God Blog

Imagine my surprise when I hear that my daughter considers this my "God Blog"?  Upon hearing this I was immediately hurt.  I was hurt to find out that my son hasn't read it, I am hurt that I can't get my husband to read it and I am hurt that the one person in my family that has read it called it the God Blog.  I had to hang up from the phone call to go cry.  I am pouring out my inner most thoughts into this blog and that is the only feedback that I get from my family (besides that it is too long) is that it is the God Blog, I was just plain hurt.  

God immediately convicted me.  I let the enemy slip in and cause me to be offended over that harmless statement.  I tried telling God, "oh I am not offended I am just hurt."  His immediate comeback was, "WHY?"   I don't know about you, but when God talks to me His words are few but they have  impact! 

Hmm.  As I put away the last of the laundry I am still thinking about the "WHY?".  As I got ready for Good Friday service I am still thinking about the "WHY?"  Why was this bothering me?  Why was I letting it bother me?  As we are driving to the church it left my mind and I began thinking about other things.

As we walk into church I am thrilled to be there.  Thanking God that nothing interfered with my being there, I arrived safe and sound and ready to receive the word.  Apostle Daniel is going to bring an awesome word straight from God and I am there to hear it!  AMEN!  

What an awesome word it was.  Good Friday.  He spoke of the Divine Exchange at the Cross.  It was a powerful message.  I can't wait to get the CD to hear it a few more times!!!  

After the word was communion.  As I am praying prior to taking the communion I am asking forgiveness for my sins.  Yep you got it, God convicted me yet again regarding the offense I felt from the harmless statement earlier.  I was not about to take communion and not ask forgiveness when He brought it to me twice, I even repented for not repenting at the first conviction!  God is so good, I love Him!!!

As we were driving home I had to laugh at myself.  Why was I offended?  This is my blog that is based off what the Holy Spirit places upon my heart to share.  All I really talk about is God, so it IS my God Blog!  I am proud that my daughter has dubbed it that.  I am embracing the title that has been given to it.  Welcome to my God Blog!  

I pray that the posts on this God Blog bless you and you in turn bless others.

Until next time, God Bless!!

 

Destination

What do you do when God tells you that He is your destination?  That is what He told me in prayer just now.  WOW, thank you Lord, thank you Jesus, thank you Holy Spirit, thank you.

We had a webinar this morning for the Well Woman Mentoring Academy Dream to Destination course I am taking.  One of the things we are being asked to do is seek God in prayer and meditate about our vision, our dream, our purpose.    As I was praying to stay on course with my flight plan, not deviating from my destination, God told me, "I AM YOUR DESTINATION".  Wow, God really? 

In these past couple years in my walk with God, I have been learning that I do not belong to me, I do not belong to this world.  I belong to God.  So this makes perfect sense that He would tell me that He is my Destination.

Do you believe that God created you on purpose for a purpose?  Do you have a dream or a vision for your life?  There is no destination without a dream or a vision.   Every person God has created He created with the intent of the individual, not only having a dream or a purpose, but living out that dream and purpose. 

No matter where you are today, you can stop your mediocrity and start heading for your destiny.  Even the world at one time was without form, a void.  God SPOKE and the world took shape.  He decided to create the world, He decided to create made to take dominion over the world.  

Are you taking dominion over your world?  Are you making an impact on your world in a positive way?  Are you living to not be forgotten?  Are you blessing the world with your God-given gifts and dreams.  Are you leaving a legacy?    Or are you sleepwalking through this life, just existing?

Today I am to write down my vision.

Habakkuk 2:2-3 “Write the vision and make it plain on tablets, that he may run who reads it.  For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

I am encouraging you, no matter your age, no matter your background, no matter your current circumstances, to seek God and ask Him to show you your vision and your dream.  Ask Him for the destination that He desires for your life.  It is not to late too late to get out of the rat race and into the God race. 

Was it Elisha that took up the mantle of God at 80?  Eighty???  Sarah had her promised child at 90?  Can you imagine starting a family at 90???  Wow, whatever your age, you are not too old.  I am 47 years old and I am starting my dream.   I am not too old and neither are you!    

Start working toward your destination, before you know it you will be where God has destined you to be.

Until next time, God Bless!

 

Breathe

One Step at a Time, One Day at a Time. <breathe>

10:00 am Break
I have been keeping my word to God doing my fasting prelims.  Today is feeling a bit rough.  You know the light-headed-ness, the woosie feeling, the spotty vision and the headaches that come with not eating.  Trying to pray during all the noise at work.  Phone calls, printers, fax machines, and all the noise that takes place in an office of a warehouse.

