Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family! I love you all so very much! I am on a roll now with more frequent communication to you all, my family. Yeah! I am sitting at a coffee shop and wanted to begin my morning by writing to all of you.
Dear LORD God, we love You. We thank You that You have blessed us with another day in which we can worship You and spend time with You. We thank You that You desire to spend life with us. You created us to be Your eternal family. You then paid the Ultimate Price by sending Your Perfect Son Jesus Christ of Nazareth to die for us and to ensure that we all have equal access to this awesome life with You, LORD. It’s all about You.
I’m so sorry LORD when I/we fall short of the awesome life that You prepared for us from the beginning of time. I’m so sorry for the sin that is rampant in Your/our world. But, LORD, I am thankful that Your love is perfect and that You alone are the Author and Finisher of our lives.
We may have started off badly, we may have had horrible things done to us, we may even be in a mess right now; but You will not leave us there LORD. You provide a way of escape for us. We can run to You as your children.
LORD protect us. Keep Your angels around us. Touch our hearts. Lead us by Your still waters and restore our souls. Cleanse our minds. Empty us of ourselves and fill us with You LORD. Prepare the hearts of Your children to receive Your WORD. We love You LORD. We worship You.
Raise up people with finances, LORD, who will pour into nations that need clean water, food, clothing, and medical care. If we all do at least a little, a lot can be done. Bless us to be a blessing to others, for You LORD.
Please protect those who are being persecuted for their faith and belief in You LORD. Protect all of their generations. Show Yourself miraculously to them, LORD. Let us all realize that this life here is so very temporary; and then there is eternity. Let us have a burning desire to spend eternity with You LORD.
We thank You in advance LORD. We love You and praise You. We ask this in the Precious Name of Jesus. Amen. Glory to God!
I noticed some errors in my last letter to you. I’m sorry. I try to proof read but I missed some. 🙁
Last night we had our potluck celebration for our last night of Bible College. Many will be back next semester but a few of us will be graduating. I left with mixed emotions. Sad that it is over and happy that I completed the Bachelor’s Program in Biblical Studies. I plan to continue my studies of the LORD forever!
I feel ecstatic for the life changing experience that I have been so blessed to have. My life has been totally transformed because of the teaching of the WORD of God. The Scripture says that The WORD is medicine! It has surely healed me and helped me to mature in the LORD.
His WORD has cleansed my spirit and soul; healed my mind, broken emotions and fractured personality. (This will be an ongoing process throughout my life, but I know that I am more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus!) Of course God’s WORD makes me more sensitive to the needs of others and to God’s desire for my life.
His WORD is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. His Holy Spirit leads me to the destiny and purpose that God created me for. Also, very importantly, God help’s me to victoriously win the war against my own worst enemy…me! God gives me wisdom! He says I have the Mind of Christ.
There is an awesome domino effect of this transformation that God has done in my life. From my life forward to all my generations; we shall serve the LORD! They are blessed for a thousand generations. I speak forth life and ‘VICTORY in the LORD’ for all of my generations. As for me and my house; WE SHALL SERVE THE LORD!
Do they all live like this right now in the natural? This is not always evident. However, God tells us in His WORD the Bible; to speak those things that are not as though they are. I most definitely will follow this TRUTH of GOD! I will do the spiritual warfare that God tells me to do. I will always fast and pray for them, and speak God’s WORD of life over them. Their eternal lives depend on it.
I would like to take this opportunity to share how God healed me and SET ME FREE from deep, dark depression, grief and isolation. This has been a journey. Some aspects happened immediately and miraculously, some took longer. Growth is ongoing.
All of my healing happened because of the LORD, His Holy Spirit, His WORD and tenacious faith in Him and His Truth. The greatest and most rapid transformation happened during Bible College. All Glory to God! I am eternally thankful to all of our Teachers, Administrators, Pastor Dean of the Bible College and Senior Pastor.
Many years ago I was in the deepest, darkest depression and grief over the loss of my husband. I was in a state of shock about how I was going to take care of my children and keep my mind and emotions intact.
I was so very dependent on going to church, hearing God’s WORD and going to a Single Parent’s Bible Study. The church I was going to at that time was an awesome church. They did not often seem to have a Prophetic WORD of God spoken in the service. I am not even sure whether that particular denomination would have spoken a lot about this.
BUT GOD!…All of a sudden I heard the Pastor totally change what he was preaching about and he began to be used as an oracle of God. He spoke only to me about what God had personally just told me the very night before when I was at home praying to Him. It was as if the whole world disappeared and it was just God and me in that church.
The Pastor said, “There is someone in this church right now who takes medicine to go to sleep and medicine to wake up and more than one antidepressant medication. God is telling you right now that you need to stop and He will heal you!” The Pastor then continued on with his sermon as if this had never taken place. I never took any of those medications again. We serve a MIGHTY GOD! Glory to God!
I previously mentioned that there was a mighty woman of God at the job that God had given me after my prior job had closed down. She was also a nurse. God used her to speak Words of life into my spirit. (The healing balm of Gilead.)
They used to call her the “WORD Woman”. I could call her every time when I was overwhelmed by life and she would read just the right Bible verse to me. She too was going through devastations of her own and was raising young children.
