Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. It is so fabulous to be able to write to you all this morning. I awakened really early and was praying for all of you and for all of my family for all of our generations. God is so good, His mercy endures forever. Praise God that we have a Forever God. In this life so many things can be so very temporary whether we want them to be or not.
Friendships can come and go. Sometimes leaving us perplexed and in pain. Jobs can be sabotaged and removed from us when we least expect it. Many times, even though we gave them our all. This can leave us feeling devastated and disposable. Sadly, marriages fail. Unfaithfulness occurs. This leaves us afraid and apprehensive. We are unable to trust, broken and unable to see any future hope. Health can fail; physical, mental, and emotional . We can become frail and fractured. People can, (will), fail us. Even our own precious children. They can turn away from us or turn against us. They can shatter the dreams we had for them into a million pieces. Depression can settle in…….OR……….
We can turn all of this mess and brokenness over to our God, the Creator of the Universe Who is the SAME today, yesterday and forever. Who will never leave us nor forsake us and never left us nor forsook us during all of these tragedies. The One Who sticks closer than a brother. Who always has our best interest at heart. The One Who says to us; Come to Me all of you who labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest. The One Who loves us right where we are and loves us too much to leave us there. The Author and Finisher of our lives.
Don’t let depression, despair, despondency and dejection settle in! We are more than Conquerors in Christ Jesus! We can do all things in Christ Jesus Who strengthens us. Greater is He Who is in us than he who is in the world!
The TRUTH is; this world, this life, these bodies, these hurts and devastations are temporary. Believe and hold onto hope. JESUS OVERCAME THE WORLD! GLORY TO GOD! Then begins eternity! Let us bask in the Pure LOVE of GOD both now, in the temporary, and for all eternity. I will see you there; in eternity with God, Jesus, Holy Spirit. Life will be glorious, beyond your wildest dreams. (Way beyond, Way superior; your dreams greatly pale in comparison to what the LORD has to offer! What He died to give you, me, all of us.)
Dear LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God Almighty the Creator of the Universe, Holy Spirit Who leads us into all Truth, We come to You in love, gratitude, praise, worship and honor. We prostrate (shacah) our hearts before You LORD. We die to ourselves and our very temporary desires and ideas of how to live this temporary life here on earth. We instead wrap ourselves in Your way of life both here and in Heaven for all eternity.
Our spirits and souls yearn for You LORD, for Your way of life right here and right now LORD God. You enable us to live above our temporary circumstances. To rise above our hurts and pains, our brokeness and our inabilities. You clothe us in Your Righteousness. You say that we are the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
Help us to believe only what You have to say about us in Your WORD, the Holy Scriptures, the Bible. Help us not to focus on what we can see and feel and what is tangible. But rather on what we cannot see with our eyes; the TRUTH THAT SUPERCEDES FACTS. Lead us and guide us every day LORD, Jehovah Roi, (the LORD our Shepherd). We follow You. We trust You. We need You and Your Truth LORD. Heal us LORD, Jehovah Rapha, (the LORD our Healer). Provide for us from Your Divine Provision, Jehovah Jireh, (the LORD our Provider).
Protect us and all of our generations to come LORD God, Jehovah Nissi, (the LORD our Banner). We thank You in advance LORD. We praise You and worship You. Protect those who are being persecuted for loving You and believing in You LORD. Give them Your Supernatural strength to endure. We speak forth Your Deliverance into the atmosphere LORD. We declare a thing and You bring it into fruition because it lines up with Your Divine Will. Bring all of these, Your people to You LORD, to salvation LORD. We thank You in advance. Use me, use us to help bring in Your end time Harvest of precious souls LORD. We ask this in the Holy, Precious Name of Jesus. Amen. Glory to God!
I was thinking of the next short story/testimony that I wanted to share with you. I was in nursing school and I had 2 small children at that time. (None of this living on the best campus and going to the best college and focusing only on me and my needs and my education.) I went to nursing school during the day at a Trade College and took classes for my AA degree at night school on certain nights at another Junior College.
You know, because of the Grace of God, this was never overwhelming. It was never any thing but exhilarating! Of course I was really young then. But remember, I just graduated from the Bachelors Program in Biblical Studies and have decided that I will continue in my academical pursuit of LORD ‘forever’. And I am “not as young now”!
