Month: March 2017

Good (early) morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I was just thinking of what a privilege it is to be able to write to you and I wanted to sneak in a quick note because I love you all so much.

Dear Lord thank You that You directed me by Your Holy Spirit  to write this blog when I had no idea myself how to do this. Thank You that You give me thoughts and Scriptures to share with these awesome people in the world-Your children. Thank You that we  have social media as an avenue of communication. Thank You that You draw those whom You desire to read this communication and it is not just a coincidence. Thank You that You alone are Sovereign and always in control. You have no rival. Thank You that You choose to do life with us.

Thank You that at this Resurrection Season and every day we can celebrate the life, death, Resurrection and Reign of Your Son, our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. Thank You for Your ultimate sacrifice of perfect love because You love us, even when we are unlovable. Please help us LORD to reach out in love to the hurting, the broken, the destitute. Thank You for freedom here in America to worship You LORD and to have Your WORD the Bible. Help us to be bold in protecting this privilege.

Please protect our Christian brothers and sisters in every nation who worship You and do not have this freedom LORD. Please let them know Your Presence in a very special way. Please encamp Your angels around them and their families to protect them and give them Your Dunamis Power from Your Holy Spirit to endure persecution so they can look forward to the greatest reward of all; life in Heaven with You LORD for eternity.

Help us to hold onto this life loosely with an open hand and to cling onto You and our eternal home with You in Heaven with the greatest tenacity and all of our being.  Let us know that this life here on earth is so temporary and then there is eternity. LORD please lead us to make the right choice and choose You as LORD of our lives. We ask this in Jesus Name and thank You in advance LORD Amen!

I heard a Pastor explain and illustrate how we get ourselves so entangled in the cares and woes of this life in this world. We put our priority here when it would actually be freeing to put our focus on the LORD and let Him handle our cares and woes.

This Pastor had a person standing on stage who was reaching for and trying to get the attention and approval of many ‘people’ beyond his reach. He was doing this because he felt alone, empty and worthless within himself. The Pastor had people (who represented angels) walking in a circle around and around this person but the person kept reaching past them desperately trying to get the approval of the world.

This was to indicate that we are never alone. We live in both a spiritual realm and a physical realm. The people who were walking in circles around the person on stage represented the angels that God uses to protect each one of us here on this earth. The LORD Himself dwells with those of us who choose to accept Jesus Christ as LORD and Savior. He sends His Holy Spirit to live and abide in us and we live  and abide in Him. He gives us His power.

Before God even created us here on this earth in our current bodily form; He knew us. He planned the gifts that He would give each one of us to carry out the purpose and destiny that He created us for to bring Him glory, pleasure and precious souls.

It is a paradigm shift to look at life in this matter but once you are able to, it is so freeing. You can cast all of your cares upon Him because He wants you to. He cares for you.  He created you to do that. He wants to be responsible for you and your well being. He tells us to be anxious for nothing.

Once we realize that it is not all about us but actually about Him we can get over ourselves and live and give outside of  ourselves. It is so much more of a blessing to be able to give than to receive. It truly is. Please let’s let God use us to help His hurting people. To advance the Kingdom of Heaven.

We can actually be healthier when we live more stress free lives. Stress causes a multitude of illnesses. Stress causes relationship problems. It causes us to not be able to think and see things clearly. We see things through our lens of stress. It causes us to make decisions that we would not otherwise make. Stress can cause us to become angry, hostile and bitter. It robs us of our desired quality of life. Stress kills.

MATTHEW 6:9-13    OUR FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. THY KINGDOM COME, THY WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD AND FORGIVE US OUR TRESPASSES AS WE FORGIVE THOSE WHO TRESPASS AGAINST US. AND LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION BUT DELIVER US FROM EVIL. FOR THINE IS THE KINGDOM AND THE  POWER AND THE GLORY FOR EVER AND EVER. AMEN.

