Hey Girls,
During my Bible study Sunday night before the fast, God took me to Ezekial. specifically to passages about being a watcher and warning the people to get right with God..I even said hey God are you telling me to warn people? are you talking about me? and then he took me to another passage about if Ezekial didn't warn people and they didn't repent then their blood would be on his hands. I said..Yikes!
So at lunch yesterday I went to the park to pray and read. The one thing I heard from God was this, "Charlotte tell the other girls to make sure their houses are in order and tell them to tell others to prepare and get their houses in order...its time to make sure everything is under the blood and to let go of the world"
I got this sense of urgency and knew that it couldn't be a coincidence that I just read about Ezekial warning the people and calling them to repentence and then the Lord speaking to me to tell us to call ourselves and others to make sure we are have everything in order. I know for myself that there are things that i need to let go of and even some people...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Unchanging Christ - Day 1 Devotion - revelations and confessions
From: MT
Hebrews 13:5-8 5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Mandy Turner different yesterday, today and hopefully tomorrow. Hopefully as each day goes by I am grounded and rooted more firmly in the living Word of God. Holding my Fathers hand closely as I embark on my journey that's developing a purpose in HIM not myself. In day ones devotion I quote, "We can't really have hope in God until we have a revelation of him as the God of hope' (Romans 15:13 13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.)" I am challenged daily as the enemy tries to deter me off of the straight and narrow. Because of grace and mercy through the blood I now have redemption when the Holy spirit quickens me in my fear, my lifestyle when it tends to not honor my father and my unconscious covetness and discontentment. Even though I am constantly changing I too often fear a change that God is making in me. God is this really what you want, am I doing the right thing, I know this is you God, but what if someone else thinks it's not the best choice. A statement in day one's devotion pierced me like an arrow, "THERE IS NO ROOM FOR FEAR IN THE HEART FILLED WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE ANCIENT OF DAYS". No room for fear in a heart filled with the Holy Spirit, so each time I let fear set in I let the enemy triumph over me. I let my trust in God go and make room for my enemy driven, flesh laden fear!!FEAR: to be afraid of, expect with alarm. If God is for me, Whom can be against me? "The God we've heard about must become the ONE we've experienced." What God has done for the ones who have gone before us has set a precedent before us and God is no respector of persons, what HE will do for one son or daughter HE will do for the next. Today I boldy declare The Lord is my helper, I shall not fear as I walk in the transformations He is making in my heart and in my life. I am expecting alright, not in alarm but in anticipation. End....
From: MC
Below is what I logged in my journal
“We often….too often forget that God’s love is truly the greatest gift of all things in and out of this world” It’s time for us to come back to that knowledge.
There is no room for fear in the heart filled with the Ancient of Days.
This spoke to me the loudest of all that I read: mainly bc I have long wrestled with the generational curse of the spirit of fear… thank God that stronghold has been broken……
Fear is the opposite of faith….So the greater our fear the more room it takes up in our hearts…meaning there’s less room for faith and God’s presence in our heart’s. – Now that’s a truly fearful thought!!!. God truly is unchanging!!! End...
Hebrews 13:5-8 5Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. 6So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. 7Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God: whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. 8Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever.Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. Mandy Turner different yesterday, today and hopefully tomorrow. Hopefully as each day goes by I am grounded and rooted more firmly in the living Word of God. Holding my Fathers hand closely as I embark on my journey that's developing a purpose in HIM not myself. In day ones devotion I quote, "We can't really have hope in God until we have a revelation of him as the God of hope' (Romans 15:13 13May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.)" I am challenged daily as the enemy tries to deter me off of the straight and narrow. Because of grace and mercy through the blood I now have redemption when the Holy spirit quickens me in my fear, my lifestyle when it tends to not honor my father and my unconscious covetness and discontentment. Even though I am constantly changing I too often fear a change that God is making in me. God is this really what you want, am I doing the right thing, I know this is you God, but what if someone else thinks it's not the best choice. A statement in day one's devotion pierced me like an arrow, "THERE IS NO ROOM FOR FEAR IN THE HEART FILLED WITH THE PRESENCE OF THE ANCIENT OF DAYS". No room for fear in a heart filled with the Holy Spirit, so each time I let fear set in I let the enemy triumph over me. I let my trust in God go and make room for my enemy driven, flesh laden fear!!FEAR: to be afraid of, expect with alarm. If God is for me, Whom can be against me? "The God we've heard about must become the ONE we've experienced." What God has done for the ones who have gone before us has set a precedent before us and God is no respector of persons, what HE will do for one son or daughter HE will do for the next. Today I boldy declare The Lord is my helper, I shall not fear as I walk in the transformations He is making in my heart and in my life. I am expecting alright, not in alarm but in anticipation. End....
From: MC
Below is what I logged in my journal
“We often….too often forget that God’s love is truly the greatest gift of all things in and out of this world” It’s time for us to come back to that knowledge.
There is no room for fear in the heart filled with the Ancient of Days.
This spoke to me the loudest of all that I read: mainly bc I have long wrestled with the generational curse of the spirit of fear… thank God that stronghold has been broken……
Fear is the opposite of faith….So the greater our fear the more room it takes up in our hearts…meaning there’s less room for faith and God’s presence in our heart’s. – Now that’s a truly fearful thought!!!. God truly is unchanging!!! End...
Monday, August 16, 2010
Elijah list given
MORE from our 8/14 Saturday Faster
Day 21: Expectations Gone and Self-Pity Remains! Never Give in to Self-Pity!
The opposite of confidence and worth is self-pity. Self-pity occurs when we feel we are warranted to receive but get passed by. This can occur in our natural or spiritual life. Self-pity helps define our moment or, may I say, cause us to miss our moment. We feel we are deserving or entitled to a blessing, and we lose faith when we see a blessing slip past our life.One of the best examples of self-pity is the crippled man at the Pool of Bethesda (see John 5). Jesus knew his full condition and then, through Peter, asked the man if he wished to be healed. The man began to explain why he had not and could not be healed. Jesus seemed to quit listening to his self-pity and healed him anyway.We can easily lose sight of God's promises when we are in difficult situations. This is often how we get off target in seeing God fulfill our prophetic destiny. Even though the Body of Christ goes through great times of testing, we are not to grow fearful and be discouraged. The enemy takes advantage during our testing periods by using a strategy to discourage us. Discouragement breeds hope deferred, which makes the heart sick. When we have a measure of hopelessness within us, we lose our expectation of God."Future" and "expectation" are synonymous. Our future is linked with an expectation of God moving. This is a time for the Church to have its expectation level renewed and raised to another level. Isaiah 59 and 60 are wonderful prayer guides for us to follow to see this happen in our lives. Hope must transcend and move into faith. Faith produces overcoming. Overcoming leads to a demonstration of God's power and a manifestation of His promises.The Cycle of Self Pity.Prophecy unlocks our future. But once we get wounded or experience loss, we can lose sight of our future. The biggest demonic force that we have to contend with is self-pity. Self-pity draws attention to our loss and keeps us from seeing God's glory manifested in our life. Instead of our loss directing us to God's continued perfect plan for our life, our self rises up and causes us to say, "Pity me for what I have lost." Any time we experience loss, trauma, wounding or injustice, we can either choose to live with a belief system that God can heal and forgive or we can allow our mind-set to form rejection, self-defense and self-pity.During times of loss and wounding, we have a tendency to accuse God for the trauma that we are experiencing. The power of this accusation leads to a type of fatherlessness. Instead of experiencing the spirit of adoption, we feel abandoned and lost. From our self-defense, we actually form a rebellion to authority. We also become unteachable. We have a mind-set that says, "No one understands me or what I am going through."We also begin to think that there is no solution to our problem. We wake up thinking, "There is no way out." We fall into apathy because we have no hope of healing or restoration. Since we know that we should be living a godly life, religious mechanisms become a solace to us. We may even gain a martyr complex and say, "O woe is me. This is my cross to bear. Look how heavy is my cross." This type of thinking causes us to not fight when we need to fight. Instead of fighting and advancing, we become a slave to comfort and the status quo. We forget that we are called to fellowship with Christ's sufferings-a type of fellowship that leads to His resurrection power manifesting in us.Losing sight of the love of God causes us to turn to self. God's love forces us to deal with these thoughts born of our self-pity. I have experienced enough freedom in my own life to know when I am not free. Faith works by love. Once we experience God's liberty and love, we will be able to resist that call from self to be pitied and be able to overthrow hope deferred.Blessings,Chuck D. Pierce
Day 21: Expectations Gone and Self-Pity Remains! Never Give in to Self-Pity!
The opposite of confidence and worth is self-pity. Self-pity occurs when we feel we are warranted to receive but get passed by. This can occur in our natural or spiritual life. Self-pity helps define our moment or, may I say, cause us to miss our moment. We feel we are deserving or entitled to a blessing, and we lose faith when we see a blessing slip past our life.One of the best examples of self-pity is the crippled man at the Pool of Bethesda (see John 5). Jesus knew his full condition and then, through Peter, asked the man if he wished to be healed. The man began to explain why he had not and could not be healed. Jesus seemed to quit listening to his self-pity and healed him anyway.We can easily lose sight of God's promises when we are in difficult situations. This is often how we get off target in seeing God fulfill our prophetic destiny. Even though the Body of Christ goes through great times of testing, we are not to grow fearful and be discouraged. The enemy takes advantage during our testing periods by using a strategy to discourage us. Discouragement breeds hope deferred, which makes the heart sick. When we have a measure of hopelessness within us, we lose our expectation of God."Future" and "expectation" are synonymous. Our future is linked with an expectation of God moving. This is a time for the Church to have its expectation level renewed and raised to another level. Isaiah 59 and 60 are wonderful prayer guides for us to follow to see this happen in our lives. Hope must transcend and move into faith. Faith produces overcoming. Overcoming leads to a demonstration of God's power and a manifestation of His promises.The Cycle of Self Pity.Prophecy unlocks our future. But once we get wounded or experience loss, we can lose sight of our future. The biggest demonic force that we have to contend with is self-pity. Self-pity draws attention to our loss and keeps us from seeing God's glory manifested in our life. Instead of our loss directing us to God's continued perfect plan for our life, our self rises up and causes us to say, "Pity me for what I have lost." Any time we experience loss, trauma, wounding or injustice, we can either choose to live with a belief system that God can heal and forgive or we can allow our mind-set to form rejection, self-defense and self-pity.During times of loss and wounding, we have a tendency to accuse God for the trauma that we are experiencing. The power of this accusation leads to a type of fatherlessness. Instead of experiencing the spirit of adoption, we feel abandoned and lost. From our self-defense, we actually form a rebellion to authority. We also become unteachable. We have a mind-set that says, "No one understands me or what I am going through."We also begin to think that there is no solution to our problem. We wake up thinking, "There is no way out." We fall into apathy because we have no hope of healing or restoration. Since we know that we should be living a godly life, religious mechanisms become a solace to us. We may even gain a martyr complex and say, "O woe is me. This is my cross to bear. Look how heavy is my cross." This type of thinking causes us to not fight when we need to fight. Instead of fighting and advancing, we become a slave to comfort and the status quo. We forget that we are called to fellowship with Christ's sufferings-a type of fellowship that leads to His resurrection power manifesting in us.Losing sight of the love of God causes us to turn to self. God's love forces us to deal with these thoughts born of our self-pity. I have experienced enough freedom in my own life to know when I am not free. Faith works by love. Once we experience God's liberty and love, we will be able to resist that call from self to be pitied and be able to overthrow hope deferred.Blessings,Chuck D. Pierce
Word from our Saturday 8/14 Faster
Restoration
Isaiah 61:3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:4 They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastation; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastation of many generations.
Isaiah 61:6 you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
This is what I hear the Lord saying:
Restoration:
The broken fountains within you are being repaired. I have taken the tender places within your heart into My hands, so that I may restore and heal them. You have felt the pain of the past and I Am now renewing you. Trust Me with the secret chambers of your heart, for I have longed to free you of the hurt, betrayal and rejection that you endured. I Am removing the wounds caused by harsh words and mistreatment that came in that season. I will love you back to a place of completeness, confidence and joy again. These things have restrained you from seeing My fullness, but I have heard and seen your desire to come into fullness. I Am and I will continue to saturate you with My Presence. You are hungry and I will nourish you.
You will carry an increase of My Presence. The fountains within you will become conduits of great blessing for My River. The refreshing that you receive will also flow to others. You will see the multiplication of My greatness touching many. You will see My Spirit flowing through you. Embrace this. Do not be startled by how I work through your life. I have uniquely created you to carry My Presence. You will be known for mercy, compassion, strength, wisdom and restoration. These are the things that precede and lay a foundation for power. Power without My love within you will easily corrupt you. You will see and know My power for I Am your foundation. You have placed your life in My hands and I will work with great tenderness through you. My restoration will impact every area of your life. Your spirit and soul will be renewed. Your physical body will enjoy divine health. Your storehouse and your finances will be blessed. You will live under the blessings of My favor and abundance. I will do this and you will bring Me glory because of this. I have placed a wall of protection around you. You will not be harmed again by the enemy, or those he would try to use. Come then let us walk forward together today.
Isaiah 61:3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion-- to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that he may be glorified.
Isaiah 61:4 They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastation; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastation of many generations.
Isaiah 61:6 you shall be called the priests of the LORD; they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God; you shall eat the wealth of the nations, and in their glory you shall boast.
This is what I hear the Lord saying:
Restoration:
The broken fountains within you are being repaired. I have taken the tender places within your heart into My hands, so that I may restore and heal them. You have felt the pain of the past and I Am now renewing you. Trust Me with the secret chambers of your heart, for I have longed to free you of the hurt, betrayal and rejection that you endured. I Am removing the wounds caused by harsh words and mistreatment that came in that season. I will love you back to a place of completeness, confidence and joy again. These things have restrained you from seeing My fullness, but I have heard and seen your desire to come into fullness. I Am and I will continue to saturate you with My Presence. You are hungry and I will nourish you.
You will carry an increase of My Presence. The fountains within you will become conduits of great blessing for My River. The refreshing that you receive will also flow to others. You will see the multiplication of My greatness touching many. You will see My Spirit flowing through you. Embrace this. Do not be startled by how I work through your life. I have uniquely created you to carry My Presence. You will be known for mercy, compassion, strength, wisdom and restoration. These are the things that precede and lay a foundation for power. Power without My love within you will easily corrupt you. You will see and know My power for I Am your foundation. You have placed your life in My hands and I will work with great tenderness through you. My restoration will impact every area of your life. Your spirit and soul will be renewed. Your physical body will enjoy divine health. Your storehouse and your finances will be blessed. You will live under the blessings of My favor and abundance. I will do this and you will bring Me glory because of this. I have placed a wall of protection around you. You will not be harmed again by the enemy, or those he would try to use. Come then let us walk forward together today.
Friday, August 13, 2010
Praise Report - from Friday Faster
First let me say this…Thank You God for all your blessings and provision that You have provided my family and thank you all prayer warriors for interceding on any prayer requests that I had and supporting me!
Ok so for most of us it is payday. However, this week Eric didn’t get paid because he was on vacation last week and his company no longer pays for vacation. Well on top of all that school started and tuition was due for Caleb. We were already behind on our bills and stuff when the fast began. I kept hearing Holy Spirit saying Trust me and my sister kept telling me to untie God’s hands and allow him to handle it. So I told my flesh to get the heck back and I trusted God. I’m not saying it was easy and there were times I wanted to take the easy road over the past 3 weeks but God wanted me to learn something. Now in the Flesh there is no way even on paper that we have been able to pay the bills but God sustained us and kept us afloat. God took what we had and he doubled it (double portions) the money was stretched. This fast for me has been about trusting and receiving complete healing. I am so humbled by what God has done I’m an emotionally wreck but in a good way. And for those of you who don’t know I am not a crier but I am so overcome with thankfulness. He is faithful and true to us if we would just trust him and allow him to handle our situations. The enemy has attacked us so much over these last 3 weeks but we kept our head above water and kept trusting.
Ok so for most of us it is payday. However, this week Eric didn’t get paid because he was on vacation last week and his company no longer pays for vacation. Well on top of all that school started and tuition was due for Caleb. We were already behind on our bills and stuff when the fast began. I kept hearing Holy Spirit saying Trust me and my sister kept telling me to untie God’s hands and allow him to handle it. So I told my flesh to get the heck back and I trusted God. I’m not saying it was easy and there were times I wanted to take the easy road over the past 3 weeks but God wanted me to learn something. Now in the Flesh there is no way even on paper that we have been able to pay the bills but God sustained us and kept us afloat. God took what we had and he doubled it (double portions) the money was stretched. This fast for me has been about trusting and receiving complete healing. I am so humbled by what God has done I’m an emotionally wreck but in a good way. And for those of you who don’t know I am not a crier but I am so overcome with thankfulness. He is faithful and true to us if we would just trust him and allow him to handle our situations. The enemy has attacked us so much over these last 3 weeks but we kept our head above water and kept trusting.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Day 16 of the Fast - 1st Day of the month of Elul
As I fasted yesterday – it became the MOST difficult of the days that I had fasted. I became sick on Monday afternoon and I did receive healing but it was not until Wednesday night. I had been taking an antibiotic and doing that on an empty stomach all day is not a good thing – especially in this kind of heat. I was weak and worn by about 1:45 Wednesday afternoon. I emailed the girls and told them I desperately needed prayer for strength and refreshing and healing. Well I sat in my car praying and worshipping God on my lunch hour – and felt completely RENEWED and mainly HEALED and WHOLE. U can’t convince me that prayer doesn’t work. Here are the words that I received Wednesday night during my study time….
Isaiah 36:4-11
4 The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah,
'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 5 You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 6 Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 7 And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar"? 8 " 'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the LORD ? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' " 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."
Isaiah 36:4-11
4 The field commander said to them, "Tell Hezekiah,
'This is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: On what are you basing this confidence of yours? 5 You say you have strategy and military strength—but you speak only empty words. On whom are you depending, that you rebel against me? 6 Look now, you are depending on Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff, which pierces a man's hand and wounds him if he leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him. 7 And if you say to me, "We are depending on the LORD our God"-isn't he the one whose high places and altars Hezekiah removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, "You must worship before this altar"? 8 " 'Come now, make a bargain with my master, the king of Assyria: I will give you two thousand horses—if you can put riders on them! 9 How then can you repulse one officer of the least of my master's officials, even though you are depending on Egypt for chariots and horsemen? 10 Furthermore, have I come to attack and destroy this land without the LORD ? The LORD himself told me to march against this country and destroy it.' " 11 Then Eliakim, Shebna and Joah said to the field commander, "Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Don't speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall."
This led me on to the next chapter – Isaiah 37 to Hezekiah’s prayer to God:
16 "O LORD Almighty, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, you alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You have made heaven and earth. 17 Give ear, O LORD, and hear; open your eyes, O LORD, and see; listen to all the words Sennacherib has sent to insult the living God. 18 "It is true, O LORD, that the Assyrian kings have laid waste all these peoples and their lands. 19 They have thrown their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods but only wood and stone, fashioned by human hands. 20 Now, O LORD our God, deliver us from his hand, so that all kingdoms on earth may know that you alone, O LORD, are God.
Even in doing what seems like a good work (by giving our tithes directly to those who desperately need help) we are STILL tying up God’s hands and feet. We are taking that blessing of gratitude and saying this to God – “God you are so busy and I see that Neighbor Jack desperately needs food for his children – God I am going to take my gift of gratitude for you and just directly give it to Neighbor Jack…. That way it’s one less thing You will have to do God – u know God bc if I give it directly into the church it may never reach Neighbor Jack directly”. – What we were really saying is “God – I DO NOT TRUST YOU to take care of my neighbor and his family. God if I give this money directly to Neighbor Jack – then I KNOW that he and his family are taken care of” – thus tying God’s hands to move in Neighbor Jacks life and family and thus sinning and causing Neighbor Jack to miss out on seeing how TRULY faithful God is!!! All bc me – little Miss Do-Gooder let her fleshly emotions mix in with her Godly compassion and got them confused…..Last night God showed me that and then backed it with verse…..
Deuteronomy 12:5-28 – New KJV
5 “But you shall seek the place where the LORD your God chooses, out of all your tribes, to put His name for His dwelling place; and there you shall go. 6 There you shall take your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, your vowed offerings, your freewill offerings, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks. 7 And there you shall eat before the LORD your God, and you shall rejoice in all to which you have put your hand, you and your households, in which the LORD your God has blessed you. 8 “You shall not at all do as we are doing here today—every man doing whatever is right in his own eyes— 9 for as yet you have not come to the rest and the inheritance which the LORD your God is giving you. 10 But when you cross over the Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God is giving you to inherit, and He gives you rest from all your enemies round about, so that you dwell in safety, 11 then there will be the place where the LORD your God chooses to make His name abide. There you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings, your sacrifices, your tithes, the heave offerings of your hand, and all your choice offerings which you vow to the LORD. 12 And you shall rejoice before the LORD your God, you and your sons and your daughters, your male and female servants, and the Levite who is within your gates, since he has no portion nor inheritance with you. 13 Take heed to yourself that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 14 but in the place which the LORD chooses, in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
15 “However, you may slaughter and eat meat within all your gates, whatever your heart desires, according to the blessing of the LORD your God which He has given you; the unclean and the clean may eat of it, of the gazelle and the deer alike. 16 Only you shall not eat the blood; you shall pour it on the earth like water. 17 You may not eat within your gates the tithe of your grain or your new wine or your oil, of the firstborn of your herd or your flock, of any of your offerings which you vow, of your freewill offerings, or of the heave offering of your hand. 18 But you must eat them before the LORD your God in the place which the LORD your God chooses, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant, and the Levite who is within your gates; and you shall rejoice before the LORD your God in all to which you put your hands. 19 Take heed to yourself that you do not forsake the Levite as long as you live in your land. 20 “When the LORD your God enlarges your border as He has promised you, and you say, ‘Let me eat meat,’ because you long to eat meat, you may eat as much meat as your heart desires. 21 If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His name is too far from you, then you may slaughter from your herd and from your flock which the LORD has given you, just as I have commanded you, and you may eat within your gates as much as your heart desires.
22 Just as the gazelle and the deer are eaten, so you may eat them; the unclean and the clean alike may eat them. 23 Only be sure that you do not eat the blood, for the blood is the life; you may not eat the life with the meat. 24 You shall not eat it; you shall pour it on the earth like water. 25 You shall not eat it, that it may go well with you and your children after you, when you do what is right in the sight of the LORD. 26 Only the holy things which you have, and your vowed offerings, you shall take and go to the place which the LORD chooses. 27 And you shall offer your burnt offerings, the meat and the blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; and the blood of your sacrifices shall be poured out on the altar of the LORD your God, and you shall eat the meat. 28 Observe and obey all these words which I command you, that it may go well with you and your children after you forever, when you do what is good and right in the sight of the LORD your God.
Genesis 12:11 – The CALL of Abram – Abram used wisdom and Godly knowledge and told Pharaoh that Sarai was his sister instead of his wife…. God heaped out plagues upon Egypt bc of their lust after Sarai. This in turn caused Pharaoh to heap riches and blessings on Abram.
Which lead me to Genesis 15 in which God makes a covenant with Abram.
1 After this, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: "Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward. 2 But Abram said, "O Sovereign LORD, what can you give me since I remain childless and the one who will inherit my estate is Eliezer of Damascus?" 3 And Abram said, "You have given me no children; so a servant in my household will be my heir." 4 Then the word of the LORD came to him: "This man will not be your heir, but a son coming from your own body will be your heir." 5 He took him outside and said, "Look up at the heavens and count the stars—if indeed you can count them." Then he said to him, "So shall your offspring be." 6 Abram believed the LORD, and he credited it to him as righteousness.
And indeed the Lord did give Abram a child, a son – Ishmael – Abram was 86 years old when his wife’s maidservant Hagar bore him Ishmael. God changed his name from Abram to Abraham at 99 years old – and named him the Father of many Nations. HE also changed Sarai’s name to Sarah – and also gave her the ability to have a child after all those years of never bearing children. And thus Isaac was born! But Abraham had to keep his covenant with God – that he and every male in his family and/or household be circumcised as a sign of their covenant with God.
GOD IS FAITHFUL TO HIS COVENANT WITH US WHEN WE ARE FAITHFUL IN OUR COVENANT TO HIM!!!!
Psalm 27: 13-14
13 I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.
Isaiah 41:18-20
18 I will make rivers flow on barren heights, and springs within the valleys. I will turn the desert into pools of water, and the parched ground into springs. 19 I will put in the desert the cedar and the acacia, the myrtle and the olive. I will set pines in the wasteland, the fir and the cypress together, 20 so that people may see and know, may consider and understand, that the hand of the LORD has done this, that the Holy One of Israel has created it.
John 12:9
9 Now a great many of the Jews knew that He was there; and they came, not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might also see Lazarus, whom He had raised from the dead. 10 But the chief priests plotted to put Lazarus to death also, 11 because on account of him many of the Jews went away and believed in Jesus.
The priests plotted to kill Lazarus bc he was a living, breathing, walking, talking testimony of the authority and power of God flowing and working through Jesus. The enemy would in the same way set out to destroy us – the more we become living, breathing, walking, talking testimonies of the authority and power of God.
II Kings 5: 1-27
God uses Elisha to deliver Naaman from leprosy. Naaman offers Elisha money but he refuses payment. Only telling Naaman to “go in peace”. Gehazi (Elisha’s servant) ran out after Naaman and lied to receive money and garments from Naaman “in the name of Elisha” …..when Gehazi comes back Elisha questions his servant as to his where abouts – Gehazi stands in his master’s presence and lies to his master’s face telling him that he not gone anywhere…. Elisha’s spiritual discernment knew better. Elisha told him that “My heart went with you when the man turned back from his chariot to meet with you? Is it time to receive money and to receive clothing, olives groves, and vineyards, sheep and oxen, male and female servants”
Because of Gehazi’s greed and lies to Elisha – because he preyed on a vulnerable man that had just been delivered from leprosy – Elisha wanted to make certain that Naaman knew God was the one who truly delivered him – but his servant went behind his back and marred the blessed event that had just taken place. For that reason Gehazi was cursed – in fact he left the presence of Elisha with the leprosy from Naaman and it clung to him and his descendants.
God says – NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO SIN AGAINST GOD OR THOSE GOD HAS APPOINTED AS HIS AUTHORITY IN OUR LIVES.
Luke 4:6
Worship the Lord your God and serve HIM only.
Lucifer was described in Ezekiel 28:13 as the great worship angel
“The great workmanship of your timbrels and pipes was prepared for you on the day you were created”
It was also describes Lucifer as a beautiful being at the time: Ezekiel 28:13
Every precious stone was your covering: The sardius, topaz, and diamond, Beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald with gold.
Verse 17 goes on to tell of why Lucifer fell from Heaven
“Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; You corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor.”
