Month: November 2017

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family. It is such an awesome honor to be able to talk to you all again at this time. I love you all so very much. Life continues to be challenging and painful since the tragic loss of my Son-in-Law, the Father of my two youngest granddaughters. Since we last spoke we have had the funeral and it was extremely beautiful. It was a celebration of his life.  I have also had my other surgery.

I am in the process of healing, both from surgery and a broken heart. The important thing is that I know that my God will heal both. This is what He does. I can count on this. This is God’s very Nature. This is the Truth that Supersedes Fact. I may not be able to fathom or even imagine how God will do this but I do have the faith and belief in Him to know that He will and that He will get the glory from this overwhelming situation.

I must remind myself not to focus on the circumstances but instead to focus on my God Who controls all circumstances. I need to find a way to reach out to others who are also hurting and brokenhearted so that they too can know that there is always hope in the LORD. We can be Victorious in Christ. We ARE VICTORIOUS IN CHRIST JESUS!

1 JOHN 4:4    YOU ARE FROM GOD, LITTLE CHILDREN, AND HAVE OVERCOME THEM; BECAUSE GREATER IS HE WHO IS IN US THAN he who is in the world.    (nas)

ISAIAH 26:3    YOU WILL KEEP IN PERFECT PEACE THOSE WHOSE MINDS ARE STEADFAST, BECAUSE THEY TRUST IN YOU.   (niv)

Dear LORD God Almighty, Thank You for Your Beloved Son Jesus Christ. Thank You that You sacrificed Your Only Son as the Propitiation for our sins because of Your Grace and Mercy. We praise You LORD. We worship You. You are Holy and worthy to be praised. You are Glorious.  You say in Your WORD that You inhabit the praises of Your people. We need You LORD every moment. Lead us and guide us Holy Spirit. Protect us and provide for us and all of  our generations please LORD.

We thank You LORD. We are Grateful to You at this season of Thanksgiving and always. Let us live our lives as loving and giving children of the Most High God and not as self centered and entitled people. Let us freely offer our resources to help those who may not have any. Let us “pay it forward”. Thank You for the resources that You bless us with so we can be a blessing to Your people LORD. We desire to bring You glory, honor, pleasure and precious souls. We love You and praise You. In Jesus Name. Amen. Glory to God!

I have heard testimonies of many people who have gone through tremendous tragedies and how God has restored them. We have just witnessed many nationwide and worldwide tragedies. I have given my own testimonies of how God has brought me and my family through tragedies and restored us. Just what do you do when you have done all that you have known how to do and your life still spins out of control?

What do you do when you have prayed and fasted for your husband for almost 20 years and he still commits suicide?  You have read all of the Christian books on marriage. You said all of  the Scriptures that were related to each circumstance. You know that there is “power in words and Power in the WORD of God. You believe this with all of your heart. What do you do when you have prayed for a wayward child or grandchild and you do not see your prayers come into fruition?  (Yet)

What will I do now in this current situation? I did everything I have been taught to do to. I prayed alone and with prayer groups, I fasted, I spoke God’s Sovereign, Powerful, Living WORD into the atmosphere because God says that His WORD will not come back to Him void. I used anointing oil,  I reached out in love, I reached out in resources, I tried to impart wisdom. I tried to lead the way just like the LORD taught me the way.  I try to live my life as an obedient  living Epistle. I cared, I shared,  I loved, oh LORD, I cared and loved. And still my loved one is gone. Our lives have been severely altered. The enemy caused this but my God will work all things together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.  My life seems to be spinning out of control due to the grief and great loss.

What I will do is this:   I will cling to my God Who controls my life.  I will Praise and Worship my LORD every day. (Sometimes now it may be a lot more brief than previously but I will be steadfast.)  I will continue to pray. (Sometimes I may only be able to call out His Name, JESUS help me!) I will read His WORD. (I may not be able to do extensive studies now but I need to read my Bible.) This is His Truth that Supersedes Fact. At the times that I am too sad to read, I will watch awesome Preachers on Christian TV/TBN. At the times that I can’t seem to pray well I will ask God for more of His Strength, Grace and Mercy. I will take small steps until I can take bigger ones. I will thank Him for the little victories of being able to make it through tearful minutes until I can make it through tearful hours, days, weeks, months and years. I will reach out to others in-spite of the pain. I will give God the glory.

