I spent a week with one of my children this past week. When you live alone you adjust to living that life with peace and solitude. A simple life I mean, yes, a simple life. When family comes to visit it brings out the adventure in life and exploring together then when going on adventures alone with Holy Spirit. We did some fun things together. We toured The Hermitage, home of President Jackson. I forfeited going to the upstairs portion of the tour and sat on the ground level and read a booklet explaining with pictures also of what was upstairs. There is talk that the whole house is haunted. Let me share what I witnessed. You know young children are sensitive to evil spirits. There was this young one that wanted no part of being in that house with loud crying. The parents took the child out of the home tour. Do you think it is possible that the young child just may have sensed something not quite right?

Saturday night just when I fell asleep doesn't my child's cat decided to jump on the bed and plop down on me. That startled me and I pushed in a gentle manner the cat off of me. I do not like that sort of stuff. Then I had to deal with trying to fall back to sleep. I have to admit not so much a cat person. I really am not geared to have pets. I did it and have no interest in being tied down when I want to go somewhere. It is like having a child again. So, I then wake up from a prophetic dream of destiny for me. I would have been quite happy with a dream like that in the past months, but I did not want to deal with that in my life now. I rebuked the dream and said I did not want it and to erase all memory of the dream from my life. If you had this dream maybe you would have liked it, but I am a new person now that is not easily hood winked and not going to fall for that stuff in this new year we are approaching.

There is deceit in the church and when you try to flush it out it is as if you are placing a wet blanket on the ministry and maybe they just don't want to deal with deceit. I was once told that stuff could be going on in a church/ministry and even though it is in existence the main leader(s) just don't want to know about it. How could that be. If things are wrong doesn't the leadership sense it somehow. I would think so wouldn't you. I also heard from someone that was able to see behind the scenes of ministries how they work. They put out pleas for the people to donate and they say it is because they are low on finances and in some cases, it is a plea to get money because someone in the ministry wants to do a certain project and they tug at the heart strings of donors to donate to the ministry. I don't like that a bit. If there is a project, then raise the money first then delve into the project with financing all in place. I have heard ministers say they are stepping out in faith sometimes before even the money is raised to back the project. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse so to speak. I want nothing to do with ministry if this sort of stuff goes on. It was also shared with me how some ministries ask you to send in your prayer requests and they will pray over them and @ times donations are attached to the request sent in. So, believe it or not, some ministries place all of the requests in a box or container and they are all lumped together when someone prays over the box/container. What if someone is simply believing that a minister is taking their prayer request into their hands and actually praying over that specific prayer request. When I found out things like this, can you see why I don't want to have anything to do with ministry.

Then from what I understand you know when you send an email to a minister but get no response at all? Has that ever happened to you? Especially if you have a concern about something going on in the ministry. Well, apparently someone glances over the emails and if things like a donation is being made or some great testimony is being shared, they then may send that to the minister but all others the minister really never sees. You are just a nobody sending an email and why would they take the time to respond. Oh, I forgot, no money sent in then no response given. Why waste their time and effort. Then take caution in a ministry if you start to see a staff member that has been given a little more authority or free reign to rule and their ego starts to be revealed. Things like forgetting who they actually work for, and they begin to promote themselves or their ministry before the actual minister themself they work for. If you give them enough time and let them talk you will begin to see it manifest. Sort of reminds me of when satan started acting that way in heaven and God would not put up with that at all and he was thrown out of heaven like lightning and fell to the earth. Use caution if you are seeing things like this. It starts off subtly then gets more aggressive with each new inch of power given to them. These are the type of people that can bring down a ministry and it is too late once the damage has been done. When you start hearing staff members using the term "I" a lot then your red flag warning signs should be going off loud and clear that there is a traitor in our midst trying to fulfill their own agenda under the guise of doing it for the betterment of the ministry.

Use wisdom, use wisdom and you will be just fine.

Yesterday while heading back home, I stopped at Ingles family-owned (USA owned) grocery store in GA and bought 2 freshly made apple fritters to give to 2 of my neighbors. Later in the afternoon I visited with one neighbor for a bit and dropped off 2 pieces of pizza for her to try along with an apple fritter and some Trader Joe's dark chocolate peanut butter cups. Enjoyed my visit. That was a neighbor in her 80's. Then went and got apple fritter, peanut butter cups and a Reese cup Christmas tree I made that I still had in the frig and blessed her with that. She is 97 years old. She said to me again how I still need to go with her some Sunday to her Pentecostal church she thinks I will like her pastor. I have not ruled that out as of now so one Sunday I just may go with her to her church.

I watched last evening the Sunday service of Solid Rock Church from the morning then tuned in for the evening service livestream. I also watched Marty Goetz live, his family and friends were there last night. I fell asleep at 1 point before midnight then around 2am I went to bed. I had another dream in which I said to Holy Spirit I do not want to deal with this. For 2 nights in a row, I had dreams with a person I am trying to get away from this year and they show up in my dreams what is that all about. I don't really want to have anything to do with them in my life and they keep showing up in my dreams. I am trying to rebuke these dreams.

I finished my laundry last night and put fresh linen on the beds and today I had a little ironing to do and that is now done. I don't feel like going into town today so I just may stay local since I did do driving yesterday heading back from GA. Yesterday, when I arrived back home the sun was shining outside, and I filled the backyard bird feeder up and the birds are also eating the bird seed in the front yard as well. I replaced a Roku remote with an updated one and I like the ease of speaking for searching and the volume adjustment is on the side of the remote. I like it so much I just may go and get another one for the other bedroom to have, to replace the remote that came with the Roku when I purchased it.

Use wisdom when dealing with ministries but still try to find the silver lining in the cloud of those ministries okay. They are human just like you and I and I am sure they make mistakes and some of those mistakes I am sure they may have regretted making decisions that led to those very mistakes. Don't be too hard on them because I am sure they have a lot more riding on their mistakes then maybe the average person does. Have compassion and respect because you do not want to judge too harshly because the same manner in which you judge by you may be judged back in one way or another. Speak peace be still and rejoice in their successes okay.

I had 1 more thing to do today before I published this blog. I went to the store to get some ingredients I needed to make a family traditional recipe today and I also made homemade dumplings & applesauce too. I put together a care package for one of my neighbors and brought it to her with the 2 items I made. Share the cooking blessing. While I am finishing this up, I am listening to Ryan LeStrange live (I think it is re-broadcast maybe from last night.) It seems to be in line with what I am sharing about today. I am going to also add the link to this for you to view.