It was the greed and the attitude of pride that cause Lucifer the beautiful angel of worship to fall from God’s favor and God’s Love.
AGAIN – God says – NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO SIN AGAINST GOD OR THOSE GOD HAS APPOINTED AS HIS AUTHORITY IN OUR LIVES.
During my entire prayer time last night on the front porch – there was white lightning going on all around me in what was a deep night but cloudless sky – no rain in the air….
Lightning means: A sudden charge from a major happening…..charge can mean jolt, emotionally, physically, spiritually = sudden “wake up call” – I believe this speaks to what I said yesterday about “Awakening the Watchmen” and the stirring that we are feeling right now in our midst.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Month of Elul explanation
Well in doing this covenant - we have been keeping close watch with the Hebrew calendar. As one of the girls and I were talking the other day - she made mention that the Hebrew calendar was all very new to her and that she had never studied it before. So that got me to thinking - it's new to us all really - so I felt led to read over it and break it down as best as I could with my understanding. IF I miss something ladies - please chime in and add to this!
Today actually begins the month of Elul. This is a month to Redeem.
Webster's defines the word Redeem as this:
1. to buy back
2. to get or win back
3. to free from distresses or harms
4. repair, restore
5. to atone for
6. to offset the bad effect of
7. to change for the better
8. to make worthwhile
9. to free from the consequences of sin
REDEEM - now is the time to make right what's been wrong.
This is the month of "Gad" - the name Gad means - 'good fortune'. We are to EXPECT "good fortune" to mount up....rewards begin to manifest over what we have done. It's VERY IMPORTANT for us to expect REWARD instead of "we will reap what we sow". We MUST think REWARD! Think there is a time of REWARD! Think I need reward - I need REWARD!!! When we walk through seasons and times here on earth doing what is right and giving things over to God and we see no reward - it wipes us out emotionally and ruins us. Think about the things and burdens you have carried this year - now is the time to EXPECT to see REWARD! Now is the season to go back and take MERCY! Don't think it through - just lay claim to HIS mercy. Begin to see God as your Beloved and begin to see yourself as HIS beloved.
This is the month to realize that being strong all of the time is not what God requires of us. This is the month of the tower of might - meaning that we need to realize that we can be weak if we know where to run - we run into the arms of someone greater than we are - into the arms of JESUS! Standing doesn't always mean being strong. In deep prayer - we take our stand in the burden - we are letting go of everything in us - pouring it out into prayer - so that God may then pour new things HE has back into us.
This is a month to FIND time to regroup and come back to a place of peace - I believe that over the last 3 weeks we have all done that - we are entering the month that this is greatly desired of us - I believe we are prepared to continue on in setting aside time to calm, release, and find God's peace that surpasses all of our understanding. This is the month that God wants us to regroup to simply enjoy life - not just merely exist in it.
This is a month to look back and gain understanding of our beginning so that we may reach the end. Example of this: Understanding the very moment that lead us to make the choice to get into the mess we are in..... I we understand and know that moment and what led us to that moment - we can then know and understand how to reach the end. Putting a plan in place - asking God the best route out - making amends - REDEEMING the situations!!!! Making right what has been wrong!!! God appointed this month to get us out of these messes!!!!!
This is the month to fix what has been broken. If it is meant to be fixed - God WILL tell us. If HE doesn't tell us it's fixable - it's time to let go and let the thing die and disintegrate. IF it's fixable - God will tell us and then HE will give us the plan to fix it!! - this could be a marriage, a friendship, finances, a job, a project, a family relationship....
God will also give us the sudden ways to make complicated things in our life - "SIMPLE" just like that!
This is the month to understand and know who's care you are under and who has been put under your "watch-care".
This is the month in the old testament that Rebekah gave birth to Jacob and Esau. BC of that this is the month for us to begin to see - do we birth blessings or do we give birth to something God is going to hate? What are our attitude and our characteristics leaning toward - good inclination (Jacob) or bad inclination (Esau)? It's a month to see who is contending after you in the spirit?
This month we want to make CERTAIN that our emotions are on good acting ability and stay on good acting ability OR ELSE we will be a basket-case for 3/4 of the time. It will either be one way or the other this month.
We MUST become the enemy's strongest warring enemy for redeeming our family. The anointing is limited only by our lack of knowledge. We must become a people of God's word and God's spirit. It is the truth "we know" that will set us free. We must strive for excellence to know the truth of God's word.
God's mindset is based on Hebrew Covenant. As learn and grow in knowledge and truth we must activate the good portion in us from each of the twelve tribes. As we receive and learn from the truths God's revealing we will move into the fullness that He has for us and the wholeness that He desires for us to walk in. We see from the tribe of Gad that God is calling us to REDEEM, increase JUSTICE, increase INTEGRITY, and increase FAITHFULNESS in following through with the promises we make to fulfill a purpose.
Gad was a man that became one of the 12 tribes. It was known as the Tribe of Gad - Gad was a warring - raiding type for tribe. We must REDEEM this characteristic and learn to plunder (raid) the enemy's camp or we will be the one who is plundered (raided). This is a VERY IMPORTANT concept for deliverance. We must set our bloodline straight - this forms the identity for the future generations in our bloodline. The tribe of Gad was like a fierce lion, defending it's own territory and that of the neighboring tribes. God grants gifts in proper proportion with the responsibility that He puts us in. BC the Gadites undertook to defend the territories of their fellow tribes. they were blessed with extraordinary strength to carry out the task. Had they thought only of themselves - they may well have lacked the sufficient might for that great responsibility. The Gadites were among the first to march out in battle to defend that land of his brothers.
As we grow and begin to understand the prophetic meaning each tribe contains - it defines who we are, and WHOSE we are. We must to maintain a Hebrew mindset in understanding and REDEEMING all that our God has for us. Understanding the Hebrew calendar and the prophetic meaning for each "month" is a step in that direction.
We are all intercessors - contending and going to war for each of our "sisters land". This covenant that we have formed with our Beloved - has shown me that we are the WATCHMEN. It is time to awaken the watchmen. There is a stirring coming right now in our midst. Be ready ladies - REWARD is coming - God is about to release a new and mighty thing over us!
Today actually begins the month of Elul. This is a month to Redeem.
Webster's defines the word Redeem as this:
1. to buy back
2. to get or win back
3. to free from distresses or harms
4. repair, restore
5. to atone for
6. to offset the bad effect of
7. to change for the better
8. to make worthwhile
9. to free from the consequences of sin
REDEEM - now is the time to make right what's been wrong.
This is the month of "Gad" - the name Gad means - 'good fortune'. We are to EXPECT "good fortune" to mount up....rewards begin to manifest over what we have done. It's VERY IMPORTANT for us to expect REWARD instead of "we will reap what we sow". We MUST think REWARD! Think there is a time of REWARD! Think I need reward - I need REWARD!!! When we walk through seasons and times here on earth doing what is right and giving things over to God and we see no reward - it wipes us out emotionally and ruins us. Think about the things and burdens you have carried this year - now is the time to EXPECT to see REWARD! Now is the season to go back and take MERCY! Don't think it through - just lay claim to HIS mercy. Begin to see God as your Beloved and begin to see yourself as HIS beloved.
This is the month to realize that being strong all of the time is not what God requires of us. This is the month of the tower of might - meaning that we need to realize that we can be weak if we know where to run - we run into the arms of someone greater than we are - into the arms of JESUS! Standing doesn't always mean being strong. In deep prayer - we take our stand in the burden - we are letting go of everything in us - pouring it out into prayer - so that God may then pour new things HE has back into us.
This is a month to FIND time to regroup and come back to a place of peace - I believe that over the last 3 weeks we have all done that - we are entering the month that this is greatly desired of us - I believe we are prepared to continue on in setting aside time to calm, release, and find God's peace that surpasses all of our understanding. This is the month that God wants us to regroup to simply enjoy life - not just merely exist in it.
This is a month to look back and gain understanding of our beginning so that we may reach the end. Example of this: Understanding the very moment that lead us to make the choice to get into the mess we are in..... I we understand and know that moment and what led us to that moment - we can then know and understand how to reach the end. Putting a plan in place - asking God the best route out - making amends - REDEEMING the situations!!!! Making right what has been wrong!!! God appointed this month to get us out of these messes!!!!!
This is the month to fix what has been broken. If it is meant to be fixed - God WILL tell us. If HE doesn't tell us it's fixable - it's time to let go and let the thing die and disintegrate. IF it's fixable - God will tell us and then HE will give us the plan to fix it!! - this could be a marriage, a friendship, finances, a job, a project, a family relationship....
God will also give us the sudden ways to make complicated things in our life - "SIMPLE" just like that!
This is the month to understand and know who's care you are under and who has been put under your "watch-care".
This is the month in the old testament that Rebekah gave birth to Jacob and Esau. BC of that this is the month for us to begin to see - do we birth blessings or do we give birth to something God is going to hate? What are our attitude and our characteristics leaning toward - good inclination (Jacob) or bad inclination (Esau)? It's a month to see who is contending after you in the spirit?
This month we want to make CERTAIN that our emotions are on good acting ability and stay on good acting ability OR ELSE we will be a basket-case for 3/4 of the time. It will either be one way or the other this month.
We MUST become the enemy's strongest warring enemy for redeeming our family. The anointing is limited only by our lack of knowledge. We must become a people of God's word and God's spirit. It is the truth "we know" that will set us free. We must strive for excellence to know the truth of God's word.
God's mindset is based on Hebrew Covenant. As learn and grow in knowledge and truth we must activate the good portion in us from each of the twelve tribes. As we receive and learn from the truths God's revealing we will move into the fullness that He has for us and the wholeness that He desires for us to walk in. We see from the tribe of Gad that God is calling us to REDEEM, increase JUSTICE, increase INTEGRITY, and increase FAITHFULNESS in following through with the promises we make to fulfill a purpose.
Gad was a man that became one of the 12 tribes. It was known as the Tribe of Gad - Gad was a warring - raiding type for tribe. We must REDEEM this characteristic and learn to plunder (raid) the enemy's camp or we will be the one who is plundered (raided). This is a VERY IMPORTANT concept for deliverance. We must set our bloodline straight - this forms the identity for the future generations in our bloodline. The tribe of Gad was like a fierce lion, defending it's own territory and that of the neighboring tribes. God grants gifts in proper proportion with the responsibility that He puts us in. BC the Gadites undertook to defend the territories of their fellow tribes. they were blessed with extraordinary strength to carry out the task. Had they thought only of themselves - they may well have lacked the sufficient might for that great responsibility. The Gadites were among the first to march out in battle to defend that land of his brothers.
As we grow and begin to understand the prophetic meaning each tribe contains - it defines who we are, and WHOSE we are. We must to maintain a Hebrew mindset in understanding and REDEEMING all that our God has for us. Understanding the Hebrew calendar and the prophetic meaning for each "month" is a step in that direction.
We are all intercessors - contending and going to war for each of our "sisters land". This covenant that we have formed with our Beloved - has shown me that we are the WATCHMEN. It is time to awaken the watchmen. There is a stirring coming right now in our midst. Be ready ladies - REWARD is coming - God is about to release a new and mighty thing over us!
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
New Praise Report - 2 actually
Last Thursday night - Lucy was fine when I picked her up from school - within 30 minutes she was running a fever of 102.6. We began to pray - took her home and gave her some tylenol - brought her fever down to 101.8 then I gave her a lukewarm bath and we prayed again - I put her in the bed and she went to sleep. About two hours had lapsed since taking the dose of tylenol - I only gave her one dose of tylenol.....Within thirty to forty minutes of her sleeping - I went in to her room to check on her. She was out like a light - purring.... and SOAKING wet. Her fever had broken - she woke up Friday morning F-I-N-E.... and I said to her..."lucy do you know what happened to you last night" - she said "Yes mommy - God healed me while angels stood around my bed last night".......
About three weeks ago - my ABS light in my car came on - (anti-lock braking system).... well this past Sunday afternoon John jacked my car up and took my tires off - fully expecting it to be worn down brake pads - not truly ABS bc my car is two years old and barely has 50k miles on it. Well know what he did find - my brake pads have very little wear at all - he said they practically still looked new.... on the right side - he did find the problem though.... the nut off the axle shaft had come off - completely fallen off - this is very dangerous. In fact - the nut is actually what keeps the entire wheel assembly attached to the axle - it's a special heavy duty nut - John said he was SURE this was a defect from the manufacturer. No big deal right - WRONG?! He called, Napa, Auto Zone, O'Reilly's and some other place - to discover that you can NOT buy that nut separate - you have to buy the ENTIRE axle not the axle shaft which is still $75 but the entire axle which was going to be over $200.....guess what - he came in the house and said - "hey babe - you had better walk outside and give my old jeep a kiss"....um no - why would I do that I said....
his reply - "BC the bumper I ripped off the jeep that I wasn't going to use - that I was just going to scrap - just so happened that there was a nut in the AMC (brand) bumper that had the EXACT same thread as the Axle shaft nut that your car needed" - WHAT? He went to autozone - bought some lock tight - put the lock tight on the thread - put on the nut - and WHAMO - $17 was all it took to fix it up - he hammered in the nut and sealed it - he also hammered in and sealed the other side as it was coming loose as well. PRAISE THE LORD! for healing my daughter and my car!
