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Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law

Psalm 119:18
 Open my eyes that I may see wonderful things in your law
Na daan sungah mangbangza thudik ka hmuh theinak dingah ka mit cu vaangter hram aw.

2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Matthew 21:22
And whatever things you ask in prayer, believing, you will receive.”

1 Peter 5:6
Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,

Psalm 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation;
Whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the strength of my life;
Of whom shall I be afraid?

Psalm 32:7 I will keep you safe from trouble for I am your hiding place.

Psalm 62:2 I am your rock and your salvation a fortress that cannot be shaken.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
16 Rejoice always, 17 pray without ceasing, 18 in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1peter 2:9
I have chosen you to be a royal priesthood and a holy nation

Isaiah 49:15
Even if your mother forget you I will never forget you.

Luke 12:6-7
If I look after the sparrows, I will certainly take care of you.

Isaiah 41:10
Don't be afraid. I am with you. Don't tremble with fear. I am your God. I will make you strong, as I protect you with my arm and give you victories.

John 4:23
I will seek after those who worship Me in spirit and truth.

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans that I [a]have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans for welfare and not for calamity to give you a future and a hope.

Psalm 55:22
Cast your burden on the Lord, And He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved.

Psalm 121:3
I will not let you fall, for I am watching over you day and night.

Psalm 62:2
Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken.

Ephesians 6: 10
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.

Isaiah 3:17
I, the Lord, invite you to come and talk it over. Your sins are scarlet red, but they will be whiter than snow or wool.

Zephaniah 3:17
The Lord your God in your midst,The Mighty One, will save; He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”

2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Nahum 1:7
The Lord is good,  a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Romans 8:37
You are more than conqueror through my love in Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 58:11
The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Micah 7:18
I forgive sins and I love to show mercy.

1peter 5:7
Cast all your worries on Me, for I really care about you.

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. 

Nurse details Michael Jackson's fatal search for sleep

By Alan Duke, CNN

updated 7:24 PM EDT, Thu August 29, 2013

The death in 2009 of superstar Michael Jackson, who died of cardiac arrest at the age of 50, sent shockwaves around the world.

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Nurse Cherilyn Lee testifies she warned Jackson about the dangers of propofol
• "I remember telling him that it wasn't something he wanted to use at home," Lee testifies
• 'You don't understand, doctors are telling me it's safe," Jackson tells nurse
• Jackson died of a propofol overdose two months after Lee refused to help him get it

MIchael Jackson's ex-wife cries on stand

Paris Jackson's deposition

Compare Michael Jackson in 2001 to 2009

Who's who in Jackson trial

Los Angeles (CNN) -- A nurse who tried to help Michael Jackson find sleep with vitamin infusions said the singer became convinced that propofol was the only cure for his insomnia.

Cherilyn Lee -- who specializes in holistic health care -- was called as a witness by AEG Live in its defense of the wrongful death lawsuit filed by Jackson's mother and children. But Jackson lawyers said they believe her testimony helped their case.

When she was shown a photo of Jackson six days before his death -- two months after she had last treated him -- she appeared shocked at his deterioration.

"Oh, my goodness," Lee said. "That's horrible!"

Lee testified Thursday that after Jackson awoke after just four hours of sleep after one of her treatments on April 19, 2009, he became "very agitated."

"He stood up on the bed and he looked at me and at 4:30 in the morning, it kind of scared me," Lee said. "It really startled me when he stared at me with his big brown eyes."

"I told you I cannot sleep all night," Lee said Jackson told her.

AEG expert: Jackson was a drug addict

Jackson allegedly asked Lee, who had been treating him with vitamins since early February, to find an anesthesiologist who could put him to sleep him with the surgical anesthetic propofol.

Lee refused, warning him it was unsafe. She testified that she told Jackson that any doctor who would give him propofol at home didn't care about him and was just doing it for the money.

That April 19, 2009, session was Lee's last time with Jackson.

Just over two weeks later -- on May 6 -- an AEG Live executive wrote in an e-mail that it was a "done deal" that Dr. Conrad Murray was being hired for $150,000 a month to serve as Jackson's full-time physician.

Murray told investigators that Jackson was infused with propofol every night for two months to treat his insomnia. The last treatment killed the singer, according to the coroner.

Jackson's mother and three children are suing AEG Live, contending the concert promoter is liable for his death because it negligently hired, retained or supervised Murray.

AEG Live lawyers contend it was Jackson who chose and controlled Murray and their executives had no way of knowing about the dangerous treatments being given in the privacy of Jackson's bedroom.

Lee's testimony concluded the 18th week of the wrongful death trial, which will continue into September.

She had glowing words for Jackson, who would have turned 55 on Thursday. "I haven't really met anyone who was so caring and so giving," she said.

