Welcome!   1-27-23

Forgiveness! Not a popular act of obedience, but a freeing one! 

In August of last year I had a dream. In my dream there was a coach who wanted 7 men to be on his team, he was looking for men 7 ft. tall. There was a brand new motorcycle I road with a button on the left handle bar, when pushed, it gave the motorcycle more power. Each time the button was pushed the motorcycle would react differently, go faster, more power, drive normal, and fighting mode. Same motorcycle, but a different motor with each push of the button.   

The same coach, (which  represented Holy Spirit in my dream) as I was looking over a valley, on the other side of the valley, there was a white cloud and a grey storm cloud in the sky. The white cloud was just under the grey cloud, the coach said to me, "you need to rise above the storm." 

Holy Spirit keeps brining this dream to my remembrance, I believe there is a reason for that. 

To me it meant I needed to rise above the storm that is in my life! It is also telling me I need to rise above whatever storms that may come my way.

The storm in my life caused un-forgiveness. Forgiving, places me above the storm. Which means not rehearsing the cause of the storm, that just reopens the already scabbed wound. 

I needed to be the bigger person, for lack of a better way of saying it. I needed to forgive the person that did me and my husband wrong. God knew about the situation before it happened. He knew what my husband and I would be facing, and He knew I would need to forgive! 

There is more to the dream which I won't go into except to say, I knew as long as I paid attention, and was aware of the power of each motor, I would be able to ride-drive the motorcycle. 

Philippians 3:13-14 ...forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, 14 I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

When we ask God to forgive us, He forgives us and forgets! He doesn't throw our past (what He forgave) in our face. He doesn't complain about what I did that He paid the price for to free me from. That's what I was doing. 

Not forgiving is a Blessing blocker, it will stop your prayers from being answered. That's what it was doing to me. I did what I knew to do to get my prayer answered. But I forgot one thing, forgiveness! I couldn't figure out, the why? Why wasn't I receiving the manifestation of what I was believing for? Then Holy Spirit spoke to my heart, you need to forgive,...! 

It hit me, that's why! Then, God added another name to the list. I knew I was supposed to text this person and forgive him. I thought I had deleted his number from my phone when a member of my family was no longer under his supervision. I still had his number, that was my confirmation. I text him as soon as I seen I still had his number.

When you forgive someone, it's ok if they don't respond in a manner you feel they should. Obedience to Gods Word is the key! Their response isn't. It's also ok if you simply forgive in your heart asking God to forgive you for holding un-forgiveness. The person that you need to forgive may have passed away, God knows the heart, so let un-forgiveness go and be free. 

- Forgiveness will keep you from the tormentor. Matthew 18:32-35. We forgive for ourselves, it frees us! It isn't saying what the other person(s) did was right.  It's not about them, it's about me, it's about you, and allowing God to bring wholeness into our lives! 

- To me, forgiveness means not talking about the situation, (So and so did this and that, oh, but I forgive them.) and treating the person as if it never happened, I've done that before, I had too, I've had to love no matter what! Trust is another issue. If Gods healing power is allowed, or if true repentance has happened, trust will be restored. 

- We need to forgive so we can be forgiven. Mark 11:26

I don't feel I can write about anything I haven't gone through myself and how God has taught me as I went through the storm. Notice I said "through" the storm, not camping out in the storm, that can be deadly, especially if lightening is involved. But going all the way through, as in keep moving through until the storm is over, it's in your past, at your back.

There are times when forgiveness seems the hardest thing to do, however, on the other side of forgiveness is freedom!

Blessings 

 Welcome!   1-26-23

I have said on fb lives and in my blogs, that He (God) is Trust... Worthy! Some may be wondering what the, dot dot dot, after the word, Trust, are there for? 

It's been on my heart to explain the, ...

I have heard that, dot dot, dot, or... is telling the reader that there is more to the story, or more come. When He Is Trust... Worthy!  dropped in my spirit, I sensed God was saying, no matter the situation. Each dot represents a situation, knowing the dots continue to any situation we face in life.

There is going to be a continuation of life, in each and every situation He Is Trust...Worthy! He Is Faithful! 

When a couple get married, the covenant promise they have made with each other along with the consummation of the marriage creates a oneness, a faithfulness, a trust that should never be broken.  If the covenant they have is broke, the trust is broke. God does not break His promises-His covenant He will not break. Psalm 89:34.   He is a covenant keeper!  When everything goes awry, He keeps His part of the covenant! If something goes wrong, we need to look in the mirror, asking Holy Spirit to reveal to us where we missed it, and repent, meaning, stop doing it and move forward allowing Holy Spirit to guide you. 

