So many times I have said how much I love lying in bed, eyes just opening to a new day, feet not hitting the floor yet, no TV turned on yet, no lights turned on yet, either. Those first moments of a new day, those still, quiet moments, no voices asking, "momma do we have any bacon, where is the bread, do you want breakfast"? Those precious moments when it seems like God's voice is so easily heard, so gentle, so still, so peaceful, ...those moments that I love and cherish so much! I am certainly not saying that God only speaks in the morning at a certain time, in a certain setting. I am not saying that at all. God is always speaking to us, and He longs to fellowship with us, no matter what time of the day, or night.
This morning was a little different. God woke me up, I laid there, and I must admit that I went to bed last night, with a heavy heart. I know that the concern was in my spirit, because I awoke with the same concern on my heart, and God knew this of course, and He immediately addressed it. It is nothing bad, just a concern for someone who has become close to me, who I care about, and who has been dealing with a matter for quite some time now. I love people. I want to see people free. I want to see people be all that God created them to be, do all that God created them to do, have all that he wants them to have, and fulfill the plans, purposes, and Destiny that He has for all of us. When it seems that I meet or talk to people who are struggling in life, not living the God-kind of life, living with sickness and disease in their body, who really love the Lord, who is His child, and who are living beneath their means, not experiencing all that God has for them, here in this life, I am saddened, and usually walk away with a heavy heart. Yes, I know that even as children of God, challenges come in life. Jesus told us that they would come, but he assured us that we don't have to be defeated by the challenges, stay in the challenges, and that we can have victory over them!
Anyway, God spoke differently to me this morning. This morning, His still, small voice was not so still this morning, it was a stern, firm voice this morning, and He let me know quickly, that He meant business! It was a "I have had enough" voice! God LOVES his people, all people! He wants the very best for everyone! He began talking to me about the concern that I have for this friend. The particular concern is in the area of healing. He said that for too long, His children have put up with sickness and disease in their body, have preached about it, have taught about it, have written books about it, and have said that "God is using it to teach me something, to bless others, or to glorify Him". God said to me, "Gayle, they have said that I am the cause of their sickness. When did I have to go to satan, and use his sickness to teach them something. When did I have to turn to satan for help, why do I have to go to satan and get his sickness, to use to bless someone?" God was not playing when He spoke to me this morning. He said that too many people are caught up in believing a lie, a doctor's report, a machine! He said that, it is just a machine! Folks go to the doctor, and if a machine reveals a certain thing, a reading, a number, a picture, people will believe that, and base their entire life on it. He kept saying, "it is just a machine". God said that the machine should only confirm what you should KNOW before you get to the doctor's office, that you are healed! If the machine reveals something otherwise, you still KNOW that you are healed, you now (as my Pastor says), where to target your faith! In other words, as a child of God, if I go to the doctor, and the doctor says that he show a mass on an x-ray, I still know that I am healed, and I know that Jesus has already secured my total healing on the cross. The doctor's report may state a fact that something showed up on the test, but the TRUTH is that Jesus took all of my sickness and disease, He took it from me. If He took it, then I don't have it anymore! The enemy is trying to give it back to you, and he is using a doctor's report, or your body hurting, to do it. It is the power of suggestion. If he can suggest that you have cancer, he wants you to believe it, which means that you will take that sickness back. Your body is accustomed to being in control, and it will tell you that "you are sick, you will never stop hurting, you can't be healed, it has been sick too long, you are going to die, there is no hope, the doctor says that it is nothing more that they can do." Our body will talk to us! It will still be in pain and stay in pain, and it will convince us that God is using that pain for His glory, that that sickness is His will. (I have never been able to understand, why IF it is God's will for us to be sick, why was Jesus so out of God's will, so disobedient! My Bible says that Jesus went about healing All! All the healing that Jesus did, would have made Jesus totally out of the will of God!) Yet Jesus said that He only says what His Father says, and does what His father does! So if Jesus does only what he sees His Father do, then God must heal too! I'm just sayin'. The Word says that opening blinded eyes, lame men walking, demon possessed people being made free, is what glorified God, not sickness! God said to me, "Gayle a machine does not know you, it does not know your body from the thousands of other bodies that it is hooked up to. A machine did not make your body. He said to let The Word be TRUE, and every man and machine be a liar...God said this to me this morning! In other words, if I go to the doctor, I listen to what the doctor thinks and says to me, but that's NOT the final answer! God says, believe Me in spite of what the reports say. My report is true, the doctors report may be facts. Sometimes they even mess up the reports.
