#Lord de Bevere

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De nieuwe baas van Diksmuide

In 964 wordt er voor het eerst gewag gemaakt van een burggraaf in Dixmude. Een baanderheer, een ridder die een aantal leenmannen onder zijn bevel houdt. De burggraaf heet Arnulf De Bevere. Vermoedelijk is hij sinds 940 of mogelijk iets later als burggraaf aangesteld. Het verhaal van Arnulf De Bevere is op zijn minst opzienbarend. Arnulf wordt in het jaar 905 geboren in Bevere bij het Engelse…

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Jose, nearing Category 5 status, threatens second blow to islands already hit by Irma

By Anthony Faiola, Lindsey Bever and Andrew deGrandpre, Washington Post, September 9, 2017

CABARET, Haiti--Hurricane Jose, a powerhouse tropical cyclone barreling northwest toward the Caribbean islands hammered by Hurricane Irma earlier this week, is now “almost a Category 5” storm, officials said late Friday.

The National Hurricane Center at 11 a.m. Friday said that Jose had reached maximum sustained wind speeds of 155 mph, which would be just shy of a Category 5 storm. A bulletin from the center at 2 a.m. Eastern time Saturday indicated Jose’s maximum wind speed decreased slightly to 150 mph, with some gusts blowing even higher. Though still a Category 4 system, “some fluctuation in intensity, up or down, could occur during the next 24 hours,” forecasters said.

A hurricane warning is in effect for Barbuda, Anguilla, St. Martin and St. Barthelemy, also known as St. Barts. The island of Antigua is under a hurricane watch.

Once it passes the northern Leeward Islands, Jose is projected to hook north and steadily lose muscle. It will, however, likely throw off tropical-storm strength weather felt Saturday night in the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, which also sustained heavy damage during Irma.

The alarming announcement comes as military personnel and emergency responders from the United States and Europe rush to aid those still reeling from Irma, which roared across the same region as a Category 5 storm Wednesday.

On the devastated island of Barbuda, authorities and private tour operators scrambled to evacuate the remainder of its 1,600 residents, taking them to emergency shelters on nearby Antigua.

Michael Joseph, president of the Red Cross in Antigua and Barbuda, described Barbuda as though it were a tropical ghost town of broken buildings and fallen trees.

“It’s uninhabitable. I would literally say that 100 percent of the infrastructure is gone. Light, water, communication, it’s a total blackout,” Joseph said.

There was only one fatality on the island--a 2-year-old boy identified Friday as Carl Junior Francis. He was found by neighbors the day prior, having been swept away by storm surge as Irma pounded the island and ripped off the roof of his family’s home, the Associated Press reported.

“It was a miracle that there was only one death,” Joseph said.

On Antigua, evacuees were hunkered down and preparing for Jose’s possible hit.

“People are worried, when they see images of Barbuda, that it could be Antigua next,” Joseph said.

In Anguilla, part of the British West Indies, Irma’s fury left homes and businesses shattered across the 16-mile island. Local officials pleaded with residents Friday to take all precautions ahead of Jose to ensure their survival, and they encouraged people to quickly clear existing debris so it could be removed and battened down, as not to pose a threat during the next wave of dangerous weather.

The U.S. military has dispatched five warships, as well as helicopters, cargo planes, National Guard troops and thousands of pounds of supplies to help hurricane victims.

The military will provide generators, fuel and gas, water-purification systems and tools to clear roads choked with storm debris, according to the U.S. Northern Command. The Army Corps of Engineers sent teams to U.S. territories to help restore electricity, and National Guard personnel were activated to help with evacuations and search-and-rescue efforts.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency spoke of a “complete power/communications collapse” in the U.S. Virgin Islands, but people trapped there have become frustrated and despondent.

Amy Larson, who runs a charter-boat business in the U.S. Virgin Islands, said she has been in Florida as her husband weathered Irma’s wrath on St. John. In tears, she said, “People are very concerned. They want to get off the island. They need supplies. They don’t feel like anybody is giving them any sort of attention.”

France and the Netherlands also moved to respond to some of Irma’s worst destruction on St. Martin, an island they share, and St. Barts, a French overseas territory. The French government deployed 455 police, military and other personnel on Friday, with double that number expected by Saturday.