Somethings , however, that a person gives into or allows into their life becomes a stronghold (something that dominates) that only Jesus came set us free from because He is the one who took the addiction, perversion, or whatever the stronghold is on himself and paid the price in His blood for our freedom. That's another reason He Is Trust...Worthy! He already paid for it, (whatever we need) it's a done deal! Forgiveness and Freedom is already ours, we simply need to repent and receive it! 

In God there is continuation of everything, a creative force. As long as God is, we are. Even when we pass on, or the return of Christ, which ever comes first, our spirit will continue to live throughout eternity. 

Eternity: infinity or unending time.   

-- a state to which time has no application; timelessness   

-- endless time after death

I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. Revelation 22:13. NKJV The Passion Translation in verse 13 reads, the Beginning and the Complete. 

Trusting Him allows that creative force to create, bringing forth what His Word says is ours. Wholeness in every area of life, spiritual, physical, social, financial,  in our families, it's all ours in Christ! Now the just shall live by faith...Hebrews 10:38.  for in Him we live and move n ad have our being...'For we also are His offspring'. Acts 17:28

In the Greek dictionary Alpha means, "First" or "Beginning". 

In the Greek, Beginning means, beginning, organ, first; ruler, power, authority, position of authority, domain. 

In the Greek, End means, end, result, outcome, finish, goal, revenue, tax, duty. 

When I looked up the meaning of the word "End" from Revelation 22:13, in the Greek translation, the word that jumped out at me was, finish, as in, He paid the price and completed-finished the work on the cross, therefore, that makes Him, Trust...Worthy! He's already taken care of it, we simply need to trust Him!    Jesus is our source of everything we need, end of story!    IF, we Trust Him to be!

We can Trust Him for any...thing...we...need...! 

He's Worthy of our Trust, physically

He's Worthy of our Trust, financially

He's Worthy of our Trust, to restore marriages

He's Worthy of our Trust to free a anyone from a drug addiction

He's Worthy of our Trust to set an alcoholic free

He's Worthy of our Trust to set a sex addict free...

I hope you can see that Jesus took all our sins, sicknesses, diseases, poverty, addiction, mental torment on Himself, He became sin for us so we can be made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. 

Any and every stronghold has been defeated! It's up to us to receive our freedom.

Colossians 2:13-15  You were dead because of your sin and because your sinful nature was not cut away. Then God made you alive with Christ, for He forgave all our sins. 14 He cancelled the record of the charges against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross. 15 In this way, He disarmed (or stripped off) the spiritual rulers and authorities. He shamed them publicly by His victory over them on the cross. 

-He healed our oldest grandson who was 3 months preemie and doctors said who be a vegetable.

-He brought our daughter home who was estranged for 7 1/2 years.

-He healed our marriage, now it's amazing! 

Man said the first two things would never happen. But with God all things are possible!

I wanted to leave my marriage but God said to stay and love my husband no matter what. So I did, Now our marriage is awesome! But it took me knowing, He Is Trust...Worthy! 

'Blessings

 Welcome!   1-17-23

God looks at the heart! 

First let me say, Im not saying cussing is ok, in fact, to me, depending on the situation, cussing makes the person look ugly. 

There are times, however,  I believe people cuss as a way of feeling stronger, empowered in life, it's their defense mechanism .

Throughout my life I have not been one to cuss, it's not who I am. In fact, when I have cussed on rare occasions it not only felt wrong, but I knew it wasn't me and not the way I wanted to be. 

All of that being said, the other day for whatever reason I was thinking about people that cuss, when it came to me, just popped in my spirit, "Jesus looks at the heart". That tiny statement got me thinking about the lives of well known people who have passed away who had professed Jesus as the Lord of their lives, and those living who profess Jesus as Lord of their lives that have had or who now have hang ups.

A while back, probably a few months ago now, I was watching an interview between Paul Crouch Jr and his wife, she was interviewing him. During the interview Paul Jr talked about the reasons he left TBN. To be honest, part of what he said wasn't surprising, I seen what was happening to a degree. Other things he disclosed during the interview were surprising to me, but left me meditating on how good, loving, and forgiving God is! 

People can be quick to judge and throw stones, forgetting they need to first get the plank out of their own eye and drop the stone they are so ready to throw. I know I've been there, I'm preaching to the choir. 

What Paul Jr said during the interview about his parents was really surprising to me, but again, it got me thinking, about the heart, God sees our heart! He sees the motive behind everything thing we do, good or bad. He also sees the struggles we go through, knowing we have an enemy who takes pleasure in destroying us any way he can, and using those struggles to try and do just that. 

I'm grateful that God looks at my heart and sees no matter the struggles I go through and the times I have fallen, that He is my First love! I am quick to repent when I know I have done wrong and I choose to surrender my life to Him, knowing He absolutely has my very best interest at heart! 

Jeremiah 29:11   I'll show up and take care of you as I promised and bring you back home. I know what I'm doing. I have it all planned out--plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for. MSG 

John 10:10   The thief does not come expect to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 

Matthew 7:5  Hypocrite! First remove the plank from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's.