I know all is well.  The enemy is messing with me via my flesh.  My flesh man is fighting my spirit man.  Pray Joela pray.  This is nothing you can't handle.  God has given you everything that you need to get through this.

Today I am only fasting until 2:00 pm.  I am seeing that I need juice for the fasts.  I am without a vehicle today, so I will just have to suck it up.   Be back in a while, need to talk to God before my break is totally over....


5:00 pm and I am home from work from a busy, busy day at work.  Thank you Lord for the job, the day and the hand holding.

I prayed at the 10:00 am break and started this post.  I was busy before the break and got slammed after.  So much so that even if I could have had a lunch at the normal time of 11:00 am, I was too busy to stop and eat.  I finally ate around 2:30 pm.  I contribute the busyness to the Lord.  He kept me so busy that I didn't have time to notice how my body was feeling.  Amen, Hallelujah, Thank You Jesus!!!

It is hard to pray when there is no break room or no place to take your lunch except at your desk that is between your boss and your co-worker.  Not to mention your phone doesn't have a do not disturb feature so it is always ringing in your ear.  No privacy to pray, which is fine it is a place of work after all.  So I did silent prayers throughout the day. 

I have the next 3 days off so the plan is to pray during the normal lunch hours.  Tomorrow I get to eat around 3:00 pm however I think I will just have to make it a snack since my husband likes dinner as close to 5:00 pm as possible.

The progress of keeping the flesh man under control has been happening thanks to the Holy Spirit.  I made a promise to God that I was going to do it, no more excuses.   I will keep you apprised of the progress.

Your continued prayers are accepted and appreciated. 

Until next time.  God Bless!!!

Fasting Prelims

God and I have been talking.  There is a prayer request that I have and He asked, "How bad do you want it?  What are you willing to sacrifice?"  Fair enough Lord, fair enough. 

We all have been made aware that I had a lack of understanding in regards to the importance of fasting and prayer.  The church will start their monthly 3-day fast on Monday, April 1st and it will go thru the 3rd.  I will have to check but I believe they fast through the day and eat soup at 6:00 pm.   When you don't intentionally think about something you really don't think about it to remember the specifics.

The Holy Spirit is holding my hand but we are in the process of building up to the corporate 3-day fast.  Today I am fasting until noon.  I am to condition my flesh in preparations for the 1st of the month fast.  One step at a time.

Prayer is an "IMPORTANT" aspect of fasting and prayer.  Otherwise it is just a spiritual diet and that is not what this is. 

When do you squeeze in the extra prayer for the fast when you work 9 - 10 hours a day?  You pray when you would have been preparing, eating and cleaning up the mess.  Simple enough.

While my husband prepared his breakfast, I went into prayer.  While I prepared our lunches and his snacks, I prayed.  At work when I wanted my morning snack, I prayed.

I should tell you that my husband are on this eating regiment (I refuse to say the word D. I. E. T.) called the Zone.  There is a lot of work to this Zone, not only prepping work but research work.  There is tons of fruits and veggies.  Somehow it all balances out.  I let him do all the research.  Too much thinking about food has me eating....where the mind goes the body follows.

As I mentioned the Holy Spirit and I are in the process of building up to all day fast or even the fast until 6:00 pm.  To build up to that I plan to fast as follows:

• Today, Tuesday until noon
• Wednesday until 1:00 pm
• Thursday until 2:00 pm
• Friday until 3:00 pm
• Saturday until 4:00 pm
• Sunday until 5:00 pm

There you are my commitment has been written down for the whole world to see and hold me accountable.  I will no longer be a weak prayer warrior.  Through prayer and fasting comes power.  The flesh man will have to lose this battle in order for my spirit man to grow and become strong.

By the way, I made it to noon and didn't wither away.  Thank you Jesus, to You be all the glory!!!  Amen!!!

I thank those that have been praying for me along with my church family. 

Until next time, God Bless!

Fasting

Friday I was helping to organize the church book store.  Found a couple books I hadn't noticed before and set them aside so I could purchase them.  As I glanced over the books were no longer where I had placed them, the cd's were there but not the books.  No problem, I continued with the task at hand before I knew what was happening my hand was picking up a DVD set of Darlene Bishop's entitled "Why we Need to Fast?", uh oh...  As the Holy Spirit was using my hand to pick this off the shelf, I was thinking, well I guess I have dodged this spiritual bullet long enough.  God is tired of waiting on me to step up to the plate or in my case, step away from it. 