About three weeks ago - my ABS light in my car came on - (anti-lock braking system).... well this past Sunday afternoon John jacked my car up and took my tires off - fully expecting it to be worn down brake pads - not truly ABS bc my car is two years old and barely has 50k miles on it. Well know what he did find - my brake pads have very little wear at all - he said they practically still looked new.... on the right side - he did find the problem though.... the nut off the axle shaft had come off - completely fallen off - this is very dangerous. In fact - the nut is actually what keeps the entire wheel assembly attached to the axle - it's a special heavy duty nut - John said he was SURE this was a defect from the manufacturer. No big deal right - WRONG?! He called, Napa, Auto Zone, O'Reilly's and some other place - to discover that you can NOT buy that nut separate - you have to buy the ENTIRE axle not the axle shaft which is still $75 but the entire axle which was going to be over $200.....guess what - he came in the house and said - "hey babe - you had better walk outside and give my old jeep a kiss"....um no - why would I do that I said....
his reply - "BC the bumper I ripped off the jeep that I wasn't going to use - that I was just going to scrap - just so happened that there was a nut in the AMC (brand) bumper that had the EXACT same thread as the Axle shaft nut that your car needed" - WHAT? He went to autozone - bought some lock tight - put the lock tight on the thread - put on the nut - and WHAMO - $17 was all it took to fix it up - he hammered in the nut and sealed it - he also hammered in and sealed the other side as it was coming loose as well. PRAISE THE LORD! for healing my daughter and my car!
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Entry from - Day 10 Faster
Yesterday was definitely a challenging day… first off – the girls in my office went to my MOST favorite place for lunch – which the NEVER (can I say NEVER) do. I politely told them I wouldn’t be having anything. They brought me back a plate anyway – nice thought but really? God sustained me though and I made it through the day on water and light juice only when my sugar would drop.
I found a lot of things in my study/meditation time last night… here are the highlights… Below are the scriptures I was drawn to read and study…
I felt the overwhelming need to lift up our leaders in prayer – everyone from the US president, to state governors, to pastors, to teachers, to your boss’. I felt a great sense of urgency for us to do this and for us also to begin to pray for all believers.
God will repay good for harm. I was praying for the words to express the praise of my heart to God… I just couldn’t find all the words that I wanted to say to tell HIM how amazing HE is and how deep and great my love is for HIM…. Turns out – David took the words right out of my heart!
Psalm 104 - Praise to the Sovereign LORD for His Creation and Providence
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great: You are clothed with honor and majesty, 2 Who cover Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretch out the heavens like a curtain. 3 He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters, Who makes the clouds His chariot, Who walks on the wings of the wind, 4 Who makes His angels spirits, His ministers a flame of fire. You who laid the foundations of the earth, So that it should not be moved forever, 6 You covered it with the deep as with a garment; The waters stood above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they fled; At the voice of Your thunder they hastened away. 8 They went up over the mountains; They went down into the valleys, To the place which You founded for them. 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over, That they may not return to cover the earth. 10 He sends the springs into the valleys; They flow among the hills. 11 They give drink to every beast of the field; The wild donkeys quench their thirst. 12 By them the birds of the heavens have their home; They sing among the branches. 13 He waters the hills from His upper chambers; The earth is satisfied with the fruit of Your works. 14 He causes the grass to grow for the cattle, And vegetation for the service of man, That he may bring forth food from the earth, 15 And wine that makes glad the heart of man, Oil to make his face shine, And bread which strengthens man’s heart. 16 The trees of the LORD are full of sap, The cedars of Lebanon which He planted, 17 Where the birds make their nests; The stork has her home in the fir trees. 18 The high hills are for the wild goats; The cliffs are a refuge for the rock badgers. 19 He appointed the moon for seasons; The sun knows it going down. 20 You make darkness, and it is night, In which all the beasts of the forest creep about. 21 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God. 22 When the sun rises, they gather together And lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes out to his work And to his labor until the evening. 24 O LORD, how manifold are Your works! In wisdom You have made them all. The earth is full of Your possessions— 25 This great and wide sea, In which are innumerable teeming things, Living things both small and great. 26 There the ships sail about; There is that Leviathan Which You have made to play there. 27 These all wait for You, That You may give them their food in due season. 28 What You give them they gather in; You open Your hand, they are filled with good. 29 You hide Your face, they are troubled; You take away their breath, they die and return to their dust. 30 You send forth Your Spirit, they are created; And You renew the face of the earth. 31 May the glory of the LORD endure forever; May the LORD rejoice in His works. 32 He looks on the earth, and it trembles; He touches the hills, and they smoke. 33 I will sing to the LORD as long as I live; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.34 May my meditation be sweet to Him; I will be glad in the LORD. 35 May sinners be consumed from the earth, And the wicked be no more. Bless the LORD, O my soul! Praise the LORD!
Psalm 43 Prayer to God in Time of Trouble
1 Vindicate me, O God, And plead my cause against an ungodly nation; Oh, deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man! 2 For You are the God of my strength; Why do You cast me off? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? 3 Oh, send out Your light and Your truth! Let them lead me; Let them bring me to Your holy hill And to Your tabernacle. 4 Then I will go to the altar of God, To God my exceeding joy; And on the harp I will praise You, O God, my God. 5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
Ephesians 6 Children and Parents
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.”4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.
Bondservants and Masters
5 Bondservants, be obedient to those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in sincerity of heart, as to Christ; 6 not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart, 7 with goodwill doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men, 8 knowing that whatever good anyone does, he will receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free. 9 And you, masters, do the same things to them, giving up threatening, knowing that your own Master also is in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.
The Whole Armor of God
10 Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. 12 For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,[c] against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places. 13 Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. 14 Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, 15 and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace; 16 above all, taking the shield of faith with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked one. 17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God; 18 praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, being watchful to this end with all perseverance and supplication for all the saints— 19 and for me, that utterance may be given to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to make known the mystery of the gospel, 20 for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
A Gracious Greeting
21 But that you also may know my affairs and how I am doing, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make all things known to you; 22 whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, that you may know our affairs, and that he may comfort your hearts. 23 Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 24 Grace be with all those who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
In reading this last night – I realized for the VERY first time that our FAITH is what detours the enemy’s arrows. Our faith is all about God. Faith is just basically that we KNOW that God is ultimately working everything out for our good according to HIS purpose and will for our lives! If we operate in that faith at all times – the enemy’s arrows can’t touch us ladies.
While during my study time I got a string of texts from a bestie… she was concerned and I became concerned but immediately received word from God to release it to HIM – this is part of the advice that I received…
The enemy would set out to infiltrate and destroy “you girls”. He desires to come in the midst of you and set up camp – especially during this fast – to cause backbiting and create strife amongst you sisters. BE EXTREMELY AWARE and use great DISCERNMENT of the alliance that you make and also of the alliances that are trying to be made with you or the alliances that are trying to come back into your life.
PRAISE REPORT: Our internet has been out for over a week now. We have had 3 techs come out and no one can seem to help us. We have to wait for a tech to come out Saturday morning to check our modem and our phone jack filters…. Well I called billing beyond frustrated (didn’t react out of line – just frustrated and rightfully so). I explained the to lady that I was upset but that I didn’t want to take it on her that I knew it wasn’t her fault in any degree. She pulled up my account verified that the net had been down for over a week and the trouble that we have had with the techs and not getting help…. She zeroed out our balance of $36 PLUS gave us a free month of service – that’s a little over $100.
I went inside the house about 9 last night after my bible time on the front porch – I really began to war and pray in the spirit and intercede. These are the things that I saw - each one is separate from the other - separated below in sentence form.
I saw kids sitting around a campfire in a circle – they were silently sitting, listening in awe to a talking tree with a face – tree had arms (branch arms) and a face – leaves were bright green.
I saw trees planted on a river bank drinking from the river. The river was dark and very mucky – like oil…. The trees were being tainted and deceived – the sky turned dark and one by one the trees disintegrated and turned to ash in the river. After each tree had become ash in the river – the sky turned bright blue and white and the water in the river became crystal clear – I could see the bottom and the fish (life) in it. MEANING: I believe this to mean that we are going to see some leaders who have been deceived, distorted and tainted bc of a lack of discernment/vision begin to have their positions or ministries disinegrate - but I believe this is a call to intercession for the watchmen - and also God letting us know that this must happen in order for their to be clear vision and clear discernment in the future leadership.
I saw a tall beautiful mountain – The sky became a DEEP YELLOW color – the whole sky – the clouds suddenly transformed into a large yellow puffy cloud shaped like an attack dog – the dog was charging and growling – swooped me up but didn’t hurt me.
I saw green fog settling in the house.
If anyone has insight that they would like to add to this – please do… I am going to take the time in a bit to look up the meaning of the visions. I will come back in a bit this afternoon to jot down the meanings I find.
REMOVE THE STONE IN YOUR LIFE
Entry from Day 6 Faster
John 11:38-46. Jesus told them (the other people) to take away the stone so Lazarus may come out of the cave and out of the stench. The effort of many was required because a tomb was sealed with hot wax and many layers of material held it there. Sometimes you cannot do it by yourself and need help from others to get out of the dark places of the tomb. The dark places of the tomb are those secret places of our soul that we will not allow anyone to touch yet the stench is unbearable. Some of us do not want to connect in a home group, local church, or volunteer. Those who cannot commit or move from place to place will have their spiritual growth stunted. Jesus surrounded Himself with people and their lives were transformed through the day to day experiences. We all need to be connected in real accountable relationships in order to help one another in the path of deliverance without being rejected.
David always ran to the cave; Elijah hid in the caves. They entered and went into the deepest parts of the caves and lived in the darkest parts of their own darkness. Like David and Elijah, we are not forced to remain there because (1) we have been given a choice because none of the caves were closed off; and (2) the stone that keeps you closed (coming out) and living in the fullness can be removed.
Jesus was put into a tomb. But Jesus came out and the Power of Resurrection came out into the world. The Word was exposed and came out into the world again. In us, the Word comes alive again in us once the stone is removed. Satan has little problem with those who do not know the power of God because these do not really know the kingdom of God – the kingdom does not consist of words but of power. We must learn to walk in that power.
What keeps you hidden in the cave? Are you entangled in the ways of the world – TV, computer, Facebook – anything other than the Word of God? We need to become a good soldier – not an apostle, prophet, evangelist, teacher, preacher – and come out of the cave!
John 11:38-46. Jesus told them (the other people) to take away the stone so Lazarus may come out of the cave and out of the stench. The effort of many was required because a tomb was sealed with hot wax and many layers of material held it there. Sometimes you cannot do it by yourself and need help from others to get out of the dark places of the tomb. The dark places of the tomb are those secret places of our soul that we will not allow anyone to touch yet the stench is unbearable. Some of us do not want to connect in a home group, local church, or volunteer. Those who cannot commit or move from place to place will have their spiritual growth stunted. Jesus surrounded Himself with people and their lives were transformed through the day to day experiences. We all need to be connected in real accountable relationships in order to help one another in the path of deliverance without being rejected.
David always ran to the cave; Elijah hid in the caves. They entered and went into the deepest parts of the caves and lived in the darkest parts of their own darkness. Like David and Elijah, we are not forced to remain there because (1) we have been given a choice because none of the caves were closed off; and (2) the stone that keeps you closed (coming out) and living in the fullness can be removed.
Jesus was put into a tomb. But Jesus came out and the Power of Resurrection came out into the world. The Word was exposed and came out into the world again. In us, the Word comes alive again in us once the stone is removed. Satan has little problem with those who do not know the power of God because these do not really know the kingdom of God – the kingdom does not consist of words but of power. We must learn to walk in that power.
What keeps you hidden in the cave? Are you entangled in the ways of the world – TV, computer, Facebook – anything other than the Word of God? We need to become a good soldier – not an apostle, prophet, evangelist, teacher, preacher – and come out of the cave!
Entry from Day 9 Faster
My fast this week was more challenging than last.. the temptations the enemy threw at me… oh my… but I was strong… in the Lord! I have been learning to wait… wait on Him…. In all this hustle and bustle of my daily life… I’m learning to slow down and focus on God… to relate to him on His terms.. not mine… not to read my Bible & pray & praise Him & go to church when I want to… but to be open to God… be a vessel …. Ready & willing to be on God’s terms! The Lord really speaks to me through music more than anything else… these two songs have really been on my heart this week …powerful….hope you receive a blessing from the lyrics!