John 8:7..."He who is without sin among you, let him throw the first stone" 

1 Samual 16:7  ...For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.   (emphasis mine)

There is a reason for everything that happens in life. Cussing, drinking, doing drugs, promiscuous sex,  rebellion, anger, lying, and the list goes on! God sees the heart so he knows the reason behind it all. He knew what we were going to do and say, yet He died to free us from the bondage of it all, despite it all! 

God sees and knows our heart! I'm So Thankful!

Blessings!

 Welcome!     1-15-23

Scrolling on fb, I came across a post from Anita Alexander, she's from Australia and to me, goes deep into the Word of God. . At first I simply shared the post to place it on my page for a later read and clicked out of fb.

About thirty minutes later I clicked back on to fb again and read her post. She talked about faith. The Goliaths-giants and trials vs faith in God. As I was reading her post, towards the end something she said nudged my spirit, I seen it in a different light. In, 1 Samual 17, David said to Goliath, "who shall defy the armies of the living God". It hit my spirit, we, as Christians, are the army of the living God! Even though I knew this, it hit me, being apart of Gods army, if I-we stay in faith knowing that He is the Commander and chief, using the battle plan of Faith in His Word, I-we are unstoppable ! 

What will stop us in our tracks is unbelief! What will advanced us and keep advancing us is Faith in God as we run toward our Goliaths. Our enemy, satan, is not going to just give up ground. We, as the army of God have to take our ground back with the force-faith. Matthew 11:12. 

Faith is a force field, it draws what you are believing for to you, just as fear does. Since faith without works is dead, James 2:26. We have to put feet to our faith and advance as God directs. 

Defy: Openly resist or refuse to obey.    To challenge to do something considered impossible. 

Years ago I was let go from a lead-second in command position at a Beauty School. I was being too vocal on the students behalf. I applied for unemployment. The HR director of the school who happened to be the owners wife lied about the reason I was let go, stating many untruths. When I had a phone meeting with the a woman from the unemployment office she started naming off the reasons for my dismissal, I said "whoo whoo, what? stating none of that happened, then telling her of the responsibilities I had that I completed on or before they were suppose to be done, etc... By the time we ended our phone conversation I sensed I had won my case, however, I stood on-held strong to the scriptures that dropped in my spirt in 1 Samual 17, stating that I have a covenant with God and that what I was up against was an uncircumcised philistine. Meaning, God had my back, not theirs. God won my case for me because I trusted Him and stood on His Word to me! 

Many, I believe, do not trust Gods Word because they have not experienced the power of His Word manifesting in their lives. I know that was me until I dared to believe His Word despite everything and everyone that was screaming the opposite. The storm was raging around me, but I had to keep my eyes focused on Him! Not the circumstances or the voices trying to scream in my ear. I had to shut my eyes and close my ears to everything and everyone except God, and stay in His presents. Staying in His presence didn't mean I was always on my knees before Him, it meant that when the storm would try to get loud I had to say, peace! Be still! Gods Word says... Quoting the scriptures I was standing on and believing to manifest in my life, despite the storm! 

We can be in a storm and not feel the effects of it if we are resting in God, meaning trusting Him, knowing He is our source of everything we need, He is the great I AM! He is whatever we need Him to be, whenever we need Him to be it. Labor to enter His rest. Hebrews 4:9-11 So there is a special rest (or Sabbath rest) still;l waiting for the people of God. 10 For all who have entered into Gods rest have rested from their labors, just as God did after creating the world. 11 So let us do our best to enter that rest. But if we disobey God, as the people of Israel did, we will fall. NLT 

Verse 10 AMPC reads; For he who has once entered [God's] rest also has eased from [the weariness and pain] of humans labors, just as God rested from those labors peculiarly His own. 

These scriptures tell me that my labor should be in studying Gods Word, embedding it into the soil of my heart so that my faith will grow in Him! In Him I rest knowing He has already won the battle! I simply need to fight the good fight of faith in His finished work on the cross knowing I win, because He won! 

Colossians 2:15 [God] disarmed the principalities and powers that were ranged against us and made a bold display and public example of them, triumphing over them in Him and in it [the cross]. AMPC 

While the storms of life are seen and heard, faith in Gods Word is a spiritual unseen force, when declared it is a form of matter that creates to bring His Word to pass. God is always creating. He will do whatever it takes to bring His Word to pass because we dare to believe Him, despite all else! 

David didn't just know about God, he KNEW God! He trusted Him! He KNEW GOD WAS, AND IS, TRUST...WORTHY! 

Blessings!

 Welcome!     1-3-23

Something annoyed me while watching a few highlights of family feud. I needed to stop and think about why I was annoyed.