You see, I have never fasted.  I take that back as a young teen of 14 the church had a weekend fast for the youth group.  It was a corporate fast with all of us together from Friday night until after church on Sunday.  However that was forever ago and not really on my own so I don't count that.

My church fasts the first three days of the month for a corporate fasting and prayer.  I have always had good intentions on participating however, the flesh always won that battle.  Never once have I been successful in my fasting.

Back to the DVD's.  I ran home and plugged in the first DVD.  OOOH the conviction that is taking place, the Holy Spirit is letting me know, "baby girl you need to fast and pray.  You are not going to have breakthrough on your vice if you don't."   I am not even half way through the first DVD and the Holy Spirit isn't letting up on me.

Time to confess, I have an issue with food.  The more I try to ignore it, the more it wins.  The more that I try to face it head on, the more it wins....what, how does that work??!?!  

Darlene talks about how we all know the fruits of the spirit, Galatians 5:22-24 but most of us skip right over the works of the flesh, Galatians 5:19-21.  WOW, you would have thought she was in the room and V8 slapped me.  Seriously that woman had me pegged.

When you get time please go read all of Galatians 5 - Freedom in Christ / Life by the Spirit.  Meditate on it.  You will be blessed.

I have already let my husband know, come the first of the month I will be joining my church in the 3-day corporate fasting and prayer.  Food is a big deal in our house, so I needed to prepare him as much as I am preparing myself.

I am about to start the 4th DVD of the series.  After I am done with all 6 discs I am going to go back through them to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Why am I telling you this, because I am going to document this journey.  This 3-day fast is just a warm up to the 21 day fast that I plan on doing twice a year - a spiritual cleans if you will.  Not to mention the monthly fasting and prayer with the church. I will no longer be a spectator, I will be an effective prayer warrior along with everyone else.

I am finding out through these DVD's the importance of fasting and prayer.

Darlene stated that you have to pray for a specific object.  You have to know what you are fasting for.  What vice do you want to get rid of.  Once she said that, the Holy Spirit said "right there girl, you are going to get rid of your vice of food through fasting and praying.  AND ONLY through fasting and prayer will you be rid of that demon Gluttony that has you in a stronghold."

Alright God, if that is what you want me to do, I will do it.  

There it is, I have told the whole world about this so there is no going back now.  I pray that you will keep me in your prayers - not only as I conquer my flesh to fast but also to agree with me that the demon that torments my every waking minute of every day is bound by the name of Jesus and cast into the deepest abyss.  Never to darken my doorstep ever again.  AMEN!

Thank you for your support and prayers.

Until next time, God Bless!!!

Garbage In - Garbage Out

This is a phrase I know all too well at work.  The data you put into the computer software is what determines what you get out of it.  If you want to get good information out of it, you have to put good information in it.

Our minds are our personal (computing) system.  What goes in the mind will come out.  The information that you allow into your mind through seeing and hearing will eventually come out of your mouth.

Sounds simple enough right?  However stop and think about all that is around you in your environment.  What do you listen to on the radio or iPod?  What do you watch on television or at the movie theater?  What do you read?  What do you search for on the internet?  What situations are taking place around you in your daily life?  What information  are you allowing into your mind? 

I have noticed that when I watched television shows that contained things that have "acceptable sin" in the modern world, after a while of watching those shows I would become numb to the truth about that sin, even "compromised" you could say.  The more I watched the "acceptable sin" the more I became "familiar" with it and the more comfortable I would become around that sin.  For example watching shows where there was out of marriage sex, or homosexuality or even something as simple as lying.  The more I watched, the more I was okay with it.   I'm not okay with the truth that I am okay with sin.

Let's go even a step further to fantasy and sci-fi.  Yes I am going there, hear me out.  Vampires, werewolves, zombies, witches, warlocks and so on.  Yes it is made to entertain us.  However in our venture to be entertained we are allowing information into our minds that doesn't line up with the word of God.   While being entertained I found myself defending a vampire named Edward and the Holy Spirit stopped me in my tracks!  I was being convicted, even though at the time I didn't know what was going on. 

A few months ago a Pastor friend of mine and I were having a conversation about what he and his wife allow to be viewed/listened by everyone in their family.  Not just the children, but the adults also.  When they are viewing/listening to something they are asked "Does this line up with the word of God and does it glorify God?"  If not, it is not being allowed to be played.  WOW, right?!?!

I have been meditating on this and the Holy Spirit pointed out to me, remember that feeling I gave you when you watched that vampire movie?  Well that movie (and others like it) doesn't glorify God, it is not in line with the word of God.  You are allowing garbage in your mind.  Can you defend the word of God the way you could that movie?  Wow You went there!!  Holy Spirit you know how to hurt a girl!  No matter how it hurt, the truth needed to be told to me.  Who better than the Holy Spirit to tell me, right?!?!