Finally, after all that He said to me this morning, He said one final thing that made me sit up in bed. I could not believe what I was hearing. God said to me, "Don't you pray for Me to heal one more person!" What? I said , "Don't you pray for Me to heal one more person! I have already healed them! You pray that their eyes will be opened, that the blinders would fall off of their eyes, that they will see, that they would get a REVELATION of WHO I AM, what I have already done, and what already belongs to them, now, today, not when they get to Heaven! And then He said, "Now Blog that!" Ok Lord, I get it! God was not playing with me this morning. He was not mad at me, He did not holler at me in anger, He just spoke in a stern, firm voice, and I knew that I must do what He said to do!
So here is today's blog...lengthy, but according to God's instruction!
Monday, February 20, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Awesome God, Faithful God!
If you have followed my blog for any length of time, you know that I love the Lord with all of my heart, and I total trust Him! I KNOW that He absolutely, positively, Loves me. It is one thing to profess my love for Him, but I am so bragging about His love for me. He loves me, He loves me, He absolutely Loves me!
Today is February 16, 2012, and I am alive, I am in the land of the Living, I can walk and I can talk, and I am here to tell you about it! You are probably asking, "What is she talking about?"
Last year on this exact day, I lay in the hospital, speech slurred, unable to walk, not able to hold anything in my hand, pretty much not able to do very much with my right side of my body, because according to the doctors, I had just had a stroke.
On last Valentine's Day, after my husband and I had celebrated a wonderful day, excited about a new car, which was my Valentine gift, as I stopped to a local Walmart to pick up a few things, before going in for the night. As I was about to get out of the car to go into the store, I turned to get out of the car, and I hit my knee quite hard, on the lever underneath the steering wheel, that controls the steering wheel when raising it and lowering it. Never in my life, had I ever experienced such pain! I have had two children, one by natural childbirth, no drugs at all, but even through that, I had never experienced the pain that I felt upon hitting my knee. I was by myself at the store, because I dropped my husband off first, it was a little late, and I called myself trying to not have him out too late. He had to go to work the next day, I didn't. When I hit my knee, the pain was so intense that all I could do was fall back into the seat, head spinning, white light flashing in front of me. I had to sit there for a while to regain myself, because it actually seemed like I blacked out.
I was finally able to stopped hurting enough to drive home. I made it home safely, and I laid down and went to sleep. On the next morning which was the 15th, I woke up with a sharp pain behind my left eye, dizzy, not feeling bad, but not feeling good. In the process of the 15th, still dizzy, stomach upset, various things happened. Went to the emergency room, blood pressure 200/96, dizzy, had to be helped to stand in the emergency room, but every test performed was negative, all good results, but still dizzy, weak, having trouble walking, speech sounding funny. Sent home! By the morning of the 16th, I got up out of bed to go to the bathroom, and I hit the floor...I could not walk! My husband put me into an office computer chair that we have, and rolled me to the car, of course to take me to the hospital. CAT scan and MRI showed, according to the doctors, that there was a stroke. I was immediately admitted to the hospital, where I remained for one month. Intense physical and occupational therapy followed. I had great doctors, and therapists, but above all, I have a Great God, a Healing God! I had read the Word that God is the Healer! I knew before all of this occurred, that God is the Healer. I knew that He is a Healer, because He said that He is! I didn't have to have a stroke to know that He is the Healer. Now I know not only that He is the Healer, I know that He is MY Healer. I give God all of the praise and the glory for totally healing and restoring my health, and my body. God is the Healer! No one can convince me otherwise. He said that He heals, and He heals! I keep repeating that He is the Healer, because I really want you to get it. He will heal you. it doesn't matter what the condition is, it is not too hard for Him. It doesn't matter how long you have dealt with sickness, He will heal you! Yes, You! Stroke, cancer, infertility, back problems, whatever it is, He will heal you!
