The Bounce = FIRE

I took great notes today at church. I will share them with you along with a picture of what I found wedged by my front tire in the parking lot when I left church. I would definitely say that God was speaking to me today. I trust that He will speak to you through my sermon notes.
"4 Components of the BOUNCE:
1.  The Fall in a fall you move downward rapidly, it could come to you in the form of a death; lay off; health situation, etc It seems like it will never end in the falling stage. Also be reminded that pride can cause a fall and a haughty spirit along with you can fall into sin, satan can set a trap that can cause this. Ecclesiastes 4: 9-10 states Two people are better than one because together they have a good reward for their hard work. If one falls, the other can help his friend get up. But how tragic it is for the one who is all alone when he falls. There is no one to help him get back up.
There is a great value in having brothers and sisters in faith that you can call and they can pray for you. The best place you can be when in the midst of a fall is in church. That is not the time when you should run away from church but run to church. We, the body of Christ, have been born for adversity. When a brother or sister is there for you, that is, a true brother or sister is there through adversity in your life. The difference between falling and failing is that it only becomes failure if you do not bounce back from the fall. The recovery is always built into the fall and God will use the fall to bring glory to Him. The harder you fall the higher you will bounce.
2.  The Impact When contact is made with something in the fall you are going to get bent out of shape. He referenced a tennis ball that was hit by a tennis racquet. Either you will absorb or explode in the impact. It may look like you are losing but know that your turn is coming after the impact. You may lose a bit of shape in the impact and this is where a lot of small and not strong Christians quit at this point.
3.  Restoration If you can survive the initial impact the spirit of restoration causes you to push back at the force. The force on the outside is overcome by the source on the inside of you. An energy within is greater at one point. The force on the outside is conquered by the source on the inside. There is a point when He who is in you will start to push back. Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world.
The pastor then spoke forth that the Lord said today Faith is gonna cause you to receive restoration.
4.  Elevation When you are restored to your true identity the harder the force that thrust you down and impacted when elevated from the Lord will elevate you much higher.

Don't be afraid of a big slam that thrust you down. The harder the impact the higher the elevation. In your mind's eye visualize a tennis ball in your hand. Start off just exerting a little effort to release the ball to hit the ground, not much of a rebound bounce is there? Now, the same tennis ball with you exerting a bit more force. Does it not bounce back a little bit higher. Now follow through with the exercise and put a lot of effort and thrust into throwing the ball to the ground did you notice how high up it returns with the impact of the ground. So, a mighty thrust that threw you to the ground by the enemy is rebounded in the bounce by the one that lives inside of you, Jesus. Just watch what He can and will do in your life with the grand bounce back up. Higher and higher and higher than you even could imagine. That is the God that I serve, a more than enough Father in heaven that watches out for His own that are called by His name in the kingdom of God. May each and everyone of you recover with a mighty bounce back.

You should know me by now, this is not the end of this story. I head to the parking lot after church and as I approach my car I see something wedged by my front left tire. As I get closer and stoop down to see what it is you will never believe what was there just for me? Do you remember as a kid those really super bouncy bounce balls. They were like a ball on steroids. They are small in size but what a mighty impact recovery bounce once you let it hit the ground. That is exactly what was by my tire. I was tempted to bounce it but I constrained myself because I knew the power in the bounce in this sort of ball so I laid it by the curb so I did not run over it when I pulled my car out. I got in my car and I felt led, you know a Holy Spirit nudge to see if the family parked next to me wanted the super ball for their children. So, in faith, I asked them if they wanted the ball as a memory from the service today, that I found it by my tire and all of a sudden one of the children in the car said that it was their ball. I did hear Holy Spirit in approaching them and He was faithful to show me that I heard Him correctly in asking that question. God really is good all the time and all the time God is good.
If you've had a bad fall/impact that was a hard hit then start rejoicing for the bounce will be super high with the hand of God upon it. The word FIRE came forth in all of this as the word that was spelled out by using the first initial of the four components of the bounce:
Fall
Impact
Restoration
Elevation

Bounce Ball



Silent Gratitude Helps No One

Today is known as Thanksgiving in the United States of America. A day or I should say a holiday set apart in which you express your gratitude and what you are thankful for in your life. A lot of people gather around the table with family and friends to a feast that usually causes one to leave the table saying, "I think I ate too much." What are you grateful for in your life? Do you keep that gratitude silent and just grateful in your mind when you think about it or do you take the next step and tell those in your life that you are grateful for them and the influence they had or have in your life to help you walk a better life as a Christian? Gratitude when I looked it up simply means thankfulness. Do not let yourself go to the grave without telling the people that you love and cherish in your life how much you are grateful for the influence they had or have in your life which causes you to walk a better life than if they were not in your life.
If your heart truly is filled with love and compassion, you do know that love was placed there by Jesus. He is love and when you ask Him into your heart and life His love begins to flood your being. Let go of hurts you may have had as a child or a marriage that may have not worked out like you thought it would when you first got married. The past is the past and if you have truly asked forgiveness from Jesus your sins are now buried in the lake of forgetfulness never to be dragged out of that lake again. The only way they are is if you choose to drag them out again and re-hash the old history in your life. Why would you do that for life is but a vapor we are here one day and then gone the next day. Live your life with no haunting regrets and be open to receiving life into your life. Why would a person choose to see doom and gloom when if they just kept walking and turned a corner there is a bright and warm sun waiting to greet you and your life? You can either choose to sit in gloom and doom or see the brightness that is waiting to burst forth in your life.
I am most thankful for the opportunity to be able to share my life with wonderful people all around the world. Such a blessing that is to me and I trust that some portion of what I write touches your heart and life. If you have read any of my blogs you will know that my life as a writer started in a time of hardship and toil in my life and through the process I have grown to love the Lord and people and healing took place in my heart and life. I am not the same person like I was back then, when anger would just rise up in me and the slightest thing would trigger it. My anger came forth through hurtful words and swearing too. People that know me now would say they see me as a person that loves people and when I see a person I love to nurture them and lift them up. One thing I can honestly say through my experiences is that I am able to see a hurting heart and then the compassionate side of me goes into motion to reach out and ease the burden in that person. It truly costs you nothing other than time to take a moment or two out of your day to let someone know you are thinking of them or how much of a blessing they are to you. Do not let this day go by without telling someone you love them or what a blessing they are to you. Step outside of your box of comfort and reach out to another and trust me, in doing so you will find such satisfaction and your heart will leap with joy and even a love that you did not know existed prior to stepping out in faith in this arena. Compare it to this, you are married and there is love between a husband and wife and then you find out you are going to have a child. You begin to think to yourself odd thoughts like this, what if the baby is born and I won't know how to love it? Isn't it amazing when you look back now if you have children how each time a child was born the love sprung forth from your heart? That is the same thing waiting for you to happen when you step out of your comfort zone and told someone how much their time, finances, care, encouragement or whatever it is that they bring to your life is, you are grateful.
Being kind, compassionate, and loving too are all qualities that should be emulated in your life by following the example of Jesus. He did operate in them so how much more should we also emulate them if we call ourselves Christians, you know, those that follow Jesus Christ? Just a little piece of something to think about. Be blessed this very day and know that a heart filled with gratitude is a heart filled with love.
One more concluding thought, was compassion always a part of who I am? Yes, it is a part of who I am but I believe it was masked under hurt, pain and suffering. When  I was set free and found myself being healed from that stuff then compassion was free to be released in a greater capacity than prior to that since it was not being held down by what needed to be healed in me. Take a chance and find healing of your heart and let go of past hurts. When you release them you then have the capacity to truly heal and to let love into your life. Not just love but compassion will burst forth in a pronounced way if you will allow it to. Remember, do not just be the bearer of compassion into the lives of others but it is OK for you to be able to receive compassion from others.

PREACHERS Are You Preparing Your Congregations To Be Dressed For Church Or For Eternity?

This will be short and direct to the point. I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with a deacon today from a church located in Ohio, USA. This is what he shared with me, there are preachers out there that are only preparing their people to be dressed for church and not for eternity. What that means is are you only concerned with getting numbers of salvation's you brought into the church and then they go off on their own and try to live the Christian way of life? OR are you leading them to Jesus and then teaching them about Jesus and preparing them for eternity. Pretty serious stuff when you think about it right? Do they really know the meaning of what happened when Jesus died on the cross and shed His blood for you and me? Just a little something for you to think about and ponder on. Remember, to those that much has been given much will be required of you. Don't just lead them to Jesus and dump then on the church steps to fend for themselves. Train them up in who they are in Christ Jesus and let them walk in His ways so they will one day walk not only on the earth with Jesus but they will also walk on the streets of gold in heaven for all eternity with Jesus also. Don't let them go through the cracks of "churchiness" and fall into the lake of fire for all eternity.

The Elijah List - Prophetic Words and Prophecies

Very Good Word That Is Timely, No Pun Intended, From Chuck PierceThe Elijah List - Prophetic Words and Prophecies

It Is Time To Seek The Lord, How's Your Prayer Life?

This was the title of yesterday's devotional that I read. "It is time to seek the Lord" Hos 10:12
"The place of prayer is where you meet with God to be instructed, corrected, cleansed, loved, built up and prepared to do His will. It can be anywhere, but it must be somewhere! It can be anytime, but it must be a set time. Without prayer, what do you have to draw on? You'll work harder and harder and accomplish less and less because you're operating in your own strength. But after you've prayed you'll struggle less and accomplish more because you're operating in God's strength. If you're spending hours watching television but say you've no time to pray, "It is time to seek the Lord." If you're living comfortably with sins that once troubled you, "It's time to seek the Lord." If you're speaking words of bitterness towards someone who hurt you,"It's time to seek the Lord." If having material things consumes so much of your energy that there's none left for God and your family, "It's time to seek the Lord." The New Testament church grew so fast that the apostles found themselves with no time to pray. So they said, "It's not right" (Acts 6:2 NCV.) That's where you must start! If you've forsaken the place of prayer it will show up in your attitudes and actions. What did the apostles do? They said, "We will give ourselves continually to prayer" (Acts 6:4.) And look what happened: "The word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied" (Acts 6:7.) If you've gotten this far with little prayer, inconsistent prayer, or no prayer, think how far you'll get when you begin to pray."
Thought provoking isn't it? If you have slacked off a bit or a lot in you prayer time with the Lord I encourage you to step back into the fighting ring and win with Jesus. Sometimes when a lot is going on in your life it can be a bit of a struggle to say prayers that so quickly once flowed from you. In those moments do not be afraid to write down your prayers in advance when it is less hectic in your life and when it is time to pray you will then have a guide before you to help you. Do not just read it off repetitively but use it as a guide and flow from there. Great orators I am sure do not just get up to a microphone without preparation do they? The same should be with you when it is time for prayer come to the table prepared and then just flow with the move of Holy Spirit. You will be so blessed and surprised at times when He speaks to your heart. You , my friend, came prepared and He knows that. When you are reaching out to others with prayer He touches your heart and when you get that golden nugget like I shared with you earlier today you will remember it. You yielded to Him in obedience and He honors that. You see, when I got up early to write today I was not seeking anything I was saying OK I will write you flow through me and I will write. It is when you are in the flow of action when I have found that He drops these golden nuggets in your lap to receive. You did  not start out thinking, "I wonder what I can get from Him today." Cherish these moments you have with Holy Spirit.

What Is The Lord Speaking To Your Heart Today?

What is the Lord speaking to your heart today? Make sure it is not you speaking through your heart and you did seek the Lord to make sure it is He who speaks and not you speaking and saying it is He. Does that make sense? When you flow in the prophetic it can become very easy for you at times to be able to read a person's heart. You may say to yourself what does she mean by that statement? When Holy Spirit connects you with one and you are able to sense things about this person make sure they are not just natural connections you are sensing and seek the Lord to make sure it is He who is directing this sense in your spirit. You do know there are false prophets out there right? Think of it like spiritual witchcraft, yes, I said witchcraft. Not all that profess to flow in the prophetic are flowing from the throne room of God. They receive their knowledge or sensing abilities through the enemy. He does have his workers in the world and the spiritual realm that their very purpose is to throw you off of your very purpose. Do not be stupid or ignorant to this for allowing the wrong words in your life can shut off the true words from flowing and manifesting God's best for your life.
Years ago I was at church, yes, at church and a woman wanted to prophesy into my life. I knew what type of spirit she was operating from and when she began to speak everything inside of me rose up and said do not fall for this and do not receive these words. I began to tell this woman I do not receive the words and I refused to let her proceed. I even went to a friend of mine at the time and sought prayer to cut off those words and to give me a further explanation of what just happened. This is what happened, she was saying a Thus Saith The Lord to being able to read the desire of my heart at the time. Big difference, very big difference. You better make sure you are hearing from Holy Spirit when you are adding His name to something via prophetic. If you are in tune with people or there is a connection make sure you are not simply reading a persons heart or heart desires and adding a Thus Saith The Lord for you will be held accountable one day for that. It is not soothsaying or witchcraft the prophetic is of a serious nature and nothing to be toyed with or dealt with lightly.
I cannot stress this more than enough, really be cautious of the people that speak into your life. Do you know them? Do you know their lifestyle? Do you know that they are before the Lord seeking His face and fulfilling His will in their life? Do you see the fruits of the spirit operating in their life? Do you know for a fact that they are a true Christian living the Christian life or are they a spy in disguise Christian that tells you all the right things you want to hear and in reality they are just what I said. A spy in disguise. Remember even the elect will be deceived in the days in which we live in. Do not be so vulnerable to believe everything without research into their very life. Seek the Lord for He is faithful and He will shed light onto this situation or this particular person. If you seek Him and then choose to go against what He showed you in your heart or through the word of God then, you my friend, will be responsible for going against the word of God and you are also responsible for opening up doors that never should have been opened up. Very not good place to find yourself at.
A true word from a messenger of God can set you free to walk through doors that only God has opened up for you and will keep open up for you. A false word from a messenger of the enemy in disguise as a true messenger of the Lord will send you spiraling downward at a very rapid speed. That would be the case in which closed doors from the Lord have now been opened to you as you find yourself going through that closed door(s) by God that is now opened by the enemy to send you far off the course you were so smoothly walking on prior to this. The enemy is there to steal, kill and destroy what God has for you. Which is abundance, life and destiny. You know you are closer to destiny than you think when the wolf shows up in sheep's clothing to bring a false word to you. Let me describe what happened to me to help you discern what may have just happened to you. A person comes up to you and starts telling you or under the guise of prophesying things into your life. They sure do sound great and wow how did they know that about me or my business or my desire to do that? That is the trap, you think this surely must be of God for they would not know these things if it was not from Him. They are just capable of reading your heart. Everything inside of you starts to feel good and warm but if you truly listened to the words and looked them in the eyes as they spoke them you would know the difference. I can only describe it like this. Yes, it sounds great at first. It is meant to be so as to flatter you and let your guard be dropped. Once your guard is dropped and you are sucked in you are not as keen to the spirit of God's warning flashing all around you to not receive the word or words for they are false words. Sometimes you are able to hear the physical words of flatter but inside you everything is screaming to you to not take the bait. Follow the warning for it is so much easier to not receive the words and cut them off then to receive the words with confusion now entering your life.
The test of knowing if it was a true word from the Lord...Did it agree with your witness inside of you, did it bring confusion to your life or was it for edification and confirmation? When a false word is about to come into you life it is because the enemy encamps around you because you are very near to embarking upon something that will bring glory to God. Please also know this too that just because a person flows in the prophetic does not mean that they are always 100% right on target also. If connection is there with a person and they are sensing something or called to intercede for a person, they may have just been called to intercede on their behalf and they then took it a step further and shared it with them. We are not perfect people and just because there was an urgency to pray does not necessarily mean that you were to contact the person. Did you ever feel a wave of peace just overcome you? I can only describe it as incredible love that floods your being as if warmth and peace just saturate you. I can actually feel this at times. I did not get any confirmation that someone prayed for me, no one called me or sent me a message saying they just prayed for me. When it happens I just know that I was prayed for I really do know that. So, the next time you wake up early in the morning did you ever stop to wonder if it was not for you to pray for someone else but it was in fact them praying for you? Just a golden nugget thought I just received from Holy Spirit as I was writing. See, it really is good to follow the lead of Holy Spirit because when you follow through and you are not seeking anything by doing that He just may drop one of those precious nuggets right in your lap. Thank you Holy Spirit and continue to teach me your ways and your wisdom.

How Are The Dead Raised? With What Kind Of Body? 1 Col 15:35 NIV

It was a gorgeous, sunny and pleasantly warm Fall day today where I live.

