Wow, good morning. It has been a while since I have posted, but I just had to this morning. I do hope that everyone is well, and enjoying this wonderful day that God has blessed us to see and enjoy.
I am just getting up and out of bed this morning, after having just gone to bed a 4 am this morning! Yes I stayed up last night during what I like best...spending some good, quiet time with God and His Word. I love those wonderful hours when everyone in my house is asleep, no phones ringing, doorbells, or the sound of the TV...just quietness, stillness, and calm...my time! I cherish those moments...I love them so much! As I was up this morning, and enjoying my reading, I came across a couple of verses of scripture that I had not remembered ever reading before. Awesome scriptures that I shared on Facebook before I went to bed. I was just prompted to share them, and I did. I never post anything on this blog, or on Facebook, unless I know that God tells me to. I have come to realize that whatever He tells me to post, is going to minister to someone, so I did exactly what he instructed me to do!
A few months ago, during our time together, I asked God to let me do something. I asked God to let me minister to 5 people a day, every day! Ministry to me may mean, financially helping someone, speaking a word of encouragement to them, reassuring someone about a matter, a hug, a prayer for them, or whatever God specifically tells me to do! Nothing thrills me more than to know that God used me to help somebody, to encourage someone, help to ease pain, a stressful situation in someone's life, or even to confirm something that perhaps God has been talking to them about. At the time that I asked Him to do this, I was not a blogger, and I had just joined Facebook, and I only joined Facebook to reconnect with old friends, and to minister to, encourage, or to inspire someone, in some way.
Well, this morning as I awoke, I admit that I reached for my cell phone on the table by my bed, to look at Facebook...no I did not sin because I looked at Facebook first this morning, instead of praying ...LOL! Anyway, there was an inbox message from one of my FB friends that basically said, "you don't know how God has changed my life, through you, by your post this morning. They proceeded to say that I must never stop doing what I do, never question it, and never let people's judgment sway me, that I must continue to obey God, and that I am so loved!" Wow, you can imagine how wet my pillow was as I lay there reading that! The tears started flowing, big time! I hadn't even gotten out of the bed yet, feet hadn't even touched the floor, and I was so blessed by that message. What a way to begin a day! You know that I am smiling right now. All, that I want to do in life, is to be a blessing! At 4am, when I added that post, little did I know how it would impact someone's life...and who that someone would be.
In the months since I asked God for that special favor, I have started blogging, and posting on FB more. God has sinced revealed to me, that I have far surpassed ministering to 5 people a day. He has told me that I will really never know just how many have been ministered to, by me simply commenting on my friend's FB post with words of encouragement or a prayer, by posting on my own page, and by my blog too! He said that many people will never even tell me that they are reading the posts or the blog, they will never post a comment, and that's alright! He said that they are being blessed just the same!
~Gayle
Friday, October 26, 2012
Monday, August 27, 2012
God's Economic Plan...
Well, everywhere that I am turning lately, or whether I am reading the newspaper, watching the television, or even on Facebook or surfing the web, everything is about the upcoming Presidential election. The TV commercials have begun, the mudslinging, the promises to the people of what the candidates promise to do if elected...it is all underway. I am watching and listening to it all...but believe me, if I actually sit and listen to or watch the news reports, it is usually stumbled upon. I certainly am not letting it consume my life! It is so sad that life for many can be defined by two words -The Economy. For many, Life=The Economy! Folks don't elect candidates today because they feel that the candidates are good examples, that they or men or women of character, that they are the best person for the job. Many have been elected because they have promised to "fix" the Economy! Folks are consumed by the state of the economy. Folks have put all of their trust in the Government to fix things. Last time that I looked, it ain't fixed! I am not saying that it is this person's fault or that person's fault...The Government just does not have the answer, AND it is not the answer! People have based their life on the economy, and on the government fixing it! We are living in a time where countless numbers of people are stressed, depressed, fearful, having all kinds of diseases bought on by stress, having heart attacks, discouraged, worried about losing jobs, losing homes, paying this bills, college tuition etc. Worry, worry, worry! No peace!
A few weeks ago, I begin a study of the Gospels again. I started with the book of Matthew and today I completed it. Before I moved on to Mark, I was led to go back and read Matthew 6:19-34, but God said to read it in the Message version. Here is what it said:
A few weeks ago, I begin a study of the Gospels again. I started with the book of Matthew and today I completed it. Before I moved on to Mark, I was led to go back and read Matthew 6:19-34, but God said to read it in the Message version. Here is what it said:
"Don't hoard treasure down here where it gets eaten by moths and corroded by rust or-worse!-stolen by burglars. Stockpile treasure in heaven, where it's safe from moths and rust and burglars. It's obvious isn't it? The place where your treasure is, is the place you will most want to be, and end up being.
"Your eyes are windows into your body. If you open your eyes wide in wonder, and belief, your body fills up with light. If you live squinty-eyed in greed and distrust, your body is a dank cellar. If you pull the blinds on your windows, what a dark life you will have!
"You can't worship two gods at once. Loving one god, you'll you end up hating the other. Adoration of one feeds contempt of the other. You can't worship God and Money both.
"If you decide for God, living a life of God-worship, it follows that you don't fuss about what's on the table at mealtimes or whether the clothes in your closet are in fashion. There is far more to your life than the food you put into your stomach, more to your outer appearance than the clothes you hang on your body. Look at the birds, free and unfettered, not tied to a job description, careless in the care of God. And you count far more to him than birds.
"Has anyone by fussing in front of a mirror ever gotten taller by so much as an inch? All this time and money wasted on fashion-do you think it makes that much difference? Instead of looking at the fashions, walk out into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They never primp or shop, but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.
"If God gives such attention to the appearance of wildflowers-most of which are never even seen-don't you think he'll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? What I'm trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God's giving. People who don't know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know God and how he works. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.
"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.
Wow! The answer for America and any other country today!
