Word12/02/07 World Standards and World Views or God’s? When you are little and you behave yourself, you get treats like ice cream or something else special from your parents. You were judged by your parents. When you are a little older, your friends like you because you are funny or are a good athlete or maybe you are smart; they value you or judge you on different attributes. When you are in high school, girls or boys like you because you are cute or you get good grades or you get a scholarship or you are popular or even the class president. You are judged by your peers, adults and your family. When you go to college standards change, you get good grades for recognition for higher education or you are a great athlete hoping to turn pro or take the right courses to set yourself up for your career. You are judged by your professors, your peers, potential employees and your family. Now you are in the work force and if work hard or you are ambitious or you get promotions, raises and you make more money have nice cars and nice home. You are viewed/judged by your friends, neighbors, fellow workers on whether you are successful or not. The way we are judged or viewed is by world standards and world views. But that is not God’s plan. When it is time to leave this world all of us are judged by God. One of the things God will ask you; Do you love My Son, do you believe in Him?. God’s Judgment and it is not universal; it is based on your relationship with His Son. Ecclesiastes 11:9 (NIV) Be happy, young man, while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things. God will bring you to judgment. Hebrews 9:27 (NIV) Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment These Truths reaffirm that we are here to serve God and that we are held accountable by God for the way we live our lives, and we are judged by Him on even the “secret things” whether “good or bad”. Ecclesiastes 12:14 (NIV) For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil. Regarding the Judgment on Christians and the unsaved, there is no such as a universal judgment. God has a judgment planned (in Heaven) for believers to determine their rewards in the afterlife. And God has a planned judgment for unbeliever to determine their punishment for all their deeds. Our God is The God of Peace, Love, and Joy and He cares for us and He loves us so much that He sent Jesus to die for you and me; no greater Love than that; for He died for us. In the end; who we are and who we belong to (God or Satan), will determine, not only where we spend eternity but also how we will be rewarded and judged.
Psalm 58:11
Isaiah 3:11
Colossians 3:24 There is an eternity with God waiting for you; just call on Jesus, He will answer!
11/21/07 In the near future; How could this happen?
We had a great time with our friends last night. I just woke up and turned off the alarm. It looks like my wife got up early and went to work; she does that some times on Saturday. Although, as I look around, it looks like everything is just as it was the night before.
There is an unusual amount of sirens going on out side. I called my wife to see what time she would be home, her phone rang and rang and went into her voicemail; I left a message. I decided to take a shower and turned on the TV to catch up on the news. As I headed for the bathroom, the announcer seemed to be in a panic; “There are plane, car and train crashes everywhere!”. I thought to myself, “bad day” for traveling!
While in the shower, the sirens were getting louder and more frequent. I got out of the shower and tried calling my wife; again it went to her voicemail. I was starting to get worried; she always has her cell phone with her.
I went to the TV and they were interviewing a government official and he just announced that the President had just declared a state of emergency for the entire country. Planes were falling out of the sky and car wrecks were happening on every major and minor highway. The most disturbing thing was that everywhere on the planet there were people missing. They had just vanished.
Then there was a great commotion outside. I went outside only to see all the parents on our street were in great panic. They were looking around everywhere for their kids; all the young children were missing, even the babies.
I went inside to call my wife, no luck; I even called her office number, no answer.
Then I remembered a Scripture I had read in the Book of Chronicles, where Paul said; “in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed”.
Oh No!!!
How could this happen! I was left behind!
I am a good person, go to church, I teach Sunday school, and I even pray for others, this can’t be true. I must be in a bad dream!
I tried my wife again, both numbers, no answer! I called my Pastor, no answer either. Now, I am really worried!
I felt so lost and I did not know what to do. I picked up my Bible and turned to Revelations and started reading and remembered what God said would happen during the tribulation period; plagues, earthquakes, famines and more. What a terrible time to be on earth, it was so overwhelming. I am not prepared for this, who would be?
I fell to my knees and started praying:
Dear Lord Jesus, I admit that I am a sinner and I am in need of you and your forgiveness. I want to turn from my sins and follow you completely. I believe that You are the Son of God who died on the cross for me and all my sins; you were buried and rose to life again. I accept the Father's gift of eternal life through faith and belief in you alone. I receive you as Lord and Savior of every part and area of my life forever and ever. In Jesus' Name. Amen
This will not be pretty, but I now know Jesus as my Lord and Savior and with the blood covering of Jesus I will be able to face this.
