MY LORD MY LOVE

1Pe 1:3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1Pe 1:4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade kept in heaven for you,
1Pe 1:5 who through faith are shielded by God’s power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
1Pe 1:6 In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials.
1Pe 1:7 These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.
1Pe 1:8 Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy,
1Pe 1:9 for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.
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This verse has really touched my heart tonight. It is so very true that God is near to the broken-hearted. It was only through a broken-heart, that God was able to fill mine. For a couple of years I prayed, God heal my Faith, God let me feel something in my heart again. Let me feel that inexpressible joy that "born agains", speak of. There is something about the pain that makes you pay more attention to God. You focus on Him because He is all that you have left. No more distraction, just you and Him. The very things that I prayed for could only happen through daily conversations with God,reading His Word, and yes extreme pain. I am a person that has always been held hostage to a rough exterior, an armor that I had built around my heart. You won't hurt me, I am stronger than that. I am independent and I don't need anyone. If I remove myself first, they won't be able to abandon me. As a child, I was left to myself a lot. I know my parents love and care about me, but they just did not have time for me. I feel this gave me an internal message, a tape that kept playing over and over, you are not worth it, you are dispensable, and alone. I was born and raised Catholic, but no one ever taught me how to have a real realtionship with God so that I could hear His encouraging Words and BELIEVE His Promises, where fallible humans failed to deliver, I could have rested in God's feelings towards me, and the promises He had made to me. I feel this sets us up to attract the people who will on some level, do the same things to us, that allow us to revisit that same pain all over again. In some way, that pain feels normal, and we may not even recognize it as pain at first, or the unacceptable treatment of something as valuable as our heart, as anything more than usual behavior. Perhaps it is because they themselves feel the same way about themselves. Like attracts like in most cases. Historically, when suffering a broken heart, I would just find another distraction, or someone that I thought felt the same about me. This time, I chose to lean on God, and what He has in store for me on His time, rather than what I want and on my time. It has been a struggle in some cases, but I am at a turning point. I have been walking in obedience to the Lord, and this has been building my Faith. The more I obey,the more I see His promises fulfilled before my eyes. I am not saying that I have seen the fruit of my obedience in all cases, but enough. I know that somehow in all of the pain, my heart has warmed and my Faith is healing every day. I have an overwhelming desire to love on the unlovable. I have always had a compassionate heart, but nothing like this. There are times when all I can do is cry tears of Joy, and I don't know why besides an inner knowing that God is amazing, and has a plan for me. That someone as big as Him thinks about someone as little as me, and loves what He sees. He is showing me more and more everyday what a special person I am. He has instilled qualities in me that are quite simply hard to come by in this world. I am starting to see who I am in His eyes, and that person is beautiful. Now that I see this in myself, I am able to see it in others, and love them warts and all, as Christ loves me. He has trusted me with many of His plans that He has revealed to me. All I needed to bring to Him was my willing broken heart. When I think of the many ways that He has blessed me and brought me to where I am today, and where I will be tommorrow, all I can say is, THANK YOU FATHER THANK YOU!! Thank you for the pain, for it brought me to you and is making me whole. Thank you for Joy! Thank you for my salvation!Thank you so much for my beautiful son, and friends who have stuck by me through it all. Thank you for my Family. I was so upset about not having someone special to spend my bday with, and I am unable to keep my calendar straight still even though my bday was the 23rd, because God has made friends, and family literally crawl out of the woodwork, and want to do something special for me.. I think the last plans that I have are next Wed, but who knows!!! God you really worked overtime to show me I am loved, THANK YOU! Thank you for eyes that see, and ears that hear! God has always been here for me. He has carried me along through every tough time in my life, and has always blessed me by putting the right people in my path at the right time, and removing, even if temporarily what was not bearing fruit. He is so amazing and I love Him so much!! I was created to God from birth. A prophetic word that was spoken over me by a dear friends very young son a couple of years. I now BELIEVE that with all of my heart.