God has always had the plan for our life. He wants us to know and trust Him, not the economy, not a job, not a banker, not an individual, not the Government...Him! He never intended for people to be poor, to stress, to fear, to worry. God really does KNOW about us and the things that we need. He knows about feeding our family, about he mortgage, about a son or daughter in college, about those bills, He really knows! He wants us to turn to Him, put our faith in Him...not in a politician!
Believers, certainly are not to worry, We have a Father who loves us and takes care of us. I looked up the word Father. Here's what I found:
Father (noun)
1.Source.
2.One who exercises paternal care over other persons
3.Paternal Protector
4.Paternal Provider
Father (verb)
1.To assume as one's own
2.To take responsibility of
Wow, sounds like God, to me! No need to fear, no need to worry, no need to stress!
I was just sharing what I was thinking of today, because I am seeing more and more how people are worried. Just want to encourage you. I just want to see people live good lives. Enjoying life, sleeping at night. Not worried about stuff, especially to the extent that stress is causing diseases in one's body. We have help!
Turn everything over to God. Can you fix things? If you could, you would have. Can the government do it? If it could, it would have. Nobody can...but God can!
~Gayle
God has always had the plan for our life. He wants us to know and trust Him, not the economy, not a job, not a banker, not an individual, not the Government...Him! He never intended for people to be poor, to stress, to fear, to worry. God really does KNOW about us and the things that we need. He knows about feeding our family, about he mortgage, about a son or daughter in college, about those bills, He really knows! He wants us to turn to Him, put our faith in Him...not in a politician!
Believers, certainly are not to worry, We have a Father who loves us and takes care of us. I looked up the word Father. Here's what I found:
Father (noun)
1.Source.
2.One who exercises paternal care over other persons
3.Paternal Protector
4.Paternal Provider
Father (verb)
1.To assume as one's own
2.To take responsibility of
Wow, sounds like God, to me! No need to fear, no need to worry, no need to stress!
I was just sharing what I was thinking of today, because I am seeing more and more how people are worried. Just want to encourage you. I just want to see people live good lives. Enjoying life, sleeping at night. Not worried about stuff, especially to the extent that stress is causing diseases in one's body. We have help!
Turn everything over to God. Can you fix things? If you could, you would have. Can the government do it? If it could, it would have. Nobody can...but God can!
~Gayle
Monday, August 13, 2012
One Decree from a King, Can Change Everything!
God is so Amazing! He so loves His people. He loved us enough to write a book that leads us, that guides us, that tells us exactly Who God is...His character...His will...His plans and His desires for mankind. He did not want us to try to figure out what he is about, He did not leave us to depend upon what someone thinks that He is or Who He is, He actually wrote a personal letter to us, revealing Him! I love the Word of God. In it is everything that any of us needs. His Word really is a lamp, a light!
I have learned that the more of His Word that you get, I mean really get, the more of it that I desire, the more He will give me. If you seek understanding it, and you really seek to know more of it, it is so amazing how God will just flood you with truth and understanding. Glory!
Today, I was studying some more about God's Kingdom, and I was particularly studying about how a King rules. There are Scriptures that I have read many times, thinking that I really understood them. I am not saying that I didn't, but I see that God has so much more to say, in some instances, to me about those scriptures. I remember reading the account about Esther, about Daniel and the Hebrew boys, about how they found themselves in trouble because of a King's decree. John the Baptist was beheaded because the King decreed that he would give a dancer whatever she wanted. When she asked for the head of John the Baptist, the king was saddened, but he had to follow through. I knew that when a King made a decree, once he made it, he could not go back and change it! Once he made a decree, it became law, and even if someone in his kingdom may have violated the decree, but the king liked that person, or that person was a friend, the king was still obligated to carry out that decree, even if he wanted to make an exception, like in Daniel's case. What I am saying is that once a decree is made, it is permanent, forever, can't be changed!
A king has power in his mouth!
So, I have been studying the Kingdom of God... God is the King...and He has a Kingdom! He rules! But today in my study, it seems like lights just came on, and bells rang, and sirens went off, and it was a "WOW" moment! Ever had one of those "oh wow" moments...you have studied a particular passage of scripture for several days, a month, a year maybe, and suddenly, pow, it hits you..."I see it, I see it, and it eels like something in the pit of your stomach, I get it!" Today was definitely one of those days! (For those of you who already knew it, y-e-a!, now I got it.)
People decree things to us everyday, that many times they can't follow through on. Politicians get up and decree that they will get more jobs, make our cities better, no more taxes, spouses decree that they will love the other spouse forever and will always by the other's side, companies decree that you are a valuable employee and they will always be there for its workers, but many times, these decrees just don't happen... many times these same decrees are changed, politicians don't do what they said they would, spouses fall out of love and walk away, employees are suddenly not as valuable as they once were. But what I realized today is, God has made some awesome decrees to us, but He is not going to change what He decreed, and He is carrying out what He decreed!
Here are some of God's decrees to us:
Exodus 15:26-"I will put none of the diseases upon you that were on the Egyptians, I Am the Lord that heals thee"-Healing is a decree...it cannot be changed.
Exo. 33:14-"My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest"
Deut. 28:1-14-"If you give heed to God and His Word, blessings will overtaken you. Blessed going out and coming in, blessings in your body...children, blessings in your finances, He commands in the blessings in your storehouses...accounts,
Psa. 91- No evil thing will happen to you and your home, no deadly disease will come upon you, God makes His angels to protect you, crazy things may happen all around you, but not to you, His Word will shield you.
Prov. 1:23-"I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make you to know My Words.
Eccl.8:4-"Where the word of a king is, there is power.
Isa. 41:10-"Fear not for I am with thee, don't be dismayed for I am your God, I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isa. 54:17- Nothing that the enemy are anyone who tries or plots evil against you, will succeed.
John 15:7-"If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
1John 4:17- as He is, so are we in the world.
There are so many more decrees that God has made, these are only a few! But once a king makes a decree, he must keep it, he cannot change it! Wow, this is awesome. Even when God decrees something to you personally in your private prayer time, whether He decrees something to you in a public worship, He cannot change it. He swore that He would keep His Word!