Will I fail? Most definitely because of my humanity, but I know the God Who never fails! Will I fall short? This is guaranteed on this side of Heaven. But I know the God Who holds me up in His Righteous Right Hand. Will it take time? Of course it will but I am determined to overcome and persevere in Christ and to bring Him glory and others hope. I will not let the enemy of our souls defeat me. I am a child of the Most High God! Jesus Christ is King of kings, LORD of lords, Magistrate of magistrates, the One and Only Great Potentate!  And He is my Abba Adonai. Daddy, LORD and Master. Glory to God!

Well I need to say good-bye for now. Until we get to talk again, please remember that I love you and most importantly, Jesus loves you.  You are in my prayers. God bless you and protect you and all of your generations.

PROVERBS 18:21    DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE, AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT WILL EAT ITS FRUIT.    (nas)

ISAIAH 55:11    SO SHALL MY WORD BE THAT GOETH OUT OF MY MOUTH; IT SHALL NOT RETURN TO ME VOID, BUT IT SHALL ACCOMPLISH THAT WHICH I PLEASE, AND IT SHALL PROSPER IN THE THING WHERETO I SENT IT.    (kjv)

ISAIAH 41:10   SO DO NOT FEAR, FOR I AM WITH YOU; DO NOT BE DISMAYED, FOR I AM YOUR GOD. I WILL STRENGTHEN YOU AND HELP YOU; I WILL UPHOLD YOU WITH MY RIGHTEOUS RIGHT HAND.    (niv) 

 

Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. Holy God has allowed you all to be my earthly source of therapy during this season in my life. God alone is the Ultimate and Only Divine Healer, Jehovah Rapha. God created us to live in ‘Community’. You are ‘my therapeutic community’ as I sit in my home alone and write to you.

Dear LORD God Almighty, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, Holy Spirit, we come to You today with our praise and worship because You alone are worthy to be praised. You inhabit the praises of Your people. We prostrate our hearts before Your Holiness LORD. We repent of our sins and we thank You that You gave Your Son Jesus Christ to  bear all of our sins and in turn give us His Righteousness so that all who accept Him as LORD and Savior will spend their eternal lives with You in Heaven.

LORD call all of these Your people unto You in a mighty way Father. You don’t want anyone of Your precious children to perish. You gave us all free choice. Help  us to choose You.  I freely give all of my free choice to You LORD to do with as You please. We want to bring You Glory, pleasure and precious souls and Your inheritance of the nations.

We bind satan and his demons, the enemies of our souls, and all of their strategies because You tell us that what we bind on earth will be bound in Heaven and what we loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven. LORD we loose Your Peace and Your Love to diffuse through all of the world. We bind racial prejudice, hatred, cast systems, gangs, drug dealers, oppression, abuse of women and children and sex slavery. Set Your people free LORD. Save everyone of them LORD.  Mobilize us and our resources to do Your work for such a time as this LORD.

Protect Your children LORD. Encamp Your angels around them and all of their generations. Surround them with Your Perfect Love and Peace that passes all understanding LORD. Send Your Christian soldiers to fulfill the Great Commission and to go into all the world and preach Your Gospel with love. Send me LORD. Thank You in advance LORD. In Jesus Precious Name. Amen. All Glory to God!

Thank You to all of our Veteran’s and all of their families who are making the sacrifices to serve our country and keep us free. Every moment of freedom we experience and enjoy is because of you. Some of you sacrifice all, all of you sacrifice some. In my family I have both; some who served and paid the ultimate price with their lives, some who served and kept the peace in our nation and other nations and some who currently devote their lives to serving and protecting our country. One Nation Under GOD, Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for all.

I am proud to be an American. I am proud to stand proudly and cross my heart during the Pledge of Allegiance and National Anthem. I have been proud to be an American since I was a little girl. I have mentioned before that my family that has come from my generation and going forth is a mixture of many races and cultures. I love this, I can’t wait for future generations to include even more of a mixture. {This is what Heaven is going to look like you know.} Currently going forth, our family is comprised of over 60% African American even though I myself am originally of European decent. One of these family members actively serves in the Military to protect the United States of America. It is my prayer that as for me and my house, (all of my generations), we shall serve the LORD!

I often hear excellent Preachers say that when God put into their spirits what He wanted them to preach to the people; God used those very words to minister to their own souls. I find that it has been the same when I write to you. I am being uplifted and built up by God with every word and stroke of my computer keyboard. Thank you.

