My mother's death saved my life...

Many times in my life from a child to an adult, I have wondered (not in anger, but in loneliness) why God would send me into a family where I would lose my mother at the age of five.. parents struggle so hard at the loss of a child.. but few consider a child who spends a lifetime without that one person that usually has their back...

but hindsight is 20/20 they say.. and after many battles that exhausted me, hell recently sent what he thought was the deathblow.. and man it felt like it, I will never fully recover from the pain and loss, not in this life.. I would have taken my life. I wanted to. I considered it, and sought God about it, for permission, for mercy, for an escape from the pain that literally wretches my stomach daily so that I could vomit with little effort... even now.

but he didn't even have to say much as his response.. he would just begin to flash my life before my eyes, and all the moments of my mother's absence that left me... with such a void, culminating to when I became a mother myself.. holding my first born, feeling such a loss of not having my mother as I had become a mother myself.. it was tuff.. and then I understood why he placed me in the family he chose specifically for me. I got to see first hand how my absence would affect my kids. How much they needed someone to watch their back even when they don't fully realize it.

And I chose to stay. God knew I would. It was never his will that I lose my mother, but he knows the circumstances of free will and has promised to use all for our good. Her death shaped something in me that God knew I would need at this time of my life, to save my life, to not rob my children and grandchildren of blessing. We don't always understand situations concerning family or why God places us together with who we are to walk this life out with. You don't get to choose your parents or your siblings or your kids. God chooses, because their life and choices, good and bad, will form things in your character affecting your choices. God always has a plan to bring goodness forth in our lives from EVERYTHING. My mother's death saved my life.

I don't question God about the things I walk thru in life.. I ask him a lot of questions along the way.. but I have learned to trust him no matter the appearance of things. I have no mother on this earth.. but I have his Spirit who serves in that role in my life. And when I feel alone, he is quick to remind me that I am not. And that is my peace, no matter what I face in this life, past or present or future. He is with me, and also with you.

Family.

Don't question it.. just trust God to help you do your best.
He will cover you when others sin against you, and
He will protect them from your failures and use it for good in their lives somehow. Don't let hell lie to you, or pull you into the blame game, you have more say in the matter than you realize, more power because of the enemies attack, if you continue to trust and obey God ♥

 

 

 

 

 

Stock Piling Ammo

Haha.. just blogged some things similar to this.. once again, so cool when God confirms things.. and he seems to be sending confirmation to the things he is speaking to the church instantaneously.. so ask him for direction, ask him what he ...would speak to you and the ppl in your life right now... ask.. he is answering and confirming so clearly.. as tho there is a special anointing loosed or door opened to the throne room.. ramp up your prayer and praise time this week.. and treasure the presence of God that is so near at the moment.. it is a sure sign that something big is coming.. and he is equipping and strengthening his ppl ♥

 

"Victory depends upon the refusal to allow our eyes to wander, our minds to settle, and affections to run after the things that draws away from Christ." –Alistair Begg

 

Think of it like stock piling spiritual ammo ^_^


 

Forgiveness Defined... (Matthew 18)

Here is Forgiveness defined and explained.. all four portions of Matthew chapter 18 explain different things to consider concering forgiveness when a Christian sins against another Christian..

so many ppl call the discipline part of this UNFORGIVENESS because they have drifted to their own morality or a false humility and missed the truth of the Word of God. At the same time.. God makes it clear in the other three instances.. Forgiveness is a given, you must.

But sometimes it is coupled with not so pretty consequences when Christians continue in sin.


~ At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, “Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”

2 He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. 3 And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 5 And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Causing to Stumble

6 “If anyone causes one of these little ones—those who believe in me—to stumble, it would be better for them to have a large millstone hung around their neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. 7 Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to stumble! Such things must come, but woe to the person through whom they come! 8 If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. 9 And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.


~ The Parable of the Wandering Sheep

10 “See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven. [11] [a]

12 “What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13 And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14 In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.


~ Dealing With Sin in the Church

15 “If your brother or sister[b] sins,[c] go and point out their fault, just between the two of you. If they listen to you, you have won them over. 16 But if they will not listen, take one or two others along, so that ‘every matter may be established by the testimony of two or three witnesses.’[d] 17 If they still refuse to listen, tell it to the church; and if they refuse to listen even to the church, treat them as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

18 “Truly I tell you, whatever you bind on earth will be[e] bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be[f] loosed in heaven.

19 “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven. 20 For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.”


~ The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant

21 Then Peter came to Jesus and asked, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother or sister who sins against me? Up to seven times?”

22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.[g]

23 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. 24 As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold[h] was brought to him. 25 Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.

26 “At this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ 27 The servant’s master took pity on him, canceled the debt and let him go.

28 “But when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins.[i] He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you owe me!’ he demanded.

29 “His fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’

30 “But he refused. Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the debt. 31 When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and went and told their master everything that had happened.

32 “Then the master called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. 33 Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?’ 34 In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

35 “This is how my heavenly Father will treat each of you unless you forgive your brother or sister from your heart.”

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Matthew 18 FORGIVENESS DEFINED

1. Believers must become as children, meaning obedient to their loving heavenly Father. If a person becomes a Christian, a child of God, anyone who sins against them will deal with their papa, and there will be consequence.

2. However, there are many children in the family of God and he loves them all equally. Sometimes children go astray.. and they wander from ob...edience bringing harm to themselves and separation from their papa. But he will pursue them and give them every opportunity to return to the flock.