I had a learning experience once. It may not seem very important to others but to me it was extremely important. It taught me how to change my perspective about many things. Please allow me to share.

I have told you that I love to go to coffee shops to do my Bible studies. I have worked very hard most of my life and all of my working career in the field of nursing. I have been on disability several times with medical issues after surviving cancer and subsequent life saving surgeries related to later complications.

At times I would go to the coffee shops while I was only receiving disability income and I was not able to afford to get the meal that I used to be able to get. I would look around at the large meals the High school students would get after getting out of school. They would waste half of the meal. I would only drink my beverage. I wanted a meal also.

Then the Holy Spirit changed my perspective. He taught me that I could eat a good meal at home before going to the coffee shop since my money was limited. While at the coffee shop, I could enjoy my coffee. Guess what…it worked! (Of course it worked. It was an idea that I received from the Holy Spirit.) I also keep in mind (very sadly) that there are people who don’t get to eat anything and cant even imagine what a coffee shop is. They don’t even have clean water. Their only available water kills them. I definitely send resources to help these people/nations.

I was then later to have a changed perspective on other things also as I matured in this new insight. I am blessed to have a time share which is beautiful. On the same property there are restaurants with ‘all you can eat buffets’. I used to enjoy this immensely. After this life lesson that I received from the Holy Spirit, I was able to go to my time share to spend my time there alone with God. I took along canned soup and canned fish and simple things to eat in my room. I had the greatest time with the LORD. I would see happy families going off to the buffet and think to myself; I am experiencing overwhelming joy myself.

I guess this is kind of silly to many but it is so freeing to me not to have to live by the world’s standards of what success is and is not. And not to have to carry my cares and woes that lead to stress. Of course stresses  do come. Boy do they come! I mostly get hit by a multitude of stressors all at once. But…I am trying to cast these cares onto the LORD and not keep them for myself. Life is so good when you live it the way the LORD planned!

1 PETER5:7    CAST ALL OF YOUR CARES ON THE LORD FOR HE CARES FOR YOU. KJV

JOHN 16:33    THESE THINGS I HAVE SPOKEN UNTO YOU, THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE PEACE. IN THE WORLD YOU WILL HAVE TRIBULATION: BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER; I HAVE OVERCOME THE WORLD.  KJV  (I exchanged the words ye for you. The Person making this statement is Jesus Christ Himself.) 

JOHN 14:27    PEACE I LEAVE WITH YOU, MY PEACE I GIVE UNTO YOU: NOT AS THE WORLD GIVETH (GIVES), GIVE I UNTO YOU. LET NOT YOUR HEART BE TROUBLED, NEITHER LET IT BE AFRAID. (KJV)

PSALMS 62:8   TRUST IN HIM (THE LORD) AT ALL TIMES; YE PEOPLE, POUR OUT YOUR HEART BEFORE HIM: GOD IS A REFUGE FOR US. SELAH (KJV)

PHILIPPIANS 4:7    AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH PASSETH ALL UNDERSTANDING, SHALL KEEP YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS THROUGH CHRIST JESUS (KJV)

MATTHEW 18:2-4    HE CALLED A LITTLE CHILD TO HIM, AND PLACED THE CHILD AMONG THEM. AND HE SAID: “TRULY I TELL YOU, UNLESS YOU CHANGE AND BECOME LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN, YOU WILL NEVER ENTER THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN. THEREFORE, WHOEVER TAKES THE LOWLY POSITION OF THIS CHILD IS THE GREATEST IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.” (NIV)

Well I need to say good bye for now. I love you all so very much and most importantly Jesus loves you. Until we get to talk again, God bless you always.

 

 

Good morning my most wonderful World Wide Family. Oh my gosh, I have missed you all so much. I didn’t even realize how much until I just looked at the date of the last time we spoke. I don’t think that I have ever gone this long without writing. But I do pray for you all of the time.