You may be wondering what I did after I was writing so early in the morning today. I could not go back to sleep right after writing so I prayed in the Holy Spirit and eventually fell asleep. I think I slept for 2-3 hours and then up for church. As I was getting ready I read my daily devotional for today and I am going to share it with you. This is how it appeared in the devotional:
"Ever wonder what your heavenly body will be like? The Bible gives us three answers to the questions, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" First, it speaks of anatomy: "Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another fish another" (Col 15:39 NIV) Just as fish are designed to handle the pressures of the ocean and birds are designed to fly, your heavenly body will be custom-made for eternity. (Imagine traveling not merely at the speed of light, but the speed of thought!) Next it speaks of astronomy: "The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. So will it be with the resurrection of the dead" (1 Co 15:41-42 NIV) There will be degrees of honor and differences of reward when we get to heaven. Your service now is what determines your status then (See Ro 2:6) Finally, it speaks of agriculture: "It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power"  (Co 15:43)The old Saxon word for cemetery means "God's acre." How wonderful; Christians don't get buried, they get planted! There's a bulletin board in the Mayo Clinic which reads: "Cancer is limited: it cannot cripple love, it cannot shatter hope, it cannot kill friendship, it cannot shut out memories, it cannot silence courage, it cannot invade the soul, it cannot reduce eternal life, it cannot quench the spirit, and it cannot lessen the power of resurrection."
Pretty thought provoking when you think about it huh? I then went to church and was blessed to sit under the anointed message of a pretty well know preacher. This was a guest preacher that I have had the pleasure of sitting under their anointing in the past. He spoke out of Joshua 5:13. It may be a little sketchy sounding but I am going to share my notes that I took today to help you break the spirit of intimidation in your life. You cannot win any battle you're not enjoined in, things that are good in your life you have to fight for, the enemy will intimidate you to not fight. If you get intimidated you leave the battlefield and lose the fight. You can be intimiated out of what God wants for us. Joshua was not intimidated by following after Moses when he died. Moses led them up to the promised land, Joshua led them into the promised land. Their first battle was in Jericho. God never promises you something that He does not prepare for. Action is required of you to make it happen. An action on earth is responded by action in heaven. You can't conqeor what you do not confront. When you get intimidated out you'll postpone what's yours. If you fail a test you will take it over and over and over again until you pass it. March on the problems and do not worry how God's going to do it. Joshua lifted up his eyes and looked and saw how big the walls were. Angels with swords have always been been God's guardians. Joshua was about 80 years old this time. The angels were waiting for Joshua to get close enough. Joshua's approach to the problem is what triggered the angels into action. A man with a promise in his heart is more powerful than a man with something in his hand. Your presence with a problem is what activates God to solve it.Your worhsip gains intensity as time goes on. When you worship angels go to war and it activates angelic warriors to fight on your behalf.
Worship should be a part of your life. Not just on Sunday morning at church. Worship should be in your heart. Do you ever wake up with a song in your heart? I posted on my blog the other day a song by The Crabb Family, Through The Fire. I highly encourage you to go back and listen to it. That has been the song in my heart for several days now. A worhshiper hears the heartbeat of God and cannot seem to let go of it. As I was driving into church today I felt the presence of Holy Spirit in the car with me as I listened to and even sang sometime's in my mind and sometime's the words out loud as I was listening to the Crabb Family. They are known as Southern Gospel music but that should not matter at all. It is not just the melody of a song. The meat of the worship is contained in the words sung unto the Lord through their voices. Let Holy Spirit lead you to listen and worship this week through Christian artists that you may normally not listen to. Maybe a certain type of genre, just trust Holy Spirit and He will lead you to a worship artist or two that will not only bless you but also bless the Lord as you worship Him. Let me include the scripture that I made reference to about Joshua 5: 13-15 "When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you one of us or one of our enemies?" He answered, "Neither one! I am here as the commander of the Lord's army." Immediately, Joshua bowed with his face touching the ground and worshiped. He asked, "Sir, what do you want to tell me?" The commander of the Lord's army said to Joshua, "Take off your sandals because this place where you are standing is holy." So Joshua did as he was told."

In conclusion, do not be indimidated by your problems, stand strong and confront them so your battle is won and what has been tucked away as a promise in your heart can be fulfilled.

I Was Just Plain Exhausted Last Night. Should Have Wrote This Then But Fell Asleep.