There are so many that are unprepared like I was. The next 7 years will be Hell on earth, I must tell as many as I can, Salvation is the only answer!
Rev 22:12 "And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward [is] with Me, to give to every one according to his work”.
Are you prepared? This could happen anytime, even right now, this very next minute!
Seek Jesus, He is waiting for you; He loves you and died for you!
Can you really wait any longer?
8/03/07 What a wonderful weekend as God blessed us to be a part of an awesome prayer time over our Pastor filled with Holy Ghost fire, and then to receive words for our church and our Pastor and to be able to share these with our Pastor, and then to have the opportunity to pray for a woman who suffered from cancer in her jaw, to be cured of this horrible and devastating disease only to suffer from other problems in her body from the treatment of cancer. Wow! She had arthritis in her body, mainly hands with much pain in her thumbs. She has had difficulty with her feet and many other areas of her body. Our Pastor asked Dennis and I to pray and anoint her in oil. As we prayed, her hands were released in healing. She no longer suffers any pain in her thumbs or hands,...Yeah GOD!!! And yea right before our eyes. What a wonderful God we serve!!! We are continuing to believe that the healing He has begun in her will continue and come to complete and full healing within the next three weeks. I cannot wait to hear from her all that He is doing. It is so amazing and exciting to work with God, co-laboring with Christ and having the Holy Spirit so present, to see lives being transformed before our eyes. More Lord, More Lord, more of what You have for us to do and more of You to do the work You have set before us. We love you LORD GOD, Lord Jesus and Holy Spirit! YEAH GOD!!!! Keep up for His strength is given to you through Christ Jesus. Psalms 36:5-10 says: “Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, your faithfulness to the skies. Your righteousness is like the mighty mountains, your justice like the great deep. O LORD, you preserve both man and beast. How priceless is your unfailing love! Both high and low among men find refuge in the shadow of your wings. They feast on the abundance of your house; you give them drink from your river of delights. For with you is the fountain of life; in your light we see light. Continue your love to those who know you, your righteousness to the upright in heart.
7/26/07 Two-Hour Clock I was channel surfing and I came across a cooking show, so I stopped to see what they were doing. There were sixteen aspiring chefs who were part of a cook-off; the winner would get his own cooking show. Displayed before the contestants were an assortment of limited meats, poultry, seafood and other exotic items (like snake and eel) that they would have access to. On a table was a knife holder that had sixteen cleavers, each with a number on it. Each contestant drew a cleaver and the number on it would determine the order in which they would be able to select the items that they wished to prepare. The cleaver with the lowest number provided the opportunity to be first up to chose the best of the assortment provided. The next step was to decide what to prepare, prepare it and then wait to be judged. Each contestant was allowed only two hours to prepare the meal that could open up an opportunity of a lifetime. If any of the contestants were not ready before the two hour limit they were gone, out, no second chance! Some selected seafood while others selected meats and some went for the more exotic items with snake and eel. Once their selections were made they had some time to select the side dishes that would complement the entrée which they would prepare. The first eight of the contestants were to begin while the remaining eight waited in another room. The two hour clock started; the contestants were scurrying around preparing and cooking the entrees and side dishes. I can only image how they had envisioned and dreamt about winning the prize; the ultimate reward; their own show, a once in a lifetime opportunity for most. I noticed one of the contestants was whistling and moving at a slower pace than the others. It appeared that he knew what he was doing and what he wanted to do and was going about cooking with all the right motions. However, his time was running out and it appeared he would not be able to complete his dish. He stepped up his paced to no avail, his two hours ran out and he was not prepared, he was not ready. He was gone, no more time, it was over for him! Our lives are somewhat like that two hour clock; we seek and follow our dreams hoping that it will be enough to get us the rewards we are looking for. We work hard, sometimes methodically towards our goal all the while the clock is ticking. We believe that we are prepared, that we are ready but then all of a sudden we run out of time, we are gone, it is over! We must make sure that this is not the case with our eternal life. We must be prepared and the best preparation that any one of us can do is to have assurance that when our time is over that we will know without a doubt where we will spend eternity. Life’s clock is ticking, are you ready? We spend a life time searching and preparing, when it is that simple act of faith; trusting in Jesus, which will determine where you spend your eternal lifetime, no matter when the clock stops and you are gone! John 3:16. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." Trust in Jesus, He is all we need.