People wonder why I refuse to listen to secular music anymore and the simple answer is that I can't.  The music that I loved back in the day was what we refer to as 80's hair metal and heavy metal.  Let's just fill the ol' mind up with sex, drugs, alcohol and mayhem.   I have to change my mind-set to be in line with the mind and will of God so the secular music had to go for me.

When you change your mind-set you change the way you used to think.  You change the worldly thinking to Godly thinking.  When you change what you see and hear, you will change what you say.  

What do you talk about when you see your co-workers on Monday?  You talk about everything that you saw, heard and did over the weekend.  If you partied like there was no tomorrow, you talk about it.  If you watched a movie, you talk about what was viewed.  If you listened to a new song, you talk about the lyrics you heard.

Let's touch on the simplistic thing in regards to the people you are around.  Do they cuss?  Do they speak praises or do they speak negatively?  Do they tell cute or dirty jokes?  What comes out of their minds via their mouths?  Seriously, think about this.  I am speaking from experience here.

I work in the construction industry and you can imagine the kind of things I see and hear during a normal work day.  There are days that I am not proud of the things that are thought and said by me.  I prefer a day with more praise and worship instead of repentance.   Even though my plan for the day had Godly intentions, due to environmental factors and my information filter not being what I need it to be, my day can end in me in repentance.  Holy Spirit please continue to convict me.

If something is keeping you from God's presence, don't you want to know about it?  If I am thinking, hearing, seeing, speaking, doing (etc.) things that aren't pleasing to God, I want to know about them so I can stop doing it.  I don't know about you, but my eternal life is more important than watching a stupid movie or show, listening to a secular song or even a dirty joke, etc. (anything) that is not in line with the word of God. 

All this to say if you let garbage in, you will get garbage out.  Tapping into God not only works in you but through you.  God goes in, God comes out.

Until next time, God Bless!

World vs Word

Change the world, not the word. 

As I stared at the message the Holy Spirit had me posting on Facebook this morning I sat there meditating on the impact of this message. 

First thing that popped into my head was Romans 12:2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.

Second thing that popped into my head was the book The Wake Up Call by John Mulinde.  (Need a copy, let me know as I believe my church still has a few left for purchase)

Third thing that popped into my head was the Well Woman Mentoring Academy that I have signed up for.  (http://wellwomanacademy.org/)

For 5:30 in the morning on a Monday, that is a lot of thoughts to pop in your head when you haven't even finished your first cup of coffee! 

I am looking at this message and thinking about the images God has put in my head.  Wow.  Lots of thoughts on several different levels.  I will try to rope all these thoughts in for you. 

I am in the midst of asking God and the Holy Spirit to change my mind-set.  I want my thinking to be in line with God and His will.  (Not only for my life but for the world around me) 

God has created each of us on purpose for a purpose.  We have not been created to live  a life to just exist, we have been created for greatness.  Imagine for a moment that each person on the face of the earth agreed with God and His plan for their individual lives.  Seriously, think about it.  What a wonderful place this planet we call Earth would be if everyone lived up to their portion of God's plan! 

However with the enemy doing his job so well people fall for his lies and doubts he whispers in their heads.  Face it he has had a lot of practice at this.  Eve in the garden was his first victim.  He asked her, "Is that really what God said, Is that really what He meant?"  He had her doubting what God had instructed her.  She bought it hook, line and sinker.   We now have that seed of doubt in us due to that first fall. 

Since Eden, satan has perfected his art of lies and doubts.  He twists the Word of God to suit his agenda.  As the time marches forward, satan changes up his sales pitch but it is still lies which are meant to undermine the Word of God.  The world buys it and conforms to his twisted lies.  Remember his job is to steal, kill and destroy...everyone he can get his claws into. 

Our God never changes and He cannot lie. God is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow.  What He said yesterday still goes for today and will remain tomorrow.   

The Bible is not old fashioned, it is the Word of God.  It is not just some nice book of stories to teach in Sunday School, it is the Word of God.  It is the word of God inspired by the Holy Spirit.  The old testament is the new testament concealed.  The new testament is the old testament revealed.  Jesus is throughout the old testament however He is concealed and in the new testament He is revealed.  God is a very precise, detailed God! 