As you can see from this post's title, I was truly exhausted yesterday and I knew in my heart I had to write and where to search for the writing that was going to be published. Did you ever have such a day that you were just physically and then mentally tired at the end of that day? That was me yesterday. I still came home and prepared a new dish for dinner I wanted to try. It was very good. I then sat down to watch a bit of the British (BBC) sit com's on the public broadcasting station. I did and I apparently fell asleep. My plan was to write. Life has been very busy for me and I should know better than to neglect taking time for me to relax. When you are exhausted your body will cause you to take time out to get rest did you know that? See, if I would have wrote this last evening I would now be sleeping like the rest of you at 3:07 AM but as you can see, I am writing while you all are resting. Even though it is early in the dawn of the new day that will be on the horizon I must share with you that there is incredible peace as I sit at the computer to write. At 3 AM there are less distractions than say at noon do you agree? I was so tired yesterday that I knew I should have walked but my body was just saying to me too tired too tired so I stayed in and rested. Oddly enough though, I have learned that if I would have went walking I probably would have been revived somewhat. Oh well, just gotta keep moving onward and not regret yesterday because yesterday is now in the books of history and a new story is being created in this new dawn of a new day.
All I sensed yesterday was that I was to share one of my writings with you. I opened up my file in which I titled it The Book and began to search through writing that have not been posted yet. The only thing I knew when I opened it up was to search out the next writing that was not published yet. You may wonder to yourself how does she know what has and has not been published yet? That is a simple answer, I place an "X" by the date of my writing to let me know that I already published it on my blog page. Now, if you should ever come across a writing and you think to yourself, "Hum, I think this writing sound familiar." it may just be that. I could have possibly posted it without marking it with an "X."  If you should see a writing that was published before being published again that is also quite possible too. You see, sometimes Holy Spirit wants to speak to the very person that will read a blog that particular day and to hear those words that were written. You see, Holy Spirit is very wise and knows all right? There may have been a particular title of a writing in which I yield to Him even in the creating of the titles for my blog being published that He wants me to re-publish because it just may be the title that catches someones attention while searching. It may be the very words used in that very title that will cause the very person that it was written for to read it. I have published things from the 1990's on this blog. Think of it like this...I may have been led to write years ago for this moment in time for you to read and your heart be touched by Holy Spirit. That is how much He loves you and cares for you. It is not a coincidence that I fell asleep last night and then got up to go to bed at 2AM for it was in the getting up that stirred my heart and remembrance to my mind to write. No coincidence at all. I do not believe in coincidences I believe in faith and I pray daily to be used by Holy Spirit to be a conduit in someones life to bless them. You, yes you, the very one reading this blog today or tonight depending on where you live in the world, was written for you to read and be blessed with and to minister to you.
My Father in heaven is ever faithful. He placed you upon my heart to not be able to rest completely until I wrote and shared with you what was to be written for you. What I share with you today was written 10/21/1996, just for you to read this very day in your life. Do not tell me that the God I serve is not all knowing and is everywhere at all times, He is and He stirred me to write over 14 years ago for this very day in time for you to read. No coincidence at all.
Please know this about me too. It will go either one way or the other after I complete writing this. I have experienced both of these scenarios, 1. I will fall right back to sleep and wake up refreshed or 2. I am so awake that I cannot fall back to sleep but guess what I will still be refreshed in the morning and have lots of energy. If I am wide awake I am most sure that I will be called to pray in the Holy Spirit for those that need prayer. Do you know what it means when I refer to praying in the Holy Spirit?  It was explained to me that it is your heavenly prayer language in which God is praying through you. If you are not filled with the Holy Spirit I would seek that because when you pray in the spirit satan does not have access or knowledge of what you are praying. Did you know that? Have you ever been in a situation in which someone is placed upon your heart for you to pray for them. You may not even know why they come to your memory or how to pray for them that is when you would operate most likely in praying in the spirit. Be cautious and mindful of this also, everyone that says they pray in the spirit may not be praying in the true Holy Spirit. Since I operate in deliverance ministry I am aware of this. At the end of a ministry session I ask if they are filled with the spirit. If they say yes then I ask them to pray out loud for a few minutes in their prayer language and as Holy Spirit leads me I tell them to stop and repeat after me these words,"Jesus Christ has come in the flesh." If they can say them without pausing or having trouble saying these words then hat is the test that their language is authentic. If they cannot say them or have a hard time speaking them then that is a warning flag that the language they thought they have been operating in is a false one. You know satan likes to mimic the things of God and if he can fool people into thinking they are speaking in God's prayer language but in reality they are speaking in his language he is ahead. Holy Spirit is always many steps ahead of him so that is why his false language will be found out and cast out of the person so they can be filled with the true heavenly language and not a false spirit in which they were operating in unknown to them. I, myself, also periodically check my own prayer language to make sure it is pure and flowing from heaven. I am not above anyone else in thinking that I am fine for I need to know that when I feel led to pray for someone in the spirit that it is with pureness and truly from heaven. Be very cautious with whom prays for you do not be fooled when they said to you that they prayed in the spirit. You really need to know it is from heaven and not false and deceptive flowing from hell. 
Thank you Holy Spirit, I just tested my heavenly language right now and I can report to you that I passed the test. Satan thinks he is sly and smart but never underestimate the power of God He is always so much further head of the plans that the enemy devises. Do not be afraid to test you prayer language now...pray in the spirit either out loud or quietly until Holy Spirit prompts you to stop and when you stop then repeat these words Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. If you were able to say them without hesitation or any stopping of the words coming forth then you should be OK. If you were not able to do that then lets take care of that right now. Say this after me..."Spirit of False Tongues you have been found out I bind and gag you and cut off any and all communication. I encircle you with a drop of Jesus' blood and any other spirits connected to you line up together like a chain link fence and I cast you to the dry, arid, uninhabited places of the earth never to return again." now repeat after me these words, "Holy Spirit now fill me with your true tongues prayer language to be filled in the areas that were now set free from the false being removed form me." Open your mouth and speak forth the heavenly words and test the spirit again. Keep praying and when Holy Spirit nudges you to stop then say Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. If you are now OK then great and thank Holy Spirit. If there is still a stumbling block you can try again but I would highly recommend to possibly go to someone in your church that operates in the deliverance ministry to help you at this point. Remember to use wisdom in whom you ask to pray for you too.

10/21/1996


Time flies by so quickly now My children in Christ. Make the most of your lives upon the earth for it is in your kind and generous actions and deeds that you are preparing for the kingdom of heaven. How many of you have shed all the excess in your lives? The things and toys that are not needed to survive this lifetime. Give from your open hearts to others in need around you. For when your life is completed upon the earth, all that is of worldliness shall not matter…I am being shown a big, full tree. A very strong wind comes and breaks off many of the branches and the leaves are no longer upon this tree. It is all sucked up into a funnel cloud, gone, vanished, before your eyes.
This My ever-blessed children in Christ is what I speak of. You cannot and will not take with you these things that you have collected upon the earth. They will stay behind, eventually break down, and no longer be of any value or worth. Waste not your efforts and time on gathering things of pleasure, but gather things of worth. A smile you share with one that is bewildered or lost on their spiritual journey. The hug that shows and tells another they are loved and cared for. The peace that fills your being when you are in My presence as you read Scripture and then go forth and share the knowledge from the bible. These, My children, these are the things I speak of that will bring you to eternal happiness and peace. Go forth now and spread the good news “I am the bread of life and all who eat of Me shall live forever.”

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TRUST

I spoke with a woman today and at the close of our conversation I asked her what her pastor has been preaching on to the congregation. She responded that he has been preaching on Trust. She jogged my memory to look up my writing on trust and I am going to post it as a word of encouragement to you. So many times when I seek the Lord the only word I hear is TRUST. I know that there are times when I would like a little bit more of a word than trust. I have learned throughout the years that it really is OK to receive that word from Him because you do realize that our walk with Him is via trust and faith. The faith walk is not by knowing in advance the particulars of the way to the outcome right? Faith is trusting without seeing in the natural and knowing all is well and the outcome is favorable. Favorable because you have that peace that passes all understanding even though the circumstances do not merit peace, you have peace. That is God. Only can one walk this life of faith with the assurance that at the end of the road of life you will be in heaven for all eternity, that is, if you put your trust in Jesus and what he did when He died on the cross for your very life so you would not have to spend eternity in hell. Take a leap of faith today and trust God this very day and invite Jesus into your heart to wash away your sin and make you born again with a peace that will just overwhelm you. Truly, it will overwhelm you because there may seem to be confusion all around you and you have peace in the midst of the storm. If you invited Jesus into your heart and life I now welcome you into the family of believers.