"After his passing, a young lady walked up to me at an event and she just stared crying," Lee said. "She said, 'I wouldn't be here today if Michael hadn't come to the hospital and paid for my brain surgeries and he didn't want anyone to know.'"

Although called as a witness by AEG Live, Lee attacked their lawyers' contention that Jackson was "doctor shopping" for drugs. "All he was doing was looking for the best doctor to help with his insomnia," Lee said. "It just breaks my heart for people to label someone as doctor shopping when they're only trying to find the best doctor to give them the best care."

Jackson hired Lee to find natural treatments for his insomnia, she said. She began treating Jackson in his Los Angeles home on February 1, 2009, days after he signed a three-year contract with AEG Live for a world tour, which would start with 50 shows in London to debut in July.

"My concern was that he was drinking Red Bulls," she said. He drank several cans of the energy drink during their first meeting. "I was thinking his tiredness and fatigue was related to that."

"He told me whatever you tell me I need to do, I will do it." He stopped drinking cases of Red Bull, replacing the energy drinks with fresh organic juices, she said.

Jackson "started to feel really great" and "looked healthier" after a month of her IV treatments "Myers Cocktails," an infusion of Vitamin C and other nutrients, she testified.

But he still couldn't sleep more than five hours a night and with rehearsals for his "This Is It" tour cranking up in April "he needed something a little more," she testified.

Jackson rejected her recommendation that he have a sleep specialist visit his home to study his insomnia or that he cut down the lights and music in his bedroom, she said.

Earlier testimony suggested that Jackson had already given up on Lee's methods and decided that propofol, which German doctors had used to treat his insomnia during a 1997 tour, could be his answer for rest.

Jackson and Murray tried to recruit a Las Vegas anesthesiologist to join them on the tour in late March 2009, according to Dr. David Adams' video testimony shown to jurors last week.

"I just need you to help me get my rest," Adams said Jackson told him. "They were pretty vague, but on hindsight I know what they were talking about."

By April 19, Jackson "wasn't quite himself," Lee testified. "He just seemed really stressed or something. He said at certain points he was under a lot of pressure to finish rehearsals and he said 'I've got to get my sleep so I can do this.'"

When Jackson told Lee he wanted her help in getting propofol infusions instead of the vitamin cocktail IVs, she researched the drug in her Physicians' Desk Reference manual.

"I remember telling him that it wasn't something he wanted to use at home," she said. "It wasn't a safe medication. It was definitely not a medication for insomnia."

Lee's handwritten notes from that day described their conversation: "I went as far as to say I understand you want a good night sleep -- want to be 'knocked out' -- but what if you don't wake up," she wrote. "He said 'I'll be ok. I only need someone to monitor me with equipment while I sleep.'"

Jackson "kept telling me 'You don't understand, doctors are telling me it's safe just as long as I am being monitored,'" Lee testified.

Lee collapsed on the witness stand Wednesday after describing her unsuccessful attempt to convince Jackson not to use propofol. "It's so unfair," she cried. "I am so sick."

"I can't do this anymore! I can't do this anymore," Lee cried.

As Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Yvette Palazuelos recessed court for the day and sent jurors out, AEG Live lawyer Sabrina Strong, who was sitting in the rear of the courtroom, ran to the witness stand to console the witness.

"That's not appropriate," Jackson lead lawyer Brian Panish protested. "Lawyers don't do that. It's not appropriate for lawyers to come out of the audience in front of the jury."

"Appropriate or not, it happened," Palazuelos said.

Panish argued that Strong was trying to "curry favor" with the jury by appearing compassionate. He demanded that the judge admonish her in front of the jury. The judge suggested he put his request in writing for her to consider.

Jackson's belief that propofol could help him sleep dated back to the late 1990s, according to another witness who testified Wednesday.

Dr. Catherine Quinn, a dentist who specializes in giving anesthesia during dental procedures, said Jackson asked her to infuse him with propofol in 1998.

"He told me that he has trouble sleeping," Quinn testified.

"I said that's inappropriate use of anesthesia," Quinn said. "He needs to speak with his physician about sleep aids. I told him that the sleep that you get with anesthesia is not real sleep, it's not restful sleep. He told me that it's the best sleep he ever had."

AEG Live expert: MJ was an addict

A drug addiction expert who testified Tuesday that Michael Jackson suffered a "quite extensive" drug addiction acknowledged Wednesday there was no evidence the singer used more painkillers than medically necessary.

The conclusion by Dr. Petros Levounis that Jackson was dependent on painkillers was not a revelation, considering Jackson himself announced it when he cut his "Dangerous" tour short to enter a rehab program in 1993.

Debbie Rowe: Paris 'has no life' since father's death

"If he announced it to the world it's not very private, is it?" Jackson lawyer Michael Koskoff asked Levounis.

"At that moment, he was not secretive," Levounis replied.