God said no other God before me, He meant it.  God said no sex out of marriage, He meant it for all time.   He said homosexuality is an abomination, He meant it.  He did not say this Word has a shelf life of 1500 years or it goes bad.  It doesn't not expire it is His Word FOREVER.  He does NOT agree with the worldly ways of being "modern".  God does not change with the times.  His people are not to change with the times either.  What He said is what He said and there is no going around it. 

The world has left God behind.  They have left His Word behind.  They have twisted the truth and doubted His word to where even Christians are disobeying His word.  Folks I am here to tell you that partial obedience, is disobedience.  Sin is sin and God hates sin.

The world has flipped their morals upside down.  Worldly thinking and morals has right is wrong and wrong is right.  This life we have been given is not a comic book, this is not Bizarro World.  

We have got to get back in line with the will of God.  The Word don't change.  We are to Change the world, not change the Word.  AMEN!

Until next time, God Bless!!!

My Source

As I sit here looking at the mentoring academy assignment for this week I am being asked about me and my relationship with God.  Do I know God?  Do I know the role God has in my life?  Who is God to Me?  Do I believe in God and His plan?  What is my belief level in God?  And the question that popped off the page to me is what name is God in my life? 

I have been thinking about that question for 2 days.  Last year I did some research and found that there are 8 redemptive Name of God.  Four of which I remember and call on each day. 

• Jehovah-Jireh - The Lord our Provider
• Jehovah-Nissi - Our Banner, a Banner of Love and Protection
• Jehovah-Rapha - Lord my Healer
• Jehovah-Shalom - Our Perfect Peace

I believe in the other four names but for some reason unbeknownst to me, I don't call on Him with those names.  

• Jehovah-Tsid-Kenu (ok, I can't pronounce this one) - The Lord is our Righteousness
• Jehovah-Shammah - He is Omnipresent
• Jehovah-Sabaoth - Lord of Hosts, our Protector
• Jevovah-Raah - Our Shepherd

When I tried to narrow it down to one I hit the proverbial brick wall.  How do you narrow down the name of God for your life when each day He is Everything?  

My pastor was able to name hers at the drop of a dime.  She and her family for the last year have been in the trial of their lives, Jehovah Shalom has kept her in perfect peace during the whole experience. 

Ok, this gave me an example to think about.  At first the quick response would be that He is my Jehovah-Rapha because of all the healing that He has done in me this past year.   Then I thought well in this economy when so many are out of work, I have my wonderful job that I love, so he is my Jehovah-Nissi.  This went on for each of His names.

He is my Father, He is my King, He is my Rock, my Protector, my Shepherd....and the list goes on and on.

How do you narrow it down when He is your EVERYTHING?!?!?!  Seriously, I ask you how?!?!?  

As I was in prayer this morning, God told me who He is to me.  He is my Source. THAT'S IT!!!  Yes You are, You are my Source! 

How simple was that I ask you?  He is my Source.  Amen!

I am writing this today to ask you, what name is God in your life?  Do you know?  Speak who you need Him to Be in your life.  

In a previous post I told you if you speak the name of the demon he shows up, well it works the same way for God.  You call Him by the Name you need and He is there!  You need healing, call Him Jehovah-Rapha.  You need provision, call Him Jehovah-Nissi.  You just have to call Him and He is there for you.

I pray that you find your Source in Him.  AMEN!

Until next time, God Bless!!!!

Patience

Today I have decide that I am going to conquer my iPod challenges.  I need to stop relying on Pastor Rob to load his music on it for me.  It is time that I learn how to load my own music, create play lists and become friends with iTunes and my iPod.   

When I first got my iPod, I loaded it with the heavy metal music I listened to back in the day.  I could barely get the music on it and that alone was a frustrating adventure for me.  This was a couple computer crashes ago.  Since then I have stopped listening to secular music and only listen to music that glorifies God.  If a song doesn't glorify Him then it doesn't keep me in the proper mind-set that I need to be in, it doesn't get put on my iPod.  

It has taken awhile however I have acquired good Godly music and have built a little collection.  I have the music from all the cd's loaded onto my computer.  I am sitting here going through each song one by one to weed out the ones that annoy me, don't glorify God, and the ones that don't line up with the word of God.  I am discovery the hard truth that just because it is labeled "Christian" on the cd doesn't mean it speaks God's truth. 

This is a task that I have avoided for years due to all the work it is going to take.  There are a lot of songs!  I don't know songs by their titles so I have to really listen to each one to know if it makes the cut or not.  This is not a job that can be done in an afternoon, it is going to take real work.  Once all the ground work is done, it will be easier to maintain when new music is acquired.   At least that is the plan.