I told you, this final semester in the Bible College Bachelor’s program has been intense. I just took another test, turned in a book report on the book we read about different religions and have been preparing for a “court case”. Not a real one of course, one for our class. We will be presenting our “case” for why Christianity is the TRUTH.

At first I was in one of the other groups with one of the other religions. We are all supposed to present our case for our assigned religion and speak about it as if it is the ultimate truth. It was going to be difficult for me to present a convincing argument because I am so totally convinced that being a follower of Jesus Christ,  (being a Christian), is the only true way to God and eternal life in Heaven after we leave our short time here on earth.

I had prayed that I could be in the group representing Christianity and one day when I was meeting with my classmates and discussing the other religion; I was informed that I needed to be moved to the “Christianity group”. I was so happy and thankful that my prayer had been answered. Anyway to make a long story short…(oops, too late for that)..I am excited to present our “case” for Christ.

I am also excited anytime in every day life that I can represent Jesus the way He wants to be represented. I so want to live my life as a ‘walking epistle’. I want to show His Unconditional Love to others because my own love is so flawed. I want to be able to give to others exceedingly and abundantly from the resources that I get from the LORD, Jehovah Jireh our Provider. I love to be His scribe and write things that hopefully encourage, uplift or inspire other people to find their life’s joy and hope in Christ. I want to be His oracle speaking life to people who are so broken and hurting.   I want to be His conduit, His empty vessel, His Heart and Hands open to a hurting people.

Dear Lord Jesus we come to You today to express our love and thanksgiving to You. Thank You Lord that we have You to talk to and we are never alone. Thank You that You gave us Your Holy Spirit to lead and guide us into all truth. Thank You that there is power in Your Name Jesus so that when we are in so much trouble, grief, fear, sadness, sin, or feel overwhelmed by life that we cant even think of words to say; we can speak forth Your Name and You are there, Jehovah Shammah. You see all things Jehovah Ra-ee. Everything is under Your control. Thank You Lord we can live in Your Peace that passes understanding Jehovah Shalom even when the world is in turmoil.

Lord please bless all of these, Your people and all of their generations. Keep Your angels around them Lord. Draw them unto You Jesus. Send us out into the highways and byways to preach the Gospel, the good news of Jesus Christ. Thank You Lord that many will come to You during this Resurrection season, (also known by some as Easter) and the Passover celebration that our Jewish families celebrate as well as many Christians. We ask this all in Jesus Precious Name and thank You in advance Lord, Amen. Glory to God!

I have been focusing on how awesome it is to be able to cast all of our cares upon the LORD because He cares for us. I heard a Bible Teacher say the other day that when we start to experience any anxieties and worries, we should just cast these to the LORD like a hot potato. The LORD wants us to live this way. We weren’t created to be able to handle all of life’s anxieties, disappointments and tragedies. He is the Only One Who is able and He is willing.

This was His design that we as His children depend upon Him. He tells us to come to Him as little children. In fact when we start thinking that WE are the ones who are succeeding independently of God and we are the ones who are so smart, educated, have gotten ourselves the best education at the best college and have the best career only because of our own skills; this breaks the heart of God. We would not even be alive to succeed if it weren’t for the breath of life that God gives us.

Personally, I love depending on God for everything. I also love having Him to go to when I fail and I can tell Him that I am sorry and need help to change and do a better job, be a better person, have a better attitude, be more kind and less impatient and He is glad to help me and to forgive me. I know that He forgave me before I even got here on this earth because He gave His Only Begotten, Beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ to die a horrendous for us/me over 2000 years ago; but I still love having Him to talk to about my issues. I always wonder what people do who don’t know Him. Who do they talk to when they are alone or lonely, sad or hurting, confused or scared? There is no better life than life with Christ.

Please World Wide Family, I want all of you to know the LORD, personally and intimately and have this type of wonderful life with Him for all eternity. It is your choice. Only you can choose, God will not force you. I love you all so much and even more importantly Jesus loves you! I have to go for now. I will include my Bible verse references the next time I get to speak to you. Until then, God bless you and your families.