Now I encourage you to scroll back up and read the verse over, after hearing my story. This stuff is totally for real. It is not just words. I know with my innermost being how true it is, and want you to experience it too. GOD IS MY ROCK AND HE ROCKS!

As Will Ferrell says in Elf, "I'M IN LOVE, I'M IN LOVE AND I DON'T CARE WHO KNOWS IT"
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PASSOVER (Tis The Season)

Ex 12:21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
Ex 12:22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the door frame. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
Ex 12:23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the door frame and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
Ex 12:24 “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
Ex 12:25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
Ex 12:26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
Ex 12:27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
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Did you know that The Passover from the Old Testament is a foreshadow of what was to come in the new?

Jn 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

When I first began to read the Bible, I often wondered, why do we need to know about the Old Testament(covenant), if there is a new Testament(covenant)? Now I realize that we need to be familiar with the Old so that we are able to understand the New. It is kind of like Math classes. They build on top of each other. Once you have enough of the Old under your belt, you can be reading along in the New Testament, and all of the sudden it strikes your Spirit, hey this sounds familiar. You will start to notice the myriad of parallels. It is like a game of connect-the-dots. I feel as if today is such an exciting day!! A remembrance of when God rolled out the plan of our salvation! WOOHHH!! You see, just as the Israelites had to offer up a perfect lamb to sacrifice for their sins, and spread the blood over the door frames so that the death angel would pass them by, God sent us Jesus for our sins. The only difference is that there is no more sacrifice needed after Christ. He took the hit on the cross for our sins once and for all. If you BELIEVE that, you are covered just as those door frames were, and death and condemnation will pass you by on the day set aside for judgement. You are covered as a blanket of flowers cover over a field. That is how beautiful you become sin and all, in the eyes of our Father, through the blood of Christ.

Father we thank you so very much for your gift of the precious blood of Jesus! Thank you for making a way for us to get to Heaven!

A MUSTARD SEED

Mt 17:15 “Lord, have mercy on my son,” he said. “He has seizures and is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water.
Mt 17:16 I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him.”
Mt 17:17 “O unbelieving and perverse generation,” Jesus replied, “how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me.”
Mt 17:18 Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment.
Mt 17:19 Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, “Why couldn't’t we drive it out?”
Mt 17:20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.’”
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My friend had given me a mustard seed necklace. The pendant is a clear ball and it has a mustard seed inside of it. If you have never seen the size of a mustard seed, I encourage you to check them out. They are soooo small. It clicked with me today that Jesus had been with his disciples for all of that time, and He basically said that they did not have Faith the size of a mustard seed yet. Imagine all of the things that they witnessed with their own eyes, and they still did not believe. I plan to research this, but if I am remembering correctly, none of them had received the Holy Spirit until Pentecost, which was after Christ was crucified. They would not have received this gift however if they had not waited in Jerusalem after Jesus had gone back up to Heaven, like He told them to. He did not tell them how long they had to stay there, or how it would happen. He just said go there and stay there (WAIT). They did not realize that this "Gift" would be the very thing they needed, to cast those demons out for others in the future. The Gift of The Holy Spirit. Every time we are obedient to the Lord, we will see fruit that will fuel our Faith. it may not be right away, but it will happen. It is not a good thing to rush ahead when we have been instructed to wait, and it will just make our "waiting" that much longer if we do, because we will usually mess up things that will need to be straightened out later. If you feel as if you are in a "holding-pattern", wait on God to tell you to move. You will know just as they did, when it is time, and you will know what it is time for.