I had to share my awesome testimony. In case someone wonders if God would heal them, I am here to tell you that he most certainly will!
I could not let this day pass without bragging on Him! I know that I am a walking, living testimony to the goodness, and the awesome power of God!
Thank you Lord for Healing me. You are totally awesome, and so very faithful!
God always keeps His promises!
Today is February 16, 2012, and I am alive, I am in the land of the Living, I can walk and I can talk, and I am here to tell you about it! You are probably asking, "What is she talking about?"
Last year on this exact day, I lay in the hospital, speech slurred, unable to walk, not able to hold anything in my hand, pretty much not able to do very much with my right side of my body, because according to the doctors, I had just had a stroke.
On last Valentine's Day, after my husband and I had celebrated a wonderful day, excited about a new car, which was my Valentine gift, as I stopped to a local Walmart to pick up a few things, before going in for the night. As I was about to get out of the car to go into the store, I turned to get out of the car, and I hit my knee quite hard, on the lever underneath the steering wheel, that controls the steering wheel when raising it and lowering it. Never in my life, had I ever experienced such pain! I have had two children, one by natural childbirth, no drugs at all, but even through that, I had never experienced the pain that I felt upon hitting my knee. I was by myself at the store, because I dropped my husband off first, it was a little late, and I called myself trying to not have him out too late. He had to go to work the next day, I didn't. When I hit my knee, the pain was so intense that all I could do was fall back into the seat, head spinning, white light flashing in front of me. I had to sit there for a while to regain myself, because it actually seemed like I blacked out.
I was finally able to stopped hurting enough to drive home. I made it home safely, and I laid down and went to sleep. On the next morning which was the 15th, I woke up with a sharp pain behind my left eye, dizzy, not feeling bad, but not feeling good. In the process of the 15th, still dizzy, stomach upset, various things happened. Went to the emergency room, blood pressure 200/96, dizzy, had to be helped to stand in the emergency room, but every test performed was negative, all good results, but still dizzy, weak, having trouble walking, speech sounding funny. Sent home! By the morning of the 16th, I got up out of bed to go to the bathroom, and I hit the floor...I could not walk! My husband put me into an office computer chair that we have, and rolled me to the car, of course to take me to the hospital. CAT scan and MRI showed, according to the doctors, that there was a stroke. I was immediately admitted to the hospital, where I remained for one month. Intense physical and occupational therapy followed. I had great doctors, and therapists, but above all, I have a Great God, a Healing God! I had read the Word that God is the Healer! I knew before all of this occurred, that God is the Healer. I knew that He is a Healer, because He said that He is! I didn't have to have a stroke to know that He is the Healer. Now I know not only that He is the Healer, I know that He is MY Healer. I give God all of the praise and the glory for totally healing and restoring my health, and my body. God is the Healer! No one can convince me otherwise. He said that He heals, and He heals! I keep repeating that He is the Healer, because I really want you to get it. He will heal you. it doesn't matter what the condition is, it is not too hard for Him. It doesn't matter how long you have dealt with sickness, He will heal you! Yes, You! Stroke, cancer, infertility, back problems, whatever it is, He will heal you!
I had to share my awesome testimony. In case someone wonders if God would heal them, I am here to tell you that he most certainly will!
I could not let this day pass without bragging on Him! I know that I am a walking, living testimony to the goodness, and the awesome power of God!
Thank you Lord for Healing me. You are totally awesome, and so very faithful!
God always keeps His promises!
Saturday, February 11, 2012
How Tragic!