(God loves the 99.. and he loves the ones that wander, sin against the family.
He loves us all, discipline or no discipline, he loves us. Altho keep in mind that wandering is different than rejecting him as their father and leaving. He will still reach out to them and go after them, but he will not force them to return.)

3. For those who claim to be part of the family but they CONTINUE to sin against other christians and against God.. there is a harsh consequence as long as they continue in that sin. THIS IS NOT UNFORGIVENESS, tho many in the church define it as such.

4. And lastly is a word to those sinned against.. FORGIVENESS IS A MUST. God has forgiven us of much.. we are to forgive other Christians when they sincerely repent. MERCY. MERCY. MERCY. God says is always priority. Even tho, sometimes that MERCY must go hand in hand with DISCIPLINE and CONSEQUENCE when repentance is refused and ppl continue in their sin.

A Command To This Generation

~ First tell me what the Word of God says Forgiveness should look like.. just be sure to take in to account the whole of what he said, and not just a favorite verse or trendy story or hypocritical loophole...

The upside of the enemy's attempts to redefine things in these last days, an emerging response to all the decption and rampant lies coming from the mouths of ppl in every walk of life and in ...every position of power... is that ppl are returning to the Word of God and studying what the true definitions are.. as defined by God, and his Word, with his Spirit called alongside to interpret and explain...

Ppl are dusting off their Bibles so that Good and Truth are no longer gray.. and you know that that means?...

As doing what's right and cleanliness are held back up in the light... everything else, both gray and darkness, will be seen for what it is.. ungodly... not just 50 shades of gray, but all that is gray will be seen for what it is.. sin and lust and evil.

It's Truth, the light that Christ brought... that will become clearer in this hour.
Proof once again that where sin does abound.. grace does much more abound.


~ I think that's how things got so screwed up... the world became so fast paced that we failed to discipline ourselves to keep the foundations solid. We began to teach what ppl said the Bible said, instead of reading and studying it for ourselves.. so that we lost the true definitions of godliness that God set for us to live by. It's time to return. It's time to challenge one another in personal stu...dy of the Word of God. To dig. My generation has alot to clean up and seek God to restore.. but this generation has a huge choice and responsibility of it's own before God.

Love and learn from the generations before you.
You're own failures will show themselves in time, and you will need the same love from those who follow after you, gleaning and learning from your example.

But the call to war for you right now.. is to return to the Word of God. Get it in your hands and your heart and your mind and your mouth.. feel the weight of it like a balanced sword, seek God to train you as you study it, so that you can handle it rightly, cutting to the heart of the matter, to the truth that is God's truth... always with love coupled with wisdom as God leads.

A command to this generation: Gear up!




 

A word for the Church... REPENT

Definitely an epidemic of Christians failing to know what they believe and why they believe it.. but it would seem that the greatest contributor to the falling away we have seen in recent years is more a sin of leadership factor. When you look across the church and you see leaders (parents, worship, teachers, preachers, deacons, etc..) committing adultery, lying to cover up some sin, living for se...lf, looking nothing like Christ...

And the majority of the others in the church covering it up in the name of being peace-makers and enablers of false-humility.. or just not wanting to acknowledge the mess and filth in the church because it's easier to look the other way.. when good leaders are blackballed, gagged, and ousted time and time again so others eaten up with selfish ambition and lust for power and popularity can party in the pews...

Sounds so far fetched.. but it is the face of the church.. leaking out from behind the mask and now a gross undeniable stench before God. Gossip and rumors and slander against good ppl, adopted as truth by others based on titles and deception and selfishness, rather than TRUTH.

And in the meantime.. a generation of teen and college age Christians watching it all unfold.. watching mom and dad wallowing in the midst it, jumping from bed to bed.. devastated by the lame excuses offered by teachers and leaders they once admired... and we wonder at the great falling away we are witnessing.. we wonder how atheism and it's many lame theories has gained such a stronghold in a generation?... there is no one to blame but ourselves.

We may boast that our example is one thing.. but the great cloud of witnesses around us sees something very different… something that looks nothing like the Jesus we talk about.

Repentance.
It begins with each of us.

Adulterers and adulteresses should not be allowed to marry in the church.
Let them take such things of the world to the world and marry at the courthouse.
If a man has a past of pornography and affairs and such, don't put him in ministry over women and children… let him serve with other men.
If a leader demands that you take oaths to keep silent about secret conspiracies against the denomination over him, and blackballs everyone that doesn't throw their lot in with him... someone speak up.

Sin.

The church is eaten up with it.. and a generation is sick of it, lost hope, lost faith, lost trust... yes, have an answer for the atheists.. that's Bible.. but if we are sleeping with our husbands best friends and then standing on a stage leading a dance team as tho God is honored by our worship... what spirit is that of?... Or if we lead a worship team and sing and cry about the forgiveness God brings, while we are doing the women on our worship team?.. what the hell?

The great falling away is due to our failure.
Our failure to resist evil and flee from sin,
Our failure to hold ppl accountable for their sin as we extend mercy and love to them,
Our failure to speak when it becomes sin to remain silent,
Our failure to defend based on truth rather than what allows us to live lukewarm.

Repentance.
It is the only answer.

Not words.. but a turning away, a confession of the heart, a cutting off of certain privilege, an agreement that we have consequences that we need to embrace, a personal accountability even if leaders and those who love us offer us excuse.

Repentance to not only turn us from our sin.. but to turn a generation back to God.
Find a worship service, or create one, go in sackcloth and ashes (humility in appearance and heart), and ask God to come and judge you according to his wisdom and his mercy. Change whatever it takes , whatever he says, and walk a different way, the right way. And don't look at others expecting them to do the same.. look at you.. and pray that God would do the same work in every life that your life touches.

Pray for right leadership as the church is cleaned up, one by one,
by ONE. In the name of Jesus ♥
Amen.

 

 

 

 

 

A Time to Speak

~ In a world of fast food and disposable everything, ppl tend to quit so easily... on their marriage, on their kids, on their career goals, on their faith... the trend is to be a coward and to call yourself a victim, human, justified.. but unless you fight a good fight.. unless you go the distance and sweat and bleed and grit through the pain.. you haven't really fought a good fight.. run the race with endurance.. fight the fight to the death.. and God promises that you can't even begin to dream of the things he has planned to bless you with in eternity. Win.. God will make a way ♥


~ God will make you able, if you trust him. Even when he begins to rearrange your life or change who you thought you were sposed to be.. trust him. He's merely making you a fighter.. and a winner.


~ "When freedom is at stake, your silence is not golden.. it's yellow." Tom Anderson


~ "There is a time for everything,and a season for every activity under the heavens:
... a time to be silent and a time to speak" (Eccl 3)

All too often, ppl (even the church) presents the case that keeping silent is holier than speaking up.. that some how being passive at all times, soft-spoken, timid, careful not to offend anyone.. is being like Christ.

... But their Jesus is not the same Jesus I serve.
Nor is their Bible the same Bible I am reading.
There is a time to shut up and wait on God to bring direction.
But there is a time when he sends the direction, and the ppl of God are to speak with the same passion and boldness that Christ did, time and time again in Scripture. No matter if to men of power, leaders of the church, the rich, or the popular.

Speak the Word of God that he puts in your mouth, as the Spirit of God leads you.




 

Purging.. Vomit.. however you wanna say it

~ I love it!.. there is such a call going forth for right leadership.. for leaders of character.. God is positioning ppl to answer the call.. ppl who never dreamed they would lead.. who had no desire to.. but who see the need and have recognized the hand of God positioning them.. who are saying yes to the call even tho it goes against their comfort zones.. so much like Moses, so much like Gideon.. men and women whose imperfections become their strength, because God is so real to them that they choose to obey rather than to cower. It becomes a matter of genuine service, rather than a title of arrogance. God is making it so.


~ There is a trend of defining things.. as words have become so important in these last days. The trend is to either minimize so that there is room to play with truth.. or to extend definitions so that they put ppl in bondage, making them slaves to the will of men or the will of an agenda.. it is nothing new.. Satan used both tactics, he minimized in the desert when tempting Jesus.. and he extended ...things by manipulating the religious crowd and the pharisee and saducees... Scripture says that we are not ignorant of his ways.. we just screw things up so often because we're not PAYING ATTENTION... we're distracted by the cares of this life.. good and bad.. attack and stress and the party.

but there is a line of truth.. where all things have a definite definition, a precise meaning, and a specific purpose. It's like a hammer.. it is definied so clearly.. but it is used for many things. We have entered a time where all things are being redefined. But much of it is merely like the frogs that represent lies in the book of Revelation. They come from the mouths of ppl, the words they speak, the half-truths, the manipulation, the control.. but there is a sword that comes from the mouth of our Lord and our Saviour. that sword is the word of God.. that sword is what cuts and separates truth from lies..

we have entered a time where we must measure all things to the word of God.. no more lazy lukewarm living.. God is about to vomit such hypocrisy out of his church... EVERYTHING in the church, in the family, in community, in the world... will only be rightly discerned as truth or deception, as we measure it to the Bible as the Spirit of God interprets and leads. Be diligent in the reading of the Word of God.. or be decieved. Nothing worth having comes without effort.


~ The church has endured the crushing as the enemy has tromped thru the garden, invited by our laziness and selfishness... the rose petals are crushed.. but after the crushing.. comes the release.. the intense aroma.. the prayers that rise to heaven and call down the presence of the Almighty God.

That aroma is Repentance.
As individuals, as a nation, as his church.
That's the upside of the crushing.. it moves us to pray and to repent.
And as we do..
He will come..
And with power ♥

~ with mercy.. with healing.. and with restoration. Amen.

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~ You would think we as the church would have learned the lesson by now.. but we can't look at someone called to minister to the Gentiles and judge them because their ministry and walk differs from those called to minister to the Jews.. there are different segments of society today.. such a myriad.. be careful how you judge.. Christ was called many things by the religious crowd as were the disciples... as are those who are sent to search out the fringe that live in the bushes along the highways and the hedges... search out the heart of God according to his word, by the leading of his spirit.. not according to the letter of the law... yes, there is a place for judgement and discipline, they are a command as well.. but the command is to judge rightly and to dicern rightly and to discipline with love ♥


 

Don't Forget

The man of lawlessness...

Now concerning the last days, we encourage you as followers of Christ to not let your mind be shaken or alarmed, either by a spirit (trend, social atmosphere) or a spoken word or a letter that seems to come from those viewed as leaders of the CHURCH, to the effect that Christ has returned as Messiah. Because that day will not come before the tribulation and the anti-Christ has been revealed. Do not let ANYONE deceive you to believe that the appearing of the anti-Christ is the  return of our Lord Jesus Christ.

The man of lawlessness (the anti-christ).. the son of destruction, who opposes all that God has spoken (the Word of God, the Bible), and exalts himself against every so-called god (every religion) or object of worship, so that he takes his seat proclaiming himself to be God. Remember that I told you these things while I was with you. (Don’t forget them, pay attention).

You know what is keeping him from taking power now, restraining him so that he may be revealed in his time. For lawlessness is already at work (even tho it is not openly exposed yet). Only he who now restrains it (the Holy Spirit) will do so until he (the Holy Spirit performing a specific role during the age of Grace, when Christ sent him to assist the witness and spread of the Gospel).. is out of the way (that role will end as the age of Grace ends and the tribulation begins).

Then the lawless one (anti-Christ) will be revealed, whom the Lord Jesus will kill with the breath of his mouth (truth, speaking judgment, the word of God) and bring the anti-Christ to nothing by the appearance of the Lord Jesus (as he returns to the earth, when the time of tribulation ends).

The coming of the lawless one is by the activity of Satan with all power and false signs and wonders (don’t be duped by the supernatural.. Satan is able to appear as an angel of light and to manipulate spiritual things to a point).. and with all wicked deception for those who are perishing (those who have rejected Christ), because they refused to love the truth and to be saved from the second death, eternal separation from God (who is the only light in the darkness, the only thing that is good.. they will forever be condemned to torment, never to know light or goodness again.. only the memory of their rebellion against God).

Therefore, God sends them a strong delusion, so that they may believe what is false. In order that all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness (sin and rebellion against God, living for self)… (God gives them what they want according to the measure they want it.. he gives them their hearts desire paralleled to their passion to have it. They want to believe the deception, are determined to believe the deception, as an act of rebellion and pride that they are gonna believe what they want, and live how they want, and worship what they want. And God lets them believe the lie, gives them the desires of their evil hearts because they absolutely refuse the truth and goodness he extends to them).

Stand Firm

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters, followers of Christ, beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved (during the age of Grace, simply by believing all that God said, by faith.. others will be saved during the tribulation, but it will cost them much, beheadings and such)… through sanctification (you chose to walk out a process of becoming more and more like Christ, and dying to the sinful choices you could have continued in, like those who are perishing chose… even tho God offered goodness to all)..  your sanctification was by the Spirit and belief in the truth. To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.

Amen.

 (see 2 Thessalonians 2)

 

 

 

 

 

all speculation...

~ The bombers were in the states like for a year.. they got the stuff to make bombs AND THEY PURCHASED GUNS ILLEGALLY to have a shoot out with police.. and the libs are gonna blame the 2nd amendment for this horrible act of terrorism... disarming the populace will only increase violence in our nation.. that and forfeit our freedoms to a tyrannical govt. Nauseating...


~ If govt tries to undo the 2nd amendment.. it won't be door to door confiscations.. it will be bogus, exaggerated charges for parking tickets or tax questions or other minor issues.. then while in custody or the courts, they will begin illegal search and seizures..

Civil unrest will continue in the streets and be fueled by a liberal agenda while the powers that be frown with disapproval for appearance sake.. and then be ready for a declaration of Martial Law.. that means that the govt can put soldiers in our streets and control all coming and going of the public, AND THE SITTING PRESIDENT CANNOT BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE. Elections will cease until the time of marial law passes... which could be indefinite if the powers that be will it.

All speculation.. all out of a conspiracy novel.. right?

 
~ "I pledge Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."


~ We know our faith is authentic or genuine when we can praise Jesus even in the storms and chaos of life. (1 Peter 1:6-8)


~  "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." (John 1:1 ESV)

secret oaths

Horrible dream last night but so incredibly telling.. bottom line.. ppl are gonna wanna make you take oaths.. secret oaths.. things you are only allowed to discuss with that group.. they are gonna wanna set a tattoo on you or a mark of some kind, a color or a symbol.. something less of a statement as a reminder to you to not tell "the mysteries of life" as defined by the group.. subtle.. academia.. social.. community.. local.. all sheepskin...

In the dream, someone merely mentioned the mark and the purpose of it.. and in an empty house the demons were so angry that you could feel the foundations violently shaking as they stormed and raged around the room in the spiritual.. Satan wants his plans to remain secret and discreet, fun-loving and sexy.. but the Spirit of God reveals what's under the sheepskin.. sometimes as life simply works its way out.. but sometimes thru words of wisdom and knowledge.. miraculously.. for the ppl of God who are paying attention to discern rightly.

Pay attention.

Just Don't.

~ It's not blind faith.. it's not about following blindly.. the focus is trust.. does it seem wise in the center of your being to trust God. If so, then follow his lead in all things.. whether you agree or disagree, whether you understand or it goes against your understanding.. it's not a matter of being blind.. it's a matter of dying to selfishness, and living for Goodness ♥


~ Whoever turns a sinner from the error of their way will save them from death and cover over a multitude of sins. (James 5:20)--Our Mission.


~ It's not guns that breed violence.. it's the refusal of the ppl to demand leaders of character to govern our nation..

Why is it refusal and not failure?.. because it's hard to demand character from your leaders or your children or your soc...iety when you refuse to live by the morality our nation was founded upon.. the morality of God.

You gotta shower up to clean up a nation.. if you don't get clean yourself, you will dirty everything you touch and everything put in your hands.


~ Cleaning up will not be sincere until you stop looking to the reaction of those around you for approval.. until you stop judging those around you for not sharing your passion about it.. and until you stop whining and complaining cuz no one else is doing it sincerely. Cleaning up only happens when it becomes a personal fire in your bones, a one to one in spiritual places that no one can hear but yo...u and God cuz no one else matters.. it's like sex with that one person in your life that you cherish and want to yourself.. God made sex for a reason, to help train the physical creatures we are with parallels within the marriage and the family.

Sounds offensive.. but intimate encounters with God are like spiritual sex with your spiritual spouse... oneness, beauty, joy, passion, tenderness.. think of the songs of Solomon.. why do you think they are in there.. so that we can glimpse intimacy on a higher level then just physical grunting...

yes.. I know.. a topic that makes you blush or that makes you throw your arms up and cry foul.. but if God makes comparisons to menstral cloths in scripture for our understanding.. of course he is gonna make reference to sex in marriage. He designed it.


~ Stop demanding that others meet your level of commitment.. it's the kindness of Christ that leads ppl to repentance according to Scripture.. you set the standards for your life that God calls you to.. and love others, pray for them, live the example before them, and when God begins to convict them of certain things, and the door opens for them to ask and to hear, God will put his words in your mou...th to share with them, to encourage them, to challenge them...

But he will not put such words in your mouth, if you have not invited his Spirit to first love that person with a genuine love. When it comes to sharing the Gospel, you gotta demonstrate the power of his love, before you witness the power of his word. Jesus loved first, then he came to show us a better way ♥


~ Whole other ball game when you are dealing with someone who knows God and is already following him.. think of Peter.. of John Mark.. of the pharisee and saducees.. of the disciples.. each time they sinned against ppl in their arrogance and prejudice and demands.. each time they claimed to represent God and failed to do it with loving discipline.. God disciplined them.. lovingly.. but discipline nonetheless.


~ The wisdom of Solomon.. ecclesiates.. a time for everything.. you can't pigeon hole ppl or situations or even commitments... sometimes it is gentleness that is needed and great patience.. sometimes it is action and intervention or even violence.. but always with love, always with the good of the person and the whole in mind as defined by God.


~ Some would say violence is never necessary.. but you show me someone about to do harm to a child or an innocent person.. and I will use force, violence, to disarm them or stop them or protect that victim in any way I am able. As long as there is sin in the world.. there will be a place for violence.

The key is motive.
The why.

~  no.. don't pigeon hole me.. don't even try..
I will absolutely twist ur brain like a purple nurple if you do...

They may call me Bird Dog.. but my other other middle name is
"queen of randomness"
lolol ^_^


~  a time to talk of holiness..
and
a time to talk of things that make you laugh til you snort
yes
a time for everthing, there is nothing new under the sun.
=)




 

to be like Christ...

The goal of life on this earth is to help those who are dying without Christ to move their heart from unblief to knowing that Jesus Christ, God himself, came to make a way for them to be saved from eternal separation from God. There will come a day when their bodies will die and be separated from everything they know and love on this earth.. but their soul will live on forever either in eternal da...rkness, separated from God, where there is no light, only a burning emptiness full of nothing but suffering and memories of third chances that will never come. Or they will remain in the presence of God, the light of the world, living out an eternal second chance on this earth.. this earth.. cleaned up, set in order, where no evil remains, no tears for God to wipe away.. all that God intended, all that is truly good.. LIFE IN CHRIST.

so.. yeah.. that's the goal.. no matter the cost.. no matter the hell we must walk through to keep others from an eternal hell...

that's what it is to be like Christ.

Not gloating in our holiness or self righteousness. or our giving or sharing or yada yada yada, that has become the trend of "being a Christian".. those are all just part of the job.. the tools... the little things... doing our part to increase the family of God, birthing souls into the kingdom.. walking with Christ and warring in heavenly realms and speaking it forth into all the earth... for the glory of God the Father, proud papa of his children and every new baby added to his family.. yes...

that's what it is to be like Christ.

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living out a temporary hell on this earth.. so that others don't have to live out a devil's hell for eternity...

are you?

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Sometimes when hell is in our face.. and we glimpse the loneliness that Christ knew on the cross.. we begin to feel sorry for ourselves.. as though now is the time of paradise.. but that time will not come until all has played out on this earth.. evil lives here, invited and welcomed by every person who sins.. yeah it sucks.. but such is life on this earth.. we're only here still, cuz we got a job... to do.. someone worked so that we could be free in Christ.. now we get to play in the game..
 

Hell is in your face.. it's hard.. no one will ever understand the pain and difficulty and reality of your struggles except God.. but the good thing is that before you even asked him for help.. before you even hit that wall in your walk.. he was working a plan to comfort you and heal you and equip you and put you back in the battle so you could be as proud of yourself as he is of you.. you're gonna be okay.. this is hard.. but you are not alone.. as much as hell wants you to think you are.. God is with you.. and he promised he would always be there.. and he is not a man that he would lie.

 

 

 

 

Always a Day of Grief

from Proverbs 17.. "he who is glad at calamity will not go unpunished."

from Proverbs 24.. "Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and let not your heart be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased, and turn away his anger from him. Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked, for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the wicked will be put out."

Make no mistake.. God will deal with those who do evil, especially against the innocent and the poor and the ppl of God.. but we are not to gloat over such judgement.. we should grieve that it had to come to judgement against anyone to make the evil stop.. if we rejoice that our enemy dies or must suffer, we become like them.. evil.. Jesus said that the disciples didn't realize what spirit they were of when they wanted to call down lightning from heaven and massacre those insulting them. There are times when death and penalty must come.. but the attitude of our heart must be in alignment with God's heart.. not full of arrogance and hate. Vengeance will come.. but it belongs to God not us.. we can rejoice that evil has ended.. but the loss of life in any circumstance is a day of grief and never rejoicing ♥

the TEA PARTY COMMUNITY (conservative tyrants)

peanut butter sammich time!

oh, and Good Morning to you Tootie ^_^

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I will never eat a peanut butter sandwich now without thinking about being blackballed from The Tea Party Community, that supposed alternative to FB that Fox news endorses... I posted about having a peanut butter sandwich for breakfast and a pummello for supper.. and the mods stormed onto my page uninvited and scolded me.. it was pretty bizarre.. interesting how so often ppl become what they fight against. Their claims of liberal cencorship are minor compared to TCP's abuse of power.. craziness..