A DIVINE APPOINTMENT IN TEXAS

On 10/28/2006 I was informed by my company that I needed to take a trip to our corporate office to train for a new account. This was very peculiar to me, because there was someone in our office that could have trained me. It is also rare that my company was willing to pay the expense of sending me out of town. My flight left on a Tuesday, Oct 31, returning Nov 4 Saturday. You will understand the significance of this later. I had brought a new book that I had received from my pastor onto the plane with me. The book is called The Barbarian Way. It is about not being afraid to show that you are passionate about Christ in public. It is about taking the hard Christian road, rather than the passive one. As I am reading my book, I notice that the gentleman sitting next to me is conversation starterer. Yes, you read that right. I could feel by this man's energy that any minute, he was going to strike up a conversation with me. I was hoping that he would notice how engrossed that I was in my book, that he would just leave me be. While I am breaking free from this bondage now, I used to be an extremely shy person. It would give me anxiety to think about speaking to someone that I did not know. Sure enough, he spoke up and very loudly asked me, what are you reading? I said, The Barbarian Way, and of course went back to reading. Ok, that is over with, whhheewwww. What's it about? At that moment I realized that you cannot read a book about speaking up for Christ, and try to get out of telling someone that is what the book is about. There it was, my moment to show if anything in the book was sinking in! It was the first time in my life that I voiced the name of Jesus in a rather loud and proud voice. It was scary at the time. You would not believe how many heads on the plane turned and looked at me. It is amazing the power of His Name. That is when he told me that he was an elder at a church that is in Seven Hills. He told me about a movie that was showing called One Night With the King. I told him I had not heard of it and had no idea what it was about. He was so excited to explain to me that the movie is about the Book of Esther in the Bible. As soon as he told me the story of Esther, I could not wait to get back to the hotel room to read the Bible, to find more out about this incredible woman that he spoke of. We talked the rest of the way there, and I was actually a little sad to see him go. Before he left, he told me where his church was, and that I should come try it out. I said I will when I get back. He then said, I am coming back on Saturday, how about you? WOW, I am too! I could not believe that he was on that strange flight of Tues-Sat too. Once the flight landed, I began to get a little nervous. I had no idea where I was going or what to do. I prayed to God please help me. I followed the man that I spoke with on the plane to the baggage claim. From there he showed me the shuttle I needed to get on for the car rentals. It turned out that mine was the first stop. Wow, that was easy! So, I got my car rental and off I went. Now this is a big deal for me, because I get anxious driving places in Cincinnati, let alone a place like Texas. As I am driving down the highway, I see the Hilton but I am unsure which exit I am supposed to take to get there. The exits are not set up like they are here. I missed the exit that I thought I was supposed to take, so I took the next one. I stopped at the light, and bowed my head down and said, Father please help me, I don't know where I am going. I took a right off the exit drove down a random street, and decided to take a right on a side street. I figured I would at least get off the main streets of downtown, and try to find out where I was. I will just pull over here into this lot and call my friend at corporate to help me. As I turned into the lot, I noticed a huge sign THE HILTON. I was awestruck! God placed me right into the back parking lot of my hotel. I had no idea where I was going and I had not been following that wretched map for at least 45 minutes! Once I parked my car, my friend at corporate told me not to worry about driving while I was there, he was going to take me anywhere I needed to go, and would pick me up to work and bring me back everyday. You have no idea the weight that lifted from my shoulders! I read the story of Esther once I was back in my room, and that was when I fell in love with her story. It was so amazing the amount of favor that God had shown to her. A real underdog story and I love those! I could not wait to see One Night With the King. I spent my days training with a lady that was not very nice to me. I kept thinking of how I was going to hate being on that account when I got back. I was able to get closer with my friend while I was there, and share my story of how I was trying to learn more about Christ, going to church, and reading my Bible. I also discovered how much of an awesome friend he really is to me. He stuck by my side, and watched over me while I was