Obedience to God & The Blessings That Follow

Sometimes, when we are so lost in our jaded hearts, filled with confusion, desperation, etc., we do things we never thought we would do.  This happened to me a few years ago.

I have now removed all of the walls between me and the Lord by coming into full obedience removing all of those sins and asking His forgiveness.  Now He is "transforming me, by the renewing of my mind," and the endless comfort I can feel coming from Heaven itself is amazing to me.

Do you have something in your life that is doggin you?  Some sin you can't seem to stop?  Do what I did.  Dump it, no matter what it is, because God has something better for you!  I promise He does!  His timing is always perfect, so be patient, for the provision has already been made for you I promise!  God's words, His promises, are solid, never ending, and they are from everlasting to everlasting!

So pick yourself up off the floor and get that one thing out of your life that is putting the wall up between you and God.  Start then to pray that God will bless you with what He wants for you!  Whether that is healing, or surviving, etc., stop the sin.  Get it out of your life, once and for all so that He can begin to work a miracle, giving you hope and strengthening you with his own hand.  

"He will lead you to the promise land, He'll lead you home!"  Michael W.Smith.

Don't give up!  God's got plans!  The valley your in, the mountain your climbing, don't let it blind you to what God's promises are!  You are a child of the king!  He loves us all, and wants the best for us!

Be obedient, and what seems too big, too overwhelming, will disappear.  God wants to love you.  Please let Him?  What you're searching for is right in front of you!  Reach out to God!  Get back to your scripture's, ask God to forgive you, stop feeling sorry for yourself, help someone else who's in trouble!  Get your eyes off of yourself, and put them on Jesus, or you will sink like a stone just like Peter did!

Be still and know that He is God!

Avoiding Strife

"The beginning of strife is like releasing water; Therefore stop contention before a quarrel starts."  (Proverbs 17:14)

Have you ever had anyone complain at you and annoy you to the point that you wanted to answer with an angry response?  Well if you do, be prepared, because that's the beginning of sometimes a very pointless argument that just harms whoever you are arguing with as well as yourself!

Suggestion?  Say something funny to diffuse the situation, or just don't say anything, keep it zipped!  If it's your spouse, you may want to just take them in your arms and say something like, "I'm sorry your upset, what did I do?  If I did something to upset you, I apologize."  Even if you did nothing wrong, it will open the discussion that is a mature conversation and therefore saves you from making the situation worse!

It might be that your husband/wife had a rough day and doesn't mean to take it out on you, but you must avoid strife at all costs, because it is sinful!  The bible says "Be angry, and sin not." (Ephesians 4:26).  Let us love one another as Christ first loved us!  He's already taken every sin, past, present, and future onto himself for us.  He felt every drunk alcoholic, every panic attack, every tear, every bit of anger, out of an entire world of people who had lived, who were living and who would live in the future!  He took all of our sin upon himself.  When I think of how that must have felt, I get a panic attack myself and wind up in tears!

We need to learn, especially us married couples, how to respond to strife when it comes towards us.  Recognize the emotion as a trick of the devil to cause you to fight with your spouse!   This is a sin, and you must avoid it at all costs, because it can cause permanent damage to a relationship if you don't recognize it for what it truly is. An attack from the very depths of hell.  Satan wants to destroy your marriage, your friendship, your job situation, on and on....just see it for what it truly is and do not let it happen!

Let us love, be happy, and not let strife enter any area of our lives because it puts up walls between us and the Lord. 

Answer your wife's griping with a hug to try to make her feel loved and appreciated.  Tell her the house looks nice, and that she is beautiful, even if she has flour in her hair from fixing dinner!  Don't gripe back if you had a bad day too!  You can fix both of your bad days with your response, or you can make it worse with your response!  But if you do get angry, don't go to bed until you've apologized!

You ladies, do the same.  If your husband comes home in a rotten mood and starts to growl at everyone, walk over to him give him a hug and tell him how much you love him and appreciate what he has to put up with at work every day to provide for your family and ask if there's anything you can do to make it better.  Rub his back and shoulders, give him a kiss, hold him in your arms, show your love and appreciation and I mean, I don't care how bad your day was?  If you respond to an angry word with love, it changes everything for "A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger."  (Proverbs 15:1).

You choose?  It's up to you!   Just remember?  The person with the strife is crying out for love.  Answer strife with love.  It changes everything!

God Bless America's Son

In 1750 George Washington took a thousand mile journey along with a guide, to deliver a message to the French and Indian at the fork of the three rivers, now known as current day Pittsburgh, but known at the time as "Ft. Duquesne," to vacate the Fort.   He nearly drowned in a river getting there to deliver the message!