Wow, I just watched the news confirming the death of another musical great, Whitney Houston. As I sat there, immediately my mind flashed back to the day that I sat and listened to reports of the death of Michael Jackson. His death was a total shock, but Whitney Houston's death is a greater shock. I am stunned and saddened by it. Once again, another death of one so young. Death is death, no matter the age of the person, but as with Michael Jackson, she is gone too soon.
I sit here and just think about how people are dying. Whether it is a result of a sickness, whether it was a life taken by someone, or suicide, however it occurred, people are leaving here, and in the midst of it, I look at all of the foolishness that exists in the world. The disagreements in the Government, the division that exist in it, the greed that exist in this country, folks taking the lives of others, the killing of innocent children, and sexually abusing children, placing no value on life, a total disregard for godly principles, everything that God warned about in-
2 Timothy 3:1-7: THIS KNOW also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men (and women) shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good.
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
I guess that you are wondering what does this have to do with Whitney Houston's death. Well, when I heard about her death, I just stopped and thought about how so many people are dying, and dying so young. People are leaving here! People are having all kinds of issues, stress, depression, and for many, they really see no hope, they are not seeing anything, (in their mind), getting better. While all of this craziness is going on all around us, people are hopeless, taking their lives, just looking for relief, any way that they can get it! I am in NO way saying that this is what happened with Whitney Houston, I am just seeing how fragile life can be for some. So many people are only concerned about themselves, yet, so many people all around us, are crying out for help, for encouragement, for someone to tell them that they can make it, that things can change, can get better. We cannot afford to look the other way, when we see people hurting, down, depressed. I know, you may say that it is not your business if someone is hurting. Yes, it is our business to give them a smile, a word of encouragement, a hug, a note, a text to say, "have a good day, God loves you".We don't have to have all of the details of what is going on with them, but we can care.We can say a prayer. We can love them. Every day, we are surrounded by real people, with real issues. They may be your co-workers, church members, your server in a restaurant, the checker at the grocery store, the person teaching your child, your own family member...no matter who it is, We Can Care!
I sit here and just think about how people are dying. Whether it is a result of a sickness, whether it was a life taken by someone, or suicide, however it occurred, people are leaving here, and in the midst of it, I look at all of the foolishness that exists in the world. The disagreements in the Government, the division that exist in it, the greed that exist in this country, folks taking the lives of others, the killing of innocent children, and sexually abusing children, placing no value on life, a total disregard for godly principles, everything that God warned about in-
2 Timothy 3:1-7: THIS KNOW also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
For men (and women) shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good.
Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
I guess that you are wondering what does this have to do with Whitney Houston's death. Well, when I heard about her death, I just stopped and thought about how so many people are dying, and dying so young. People are leaving here! People are having all kinds of issues, stress, depression, and for many, they really see no hope, they are not seeing anything, (in their mind), getting better. While all of this craziness is going on all around us, people are hopeless, taking their lives, just looking for relief, any way that they can get it! I am in NO way saying that this is what happened with Whitney Houston, I am just seeing how fragile life can be for some. So many people are only concerned about themselves, yet, so many people all around us, are crying out for help, for encouragement, for someone to tell them that they can make it, that things can change, can get better. We cannot afford to look the other way, when we see people hurting, down, depressed. I know, you may say that it is not your business if someone is hurting. Yes, it is our business to give them a smile, a word of encouragement, a hug, a note, a text to say, "have a good day, God loves you".We don't have to have all of the details of what is going on with them, but we can care.We can say a prayer. We can love them. Every day, we are surrounded by real people, with real issues. They may be your co-workers, church members, your server in a restaurant, the checker at the grocery store, the person teaching your child, your own family member...no matter who it is, We Can Care!
Manifestation Time!
At the end of every year, as we are anticipating the coming of a brand new year, someone always have a prediction for the upcoming new year! This year two of my favorite ministers, predicted that 2012, would be the year of Manifestation! They predicted that this year, we will see the manifestation of things that we have been believing and expecting from God, for a long time. We will see those answers this year. I have heard many predictions over the past years. I do pay attention to them, but every now and then, one may really have a strong impact, that makes me really listen and take note of what was said.