there. God used him to be my angel, and I was sure to tell him that. Well, here it was time for my trip home. I prayed again, Lord please help me like you did on the way here. Boy did he answer my prayer! The first place I stopped was a toll booth. At that time I was thinking in my head, I need to fill up on gas and I don't know where the gas stations are. As I gave the guy my money, he proceed to answer all of the questions I had in my head without my having to ask him. It was as if he already knew what I needed. How many times have you even had that much time to talk to a person in a toll booth without them moving you along? It turned out the gas station was right before you turned into the airport. It was not at the airport so, I did not have to pay the high prices of gas. I have never seen that before. Usually, you get one chance about 10 or more miles before, and then you are stuck paying high costs. I turned into the airport and I started getting confused, with which way I was supposed to turn. So, I started to follow this pathway of twists and turns, and before I knew it I was corralled with other cars, right in line with my rental car service. It was as if God was playing matchbox cars with me, and just pulled me right in to the correct place. I literally got out of my car from where it was, and walked up to check out my car. After you dropped off your car, you had to take a shuttle to the airport. As I was waiting there, I remember thinking, you know I would love to just have one cranberry and vodka, just to settle my nerves a little but I am not paying 8-10 dollars for something like that. Once I was on the shuttle bus, a man started talking to me. It turned out, he was going to Cincinnati for a connecting flight to TN. He had apparently done this a lot and he knew exactly where we needed to get off on this bus and how to get to the right part of the airport. Wheewww, I could relax again, because he was going to make sure I got there ok. Once we arrived, I thanked him for his help and headed towards the check in for my bags. There was a strange electronic thing there, and I had no idea what I was doing with it. Before I had a chance to think twice about it, I heard a voice behind me, do you need help? It was a guy from the airport who came out of nowhere, he looked at my stub and did everything for me in order to print my tickets out. When was the last time you have seen anyone like that in the airport available to answer questions, let alone do everything for you? I said thank you and started to walk towards the baggage line that was pretty long. Without missing a beat, he said follow me and I will check you out over here. I could not believe that he just opened up a line for me! He closed it after we were done. After that, I took the escalators upstairs, ready to sit and wait for my flight to leave. Once I got to the top, the guy from the shuttle was standing there. He said, I figured I would ask you if you wanted to get some coffee. I said sure! I usually would have said no thanks, but I have to admit, I liked having the company. As we began to walk to what I thought would be a coffee shop, he mentions to me that he is a member of the crown room of Delta, and that once we were in there, everything breakfast, drinks, would be totally free. I mean you should have seen the place! Plush comfortable chairs, big screen TVs, your own private bathrooms. Well, I got my Vodka and Cranberry, and also breakfast and snacks for the plane. I remember seeing the crown on the door (because it was the royal crown room), and the first thing I thought, was that I felt like Esther that day. I had unexplainable favor everywhere I went, and people were treating me like royalty. After we stayed awhile, he said he had to go because he had a pretty important thing he had to do on the plane, and that he would be boarding before anyone else. As we said goodbye, I hear a voice calling to me, hey Angela!! It was the gentleman that I had met on the plane to Dallas. It turned out his seat was right next to mine again! As we boarded the plane, I realized the man I shared breakfast with was not on the plane. Where did he go? I watched him walk through the doors to get on that plane, but he was not there. Hmmm, maybe he was an angel I thought??? I did not ponder it too long, I just said thank you God! Once we boarded I was able to talk to my new friend all about what I read in Esther, and all of the stuff that happened with supernatural help from God. He stayed with me till we were back at the airport, and even waited with me until my boyfriend came to pick me up to make sure I was OK. I ended up going to his church for a while after that. Well that is it! I could not tell everything, because it would take days to tell of all of the ways that God sent help for me, simply because I asked Him for it. In all of my life I never had so much favor in the eyes of others. The path was paved with a red carpet for me. Thank you so much Father for showing me your love time and time again!