Trust Prophetic Word

7/22/08

Transgressions
Run
Under
Structured
Teachers

As you go forth and anoint with oil and teach and impart and release into people, they are then set free of bondage and are delivered from it all. As one is set free then they must be filled with the word of God and have hands laid upon them to impart what needs to be called forth and activated in their lives.
A teacher is one that is in a constant state of absorbing knowledge and they themselves are also open to reprimand and have an open heart to also have knowledge imparted to them. As one is set free from all of the “junk” in their lives it is important for them to be filled in the now voided areas of them.
“It is a time and place that we are in right now that teachers are scarcer than you think. You think they are everywhere training and equipping not only themselves but also the body of Christ. It is not necessarily how you perceive it My child it is the opposite. They are there and they are posturing themselves to receive and be trained but they then hoard what they receive and are sort of “stingy” with the releasing it to My people saith the Lord. There will be judgment for that.
Those that freely give of themselves and impart it to My people do this in a manner currently where it is not being broadcast to the church, communities, or nations. They just do it because they love to give of themselves and the knowledge that has been imparted to them. There is a time that is here now on the horizon that they will be raised up by Me saith the Lord and the greedy teachers will be placed lower than them to have a chance to be restored themselves and repent and then go forth with power and might to impart this time. It is not all about ‘Who laid hands on me and delivered me.’ It is all about a right heart and the motives inside their heart. That will be the group of teachers that I will literally spring board off into the lives of the captives to set them free.”

Have You Been Water Baptized? It Was 13 years Ago To The Date Yesterday

This evening I went to a church that truly flows in the movement of Holy Spirit. These are not just words I am putting down for the sake of writing, this church truly yields to Holy Spirit. This evening was water baptisms, there were so many being baptized and such great testimonies of the people that were being baptized. One really stands out, it was a man that was a Buddhist for many years and it was either family or friends that drew him to this church and bit by bit by bit a true conversion took place and this man is all the way with Jesus. Some of the testimonies were truly incredible. What I liked most that was most refreshing was that the pastor still conducted the baptisms on the platform. Each person that was to be baptised was able to share with the pastor holding the microphone and the congregation a testimony. He asked them each if they had Jesus in their hearts and then they were baptized
One was a bit comical. Comical in the sense the way the words came out in the explanation. You just don't hear of getting baptized by a pastor that was drunk. The woman's testimony was that she was water baptized years ago at a church bar-b-que baptism and the sad part of the comical portion was that the pastor was drunk and she did not think that she felt it was a valid baptism back then and she was water baptized now. Why would a pastor be drinking to begin with and let alone operating under the influence of alcohol when performing a baptism? Crazy isn't that? It sure seems crazy to me. That woman trusted years ago and then to carry that unsureness for all those years. That pastor needs people to pray for them, maybe the pastor has changed since then.
Holy Spirit was moving is such a way this evening and what I loved about it is that the pastor did not cut off the movement of Him. He even had the praise team sing a song and he himself sang a song the Lord put on his heart for the person that was about to be baptized it was about freedom and grace if I remember correctly. There were a few people left to be baptized and the pastor felt the unction to pause and do an altar call and it was so amazing the amount of people that responded and came to the altar to receive Jesus. If that wasn't great there is even more...after the altar call there were a few people that felt led by Holy Spirit to get baptized tonight. The pastor then baptized a few more even though he dismissed the church already, people stayed to worship and witness the baptisms.
All of this incredible freedom in church during water baptism has caused me to ponder on my own water baptism. I was born and raised Catholic so you probably know that I was baptized as a baby. When I became born again I felt a tugging at my heart to be baptized as an adult. I was and it was back in the day when the church I attended allowed people to share their testimony. Like I saw tonight and family and friends were allowed to gather around at the altar when you were being baptized. One of my children wanted to attend my baptism and no one else from my family wanted to participate.I understand my other child not feeling comfortable attending because the mother they knew as a child was not the same person she was back then so this may have been a bit much for that child  at their age back then to feel comfotable about. I had friends attend along with my child. This child was much younger then and all I remember was the innocence of a child, my child. When I came up from under the water I heard the voice of my child singing a song to their mother in the microphone. I thought to myself Oh My Gosh what is being sung? Now, when I look back on the song my child made up themself and sang to me it was truly of a prophetic nature and Holy Spirit moved through them in their young age. Now, lets see if I remember the words...
"I bind and I rebuke you
I bind and I rebuke you
I bind and I rebuke you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ
I told you once, I told you twice now you gotta pay the price I bind and I rebuke you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. "
This was a song this child sang forth no music or instruments just their voice singing in the microphone. Little did they know back then that their mother was being raised up for the deliverance ministry. The people that were being water baptized with me on the same day all wore casual type of clothes. I did not. I felt led to wear something beautiful and to dress up for this. I wore a beautiful teal sweater that had pearls sewn on it and I even had teal dress pants to coordinate and I also wore pearls too. I was not doing it to be flashy or different, in my heart I felt to dress for the occasion and I did. Back then that church also did something very special, a photographer captured your expression when you rose up from under the water. At the baptism service tonight I was reminded of that for they had a person taking pictures of each one being baptized. If you were baptized as a child and Holy Spirit is moving upon your heart to be immersed as an adult I would highly recommend it for there is something about coming up from the water that makes you so clean and full of life. I thought of it like this,going down under the water is a symbol of leaving your past sins/regrets under the water and when you come up you are washed clean and your sins are forgotten in the sea of forgetfulness never to be remembered again
Trust Holy Spirit and take the plunge if He is directing you to. He just wants to get you set free from what is holding you back to achieve all the fullness that is planned for your life. If you knew in advance what awaited you and your life after you were water baptized I believe you would run to your pastor and ask to be water baptized. Trust and He (Holy Spirit) will show you the way.
I found the Certificate of Baptism I received on that day, these are the words that were written on it:

"In obedience to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ and in imitation of His example _________________ was buried with Him in baptism November 9, 1997.