6/12/07 A declaration for the day of GOD. And from everything I can see, read or hear, every day is GOD’s day. He is so very good!!! This is the day of God, our LORD This is the day of freedom This is the day of no more debt This is the day of restoration This is the day of reformation This is the day of revival (which I have recently come to understand is not something we have to wait for; it is within us now, it is an attitude in Christ) This is the day of favor This is the day of God’s glory releasing signs and wonders and miracles in abundance This is the day of God’s love flowing through His children This is the day of God’s passion as fire burning over the nations This is the day of God in and through our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. As I received this I had this picture of a rainbow, with every day representing a new color. Then from the top of the rainbow shot these golden rays. And then as if coming from the rainbow shooting upward was this brilliant fire. I felt the rainbow did represent the days above and the rainbow also represents a covenant with God. The rays of gold represented His children rising up and the brilliant fire represented God’s glory and His passion. I know that Jesus tells us over and over that Heaven is here and I know the Lord’s prayer says “Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done on earth as it is in Heaven”; I am hearing over and over Heaven on earth; that we should be experiencing Heaven on earth. So I declare for you “On earth as it is in Heaven”!!!
4/16/2007 Do you want know to GOD More? GOD is LOVE! The infinite, boundless, measureless, uncontainable, marvelous, miraculous, mighty, Holy GOD; Who was and is and will always be. HE who reigns and rules over all Heaven and Earth; He is our Master, Adonai, El Shaddai, Sovereign, Most High GOD. The Creator, Elohim, of all things, bigger than life itself. Do you want to know this GOD? Do you think it is impossible to know HIM? It seems that way sometimes does it not? I don’t know if we can ever fathom the fullness of HIM who is matchless; but beloved, HE tells us in HIS Word (the Bible) things about HIMSELF; HE shares who HE is with us. Look at Exodus 34:5-7 “Then the LORD came down in the cloud and stood there with him (Moses) and proclaimed his name, the LORD. And He passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, "The LORD, the LORD, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin.” GOD wants us to know HIM. One of our purposes here on Earth is to be in a personal relationship with HIM. To be in a personal relationship with someone, we must learn about each other, get to know one another. Another purpose we have here is to become more like Jesus Christ. Jesus is a reflection of who our Father GOD is. When we seek to follow Jesus, we search out the way he lived his life. He tells us in John 14:9 “Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.” Jesus did what the Father did and he spoke what he heard the Father say. Jesus tells us; “When a man believes in me, he does not believe in me only, but in the one who sent me. When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in me should stay in darkness.” John 12:44-46 So my friend, as hard as we may make it seem to get to know GOD, the Bible is giving us a pretty clear picture of GOD’s characteristics and Jesus is showing us who HE is and the way to get to know HIM better. Jesus tells us in the Word (the Bible) that if we have seen him we have seen the Father (God). Now we have not seen Jesus as the disciples saw Jesus, in the physical; but we see him every day through the Word of the Bible and in one another as we meet each other on the streets. This world is full of violence and mayhem for sure, but we are to look beyond this. If our eyes are open we can see GOD’s goodness all around us. And as we focus on His goodness, we find it easier to walk and talk like Jesus. It is not so much our own doing as it is the Holy Spirit within us. For Galatians 5:16 says “Walk in the Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” Allowing the Holy Spirit to work within us and through us will release the light of Jesus who says his light is to keep us out of the darkness. As his light shines through us we destroy the darkness around us. His light flowing through us not only helps us to see GOD’s goodness but it also allows others around us to see His goodness. So how do we do this? We pray, we share and we act! As we speak to GOD and request of Him to help us be more like Christ, He will work in us through the presence of the Holy Spirit to be filled with the fruits of the Spirit. Galatians 5:22-23, 25 tells us “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit.” This is how Jesus lived his life; with these fruits and he shared them with everyone he met. “Jesus gave them this answer: "I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son also does.” John 5. When we hear Jesus say he only does what the Father does we must see that Jesus is a resemblance of our Father GOD. Do you see the fruit of the Spirit comes from GOD himself, from who He is? Look at Exodus 34:5-7 again. He is showing us the way to know HIM, the way to live, the way to treat each other and the way it will be in heaven. But we do not have to wait to be in heaven to experience this life or to share this with those around us. Jesus shared a prayer with his disciples; the Lord’s Prayer; in this prayer “Your kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven” Matthew 6:9-11; this prayer is ours for today…on earth as it is in Heaven, GOD’s kingdom. We can share in GOD’s heavenly kingdom now, today, by sharing His Love for others. 