Incidentally, I got back to my office and they told me that something had happened while I was gone, and they needed me on a different account than the one I had trained for. WOW, no more mean lady!! Unbelievable!! I realized at that point the trip had nothing to do with training on that account. It had to do with God building my Faith in Him, and showing me the book of Esther when I needed to see it the most. Since then, the book of Esther has played a major role in my life!

ISNT HE AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

TODAY GOD PROMISED ME A FEATHER!

I have been having ongoing conversations with God for about a month or more. I can hear Him speaking to me, and I answer back. It is as if I talking with my closest friend. Some significant things have happened in my life with feathers. One of the first and biggest was on 9-03-08. I walk and read my Bible at the same time. Just as I read the story in Luke 8:40, where the woman reached out in Faith and touched Jesus to be healed, I looked down and there was a big feather on the ground. I heard God say all you need to do is reach out to me, and have Faith that I will heal you. Ever since then, the message of Faith has been attached to feathers for me. Because of these things, I know that when I find a feather, God is healing my faith, letting me know He is here, and letting me know I have angels watching over me. God has been working overtime on my request from a couple of years ago to heal my Faith, and move my Biblical knowledge from my head to my heart. It is incredible! We have been working on renewing my mind. and allowing me to see myself as God sees me. I have been learning to cast any negative thoughts aside, and concentrate on His promises. The devil lies, and I throw Truth at him just like my Lord and Savior did, and boy has this been working! On my walk today at lunch, I had the thought what if I am going crazy? Maybe these words and promises that are being made to me, are just what I want to hear so, I am making them up? God said, how about I give you a feather to let you know it is me talking? the first thought that ran through my mind, what if I don't find...immediately His Truth came to me, anything is possible for he that BELIEVES. With God all things are possible. I gave the Lord a resounding I BELIEVE LORD!! I BELIEVE that what you have promised will happen!

I began to look for my feather. Keep pressing on, I told you that I have it for you, are you going to believe me? Look for it as you would in an Easter egg hunt. You know the eggs are there even though you may not see them right away. You know because someone has assured you that they hid them. I began to feel like a little child as I was looking everywhere for my feather. I was excited! What will it look like? Nope not there, not there either! As my walk back to the office from my lunch break was almost over, a part of me wanted to say, oh well maybe next time (like in the past). I am running out of places to look, and the door is only inches away. Nope, I said!! I am choosing to believe your promises God! I choose to BELIEVE! Faith is believing in His promises, even though your natural eyesight tells you otherwise. It is hearing His promises and seeing with your spiritual eyes, it coming to pass! This is called Earsight! The Lord told me a couple of years ago that I did not have earsight, and revealed to me the meaning of that long ago planted seed today! Isn't it wonderfully fun the way that He works? Where was I? Oh yes, my feather hunt! As I was ready to open the door of my office, The Lord let me know that the day was not over and I would still get my feather. Thinking back, I decided in my heart to KNOW without a doubt that this feather was going to be there. I never let myself think otherwise (IT IS A CHOICE). After work, I was to walk with some friends of mine before our girls meeting. I had no idea where we were walking to but it turned out we were walking through neighborhoods. It dawned on me that, HEY maybe this is where my feather will be! As we were walking and talking, I was seeking my feather with all my heart! My friend asked me what are you doing? What are you looking for? I said a feather. She was actually really cool about it. She just said, ok I won't ask but I will help you look! I looked everywhere on the ground, nothing no feather and we were almost back to our starting point. I still was not giving up, God said I would have a feather and for the first time in my life, I BELIEVED with all of my heart and was not going to let the devil steal my joy by lying to me about God's promise, or letting doubt sink in due to my natural eyesight. Nope, this time I was all in!

There it was! In the grass on the ground, just like an Easter egg. It was a grey feather probably from a goose. I had my feather just as God promised. About 3 min before our destination, I was also blessed with a second feather of a hawk's in a blacktopped parking lot. Not only did God do what He promised, but he gave me double what He promised! I hurried and put my feathers in the trunk of my car so that I would not lose them. Our other two friends wondered why we were walking the wrong way rather than to the door of our church, again without judgement, my friend just said, she needs to put her feathers in her trunk. I am going to paste them in my journal as a reminder that God is the one talking to me, and I can BELIEVE in His promises. You may ask why I am so excited over a feather. The feather is only symbolic of some really big promises that will be coming to pass, that He has made to me. The small tests of our Faith, are what get us through to the bigger fruits He has in store for us. We must prove trustworthy with the small things, before He can move us on to the bigger things of His Kingdom.