“Yahweh” (my absolute FAVE song right now)
Gaze I want to Gaze at you Soak Soak in all you do Sit so simply at your feet Listen To your voice so sweet And Let time Pass Away
(Chorus) As I simply Praise Yahweh My Lord I cry Jehovah Elohim The Lord Most High and When my hands are raised My Knees they fall As I simply Praise Jehovah Cry As I see your blood stains Overwhelmed As I see your pain And I'll dance, dance, dance Because I am set free You are my conqueror Jehovah Nissi And Let time Pass Away
(Chorus) Do I believe that you're my God That You're all I need That you're all I need Do I believe that you'll sit down and be crowned my king for eternity Do I believe that you're my God That You're all I need That you're all I need Do I believe that you'll sit down and be crowned my king for eternity Do I believe that you're my God That You're all I need That you're all I need Do I believe that you'll sit down and be crowned my king for eternity So Let time Pass Away (Chorus) My Daddy, My Abba, My Best Friend YAHWEH
“The Potter’s Hand”
Verse:Beautiful Lord, Wonderful SaviourI know for sure, all of my days are held in your hands, crafted into your perfect planYou gently call me into your presence guiding me by Your Holy SpiritTeach me dear Lord to live all of my life through Your eyesI'm captured by Your holy callingSet me apart, I know you're drawing me to yourselfLead me Lord I pray
Chorus:Take me, Mold me, use me, fill meI give my life to the Potter's hand Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside meI give my life to the Potter's hand You gently call me into your presence guiding me by your Holy Spirit Teach me dear Lord to live all of my life through your eyes I'm captured by your Holy calling set me apart, I know your drawing me to yourself lead me Lord I pray
“Yahweh” (my absolute FAVE song right now)
Gaze I want to Gaze at you Soak Soak in all you do Sit so simply at your feet Listen To your voice so sweet And Let time Pass Away
(Chorus) As I simply Praise Yahweh My Lord I cry Jehovah Elohim The Lord Most High and When my hands are raised My Knees they fall As I simply Praise Jehovah Cry As I see your blood stains Overwhelmed As I see your pain And I'll dance, dance, dance Because I am set free You are my conqueror Jehovah Nissi And Let time Pass Away
(Chorus) Do I believe that you're my God That You're all I need That you're all I need Do I believe that you'll sit down and be crowned my king for eternity Do I believe that you're my God That You're all I need That you're all I need Do I believe that you'll sit down and be crowned my king for eternity Do I believe that you're my God That You're all I need That you're all I need Do I believe that you'll sit down and be crowned my king for eternity So Let time Pass Away (Chorus) My Daddy, My Abba, My Best Friend YAHWEH
“The Potter’s Hand”
Verse:Beautiful Lord, Wonderful SaviourI know for sure, all of my days are held in your hands, crafted into your perfect planYou gently call me into your presence guiding me by Your Holy SpiritTeach me dear Lord to live all of my life through Your eyesI'm captured by Your holy callingSet me apart, I know you're drawing me to yourselfLead me Lord I pray
Chorus:Take me, Mold me, use me, fill meI give my life to the Potter's hand Call me, guide me, lead me, walk beside meI give my life to the Potter's hand You gently call me into your presence guiding me by your Holy Spirit Teach me dear Lord to live all of my life through your eyes I'm captured by your Holy calling set me apart, I know your drawing me to yourself lead me Lord I pray
A VESSEL OF OPPORTUNITY
From - Day 7 faster
My dear friend from high school is working with a group in south Alabama, dealing with the oil spill in the gulf. Her program that she works with is called “Vessel of Opportunity” (they hire charter boats to go out and help with the clean up) Well I thought about it for a while and thought, that’s exactly what we should be on this earth, a vessel of opportunity. SO many times we just float around this earth wasting a perfectly good vessel to use to spread God’s word and his greatness. Fasting for me so far has been quite a roller coaster of emotions. This is my 1st experience with this and seeing how wonderful God works, if you let him. That’s another thing that I’ve learned lately is, you have to untie God’s hands and let him work!! That sounds so simple but its something that I struggle with as I’m sure a lot of other people do as well. Trusting God is one thing that we have talked about a lot lately and what do you know… on the Sunday of my 1st fast, that’s what my pastor preached on. I always have that little feeling that “he’s talking to me!” But I truly believe this message was for me. Sunday started out pretty rough, Addison was running a fever of 102. It was so surprising b/c we had just had a great time the night before fellowshipping with our best girls… and she was completely fine! We all thought “Humm Addison feels hot, but then again we were in the furnace basement at my house painting, so I really didn’t think anything else about it. Ashlee and I decided to go on to church anyway because she has wanted to hear Mr. Jimmy (My father in law) preach, so we went. Addison was ok during church, nothing really out of the ordinary, but a few hours later her fever spiked and we decided to take her to the American Family Care in Trussville (her dr is not open on Sundays) Well after a few hours in there, 104 temp, screaming poor, poor pitiful baby, and a HUGE shot in her booty, we left. I thought to myself… wow God, you are really pushing me today!!! But the thing was it wasn’t God pushing me, it was quite the opposite. I was in prayer all day that day and I realized that through it all, I TRUSTED God to take care of me and Addison. My sacrifice seemed a little silly to me, but as I went through the day with NO caffeine, drinking only water… I realized that it wasn’t so silly after all. My body is so used to having the caffeine to get through the day, it was right on, because I then relied on God to get me through, and was constantly in prayer. I’m certain that I would have been praying throughout the day, but I feel like Addison was used to remind me what a great, powerful and merciful God we serve. I never once got anxious or too worried about Addy (Don’t get me wrong, of course I was concerned of her fever) but usually I am a WRECK when something is going on with her. I felt so peaceful and so calm, because I was in prayer all day and I had the support of my sisters!!! I thank God for the things that happened to me this weekend. I truly feel as if the water washed away doubt, insecurities, and some fear that I had. I actually called my father in law one day this week and said “is it ok for us to be family and for you to be my pastor?” He said sure why? I said “because I feel sometimes like I’m bursting at the seams to tell you about the wonderful things God is doing in my life” I Just want to rejoice in them, but I feel like sometimes it could be a conflict of interest. Maybe that’s just the fear boiling inside of me. The fear of letting my true feelings be known, the fear of “what are they going to think?, are they going to even take me seriously?” Most of you know what I deal with daily regarding this spiritual life. I just pray everyday that God will shine through me and without me saying anything directly to a person, that they will see him in me and realize that it’s not a joke… it’s real. God is real and he is GREAT! I’m so glad that I’m involved in this fasting time that we have. I love hearing and reading about the revelations of God. It truly is amazing. So… it’s almost Friday, ready for the weekend and to sail away with our savior.
My dear friend from high school is working with a group in south Alabama, dealing with the oil spill in the gulf. Her program that she works with is called “Vessel of Opportunity” (they hire charter boats to go out and help with the clean up) Well I thought about it for a while and thought, that’s exactly what we should be on this earth, a vessel of opportunity. SO many times we just float around this earth wasting a perfectly good vessel to use to spread God’s word and his greatness. Fasting for me so far has been quite a roller coaster of emotions. This is my 1st experience with this and seeing how wonderful God works, if you let him. That’s another thing that I’ve learned lately is, you have to untie God’s hands and let him work!! That sounds so simple but its something that I struggle with as I’m sure a lot of other people do as well. Trusting God is one thing that we have talked about a lot lately and what do you know… on the Sunday of my 1st fast, that’s what my pastor preached on. I always have that little feeling that “he’s talking to me!” But I truly believe this message was for me. Sunday started out pretty rough, Addison was running a fever of 102. It was so surprising b/c we had just had a great time the night before fellowshipping with our best girls… and she was completely fine! We all thought “Humm Addison feels hot, but then again we were in the furnace basement at my house painting, so I really didn’t think anything else about it. Ashlee and I decided to go on to church anyway because she has wanted to hear Mr. Jimmy (My father in law) preach, so we went. Addison was ok during church, nothing really out of the ordinary, but a few hours later her fever spiked and we decided to take her to the American Family Care in Trussville (her dr is not open on Sundays) Well after a few hours in there, 104 temp, screaming poor, poor pitiful baby, and a HUGE shot in her booty, we left. I thought to myself… wow God, you are really pushing me today!!! But the thing was it wasn’t God pushing me, it was quite the opposite. I was in prayer all day that day and I realized that through it all, I TRUSTED God to take care of me and Addison. My sacrifice seemed a little silly to me, but as I went through the day with NO caffeine, drinking only water… I realized that it wasn’t so silly after all. My body is so used to having the caffeine to get through the day, it was right on, because I then relied on God to get me through, and was constantly in prayer. I’m certain that I would have been praying throughout the day, but I feel like Addison was used to remind me what a great, powerful and merciful God we serve. I never once got anxious or too worried about Addy (Don’t get me wrong, of course I was concerned of her fever) but usually I am a WRECK when something is going on with her. I felt so peaceful and so calm, because I was in prayer all day and I had the support of my sisters!!! I thank God for the things that happened to me this weekend. I truly feel as if the water washed away doubt, insecurities, and some fear that I had. I actually called my father in law one day this week and said “is it ok for us to be family and for you to be my pastor?” He said sure why? I said “because I feel sometimes like I’m bursting at the seams to tell you about the wonderful things God is doing in my life” I Just want to rejoice in them, but I feel like sometimes it could be a conflict of interest. Maybe that’s just the fear boiling inside of me. The fear of letting my true feelings be known, the fear of “what are they going to think?, are they going to even take me seriously?” Most of you know what I deal with daily regarding this spiritual life. I just pray everyday that God will shine through me and without me saying anything directly to a person, that they will see him in me and realize that it’s not a joke… it’s real. God is real and he is GREAT! I’m so glad that I’m involved in this fasting time that we have. I love hearing and reading about the revelations of God. It truly is amazing. So… it’s almost Friday, ready for the weekend and to sail away with our savior.
Wednesday, August 4, 2010
The Names of God and their Meanings
Jehovah Yahweh - God's divine salvation
Jehovah Maccaddeshem - The Lord my sanctifier
Jehovah Rohi - The Lord my shepherd
Jehovah Shammah - The Lord who is present
Jehovah Rapha - The Lord my healer
Jehovah Tsidkenu - The Lord my righteousness
Jehovah Jireh - The Lord will provide
Jehovah Nissi - The Lord my banner, my conqueror
Jehovah Shalom - The Lord is my peace
Jehovah Sabbaoth - The Lord of hosts
Jehovah Gmolah - The Lord or recompense
A Generation Arising
Nazirites are laid down lovers who are completely sold out to Jesus. Nazirites are radically devoted to living a life of no compromise. Nazirites don’t see how close they can come before crossing the line, they run as far away from the line as possible. Nazirites are ones who stand for truth and justice even when it is not the popular choice. Nazirites burn with the inward flame of devotion because they keep the oil of intimacy in their lamps. I believe that this type of Nazirite lifestyle can produce a special anointing on a person’s life that has the potential to shift a whole nation.
Samuel was a Nazirite. He was told by God to take his oil and anoint Saul as the first king of Israel. When Samuel poured out his oil, a shift took place. He ushered in the King and His Kingdom. The same thing happened with John the Baptist. When the Nazirite oil of John’s life was poured out, another shift took place. John’s life was used to usher in the King of Kings, and His Kingdom. The Nazirite anointing is coming back, but this time it’s coming on a whole generation.
There is a generation arising who will no longer live their lives according to the low standards of what the American church says is normal, but instead will see how far they can go with their consecration. As a result, Nazirite oil will be poured out and King Jesus and His Kingdom will again be ushered into our land.
Gather unto Me My consecrated ones, ones who have made covenant to Me by Sacrifice.
Psalm 50:5
Taken from Fire Ministries - Rick Pino
Samuel was a Nazirite. He was told by God to take his oil and anoint Saul as the first king of Israel. When Samuel poured out his oil, a shift took place. He ushered in the King and His Kingdom. The same thing happened with John the Baptist. When the Nazirite oil of John’s life was poured out, another shift took place. John’s life was used to usher in the King of Kings, and His Kingdom. The Nazirite anointing is coming back, but this time it’s coming on a whole generation.
There is a generation arising who will no longer live their lives according to the low standards of what the American church says is normal, but instead will see how far they can go with their consecration. As a result, Nazirite oil will be poured out and King Jesus and His Kingdom will again be ushered into our land.
Gather unto Me My consecrated ones, ones who have made covenant to Me by Sacrifice.
Psalm 50:5
Taken from Fire Ministries - Rick Pino
Monday, August 2, 2010
Encouragement for the Fast
How much of your daily routine do you perform subconsciously? You may be surprised. Sleepy patterns that barely need your presence to execute. A day of well-rehearsed reflex actions from brushing your teeth to dinner table talk. I once met someone who said, “My wife and I have been married so long that I know what she is going to say even before she says it.” Over the years they simply stop talking, tired of repeating the same old things or simply having nothing left to say.
The behavior of a caged animal is like that. Clearly seen in the worn path around the outside of the cage where day after day, the poor creature circles in the same course with automated steps. An endless rut of same-o same-o where the romance of life is gone. Replaced by dull duty, repetitious responsibility and hopeless escaping. It is difficult to become awakened to how much your life is driven by impulse and instinct. Survival tactics to push down the clamor, filling our lives with empty ritual and behavior patterns that do not reflect our true character or will. Instead, we reflect patterns of the insane culture in which we live. And so we have millions of teenagers trying to find themselves in fashion, music, and subcultures. Growing up without identity. Introducing Generation X, a community of broken grownup children. Cappuccino or expresso, cherry-red or turquoise, ranch-style or split-level, liberal or conservative, little empty circles of self-expression that end in a spiritual vacuum.
Today’s contemporaries are desperately trying to find a new spiritual identity. We have surrounded ourselves with a plethora of techno-gizmos that furnish an illusion of being in control. The feeling of mobility provided by computers, TV and internet are able to hide the powerlessness we have over our own inner will and emotions. This impression of power is a well-contrived veneer, hiding the uncontrollable storms of the soul. Storms, fed by emptiness, hopelessness and depression that plague a cold super-computer world. Dysfunctional with wounds inflicted by a prior generation of parents who in their grand pursuit of the All-American Dream, ran roughshod over the fragile souls whom God had placed in their care. Their crime? They simply got in the way.
It’s time for a change.
Fasting is a knife that cuts away superficiality, getting to the bone. Effective, because it is able to break up daily patterns upon which you have become so dependent. When those patterns of pleasure are removed, you are left with your own internal resources. If those resources are bankrupt, then during fasting, you will come face to face with a vacuum that only God can fill.
Fasting also applies pressure to the flesh, and, you may be appalled at how much the flesh will squirm. But it is high time that the flesh is removed from the role of God, dethroned and placed under the foot of your will. It is the creativity of a freed will which lifts us above animal instincts and releases us from the cages of empty routine.