When General Braddock, an arrogant British General came along two years later with his men to fight them, Dinwiddie sent Washington along as a "guide," because he had made the journey and knew the way.  He was not a member of the militia at that time because there had been an uproar in England and the British Regulars were angry that the Militia Members in the US Colonies were making rank faster, with more pay etc., and when they tried to demote Washington, he was so insulted that he quit!

On the way to Ft. Duquesne, he fell ill and the surgeon traveling with Braddock and his men made Washington stay behind 3 days.  When he was finally able to travel and reached the site of the battle, not only was Braddock mortally wounded, 977 British Regulars were dead along with 63 British Officers.  

He got out of the covered wagon he had been riding in and got on a horse, two pillows under him, and when the Indian chief they were fighting saw him, hiding in the woods of the fort and the trees, he told his men, "this man doesn't fight like the others.  He fights like an Indian, aim your arms at him and let your aim be true."  They shot two horses out from under him before it was over, but he saved many when he rode into the battle to cry "retreat!"

He had bullet holes in his hat, shirt and pant legs that were torn, and it was a miracle he survived the onslaught of all of the weapons aimed at Him.  I believe He had some help from above. 

A few years later in 1755, after the British had successfully ended the French Indian war, Washington, being a land surveyor, was sent to survey the land (he laid out the city of Alexandria, VA, bet you didn't know that.  I didn't!),  to divide it among the American Militia Men who fought the battle so they could have homesteads.  

The Indian Chief who had called for his men to aim at Washington heard somehow that he was headed his direction, and though he was old and close to death, he made his men carry him into Washington's path where he bestowed a prophecy upon him.  "This man shall not die in battle, for a greater power protects him."  Then, the most amazing thing he said...gives me goosebumps....the Indian Chief proclaimed that "one day, he will be known as the leader of a great Empire."

George Washington made a covenant with God to protect him and his men as they ran for their lives in one of the first devastating battles of the Revolution.  The fight for New York City.  They had lost many men, and they were trying to escape, but the British fleet was already in motion trying to surround them and force the American Colonists to surrender.  However, that wasn't what God planned, and many men were still trying to escape in the night, but they were facing head wind.  Suddenly, the winds shifted in their favor and they were able to move more quickly towards safety.  But as day was about to break, there were still many men who needed to escape and another miracle was needed.  Just in time, a providential pea soup fog came into the harbor out of nowhere, protecting the Continental Army as they made their escape.  They floated right next to the British Flotilla, but the fog was so thick, you could barely see your hand in front of your face.  Washington was the last to leave shore and get in a boat and flat away right under their noses!  If not for the tail winds and the fog, the Revolutionary War would have ended before it had begun!

If you haven't read "The Covenant," by Timothy Ballard or "The Real George Washington," by Jay Parry, I suggest you find a copy of both and read up.  This country has a Covenant with God, and we have broken it.  It is time to get back to God, get on our knees and pray for this country before those who want again, to do us harm, are allowed to tear us and this Country apart.

We all have a little of Washington in us.  It is for us that he fought, it is for us that he served.  We owe him and the Founding Father's a debt we cannot repay unless we mobilize against the evil that is about to come upon us.

The Club of Rome has a map of 10 different sections that will be the "New World Order," and it is time to prepare our minds, our hearts, our bodies and gird ourselves with the Word of God and above all, our faith, the kind of faith Washington had, or this country will fall.

Pray with diligence that these despots are not allowed to take our country away from US!  WE THE PEOPLE!  Above all, ask God for Grace.  We are going to need it! 

God Bless the United States and her first son, 

George Washington!

Texting for Jesus!

Okay, so how many times a day do you text? 5? (Whoa, you need an unlimited plan! lol), 10, 20, 30, endless?  Well what if we used all these gadgets and gizmos we have with all this new technology to reach others for Christ? (Just whatever you do, don't text while driving or walking down a busy street. You might get hurt?).

Like you teenagers?  When your at the end of your "textathon" maybe you could invite your friend to Wed. night youth group? Then in that final text say, "God bless, CYA tomorrow! (add a smiley face!)

And you workers out there, I don't care what business you are in, you carry a cell phone!  Be uplifting and encouraging.  Maybe your texting a co-worker who is going through a divorce they really don't want.  Tell them you'll pray that he/she changes their mind and stops the proceedings.  Then commit in your own heart to pray for both of them!  Sign off all your texts with, "Take care, God Bless.  See ya tomorrow.