God says in His WORD that He already created gifts for us to walk in before He even placed us on this earth in these current human bodies that we now live in. God gave me His gift to write. I am not at all saying that I am great by any means. I am however saying that God is Great by every means. If He wants me to be His scribe and write, then I will be obedient and write to bring Him Glory.

God says He is the Author and Finisher of our lives. God says He is the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. God says that He Who began a good work in us will continue it until the day of completion. God says that a righteous man (woman) may fall 7 times but we will get up. God says He holds us in His Righteous Right hand and He hides us under His Wings.  He knows the number of hairs on our heads and the number of our days are written in His Book before we began living any one of them. He knew us before we were formed in our Mother’s womb. He knows our frame and that we are created out of the dust of the earth.  Now that is a Personal, Loving, Living, Healing, All Powerful, All Knowing, All Present and  Intimate God!

That is my God, LORD and Savior Jesus Christ Who gives us His Holy Spirit to lead and guide us. His Name is the Paraklete which means the Comforter Who comes along side of us. He gives us His Dunamis Power. The same Power that raised Jesus Christ from the dead. We are not our circumstances. We are who He says we are in His WORD. He leads and guides us and teaches us all things. He brings us His Hope. God gives us His Grace and Mercy. We overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony.

I see what Preachers mean when they say that the Holy Spirit led them to speak about something that was totally different than what they had prepared and planned to speak about. This was not exactly what I had planned in my mind to write about this morning. Praise God for His leading. I know that if I continue to write, I will miss church. I can’t do that so I will write to you again soon. I want to share the awesome Scriptures that God has led me to include in this letter also.

Until we speak again, I love you all so very much and you are always in my prayers. Most importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless you all and all of your generations.

Hello my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. I’m back to write to you more about my “Ministry of Brokenness” M..O..B.. I wanted to share the great challenge of speaking life to my family members who are experiencing overwhelming brokenness while I am at the same time experiencing the same brokenness. I feel this is my responsibility as a Christian, to honor my LORD and bring Him glory regardless of any current circumstances that I may be experiencing.

Dear LORD God Almighty, Maker of Heaven and earth, Thank You LORD that You are God and You hear our prayers.  Thank You that You gave Your Only Beloved, Begotten Son Jesus Christ to die for the remission of our sins so we can become the Righteousness of God in Christ Jesus as Your WORD says. Thank You that whenever anyone of us, Your children, experience tragedy-You are right here with us through the pain. You say in Your WORD that You store our tears.  You say that You are near to the brokenhearted. We worship You LORD.  Help us LORD. I declare and decree that we are not victims but we are Victorious because of You LORD!  Thank You LORD. In Jesus Precious Name we pray. Amen. Glory to God!

There is a ‘Christian saying’ that goes like this; “Instead of telling your God about how big your problems are, tell your problems how big your God is.” This is what I am striving to do. Today was a particularly difficult day. (Actually they all have been.) I did not do much of anything. I just sat in front of the TV quite a bit. It was my usual routine, since I have been off of work, to get up before the sun rises and go out onto my porch and pray to God and write my prayers/journal to God and watch the sunrise and be so thankful to God for His beautiful creation. I would then do my Bible study, read an awesome Christian book by a powerful Christian author and watch TBN Christian programs.

Lately my routine has not been the same, although I do strive to keep some normalcy even if I am just going through the motions while feeling numb. This week I went to my counseling class one evening at church where I am learning to be a volunteer counselor and I went to my Bible study another evening. I do not want the devil, the enemy of my soul to get any victory. I know that my God Reigns Supreme and He will bring His healing for everyone. I must do my part to remain faithful and reach out to others in the Love of Christ.

During the first week it was an immense challenge to go every day and spend time with my daughter and very young grandchildren  who had just tragically lost their Daddy. It took every ounce of courage and clinging to God and His Grace to get through those days because I too was/am broken.  I tried to speak words of life and encouragement to them in the face of death. I tried to take them places that might bring them some semblance of happiness. I took them to church, the park, for walks and out to eat. We colored and read a few books and talked about the LORD and we prayed. We talked about whatever they felt they needed to talk about.  Looking into their sad and bewildered eyes, the windows into their shattered souls, was overwhelming.