1 John 4:8 “Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” 1 John 4:16 “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.” GOD is love! When I was reading 1 Corinthians chapter 13:4-8, 13 (“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.” “Faith, Hope and Love; the greatest of these is love.”) I began to see even more of GOD. If GOD is love and He is; then we can say that GOD is patient, GOD is kind. He does not envy, He does not boast, He is not proud. He is not rude, He is not self-seeking, He is not easily angered, He keeps no record of wrongs. GOD does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. He always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. GOD never fails!” Faith, Hope and Love; the greatest of these is LOVE.” GOD IS LOVE!!! Two of our goals are to have a personal relationship with GOD our Father and to be like Jesus. We can walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus and love like Jesus; our lives would be so much richer and fuller if we would choose to be like him. Jesus tells us in John 14:6, 7 that he is the way to the Father. “Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him and have seen him." Please do not misunderstand me. I am not saying it is by works we are saved. NO, for Ephesians 2:8-10 tells us “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of GOD, not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are GOD’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which GOD prepared in advance for us to do.” But once we have received this gift from our Father GOD, our hearts are so engaged as to please Him, not so we gain anything else from Him, no it is simply wanting to please Him, wanting to be close to HIM. As a child you did things for your parents not to make them love you or love you more, but to make them happy because you loved them. That is how we should live our lives. Loving our Father GOD and wanting to make Him happy. Remember, to see who the Father is, all we have to do is see who Jesus is. John 14:8-14 Philip said, "Lord, show us the Father and that will be enough for us." Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'? Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words I say to you are not just my own. Rather, it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am in the Father and the Father is in me; or at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves. I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father. And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Son may bring glory to the Father. You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.” Father GOD, who is the great “I AM”, You are everything to us and everything we need. We praise you LORD for Your great and mighty works. We thank you LORD for Your never ending Love. Please forgive us Father where we fail You; sin against You. Show us the things in our lives that we need to repent of, to rid ourselves of and help us to obtain the life You planned for us before we were even in our mother’s womb. LORD, we want to know You more. We want to walk in the ways of our Savior Jesus Christ. Please allow Your Holy Spirit to guide us in all we say and do. Please allow us to see through Your eyes as Jesus did so that we may follow Your ways which are filled with the fruits of the Spirit. Your Spirit Father. Please dispatch Your angels around us that we may be protected from the enemy’s deceitful ways. Please open our ears and our hearts to hear all that Your Holy Spirit shares with us. May we be obedient in all You say and may we please You LORD. I ask Father that You send Your ministering angels to our brothers and sisters in need. I ask that You send Your warring angels to protect them and fight the enemy who is ever crouching at our doors. I ask LORD for Your blessings to be upon each of them that You would provide strength in them to carry on and persevere as they seek to have that beautiful personal relationship with You. I come before You with these request in thanksgiving for who You are by the presence of the Holy Spirit and the power that is in the Name of our gift from You, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen “May the GOD of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13
3/22/2007 Last night God gave me this vision;