Question for you....What is your feather, and are you BELIEVING without a doubt that God will deliver? {Selah}

I'M FREE!!!

2Co 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom

Want to know if you are truly walking in the Spirit? Ask yourself, am I truly free? Am I free from guilt, fear, anxiety, etc? If not, take inventory of what is holding you in bondage and surrender it to God. We are all following something. Might as well be Christ who sets us free.


www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xHLPadyiyM


Do you see what I see
A rainbow shining over us
In the middle of a hopeless storm
Sometimes I'm blinded by my feelings
And I can't see beyond my troubled mind
Afraid of what I'll find
The story of our lives
But there's tomorrow.

[Chorus]
Cause I'm free, I'm free
And things are only as important

As I want them to be
We'll have a breath of sunshine
When the rain goes away
I pray, I pray.

Do you need a friend right now
In the road that you're going to
If you get lost just call me I'll be there
Yes I'll be right there
Cause though I may not have the answer
At least I know what I'm looking for.

Yes I can do without sorrow
There's a day after tomorrow
So I'm leaving behind.

[Chorus]
I'm free, I'm free
And things are only as important

As I want them to be
We'll have a breath of sunshine
When the rain goes away
I pray, I pray.

And if you want to share my dreams
Well all you have to do is say it, say it
Let me hear you loud and clear
Cause I need you if you wanna be, if you wanna be.

Do you see what I see
A rainbow shining over us
In the middle of a hopeless storm
We'll be safe and warm

JUDGE NOT

1Co 4:3 I care very little if I am judged by you or by any human court; indeed, I do not even judge myself.
1Co 4:4 My conscience is clear, but that does not make me innocent. It is the Lord who judges me.
1Co 4:5 Therefore judge nothing before the appointed time; wait till the Lord comes. He will bring to light what is hidden in darkness and will expose the motives of men’s hearts. At that time each will receive his praise from God.


This is the type of freedom that Christ desires for us. If we are walking with the Lord in obedience, we should not be worried of the opinions of others of this world. The only person’s opinion that matters is the Father’s. I am not saying that we should not trust the wise council of our friends, or pastors. I just feel that if we listen too much to the opinions and criticisms of others, it can lead to a form of bondage that we were not meant to live in. It may even restrict us from being the person that we are meant to become in Christ. How many times would we have stepped out in Faith, if we were not worried about what someone else was going to think about our behavior? In the same sense, we should not be quick to judge the motive of another man. So many times we cast a glance at someone and something they are doing, and we have already decided in our hearts they are guilty, or innocent in whatever it was they were doing. In reality there are plenty of times when a situation at first glance can appear to be something that it is not. This is why we are to leave the judging of another person’s actions to God. He is the only person that knows the heart of the man. We have no idea what journey that God has that person on, that will eventually lead them to Christ. So, as long as someone is not walking towards the end of a spiritual or physical cliff, leave them be and let them live in the freedom that we are all meant to live in. And while we are at it, let’s let ourselves live in that same freedom that comes of walking in the Spirit. Read the Word of God daily. Not only will it build your relationship with the Father, but it will also keep people from passing down rules to you that are not Biblical but of themselves and their own version of the Word. One example that comes to mind is the pastor that was an alcoholic in his past; therefore he tells his congregation it is a sin to have a drink. He was unable to control himself in the past in this area so, with good intention he is trying to keep you from wandering down that same path. While the intention is good, it is a form of trying to control others out of fear. It is not a sin to have a beer; it is a sin to get drunk. There are people that enjoy the taste, and that is the end of it. If that is something a person really enjoys, they should feel free to do it without feeling as if they are doing something against God. I use this as an example because I have seen this in more than a couple of pastors now. Each time they preached on this subject, I could tell at some point they were going to reveal that they had themselves abused alcohol in the past. This is where a piece of their past is coming through in their message, and the Word is twisted to how they feel it needs to read in order to keep their people from experiencing the hardship of alcoholism. It begins with one or two things like that and before you know it, we are all afraid to live our life from a place of freedom, and instead we are following the life that people around us have told us to lead. Read the Word, keep communion with God daily and He will give you a nudge if you are doing something you need not be. You will feel it in your heart if you are doing something out of His will. Let’s not follow the compass of another man’s journey. Let’s instead follow the compass of the Holy Spirit within us, and see where that road takes us in Christ. I am sure He has something much better in store for us.