I was feeling weak every day. I had not slept for days and nights. I still needed to keep going for these little angels. On the last evening that I spent with them, I actually passed out. I did not even realize that during that time period I had actually gotten extremely ill. I never get sick. I had to go to the doctor on the following day for my next pre-op appointment and I didn’t even pass. The doctor told me that I had a fever and my heart rate was elevated and that I would need to return when I was no longer sick to get my clearance. Wow, God is so good. He allowed me to continue on and be strong for my family just long enough until they moved on to their next destination.

God gave me His strength, God gives my family His strength, God is in control and we are not. God’s WORD says that when we are weak, He is strong. He is truly the Father to the fatherless. I have been fatherless, my daughter has been fatherless and now my grandchildren are. But Glory to God we all have the same Father God. Also, Glory to God we all have the same eternal destination; Heaven where there will be no more sadness and no more tears and we will again be joined with our loved ones who have gone before us in Christ.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:21    HE MADE HIM (JESUS) WHO KNEW NO SIN TO BE SIN ON OUR BEHALF, SO THAT WE MIGHT BECOME THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD IN HIM.     (nas)

PSALM 68:5-6    A FATHER TO THE FATHERLESS, A DEFENDER OF WIDOWS, IS GOD IN HIS HOLY DWELLING. GOD SETS THE LONELY IN FAMILIES.    (niv)

PSALM 34:18    THE LORD IS CLOSE TO THE BROKENHEARTED AND SAVES THOSE WHO ARE CRUSHED IN SPIRIT.    (niv)

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9-11    BUT HE  (GOD) SAID TO ME, “MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU, FOR MY POWER IS MADE PERFECT IN WEAKNESS.” THEREFORE I WILL BOAST ALL THE MORE GLADLY ABOUT MY WEAKNESSES, SO THAT CHRIST’S POWER MAY REST ON ME. THAT IS WHY, FOR CHRIST’S SAKE, I DELIGHT IN WEAKNESSES, IN INSULTS, IN HARDSHIPS, IN PERSECUTIONS, IN DIFFICULTIES. FOR WHEN I AM WEAK, THEN I AM STRONG.    (niv) 

PSALM 56:8    YOU KEEP TRACK OF ALL MY SORROWS. YOU HAVE COLLECTED ALL MY TEARS IN YOUR BOTTLE. YOU HAVE RECORDED EACH ONE IN YOUR BOOK.    (nlt)

REVELATION 21:4    HE WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES, AND DEATH SHALL BE NO MORE, NEITHER SHALL THERE BE MOURNING, NOR CRYING, NOR PAIN ANYMORE, FOR THE FORMER THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY.”    (esv)

Well I will write to you again soon. Once again, since I have included many powerful Bible Scriptures in this letter to you; I will not include them in the next that I will hopefully write within a short time period. Until we talk again, you are always in my prayers. I love you all so much and most importantly, Jesus loves you. God bless you and protect you and your families for all generations.

I received the call. The details were incomplete and vague. The death was confirmed. The lives of myself and every one of my family members as well as many other families were now changed forever. God will heal us all. It will take time and a lot of prayer and perseverance.  Yet even with this Divine Healing our lives will never be the same. We will always have this void in our hearts and lives on this side of Heaven for our loved one who so tragically and suddenly left us.

Now at this very moment of being overwhelmingly devastated, I had to prepare to travel in the dark, alone to another state hours away. I had to drive into the tragedy to do whatever I possibly could to help my family members. Only, only by the Grace of God was I able to make that drive on that fatal night 2 weeks ago.

I couldn’t focus. I couldn’t even think. I couldn’t see through the tears and sobbing that was relentlessly shaking my body and fogging my mind.  It was as if I had to tell myself every step of the way what I needed to do each moment of the way.  I told myself to pack a bag of clothes and cosmetics. I had to tell myself to get gas and needed coffee. I had to tell myself to get on the freeway and which freeways to transfer to when I got to that point.

I usually listen to awesome Christian praise and worship music every time I drive or Christian teaching and preaching CDs. I couldn’t even listen to anything. All that I could do to keep my mind intact was to repeat “Jesus Christ of Nazareth” over and over and over, hundreds and hundreds of times while I went through the motion of driving for all of the hours that I had to drive.

Then about half way to my destination, the Holy Spirit reminded me to speak forth the 23rd Psalm. God reminded me in my pain that I had just heard a teaching by Beth Moore that day about how God’s WORD when spoken out is also being prophetically spoken to accomplish God’s purpose. (I can not state exactly what she taught, and don’t want to misrepresent her teaching,  but that was my take from what God brought to my remembrance at that moment.)

So, I started speaking out the 23rd Psalm over and over and over again. I was amazed that the very first time that I recited it, my tears subsided. Subsequent times that I spoke it out, I was able to focus better and it was less of a struggle to keep my mind intact. I didn’t have to actually tell myself every move that I needed to make. Some of the usual things that I usually did when I drove just became usual again. (As if that even makes any sense. But it really makes sense to me because I was hanging onto to my sanity for dear life.)

I don’t know if everyone feels this way; but as a Mother, if something is adversely affecting or hurting my children or grandchildren this is much more devastating then if something is just hurting me. In this circumstance I am not only broken, but I need to be strong in my brokenness for my family members. This calls for all of the Grace of God to even begin to succeed in. And that is exactly what God gave me; all of His Grace to even make it through the moments.

In fact on the second day after this horrific drive alone, (yet never alone because Jesus is always with me), in the dark, driving toward the tragedy; the Holy Spirit reminded me to ask for more of God’s Grace. I remembered what I had learned  in Bible College, that we could pray for more Grace and God would give more of His Grace to us. As I prayed for more Grace, I felt a little joy arise in my own spirit. The Joy of the LORD is our strength and God knew that I needed His strength to even cope, to even make it through the moments, hours, days, weeks and throughout life and to be strong for my family. Glory to God!

The drive took twice as many hours as it usually does. There was a large section of the freeway that was closed off for a very long time due to a fatal multi-car accident. My family member was not the only one who had died on that day of course.

Well it has now been 2 weeks. God has done a great and supernatural healing thus far in my life and the lives of my family members and He will continue to do so. It is and will be a long and painful journey filled with tears at some point during the upcoming days, but also filled with God’s Grace and Mercy, Peace and Love. God is a Father to the fatherless.  To God be the Glory!

I will be writing to you again. In the meantime I will be praying for you all and you please pray for me and my family. God keep His angels around you and all of your generations and protect you. I love you all so very much and most importantly, Jesus loves you and He never leaves you.

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 PATHS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS FOR HIS NAMES SAKE. YEA, THO I WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH I WILL FEAR NO EVIL. FOR THOU ART WITH ME. THY ROD AND THY STAFF THEY COMFORT ME. THOU PREPAREST A TABLE BEFORE ME IN THE PRESENCE OF MINE ENEMIES. THOU ANOINTEST MY HEAD WITH OIL. MY CUP OVERFLOWS. SURELY GOODNESS AND MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME ALL OF THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. AND I SHALL DWELL IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD FOREVER. 

(written by memory)

Our God is Omniscient. This means He is all knowing. Did God know that this devastating death of my loved one was going to occur? Of course He did, before the foundation of the world. God knew the day that my loved one was going to die before they were even formed in their mother’s womb.

Did I know? Not even in my wildest dreams or imagination could I have for-seen this tragedy. In God’s Mercy and Grace I would like to show you just how He proactively prepared me. I will share this in reverse chronological order.

The day before the devastation I was sitting in my yard talking to the LORD. I asked Him if I was to share in His suffering by sharing in the suffering of others or if I would be sharing in His suffering by personally suffering. Little did I know that the very next day the answer would be made perfectly clear to me.  The answer is both. Life changes in a moment. Are we ready to meet our Maker? We can be. Jesus is the Only Way.

The week prior, I had this sudden “addiction” to watching You Tube videos of Pastor Francis Chan. I don’t even hardly ever watch You Tube. These videos just showed up on my smart phone. Over 40 of them.  Day after day I watched his videos dating from the current year back to previous years. Many, many of them talked about suffering. I had read his book, “Crazy Love” years ago. But now all of a sudden I had this need to watch his videos from morning to night. God was building up my faith. He was proactively preparing me and I had no idea.

Approximately 2 weeks prior, I had gone to a conference held by “Voice of the Martyrs” (VOM).  They spoke of the suffering of many Christians in many countries who suffered overwhelming persecution and many were, (and are today still being) martyred for their faith in Christ. My situation will in no way ever begin to compare to theirs. (God is not the God of comparison, He is the God of the individual.) Yet I was blessed to be able to participate in a minute way in their suffering and with helping the VOM currently.  I had also just recently watched the video over and over of the life and suffering of Reverend Richard Wurmbrand and his wife for Christ. They are the founders of VOM. I had read his book “Tortured for Christ” decades ago when I had first gotten saved/accepted Jesus Christ as my LORD and Savior.

I now find comfort in the programs of TBN/Trinity Broadcasting Network and other Christian Networks and programs as I always have for all of these years. I especially find comfort in watching John Gray and Beth Moore at this time. God has anointed and raised up powerful, powerful Christian warriors to do His spiritual warfare using His weapon of LOVE against the powers of  evil and darkness.

Over the last months, I had been so very blessed to be able to attend many many Christian conferences and church meetings. Once again to build up my Christian faith and character and strength in the LORD. I did not know then how much I would need this.

I had even started attending a class teaching me how to volunteer as a grief  and crisis counselor at my church. I also pledged that I would faithfully pray and fast for particular Christians who are in the front lines for Christ in their nations. And also to pray for a particular section of a particular nation to be won over for Christ. How many of us know that when we are actively doing the will of our Heavenly Father;  satan and all of the powers of darkness will wage war against us. How many of us know that they are already defeated foes because Christ won the Victory at the Cross of Calvary.

Due to the fact that as I have mentioned previously, I have been off of work for some months for surgeries; I have been able to navigate this tragedy without the added responsibility of needing to go to work and care for the needs of others while I am myself broken and in need of God’s Divine Healing. I was also able to make the needed trip to rescue loved ones and to currently be available to them from morning to night day after day.

Two months ago we experienced the sudden and unexpected death of another family member. This loss was at that time very sad and could have been overwhelming in itself. Now, at this time, that loss pales in comparison. That family member was older and had ongoing health issues. This current tragedy involves someone so young and so many family members who are so very broken. This includes young children. But I declare and decree in the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth that He alone will bring His healing power into the lives of everyone involved for His glory! It is all about Him!

At the time of the previous death, I wrote the following poem for the surviving family members with the hope of bringing some type of peace and comfort to them. Little did I know at the time that I was also writing this poem for myself at this current time.

FROM MOURNING TO JOY IN THE MORNING

Oh Death Where is Your Sting?

 

Lean into the pain.

You must not run.

Even though the pain feels relentless.

 

Embrace the devastation.

Keep it close to your heart.

Even though it makes you feel defenseless.

 

Reach out to others.

Who share in your grief.

Even though the grief is merciless.

 

Fall on your knees.

Before the LORD Who heals.

Without this life is purposeless.

 

Share hope with humanity.

Grow in strength and in faith.

So that your grief won’t be fruitless.

 

The “what ifs?” and “if onlys”,

will only defeat your own soul.

This task would prove to be useless.

 

Give Praise to the LORD.

Whether you feel it or not.

This sacrifice makes our lives priceless.

 

THE LORD WILL HEAL YOU.

HE PAID THE ULTIMATE PRICE.

YOU WILL OVERCOME AND BE VICTORIOUS!

 

THE LORD INHABITS THE PRAISES OF HIS PEOPLE.

I then referenced the Scriptures; Psalm 22:3, 1 Corinthians 15:55, and Psalm 30:5

 

I must say God is Good all of the time. His Joy is our strength all of the time. His Peace that surpasses understanding protects our minds and hearts in Christ Jesus in our times of brokenness and all of the time. He alone is our very present help in times of trouble and all of the time. To God be the Glory forever more! Our God Reigns regardless of the circumstances of life and all of the time!

Good morning my most Wonderful World Wide Family. I love you all so very much. I am so privileged to be able to write to you all today. This is the day that our LORD has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it. It is actually only by the Grace of God that I am even able to write to you today.

Since we last spoke 2 weeks ago,  I have experienced death and tragedy of tragedies of the magnitude that could have potentially destroyed and devastated my life and the lives of my family members. Our lives have been forever changed.  But I know the God Whom I serve and He Alone controls the Universe and all of the circumstances that occur in it and in the lives of all of His creation.

Of course God never causes any evil. He is incapable of this because this is not HIS Divine Nature nor Character.  He is JESUS CHRIST OF NAZARETH, HOLY SPIRIT, RIGHTEOUSNESS, (Jehovah Tsidkenu), PURE LOVE, PERFECT, HEALER, (Jehovah Rapha), PROVIDER, (Jehovah Jireh),  GOOD SHEPHERD, (Jehovah Roi),  COUNSELOR, KING, (Melek) PEACE THAT PASSES UNDERSTANDING, STRONG TOWER, OUR SHIELD AND BUCKLER, THE WORD MADE FLESH WHO LIVED AND DWELT AMONG US AS JESUS CHRIST,  (ABBA ADONAI), DADDY, LORD and MASTER and BANNER OVER OUR LIVES and the lives of our families for all generations, (Jehovah Nissi).   He promises He will use every circumstance to work together for our good and His Glory.