I don't know about you, but this is awesome to me. Wow, I can get up every day smiling and already knowing that good things are going to happen to me. I know that my body is whole, that I can leave my house, go to the mall, to a movie theater and enjoy a movie, without fear, I don't have to worry about anything, because I have everything because of the decrees that God has made over my life, my home, my children, my marriage, my finances, everything. That sounds like total freedom to me!
I have learned that the more of His Word that you get, I mean really get, the more of it that I desire, the more He will give me. If you seek understanding it, and you really seek to know more of it, it is so amazing how God will just flood you with truth and understanding. Glory!
Today, I was studying some more about God's Kingdom, and I was particularly studying about how a King rules. There are Scriptures that I have read many times, thinking that I really understood them. I am not saying that I didn't, but I see that God has so much more to say, in some instances, to me about those scriptures. I remember reading the account about Esther, about Daniel and the Hebrew boys, about how they found themselves in trouble because of a King's decree. John the Baptist was beheaded because the King decreed that he would give a dancer whatever she wanted. When she asked for the head of John the Baptist, the king was saddened, but he had to follow through. I knew that when a King made a decree, once he made it, he could not go back and change it! Once he made a decree, it became law, and even if someone in his kingdom may have violated the decree, but the king liked that person, or that person was a friend, the king was still obligated to carry out that decree, even if he wanted to make an exception, like in Daniel's case. What I am saying is that once a decree is made, it is permanent, forever, can't be changed!
A king has power in his mouth!
So, I have been studying the Kingdom of God... God is the King...and He has a Kingdom! He rules! But today in my study, it seems like lights just came on, and bells rang, and sirens went off, and it was a "WOW" moment! Ever had one of those "oh wow" moments...you have studied a particular passage of scripture for several days, a month, a year maybe, and suddenly, pow, it hits you..."I see it, I see it, and it eels like something in the pit of your stomach, I get it!" Today was definitely one of those days! (For those of you who already knew it, y-e-a!, now I got it.)
People decree things to us everyday, that many times they can't follow through on. Politicians get up and decree that they will get more jobs, make our cities better, no more taxes, spouses decree that they will love the other spouse forever and will always by the other's side, companies decree that you are a valuable employee and they will always be there for its workers, but many times, these decrees just don't happen... many times these same decrees are changed, politicians don't do what they said they would, spouses fall out of love and walk away, employees are suddenly not as valuable as they once were. But what I realized today is, God has made some awesome decrees to us, but He is not going to change what He decreed, and He is carrying out what He decreed!
Here are some of God's decrees to us:
Exodus 15:26-"I will put none of the diseases upon you that were on the Egyptians, I Am the Lord that heals thee"-Healing is a decree...it cannot be changed.
Exo. 33:14-"My presence shall go with you, and I will give you rest"
Deut. 28:1-14-"If you give heed to God and His Word, blessings will overtaken you. Blessed going out and coming in, blessings in your body...children, blessings in your finances, He commands in the blessings in your storehouses...accounts,
Psa. 91- No evil thing will happen to you and your home, no deadly disease will come upon you, God makes His angels to protect you, crazy things may happen all around you, but not to you, His Word will shield you.
Prov. 1:23-"I will pour out my Spirit unto you, I will make you to know My Words.
Eccl.8:4-"Where the word of a king is, there is power.
Isa. 41:10-"Fear not for I am with thee, don't be dismayed for I am your God, I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.
Isa. 54:17- Nothing that the enemy are anyone who tries or plots evil against you, will succeed.
John 15:7-"If you abide in Me, and My Words abide in you, you shall ask what you will, and it shall be done unto you.
1John 4:17- as He is, so are we in the world.
There are so many more decrees that God has made, these are only a few! But once a king makes a decree, he must keep it, he cannot change it! Wow, this is awesome. Even when God decrees something to you personally in your private prayer time, whether He decrees something to you in a public worship, He cannot change it. He swore that He would keep His Word!
I don't know about you, but this is awesome to me. Wow, I can get up every day smiling and already knowing that good things are going to happen to me. I know that my body is whole, that I can leave my house, go to the mall, to a movie theater and enjoy a movie, without fear, I don't have to worry about anything, because I have everything because of the decrees that God has made over my life, my home, my children, my marriage, my finances, everything. That sounds like total freedom to me!
Wednesday, August 8, 2012
Who Are You?
Just sitting down a few minutes ago, enjoying the presence of God and His Word, and just thinking about how awesome God is and how awesome His Word is. The Bible is God's personal Love letter to me. I look into it, and I see who I am. It is so good to know who I am, for myself. I am not who others may say that I am, or who they may think that I am. I can look into God's Word, as if it is a mirror, and I see me! I have found out by listening to others, that if you don't know who you are, others will tell you who they think you are...and what they say, may not necessarily be the truth!
Today, I have been just thinking about some things that God has said about me. I have been meditating with delight, on truths about me. I can help but smile each and every day...I am Somebody...I got it going on! No, I don't have an hourglass figure, not a "10" as the world would say, not a celebrity in the news, but I am somebody!
Just thinking about how much that God loves me. He absolutely wants to be with me, have a relationship with me, daily talk with me, He cares about me, about what I am concerned about, He likes laughing and talking with me, and I sure love being with Him too. He reminds me that I am loved. He reminds me that He wanted a family, someone just like Him, who He could love and laugh with, who He could shower with His love and blessings, that's why we're here! He had the angels, but they were not like Him, He wanted someone just like Him, so He made us! He had Jesus, but He wanted more sons/daughters.
Ever noticed in the Gospels that Jesus is referred to as the Only Begotten Son of God, but in the Epistles, Jesus is called the firstborn Son of God...the firstborn of many brothers? If He is the firstborn, this must indicate that there are others. Yes there are others, and we are the others!
He is my Father. He takes care of me. He made Himself responsible for me. I am an Heir of God! Wow, this is an amazing truth about me....I am an Heir of God, and a joint-heir with Jesus. That does not mean that Jesus gets 50% and I get 50%, it means that Jesus gets 100% and I do too! Glory! Sometimes I just have to sit down during the course of the day, and meditate upon these truths. I am an Heir of God. He loves me and always will. He is not now, and never will be mad at me, punish me, leave me, forsake me, let go of me! I don't know about you, but that is awesome to me. Man, what reason do I have to be down, depressed, fearful, doubtful about God. He loves me. Why would I worry about not having something...I have everything!