I called them tyrants for coming onto my page uninvited and scolding me for posting about a peanut butter sandwich in conversation with friends. Some woman mod asked if I was confused about where fb was.. so they blocked me from the site. As farfetched as it sounds.. that's the cut and dry of it.. pretty laughable. But it drove me back to fb, joy joy ^_^




 

The Breath Before

One of my favorite Gandalph quotes is when he talks about "the breath (calm) before the plunge..."

That is the time to think things through and to seek wise counsel, to weigh all things before God. And when your conscience is clear between you and Him during that moment of calm and thought and soul searching... the plunge is all that remains.

Cuz once you jump into whatever is before you in life, you ar...e committed. Wavering and lukewarmness and failure to make up your mind will cause you to land badly and will cost you much consequence, if not failure.

But even if you take the plunge, and the fall is beyond what you expected or can manage.. if you have covered it in prayer and conversation before God, if you have sought wise counsel, if you have checked your motives as to selfishness or for the good of all... God will come under you like a gentle wind and guide you like an arrow to the mark... or he will break the fall, so that it does not break your spirit or anyone elses.

Take the breath.
Take the plunge.
As God leads you in it.
I pray his perfect will in your life through the calm and through the storm.
In the name of Jesus.
Amen ♥

 

 

 

 

 

Sin of the Church today?... following TRENDS

Still caught up in 1 and 2 Corinthians.. it just keeps coming up. I think it was a church that drifted from the mark, so God laid out all the things they needed to clean up to get focus back on their first love... back to the work that God was calling them too and off of traditions and ritual and habit and TRENDS... wow, just occurred to me while typing this.. that is HUGE concerning the church to...day.. we have gotten way off on TRENDS and away from the foundations of our faith and the Word of God which teaches them... so any way.. the letters to the Corinthians contain so much good stuff for us today, in this hour, specifics to seeing revival in the church right now.. just thinking out loud.. rambling.. you already knew that tho.. lol.

 

The Church must stop following TRENDS above following Christ.

"No other gods before me" means no gods above him.. but it also means no other gods in his presence.. which is only everywhere and anywhere in heaven and in the earth. We must see trends for what they are, just another tool that can be used for the cause of good or the cause of evil. Nothing more. No matter who is pushing it.. pastor, celebrity, friend, family..whoever.

 

God is God.. and the only one worthy of our worship,

the only one that should be elevated in our lives.

Everything else is on the same level with us, eye to eye, nothing more.

 

How great is it knowing that God is so far above us.. and yet he came down to walk beside us, to be personal with us, to look eye to eye with us when he says he loves us. Makes me fall in love with him all over again every time I think about it.




 

Rugged Hearts

Rugged hearts only come from going through rugged stuff and refusing to lay down that rugged cross while you’re doing it ♥

I know so many college age women of faith that have trudged through their own mudholes in life and the mudholes that others from my generation have made before them, but despite the messiness that is our imperfection.. they have held on to Christ as that closest friend and sovereign God.. so proud of you all. I watch you in your walk and I learn so much, you inspire me and encourage me and challenge me to be more like Christ. I pray God would bless you today.. that he would speak to you in ways that you have missed and haven’t felt in so long.. I pray that he would reveal him self to you new and afresh, so that you are full of the awe that is Jesus and him only. You are past the point of fear.. and numbness is not a stranger to you (in so many ways).. you are aged and wise and full of power… you are equipped and called and r...eady for these last days, more than you realize. I pray God would bring life and increase to all that he has planted in your heart through the beauty and the ugliness that has been life on this earth.

You are rugged.. you are royalty, daughters of the King, sisters/family… be royal, be honorable, be one in Him… represent ♥

(and do it together sisters like no other generation before).
Love to you. In the name of Jesus. Amen.




 

Press In.. He is closer than you think.

 

Had a picture years ago while praying of angels on the clouds looking down upon the earth in such a way.. except they were down and set like runners at a starting line.. and they were not focused on looking at the earth.. they had their heads turned toward the thrown of God waiting for him to say the word, with instruction.. "Go." That is the power at the disposal of the believer, when we make our requests known to our God and we trust in his timing ♥

 

~ Intense warfare at the start of worship today.. but you could feel the ppl of God pressing in and God drawing near as they did. When the worship leader began calling upon God to be the center of his Church again.. oh my goodness!... an absolute word from the Spirit of God. Made me cry one of those deep uncontrollable cries that you have when you realize that God was never as far away as he seemed.. that he is present and active and fighting for us. He has a plan. I pray his ppl are finally desperate enough to yield to it as the Spirit of God leads us. Good things at the door for his ppl, a turning of the tide. yes and amen.

 



Men of Truth

Saw a powerful picture this morning of a group of soldiers sitting at a mess hall table, arms around each others shoulders all around the table.. as they bowed their head in prayer together as individuals and as a force of one.

MEN of GOD.. fighting machines unafraid to defend freedom, justice, and those they love to the death.. Husbands who can romance a woman with absolute passion and sincerity that it would make you blush.. Men - powerful men - who humble themselves and pray, seeking God for guidance to do all these things for his glory.. Thank you father for men like these, our guys, American soldiers, Fathers, Husbands, Brothers, Friends.. bless them and keep them in the center of your perfect will, help them to succeed in everything they set their hand to, prosper them, provide for them, overflow the blessing in their lives spiritually and physically and relationally so that they cannot contain the abundance of it all. In the name of Jesus. Amen <3

To Desire To Do It

~ to not only do it.. but to desire to do it.. and to complete the doing of it with what God has put in my hands to do it... in the name of Jesus.