Fasting accomplishes two purposes. First, it will reveal how much the flesh has taken control of your emotions. And secondly, it will serve in breaking the flesh’s hold upon the will.
Fasting will invariably bring to the surface deep seated fears which affect thinking and decision-making. It does this by challenging that complex human instinct called self-preservation. This instinct has been created in every living thing on earth, including man. But you are a New Creation in Christ, recreated not to be controlled by instincts. Because of your rebirth, you have been recreated into a creature of a higher and more grand design than that of your former life.
Fasting forces us to face the chaos of addictions, compulsive behaviors, depression and internal pain. It’s like pressing the pause button of life, and quietly observing how crazy and detached we have become to who we are.
Want to get off the conveyer belt of life? Smash those meaningless patterns—the ones you hated in your youth when you had passion, a sparkle for living, when you really believed in something—promising never to get trapped in the horrible mundane in which mom and dad lived as you grew up. Do you want to live a life with meaning, driven by conviction, even willing to take a chance—becoming the best you can before God? Do you want to be empowered by the Master of your destiny? His desire is for you to be decisive, powerful, self-controlled and free.
But first we must come to grips with those hidden, subtle demons of our character: fear, hopelessness, worry, doubt and selfishness. Beat the bushes, flush them out, expose them for what they are and destroy them with the power of the Word.
They don’t die quietly, because their tentacles can reach into your emotions. They taint everything they touch, no matter how pure. Their presence will rise up against you with great force when you try to fast before the Lord.
When you begin to face them, you set yourself up for failure. There is a risk of pain, especially if you are willing to go deep. It takes courage to go down to the bottom. Who knows what you may find? Faces from the past. Forgotten horrors in the root cellar of your soul. But God is there too. There is no part of you which He does not see, no matter how well you hide. And He loves you and longs to see you set free.
During fasting, patterns of living are broken. Fasting can be an oasis of spiritual refreshment in a life that has become a desert of uselessness. A spiritual desert that has been left in the wake of selfish materialism.
We have been warned not to conform to the patterns of this world, but if you are honest, very little of your lifestyle is different from that of your neighbor’s.
Quite frankly, for Christ to become front-and-center in your life, things will have to be sacrificed. And at the start, it is going to hurt.
True, spiritual fasting smashes religion and draws a distinguishable line in the sand. It is a magnifying glass that allows us to examine our unconscious patterns of living. The driving force of where our life is going. That is why Satan has invested so much energy towards controlling the subconscious patterns of mankind. He will be appalled if you attempt a fast because fasting exposes how much he has been able to infiltrate the destiny of your life.
The behavior of a caged animal is like that. Clearly seen in the worn path around the outside of the cage where day after day, the poor creature circles in the same course with automated steps. An endless rut of same-o same-o where the romance of life is gone. Replaced by dull duty, repetitious responsibility and hopeless escaping. It is difficult to become awakened to how much your life is driven by impulse and instinct. Survival tactics to push down the clamor, filling our lives with empty ritual and behavior patterns that do not reflect our true character or will. Instead, we reflect patterns of the insane culture in which we live. And so we have millions of teenagers trying to find themselves in fashion, music, and subcultures. Growing up without identity. Introducing Generation X, a community of broken grownup children. Cappuccino or expresso, cherry-red or turquoise, ranch-style or split-level, liberal or conservative, little empty circles of self-expression that end in a spiritual vacuum.
Today’s contemporaries are desperately trying to find a new spiritual identity. We have surrounded ourselves with a plethora of techno-gizmos that furnish an illusion of being in control. The feeling of mobility provided by computers, TV and internet are able to hide the powerlessness we have over our own inner will and emotions. This impression of power is a well-contrived veneer, hiding the uncontrollable storms of the soul. Storms, fed by emptiness, hopelessness and depression that plague a cold super-computer world. Dysfunctional with wounds inflicted by a prior generation of parents who in their grand pursuit of the All-American Dream, ran roughshod over the fragile souls whom God had placed in their care. Their crime? They simply got in the way.
It’s time for a change.
Fasting is a knife that cuts away superficiality, getting to the bone. Effective, because it is able to break up daily patterns upon which you have become so dependent. When those patterns of pleasure are removed, you are left with your own internal resources. If those resources are bankrupt, then during fasting, you will come face to face with a vacuum that only God can fill.
Fasting also applies pressure to the flesh, and, you may be appalled at how much the flesh will squirm. But it is high time that the flesh is removed from the role of God, dethroned and placed under the foot of your will. It is the creativity of a freed will which lifts us above animal instincts and releases us from the cages of empty routine.
Fasting accomplishes two purposes. First, it will reveal how much the flesh has taken control of your emotions. And secondly, it will serve in breaking the flesh’s hold upon the will.
Fasting will invariably bring to the surface deep seated fears which affect thinking and decision-making. It does this by challenging that complex human instinct called self-preservation. This instinct has been created in every living thing on earth, including man. But you are a New Creation in Christ, recreated not to be controlled by instincts. Because of your rebirth, you have been recreated into a creature of a higher and more grand design than that of your former life.
Fasting forces us to face the chaos of addictions, compulsive behaviors, depression and internal pain. It’s like pressing the pause button of life, and quietly observing how crazy and detached we have become to who we are.
Want to get off the conveyer belt of life? Smash those meaningless patterns—the ones you hated in your youth when you had passion, a sparkle for living, when you really believed in something—promising never to get trapped in the horrible mundane in which mom and dad lived as you grew up. Do you want to live a life with meaning, driven by conviction, even willing to take a chance—becoming the best you can before God? Do you want to be empowered by the Master of your destiny? His desire is for you to be decisive, powerful, self-controlled and free.
But first we must come to grips with those hidden, subtle demons of our character: fear, hopelessness, worry, doubt and selfishness. Beat the bushes, flush them out, expose them for what they are and destroy them with the power of the Word.
They don’t die quietly, because their tentacles can reach into your emotions. They taint everything they touch, no matter how pure. Their presence will rise up against you with great force when you try to fast before the Lord.
When you begin to face them, you set yourself up for failure. There is a risk of pain, especially if you are willing to go deep. It takes courage to go down to the bottom. Who knows what you may find? Faces from the past. Forgotten horrors in the root cellar of your soul. But God is there too. There is no part of you which He does not see, no matter how well you hide. And He loves you and longs to see you set free.
During fasting, patterns of living are broken. Fasting can be an oasis of spiritual refreshment in a life that has become a desert of uselessness. A spiritual desert that has been left in the wake of selfish materialism.
We have been warned not to conform to the patterns of this world, but if you are honest, very little of your lifestyle is different from that of your neighbor’s.
Quite frankly, for Christ to become front-and-center in your life, things will have to be sacrificed. And at the start, it is going to hurt.
True, spiritual fasting smashes religion and draws a distinguishable line in the sand. It is a magnifying glass that allows us to examine our unconscious patterns of living. The driving force of where our life is going. That is why Satan has invested so much energy towards controlling the subconscious patterns of mankind. He will be appalled if you attempt a fast because fasting exposes how much he has been able to infiltrate the destiny of your life.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Day 4
God has revealed some exciting things for our sisterhood of peace this week. Today is day 4, I am fasting today. The morning started great!! Talked to one of my sisters on the way to work this morning and shared praise reports along with some feeble attempts of the enemy to weasel his way into my business.
God gave me a wonderful dream last night. In my dream I dreamt that I was dreaming. In the dream I was interpreting the dream I had dreamt while dreaming. The interpretation I had in the dream was that God was going to make all things new, the old was to be no more. Everything will be washed away for a new beginning. In the dream there was a reference of me poking at my natural father saying why did you give me such a dream!
However, in waking I felt as if it was me asking the Father, "God why would you give me a dream about a dream?". I prayed last night before I went to sleep that God would give me a revelation in my dreams last night. The revelation was awesome!! All things will be made new!! How much better could it get right!! In talking to one of the sisters, in her spirit she felt because I had a dream about a dream........God was reinforcing it. Almost like a double dream! Great!! Lord I'm ready to receive!!
On top of having a wonderful dream, I had two praise reports! My boyfriends eye was getting better the company he wasn't on permanently with was going to pay for everything under workman's comp. My truck was coming out of the shop with a newly upgraded computer! I was soo excited about! (After driving the two hottest months of the year so far with A\C you will be very THANKFUL for a vehicle with a\c.) On top of that it was only going to be $258 to get my truck out, that's with going to the Chevrolet dealership!! My God is mighty and able!!
The morning was a little tough on the fast. My beautiful, most wonderful boss who is always thinking of us brought in guess what??? My absolute favorite!! KRISPY- FREAKIN-KREME!!! Oh, how I love thee ...... Lord more than I love doughnuts. That's right folks. That's my office in which the delectable delights were left for 4 hours!!!!! About a few minutes to noon my boss decided she should take them and put them away! Whew, I had already made it through the struggle, the battle! I won, Krispy Kreme, chocolate covered yumminess lost!
The day bumbles along, I find out from my adorable boyfriend come to find out that his company is not paying him for time lost, not paying the doctor bills or prescriptions under workman's comp because he is not a full time employee! What! Satan, get behind me!
Later in the afternoon I get another call that the Tahoe will not be coming out of the shop today. It still isn't running good, it had to be sent back to the Chevy place for a new diagnosis.
After my praise reports from this morning had took a turn I started to sag my jaws a little. After I started praising the Lord, I decided that was what I needed! The enemy doesn't want me to have praise reports, he doesn't want me to share them with my sisters. He doesn't want anything to go my way. Guess what satan........too bad! I serve a God who gives me all authority over you, I will keep my head above the water, I have untied God's hands to work on my behalf! My sulking only lasted for a moment! I believe that I needed this today! I needed to be let down to see how I would react!! I know God is priming me for something much greater than a doctor bill and a broke down vehicle. This is my revelation through my fasting today. I need to be prepared in season and out of season. Prayed up, strapped in the armour of God, prepared for battle at any given moment!!!! The words we have been given this week in our fast all come to this. We MUST BE PREPARED TO PERSEVERE!! Much greater battles are ahead in our lives, there is but one way to make it through them! God the Father! I may fall down, but you won't keep me down satan. Not this time, I'm breaking off the old and breaking through to the new. Putting the past behind me and looking forward to the destiny that God has prepared for me! Using the past to haunt me and drag me down just isn't going to work anymore!
"My Soul is in anguish. How long, O LORD, how long." Psalm 6:3
"Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love." Psalm 6:4
My life verse is Psalm 6:1-5. Notice today, the fourth day, Psalm 6:4 I know and realize and most importantly accept and receive that God is delivering me from my anguish. He is saving me from myself. From satans attempt to haunt me with the former so I cannot push through to the new. God has so much more in store for us sisters, I am on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens next!!
This just in: I would like to report it is now 4:30 and I have held strong. No doughnuts!
Update as of 08/04/10: my boyfriend interviewed for a job position that he had been longing to have for quite some time - he got the job!! Now had we reacted harshly and in anger when we found out that his previous company was not going to pay for his eye injury - God may have not opened this door to usher my boyfriend through!
God gave me a wonderful dream last night. In my dream I dreamt that I was dreaming. In the dream I was interpreting the dream I had dreamt while dreaming. The interpretation I had in the dream was that God was going to make all things new, the old was to be no more. Everything will be washed away for a new beginning. In the dream there was a reference of me poking at my natural father saying why did you give me such a dream!
However, in waking I felt as if it was me asking the Father, "God why would you give me a dream about a dream?". I prayed last night before I went to sleep that God would give me a revelation in my dreams last night. The revelation was awesome!! All things will be made new!! How much better could it get right!! In talking to one of the sisters, in her spirit she felt because I had a dream about a dream........God was reinforcing it. Almost like a double dream! Great!! Lord I'm ready to receive!!
On top of having a wonderful dream, I had two praise reports! My boyfriends eye was getting better the company he wasn't on permanently with was going to pay for everything under workman's comp. My truck was coming out of the shop with a newly upgraded computer! I was soo excited about! (After driving the two hottest months of the year so far with A\C you will be very THANKFUL for a vehicle with a\c.) On top of that it was only going to be $258 to get my truck out, that's with going to the Chevrolet dealership!! My God is mighty and able!!
The morning was a little tough on the fast. My beautiful, most wonderful boss who is always thinking of us brought in guess what??? My absolute favorite!! KRISPY- FREAKIN-KREME!!! Oh, how I love thee ...... Lord more than I love doughnuts. That's right folks. That's my office in which the delectable delights were left for 4 hours!!!!! About a few minutes to noon my boss decided she should take them and put them away! Whew, I had already made it through the struggle, the battle! I won, Krispy Kreme, chocolate covered yumminess lost!
The day bumbles along, I find out from my adorable boyfriend come to find out that his company is not paying him for time lost, not paying the doctor bills or prescriptions under workman's comp because he is not a full time employee! What! Satan, get behind me!
Later in the afternoon I get another call that the Tahoe will not be coming out of the shop today. It still isn't running good, it had to be sent back to the Chevy place for a new diagnosis.
After my praise reports from this morning had took a turn I started to sag my jaws a little. After I started praising the Lord, I decided that was what I needed! The enemy doesn't want me to have praise reports, he doesn't want me to share them with my sisters. He doesn't want anything to go my way. Guess what satan........too bad! I serve a God who gives me all authority over you, I will keep my head above the water, I have untied God's hands to work on my behalf! My sulking only lasted for a moment! I believe that I needed this today! I needed to be let down to see how I would react!! I know God is priming me for something much greater than a doctor bill and a broke down vehicle. This is my revelation through my fasting today. I need to be prepared in season and out of season. Prayed up, strapped in the armour of God, prepared for battle at any given moment!!!! The words we have been given this week in our fast all come to this. We MUST BE PREPARED TO PERSEVERE!! Much greater battles are ahead in our lives, there is but one way to make it through them! God the Father! I may fall down, but you won't keep me down satan. Not this time, I'm breaking off the old and breaking through to the new. Putting the past behind me and looking forward to the destiny that God has prepared for me! Using the past to haunt me and drag me down just isn't going to work anymore!
