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The Arkansas LotteryStop the lottery in Arkansas.How to be Anti GamblingHelp stop gambling and the lottery! Educate the people in your church about the dangers of gambling and the lottery. Here are some resources to help you.How to stop gambling, in 6 simple steps.1. Inform your congregation of the dangers of online gambling by having your church secretary place inserts into your church's bulletin. 2. Place advertisements sponsored by your church in your local newspaper. Let the public know how you stand on gambling and the lottery. You can place ads in Arkansas newspapers for cheap. 3. Preach (or encourage your pastor to preach an anti gambling sermon(s) in your church to show your congregation how the lottery is morally wrong. 4. Place anti-gambling yard signs in front of your church, along the road, and in people's yards. 5. Write letters to the editor of your local newspaper explaining why people should vote to stop online gambling. 6. Remind the people in your church to get out and vote against gambling by announcing it from the pulpit and in your church's bulletin. 50% percent of the people in your church are not likely to vote, especially if they do not feel strongly about the issue. Gambling AddictionSomebody Cares SomebodyCares4U, Answers To life's Toughest questionswww.IStoppedGambling.com Help To Stop Compulsive Gambling Addiction Now
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Lottery CurseProverbs 10:2 - One person's blessing is another person's curse. Most of us dream of winning the lottery; of days spent leisurely on the new boat, or jetting to sun-splashed beaches in southern France. For some, that sudden wealth is a burden; a constant struggle of having to say no to family and friends and yes, take what you want, to the government. In all the cases, the sudden, life-changing wealth changes them. Whether the change is for the better depends on the person. While some relish never having to worry about how much a car or house costs, others find the newfound wealth too much to handle. Some have stories about dreams fulfilled, about investments that ensure wealth for generations to come. Others talk about making an effort not to change at all; of continuing to work; of driving the same car, living in the same house. And others tell of a plague of problems and of sieges of beggars; family, friends and strangers; of lawsuits between relatives and of being dragged to court by the government; and in one case, prison on tax fraud charges. Many, contacted for this story, just didn't want to talk about it. Here are a few who did: Lottery Curse Stories Rhoda Toth For $13 million Lotto winner Rhoda Toth, who, along with her second husband, Alex, picked the winning Lotto numbers in 1990, the good luck spiraled into full blown misery. The winnings accelerated a downward trajectory for the Hudson couple, ending in allegations of infidelity, gambling losses, estrangement, death and prison. The money sparked enough strife within the Toth family to spark a lawsuit pitting mother against daughter. Now 30, Tifany Diehl, the daughter, lives in Indiana and is largely estranged from Rhoda Toth, her on-again, off-again mother. Only recently has she begun speaking to her and then, only sparingly via e-mail and telephone conversations to the federal lockup that her mother calls home. "I hurt every day inside not having a mother in my life," Diehl said. The winnings didn't make a monster out of her mom, but it didn't help, either, Diehl said. Rhoda Toth abandoned her first husband and her two children long before she won the lottery. "There is a piece of my heart that hates that woman," Diehl said in a recent interview. After she hit the Lotto, Toth tried to woo her children back into her life, but it didn't work. "She was busy gambling and running with men and living the high life," Diehl said, and within two years of the windfall, the Toths were borrowing money to pay bills. The Toths found themselves living in a trailer in Pasco County, drawing electricity from a device hooked up to a running car engine. The 25-year marriage, which had been in trouble for years, crumbled amid allegations of infidelity and that was before the Internal Revenue Service came knocking, looking for $1.1 million it says the Toths owed in back taxes. Alex Toth died in 2008, several months before his trial on tax fraud charges and last year, a federal judge ordered Rhoda Toth to serve two years in prison. The 52-year-old ex-multimillionaire pleaded guilty to filing false tax returns over several years. She's well known among the inmates there because of her Lotto history, she said. They call her Martha Stewart. "I'm struggling," she said. "It's very hard, depressing. I have no family left. It seems like it's been a curse on the family from day-one. When we found out we had the winning ticket, I was in shock. I told him [her husband, Alex] I wanted to give it back, I was not happy." The money flew out of the accounts, she said. Gambling and living large took a lot of it. Giving it away took the rest, she said. "We were trying to please everybody," Toth said. "We were buying cars and homes and taking people on vacation and doing things with them they have never gotten to do. Our friends, they didn't have anything. We were paying their bills and buying them clothes. We didn't want them running around like we were running around before." She has some advice to lottery winners. "I would go get financial counseling," she said. "I'd make sure I'd get a proper attorney and two accountants