People wake up what are the odds of this? I just pulled out my certificate of baptism to share with you for this writing on this particular day only to realize that the anniversary of my very own baptism was just yesterday. Holy Spirit never ceases to amaze me. The service that I attended tonight was not a coincidence that it was all about baptisms. I do believe Holy Spirit keeps showing me the way. This church in not right around the corner from me it is about 45 minutes away. Have you ever heard the expression "A church alive is worth the drive." It is ever so true. Thank you Lord, all I can say is THANK YOU.

WHEN THINGS SETTLE DOWN

I was just telling someone about how I seem to be so busy anymore that I find my writing has not been as often as it use to be. I know my calling is to write. I was so tired last evening that I sat down to watch some TBN and I was watching Mark Chironna and the next thing I know is that I fell asleep and I was up at 2AM. Not the easiest thing to do at 2AM to go back to sleep. So I prayed and got caught up with some correspondence. As I was about to settle back down to sleep I read today's reading from a daily devotional I received from church. After I read it I felt the nudge of Holy Spirit to go ahead and post what was written. Possibly a reminder for others, including myself, to slow down and take a breather now and then. Do not let things consume you to the extent that you will be so far gone that there is no returning back to a life filled with balance.
Excerpt From Daily Devotional
Tuesday November 9, 2010
"Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom." PS 90-12 NLT
"He logged twelve-hour days, and sometimes weekends. Even when he wasn't working he was thinking about work. His wife tried to slow him down. He knew they weren't as close as they once had been. He hadn't intended to drift away, it's just that she always seemed to want time, and that's the one thing he didn't have to give. He was vaguely aware that his kids were growing up and he was missing it. They complained about books he wasn't reading to them, games he wasn't playing with them and trips he wasn't taking with them. After a while they stopped complaining or expecting their lives might be different. I'll be more available when things settle down,' he thought. When he felt guilty he told himself, "I'm doing it for them." His wife asked him about going to church but he said, "There'll be plenty of time for that sort of thing when things settle down." His doctor told him he had elevated blood pressure and high cholesterol-but he told himself there'd be plenty of time for that when things settled down. Quietly, efficiently, irresistibly, his body was preparing to do him in. One morning his wife woke at 3AM and he was not beside her. She went downstairs to drag him to bed and saw him sitting still in front of the computer, his head hanging low. She touched him but he didn't respond. When the paramedics got there they told her he had suffered a massive heart attack. Things had finally settled down!"

I do not think I need to add anything to this, it was already spoken and the message rings loud and clear. Take time to rest.

I Saw A White Dove Perched On A Light Pole The Other Morning

I was driving and while at a traffic light I looked up because something caught my attention, a white dove flew and rested on the pole by the traffic light. Now, I have seen several morning doves and I know they are grayish in color. This was a first for me to see a white dove because you just do not have that as an everyday occurrence in your life. I have seen white doves before just not perched on a traffic light pole. I just knew in that moment that Holy Spirit uses things in my life to tell me it is OK and you are on track with life. Later that evening I was blessed to hear a sermon preached at a church were the word of God moves forward and there is awesome praise/worship too. Have you ever been to a church in which the presence of God lingers in the sanctuary after the preaching is done? You know, the praise team stays on the platform and they continue to praise and worship even after the people are dismissed? That is when you get to experience the presence of God because there really is a remnant of people that are willing to stay and soak in the presence of God and to worship Him for who He is and with thankfulness in their hearts. Not seeking anything from Him just blessed to be in His presence and peace. As you already know by now, I am a worshiper I truly am. Not in the fanatical sense but just a heart that rejoices when I can worship Him with my song and expression deep from within me released as a fragrance to rise up to Him.
I believe the music was always inside of me, it has been over the last years or so that it has come forth outside of me. How can I describe this to you. Have you ever felt so at peace inside of you that you begin to just rest in that peace? I get that very presence when I worship Jesus. In those moments there are no distractions in my life I just want to reach heaven and bless Him. Not seeking anything at all from Him just so amored with Him and His presence that peace floods my being and I just know All Is Well. Later that evening as I was driving home it was already dark and the presence still lingered with me. As I was driving I was overcome with crying as I was driving. Not in a bad way it is in a very good way. I still felt the presence of the Lord and being in His presence caused gentle tears to just flow. I can describe them as tears of joy and thanksgiving. He loves you so very much that He is right there in the car with you or wherever you may be and you allow Him in. Try abandoning your thoughts and wishes and desires and your never ending list of things you want from God or want Him to do for you and just absorb His beauty and peace. You will feel so revived when you allow this to happen in your life. I think I have been so busy lately that I did not allow myself to do this and that very day was the day set aside for me to re-connect if that makes sense.
I believe it was that very day that I got a gardenia flower. Did you know that I love gardenias? As beautiful as they are and as pleasing as they are to the senses of the fragrance that emits from them, they are a very delicate flower. They are so beautiful to look at with their milky white color as the bud slowly begins to bloom.

 As the flower opens up a few petals at a time the fragrance begins to release itself. I have noticed that as the first few petals open up they are the very ones that begin to get brown tinges on the edges as the other petals begin to open up in the process. I still have the gardenia in water and when I looked at it today the fragrance is still as beautiful as ever and a few of the petals are now browning even more. You see, if I would have not kept the flower in water it would have already been dried up by this point in time.

Your walk with the Lord can be compared to this delicate yet highly fragrant flower...Do not let your worship burst forth just at church and then dry up midweek. Let it be slowly released and sweetly ring into the ears of Jesus. I am sure if you really think about it daily there is always something you can be thankful for in your heart right? Do you have a gift/talent that is in operation in your life? What about the fact that you woke up in the morning and the breath of life is still with you. Did you ever think that you slept through the night with no tragedy in your life? Maybe you had an unexpected thing happen to you that day but even in the midst of this thing you were able to stay calm and feel the presence of God and peace flooded your soul. There is always something in which you can thank the Lord for on a daily basis, do and you will end up getting blessed in the long run by doing that. Did you see the sun rise today or set? Did you give your simile away to someone or did they smile at you today? Do you know that you are loved? Just have a thankful heart and that is praise in a big ole nutshell...giving thanks.
I took a few pictures of the gardenia resting in the hands of my angel figurine. I noticed that on her shoulder rests a white dove. Do you think Holy Spirit truly was speaking to me that day first with the white dove at the traffic light and then with the very figurine in which the gardenia was displayed for all to share its beauty? Peace flood your hearts this day or night depending on where you live around the world.