I enjoy being with God. I don't have to worry if He will accept me...He does! I am righteous. He made me righteous. I don't have to beg for blessings. I don't have to try to convince Him that I need Him to do something for me. He wants to do it more than I want it.
I just love Him! Just thinking out loud! So very blessed. So grateful, so glad that I KNOW WHO I am!
Today, I have been just thinking about some things that God has said about me. I have been meditating with delight, on truths about me. I can help but smile each and every day...I am Somebody...I got it going on! No, I don't have an hourglass figure, not a "10" as the world would say, not a celebrity in the news, but I am somebody!
Just thinking about how much that God loves me. He absolutely wants to be with me, have a relationship with me, daily talk with me, He cares about me, about what I am concerned about, He likes laughing and talking with me, and I sure love being with Him too. He reminds me that I am loved. He reminds me that He wanted a family, someone just like Him, who He could love and laugh with, who He could shower with His love and blessings, that's why we're here! He had the angels, but they were not like Him, He wanted someone just like Him, so He made us! He had Jesus, but He wanted more sons/daughters.
Ever noticed in the Gospels that Jesus is referred to as the Only Begotten Son of God, but in the Epistles, Jesus is called the firstborn Son of God...the firstborn of many brothers? If He is the firstborn, this must indicate that there are others. Yes there are others, and we are the others!
He is my Father. He takes care of me. He made Himself responsible for me. I am an Heir of God! Wow, this is an amazing truth about me....I am an Heir of God, and a joint-heir with Jesus. That does not mean that Jesus gets 50% and I get 50%, it means that Jesus gets 100% and I do too! Glory! Sometimes I just have to sit down during the course of the day, and meditate upon these truths. I am an Heir of God. He loves me and always will. He is not now, and never will be mad at me, punish me, leave me, forsake me, let go of me! I don't know about you, but that is awesome to me. Man, what reason do I have to be down, depressed, fearful, doubtful about God. He loves me. Why would I worry about not having something...I have everything!
I enjoy being with God. I don't have to worry if He will accept me...He does! I am righteous. He made me righteous. I don't have to beg for blessings. I don't have to try to convince Him that I need Him to do something for me. He wants to do it more than I want it.
I just love Him! Just thinking out loud! So very blessed. So grateful, so glad that I KNOW WHO I am!
Monday, August 6, 2012
Fighting or Resisting?
A Happy and a good Monday to all! I do hope that you had a great weekend, and that you are enjoying a good Monday. As you can see, I am up blogging early today (it was a little after 9 am when I started this) I have enjoyed one of those early morning quite times with God, that I love so much...the time before the phone starts to ring, before the television comes on, before one of my sons asks me where something is...the time when all is at rest. The Keurig is silent, the microwave is too...just peace and quiet!
I always so enjoy the ways that God teaches me about something. I still laugh and refer back to the teaching on His "Blowpop" revelation. (I blogged about this in a November 2011 post...check the archives). He is always using some unique illustration to get His point across, and today was no different.
I often ask God what is the one thing that He is concerned about today? Most of the time, about 90% of the time, He tells me that He is concerned that many in the body of Christ, have no idea who they are. Of course we talk about other things, but most of the time, it is about many in the body not really knowing who they are in Christ, not knowing what they are capable of, and seeing themselves as God does! More and more I read about people dying, about people being stressed and depressed, fearful, and hopeless...people who say that they love God and are His child, but who are sad, tired, depressed, giving up!
God said to me this morning that so many of His people are exerting too much energy in all the wrong things. He said that they are crying, begging, and working, fighting...not living and enjoying life. He said that too many are working hard to get stuff, they are crying out of frustration of trying to please Me and earn my blessings, they are not enjoying a relationship and fellowship with Me, instead they are begging Me for things as if I don't want them to have them, and they spend so much time trying to convince Me of their problems, and why they need things. They spend time talking about and fighting someone who has no power, and who has already been defeated (satan)!
This morning He showed me a big boxing match. It was in a Las Vegas or a Madison Square Garden setting. I don't know which one, I only know that it was a large venue and packed with people. He showed one of the boxers just knock the other boxer completely out...there was NO fighting, the boxer hit him one time and he was laying there still, not moving, utterly knocked out! The referee/official whatever he is, ( I am not a boxing fan) declared the match over and the winner was declared! As all of this is played out in my mind, the trainers for the boxer who was knocked out, are steadily trying to revive the boxer on the floor. The boxer who was knocked out, comes to, and he gets up and wants to fight the winning boxer again. The ref tells him that the match is over, you lost! There will be no more fighting! God then speaks to me and says, "Why would the winner put on his boxing gloves again, to fight all over? All he has to do is turn and walk away. He has already won, he does not need to fight again". God said that too many Christians are trying to fight a defeated foe! He said that Jesus has already defeated satan, but folks are trying to get in a ring and fight with him...he already lost! God said, "I did not say to fight the devil, I said to resist him.!" He said that there is a difference in fighting and resisting! Folks are using too much energy fighting! "You resist him by standing on the truth of My Word, that Jesus has already defeated him, that YOU are his master (satan)." We master him because God has given us power over him, we stand in the truth that in Christ we can't be touched by satan, we stand in the knowledge that the fight is over, that Jesus won it, utterly knocked him out, and we get the victory! Now for many, this will probably sound too juvenile, but it is what God showed me nevertheless. He said..."know who you are according to who I said you are...know what you can do according to what I said you can do, know what is yours and what you are entitled to according to what I said, not what people say".
Anyway, I received more understanding!
I always so enjoy the ways that God teaches me about something. I still laugh and refer back to the teaching on His "Blowpop" revelation. (I blogged about this in a November 2011 post...check the archives). He is always using some unique illustration to get His point across, and today was no different.