ROMANS 8:28    AND WE KNOW THAT IN ALL THINGS GOD WORKS FOR THE GOOD OF THOSE WHO LOVE HIM, WHO HAVE BEEN CALLED ACCORDING TO HIS PURPOSE.   (niv)

It is only by clinging to Jesus Christ of Nazareth and His Living WORD and the (Dunamis Power of His Resurrection-the very Power of the Holy Spirit Who raised Jesus from the dead); that I have been able to make it through these last 2 weeks. I have  a long road ahead, actually an entire lifetime. Some happenings just change people’s lives forever.

ROMANS 8:11    AND IF THE SPIRIT OF HIM WHO RAISED JESUS FROM THE DEAD IS LIVING IN YOU, HE WHO RAISED CHRIST FROM THE DEAD WILL ALSO GIVE LIFE TO YOUR MORTAL BODIES BECAUSE OF HIS SPIRIT WHO LIVES IN YOU.    (niv)

Dear LORD Jesus Christ of Nazareth, God Almighty, Holy Spirit, we humble our hearts and prostrate ourselves (shacah) before Your Mighty Throne in Heaven today. LORD we worship You for Who You are. You are Sovereign, You are Omnipotent, Omnipresent and Omniscient. You alone are worthy to be Praised. We thank You for Who You are and Whose we are.

We thank You LORD that we have You to come to and to talk to as our Loving, caring, nurturing Heavenly Father. LORD God so many, many people have experienced devastating loss in these last weeks and months. LORD repair their broken hearts, restore Your Strength into their souls, replenish their spirits with ultimate faith and hope in You, refresh their mental outlook and emotions. Give them Your Victory and Your Peace that Passes Understanding in Christ Jesus.

We lift up all of the members of the  church congregation in Texas, the victims of the Las Vegas shootings, those who continue to rebuild their lives after all of the natural disasters, victims of racial, religious and cultural prejudice and all of the First Responders and our Military. LORD You know them each by name, they are precious to You. Minister to them each personally in Your perfect way. Send us, immobilize all of us Christ-followers/Christians to be Your Heart and Hands extended to these hurting people.

Protect them with Your angels LORD. LORD heal the individuals and families that we never hear about. Only You know their silent sufferings. Only You see the Martyrs for Christ. Give them Your Strength LORD to persevere for a much greater life awaits them when they open their eyes on the other side of Heaven, with YOU to personally usher them into Your Presence.

We stand in the dominion that You empower us to stand in. We stand on our faith in You and Your All Powerful Living WORD, the Bible. We know that this earth is not our final destination LORD. Your WORD says that we are but sojourners here and our lives are but a vapor now…but then begins eternity. We can spend our eternity with You. Jesus is the Way to You and eternity in Heaven where there is no more sadness and no more tears. We rebuke the devourer in Your Name Jesus, and You say when we do this, he must flee.

Let all of Your people know Jesus that You are the Only Answer. Call all of these, Your people unto You LORD. Let them know Jesus that You suffered more than us all so You would know our suffering, yet You were/are Perfect and never sinned. You were/are God and yet You chose to come to earth as Man and take on every one of our sins and sufferings. You alone conquered death, hell and the grave. You alone are King of kings, LORD of lords, Magistrate of magistrates, the One and Only Great Potentate! Glory to Your Name. Thank You in advance LORD God Almighty. In Jesus Precious Name I pray. Amen.

I wanted to actually start writing to you even at the time of this devastating tragedy and death which just occurred in my family. The reason for this is because like I mentioned previously; I want to write to “the one”, because I was, and now am again, “the one”, who suffers alone, who suffers silently. ‘The one’ who may not have the family and social support systems that are such an important blessing. ‘The one’ who is actually never alone because of  the LORD Jesus Christ and His Power to heal, restore and change lives and His promise that He is with us always, even to the end of the age.

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.”   (nlt)

Even more than that, I mostly want to walk this out before you to show you the ultimate Grace and Supernatural Healing Love and Power of our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ. I want to show you that we are not ‘victims’, we are ‘VICTORIOUS’ in CHRIST. This ‘trial’ although it is devastating will result in ‘TRIUMPH’ in CHRIST and this begins now!