Jackson's drugs of choice were opioids -- painkillers given to him by doctors repairing scalp injuries suffered in a fire and during cosmetic procedures to make him look younger, Levounis testified.

Labeling Jackson an addict could tarnish the singer's image among jurors, but its relevance to AEG Live's liability is questionable. Opioids played no role in Jackson's death, according to the Los Angeles County coroner. The judge would not allow Levounis to testify if he thought Jackson was addicted to propofol.

Levounis conceded he saw no evidence that Jackson used painkillers after he left rehab in 1993 until 2001 or between July 2003 and late 2008. He said it is not inconsistent for an addiction to go into remission.

Under cross examination Wednesday morning, Levounis conceded that he never saw evidence that Jackson injected himself with narcotics, ever sought or used illegal drugs such as cocaine, meth or heroin, or abused drugs to produce euphoria or get high.

There was also no evidence Jackson used more painkillers than doctors prescribed, he said.

Jackson lawyers have never disputed the singer's drug dependence. In fact, they contend that AEG Live executives, including one who was Jackson's tour manager when he entered rehab, were negligent for paying a doctor $150,000 a month just to treat Jackson. The high salary created a conflict for the debt-ridden Murray, making it difficult for him to say no to Jackson's demands for drugs.

Paul Gongaware, the AEG Live co-CEO who was in charge of Jackson's 2009 "This Is It" tour, was also tour manager for his "Dangerous" tour in 1993. Levounis acknowledged in testimony Wednesday that there was evidence that Gongaware knew about Jackson's painkiller addiction 15 years before his death.

Levounis' testimony about the dangers of a doctor being too friendly with an addicted patient, which he said Murray was, could help the Jacksons' case.

"A very close friendship between an addicted patient and a doctor is problematic," Levounis testified. "It makes it much easier for a patient to ask for drugs and it makes it more difficult for a provider to resist."

The medical records of Murray's treatment of Jackson between 2006 and 2008 -- when the singer lived in Las Vegas -- showed no painkillers prescribed during seven visits. Murray's notes did show he treated Jackson's complaints of insomnia with a sedative in 2008.

Note: If you can have a good night sleep, that is one of the greatest blessings that you still have today. Money cannot buy a good night sleep!

Source: http://www.cnn.com/2013/08/29/showbiz/michael-jackson-death-trial/index.html?hpt=ju_c1

Pathian thu le Ngaitu

by San No Thuan

The Seeds and The Hearers

Text: Matt. 13:1-9, 18-23

“Voikhat ah mi pakhat cu thlaici vorh dingah a feh. 4Thlaici cu lo sungih a vorh tikah ṭhenkhat cu lamzin parah an tla ih cu pawl cu vate in an ei ṭheh. 5A ṭhenkhat cu leilung malnak lungsedaap lakah an tla ih leilung a sah lo ruangah thlaici cu hmakhatte ah an ṭo. 6Asinain ni a sat tikah a ṭo pekte pawl cu an thi sal; an hram in leilung thukpi ih hram a thlak thei lo ruangah an car lohli. 7Thlaici a ṭhenkhat cu hlingbur lakah an tla ih an kho nain hlingbur cun a zaap ruangah an ṭhang thei lo. 8Sikhalsehla thlaici ṭhenkhat cu leilung ṭhatnak ah an tla ih ṭhenkhat cu a let zakhat, ṭhenkhat cu a let sawmruk, ṭhenkhat cu a let sawmthum in rawl a suak,” tiah a sim.

Thuhmaihruai:

Himi Bible caang sungah, Vancung uknak, Pathian ih ukmi nun cu ziangvek a si tiah a simnak a si lo ih, Pathian ih ukmi nunnak cu ziangtin minung pakhat ih nunnak ah hram a to ih a thangso timi a simnak a si.

Vancung uknak timi cu Mathai lawng in a hmang. Mark, Luke, le John pawl cun Pathian uknak tiah an hmang. Ziangahtile, Matthai ih ca a siartu pawl cu Judahmi pawl an si ruangah, Judahmi pawl cun, Pathian tiah an ko ngam lo ruangah, vancung tiah an ko. A suallam cu a bang aw thotho.

Pathian thu cu Thlaicii thawn a tah ziangahtile Thlaicii cu a nungmi a si. Haimu tla khi a fate zet nan, khaih haimu sungah hai kungpi, a hnah le a rah pawl an um theh cia a si. Cuvek thotho in, Pathian thu cu ziang lo lak te men a si ko ding. Asinan, a eitu pawl ih nun thazaang thar le lungawi hnangamnak thar an dong ngah ringring a si.