These words/statements keep popping into my mind

• Commitment
• Discipline 
• Staying Focused
• Intentional
• If it is going to be, it is up to me
• Investment
• Opportunity

These are the same words/phrases that Pastor Ruth was telling the mentoring academy yesterday.  Hmmm

This whole experience has me thinking about how I wouldn't take classes because of the prerequisites.  For example In order to take web design, I had to have a couple other classes under my belt.  I'm not trying to get a degree, I only wanted to take the web design to help my church and boss with their websites.  By the time I get through the first prereq class they will have hired someone to do it for them.  Nope not worth it, not doing it.

Then I wanted to take a creative writing class, the list of prerequisites for that one had me near tears.  It would be almost 3-4 years before I ever got to sign up for the actual creative writing class.   Frustrated but this time through God I saw that the other classes were needed as a foundation for the creative writing.  Plus this was for my calling, my destiny.  (breathing)

Instant gratification, I want what I want, and I want it now!!!  That realization has me sitting here feeling like a 2-year old.  Is that really me?  Has this always been me?  

I know if there is something I don't know how to do, or want to do it, I will pay someone who does - to do it for me.   That is the American way, right?

However when it is something that I "want" to learn how to do and I am sitting here frustrated at all the work that it takes to get to the fun part, it has me stopping to think am I really this impatient?  I know I am praying over the lack of patience that I have with people who annoy me but am I overall impatient?

I have been watching Joyce Meyers and she was teaching about walking in the fruit of the spirit and how everyday we are to wake up and say:

"I have the fruit of the Holy Spirit in me, and I am working with the Holy Spirit to develop that fruit every day.  Every day I am growing in the fruit of the spirit.

I walk in Love
I walk in Joy
I walk in Peace
I walk in Patience
I walk in Kindness
I walk in Goodness
I walk in Faithfulness
I walk in Gentleness
I walk in Self Control
I am a self-controlled person.  I can control myself because God gave me everything I need for this life.  AMEN!"

God still has a lot to work to do in me.  At least now I am aware of what I need to pray over, not to mention that I need to be willing and obedient to work on it with Him.  Amen!  Can't do it on my own, I need the Holy Spirit to work in me, mold me, and shape me into the person that I am to be.

The things worth having in this life require work and effort on our part, or we truly don't appreciate them.

Just to think all this started over wanting a worship playlist on my iPod.  Isn't God great, I love Him!!!

Until next time, God Bless!!!  

Words

I have just finished reading "This Present Darkness" written by Frank Peretti.  The book gives you a peek into the spirit realm seeing the angels and demons that are all around us.

Yes I believe in the spirit realm.  I believe in God and I believe His word.  He tells us of the spirit realm in His word.  He also tells us that we are a spirit being, we live in a body and we possess a soul.

As I read this book I was able to correlate unexplainable feelings that I have experienced.  I remember a couple years ago I was not being able to move, sitting there in a dazed stupor as the day went by.  I was curled up in the middle of the floor shivering so cold (during summer) that I was unable to move.  This dazed gloominess lasted two weeks until I could drag myself to church to pray, worship and eat His word as if I were starving to death.

That unexplainable experience was me under attack.  A spiritual attack.  I was making great strides in my spiritual and personal growth.  Satan can't have us growing in God and making a positive difference in this world.  His demons attacked me.  (That is their job and they do it well!)

Demons are real, just as Angels are real.
Hell is real, just as Heaven is real.  
Satan is real, just as God is real. 

When I would realize I was being attacked and pushed through it, the demons would attack me with a different ailment or a different area of my life.

There are as many different types of demons as there are types of negative emotions / feelings / sicknesses / evilness etc.  Depression, that is a demon.  Lethargy, that is a demon.  Anger, Offense, Laziness, Weariness, Discouragement, Witchcraft, those are demons.  And the list goes on and on and on...  When you speak the demons name, he shows up! 

Be careful of what you say.  When you speak words with your mouth you are either prophesying or cursing yourself/others.  An example was when I would tell people that I was a migraine sufferer.  Bam, I claimed it, it was my portion!  I had them multiple times a week.  I was miserable. 

Now that I have learnt what you say is what you get, I prophesy over myself, by telling everyone, "I am well in Jesus name!"  Sickness of any kind is no longer my curse, because I don't claim it.  For those asking, no I haven't had a migraine in over a year, it is not my portion.  AMEN!

Why am I writing about this?  So you will understand the importance of your words.  There was a time that I thought I was a positive person however as I spoke negativity and I received negative things. 