The question on fast money was something like this, name a place you go to that you hope it hurries up and gets over? The number one answers was, church. Initially, I said to my husband, "then why bother going if you want to hurry up and leave?"  I had to stop and think about the, why?

I thought about churches that want their own agenda instead of allowing the power-anointing of Holy Spirit to fill the sanctuary. One church I attended comes to mind as I am writing this. I remember the praise team was in worship before God, I was on my knees before Him allowing Holy Spirit to have His way. Then, all of the sudden, the worship stopped and the Spirit, for lack of a better word, was silenced.

After experiencing, but not understanding why Holy Spirit was being silenced, Having a heart for praise and worship, I joined the praise team only to find out we were only given  so many minutes in the service for praise and worship, regardless. One of the leaders leading the service would walk up and stand beside the pulpit next to the person leading worship until she stopped the worship, handing him the microphone. I have nothing good to say about that.  I do know our enemy is not each other but principalities and powers-evil spirits people have given into-allowed in their life, I have been guilty as we all have been at one time or another therefore, grace is required. 

The morning after watching family feud I needed to retract the statement I made to my husband. I wasn't upset with the people going to church, but to the leaders of the churches. 

As I have matured in the things of God, I have often wondered why I was not taught curtain things in the different churches I have been a member of through out my life? (Just throwing that thought out there)

 Allowing Holy Spirit to flow, to me, means I must surrender all of the hidden places of my heart to the Lord, allowing crushing of my flesh to take place. It means not living my life to please my flesh, or man, but God. When I allow the crushing of the bad stuff to be pushed out of me, it allows room for His power to fill me and over flow through me. 

The Bible says my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, Therefore, I need to treat it as such so He will feel comfortable living in me. Crushing is never easy, but it is necessary. In the past it's meant I had to admit things to myself about myself that were hard to admit. But once I admitted them and repented-walked away from... It allowed room for  more of Holy Spirit. 

It requires one to have a hunger for God and the things of God more than anything else. As we draw closer to Him, that becomes a greater desire! Putting Him and His Word first place. That's one of the main reasons I get up so early in the morning, to spend the first hours of my day with God, just me and Him. One on one time. Giving Him the first part of my morning. 

I have said on one or more of my FB lives that I want God to use me and see people healed, delivered-demonic chains broke off, and set free! This requires total surrender to God on my part. Each level of anointing-power God trusts me with, God requires something of me. Surrender, I believe, is what many leaders in the body of Christ do not want to do. It requires too much of them. It would perhaps mean their name would not be known. I know of one pastor that wanted the approval of man, man's approval to him was important. His church closed down. It may mean they shouldn't drink an alcoholic beverage. Surrender does mean no sleeping around, dropping all forms of pride, forgiveness and walking in love even when it hurts the flesh to do so. Surrender mans different things to each individual, that's between you and God. 

There have been too many cracked open doors for satan to walk through, leaving the door wide open for the enemy to wreak havoc and hurt people in the body of Christ, causing spectators to want no part of what they see.

Pride is why satan fell, and it is why we see leaders who are being exposed-falling. They open the door to the enemy by giving into the spirits of greed, lust, etc, their soul is required of them. Without repentance they will hear, depart from Me, I never knew you. 

They hide behind the cross instead of kneeling before it.

Matthew 7:22-23 Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord', shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, 'Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name? 23 Then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!

If God will use a donkey, He will use anyone! But will the life God has used in the church walls cause others to stumble and fall away from God outside of the church walls were the hidden places of the heart are exposed-the skeletons, hidden in the closet have been exposed. I've seen it happen! And the blame is placed on God. 

There is a song I had a solo part in while on the praise team at a churches I attended for several years. The words to my solo was, "my life is not my own, to You I belong, I give myself, I give myself away." Those words have been ringing in my ear the past couple of days. 

Giving yourself / myself solely to God so His power can freely flow through you / me, that is when people will not be in a hurry to leave church. When the presents of God is so strong that people are healed in their seats without being touched by human hands. When the Love of God, the joy of the Lord, the peace of God, the power of Holy Spirt, the cloud-presents and the fire (not natural fire, but supernatural fire) of God is so heavy that all anyone one will want to do is bask in His presents! That's when NO ONE will be in a hurry to leave. 

It has already begun! Mario Murillo and Sean Feucht are only two examples of many who will not compromise-bow to man or the ani-christ agenda. Do they have opposition? absolutely yes, they do! However, God always opens the doors for them and makes a way for them to do what He has called-directed them to do. He's protected them and their families. They have surrendered their lives to Him! People are drawn to the presents of God that protrudes out of them. Their surrender to God is bringing salvation-healing and deliverance to others! They know the souls of people are at stake, that it is NOT about them, but souls! 

God has been speaking to me to surrender more of myself to Him! How about you? 

Blessings!