Mahatma Gandhi kha a rualpi pawl thawn England ah khawm ding in an feh. An khawmtumnak sangka parah, “uico le midum luh kan siang lo” an nganmi a um. An rualpa kha midum a si tikah, a riahsia zet ih khawm lo in a tlung sal. Curuangah, Gandhi in, “Bawi Jesuh Khrih cu ka duhtuk nan, Khrihfa si cu ka duh lo. Ziangahtile, Khrihfa pawl cu Khrih Jesuh thawn bangawknak an nei lo tuk” tiah riahsia zet in a sim ih Khrihfa a lut duh lo.

Zumtu tampi hi ziangruangah Khrih ih nun kan sungah a lang thei dah lo si pei? Khrih thawn a bang awmi nunnak ziangruangah kan nei thei lo si pei?

Pathian ih thu le Ngaitu phunli:

1.     Lamzin par ih tlami thlaicii. Himi thlaicii cu hram a bun thei lo. A lei a haktuk, mi sukso pawl in an pal ih, vate pawl in an ei theh men. A keuh thei lo. Pathian thu cohlang thei lomi thinlung/nunnak a sim duhnak a si. Ziangah an cohlang thei lo?

a.     A thu parah si lo in, a minung zoh ih mihua, a thu ngai duh lo.

b.     Puar thau/hngal: ziang thil thar khal zir an duh/tum nawn lo.

c.     Thil thar tuah ding phang ringring. Tuah daan kel ih feh lawng duh.

d.     Pathian duh lomi ziaza neitu/lungput neitu pawl. Pathian thu in an sualnak a langh ter tikah, a simtu khal an hua.

2.     Lungto lak ih tlami thlaicii. A kheu lawk nan, hramthuk a bun lo ruangah, a car ih a thi sal. Minung tampi in crusade/camping tuah tikah kan thatho kan phur zet. Asinan, a reihlan ah kan car ih kan tlu lohli sal. Ziangah si pei?

a.     Mop sychology, midang phurnak parah kan rak phur ve men theu. Jesuh Khrih thatnak, duhdawtnak, umpinak, lamhruainak parah phur ding kan si sawn.

b.     Christian nun timi cu Khrih thawn nun, Khrih hrangah nun khi a si.

c.     Minung cu phurnak (emotion), ruahnak (mind) le will (duhnak) timi kan nei ih, Pathian thu ah lungawinak/phurnak na neihmi kha, thate in ruat bet awla, cuih na ruahmi Pathian thu in na nun a lo ei ding ih, tuah duhnak khal na nei ding. Ruat bet lo in, na um ahcun a hlo lohli mei ding.

3.     Hlirbur lak ih tlami thlaicii. Hlirbur in a zap ih an than thei lo. A nunnak ah Pathian Thlarau ih rah tha a rah thei lonak bik cu:

a.     Amaih hrangih a tuah duhmi a tamtuk ih leitlun thuhla lawng in a nunnak a khuh. Hnatuan, tlawngkai, TV, internet, meetings, le cangvaihnak phunphun kim ah a tel.

b.     Asinan, Thlacam man lo, Bible siar man lo, khawm man lo in an um.

c.     Cumivek nun ah an sunglam Thlarau thazaang a cak dah lo ding. Pian tharnak kum ziat rei khal le, Pathian thu theihnak le nunpinak ah thangso dah lo.

4.     Leilung thatnak ih a tlami thlaicii. A thangso ih, a let 30, 60, 100 tiang a tthangso ih rawl a suak.

a.     A thinlung a ong, zir a duh a ringring.

b.     Midang ih ruahnak thate ih ngai le theihpi a tum. A hngal lo. Ruahnak pek a theih lomi cu an tuar.

c.     Pathian thu a theihmi kha fiang ko thei ding in a zuam.

d.     A theihmi thu kha a nunpi.

e.     Thlarau rah an nunih a rahtu pawl cu: Pathian thu a ngaitu a si. Ngaitu lawng si lo in theifiang ding in a zuam, a theihfiangmi thu kha a nunpi roritu a si.

f.      Maih hrang lawngah caan cem ter lo in, Thlarau Thianghlim thawn pawlkomawknak, pehzom awknak caan a cemtu pawl an si.

Thunetnak:

Thlaicii cu Pathian thu a si. Cuih Pathian thu cu na sungah hram a toh ih thlarau rah tha a rah suak theinak dingah kan nunnak kan cek awk sal a tul.

1.     Lungruh tukmi, zoih thuhman ngai duh lo na si pang maw?

2.     Khrih ih duhdawtnak le thatnak si lo in, midang ih an phurh le rak phur ve men na si pang maw?

3.     Bible siar man lo, khawm man lo, Thlacam man lo tiang a buai tuktu na si pang maw? Na si ahcun, na dam lo tinak a si. Thlarau lam malaria neitu na si tinak a si.

4.     Na sungih Pathian thu ih huham thilti theinak a lang suak theinak dingah, Pathian thu ngai aw, theifiang ding ih zuam awla nunpi roritu si aw.

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August 18, 2013
Baltimore, Falam Baptist Church

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