This ‘test’ which now tears at the very core of your being and threatens to destroy you; will become your ‘TESTIMONY’ of how God Almighty will use this situation to redeem and restore you and your loved ones.  This ‘tragedy’ will be just the ‘TRAJECTORY’ that God uses to not only propel you into your destiny and purpose but also to bring along the hurting and the broken hearted, the marginalized and the disenfranchised with you for God’s Glory! He truly is the Only Answer to every one of humanities problems.

JOHN 14:6    JESUS ANSWERED, “I AM THE WAY AND THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE. NO ONE COMES TO THE FATHER EXCEPT THROUGH ME.”    (niv)

Another reason that it is so important to me to share this season in my life with you is because I was far too broken to even imagine sharing my pain, grief, devastation, brokenness and shame 2 decades ago when my husband committed suicide. (God, in His Mercy and Grace has since restored me from that devastation.) Maybe that was an opportunity to reach out to someone or to several people that I missed. Maybe this is an opportunity of devastation to reach out to ‘the one’ or to the masses that I need to completely embrace for God’s glory.

Whatever God decides to do with this. I am only trying to be obedient and to represent Him correctly the way He chooses to be represented.  I am only trying to reach out to His broken people. If I ever fail to represent Him correctly during this time of my brokenness, please know that I am apologizing and asking for forgiveness in advance. I am of course only a very imperfect human trying to bring glory and precious souls to a very Perfect LORD. Also know that the Holy Spirit will correct me. Only by His Grace and Mercy can I even begin to write this.

PSALM 30:5    WEEPING MAY ENDURE FOR A NIGHT BUT JOY COMETH IN THE MORNING.    (kjv)

PSALM 118:24    THIS IS THE DAY THE LORD HAS MADE; WE WILL REJOICE ND BE GLAD IN IT.    (nkjv) 

PHILIPPIANS 1:29    FOR IT HAS BEEN GRANTED TO YOU ON BEHALF OF CHRIST NOT ONLY TO BELIEVE IN HIM, BUT ALSO TO SUFFER FOR HIM.    (niv)

JAMES 4:7    SUBMIT YOURSELVES THEREFORE TO GOD. RESIST the devil and he WILL FLEE FROM YOU.   (esv)

PHILIPPIANS 4:7    AND THE PEACE OF GOD, WHICH SURPASSES ALL UNDERSTANDING, WILL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND YOUR MINDS IN CHRIST JESUS.    (niv)

1 CORINTHIANS 15:55-57    OH DEATH, WHERE IS YOUR VICTORY? OH DEATH WHERE IS YOUR STING? FOR SIN IS THE STING THAT RESULTS IN DEATH, AND THE LAW GIVES SIN IT’S POWER. BUT THANK GOD! HE GIVES US VICTORY OVER SIN AND DEATH THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.     (nlt)

PSALM 144:4    MAN IS LIKE A MERE BREATH; HIS DAYS ARE LIKE A PASSING SHADOW.    (nas)

PEOPLE ARE LIKE A VAPOR, THEIR DAYS LIKE A SHADOW THAT DISAPPEARS.    (net)

PHILIPPIANS 3:20    FOR OUR CITIZENSHIP IS IN HEAVEN, FROM WHICH ALSO WE EAGERLY WAIT FOR A SAVIOR, THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. 

JOHN 17:16    “THEY ARE NOT OF THE WORLD, EVEN AS I AM NOT OF THE WORLD.”  (spoken by Jesus Christ)

I suppose you have noticed that I have written down many Bible verses. Probably more than usual. This is because it is only through Jesus Christ and His WORD that I can expect to be healed. I am writing them as much for myself as I am for anyone who may also be reading these Words of Life. We are at this point, beginning our journey of healing together.

I will stop writing this particular letter for now even though I have so much more to share with you. I will continue with subsequent letters to you, very soon, so that I can relay more of my heartfelt healing testimony to you. Due to the fact that I have shared many Scriptures with you in this letter and we have prayed; I will not do that in the upcoming letters that will follow shortly. I will however continue praying and sharing Scriptures in future letters to you.

Until we talk again, I want you all to know that you and your families are always in my prayers. I love you all so very much and most importantly Jesus loves you. God bless you always.