This particular prediction for 2012, really got my attention, because God let me know during the end of 2011, that things were going to manifest, more and more! He even said to me, "why do you have to wait until a new year, why can't I cause things to show up now"? I even blogged about God saying this to me, in December. So you know that I am expecting things to happen, and I am always so excited when they do.
Two days ago, my sister shared an awesome report about her 4-year old grandson. He has been diagnosed with autism. He is a beautiful little boy, a sweet, mild- nature, just adorable, very affectionate. He began to attend a special school this year. He attends a school, with great, loving teachers who just love him and take such good care of him, and really love him. Each day as my sister takes him off to school, she usually takes him out of the car, and walks him up to a teacher who is there waiting to greet him, and walk him in to school. Each morning the teacher takes him by the hand and as they are walking into the school, she tells him to say, "goodbye Grammy, see you later". This has been the ritual since day one of entering that school, and it is always no response by her grandson. Every day, always the same instruction to my nephew from the teacher, every day the same response from my nephew, none, until two days ago! This day started out the same way that it always does, with my sister taking her grandson to school, the teacher waiting for him, but at the curb this time. She was there and she was at the curb, she took him out of the child seat, and my sister did not even have to get out of the car this time. As he and the teacher turned to up away from the car, the teacher told him to say goodbye to his Grammy as she always does, and they proceeded to turn and walk away. As they are walking away, but still close enough to the car that my sister could hear him, he just stops, turns to look back at the car, and says, "goodbye Grammy, see you later"! She and the teacher just screamed, both in shock. He looks at my sister in her eyes, as if to say, "what's wrong with you, didn't you hear what I said", so he says it again, "goodbye Grammy, see you later". She and the teacher are super excited by then.As they are walking on further, he says it again for a third time and goes on into the building! Wow, you do know that my sister cried all the way home! We are all so excited for him, and what God is doing in his life.
I am so excited for him, but through all of this, I was able to see so many lessons from this. First of all, it is a manifestation of something that we have been waiting on and praying on for quite some time. I have been believing that this is the year of manifestation as God said, that we will see things come to pass, that we have waited years to see. Secondly, as I have said many times before, satan is such a liar and a deceiver! he has tricked so many people into believing that because something or someone has been a certain way for a long time, it can't change. What a lie! he wants people to really believe that things cannot change. It really does not matter how long that something or someone has been a certain way for a long time, it and they can change!
God tells us in His Word, to speak to a mountain (Mark 11:23), and it will obey us! If you need it to leave, it will leave. If you need it to crumble and fall, it will crumble and fall! God showed me something in this. God can use any situation to teach me something, and He usually does! He asked me, "What do you know about a mountain, nothing deep, just what do you know about a mountain? Ok, here I go thinking and talking to myself. "Gayle, what do you know about a mountain?" I know that they are usually tall, grand, massive structures, bigger than me. What else? They have usually been standing for a very long time, I know that it did not suddenly appear the minute before I saw it. What else? I know that a mountain will probably be standing there for many more years to come. Mountains sometime look bigger than life, intimidating, challenging, unable to be conquered! God said,"that's the way a mountain looks, yet I told you to speak to it! I told my people to talk to that mountain, and it will do what they tell it to do! It doesn't matter how long it has been there, how big it is, how intimidating it looks, none of this matters with me. I don't care how long they have been dealing with that debt, that mountain of bills, that mountain of sickness and disease, those years of taking medicine and going back and forth to the doctor, that mountain of stress on their job, angry, jealous, complaining co-workers, a thankless job, that spouse that just doesn't seem to change, that mountain of low self esteem, children that just don't want to do right. Whatever the mountain may be, God said to speak to it, and it will change, if they believe it, and factor Me into the equation". satan will lie to us and tell us that a situation has been this way so long, that it cannot change. Don't believe him. God said to me and to you, things can change! People can change! Situations can change! I don't know about you, but I need some things to change in my life, especially some people! The situation that occurred this week with my nephew, certainly showed me that anything can change, especially when you expect it!
