The Word of the LORD came unto me saying….
I kept hearing this over and over a couple of days ago….Every time I heard it, my spirit just plain got excited!!
I pray the Word daily….I mean every day…7 days a week…of
every year for nine years…I pray a blanket of prayer over my tent…my family, my
friends, my community, my state, my nation….and I pray over all that come to me
on fb from all over the world…
I pray for all I’ve known in the past…and all that I will
know in the future…as well as those I know now.
I pray for that everywhere I place my foot, or car, or
whatever I’m in…and all that have gone before me…are there with me…and all that
come after me.
I pray them allllllll saved!!!!!! The LORD is not willing
that any perish, neither am I!
The Word has become and is becoming more wonderful to me
every day!
I am more full of the Word…sometimes increasing by the
day…but at least more aware daily of the Word in me…issues of living
water…rising up and gushing over…much like a geyser!
I have more coming to me each day for prayer. How amazing is that?!
I often hear, "Please pray for me or I want you to pray for me…or your prayers are
powerful!
My prayers are not powerful. Many times my prayers won’t even reach the ceiling…much less Heaven!
What do I mean? I prayed my prayers for years…a hit or a
miss…no consistency whatsoever…and I never knew if it was my prayer or someone
else’s…wasn’t thanking God for answered prayer because I wasn’t seeing my
prayers answered.
It is prayer coming out of my mouth…but I don’t pray my
prayers. I fill on the Word each and
every day…
I mean in my life…today…I am saturated daily!!! I mean I’m leaving
wet spots…spiritually speaking that is!! It’s amazing to me.
I have asked for this position…and I never want to moved
from it…I am standing on and in a living river of water…and I am moving around
just like everyone around me…I do all the mundane things and all the family
things…and I sit by some of you…and we talk and laugh and are quiet…or
whatever…
But I’m on gushpoint at any moment…I can pray on the
spot…after stopping mid-walk…and take the enemy down…the stronghold…set the
captive free…heal the sick…or whatever the need is…not me but Holy Spirit in
me.
I know…and have known awhile…that it’s not me that’s
anointed…but the anointing is the Word…and now that it’s in me…the anointing is
gushing!!!
Crazy-sounding I know!! I’m not fun with the fun crowd of
the world. Many can’t stand to be around
me…to hear my voice…of sit near me…or whatever…because I used to say an
occasional Praise the LORD…or look happy most of the time…
But, today, a retired teacher…a retired political activist
for the family…a mother of adults…a grandparent
of 5 granddaughters…and aunt to many nephews and nieces…and greats …and
a great-great nephew…and friend to any and all that will be or want to be my
friend…in my Jerusalem, my Judea, my Samaria, and in the uttermost parts of the
world.
I have many spiritual sons and daughters and family the
world over and that family is growing daily. This ministry, Women Who Pray,
began praying 9 years ago daily…and my son created a website for us to pray
on…and we wrote a mission statement that we were going to take this prayer
ministry…to reach the world…by internet.
Well, we have the potential, today, to reach over 1500+
people over the world…all continents but Antarctica…each day…we have that many
that have made us friends on fb.
Don’t you love to hear, “It’s not about me!” Well, that is
the truest statement in the world. Nothing I could have begun in me could have
gotten me here.
I kept asking the LORD, where was it LORD that I heard…”The
Word of the LORD came unto me saying…”
I heard Ezekiel…
You might ask, “How did you hear?”
Well, if you turn to Ezekiel 33: 1, you will find the words:
…the word of the LORD came unto me saying…
It was this chapter
that was read to me and the WORD here that called me into the
Pro-family/Pro-Life movement in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s…
It says here that when the watchman sees the sword coming
upon the land…if he blows the trumpet and warns the people…then, it is not his
responsibility whether they heed the warning or not…if they don’t, then their
blood is on their own head. However, if he
fails to warn the people…then, the people will be taken away in their own
iniquity…but their blood will God require at the watchman’s hand.
Now, I was 29 years old when I heard the Word of the LORD
here calling me as a watchman. I had
asked the LORD to be an intercessor…to give me a heart to care about the
lost…the ones I didn’t know.
I saw the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment) as extremely
dangerous. The feminists were encouraging young women like me to help destroy
their own homes through all the material that was coming our way. Divorce increased 10-fold at least since all
that began!
I’m sure there have been multiplied billions of unborn
babies world-wide as a result of the feminist movement. I was at the forefront of that movement…but
I, along with Phyllis Schlafly, Beverly LaHaye, Katherine Dunaway, and so many
others were against the feminist agenda.
Georgia was one of the 4 states that had to stand against
the ERA, in order that it not become part of the law of our land. Mothers On the March helped do that! I was
the president of MOM!
After that victory…lullsville for me…I mean I did not know
who I was! I was not longer a Christian, who believed that the gifts of the
spirit were for the past…I was now a Bapti-costal…with nothing the media found
of interest since the ERA years were over. I was on the back-side of a mountain
it seemed for many years.
I spent much time in the Word and prayer alone. Many journals fill my shelves that I prayed
daily. The Secret Place of the Most High was very special to me.
Then, all of a sudden, while I was still a homemaker, and
homeschool teacher to my youngest son, the LORD clearly said to me that I was
going back to school.
“Why, LORD?” I queried.
“To teach!” was what He said.