"My Soul is in anguish. How long, O LORD, how long." Psalm 6:3
"Turn, O LORD, and deliver me; save me because of your unfailing love." Psalm 6:4
My life verse is Psalm 6:1-5. Notice today, the fourth day, Psalm 6:4 I know and realize and most importantly accept and receive that God is delivering me from my anguish. He is saving me from myself. From satans attempt to haunt me with the former so I cannot push through to the new. God has so much more in store for us sisters, I am on the edge of my seat waiting to see what happens next!!
This just in: I would like to report it is now 4:30 and I have held strong. No doughnuts!
Update as of 08/04/10: my boyfriend interviewed for a job position that he had been longing to have for quite some time - he got the job!! Now had we reacted harshly and in anger when we found out that his previous company was not going to pay for his eye injury - God may have not opened this door to usher my boyfriend through!
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
3 Weeks of Faith and Fasting
So we are three days into our 3 week fast ladies. God is so very good. Here are some of the highlights in just the first two and a half days..... doesn't matter which one of us they came from - we are a collected effort and want all of the glory to our Father.
Excerpts from Day 1
I began to pray in the Spirit and I knew I was praying for each of you..Tears began to flow and my heart was so turned to the Father. I began to praise Him and tell Him about how much we all love Him and are doing this to seek His face, not His Hand and because we truly want to honor our Lord and King. I felt the HS so strong..I felt that God just wants us to love on Him and to trust Him with everything! Times are about to get even darker and we're going to have to exercise our faith and trust in the Lord. I just felt that so strong...to trust Him...almost like a warning or preparation. But He was reassuring me that HE would take care of US...when it looks more scary than ever, He wants us to trust in Him.... Also, felt strongly to pay off my credit cards and be sure to be diligent in tithing and giving to His work. It was totally the Holy Spirit who held me to Malachi last night in my study time...He confirmed God's Word to me about tithing and remaining faithful even when the economy is so bad and the bills keep coming...
also heard: find a place of service and serve diligently. Our focus has got to get off our troubles and get focused on God's work...
Excerpts from Day 3
Imagine - God walking over the earth...He's searching for a heart that is desperate and longing for a child that will give HIM their all..... how much HE must love us. He truly deserves our whole heart, trust, admiration, and praise. He is so worthy.
During my early morning “quite” time – God wasn’t really all that quite this morning. For 10 days now I have sat on the front porch for about 15-20 minutes each morning between 5 and 5:30. Well 9 of those 10 days have started dark and as I would watch the dawn break I say beams of light – so beautiful – but had not seen anything in those 9 days like I saw this morning. This morning the morning sky was filled with bright colors of orange and pink. Not white beams of light as I had previously seen. I felt the Holy Spirit whisper “Perseverance” and then “Purity, Power and Authority”.
Now I have read Charlotte’s words from yesterday and I can confirm about the time coming ahead. I knew in my common sense this morning when I saw the orange - that “Perseverance” is only needed for when things get tougher. So we have got to hang on to our faith here girls. I also heard God say – pray that in the Authority and Power I am putting on you – that your heart stays pure. Like the old phrase from Spider Man – “With great power comes great responsibility”.
I was then directed to RE_READ the Elijah List that began this all. Three days into the fast and the words seem to have taken on a whole new meaning…
Elijah List
As soon as I gave the word on Saturday, there were big changes that began to happen.
This is a historical shift, and a $100,000 venture on this end. You can give into this shift and be part of this incredible change. Few ministries make this transition. This will be a great testimony for the future as the mantle is passed.
"I have said to you that the waters will not overtake you. Throughout the times you are walking in, I see you sinking and the waters rising above your head. Stay buoyant with Me. Stay in faith over these next 30 days. If you sink, there are many traps waiting for you at the bottom in the place of the circumstances that you are walking over. I say to you, YES, you are walking over and not under.
"Stay above. Stay above and do not go under in this situation! The traps are greater if you go under in this situation. Trust in Me and the faith to stay above will remain in you. Stay above! Walk with Me. Keep your head up and the waters will not overtake you!
"There are 24 days that you must stay above! There are traps that would ensnare you that are lined and ordered by the enemy. These traps look like a maze and you will find yourself saying, 'I can't find my way out, for when I get out of this one I am in another.' So ask Me to keep you buoyant. When I say 'COME', keep coming, keep coming and keep coming again. Do not look back or you will sink and the traps will encompass you and you will say, 'I can't find my way out.'"
"I'm putting a lifeline out right now, so don't think that the waters will overtake you. I have thrown out a lifeline already. Do not sink down under and do not lose sight of what I have said to you. Do not think that I am a fleeting apparition in your midst? I am not fleeting. I will be there over these next 24 days to keep you above till you get repositioned.
"I am watering you during the day to keep you from burning in the fire and the heat. Even the water cannot quench the fire. But the release of My presence and My wind, and the buoyancy of your faith is keeping your head above the waters and the fire from burning your feet. Many are watching how you walk at this time, so don't look at the circumstance, just look ahead and watch as you walk.
"The lifeline that I have extended before you is becoming a tightrope. You will say, 'Wait, wait, I see the way. It is very narrow and it is very dangerous, but my faith will keep my feet planted and my head above the water!'
"Understand who you are. Understand the authority you have. Now I'm inviting you to come into a new abundance. I realize what is coming against you. I have allowed this thing to be created so you will destroy it. It will not destroy you, and because of that, I have abundance waiting on you. You might say, 'Yes, I am in the new. But I don't like the new.'
"Many will not move into the new because the new can be much more uncomfortable than the old. Some people are made in such a way that they prefer the uncomfortable to the comfortable, because they know that the comfortable will lose its glory much more quickly! Be uncomfortable now and you will enter My rest in the days ahead!"
DO NOT LOOK BACK OR YOU WILL SINK. I gave the example of what happened to Lot’s wife the other day when she looked back on the perishing Cities. A pillar of salt would surely sink in the water.
I TRULY feel like a part of the lifeline for us – is each other. It’s been an overwhelming flood of emotions lately because of the connection that God has given us ladies. It’s nothing SHORT of God that we are all together.
Now we know that the natural mimics what’s going on in the spirit. So as I was sitting on my porch looking at my tomato plants – the Father showed me rain. Now the Elijah list said - "I am watering you during the day to keep you from burning in the fire and the heat. Even the water cannot quench the fire. But the release of My presence and My wind, and the buoyancy of your faith is keeping your head above the waters and the fire from burning your feet" – In the natural at my house – it has been BLISTERING hot! It’s making a record actually – with the heat index the temp has climbed upwards of 105 and this weekend it’s supposed to be 110 degrees. As I sit out on the porch and feel the rain – the watering during the day doesn’t even quench or touch the heat. The only thing that gives any sort of relief from the heat is a breeze blowing by. I believe this is mimicking what’s going on in the Heavens. The winds of the Holy Spirit are COMING – and they are coming so strongly that they are going to bust WIDE OPEN the doors and the windows of opportunity in each of our lives. This fast is to seek Him for the right way for us, for your little ones (the next generation) and for your possessions. God is speaking this so clearly: in the next 24 days there is some financial crisis that is stirring in the air. The winds are going to be so strong that we will not be able to stand under their power – they will be strong that in all of our power – we will not be able to close the doors and windows of opportunity. I saw this in a dream a few months back in which mom and my child and I felt the wind storm that’s ahead and that we are in the midst of now. And as I am typing this I see the dream with a greater understanding in preparation for this very fast. My Child – being for your little ones (the next generation) – my house and rv (in the dream) being - for your possessions and mom and I going in the same direction together then back together and then the opposite way – we would go to one door and close it and God would bust open a door in a different direction – seeking HIM for the right way for US (I wasn’t alone – mom was there to help it was an US).
More from Day 3 of fast
Isaiah 58..verse 6 talks about the benefits of fasting:
1. loose bonds of wickedness
2. undo heavy burdens
3. let oppressed go free
4. break every yoke.
further down God says that fasting is great for you, but pleasing Him is more than what we don't do or eat...He wants us to serve Him and others and be about the work of our Father.
Well I got a dream in which God spoke directly into a situation I am in and questions that I had. During my prayer time last night on the porch – God did something in me. I am not fully understanding at this time as to what HE did but it was something. I also had a vision of a train. It was a passenger train but it was new and sleek and silver – like aluminum or shiny metal (whatever they make the new trains out of) – not the old Norfolk Southern kind of metal. This train was something else – something special…..it was going uphill at a slight incline on tracks that were suspended in the air (not attached to the ground or anything for that matter)…. It was going at an amazingly, increadibly fast rate of speed – so fast you couldn’t see in the windows…. Just flying by….whizzing by (okay I guess you get the picture)….. the train was going into a covered tunnel. I felt the Holy Spirit say to me (for us all) – that our lives (ministries) were about to travel at an accelerated rate – IF – we will make the small climb of faith and enter into the unknown on faith alone – HE will work at an accelerated rate in our lives and ministries. When I also explained to mom what I saw - she said that silver represents God's redemption as well as the tunnel is a hidden place in God. I know this is gonna sound like I am literally riding the crazy train and this is the portion that I don’t quite fully understand just yet…. When I closed my eyes to pray and meditate on God – I started to spin – not like dizzy spin – I would open my eyes and nothing…. Then I would close my eyes and begin to praise and pray again…..and I began spinning again – spinning – spinning – spinning….then I realized I was caught up in a tornado – it wrapped completely around my body… I just felt God’s hand directly over the tornado and I watched as He lifted me from level/dimension to another. I felt a TOTAL peace, calmness, an almost stillness this morning during my prayer time on the porch. God also showed me one thing for each of you girls. HE says that it’s by NO accident that you choose the day you did to fast. Number represents the day of the week you are fasting = number = what the number means in the bible
1 = God
2 = Multiplication/Division
3 = Godhead (Triune God)
4 = God's Creative works/miracles
5 = Grace
no sixth day : )
7 = completion/perfection
We have already had 8 testimonies of God moving in just three days.
1. Went to look up the gas bill - had no bill - instead a months worth credit..
2. Boyfriend was taken care of - doctor's bills covered, sent home from work to heal - no metal in his eye. The door opened wide for him to see that God is good and prayer works.
3. God setup meeting and then orchestrated the timing and relieved all the stress of it.
4. Late house payment taken care of and reduced from $1613 to $917 to bring current.
5. Broke down vehicle - being repaired for $1183 but only being charge $258 total cost
6. Releasing a loved one - loved one turning to God
7. One of us was invovled in a vehicle accident.... not a scratch on our vehicle or the other parties.
8. Finding out that after 7 months of diligently making payments on a budget - one of our credit cards has a ZERO balance.
Excerpts from Day 1
I began to pray in the Spirit and I knew I was praying for each of you..Tears began to flow and my heart was so turned to the Father. I began to praise Him and tell Him about how much we all love Him and are doing this to seek His face, not His Hand and because we truly want to honor our Lord and King. I felt the HS so strong..I felt that God just wants us to love on Him and to trust Him with everything! Times are about to get even darker and we're going to have to exercise our faith and trust in the Lord. I just felt that so strong...to trust Him...almost like a warning or preparation. But He was reassuring me that HE would take care of US...when it looks more scary than ever, He wants us to trust in Him.... Also, felt strongly to pay off my credit cards and be sure to be diligent in tithing and giving to His work. It was totally the Holy Spirit who held me to Malachi last night in my study time...He confirmed God's Word to me about tithing and remaining faithful even when the economy is so bad and the bills keep coming...
also heard: find a place of service and serve diligently. Our focus has got to get off our troubles and get focused on God's work...
Excerpts from Day 3
Imagine - God walking over the earth...He's searching for a heart that is desperate and longing for a child that will give HIM their all..... how much HE must love us. He truly deserves our whole heart, trust, admiration, and praise. He is so worthy.
During my early morning “quite” time – God wasn’t really all that quite this morning. For 10 days now I have sat on the front porch for about 15-20 minutes each morning between 5 and 5:30. Well 9 of those 10 days have started dark and as I would watch the dawn break I say beams of light – so beautiful – but had not seen anything in those 9 days like I saw this morning. This morning the morning sky was filled with bright colors of orange and pink. Not white beams of light as I had previously seen. I felt the Holy Spirit whisper “Perseverance” and then “Purity, Power and Authority”.
Now I have read Charlotte’s words from yesterday and I can confirm about the time coming ahead. I knew in my common sense this morning when I saw the orange - that “Perseverance” is only needed for when things get tougher. So we have got to hang on to our faith here girls. I also heard God say – pray that in the Authority and Power I am putting on you – that your heart stays pure. Like the old phrase from Spider Man – “With great power comes great responsibility”.
I was then directed to RE_READ the Elijah List that began this all. Three days into the fast and the words seem to have taken on a whole new meaning…
Elijah List
As soon as I gave the word on Saturday, there were big changes that began to happen.
This is a historical shift, and a $100,000 venture on this end. You can give into this shift and be part of this incredible change. Few ministries make this transition. This will be a great testimony for the future as the mantle is passed.
