Good morning my most wonderful, beloved World Wide Family! I love you! I have missed you for almost three weeks. I am so very happy to be talking to you all now at this early morning hour. I pray that you all are exceedingly and abundantly blessed above all that you could ask or imagine.
Dear Lord God Almighty, Thank You for hearing our prayers. Thank You that You say in Your WORD, the Bible, that where 2 or 3 are gathered together, You are right here amongst us. We are millions gathered to talk to You Lord and even though we may not be in close proximity, You are right here with every one of us right where we are, (Emmanuel-God with us). Thank You that You not only hear our prayers but You also love it when we pray and talk to You Abba Adonai, (Daddy, Lord and Master).
Thank You that You say that You know what we need even before we ask You Lord. Thank You also that sometimes the answers to our prayers are “wait”, or “no” and not always just “yes” like we think they should be. You always have our best interest in mind and You always know what we need. You live outside of time, from eternity past to eternity future and you know exactly what will be happening to us every moment of our lives and we have no clue.
Thank You Lord that sometimes when we go through trials and tribulations, turmoil and even tragedies, You are present with us right there in the midst of our greatest need. Thank You Lord that You keep Your angels encamped around us and You protect our families for all generations. Thank You that You have promised us that ALL things work together for good for those who love Christ Jesus and are called according to His purpose.
Thank You for choosing us Lord, before we were even formed in our Mother’s wombs. We are Your chosen generation. We will live our lives to bring You precious souls so we can all live together in Heaven for all eternity.
Thank You that during these potentially perilous times that we may be experiencing in our lives, You are building character in us. You are making us able to reflect Your Image to the whole world. You are using us to draw people unto You. You remove the darkness from our souls and Your Light and Your Perfect Love shine forth from us to draw others unto You Lord. Help us to represent You correctly as You desire to be represented.
Please Lord, help us to live for You, worship You, love You, love Your people, witness to others about You, help others with our love, time, finances and resources. And help us to do all of this in the manner that You want us to carry out these actions so we can bring You glory and pleasure. We are Your empty vessels, we are Your conduits, Your distribution centers to a hurting world. Use us as Your oracles and scribes. Give us Your Holy Spirit and Dunamis Power Lord to carry out all that YOU wish. It is all about You Lord. It is not about us, it never has been. We love You Lord. We ask this in Jesus Precious Name and thank You in advance Lord.
I wanted to give a brief testimony, ( confession) of one of the addictions that I struggled with for many years. (Sadly to say; even when I was a Christian.) The purpose of my sharing this is because one of the things that helped me on the road to recovery was that I found out that I was not the only one who made this mistake and had this addiction. I found out that I was not alone.
One of the main schemes of the devil is to make us think that we are the “only one” doing this or the other horrendous thing, we are horrible for doing what ever it may be, God no longer loves us and we can no longer have a relationship with God because we are so bad.
This could not be farther from the truth. Don’t get me wrong, God does hate sin and sin separates us from our intimate relationship with our God while we are living in the sin. However He loves us all so very much that He gave His Only Beloved, Begotten Son, Jesus Christ to die a horrendous death for us. He took all of our sins upon Himself, Who was/is perfect and Who knew no sin. In exchange He covers us with His Precious Blood and made us the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
My addiction was gambling. I must first say that prior to the development of this addiction and since I have been delivered from it by the Healing Power of the Holy Spirit; I was/am very frugal with my finances, (when it comes to myself and my own needs. When it comes to others and using my finances for the Lord-the sky is the limit.) I would NEVER have wasted even a penny at a casino prior to the addiction.
Let me tell you how this all started. My husband had killed himself and I was alone with a young child and teenager to raise. I had been married for almost 18 yrs . I worked, and I lived my life totally devoted to my family and never had time for activities outside of my family. (Except of course church.) I never even had desires to spend time with others, only my family, except an occasional social gathering, child’s birthday party, etc.
Now I was alone. The silence was so loud. I was so broken. My oldest daughter told me I needed to get out and she had just the place to go …to the casino. I went with her and I hated it. I went again and hated it even more. Then I started getting drawn into a desire to go there. I won a little money. Even though I didn’t know anyone at the casinos it was kind of exciting. I was with huge crowds of people and not “as alone”. I was able to take my mind off of my pain at least while I was there. It became amazing, and I was becoming addicted.
Well I have to go for now. I will continue this testimony next time we speak and also jot down the Bible verses that I have referred to in this letter to you. I love to write out the Bible verses for all of you because the Bible says that God’s WORD shall not return to Him void but it shall accomplish what He pleases and prosper in the thing that He sent it to prosper in. To me this means that even if some of you out there are not yet Believers in Christ; you are being exposed to His WORD.
Until we talk again. I love you all so much and even more importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless you and your families.