At this time I had just recently given my life to the LORD or become a Born again Christian. I only wanted to please God and do His will. I always wore a big, (really big), bright yellow happy face pin on my shirts that said “Jesus Loves You”! I actually got saved when the baby that I spoke to you about earlier was 11 months old. Remember the baby that my Christian nursing student friend told me not to let the devil take from me by abortion. (She is by the way, an awesome woman of God. She is a WORLD CHANGER FOR THE LORD! And she is the mother of WORLD CHANGERS FOR THE LORD! All Glory to God!)
Any way, back to my story. I tried to always live by God’s principles. I always put Him first, my family second and my life pursuits next. Because of this; when I got home from nursing school I would always spend time with my family. I would have my children help me cook dinner. We would eat, have children’s Bible studies and prayers. We would play games and do homework. I would get them bathed and ready for bed. I would read them a bedtime story, say night time prayers and we would all go to sleep.
I would set my alarm for 3:30 am and awaken then to do my homework for both nursing school and my Associates degree. Then we would begin our day as a family. I would cook breakfast, get everyone ready and off to school. I would go to school. We would travel by multiple buses as our transportation. We had to always be at each bus stop at just the right time so we would not miss our next bus connection. This was life then. This was an “awesome life in the LORD!”
When I used to take my tests, God would bless my perseverance with good grades. One time a fellow nursing student asked me how I did this. I honestly answered her question. I thought she was earnestly asking me how I did this so I was going to share this with her.
I told her that it really had nothing to do with me. I told her that I had recently become a born again Christian and that I prayed that God would help me. (I mean really help me. I needed Him every moment.) I explained the schedule of how my days/nights went and how I began my college studies at 3:30 am but not until I had prayed, read my Bible and spent time with the LORD first.
She looked at me as though I had just told her the biggest lie and said, “no really, how do you get the grades that you do in nursing school?” Now I was puzzled. I didn’t understand what she meant and why she seemed so puzzled or in such disbelief. This was really how I did it. I thought she really wanted to know so I shared with her what I did. I just told her that that was really what I did. She just walked away.
God worked through me to succeed. I put Him first. I learned, (just recently learned because I was a new Believer), this in the church that I was going to. I was like a sponge. Everything that I learned in this Christian church, I did. This only made sense to me. God said it in His Bible, it was His Truth, so I did it.
Any way. I did not know then what I do now. Thank God for New Believer’s Zeal! What I have found out after many years of living this life with the LORD is that He led me and guided me then. He leads and guides me now. He was with me then. He is with me now. His Truth was Truth then and is Truth now. He provided for me and all of my family then and He provides for us all now. We are all in different households. He is with us all at the same time. He is Omnipresent. He is Omnipotent, He is Omniscient. His ways are the Truth that Supercedes Fact. He never changes. He alone is God! He has no equal, He has no rival! Glory to God!
Well I’d better close for now. Until we get to talk again I want you all to know that I love you so very much and even most importantly, Jesus loves you! God bless you and your families for all generations and every moment of every day.
JOHN 16:33 “I HAVE TOLD YOU THESE THINGS, SO THAT YOU MAY HAVE PEACE IN ME. IN THIS WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TROUBLE. BUT TAKE HEART! I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.” (niv)
MATTHEW 6:33 BUT SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD, AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS; AND ALL THESE THINGS SHALL BE ADDED UNTO YOU. (kjv)
2 CORINTHIANS 5:21 GOD MADE HIM WHO HAD NO SIN TO BE SIN FOR US, SO THAT IN HIM WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD. (niv)
1 JOHN 4:4 YOU ARE OF GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM, BECAUSE GREATER IS HE WHO IS IN YOU THAN he who is in the world. (nkjv)
PHILIPPIANS 4:13 I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS WHO STRENGTHENS ME.
NAHUM 1:2 THE LORD GOD TOLERATES NO RIVALS. HE PUNISHES THOSE WHO OPPOSE HIM. IN HIS ANGER HE PAYS THEM BACK.
NAHUM 1:7,8 THE LORD IS GOOD; HE PROTECTS HIS PEOPLE IN TIMES OF TROUBLE; HE TAKES CARE OF THOSE WHO TURN TO HIM. LIKE A GREAT RUSHING FLOOD HE COMPLETELY DESTROYS HIS ENEMIES; HE SENDS TO THEIR DEATH THOSE WHO OPPOSE HIM.
MATTHEW 28:20 TEACH THESE NEW DISCIPLES TO OBEY ALL THE COMMANDS I HAVE GIVEN YOU. AND BE SURE OF THIS: I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE.