, to be obedient, but never obedient, when will ye learn to be wise? This is your only time; it is God’s time, and this is the best time. You will never find it easier to repent than now; you will never find it easier to believe than now. It is impossible now except the Spirit of God be with you; it will be as impossible to-morrow; but if now you would believe and repent, the Spirit of God is in the gospel which I preach; and while I cry out to thee in God’s name, “Repent and believe,” he that bade me command you thus to do gives power with the command, that even as Christ spake to the waves and said, “Be still,” and they were still, and to the winds, “Be calm,”, and they were quiet, so when we speak to your proud heart it yields because of the grace that accompanies the word, and you repent and believe the gospel. So may it be, and may the message of this morning gather out the elect, and make them willing in the day of God’s power.
But now, lastly, this command, while it has an immediate power, has also a continual force. “Repent ye, and believe the gospel,” is advice to the young beginner, and it is advice to the old grey-headed Christian, for this is our life all the way through—”Repent ye, and believe the gospel.” St. Anselm, who was a saint—and that is more than many of them were who were called so—St. Anselm once cried out “Oh! sinner that I have been, I will spend all the rest of my life in repenting of my whole life!” And Rowland Hill, whom I think I might call St. Rowland, when he was near death, said he had one regret, and that was that a dear friend who had lived with him for sixty years would have to leave him at the gate of heaven. “That dear friend,” said he, “is repentance; repentance has been with me all my life, and I think I shall drop a tear,” said the good man, “as I go through the gates, to think that I can repent no more.” Repentance is the daily and hourly duty of a man who believes in Christ; and as we walk by faith from the wicket gate to the celestial city, so our right-hand companion all the journey through must be repentance. Why, dear friend, the Christian man, after he is saved, repents more than he ever did before, for now he repents not merely of overt deeds, but even of imaginations. He will take himself to task at night, and chide himself because he had tolerated one foul thought; because he has looked on vanity, though perhaps the heart had gone no further than the look of lust; because the thought of evil has flitted through the mind—for all this he will vex himself before God; and were it not that he still continues to believe the gospel, one foul imagination would be such a plague and sting to him, that he would have no peace and rest. When temptation comes to him the good man finds the use of repentance, for having hated sin and fled from it of old, he has ceased to be what he once was. One of the ancient fathers, we are told, had, before his conversion, lived with an ill woman, and some little time after, she accosted him as usual. Knowing how likely he was to fall into sin he ran away with all his might, and she ran after him, crying, “Wherefore runnest thou away? It is I.” He answered, “I run away because I am not I; I am a new man.” Now, it is just that, “I am not I,” which keeps the Christian out of sin; that hating of the former “I,” that repenting of the old sin that maketh him run from evil, abhor it, and look not upon it, lest by his eyes he should be led into sin. Dear friend, the more the Christian man knows of Christ’s love, the more will he hate himself to think that he has sinned against such love. Every doctrine of the gospel will make a Christian man repent. Election, for instance. “How could I sin,” saith he. “I that was God’s favourite, chosen of him from before the foundation of the world?” Final perseverance will make him repent. “How can I sin,” says he, “that am loved so much and kept so surely? How can I be so villainous as to sin against everlasting mercy?” Take any doctrine you please, the Christian will make it a fount for sacred woe; and there are times when his faith in Christ will be so strong that his repentance will burst its bonds, and will cry with George Herbert—
“Oh, who will give me tears?
Come, all ye springs,
Ye clouds and rain dwell in my eyes,
My grief hath need of all the wat’ry things
That nature hath produc’d. Let ev’ry vein
Suck up a river to supply mine eyes,
My weary weeping eyes; too dry for me,
Unless they set new conduits, new supplies
To bear them out, and with my state agree.”
And all this is because he murdered Christ; because his sin nailed the Saviour to the tree; and therefore he weepeth and mourneth even to his life’s end. Sinning, repenting, and believing—these are three things that will keep with us till we die. Sinning will stop at the river Jordan; repentance will die triumphing over the dead body of sin; and faith itself, though perhaps it may cross the stream, will cease to be so needful as it has been here, for there we shall see even as we are seen, and shall know even as we are known.
I send you away when I have once again solemnly declared my Master’s will to you this morning, “Repent ye, and believe the gospel.” Here are some of you come from foreign countries, and many of you are from our provincial towns in England; you came here, perhaps, to hear the preacher of whom many a strange thing has been said. Well and good, and may stranger things still be said if they will but bring men under the sound of the Word that they may be blessed. Now, this I have to say to you this morning: In that great day when a congregation ten thousand times larger than this shall be assembled, and on the great white throne the Judge shall sit, there will be not a man, or woman, or child, who is here this morning, able to make excuse and say, “I did not hear the gospel; I did not know what I must do to be saved!” You have heard it: “Repent ye, and believe the gospel.” That is, trust Christ; believe that he is able and willing to save you. But there is something better. In that great day, I say, there will be some of you present—oh! let us hope all of us—who will be able to say, “Thank God that ever I yielded up the weapons of my proud rebellion by repentance; thank God that I looked to Christ, and took him to be my Saviour from first to last; for here am I, a monument of grace, a sinner saved by blood, to praise him while time and eternity shall last!” God grant that we may meet each other at the last with joy and not with grief! I will be a swift witness against you to condemn you if you believe not this gospel; but if you repent and believe, then we shall praise that grace which turned our hearts, and so gave us the repentance which led us to trust Christ, and the faith which is the effectual gift of the Holy Spirit. What shall I say more unto you? Wherefore, wherefore will you reject this? If I have spoken to you of fables, of fictions, of dreams, then turn on your heel and reject my discourse. If I have spoken in my own name, who am I that you should care one whit for me? But if I have preached that which Christ preached, “Repent ye, and believe the gospel,” I charge you by the living God, I charge you by the world’s Redeemer, I charge you by cross of Calvary, and by the blood which stained the dust at Golgotha, obey this divine message and you shall have eternal life; but refuse it, and on your heads be your blood for ever and ever!
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March 21, 2012. Experiencing the Kingdom of God is like the crown jewel of our faith. The Prophet John preached it. As did Jesus. Today we marvel at the mystical wonder and practical reality of the Kingdom of God. My wife insisted on taking me to lunch today at this fabulous restaurant. I was embarrassed at her lavish love for me. She insisted. When finished, God had me shower her with my gratitude and affection to so honor me! There are at least two churches I know who brandish this as their calling card and marque: “Experiencing the Kingdom of God.” New revelations are changing things. Right here tonight in my home we will celebrate together through “Experiencing the Kingdom of God.”
Luke 9:27 (NLT) “I tell you the truth, some standing here right now will not die before they see the Kingdom of God.”Ras Robinson
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March 21, 2012. The saying that “It is the darkest just before dawn.” is not a scientific fact but in contrast to the light it appears to be true. “You are going through something now that appears dark because you were in a degree of light before this occurred. It is not as dark as it appears. I know there are times when you feel like giving up to darkness. But instead give up to Me. I know all about the darkness. Soon the darkness will turn into light. I am here to bring light into your darkness. It will soon get lighter and lighter just as the breaking dawn turns into full day.
Psalms 139:11-12 (NASB) “If I say, “Surely the darkness will overwhelm me, And the light around me will be night,” Even the darkness is not dark to You, And the night is as bright as the day. Darkness and light are alike to You.” Bev Robinson
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March 21, 2012. Would you allow Me to write more upon your heart? Although I have inscribed My truth on the tablet of your heart, there is more I want to show you. My desire is for you to read further than what I have already disclosed. Either you have only partially embraced My prior inscription, or you have not fully implemented the certainty of My Word. There is so much that I want to disclose to you. Will you not only open up your heart but also your mind to new revelation from Me? Though at times you have difficulty comprehending My prior inscriptions, in time you will know and understand My Truth.
Hebrews 8:10 (NASB) “FOR THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL AFTER THOSE DAYS, SAYS THE LORD: I WILL PUT MY LAWS INTO THEIR MINDS, AND I WILL WRITE THEM ON THEIR HEARTS. AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE.” Kevin Robinson
Now let us hear from Dr. Joe from the Medical Bag……..
Have You been Prescribed a Statin?
I’m always trying to keep up with the latest developments in heart research. I read quite a few online reputable resources. One website recently reported the results of a survey of cardiologists, regarding the FDA’s recent decision that all statin drugs must now have a warning on their label because they may cause some additional adverse side effects.
I want Dewey’s Cup readers to know about this because the odds are very high that some of you may be taking statins and for sure have loved ones who do. Published numbers of folks taking statins here in the USA vary from 11 million to 30 million. Statins generate at least $34 billion in sales each year (and growing). Statins have raked in over a quarter of a trillion dollars since they were introduced about 20 years ago.
This cardiologist’s survey went on to state that among statins side effects are elevations in blood glucose levels, the Hb A1c (which is a measurement of long term blood glucose concentration hence a predictor of diabetes), and that there’s a reversible loss of memory and cognitive function. These side effects seem to be related to statins’ major action of lowering serum cholesterol levels.
Keep in mind that part of the cell membrane is composed of cholesterol, as are a number of hormones in our body. Cholesterol is very critical for our body to function correctly. So, bringing down cholesterol levels does have many adverse consequences for other bodily functions, even if it is promoted as a primary goal of reducing cardiovascular atherosclerosis and coronary artery disease. Always keep in mind that just about everything you do is always a two-edged sword. There is virtually nothing you can do that doesn’t have adverse, as well as beneficial consequences. It all comes down to a question of balance between risks and benefits.