I often ask God what is the one thing that He is concerned about today? Most of the time, about 90% of the time, He tells me that He is concerned that many in the body of Christ, have no idea who they are. Of course we talk about other things, but most of the time, it is about many in the body not really knowing who they are in Christ, not knowing what they are capable of, and seeing themselves as God does! More and more I read about people dying, about people being stressed and depressed, fearful, and hopeless...people who say that they love God and are His child, but who are sad, tired, depressed, giving up!
God said to me this morning that so many of His people are exerting too much energy in all the wrong things. He said that they are crying, begging, and working, fighting...not living and enjoying life. He said that too many are working hard to get stuff, they are crying out of frustration of trying to please Me and earn my blessings, they are not enjoying a relationship and fellowship with Me, instead they are begging Me for things as if I don't want them to have them, and they spend so much time trying to convince Me of their problems, and why they need things. They spend time talking about and fighting someone who has no power, and who has already been defeated (satan)!
This morning He showed me a big boxing match. It was in a Las Vegas or a Madison Square Garden setting. I don't know which one, I only know that it was a large venue and packed with people. He showed one of the boxers just knock the other boxer completely out...there was NO fighting, the boxer hit him one time and he was laying there still, not moving, utterly knocked out! The referee/official whatever he is, ( I am not a boxing fan) declared the match over and the winner was declared! As all of this is played out in my mind, the trainers for the boxer who was knocked out, are steadily trying to revive the boxer on the floor. The boxer who was knocked out, comes to, and he gets up and wants to fight the winning boxer again. The ref tells him that the match is over, you lost! There will be no more fighting! God then speaks to me and says, "Why would the winner put on his boxing gloves again, to fight all over? All he has to do is turn and walk away. He has already won, he does not need to fight again". God said that too many Christians are trying to fight a defeated foe! He said that Jesus has already defeated satan, but folks are trying to get in a ring and fight with him...he already lost! God said, "I did not say to fight the devil, I said to resist him.!" He said that there is a difference in fighting and resisting! Folks are using too much energy fighting! "You resist him by standing on the truth of My Word, that Jesus has already defeated him, that YOU are his master (satan)." We master him because God has given us power over him, we stand in the truth that in Christ we can't be touched by satan, we stand in the knowledge that the fight is over, that Jesus won it, utterly knocked him out, and we get the victory! Now for many, this will probably sound too juvenile, but it is what God showed me nevertheless. He said..."know who you are according to who I said you are...know what you can do according to what I said you can do, know what is yours and what you are entitled to according to what I said, not what people say".
Anyway, I received more understanding!
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
It's Been Here All Along!
Hello friends, I hope that everyone is enjoying their day. Remember that God gave it to you...so it is up to you to decide what kind of day that you will have.
Well, I wanted to share something that happened to me on yesterday. Ever had one of those "aha" moments? That moment when it seems like all that you can say is, "WOW! ... WOW... WOW! It isn't always earth shaking, not necessarily bad, nothing major, just one of those moments when it just seems like the light just came on! I had one of those moments on yesterday. I must admit that all I could do was smile, Praise God, and just shake my head.
Last year, I was blessed to be the receipent of a brand new HP Touchsmart computer. This was totally a gift that caught me by surprise! I had begun playing around with Graphics, some videoing and editing, now some photography and believe me, this computer is really great in all of these areas. I like pretty things, exciting things, and I like even more, being able to design things myself. I especially like playing around with the video stuff. I haven't quite gotten video editing perfect yet, but I like a challenge, and I have decided to keep working at it. I often observe the various television commercials, business advertisements, other graphics that I see in various places. I currently use a particular movie maker, which I love...but I have often thought to myself, how much that I would love a video editing program that could really add the fast movements, the special effects, and the real actions to my editing capabilities. Never have I ever mentioned this desire to one single person, not even God! I am big on asking God for a particular desire, but not this time. I am a strange person...if I have a particular thing, like the current movie maker program, or my current point and shoot camera, I don't want a bigger, more expensive camera, a bigger, more expensive program, until I can somewhat master the one that I already have. (I said that this is the way I am. I am sure that you are not like me, and you would want the bigger, newer, more expensive thing. That's good too...that's the way you do what you do...LOL!) So I was content to learn how to really get good at using what I already had. I just sometimes imagined using the newer programs for some of my videos.
Anyway, yesterday I was making DVDs, full of photos from an event that took place this past weekend. I was so proud of the DVD, sat down and watched it on my computer, played it on my son's laptop, to be sure that it was compatible with other devices. I would not want to send out DVDs that wouldn't work on other people's TVs, laptops or computers. Well, I decided to try it out on my big screen television, and to my surprise...it would not show...couldn't read image or audio data! Ugh! I had already made numerous copies of it. It would not play on any of my televisions in the house! Oh well...what now? I knew that I had a DVD program on my computer, maybe a I did something wrong? So, I then began searching the DVD Suite that was on the computer...as my grandmother would say, "with a fine tooth comb". To my huge surprise, I discovered a video editing program within the DVD Suite. I had looked at the Suite before, made DVDs before, but I had never seen this editing program. Oh my goodness...it is exactly the kind of editing program that I had been imagining! Remember, I never told anyone about my desire, and I never even discussed it with God, or asked God to give it to me. Not one time!
I was so excited, and immediately started to play around with it, to see what I could do with it. Suddenly God spoke to me and said, "It has been there, all along!" I have had this computer for a year now, and I never did see that program on it. God went further and said, "there are blessings all around you, that you have not seen in manifestations, that are not visible to you, can't see with your natural eyes, that are right there. You have asked for things that are not manifest to you, that you already have!
He said that others have asked Me for things, and those things are right there in their midst, even though they can't see them visibly"! They have been there all along!
This is what He said, and I am not going to add to it by trying to explain it! If you are reading this, and if it applies to you, I know that The Holy Spirit will show you.
That's all!
Well, I wanted to share something that happened to me on yesterday. Ever had one of those "aha" moments? That moment when it seems like all that you can say is, "WOW! ... WOW... WOW! It isn't always earth shaking, not necessarily bad, nothing major, just one of those moments when it just seems like the light just came on! I had one of those moments on yesterday. I must admit that all I could do was smile, Praise God, and just shake my head.
Last year, I was blessed to be the receipent of a brand new HP Touchsmart computer. This was totally a gift that caught me by surprise! I had begun playing around with Graphics, some videoing and editing, now some photography and believe me, this computer is really great in all of these areas. I like pretty things, exciting things, and I like even more, being able to design things myself. I especially like playing around with the video stuff. I haven't quite gotten video editing perfect yet, but I like a challenge, and I have decided to keep working at it. I often observe the various television commercials, business advertisements, other graphics that I see in various places. I currently use a particular movie maker, which I love...but I have often thought to myself, how much that I would love a video editing program that could really add the fast movements, the special effects, and the real actions to my editing capabilities. Never have I ever mentioned this desire to one single person, not even God! I am big on asking God for a particular desire, but not this time. I am a strange person...if I have a particular thing, like the current movie maker program, or my current point and shoot camera, I don't want a bigger, more expensive camera, a bigger, more expensive program, until I can somewhat master the one that I already have. (I said that this is the way I am. I am sure that you are not like me, and you would want the bigger, newer, more expensive thing. That's good too...that's the way you do what you do...LOL!) So I was content to learn how to really get good at using what I already had. I just sometimes imagined using the newer programs for some of my videos.
Anyway, yesterday I was making DVDs, full of photos from an event that took place this past weekend. I was so proud of the DVD, sat down and watched it on my computer, played it on my son's laptop, to be sure that it was compatible with other devices. I would not want to send out DVDs that wouldn't work on other people's TVs, laptops or computers. Well, I decided to try it out on my big screen television, and to my surprise...it would not show...couldn't read image or audio data! Ugh! I had already made numerous copies of it. It would not play on any of my televisions in the house! Oh well...what now? I knew that I had a DVD program on my computer, maybe a I did something wrong? So, I then began searching the DVD Suite that was on the computer...as my grandmother would say, "with a fine tooth comb". To my huge surprise, I discovered a video editing program within the DVD Suite. I had looked at the Suite before, made DVDs before, but I had never seen this editing program. Oh my goodness...it is exactly the kind of editing program that I had been imagining! Remember, I never told anyone about my desire, and I never even discussed it with God, or asked God to give it to me. Not one time!
I was so excited, and immediately started to play around with it, to see what I could do with it. Suddenly God spoke to me and said, "It has been there, all along!" I have had this computer for a year now, and I never did see that program on it. God went further and said, "there are blessings all around you, that you have not seen in manifestations, that are not visible to you, can't see with your natural eyes, that are right there. You have asked for things that are not manifest to you, that you already have!
He said that others have asked Me for things, and those things are right there in their midst, even though they can't see them visibly"! They have been there all along!
This is what He said, and I am not going to add to it by trying to explain it! If you are reading this, and if it applies to you, I know that The Holy Spirit will show you.
That's all!
Friday, July 6, 2012
Life- More Abundantly!
I am going to warn you at the start of this post...it is lengthy, you may have to stop reading...make a sandwich, grab a coke, and come back to it. I just had some things on my heart...things that I have been talking to God about, things that have troubled me, things that I just wanted to share. I am not mad at anyone, but the devil!
First of all, I love people. All people. People that I know, people that I don't know. People who have not even been born yet. People who I have not even seen before, who I have never met. Those who have been shunned by society, those who are lovable and those who are unlovable too. Those who may think differently from me, those who may not like me. Those who may disagree with me, those who may do things different than I do...I love people! You may be saying, "how can she say that, how can this be true?" I love everyone because God loves everyone, and He has given me the ability to do so too! I have come in contact during my life, with some people who are quite nasty, unkind, mean, prejudiced, who frankly, just weren't pleasant to be around, who treated me ugly for no apparent reason...strangers, family members, folks in the grocery stores, in the malls, just people. But, I still love them, because God loves them, and I know that He loves me, even if no one else likes me, cares for me, if others treat me crazy, I rest in the truth that I am so loved by God. I can smile every day, knowing that I am loved, forgiven, approved, blessed by His grace, and favored. I want everyone to know that He loves you too, and He wants the best for everyone, that means YOU!
Yes, I know that it is hard to believe that God could love a Hitler, a drug dealer, a prostitute, a person who could rob people of millions of dollars...an entire life savings, a person who could abuse a child, a spouse, a rapist...a racist, a terrorist. But God loves so differently from us! Our finite minds cannot grasp the love that God has for everyone...yes, everyone! Sadly, people relate to God and His love, like they relate to everyday love...the kind that may be here today and gone tomorrow...the kind that brings two people together, one gets sick with a lengthy illness and sudden the other leaves, or the girlish figure leaves and strands of grey appear, and suddenly she is not so attractive as at first, or someone else looks a little finer...prettier...or the kind of love that suddenly causes one to fall out of love, you know..when you love them, but you are no longer "in love" anymore, or the kind where you will love, as long as everything is going your way, and all of your conditions are met!
Thankfully, God does not love like that! His love is unconditional...not based upon someone loving Him back...not making us earn it, not making us do all of the right things...we don't have to look a certain way, we don't have to "work" for it. We don't have to jump through hoops, take all kinds of abuse. God has no conditions. He just loves us, because He wants to. He loved us before we knew that we needed Him to. He loved us before we touched planet Earth, He loves those who have not been conceived yet! I am not saying that He loves the unkind, unloving, abusive, destructive things that people do, but the people...Yes! When Jesus gave His Son, He did it for every one. He soooo loved the world...He didn't just love the world, He soooooo loved! He didn't pick and choose. His love is for every one...but sadly every one won't choose His love.