This particular prediction for 2012, really got my attention, because God let me know during the end of 2011, that things were going to manifest, more and more! He even said to me, "why do you have to wait until a new year, why can't I cause things to show up now"? I even blogged about God saying this to me, in December. So you know that I am expecting things to happen, and I am always so excited when they do.
Two days ago, my sister shared an awesome report about her 4-year old grandson. He has been diagnosed with autism. He is a beautiful little boy, a sweet, mild- nature, just adorable, very affectionate. He began to attend a special school this year. He attends a school, with great, loving teachers who just love him and take such good care of him, and really love him. Each day as my sister takes him off to school, she usually takes him out of the car, and walks him up to a teacher who is there waiting to greet him, and walk him in to school. Each morning the teacher takes him by the hand and as they are walking into the school, she tells him to say, "goodbye Grammy, see you later". This has been the ritual since day one of entering that school, and it is always no response by her grandson. Every day, always the same instruction to my nephew from the teacher, every day the same response from my nephew, none, until two days ago! This day started out the same way that it always does, with my sister taking her grandson to school, the teacher waiting for him, but at the curb this time. She was there and she was at the curb, she took him out of the child seat, and my sister did not even have to get out of the car this time. As he and the teacher turned to up away from the car, the teacher told him to say goodbye to his Grammy as she always does, and they proceeded to turn and walk away. As they are walking away, but still close enough to the car that my sister could hear him, he just stops, turns to look back at the car, and says, "goodbye Grammy, see you later"! She and the teacher just screamed, both in shock. He looks at my sister in her eyes, as if to say, "what's wrong with you, didn't you hear what I said", so he says it again, "goodbye Grammy, see you later". She and the teacher are super excited by then.As they are walking on further, he says it again for a third time and goes on into the building! Wow, you do know that my sister cried all the way home! We are all so excited for him, and what God is doing in his life.
I am so excited for him, but through all of this, I was able to see so many lessons from this. First of all, it is a manifestation of something that we have been waiting on and praying on for quite some time. I have been believing that this is the year of manifestation as God said, that we will see things come to pass, that we have waited years to see. Secondly, as I have said many times before, satan is such a liar and a deceiver! he has tricked so many people into believing that because something or someone has been a certain way for a long time, it can't change. What a lie! he wants people to really believe that things cannot change. It really does not matter how long that something or someone has been a certain way for a long time, it and they can change!
God tells us in His Word, to speak to a mountain (Mark 11:23), and it will obey us! If you need it to leave, it will leave. If you need it to crumble and fall, it will crumble and fall! God showed me something in this. God can use any situation to teach me something, and He usually does! He asked me, "What do you know about a mountain, nothing deep, just what do you know about a mountain? Ok, here I go thinking and talking to myself. "Gayle, what do you know about a mountain?" I know that they are usually tall, grand, massive structures, bigger than me. What else? They have usually been standing for a very long time, I know that it did not suddenly appear the minute before I saw it. What else? I know that a mountain will probably be standing there for many more years to come. Mountains sometime look bigger than life, intimidating, challenging, unable to be conquered! God said,"that's the way a mountain looks, yet I told you to speak to it! I told my people to talk to that mountain, and it will do what they tell it to do! It doesn't matter how long it has been there, how big it is, how intimidating it looks, none of this matters with me. I don't care how long they have been dealing with that debt, that mountain of bills, that mountain of sickness and disease, those years of taking medicine and going back and forth to the doctor, that mountain of stress on their job, angry, jealous, complaining co-workers, a thankless job, that spouse that just doesn't seem to change, that mountain of low self esteem, children that just don't want to do right. Whatever the mountain may be, God said to speak to it, and it will change, if they believe it, and factor Me into the equation". satan will lie to us and tell us that a situation has been this way so long, that it cannot change. Don't believe him. God said to me and to you, things can change! People can change! Situations can change! I don't know about you, but I need some things to change in my life, especially some people! The situation that occurred this week with my nephew, certainly showed me that anything can change, especially when you expect it!
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