I like the saying: “God doesn’t choose the qualified, He qualifies those whom He chooses.” This is so true and awesome because it is not about us anyway. It is all about Him!
It is amazing to me that I am even writing this blog that Holy Spirit taught me how to create. I think that when I can pour out some of my life into others and share how God has healed me; I make more space for God to pour His life into me. He gives life exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask or imagine.
I still seemed to experience some underlying degree of grief, depression, shame and isolation for well over a decade. One night I went to another church and the Pastor there discerned that my situation had become a deeper type of spiritual attack. This is called a stronghold or bondage.
We have a very real enemy of our soul, satan; who roams about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. His entire goal is to steal, kill and destroy; our lives, our families, our hope, our faith, our minds, our emotions, our bodies, our belief in and relationship with the One and Only True God the Creator of the Universe.
This Pastor prayed for me. She spoke God’s healing WORD over me. She rebuked the stronghold, and the bondage and following spirits of darkness off of my life. I have never experienced grief, depression and isolation like that since that day when she prayed. The grief was completely gone. Praise God so much!
Now about the isolation and shame. I am so happy and thankful to God to say that I was healed from these last year in Bible College. Prior to this I went through life not really letting people in emotionally.
I was able to perform my roles in life well. It was as if I was an actress on the stage of life. I totally loved and engaged with my family and friends that God had blessed me with; but I would never let outsiders in and never ever talk about suicide.
Then, last year, God told me that it was time to stop this charade and be healed so that He could use me to fulfill the destiny and purpose that HE created me for. The opportunity came up to share about what God had done in my life with our Bible College group in Chapel.
The LORD opened this opportunity for me. I spoke and shared everything about the events that had previously taken place in my life that night. God has been healing me and leading me to do awesome things for Him ever since.
He taught me how to create this blog. Trust me, in the natural I was “computer illiterate”. (I still have a lot to learn, that’s what grandchildren are for.)
Well I had better go for now. I love you all so very much. I am so thankful to God for anyone who may be able to be helped by anything that I can share about our Awesome God. Living this life in a personal, intimate relationship with the LORD is amazing. I pray that you could all experience this life here with God and for all eternity.
Until we get to talk again, God bless you and your families always and keep His angels around you to protect you. I love you so much and most importantly, Jesus loves you!
HEBREWS 12:2 LOOKING UNTO JESUS THE AUTHOR AND FINISHER OF OUR FAITH: WHO FOR THE JOY THAT WAS SET BEFORE HIM ENDURED THE CROSS, DESPISING THE SHAME, AND IS SET DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF GOD. (kjv)
1 CORINTHIANS 10:13 NO TEMPTATION HAS OVERTAKEN YOU EXCEPT WHAT IS COMMON TO MANKIND. AND GOD IS FAITHFUL; HE WILL NOT LET YOU BE TEMPTED BEYOND WHAT YOU CAN BEAR. BUT WHEN YOU ARE TEMPTED, HE WILL ALSO PROVIDE A WAY OUT SO THAT YOU CAN ENDURE IT. (niv)
PSALM 23 THE LORD IS MY SHEPHERD: I SHALL NOT WANT. HE MAKES ME TO LIE DOWN IN GREEN PASTURES: HE LEADS ME BESIDE THE STILL WATERS. HE RESTORES MY SOUL; HE LEADS ME IN THE PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAME’S SAKE. YEA, THOUGH I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, I WILL FEAR NO EVIL; FOR YOU ARE WITH ME; YOUR ROD AND YOUR STAFF THEY COMFORT ME. YOU PREPARE A TABLE FOR ME IN THE PRESENCE OF MY ENEMIES; YOU ANOINT MY HEAD WITH OIL; MY CUP RUNS OVER. SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE; I WILL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER. (nkjv)
PSALM 119:105 YOUR WORD IS A LAMP FOR MY FEET, A LIGHT ON MY PATH (niv)
JEREMIAH 8:22 IS THERE NO BALM IN GILEAD? IS THERE NO PHYSICIAN THERE? WHY THEN HAS THE HEALTH OF THE DAUGHTER OF MY PEOPLE NOT BEEN RESTORED. (esv)
DEUTRONOMY 7:9 KNOW THEREFORE THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD IS GOD; HE IS THE FAITHFUL GOD, KEEPING HIS COVENANT OF LOVE TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS (niv)
1 CORINTHIANS 2: 14-16 BUT THE NATURAL MAN DOES NOT RECEIVE THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT OF GOD, FOR THEY ARE FOOLISHNESS TO HIM; NOR CAN THEY KNOW THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIRITUALLY DISCERNED. BUT HE WHO IS SPIRTUAL JUDGES ALL THINGS, YET HE HIMSELF IS RIGHTLY JUDGED BY NO ONE. FOR WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD THAT HE MAY INSTRUCT HIM? BUT WE HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST.
ROMANS 4:17 ….CALL THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT AS THOUGH THEY WERE.
EPHESIANS 3:20 NOW TO HIM WHO IS ABLE TO DO FAR MORE ABUNDANTLY THAN ALL THAT WE ASK OR THINK, ACCORDING TO THE POWER AT WORK WITHIN US.