I said all of this because I am so saddened by all of the times that I read of suffering and hear of suffering, and oftentimes, I hear people credit God for causing it, or "allowing it". This is so NOT true. More and more, God is being accused of awful things...sickness and disease, foreclosures, poverty, natural disasters, children dying, killings and murders, etc...supposedly because God is trying to teach us something, or He is causing these things to happen, so that He can get the glory when he brings you out of it. Why can't He just get the glory for protecting us from all of these things in the first place! God gets no glory for killing a baby, for putting cancer in someone's body, or wiping out thousands of people with a hurricane, flood, tornado or sunami. No, God is not talking to us through these things. He talks through His Word, through His Spirit, to our spirit. Would real love do this? I love my sons, and I only want the very best for them. I would not dream of doing a deadly thing to them to punish them, or to try to teach them something. I would be in a prison today, if I did to my children...what God has been accused of doing! God delights in giving life, not taking it...in healing, not making sick...in supplying Wants and needs, not causing one to be in want, in poverty! God hates death, death is an enemy of God (Ezekiel is just one of the many Scriptures that God talks about death...He hates the death of him who dies...He has no pleasure in death..Eze. 18:32) God is not causing folks to lose their homes...God promised and is giving us good homes (more than one) and even filling them with good things, even with swimming pools if you want one-Deut. 6:10-11...He is not making people lose their home. Suffering for Christ is not suffering with sickness, with poverty, children lost to the world, a bad marriage. Suffering for Christ is suffering by being ridiculed, persecuted, rejected because you want to live holy, because you want to not engage in activities that you once did, that you now know is contrary to God's way, because you want to glorify Christ. Suffering is when you speak up for Christ and no one wants to include you in their gatherings anymore...it is doing things for the sake of the Kingdom...not lying on a bed with your body filled with disease for Jesus! All through the Gospels, we see Jesus healing...healing folks with sickness in their body, healing people who were possessed with demons, He stopped funerals, woke the dead folks up. If Jesus only said and did what He saw His Father do, then God must be healing too! Jesus got rid of sickness, except where people did not believe. Jesus has not changed...He is the same, still healing, still hate sickness and disease. He is the same yesterday, today and forever! I didn't say yesterday, today and tomorrow...not tomorrow. He wants you well TODAY!
I just hate to see all of the sickness, especially among professing Christians. A part of Redemption included divine health. God wants His people well, not suffering with one disease after another. It is almost impossible to sit and watch 30 minutes of television, without hearing about 10 new medications or diseases! Now, they are even telling a mother that it can be harmful to hold her baby! How crazy is that! God has said that He has already GIVEN us everything that pertains to life and godliness...good health pertains to life, would you agree? Having a roof over your head, a dependable vehicle, a safe neighborhood, money in the bank...these things pertains to life, and they give you a sense of peace when you are well, with money in the bank, a nice home to live in, and your children all well. (2 Peter 1:2-4). We have an awesome Inheritance, and it is for right NOW! Not for heaven, although we will enjoy good things there too, BUT WE CAN HAVE THESE BLESSINGS NOW, TODAY! We are included in an awesome will! Jesus has already dies so that it would go into effect, and He even came back from the dead to carry it out!
If you are a child of God and you are reading this, (if you have never asked Jesus into your heart, if you have never confessed that Jesus died for your sins, and was raised for your salvation, you can right now) you DO NOT have to put up sickness and disease, with spending all of your money going from one doctor to another, tests after tests, pills after pills and not getting better. Just believe God. The woman with the issue of blood, she kept spending money until she had spent everything that she had. Instead of getting better, she was getting worse. She heard about Jesus and she believed that He would heal her. He did! He wants to do the same for you.(Mark 5:25-34) I know that so many things just don't make sense, but God didn't say that it had to make sense, He simply asked you to believe!
He is still healing. He is still raising the dead. He s still providing. He still wants us to live a good life, an abundant life, a life overflowing with blessings, a life just like His! He has an awesome plan for you, yes, YOU! He said that He wants to give you a future...well guess what, we are living the future right now! Reach out and receive what is yours...receive the good plan that God has for you. Trust God. Trust His promises to manifest in your life! God LOVES His people!!!
I just want to see everyone live a good life. No more defeats in life, just barely getting along, scraping, struggling, hanging on by your nails, stressed, depressed, just surviving. We are not supposed to be just surviving...we are supposed to be living, flourishing, thriving! We have eternal life in us. Eternal life doesn't just have to do with quantity of life, BUT QUALITY of life also. Jesus said, "I come that you might have life (zoe-the God kind of life, the very nature of God, His essence, everything that God is...), and have it MORE abundantly! (John 10:10). Can you imagine that! God has made it such that we can have in us, everything that makes God, God. We have His very nature, His ability to love people, His ability to forgive people who have wronged us, His desire to see the best in others...and desire that good things happen for others, that we genuinely care and are concerned for others, not just always concerned about ourselves...wow! That's our Father!
Whatever you need...God has it for YOU!
I love you! Walk in your victory, abundance, peace!
~Gayle
First of all, I love people. All people. People that I know, people that I don't know. People who have not even been born yet. People who I have not even seen before, who I have never met. Those who have been shunned by society, those who are lovable and those who are unlovable too. Those who may think differently from me, those who may not like me. Those who may disagree with me, those who may do things different than I do...I love people! You may be saying, "how can she say that, how can this be true?" I love everyone because God loves everyone, and He has given me the ability to do so too! I have come in contact during my life, with some people who are quite nasty, unkind, mean, prejudiced, who frankly, just weren't pleasant to be around, who treated me ugly for no apparent reason...strangers, family members, folks in the grocery stores, in the malls, just people. But, I still love them, because God loves them, and I know that He loves me, even if no one else likes me, cares for me, if others treat me crazy, I rest in the truth that I am so loved by God. I can smile every day, knowing that I am loved, forgiven, approved, blessed by His grace, and favored. I want everyone to know that He loves you too, and He wants the best for everyone, that means YOU!
Yes, I know that it is hard to believe that God could love a Hitler, a drug dealer, a prostitute, a person who could rob people of millions of dollars...an entire life savings, a person who could abuse a child, a spouse, a rapist...a racist, a terrorist. But God loves so differently from us! Our finite minds cannot grasp the love that God has for everyone...yes, everyone! Sadly, people relate to God and His love, like they relate to everyday love...the kind that may be here today and gone tomorrow...the kind that brings two people together, one gets sick with a lengthy illness and sudden the other leaves, or the girlish figure leaves and strands of grey appear, and suddenly she is not so attractive as at first, or someone else looks a little finer...prettier...or the kind of love that suddenly causes one to fall out of love, you know..when you love them, but you are no longer "in love" anymore, or the kind where you will love, as long as everything is going your way, and all of your conditions are met!