I was standing before a group of women in another country. God wanted them to know that He wants a relationship with them and I was to tell them this. I was to tell them how much Jesus loves them too! I was to have them close their eyes and take a journey with me, so I told them to close their eyes that I wanted them to dream and take a journey with me to the throne room of GOD. Then this picture was given to me: All of a sudden you find yourself standing in the entrance of this beautiful palace. You see before you fine, sheer, linen of blue, purple and cranberry with gold filigree running through it. The linen is hanging before you from up high to the floor. You walk through the drapery into a large room; exquisite, gold all around, everything shining like nothing you have ever seen before. It is bright in the room, very bright but with softness about it. Unexplainable! You look to the left and you look to the right, there are no lamps, no lighting, and no candles. Then your eyes are drawn ahead of you and you see it, the throne, pure gold with sapphires, emeralds, pearls, gems of magnificence placed perfectly within and around the throne. The jewels were so beautiful and bright and all of a sudden they become dim and in the dimness you see images. You cannot make out these images but you think “O’ how beautiful” and then you see HIM. You see the figure yet when you try to look directly at HIM you cannot contain HIM. Where HIS face should be is a brilliance your eyes have never seen. Your eyes travel down this figure and you see a pure white gown which rest on HIS lap and over HIS knees flowing down to HIS ankles. You see HIS feet and again try to look directly at them but cannot behold them for HE is immeasurable. You are overwhelmed by this feeling inside and find yourself prostrate before HIM. You cannot help yourself; you cannot keep your eyes off HIM. You want to run to HIM but you cannot move. You look up and there is a hand before you. You look at the hand strong yet gentle and your eyes follow from the fingers up the arm to the shoulder to the neck to the face and you realize it is JESUS. He is reaching down to you. You reach up and He grabs your hand. You cannot stop yourself, you are up and in His arms. The love you now feel comes from your toes, it fills you and you feel like you will explode. You have never known any love like this love before. You are a part of Him; you never want to be separated from Him. You feel Him release the hold He has on you but He does not let go of your hand. You look at Him and you see His garments are of royalty and the crown on His head is beautiful but it is does not compare to the beauty of Him. He motions with His other hand as to say look around you. As you look around, you are in a garden, breathtaking, greenery all around, trees, bushes, plants, so beautiful and flowers of every kind and color imaginable and some you have never seen before. The fragrance in the air is so sweet. Your senses have never experienced anything like this before. Then you see the river flowing through the garden and you follow it ahead to find it flowing from the throne you were before earlier. A beautiful flowing river. There are trees on either side of the river. The feeling you are feeling is extraordinary. You feel safe, secure, whole and loved. You are home! Then I awoke with tears streaming down my face. I was overwhelmed by what I had just pictured. My thoughts went immediately to lost souls, those who do not have this hope, those who do not know how precious salvation in Jesus Christ is. I kept asking God, how do we tell them? How can we help them understand? I fell asleep. This morning I awoke and after sharing this with Dennis, my husband, I knew I was supposed to share this with whoever will listen.
GOD says in HIS Word: “John
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John 11:50 Praise to God for a Living Hope“Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade—kept in heaven for you, who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time. In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the goal of your faith, the salvation of your souls.” 1st Peter 1:3-9
1/8/2007 7 God’s perfect number, the number symbolizing completion. This year is going to be a year of bringing to completion the preparation for the task at hand. From 2000 through 2006 many of you found yourselves in constant trial, constant restoration, constant preparation. Many areas of your lives being dealt with. The fire is good, when we are in the fire, we know God is perfecting us, purifying us. There were many things in your lives that took place, relationships restored, changes of employment, changes of addresses, in and out of debt, deliverances, healings, a spiritual awareness you did not have before. You ended 2006 better than you started in 2000 yet you still do not feel you are there yet, where you think you should be. Be patient, be confident, be ready; this is your year. You are right where you are suppose to be and God will bring to fruition those things He has been putting on your heart, the things He has been preparing you for. This year you will see His mighty hand at work in those things you have dreamt about, daydreamed about, planned for. These are things He has given you a desire for. Souls saved, an overflow of those lost and deceived will come to Him, His precious creations will seek and come to the His glorious Son, our Savior, Jesus Christ. Be excited!!! There are many hearts being touched. Many ministries coming forth to help other ministries. More anointing of the Holy Spirit. When we go through the fire, there is always a cleansing of the water for refreshing. The Holy Spirit will be upon you to do all He is calling you to do. Time as we know it is short, the Lion of Judah will be returning soon. We must be busy, we must be ready. Happy New Year, 2007 will be full! |
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