Throughout the years there have been times that I made nice sized donations to ministry organizations. Now to you, the amounts may be small but to me they were significant amounts the 2 I am thinking of right now. Years ago, I made an over 3k donation to church pastors at a local church I attended at the time. I met with them in person to hand them the check. At the time, Holy Spirit directed me to not make it out to the church but directly to the pastors in their name. I trusted Holy Spirit and that is exactly what I followed through with. I met them both in a small office type of setting to bless them with the offering/donation just before the church service that day if I remember correctly (that was many years ago). A more recent one was donating 500.00 to personal support of a local minister and I placed that donation via their giving website with the request for it to be placed towards the next music project they may be working on. I then sent in the mail a follow up testimony with the reason behind the offering. It was weeks later that I saw this minister and mentioned the testimony attached to the offering and they knew nothing about it. They mentioned how they had to reach out to their Financial Administrator in regard to the testimony that was mailed in. Well, at the time I happened to have a copy of the word document of the testimony, and I then emailed someone with it to make sure the minister was able to see it and not have to rely on the Financial Administrator. Why would someone withhold a great testimony from a minister, someone on that minister's staff mind you? That baffled me when I found that out.
Oddly enough, there is a correlation here about these 2 donations made. They were connected to inheritance funds I received when my father died and then from my mother in her death. I think at times maybe I am too trusting or the word gullible is what is coming to mind now. In both instances, not a single notecard of thanks was mailed to me. I was raised up to send thank you notes when people gave you gifts or did kind acts towards you. I came across a note my mother wrote to me when she was still alive encouraging me to continue sending my handwritten cards to people because those words bring encouragement to others, and I do. Now, if I am a bit busy, it may be a little delayed in the sending, but I really do try to write a note of thanks with heart felt words Holy Spirit leads me in writing. That is why I like to buy Forever stamps with designs on them for when I send out cards, notecards etc. The most recent set of postage stamps are with hummingbirds on them. Please know I do not hold grudges against the people in these 2 examples I am trying to show you that a pastor's wife or even a male minister regardless should take time sometimes to jot down a few words of thanks and place them in the mail. I do not give donations/offerings with the intent of receiving notes of thanks in the mail.
Let me share with you now the flip side. It was a little over 1 year ago I went back to the church in Ohio and this time I felt led to write a check to the pastors for 100.00 and guess what? The child of the parents that years prior did not send a thank you this time the one pastor sent me a handwritten thank you note in the mail. Most recently, I made a donation of 20.00 to be placed towards a memorial prayer garden and in the mail, I received a thank you note from a male pastor. The point being this is not a gender issue of sending a note of thanks. Both male and female send thank you notes. I guess it is the way one is raised if they send or do not send thank you notes. Please let me clarify that sending a generic type of mass-produced letter of thanks is not in this category. That should not take the place of sending out periodic thank you note cards.
With so many videos out there exposing ministries and ministers now, I felt led by Holy Spirit to remove a prayer today in which I kept taped on the inside cover of my bible that I would pray for my children for many years. I may have been blocking blessings in their very lives with thinking this was a good prayer to pray for them because of the ministry it came from years ago. I removed the prayer a little bit ago and I broke any covenant or ungodly soul ties with this ministry and cleansed what needed to be cleansed deliverance wise with the ministry through this prayer I kept taped to the inside cover of my bible. I will then burn the prayer as a symbol of a burnt offering unto the Lord. Be very cautious of whom you get prayers from because of a covenant connection it may cause you to have. Be very cautious of whom you are in covenant with also. Hidden sins you may not even be aware of can be connected to that covenant relationship. See, people only talk about the covenant blessings being connected to someone but if there is hidden sin in their life you are also then connected to that. A word to the wise, be very careful with whom you say you are in covenant with because the good and the bad are all connected to that covenant relationship, not just good okay. In deliverance training I was taught the importance of breaking ungodly covenants in your life or oaths taken and that were broken in your life as closing those doors, so the enemy has no legal cause to block your deliverance when going through a deliverance.
I wonder why I haven't found a ministry yet in which my deliverance training can be utilized. Did you ever think just maybe my deliverance ministry training is being put into practice by me sharing it with you, the readers of this blog.
Age has nothing to do with sending thank you notes either. My 98-year-old neighbor sent me a handwritten thank you note in the mail for remembering her birthday and putting together a little celebration in her honor. No excuses, male, female or even age should not deter you from sending a thank you note in the mail to someone that showed kindness towards you okay. Today's scripture comes from James 4 & 5, there is so much wealth in these chapters.