I thought you’d be interested in the results of this survey, which reflects the experiences and opinions of 793 mainstream cardiologists, regarding the safety of statins, in light of the new FDA mandated labeling change that warns that statins may cause increases in blood glucose, and HbA1c, and also potentially result in memory loss and confusion which can be reversed.
The survey was a kind of a Q & A for cardiologists:
Q: Are you concerned about an increased risk of diabetes in patients on a statin?
A: Not concerned 33%
Somewhat concerned 42%
Very concerned 24%
Q: How frequently have you seen glucose/HbA1c levels rise in patients taking statins?
A: Never 38%
Infrequently 47%
Often 13%
Q: Are you concerned about memory loss/cognitive problems in patients started on a statin?
A: Not concerned 46%
Somewhat concerned 32%
Very concerned 21%
Q: Have you seen signs of cognitive effects in patients taking statins?
A: Infrequently 27%
Never 65%
Often 7%
Not surprisingly, some of this web site’s medical doctors were very skeptical of these results. A large percentage of cardiologists (although this is a limited sample) are not impressed with these new FDA mandates, as they don’t see (or don’t recognize) the problems with glucose or cognitive impairment.
But a rather vocal minority is adamant that the statin drugs are indeed problematic, and that the cited problems are likely due to the nature of statins that lower serum cholesterol.
So what are you and I to make of this controversy and what should we do?
My advice is that you do nothing different from what you have been doing without consultation with your doctor. This is not a case where majority rules. Oftentimes, the majority is wrong.
Don’t take prescription drugs you absolutely don’t need. But DO take them, if they are recommended as the ABSOLUTE BEST option for your individual case, by your doctor. And schedule your routine blood tests to make sure your liver and kidneys are staying within the normal parameters.
Always keep in mind that every prescription drug, every supplement, food, even water, has a downside, as well as a positive side. Choosing which and what to do must be an individual decision, based on YOUR specific case. THAT’S why you need to partner with your doctor on such decisions: it’s a team effort…we get healthy better when we get healthy together.
If your situation argues for statins, don’t flat out refuse them. Instead, ask your doctor if there are any other options. If there are not, then ask what type of testing will be prescribed to check for any potential adverse effects. If possible, though, try natural methods first – apply known principles of diet and exercise, with known beneficial supplements such as Fish Oil capsules and cayenne pepper capsules; to lower “bad” cholesterol, lower triglycerides, raise “good” cholesterol, reduce cardiac risk, and increase your cardiopulmonary reserve and lung capacity.
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Here is Pastor Bill……………
Financial Advice You Need to Know:
“A penny saved is a penny earned.” Here’s an interesting method of saving pennies to add to your earnings. Everyone at one time or another has probably enjoyed a good cup of “latte”. But, did you know that the “latte factor” in your life could be spoiling your financial health? Here’s what the “latte factor” is all about. Seems a university professor of economics gave his class an assignment some years ago to test a little financial “memory” theory he had come up with. He challenged his class to set aside a certain amount of money as cash and to use it for “all” their expenditures during the coming week. At the beginning of the next class week the professor had each student write down everything they had spent that money on. Not to his surprise, but actually proving his point, the majority of his students could not account for every penny spent. What was missing? The “Latte Factor”; those things that people purchase on such a regular basis (habitual buying) that their minds do not record in their long term memory accounts. It’s a habit, just a passing thought is all it warrants. And what was the culprit for most of the students? Yup, that nice cup of java, purchased at their regular student hang out while discussing the plight of world affairs and the latest fashion trends. That habit had become so routine, it just wasn’t remembered. But it was money spent and over the course of time that “latte factor” can add up to a tidy sum.
Try this for a month. Take an unused check book register, keep it with you, and write down everything you spend, every day for one month. Gas, rent, utilities, gum, movies, cosmetics, haircut, food, eating out, “lattes”, everything both needs and just wants. At the end of that month make two separate lists: One category will be needs such as rent, gas, utilities, food, etc and the other will be wants such as movies, eating out, sodas, gum, “lattes”; you get the picture. Then identify on the wants side those items that are consistently reoccurring. These are the “Latte Factors”, better known as BUDGET BUSTERS! You just do them over and over without really thinking about the consequence they have on your finances. A picture is always better than a thousand words, so let’s paint a little, startling picture for you. One cup of java a day, at $3.00 @ cup (I’m being kind here) equals $1095.00 per year! Yup, that should give you an immediate caffeine headache. If you are struggling with getting control of a “latte factor” in your life, just multiply it out to a yearly cost and that should make the decision a lot easier.
That’s the Financial Advice You Need to Know: I’m Pastor Bill Ruhl with Global Destiny Ministry, Albuquerque, NM
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Thank you Dr. Joe and Pastor Bill for sharing!
In the Love of Jesus Christ, Dewey Sharon and Family
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