~  ".. this benefits you, who a year ago started not only to do this work but also to desire to do it. So now finish doing it as well, so that your readiness in desiring it may be matched by your completing it out of what you have. "  (2 Cor 8)

~ 2 Corinthians is on fire today.. so much good stuff.. and when I look up the references, it keeps taking me back to that book.. so I am gonna open it in BIBLE GATEWAY and listen to the audio of the ESV while finishing up my work on the compy.. good stuff ♥

~ 2 Corinthians 5:14-15
Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

Gift of a Friend

One of the greatest gifts a friend can give.. a timely word from the Word of God ♥

The LORD is my light and my salvation;
whom shall I fear?
The LORD is the stronghold of my life;
of whom shall I be afraid?
When evildoers assail me
to eat up my flesh,
my adversaries and foes,
it is they who stumble and fall.
... Though an army encamp against me,
my heart shall not fear;
though war arise against me,
yet I will be confident.
One thing have I asked of the LORD,
that will I seek after:
that I may dwell in the house of the LORD
all the days of my life,
to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD
and to inquire in his temple.
For he will hide me in his shelter
in the day of trouble;
he will conceal me under the cover of his tent;
he will lift me high upon a rock.
And now my head shall be lifted up
above my enemies all around me,
and I will offer in his tent
sacrifices with shouts of joy;
I will sing and make melody to the LORD.
Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud;
be gracious to me and answer me!
You have said, “Seek my face.”
My heart says to you,
“Your face, LORD, do I seek.”
Hide not your face from me.
Turn not your servant away in anger,
O you who have been my help.
Cast me not off; forsake me not,
O God of my salvation!
For my father and my mother have forsaken me,
but the LORD will take me in.
Teach me your way, O LORD,
and lead me on a level path
because of my enemies.
Give me not up to the will of my adversaries;
for false witnesses have risen against me,
and they breathe out violence.
I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the LORD
in the land of the living!
Wait for the LORD;
be strong, and let your heart take courage;
wait for the LORD!
Psalm 27

 

 

 

 

 

The Sin of Today

The enemy attacks in whatever way works against us, but he lacks the wisdom of God. So he usually chooses to attack with the opposite of what he believes God is trying to do. He thinks us all fools (sheep) and will swallow the poison blindly if it FEELS like it is in the same camp as what God is doing.. sadly it often works. But not today.. today we are wise as serpents yet gentle as doves.
 

So knowing that the breaking forth will involve a unity and aligning, be watchful for division and things out of order (things that God says should be ordered a certain way). Also, be watchful for the things that cause division, the small annoying things and the huge glaring things, old divisions and new ones. Ask God  to increase the discernment of his ppl to recognize the cunning attempts of the enemy to distract the ppl of God or to cause us to try to solve matters in our own strength. Things must be done as God wills.. not as a man wills. 

 

So often in the past, the enemy has caused chaos by working through the sin of leaders.. because the ppl sinned the sin of not loving God above all others.  Leaders took on a God complex, cloaked in the guise of a servant leader, and the ppl sinned a great sin by worshipping them (Leaders being all those given a measure of authority.. pastors, teachers, parents, husbands, employers, etc..) . No man or woman is above being measured to the Word of God.. no title elevates one person or group of ppl above others, no title puts all they say or think or declare on the same plain as God.
 

That was the sin of recent times, and the division and chaos in the church has been great. But God has heard the crying out of the ppl, he has seen the blood of lives ripped open by an effective attack of hell against the ppl of God because of their own sin. And he declared ENOUGH three years ago (2010), in the heavens.. and now it is manifesting in the earth. But again the enemy manipulates us in our weakness, and attacks with the opposite of what God wills. The move of the Spirit is unity in the church, restoration, the broken being realigned and becoming one again, the members and functions of the body healthy and whole and ordered as God designed.  The sin of today is a return to the oldest one.. the sin of rebellion… birthed by ‘the father of lies.” (Deception and a lying spirit are running rampant.. just as the Word of God warned would happen in these last days).
 

 Rebellion against submission.
 

We hate that word because it has been so abused....  But God’s system of government, of order, is not a democracy.. it is a KINGDOM.. which runs much differently. We are a democracy as the Bride.. but a democracy that functions within the realm of a Kingdom. Our God is so full of mystery and awesomeness.. so far beyond our finite minds.. he can make such things work in beauty and order.. things so far beyond what we can envision and imagine. That is why God the Spirit has come.. to impart the Father’s heart to our hearts as we are able to bear it and grasp it.. he serves in this hour of the church as “one called alongside to help” .. interpreting the Word and mind of God to us one step at a time, one battle at a time.
 

There is a Godly submission.. only to a leader that seeks God in all their imperfections.. a submission that is to be denied only when the will of a man tries to teach or demand things contrary to the word and will of God. Otherwise, leaders, with all their humanity and imperfections, are to be obeyed within the areas of authority that God has set them in place to govern. Just as the ppl were told to obey the hypocritical Pharisee in the things of God.. and yet to not do as they were doing in their hypocrisy.. don’t become that thing that is attacking you… don’t rebel against the order that God has ordained and set in place.

 

The ppl of God have been bloodied in a battle fought yesterday…

the Church as a whole has been crippled..
 