"I have said to you that the waters will not overtake you. Throughout the times you are walking in, I see you sinking and the waters rising above your head. Stay buoyant with Me. Stay in faith over these next 30 days. If you sink, there are many traps waiting for you at the bottom in the place of the circumstances that you are walking over. I say to you, YES, you are walking over and not under.
"Stay above. Stay above and do not go under in this situation! The traps are greater if you go under in this situation. Trust in Me and the faith to stay above will remain in you. Stay above! Walk with Me. Keep your head up and the waters will not overtake you!
"There are 24 days that you must stay above! There are traps that would ensnare you that are lined and ordered by the enemy. These traps look like a maze and you will find yourself saying, 'I can't find my way out, for when I get out of this one I am in another.' So ask Me to keep you buoyant. When I say 'COME', keep coming, keep coming and keep coming again. Do not look back or you will sink and the traps will encompass you and you will say, 'I can't find my way out.'"
"I'm putting a lifeline out right now, so don't think that the waters will overtake you. I have thrown out a lifeline already. Do not sink down under and do not lose sight of what I have said to you. Do not think that I am a fleeting apparition in your midst? I am not fleeting. I will be there over these next 24 days to keep you above till you get repositioned.
"I am watering you during the day to keep you from burning in the fire and the heat. Even the water cannot quench the fire. But the release of My presence and My wind, and the buoyancy of your faith is keeping your head above the waters and the fire from burning your feet. Many are watching how you walk at this time, so don't look at the circumstance, just look ahead and watch as you walk.
"The lifeline that I have extended before you is becoming a tightrope. You will say, 'Wait, wait, I see the way. It is very narrow and it is very dangerous, but my faith will keep my feet planted and my head above the water!'
"Understand who you are. Understand the authority you have. Now I'm inviting you to come into a new abundance. I realize what is coming against you. I have allowed this thing to be created so you will destroy it. It will not destroy you, and because of that, I have abundance waiting on you. You might say, 'Yes, I am in the new. But I don't like the new.'
"Many will not move into the new because the new can be much more uncomfortable than the old. Some people are made in such a way that they prefer the uncomfortable to the comfortable, because they know that the comfortable will lose its glory much more quickly! Be uncomfortable now and you will enter My rest in the days ahead!"
DO NOT LOOK BACK OR YOU WILL SINK. I gave the example of what happened to Lot’s wife the other day when she looked back on the perishing Cities. A pillar of salt would surely sink in the water.
I TRULY feel like a part of the lifeline for us – is each other. It’s been an overwhelming flood of emotions lately because of the connection that God has given us ladies. It’s nothing SHORT of God that we are all together.
Now we know that the natural mimics what’s going on in the spirit. So as I was sitting on my porch looking at my tomato plants – the Father showed me rain. Now the Elijah list said - "I am watering you during the day to keep you from burning in the fire and the heat. Even the water cannot quench the fire. But the release of My presence and My wind, and the buoyancy of your faith is keeping your head above the waters and the fire from burning your feet" – In the natural at my house – it has been BLISTERING hot! It’s making a record actually – with the heat index the temp has climbed upwards of 105 and this weekend it’s supposed to be 110 degrees. As I sit out on the porch and feel the rain – the watering during the day doesn’t even quench or touch the heat. The only thing that gives any sort of relief from the heat is a breeze blowing by. I believe this is mimicking what’s going on in the Heavens. The winds of the Holy Spirit are COMING – and they are coming so strongly that they are going to bust WIDE OPEN the doors and the windows of opportunity in each of our lives. This fast is to seek Him for the right way for us, for your little ones (the next generation) and for your possessions. God is speaking this so clearly: in the next 24 days there is some financial crisis that is stirring in the air. The winds are going to be so strong that we will not be able to stand under their power – they will be strong that in all of our power – we will not be able to close the doors and windows of opportunity. I saw this in a dream a few months back in which mom and my child and I felt the wind storm that’s ahead and that we are in the midst of now. And as I am typing this I see the dream with a greater understanding in preparation for this very fast. My Child – being for your little ones (the next generation) – my house and rv (in the dream) being - for your possessions and mom and I going in the same direction together then back together and then the opposite way – we would go to one door and close it and God would bust open a door in a different direction – seeking HIM for the right way for US (I wasn’t alone – mom was there to help it was an US).
More from Day 3 of fast
Isaiah 58..verse 6 talks about the benefits of fasting:
1. loose bonds of wickedness
2. undo heavy burdens
3. let oppressed go free
4. break every yoke.
further down God says that fasting is great for you, but pleasing Him is more than what we don't do or eat...He wants us to serve Him and others and be about the work of our Father.
Well I got a dream in which God spoke directly into a situation I am in and questions that I had. During my prayer time last night on the porch – God did something in me. I am not fully understanding at this time as to what HE did but it was something. I also had a vision of a train. It was a passenger train but it was new and sleek and silver – like aluminum or shiny metal (whatever they make the new trains out of) – not the old Norfolk Southern kind of metal. This train was something else – something special…..it was going uphill at a slight incline on tracks that were suspended in the air (not attached to the ground or anything for that matter)…. It was going at an amazingly, increadibly fast rate of speed – so fast you couldn’t see in the windows…. Just flying by….whizzing by (okay I guess you get the picture)….. the train was going into a covered tunnel. I felt the Holy Spirit say to me (for us all) – that our lives (ministries) were about to travel at an accelerated rate – IF – we will make the small climb of faith and enter into the unknown on faith alone – HE will work at an accelerated rate in our lives and ministries. When I also explained to mom what I saw - she said that silver represents God's redemption as well as the tunnel is a hidden place in God. I know this is gonna sound like I am literally riding the crazy train and this is the portion that I don’t quite fully understand just yet…. When I closed my eyes to pray and meditate on God – I started to spin – not like dizzy spin – I would open my eyes and nothing…. Then I would close my eyes and begin to praise and pray again…..and I began spinning again – spinning – spinning – spinning….then I realized I was caught up in a tornado – it wrapped completely around my body… I just felt God’s hand directly over the tornado and I watched as He lifted me from level/dimension to another. I felt a TOTAL peace, calmness, an almost stillness this morning during my prayer time on the porch. God also showed me one thing for each of you girls. HE says that it’s by NO accident that you choose the day you did to fast. Number represents the day of the week you are fasting = number = what the number means in the bible
1 = God
2 = Multiplication/Division
3 = Godhead (Triune God)
4 = God's Creative works/miracles
5 = Grace
no sixth day : )
7 = completion/perfection
We have already had 8 testimonies of God moving in just three days.
1. Went to look up the gas bill - had no bill - instead a months worth credit..
2. Boyfriend was taken care of - doctor's bills covered, sent home from work to heal - no metal in his eye. The door opened wide for him to see that God is good and prayer works.
3. God setup meeting and then orchestrated the timing and relieved all the stress of it.
4. Late house payment taken care of and reduced from $1613 to $917 to bring current.
5. Broke down vehicle - being repaired for $1183 but only being charge $258 total cost
6. Releasing a loved one - loved one turning to God
7. One of us was invovled in a vehicle accident.... not a scratch on our vehicle or the other parties.
8. Finding out that after 7 months of diligently making payments on a budget - one of our credit cards has a ZERO balance.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Surely NOT
Surely I am not the only person left in the world that knows how to put my coffee mug in the dish washer? It's funny to me that you live in a world of highly educated Joes but they can't seem to figure out how to put their daggum coffee cups in the dishwasher, their daggum plates and forks in the trashcan, or even clean THEIR dirty food out of the fridge. REALLY! Why do people think they have the right to have a maid follow around them every 15 seconds? It's just W_R_O_N_G! People this is NOT a complaint! It's a fact - clean up after yourselves - cause your momma and/or your wife aren't here!!!!
Jazz Hands
Okay so picture this... the parking deck on Friday at 4:30...
I am taking the mail down - all by my lonesome - well just me and (as Caleb calls it) my Ipot! Can you hear it now? We all know "California Gurls" by Katy Perry - if you haven't heard it yet - (PLEASE CRAWL OUT OF YOUR HOLE FOR A MOMENT). It starts of slow and then starts throbbing with beat! Well you know I am a sucker for a hot track and a thumping beat. So now it's just me, my Ipot, Katy Perry w/ guest appearances by Snoop Dogg. Since it's a GHOST TOWN - I mean you can see the tumble weeds tumbling end over end down the hall - I, Katy and Snoop decide that - we need to break it down. I mean like you break down when there is NO ONE and I mean NO ONE but God around. It's an extremely long hall mind you. So there we are - just the three of us - breakin' it down, bustin' a move - singin' our hearts out - then you know that creepy feeling you get when someone is watching' you? Well I slightly glance over my left shoulder - I mean cause it's gotta be either Katy or Snoop.... well at the end of the hall - I see a lady standing and starring at me like I have literally LOST my mind! So I just do the Michael Jackson twirl and spin around and dance my way right up the stairs! I wanted to say, "Hey Lady come on - don't look at me like that - everybody loves JAZZ HANDS".
I am taking the mail down - all by my lonesome - well just me and (as Caleb calls it) my Ipot! Can you hear it now? We all know "California Gurls" by Katy Perry - if you haven't heard it yet - (PLEASE CRAWL OUT OF YOUR HOLE FOR A MOMENT). It starts of slow and then starts throbbing with beat! Well you know I am a sucker for a hot track and a thumping beat. So now it's just me, my Ipot, Katy Perry w/ guest appearances by Snoop Dogg. Since it's a GHOST TOWN - I mean you can see the tumble weeds tumbling end over end down the hall - I, Katy and Snoop decide that - we need to break it down. I mean like you break down when there is NO ONE and I mean NO ONE but God around. It's an extremely long hall mind you. So there we are - just the three of us - breakin' it down, bustin' a move - singin' our hearts out - then you know that creepy feeling you get when someone is watching' you? Well I slightly glance over my left shoulder - I mean cause it's gotta be either Katy or Snoop.... well at the end of the hall - I see a lady standing and starring at me like I have literally LOST my mind! So I just do the Michael Jackson twirl and spin around and dance my way right up the stairs! I wanted to say, "Hey Lady come on - don't look at me like that - everybody loves JAZZ HANDS".
Awe the Lazy Dog Days of Summer
It is my pleasure to introduce to you - the worlds best German Sheppard and the resoration and new beginning to Shiloh7 Kennels - Shiva Ashley! (pronounced Shy-Va)
She is taking a much needed rest after playing with the kiddos all afternoon!
Being a cute, little, fluffy puppy that everyone snuggles and loves is HARD work u know?
Oh she's awake now!! Don't get excited - someone opened the door to come in and set off the alarm chimes. After she realized what had happened she immediately went back to snoozing!
Summer is such a fun time that we get creative and use our E-MAGINATIONS. This is one of our many games however for some reason it happens to be my daughter's favorite game - it's called - duh da duh - CUP STACKING - the main theme of this game? You guessed it - stacking colorful cups!
And last but not least - we pulled a toof! This is a photo of my nephew Caleb. He busted his lip a couple of weeks ago and knocked loose a front toof that needed to be loose anyway. His permanent front toof had already began to come in. For two weeks he walked around wigglin' and jigglin' that thing. Yesterday afternoon we were sitting on the front porch at Shiloh and Caleb and my hubby John are suddenly silent. Then we hear this thunderous "WHAM". Caleb begans laughing so hard. Then we hear high pitched screams. John had tied fishin' twine to Caleb's loose tooth and Caleb LET HIM! After not letting anyone touch the vacinity of his face for TWO WEEKS - he let's Uncle John tie a string around his toof and SLAM THE DOOR! REALLY! YES REALLY! Awe Good Times at Shiloh!
Thursday, July 22, 2010
Dumb "A" Signs
Okay so I was thinking today about the state not having money bc they sent the entire state letters about having not paid "Consumer Tax" - quick and dirty definition.... when you order something online - out of state - u don't pay taxes. Although you don't order the product in your state - YOU the TAXPAYER are responsible for paying the tax to the state in which you live because you are "consuming/using" that item in your state. I know I know - what the crap... Anyway I am looking around today and wondering aren't there smarter ways to use the taxpayers dollars than with Dumb "A" signs. So here are just a few that I have found TODAY alone...
REALLY? Are smokers so dumb that they need words AND pictures to know where to put out there smokes? I don't think so...
Okay? This door stays padlocked and deadbolted at ALL TIMES - you can't enter to see the personnel and there isn't a bell to ring?
Do they think that in the event of a fire - you are going to be in such a panic that you won't know which direction to pull the fire alarm when it ONLY GOES IN ONE DIRECTION? Seriously?
And Last but not least.... The plaque that every elevator across the state displays as a "WARNING" to all who dare to ride the elevator....
ALSO - in the event of a fire in your building - are you really going to wait five minutes to catch a ride on the elevator that's crammed full of 50 other idiots? I think I could find it in me to take the stairs if my building were BURNING TO THE GROUND!
REALLY? Are smokers so dumb that they need words AND pictures to know where to put out there smokes? I don't think so...
Okay? This door stays padlocked and deadbolted at ALL TIMES - you can't enter to see the personnel and there isn't a bell to ring?
Do they think that in the event of a fire - you are going to be in such a panic that you won't know which direction to pull the fire alarm when it ONLY GOES IN ONE DIRECTION? Seriously?
And Last but not least.... The plaque that every elevator across the state displays as a "WARNING" to all who dare to ride the elevator....
ALSO - in the event of a fire in your building - are you really going to wait five minutes to catch a ride on the elevator that's crammed full of 50 other idiots? I think I could find it in me to take the stairs if my building were BURNING TO THE GROUND!
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