My pastor has taught me to speak blessings and prophesy over myself.  I have also learnt that you don't need to wait until you can get to your pastor to pray for you.  Start praying over yourself.  God sent word to me, that my prayers are just as effective as my pastor's prayers.  I just have to open my mouth and start praying, claiming my victory, and He will listen / answer me.

My prayer is that if this post will do anything at all for you, it will have you thinking twice before speaking negatively.

Until next time, God Bless!!

 
 

No More Easter for this Christian

I have always had a problem with the "Easter" celebration customs and now I know why. Christians have turned pagan celebrations into things the church celebrates. 

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The Pagan Easter Celebration "Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.

Easter is a day that is honored by nearly all of contemporary Christianity and is used to celebrate the resurrection of Yeshua.  The holiday often involves a church service at sunrise, a feast which includes an "Easter Ham", decorated eggs and stories about rabbits.

Those who love truth learn to ask questions, and many questions must be asked regarding the holiday of Easter.
Is it truly the day when Yeshua arose from the dead? Where did all of the strange customs come from, which have nothing to do with the resurrection of our Savior?

The purpose of this tract is to help answer those questions, and to help those who seek truth to draw their own conclusions.

The first thing we must understand is that professing Christians were not the only ones who celebrated a festival called "Easter."

"Ishtar", which is pronounced "Easter" was a day that commemorated the resurrection of one of their gods that they called "Tammuz", who was believed to be the only begotten son of the moon-goddess and the sun-god.

In those ancient times, there was a man named Nimrod, who was the grandson of one of Noah's son named Ham.

Ham had a son named Cush who married a woman named Semiramis.Cush and Semiramis then had a son named him "Nimrod."

After the death of his father, Nimrod married his own mother and became a powerful King.

The Bible tells of of this man, Nimrod, in Genesis 10:8-10 as follows: "And Cush begat Nimrod: he began to be a mighty one in the earth. He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord. And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad,and Calneh, in the land of Shinar."

Nimrod became a god-man to the people and Semiramis, his wife and mother, became the powerful Queen of ancient Babylon.

Nimrod was eventually killed by an enemy, and his body was cut in pieces and sent to various parts of his kingdom.

Semiramis had all of the parts gathered, except for one part that could not be found.

That missing part was his reproductive organ. Semiramis claimed that Nimrod could not come back to life without it and told the people of Babylon that Nimrod had ascended to the sun and was now to be called "Baal", the sun god.

Queen Semiramis also proclaimed that Baal would be present on earth in the form of a flame, whether candle or lamp, when used in worship.

Semiramis was creating a mystery religion, and with the help of Satan, she set herself up as a goddess.

Semiramis claimed that she was immaculately conceived.

She taught that the moon was a goddess that went through a 28 day cycle and ovulated when full.

She further claimed that she came down from the moon in a giant moon egg that fell into the Euphrates River.

This was to have happened at the time of the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Semiramis became known as "Ishtar" which is pronounced "Easter", and her moon egg became known as "Ishtar's" egg."

Ishtar soon became pregnant and claimed that it was the rays of the sun-god Baal that caused her to conceive.

The son that she brought forth was named Tammuz.

Tammuz was noted to be especially fond of rabbits, and they became sacred in the ancient religion, because Tammuz was believed to be the son of the sun-god, Baal. Tammuz, like his supposed father, became a hunter.

The day came when Tammuz was killed by a wild pig.

Queen Ishtar told the people that Tammuz was now ascended to his father, Baal, and that the two of them would be with the worshipers in the sacred candle or lamp flame as Father, Son and Spirit.

Ishtar, who was now worshiped as the "Mother of God and Queen of Heaven", continued to build her mystery religion.

The queen told the worshipers that when Tammuz was killed by the wild pig, some of his blood fell on the stump of an evergreen tree, and the stump grew into a full new tree overnight. This made the evergreen tree sacred by the blood of Tammuz.

She also proclaimed a forty day period of time of sorrow each year prior to the anniversary of the death of Tammuz.

During this time, no meat was to be eaten.

Worshippers were to meditate upon the sacred mysteries of Baal and Tammuz, and to make the sign of the "T" in front of their hearts as they worshiped.

They also ate sacred cakes with the marking of a "T" or cross on the top.

Every year, on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox, a celebration was made.

It was Ishtar's Sunday and was celebrated with rabbits and eggs.

Ishtar also proclaimed that because Tammuz was killed by a pig, that a pig must be eaten on that Sunday.

By now, the readers of this tract should have made the connection that paganism has infiltrated the contemporary "Christian" churches, and further study indicates that this paganism came in by way of the Roman Catholic System.