BIRTH PAINS

Are you wondering what is going on with all of the earthquakes? Some will say that there are no more than usual. How come there are so many asking then? Did you hear of earthquakes of this magnitude last year? Haiti, Chile (2 of them),Taiwan, Turkey. Do you remember hearing of this many last year or the year before? This led me to research the stats from years past. In doing this, I happened on theforerunner777 on YouTube. I am not a blind follower of what other people say. In reading my Bible and keeping relationship with Jesus/God, He has been revealing much to me lately. All of the things I see in this world are confirmation at this point, of what He has already been speaking to me. Folks it is imperative to read the Word to know the sign of the times. The Lord says that my people perish from lack of knowledge. He is not speaking of any type of knowledge you can obtain from this world. He is speaking of the knowledge that you receive directly from Him, as you stay in His Word and walk in obedience to it and keep a real relationship with the Father. You will only trust a close friend with your deepest secrets and in this way, God is no different. The links below are disturbing to me. I am not fearful because I know that I am saved and as in the Passover of long ago, I will be passed over of the wrath of God because of the lambs blood that is on my forehead. I am not saved because of anything I have done or will do. I am saved because I received and believed and now have His Seal of the Spirit. I am His property and the devil and his agents cannot harm me. I want this to be the case for everyone. It saddens me that is not going to be the case, but please let it be the case for you. I don't mean to speak fear to you, this is not my intention. I bring GOOD NEWS to this situation for you. The GOOD NEWS is that all you have to do, is turn your life over to Christ. He made a way for us. We have a get out of jail free card. But just like in Monopoly, you need to be holding the card on that day. In Monopoly, you have to be lucky enough to get this card. With Jesus, we all have the choice, we either accept it or we don't. This is real. I knew in my Spirit of the things that are now starting to happen just as spoken to me. I am not the only one. All of the members of the Body of Christ that are truly walking in Spirit are well aware of what is going on right now. We know because we read in the Word how this would happen and we talk with God daily. This is not a game, this is real. I beg of you to repent (turn from the ways of this world with Christ and not of your own works). Whatever it is, Christ will change your desires if you truly BELIEVE He can and will. If you don't understand the significance of the links below, it is ok. I just want you to pay special attention to the words of Matthew. Please do not be deceived!! REMEMBER HOW THE LORD HAS SAID HE WILL COME AND NEVER FORGET IT!! If it does not happen exactly how He said, it is not Him.


http://www.share-international.org/av/v_maitreya_emergence.htm

http://www.share-international.org

Mt 24:23 At that time if anyone says to you, ‘Look, here is the Christ!’ or, ‘There he is!’ do not believe it.
Mt 24:24 For false Christs and false prophets will appear and perform great signs and miracles to deceive even the elect—if that were possible.
Mt 24:25 See, I have told you ahead of time.
Mt 24:26 “So if anyone tells you, ‘There he is, out in the desert,’ do not go out; or, ‘Here he is, in the inner rooms,’ do not believe it.
Mt 24:27 For as lightning that comes from the east is visible even in the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
Mt 24:28 Wherever there is a carcass, there the vultures will gather.
Mt 24:29 “Immediately after the distress of those days “ ‘the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from the sky, and the heavenly bodies will be shaken.’
Mt 24:30 “At that time the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and all the nations of the earth will mourn. They will see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the sky, with power and great glory

CONTINUE ON IN SPIRIT

Gal 3:2 I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by observing the law, or by believing what you heard?
Gal 3:3 Are you so foolish? After beginning with the Spirit, are you now trying to attain your goal by human effort?
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It is important to remember after we turn to Jesus, it is His Spirit and power that we rely on and not our own. Too many times we make things much harder on ourselves in thinking that we need to use our own strength to fulfill our purpose, rather than letting the Spirit guide us. When we walk in obedience to the what we hear of the Spirit, and trust God instead of our own understanding of a matter, He can move in mighty ways through us. The key is obeying God.

