PRAY TEAM JESUS: NO PANIC PLEASE! NM Governor Lujan Grisham Declares ‘Public Health Emergency’ Amid Coronavirus Cases

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From Dr. Jim Denison:

“A God who controls the big things” 

Secular people are trusting in secular power in facing the coronavirus epidemic. Christianity offers us a higher power and more encouraging hope.

But as with all gifts, this gift must be opened.

Elisabeth Elliot observed, “If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big.’”

What “little” and “big” things will you trust to your Father today?

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You knew this was going to happen …………Wash those hands! We pray for the good health of all. Please do not panic. I cannot believe how people are hoarding toilet paper!!!???! Please use common sense in all you do.

From Our Dear, Dear Sister in Christ Darlene Quiring from Mt. Lake, Minnesota:

The best thing we can do right now, as a child of God is trust him and keep walking. Coronavirus isn’t new. In fact it was on the “ it is finished” list 2000 years ago. So practice good hygiene as you should anyway and don’t fear! I will continue down the path we’re on, following His guidance and plan accordingly. I suggest you do the same. Nothing is going to knock Jesus off the throne!

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Don’t fall for snake oil salesmen like Jim Baker! Any Christian TV station carrying Baker should take it off the air! Why are they airing him anyhow!!!??? Very sad!! Not Good!

FDA, FTC Order Jim Bakker to Stop Selling Fake Coronavirus Cure
The FDA and the FTC have sent an official warning to televangelist Jim Bakker, noting that he must cease selling and advertising a product called “Silver Solution.” On Bakker’s show, a woman selling the product claimed that it would “kill” the coronavirus in 12 hours.
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From earlier today: NM Health Department and Nursing Homes

We are praying for the good health of all! I pray that these inspectors ‘FLAG’ these facilities if they are just plain dirty! In my visits over the years I get really sad about the conditions of some these places! I have heard from families of loved ones about such horrible conditions and treatment, now that is SOME not ALL, but one mess is enough! I visited one man awhile back and the room was a disaster, clothes all over the floor and the bathroom was a mess! I also reported a nurse for giving a severe diabetic donuts and etc. The comment I got from him was, “I did not know he was diabetic!” WHAT! I also witnessed a young man with a disorder turning and twisting and groaning in his bed and I got him help. UNBELIEVABLE! BUT TRUE! IT WAS LIKE A BAD MOVIE! Some of these facilities are housing folks that suffer from mental illness, I do not think that most of these facilities are qualified to help these folks. I have told the families to report anything that concerns them! All I know is New Mexico can do better that it is in the treating our elderly, especially those of low income and can’t live in one of those fancy, dancy places!

FGGAM NEWS received this news release:

March 10, 2020
Department of Health Deploys Survey Teams to Conduct COVID-19 related Assisted Living Onsite Visits
SANTA FE – The New Mexico Department of Health (NMDOH) has deployed its health care survey team to conduct onsite visits of the 269 licensed assisted living facilities statewide. State survey staff will focus on providing COVID-19 related infection control guidance, written visitor protocols and to address staff, family and resident questions or concerns.
Facilities will receive:
  • An onsite visit by a state long term care survey team member;
  • Observations and provide feedback on current infection control surveillance from NMDOH staff
  • Written instructions and signage for visitors and residents on infections control protocols;
  • Direction to websites that can provide up to date information on CDC and NMDOH COVID-9 protocols
  • Ongoing support and guidance to all facility staff, residents and family members.
“As a result of Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s unwavering support of New Mexico’s elderly, the Department of Health has been empowered to provide improved support to New Mexico’s long-term health care residents, not just related to COVID-19 but everyday,” said NMDOH Division of Health Improvement Director Chris Burmeister. “We are proud to serve alongside leadership that prioritizes our seniors’ ongoing care and well being.”
NMDOH continues to work closely and implement best practices with our long-term care partners. These include: Aging and Long-term Services Division (ALTSD), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the New Mexico Health Care Association (NMHCA), and New Mexico’s 71 nursing homes in to ensure that the health and safety, and advocacy rights of our elderly are protected.
“Aging and Long-Term Services Department works closely with NMDOH and other state partners and providers to protect the health and safety of residents,” said Aging & Long-Term Services Secretary Katrina Hotrum-Lopez. “The Long Term Care Ombudsman Program is available to address residents, providers and family members concerns.”
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New Mexico Department of Health | 1190 S St Francis DrSanta Fe, NM 87505

Guarding racks of toilet paper: The allure of self-reliant control and the power of trusting God

March 11, 2020  |  READ TIME: 5 minutes
In The Daily Article today:

  • Why people are hoarding toilet paper
  • Singing “Jailhouse Rock” while washing your hands
  • How to “find your real self”
Joe Biden won primaries in Michigan, Idaho, Mississippi, and Missouri last night and is now “marching to the Democratic presidential nomination,” as CNN reports. However, today’s news is dominated not by politics but by the escalating coronavirus epidemic.

Here’s an odd example: security personnel in Australia are guarding racks of toilet paper. An Australian newspaper even printed eight extra pages in a recent edition—emergency toilet paper, it explained. Retailers in the US and Canada have also begun limiting the number of toilet paper packs customers can buy in one trip.

Toilet paper doesn’t provide extra protection against coronavirus. It’s not typically a staple of impending emergencies. So, why the hoarding?

Psychologists explain that people resort to extremes in times of panic. Images of empty shelves cause us to think we need to rush out and buy what is selling out. It’s also natural to want to overprepare. And such preparations allow us to feel a sense of control over what feels like an uncontrollable crisis.

As one counselor says, hoarding toilet paper gives people “the feeling that they had done everything that they could.”

Singing “Jailhouse Rock” while washing your hands 

Toilet paper hoarding is not the only way people are attempting to gain control over this crisis.

The CDC tells us to wash our hands frequently, lathering soap on our hands for at least twenty seconds. To track the time, they suggest that we hum the “Happy Birthday” song twice. CNN has improved their advice with a list of songs from each decade we can sing while washing. It begins with “Jailhouse Rock” by Elvis Presley and concludes with “Truth Hurts” by Lizzo.

A group of elementary school students has created an automated disinfectant dispenser built from Legos. The robot dispenses alcohol disinfectant while a recorded voice shouts, “Washing hands is super.”

At the other end of the financial spectrum, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation joined with two other charities on Tuesday in pledging up to $125 million to help speed the development of treatments for the virus.

And an increasing number of people around the world are choosing to self-quarantine to protect themselves from others and others from themselves.

Who is to blame? 

Such measures are ways to do what we can do. In the face of this epidemic, people feel that they are responsible for protecting themselves and those they care for.

Absent from the cultural narrative so far as I can tell, however, is a call to trust in a power greater than ourselves.

Self-reliance is an expression of the secularism of our day, which frees secular people from living under the authority of others but comes at a price: there are no authorities to which they can turn in times of need.

If we don’t trust our leaders in government, business, or religion to be reliable and honest, how can we trust them with something like a deadly viral epidemic?

China is blaming the US for the disease, while others are blaming China. Some are blaming the president (a New York Times columnist went so far as to call the disease “Trumpvirus”). Others are blaming his critics.

How to “find your real self” 

Our cultural rejection of authority is not only dangerous at times like this—it is self-defeating as well.

God’s word calls us to submit to and depend on God because our Creator knows what is best for his creation. He knows that he can guide us more omnisciently than we can guide ourselves. He can meet our needs more omnipotently than we can. He can protect us from enemies we cannot see and provide infinite hope that transcends and redeems our finite world.

That’s why Jesus said, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me” (Luke 9:23). It’s why our Lord calls us to submit to him “as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God” (Romans 12:1). It’s because God can do so much more with us and for us than we can do with and for ourselves.

In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis assures us: “Give up your self, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fiber of your being, and you will find eternal life.

“Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else thrown in.”

“A God who controls the big things” 

Secular people are trusting in secular power in facing the coronavirus epidemic. Christianity offers us a higher power and more encouraging hope.

But as with all gifts, this gift must be opened.

Elisabeth Elliot observed, “If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look ‘little’ or ‘big.’”

What “little” and “big” things will you trust to your Father today?

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