who knew what they were doing, who specialized in this kind of thing. I would go get some type of counseling myself to make sure I was able to control and handle all this." That winning ticket, she said, ruined her life. "I have a trailer with no power," she said. "I have no husband. He gave up. He didn't want to live anymore. He hated life in general. He hated the way the money took us down." When she gets out, she plans to move back to Florida where a widow's pension and a disability check amounting to nearly $1,100 a month will have to do. Out of that, she has to pay $100 a month to the IRS, which has placed a lien on her home and all her property, she said. "It's like a curse," she said. "I will never get out from underneath the IRS for as long as I live. And when I die it will still be there." Larry J. Gispert Larry J. Gispert, director of Hillsborough County's Emergency Operations Center, claimed the Jan. 12, 2007, $1.8 million Mega Money jackpot. Gispert chose the one-time lump sum payment of $1.3 million. "I don't think he wants to talk," said a woman who answered the telephone at Gispert continues to direct operations at the EOC, taking center stage as Noreene and James Gordon Noreene and James Gordon, a north Tampa homemaker and a retired textile worker, claimed the February 2000 Florida Lotto jackpot of $52.4 million. They chose a one-time lump sum payment of $24 million. Their first big planned purchase: a cell phone for James. Things have changed since then. "It's a nightmare," she said recently, with friends and strangers knocking and calling for a chunk of her prize. "They don't want a piece," she said. "They want it all." Her husband died in 2006, and she has suffered three strokes since the windfall. "People come out of the walls to take advantage of you every day of your life," she said before ending the short telephone interview. Betty Ann and David Messick In December 1998, four years after winning a $9.5 million lottery, Betty Ann Messick and her husband, David, climbed back into the work force and opened the Apple Tree restaurant in Plant City. Their money train arrived in the form of a Lotto ticket in April 1994. At the time, David Messick worked in the Plant City Parks and Cemetery department. It didn't take long for him to decide to retire. But four years later, the Messicks un-retired. The restaurant remained open until just recently when the shopping center where it was located remodeled and reconfigured the space. The Apple Tree never returned. Bill Griffiths Bill Griffiths of San Antonio won $4.1 million on June 13, 1998, a third of the total Lotto jackpot. He was 27 at the time. "After I double-checked my numbers on Sunday," he said at the time, "I walked into my shop on Monday at Zephyrhills Bottled Water Co. and told my boss I quit." With $208,666 coming his way in annual installments over 20 years, he made his hobby his full time labor of love: drag racing. Griffiths planned to pursue the sport full time and not have to worry about expenses. The 1989 Pasco High School graduate who at the time was single and lived with his parents, vowed to put some of his winnings into a home of his own. He could not be reached for comment. By KEITH MORELLI | The Tampa Tribune Oct 1, 2009 http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/oct/01/winning-lotto-numbers-not-always-ticket-dreams-suc/ Gambling is a Choice Is it a wise choice? Deuteronomy 30:19 “I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:” Joshua 24:15 “And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.” Deuteronomy 6:2-3 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged. 3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee, in the land that floweth with milk and honey. Make the right choice...Obey the Commandments, and do not gamble. Jas 4:1-8 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
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Exodus 12:10-30 (New King James Version)10 You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
Are You Gambling with Eternity?Do you know for sure that you are going to spend eternity with your Creator? Acts 16:31 says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Click here to find out more! Home School Curriculum teaching from the perspective of our founding fathers.. Learn about the correct views of the Constitution. Christian Classical School For the best in Christian and in conservative videos at discounted prices visit: Christian Videos JESUS WARNS AGAINST COVETOUSNESSLuke 18:18-25 18 “And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life? 19 And Jesus said unto him, Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is, God. 20 Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honour thy father and thy mother. 21 And he said, All these have I kept from my youth up. Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. 22 And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich. 23 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! 24 For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.” JAMES WARNS AGAINST COVETOUSNESSJames 4:1-10 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? 6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 7 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8 Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded. 9 Be afflicted, and mourn, and weep: let your laughter be turned to mourning, and your joy to heaviness. 10 Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. Gospel Broadcasting Bible Truths.com Tentmaker.org
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