God has come to bring the balm of unity to those who seek to follow truth in all humility.. but he will deal harshly with false humility, with deception, and with all that calls itself Good that is committing evil. God gave a time of grace for ppl to scrub out their own wounds.. now he has come to scrub out the wounds of the Church.  Cleansing coupled with Healing.. it’s the only way to bring health and one-ness to the body. It is not judgment.. it is loving discipline.
 

A battle is coming.. one fought in spiritual realms..

God is preparing a ppl to fight it <3

 

 

 

America has the freedom to be straight or to be gay

I will vote against everything that my vote matters to emphasize that homosexuality is sin and detrimental to a person and a society -- spiritually and physically and socially according to the teachings of Jesus Christ and the Word of God. Not all the founding fathers were Christian, but all agreed to frame America’s government around a Christian model. That is why Scripture from the Holy Bible is carved all over our nation’s capital… That is why the God of the Holy Bible is called upon to lead and guide our nation in most all legal proceedings. It was designed to encourage and nurture a healthy society, a nation guided by God.. and yet protected the free will of the individual. Just as God protects a person’s free will to choose God’s morality or not.

Therefore, by the same token, if the ppl of our nation (the PPL and NOT AN OUT OF CONTROL GOVERNMENT) vote to legalize gay marriage, I will not resort to lashing out at ppl. I will not bash or hate on ppl because they have chosen the gay life style. They are not followers of Jesus Christ , have chosen to reject his teachings, and have committed themselves to follow the morality of the world. Our Constitution, much like the Christian faith, allows our nation to continue to follow the morality of Jesus Christ as long as it chooses to as a nation. But we are given the freedom to reject God’s morality as well. Keeping in mind that such a rejection aborts our rights as followers and children of God, as a nation, and forfeits his divine protection and many blessings.

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If homosexuals or lesbians want to attend a Christian church, and are willing to confess that they are struggling with the sin of homosexuality.. then I will love them and welcome them and encourage them in their search for God's truth.

However, the line for me, is when someone calls themselves a Christian and begins to deny the biblical truth that the gay lifestyle is as much a sin as prostitution or lying or murder. It is a different thing when someone acknowledges that they are under conviction for their sin as compared to someone who tries to justify it by calling something good that God clearly says is evil.

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Keeping in mind that true conviction involves making a sincere effort to repent and reform (which often manifests as a process over a measure of time).. forming personal disciplines as well as accountability to others in an attempt to be free of that sin and brought closer to conforming to the image of Jesus Christ.

You Can Feel the Wind Blowing

Pay attention.. listen.. it's one of those times when the presence of God is very present and very ACTIVE in spiritual realms.. the enemy is trembling.. lines of division are being removed on several levels.. unity, not as cliche'.. but unity as God is aligning his ppl.. putting them on the same page.. not sure what's up.. but dreams are going forth and discernment is awakening and the water on the surface is still and quiet.. something is about to break forth, and the ppl of God, those seeking God through their tears, through attack, through their lack of understanding as chaos and warfare swirl around them in the world.. be watchmen, be ready, be praying, be full of the Word of God and the testimony of his goodness that you have witnessed in your life.. his light in the midst of much darkness. Swords are about to clash in the heavens.. the Church will arise, the ppl of God are finding their feet because God has loosed healing in the camp. Selah.



It will not look like what you imagined.
But it will be beautiful when you see it.

Blessings Bigger Than We Are

Saw an adorable little girl, about two years old, struggling to carry a giant bag of Easter Candy that was bigger than she was. As we passed each other, I smiled at her and asked, "Have you got candy?" She grinned ear to ear and her whole little face lit up as she tried to raise it higher for me to see... so precious. Later while shopping we crossed paths again.. she immediately smiled really big... and managed to say something along the lines of "I got dis..." still trying to hold it up for me to see.

Made me think of how God says that he sees each of us as precious little children. Made me wonder if I am as excited and thankful for the sweet and miraculous blessings that he fills my arms with.. blessings that are so much bigger than I am and so much bigger than any enemy that I will ever face. I love my heavenly Father so very much ♥




 

Doctor King

~ "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Martin Luther King, Jr.


~ "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrates it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." MLK


~ This is a picture of a great man. I do not see a black man.. I see a Christian and community leader.. I see someone who refused to be silent when injustice was rampant in our nation.. I celebrate his life his faith and his legacy, not just one day of the year, but every time God brings remebrance of him across my mind or my path. A measure of society has lost touch with what he was truly about.. for ppl to treat those who wronged them by wronging them with the same prejudice and inustice remains sin. It makes you to become that evil thing that you hate.. your face becomes the face of injustice. Martin realized that it's not a matter of the color of a persons skin, it's a matter of that person's character as measured to the Goodness, Love, and Mercy of Jesus Christ. So much wisdom and love in his teaching and preaching and life. I see Christ so plainly in all he demonstrated. I pray God would raise up other such leaders today, in this hour of the church.


~  I pray God would raise up leaders of the caliber of Doctor King from every race and every nation and every community.. even within every family. I pray all fear be overcome by an extreme love of God and love for the ppl he loves, every soul he breathed into existence. I pray the volume of the enemies voice will be muffled in the ears of those who call upon the name of the Lord to keep their focus on the will of the Father. I pray peace to Christians.. that in these last days, they will not be overwhelmed or exhausted or discouraged.. rather I pray that a measure of their joy remain with them and that God would mulitiply it far beyond any joy the enemy may have stolen from them. I pray God be with you and make you strong and full of courage, unafraid and doing all things with a sound mind as the Word of God lights our way in this dark hour of our nation and the world.