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Do Not Overlook Your Next Step On Your Journey As Stepping Onto A Pebble To Your Next Stepping Stone.

A very wise Pastor shared this concept with me recently, I liked how it sounded and then when I further contemplated about it, it bore witness with my spirit. We always think that the next portion of our spiritual journey is to take a big leap or bound but did you ever stop and think about this thought...your next step in faith may just be a pebble that you need to advance to in order to put you in direct line for the next stepping stone in your life. The definition of pebble is a small stone worn smooth, round by erosion. The definition of stone is a small piece of rock. We so easily tend to discount the pebble steps in our lives because we want to get directly to the stepping stone platform that allows us balance in our lives. The next time you have a decision to make seek Holy Spirit to specifically ask Him if this next portion is a pebble or stepping stone in your life.
Do not discount a small step in faith because there is something special about that step in faith for it puts you in line for the big step onto the solid rock which is Jesus. His angels will direct you if you ask them to be a part of your life and that you minister together to the heirs of salvation and the saints, both new and seasoned in their faith walk. You probably have taken far more "pebble" steps in your life if you go back and think about it. We tend to remember the stepping stone markers in our lives because they are usually some sort of significant part of your life. Just the nature alone of the description of a pebble lets you know that you probably take more of these steps in faith, for it states that it is a small stone worn smooth. It is worn smooth because of being used right? The next business venture or ministry position may just be a pebble so do not discount it since it is not of some magnanimous size. You may have three choices placed before you and the world would choose number one because in their eyes it would appear to be the sure thing. Not so in the kingdom of God. Holy Spirit can place before you three options and the one that seems to be the least likely in the eyes of man will end up being the very one that God has chosen for you. Are you willing to seek Holy Spirit and trust Him and step out in faith onto the pebble? Remember it's nature is that it is small so it is not meant for you to stay standing on it forever or even for a long period of time for a pebble will not hold the weight for a long period of time like a stepping stone would do. Think about the name, stepping stone, geared to hold the weight of your destiny. Even in that concept a stepping stone is not used for one to stand on for a long period of time. It is used as the catalyst to launch you out into your next phase in your life.
Some stepping stones are very plain and practical in the nature of how they were created. Then there are beautiful and ornate stepping stones. Both have the same purpose to get you to the next step. The difference being, that one is just created for the very purpose no frills just step on it and advance. The ornate stepping stone is created for one to view and it's beauty may be the very thing that causes you to be drawn to it. The beauty does not add to the purpose of its creation does it? Keep seeking Holy Spirit and He will direct your path. If a pebble is missed as an opportunity in your life it can then be a stumbling block in your life. For you see, you are able to see a stepping stone before you but a pebble is much smaller in nature and if you are not paying attention that simple, little pebble can be in your way on the path to destiny but with you overlooking it it can now be something that can cause you to stumble. It is best to follow Holy Spirit direction and use the pebble in advancement then to try and out smart Him and trip on the very item that was right before you to advance.
I trust you will now think a bit differently about pebble steps in your life and the value and importance of them too.

Today Would Have Been Our 30th Wedding Anniversary

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You would never know it by the portrait pose but it was cold and windy that day.







Thirty years ago I walked down the aisle and we were pronounced husband and wife. It truly was a fairy tale type of wedding reception. Approximately 100 guests arrived at the reception at a set time that was scheduled earlier to enjoy a sit down meal. Then the rest of the guests arrived a bit later and enjoyed a beautiful buffet. The sit down meal included shrimp cocktail and prime rib also. I believe cherries jubilee was served also. The first group of guests were also invited to partake in the buffet if they so chose to. We had a live Croatian band that came from Pittsburgh, PA and many people enjoyed themselves immensely. I can say this as a fact because those were the comments that were shared with us.
If you have read any of my blogs you would know by now that I am a "detail oriented" person by nature. When it came to my wedding I was not wrapped up in the menu, I think my mother chose that. I was concerned with a few things that were important to me. The wedding ceremony/mass; I wanted unique flowers for our wedding since I just love Fall it had to be reflected in the flowers; if my memory serves me correctly we had a banana nut wedding cake. I was not only concerned about the quality of the cake itself I also wanted a unique looking cake too. I am all about setting a mood or atmosphere so my cake had candles that they lit just before we did the cake cutting ceremony. One more important thing, I wanted to get a picture of my wedding veil from behind. Why that? I just liked it and so many photographers seem to focus on the front of a wedding dress that they forget the beauty of the veil too. One more detail was that we followed through with a custom known as the "Unveiling." You may ask yourself what is that? Simple, the couple sits together and a certain song is played as the maid of honor takes off the wedding veil of the bride and a red rose is placed in her hair and the groom's boutonniere is removed and replaced with a red rose. Now, this is suppose to be a serious type of ceremony/custom but I do remember that was not the case. Everyone in the wedding party was having a good time so there were no tears, just smiles. Our bridal party consisted of 5 groomsmen and 5 bridesmaids along with a ring bearer. The only thing missing was a flower girl or two because there just were no little girls of that age in the family.
Now, if I were to get married, there are young ladies in the family that would make simply beautiful flower girls possibly junior bridesmaids and there would be a very cute young ring bearer too.
As you know I like to back up my stories with portraits/pictures and today would be no exception to that. May you enjoy a piece of my former wedding day with a peek into the past.
You may wonder why I do not show pictures of the bride and groom. I feel that the privacy of my former husband should be honored.