Thankfully, God does not love like that! His love is unconditional...not based upon someone loving Him back...not making us earn it, not making us do all of the right things...we don't have to look a certain way, we don't have to "work" for it. We don't have to jump through hoops, take all kinds of abuse. God has no conditions. He just loves us, because He wants to. He loved us before we knew that we needed Him to. He loved us before we touched planet Earth, He loves those who have not been conceived yet! I am not saying that He loves the unkind, unloving, abusive, destructive things that people do, but the people...Yes! When Jesus gave His Son, He did it for every one. He soooo loved the world...He didn't just love the world, He soooooo loved! He didn't pick and choose. His love is for every one...but sadly every one won't choose His love.
I said all of this because I am so saddened by all of the times that I read of suffering and hear of suffering, and oftentimes, I hear people credit God for causing it, or "allowing it". This is so NOT true. More and more, God is being accused of awful things...sickness and disease, foreclosures, poverty, natural disasters, children dying, killings and murders, etc...supposedly because God is trying to teach us something, or He is causing these things to happen, so that He can get the glory when he brings you out of it. Why can't He just get the glory for protecting us from all of these things in the first place! God gets no glory for killing a baby, for putting cancer in someone's body, or wiping out thousands of people with a hurricane, flood, tornado or sunami. No, God is not talking to us through these things. He talks through His Word, through His Spirit, to our spirit. Would real love do this? I love my sons, and I only want the very best for them. I would not dream of doing a deadly thing to them to punish them, or to try to teach them something. I would be in a prison today, if I did to my children...what God has been accused of doing! God delights in giving life, not taking it...in healing, not making sick...in supplying Wants and needs, not causing one to be in want, in poverty! God hates death, death is an enemy of God (Ezekiel is just one of the many Scriptures that God talks about death...He hates the death of him who dies...He has no pleasure in death..Eze. 18:32) God is not causing folks to lose their homes...God promised and is giving us good homes (more than one) and even filling them with good things, even with swimming pools if you want one-Deut. 6:10-11...He is not making people lose their home. Suffering for Christ is not suffering with sickness, with poverty, children lost to the world, a bad marriage. Suffering for Christ is suffering by being ridiculed, persecuted, rejected because you want to live holy, because you want to not engage in activities that you once did, that you now know is contrary to God's way, because you want to glorify Christ. Suffering is when you speak up for Christ and no one wants to include you in their gatherings anymore...it is doing things for the sake of the Kingdom...not lying on a bed with your body filled with disease for Jesus! All through the Gospels, we see Jesus healing...healing folks with sickness in their body, healing people who were possessed with demons, He stopped funerals, woke the dead folks up. If Jesus only said and did what He saw His Father do, then God must be healing too! Jesus got rid of sickness, except where people did not believe. Jesus has not changed...He is the same, still healing, still hate sickness and disease. He is the same yesterday, today and forever! I didn't say yesterday, today and tomorrow...not tomorrow. He wants you well TODAY!
I just hate to see all of the sickness, especially among professing Christians. A part of Redemption included divine health. God wants His people well, not suffering with one disease after another. It is almost impossible to sit and watch 30 minutes of television, without hearing about 10 new medications or diseases! Now, they are even telling a mother that it can be harmful to hold her baby! How crazy is that! God has said that He has already GIVEN us everything that pertains to life and godliness...good health pertains to life, would you agree? Having a roof over your head, a dependable vehicle, a safe neighborhood, money in the bank...these things pertains to life, and they give you a sense of peace when you are well, with money in the bank, a nice home to live in, and your children all well. (2 Peter 1:2-4). We have an awesome Inheritance, and it is for right NOW! Not for heaven, although we will enjoy good things there too, BUT WE CAN HAVE THESE BLESSINGS NOW, TODAY! We are included in an awesome will! Jesus has already dies so that it would go into effect, and He even came back from the dead to carry it out!
If you are a child of God and you are reading this, (if you have never asked Jesus into your heart, if you have never confessed that Jesus died for your sins, and was raised for your salvation, you can right now) you DO NOT have to put up sickness and disease, with spending all of your money going from one doctor to another, tests after tests, pills after pills and not getting better. Just believe God. The woman with the issue of blood, she kept spending money until she had spent everything that she had. Instead of getting better, she was getting worse. She heard about Jesus and she believed that He would heal her. He did! He wants to do the same for you.(Mark 5:25-34) I know that so many things just don't make sense, but God didn't say that it had to make sense, He simply asked you to believe!
He is still healing. He is still raising the dead. He s still providing. He still wants us to live a good life, an abundant life, a life overflowing with blessings, a life just like His! He has an awesome plan for you, yes, YOU! He said that He wants to give you a future...well guess what, we are living the future right now! Reach out and receive what is yours...receive the good plan that God has for you. Trust God. Trust His promises to manifest in your life! God LOVES His people!!!
I just want to see everyone live a good life. No more defeats in life, just barely getting along, scraping, struggling, hanging on by your nails, stressed, depressed, just surviving. We are not supposed to be just surviving...we are supposed to be living, flourishing, thriving! We have eternal life in us. Eternal life doesn't just have to do with quantity of life, BUT QUALITY of life also. Jesus said, "I come that you might have life (zoe-the God kind of life, the very nature of God, His essence, everything that God is...), and have it MORE abundantly! (John 10:10). Can you imagine that! God has made it such that we can have in us, everything that makes God, God. We have His very nature, His ability to love people, His ability to forgive people who have wronged us, His desire to see the best in others...and desire that good things happen for others, that we genuinely care and are concerned for others, not just always concerned about ourselves...wow! That's our Father!
Whatever you need...God has it for YOU!
I love you! Walk in your victory, abundance, peace!
~Gayle
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