IS IT A BELIEF OF YOURS OR TRADITION?

Mk 7:6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Mk 7:7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’
Mk 7:8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men.”
Mk 7:9 And he said to them: “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
Mk 7:10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’
Mk 7:11 But you say that if a man says to his father or mother: ‘Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),
Mk 7:12 then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
Mk 7:13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
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A funny example of a tradition for you, that a friend sent to me:

Now and then for a family get together Sheila will cook a ham. Before she bakes it she cuts the end off. Like a BIG chuck she cuts off.
I asked her why and she said that's the way her mom showed her to do it. She called her mom and asked her why she did that, thinking she would hear something about the flavor or something like that she says...that's the way her mom did it so that's what she does.
Well Sheila took this as a mission and upon further research; and talking to family she found out that it was something that her great gmaw did, and she did it because she did not have a pan big enough to fit the ham.
so for 3 generations they have been cutting the end off the ham

Imagine that!! All of that wasted ham because of a tradition that had been passed down year after year, until the original reason they were doing this had been lost. Everyone at a certain point was simply just doing what they were told for the recipe. They did not realize that the end was being cut off to suite the roasting pan of one person, and it had nothing to do with the outcome of the ham.

I feel as if a lot of people are walking this same route in regards to their relationship with God. They have been taught to worship a certain way, and whether it resonates with their Spirit or not, they feel as if they must continue on because that is how it has always been done. I encourage you to take a look at your relationship to the Father. Does it feel like a real relationship? Are you drawing closer to God because of what you have been taught, or do you feel there is still a void that you have been unable to fill, or are there feelings of guilt or fear associated with it? I challenge you to research all of the things that you have been told, and feel to see if your heart is really into it. If not, it may be time for a Spiritual over-haul. Jesus taught many times that he wants a true relationship with you, and not a follower of tradition or ritualistic gestures performed in order to show your love for Him.

HOLD THE LINE!

A Hold The Line mission is a type of Timed Mission, where instead of completing a mission in a set time, you have to prevent the enemy completing their objective before the time runs out. This usually means you are defending your base, or a certain character, until reinforcements arrive, or vital repairs are carried out on the base. Sometimes the enemy is an overwhelming force, so actually defeating the enemy, or even surviving much beyond the time limit, would be impossible, without reinforcements or similar. Fortunately for you, victory will usually occur instantly and automatically as soon as the time runs out, even if you were moments away from defeat.
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I hear a message in my head over and over, HOLD THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, it's not the song from Toto, but that is a really good song... LOL. Where was I, oh yeah. I feel like there is a huge message for us in this regarding the Kingdom Of God. I feel as if we are God's soldiers and we need to hold the line, waiting for His re-enforcement at the end of times. We know that whenever they yell this in the movies, all of the soldiers get as close together as possible, and work as a team to hold off the enemy. While God has His Heavenly hosts assembled and ready to go on that glorious day of His return, His earthly army is presently being built. We are that army. The next time you see someone in pain, I want you to remember these words HOLD THE LINE! Do whatever you are able to in order to stay close to this person until the storm passes. Encourage them to get their strength from our Father through His Word, and keeping relationship with Him daily. Together with God, we will be victorious. Remember that even though it may seem as if you are moments from defeat, Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in this world. We cannot see what lies ahead but that is what true Faith is all about. We know how this story ends!!

HOLD THE LINE!!!!!!!