The presence was partly to restore public order and combat a wave of looting. Using Guadeloupe as a base, French officials were dispatching military helicopters and civilian aircraft with food, water and medical supplies.

At the White House on Friday, President Trump’s homeland security adviser, Tom Bossert, indicated the U.S. had begun evacuating American citizens from the French and Dutch sides of St. Martin ahead of Jose.

In the British Virgin Islands, residents said they lacked information on aid and relief efforts. Communications were mostly down and many roads were blocked with vehicles, telephone poles, metal roof material and other debris.

Freeman Rogers, editor of the weekly BVI Beacon newspaper and a resident of Road Town, the territory’s capital, said that people at shelters were running low on food and water, clean clothes and medical supplies. He described a sense of frustration about the response by the British government. Prime Minister Theresa May has said that British military personnel have been working “round the clock” to provide relief to the battered islands.

Rogers said residents were most concerned about whether Hurricane Jose would cause further damage.

“People don’t have roofs,” he said in a telephone interview. “It’d be really rough if we got hit with another big hurricane.”

Irma, meanwhile, continued to push west, making landfall in Cuba around 11 p.m. Eastern Friday and gaining strength on its march toward the Bahamas and, eventually, Florida.

The Cuban government moved hundreds of thousands of people away from cities and towns along the coast in preparation for Irma, including some 36,000 tourists from hotels and beach resorts that are likely to be pounded.

While Havana is expected to be spared the worst of Irma’s wrath, cities such as Ciego de Avila and Santa Clara in the island’s central provinces appear at risk of significant damage. State media showed images Friday of soldiers and Cuban civil defense brigades moving residents into shelters.

And as the rains diminished over vulnerable Haiti, residents and aid organizations began to assess the damage.

In the city of Cabaret, 16 miles northwest of Port-au-Prince, Miracle Lafontant, 82, wearily exited her inundated home midday Friday in a ripped and muddied white nightgown.

A devout Christian, she’s a rice farmer who has taken in three orphans--including a teenage girl who lost her mother last year in Hurricane Matthew.

“I was in bed, and I heard, ‘Mommy, wake up, the water is coming in!’ “ Lafontant said. “I got out of bed, but before I could get out the door, it was already up to here,” she said, indicating her upper abdomen.

Behind her home, fields of banana trees and sugar cane obscured rows of flooded houses.

“The storm, she took all my church clothes, ruined,” Lafontant said. “What am I going to wear to church now?”

“But I’m not scared. I am never scared,” she said. “The Lord Jesus Christ was there with me last night.”

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“her bed of some seen the never nourishes”

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EXTRAIT DE Killing Kryptonite by John Bevere

Remember Angela from yesterday’s devotional? We learned that her adultery is the same as how the Bible describes idolatry against God. But is this really an issue in the church today? Unfortunately, it very much is. 

If you look at Angela, the root of her adultery was her desire. Another word for this desire is covetousness. 

Covetousness isn’t something we really talk about these days, so let me define it. According to Merriam-Webster, covetousness is, “A strong desire to obtain some supposed good.” Now let me give us another perspective on covetousness from Colossians 3:5, where Paul says, “Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.” 

Did you see that? Paul says covetousness is idolatry! We may think of idolatry as statues and all those things, but the root behind it is unrighteous desire. 

God has given us the key to overcoming covetousness, and it is contentment. Contentment moves us away from idolatry and closer to the heart of God, while covetousness distances us from God and drives us to the altars of idolatry. 

This is why the author of Hebrews writes, “Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we may boldly say: ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?’” (Hebrews 13:5–6). 

You can see from this passage how covetousness is clearly the same as adultery. Angela coveted other men, not allowing Justin to meet her needs. Here we are told to be content with God, knowing He will meet all our needs. If we turn to some other source outside of Him and His prescribed means of living, that is idolatry! 

Here’s what this means: When a believer knows the will of God, yet intentionally chooses their own desires instead, that is idolatry. They have chosen to worship their desires over God. 

When you look at your own goals, priorities, and habits, which would you say is stronger in your life—covetousness or contentment? How can you pursue a life of greater contentment?