And what about you housewives out running errands texting your 16 yr old at home to make sure everything is okay, and to make sure that you don't need to make a stop at the store on the way home??  End your text with "You're such a great kid.  I thank God for you in my prayers every morning and every night.  Thank you for being so responsible and for helping out at home.  Love u!"

What we say to others, whether in person, on the phone, or through a text message, has meaning!  It just dawned on me that we have all these wonderful gadgets and gizmos, but how often do we use them to bless one another or those who don't know Jesus?  Shame on us! If you feel weird about it, just ask God to give you the right words and He will!  Remember, you can do all things through Christ who gives you strength, so don't shrink from the opportunity, grasp it with zeal!

If we are going to make it thru what is to come, we need to be on our knees and telling everyone we know!  If I had just reached out to my neighbor, a nice guy whose tree fell thru our fence one windy night and did most of the clean up together with his wife?  If I had just reached out to them...maybe he wouldn't have hung himself in his garage!

Belief in action can happen in texting too!  Show others, especially those you really care about, the love of Christ by texting what He might have texted!  Again, even thru these gadgets and gizmos that God gave man the intelligence to create means that God has a far reaching hand in our lives even when we aren't paying attention!

So text or phone a friend to check up on them, and love and accept people just the way they are!  Love others and help those who need it!  It isn't hard, you just have to TRY!  Upside?  God will bless your efforts even if they are not fruitful!

So will you run away from my challenge or will you text for Christ?

Are You Ready 4 Jesus?

Jesus is coming soon, so I have just one question to ask:  "WILL YOU BE READY?"

I truly believe that Jesus is going to return very soon to carry away His bride, the church, into the skies of heaven, oh what a spectacular sight that will be...... well.... unless you're still on THE GROUND!!!!  Believe me, you don't want to watch from the ground because then you'll miss the fastest elevator ride ever only without the elevator!

Think of it this way:  You're at an amusement park and I'm the fat lady in front of you trying to fit onto the coaster, which just takes forever!   Now think of that as taking forever? Like from 33AD (The year Jesus was put to death and resurrected), to 2012!  (R U getting the picture yet?)  Suddenly once I'm finally secured (but uncomfortable) in my seat, without hearing one clickity clack of that coaster, we'll all be in heaven, and I'll look a whole lot different than the lady who spent all that time just to fit into that coaster seat!  For one thing, I would have slipped out of that seat belt mid flight because I will look very different once the ride is over!  I'll look very different!  I'm young again, skinny and beautiful with not ONE grey hair! Double takes going on all around me, people discovering that while on that fast ride up, God perfected us all, giving us new bodies that will never get sick, feel pain or DIE!!  "We shall be changed from corruptible (meaning mortal and susceptible to death), to incorruptible meaning we will never EVER die! (1 Corinthians 15:53 - KJV)

I think those that read this blog know full well what is coming, and you should all find a local bible believing church where you can go and dedicate or re-dedicate yourselves to Jesus so we can all go Home to Heaven!  Those who believe in His miracles, His death on the cross, and His resurrection from the dead, all done for OUR transgressions are going to be there!  What about you?  He did it not just for me, or that guy down the street, He did it for you too! He did it for all of us!


So remember to tell your husband/wife as well as your kids how much you love and appreciate them?  Always say I love you, especially to your children just after disciplining them, making sure they know you love them, but that you don't like the way they acted.  Jesus doesn't like their actions either, " Whoever spares the rod hates (spoils - KJV) their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them." Then tell your children, that Jesus loves them and that he delights in their proper behavior and always let them know that they are special cause God says so!  (Matthew 19:14). 

We are very near the day when Jesus, with NO WARNING will say "come up hither," (Revelation 1:4) and all the Christians on the planet will be gone in an instant to meet our Lord in the clouds!  (Believe me I can't wait!  I pray for it every day!).

So get out your bibles and let's start reading them again!   And if you don't have one?  Email Me A Request and I'll send you one of my old ones!    DO YOU NEED PRAYER?  PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR PRAYER REQUESTS & SIGN IT ANONYMOUSLY! GOD KNOWS WHO YOU ARE, BUT I DON'T NEED TO!  I just need to know what you are going through so I can pray for you in a way that will help you!

Please begin to learn the joy you can have through a relationship with Jesus Christ!  He bore your sins and mine, on himself, so that you might have life and have it to the full!  (John 10:10)  Please don't live ONLY HALF WAY, because you only live once!  John 3:16 says "he who believes in me will not perish, but have everlasting life."  All you must do is Trust the name of Jesus!