The truth is that Easter has nothing whatsoever to do with the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ.

We also know that Easter can be as much as three weeks away from the Passover, because the pagan holiday is always set as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox.

Some have wondered why the word "Easter" is in the the King James Bible.

It is because Acts, chapter 12, tells us that it was the evil King Herod, who was planning to celebrate Easter, and not the Christians.

The true Passover and pagan Easter sometimes coincide, but in some years, they are a great distance apart.

So much more could be said, and we have much more information for you, if you are a seeker of the truth.

We know that the Bible tells us in John 4:24, "God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth."

The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits,hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon.These are all antichrist activities!

Satan is a master deceiver, and has filled the lives of well-meaning, professing Christians with idolatry.

These things bring the wrath of God upon children of disobedience, who try to make pagan customs of Baal worship Christian.

You must answer for your activities and for what you teach your children.

These customs of Easter honor Baal, who is also Satan, and is still worshiped as the "Rising Sun" and his house is the "House of the Rising Sun."

How many churches have "sunrise services" on Ishtar's day and face the rising sun in the East?

How many will use colored eggs and rabbit stories, as they did in ancient Babylon.

These things are no joke, any more than Judgement day is a joke.

I pray to God that this tract will cause you to search for more truth.

We will be glad to help you by providing more information and by praying for you.

These are the last days, and it is time to repent, come out and be separate.  

- Last Trumpet Ministries International

I will be going through my house and getting rid of things that have been accumulated over the years that are related to the Easter celebration - asking God for forgiveness.  Even my Snoopy things, yes that is how serious I am about this.  It may be cute but I am not willing to compromise on my faith. 

Resurrection Sunday is March 31st this year and I pray that you all have a great day and start out by going to a good bible based, praying church.  Worship our Lord for He is worthy.  Thank Him for doing what none of us could ever conceive of doing - sending your perfect child to their death for the sake of those that didn't/don't deserve it.  Thank Jesus for going through with it - He could have called it off at any point but was in the same mind-set as His Father.  It was necessary to save us from our own selfish sinning ways.  

I'm taking easter out of my Resurrection Sunday Celebration and I hope you will too.

Until next time, God Bless!

Blessed

Yesterday I had the honor of hosting the PICC Women’s Ministry in my home for a luncheon.  These women that are my sisters in Christ, beloved members of my church family, are also my friends.  They were there to show me support in my ministry Comfort with Comforters (CwC).  All they really knew about the ministry was what little I could tell them about in the few minutes here or there that we saw each other at church in between our duties.  

As we sat down to eat I shared with them the short video that God showed me last week to encourage me.  They got to see a sewing ministry that has been around for 5 years and has given out over 700 quilts to children needing comfort.  I shared with them that there are hundreds of sewing related community projects that have reached globally.  The video showed them that this was not just some nice little ministry with limited potential but it actually can grow to touch a lot more than the homeless in our town. 

I relayed to them how I would also like to make special quilts for kids to give to the police departments.   In Fresno I was apart of a group that participated in providing the Fresno Police Department quilts as other groups provided teddy bears for them to keep in the trunks of their cruisers.  As children were taken from unsafe or abusive homes, the kids were given a quilt and a teddy bear.  The quilt would wrap around them to give them a comforting hug as they hung tightly onto a teddy bear.  

The ladies listened intently to the vision of CwC and got to see the two comforters that had been completed to that point.  I then invited them into the sewing studio to help put one together.  They pinned the comforter sandwiches together, tied and helped put away the left over food.  Two ladies even looked online for items needed for an upcoming event at the church. 

Before the ladies left they helped me get two more comforters to the point of top stitching.  Their pinning helped me immensely as the first set of pinning is the hard part for me.   That was huge. 

They did not know what I had planned.  These ladies stepped out of their comfort zones to come help with the ministry that I have started.    It meant the world to me that instead of spending the day they way they would have preferred they came to support me and the ministry that I am trying to get off the ground.   

As much as the day was a success for CwC it was a successful day for the women’s ministry.  We ladies get together often for prayer, bible study, Sunday service however we seldom get to have time to just get to talk and get to know one another.  The fellowship that took place was welcomed.  Not just by me but all those in attendance. 

Yesterday God blessed me not only with the volunteers that I have been praying for but time with friends that will be cherished for a long time to come.  

God blesses us in many ways every day.  Some days are more subtle than others.  There are days that I know that I got through the day because of His love, grace and protection.  Yesterday for me was a joyous day and I wanted to share with you. 

We are blessed, not just to be blessed, but to BE A BLESSING! 

Until next time, God bless!