I taught Middle School for 19 years. In order to have time with Him each day, I
had to rise early…before my household awakened, or I would never have been able
to do what my career required of me.
My mother had done that, and she told me that if I wanted to
remain close to the LORD, that that’s what she had had to do. Strange as it was, I was the daughter that
questioned and balked as a young person, but I believed her and followed her
advice most always as an adult. No one was more excited that I was going back to college to
teach! Quite a Bible teacher was my Mom!
During the 19 years I taught, my oldest joined the army, my
all 3 got married and became fathers of girls, my parents came to live with me,
both spending much time in and out of hospitals, my hubby and I grew together
weathering whatever came our way, and I retired after 19 years and 7 months of
sick leave..June 2010.
Right before retirement, I created the Womenwho Pray
wall…which has grown to over 1500 people.
Women Who Pray has witnessed many miracles…many strongholds
demolished over the 9 years of praying from and living in the Secret Place of
the Most High. Our ministry on fb has
multipled that many times over!
The realization of only in the last few days that the reason
I hear Him so clearly is because the Word of the LORD comes to me saying. I mean if you are around me, you are likely
to hear the WORD. My grandgirls do…my
5-yr-old told her other grandmother that Mimi sure knows a lot about God.
We bless the food no matter where we are, go
to AWANAS, and/or play the Bible dvd often…especially if there’s one of the
older girls here.
If they act out, they know we don’t do these things or we do
these things…why…because who lives in our heart?...and what would He do…and
they always know. I don’t just take out
the Bible and read occasionally, though, that’s great to do…we say our prayers, too, at nap time or sleepovers. Their
Dads and Moms know that we will bless the food…and sometimes they pray with us
aloud as we all hold hands.
Now, I must share why I’m writing this today!!
I will try to say it in English…that does not mean I speak
another language…it means that this is so intimate and experience and I’m so
close to that Holy Fire at this
moment…because it just happened like an hour ago…and I was sent by the LORD to
write it down.
Pray right now for understanding…for your spirit to receive
this Truth.
I walked back to the
back of the house…and the Spirit of the LORD is still all over me…
I delight myself in the LORD not just every day for 10 or 15
minutes…or even and hour. Besides the
prayer blanket I pray…I am in 4 Bible Studies.
I meet with one every other week and have for over 10 years. We are
studying The Power of a Woman’s Words with Sharon Jaynes. I have studied three of Beth Moore’s studies
since spring of 2011, with a bff from high school and her ladies…Believing God,
Why Godly People Do ungodly Things, and now the Patriarchs.
We also studied
Sheila Walsh’s study on promises of God. I’ve also been over night to 2
conferences that Sheila Walsh was there in person.
Since January, I have read 1 Samuel, the book of Romans, and
am presently reading 2 Samuel and on chapter 9 today.
I write a blog at www.womenwhopraybiblestudy.blogspot.com and I put the prayer blanket on our website www.womenwhopray.net every day.
Now, people say to me, “I don’t see how you do what you do.”
I don’t do it! I mean it’s my body…Teddi Holt is the
vessel…but I am driven by a power …a dunamis power in fact…the same origin as
our word for dynamite. Holy Spirit in me
is doing it.
I have found that if I seek the Kingdom first…all these
things are added to me…just as promised. All my needs are met.
Now, anyone that knows me knows that I could moan and groan
just like others do. I could see the
empty glass instead of the full glass. I
could be anxious, fearful, angry, or fall out of love. I’ve been there and done that! Blech! Praise
God forevermore I don’t have to stay in the pit…as Beth Moore says in that
book…Get Out of the Pit!!
It’s all choice!!!
The LORD says, “ I set before you life and death…and says
choose life and be blessed!!!
Now, to that moment today…
I had spent time with my precious baby sister this weekend
and our precious sister in-law. My
sister and I married nextdoor neighbors. My husband’s sister also married my
sister’s husband’s brother. It never is easy to say or understand…but we are 3
families…though 6 people.
We’ve had the young and more selfish years…I mean we all
came through the same high school…and all the younger marriage and parenting
years…with all the children involved in many things. A lot of life lived under our belts.
We are bffs and I mean that with all my heart…I mean both of
their husbands are not only my husband’s brother in-laws…but those guys love
each other and would and do anything for each other.
Crisis is what bonded us…we women…tighter than ever! Parents
and all that has gone with the loss of all of our parents…I mean these two
women are admired much by me! They are two mighty mights! I mean I’m the larger
of we three, but I don’t know how I would have made it without either of them!!
I in fact, have three of the best sisters ever! All are to
be admired much!
I know that daughters rise and bless mothers, but this sister
rises and blesses my sisters! Little Women is my favorite movie about sisters
and Jo says it so wonderfully…nothing tops the bond of sisters! And, I know she
meant blood sisters…but my sisters and that sister in-law all are also my sisters
in Christ. No greater bond for sure!
Well, this weekend, a neighbor of ours at our cabin at the
foot of Mt. Yonah, who lost her husband to lymphomas about 5 months or so ago,
came out to greet my sister in-law and me as we road by her house. She was so lonely and my sister in-law said
you can come see us.
I love this woman and had had the privilege of ministering
to her and her husband, but I wouldn’t have thought of inviting her up that
night with we three couples and dinner already cooking. Usually people say no or say yes and don’t
mean it…make excuses later…but there was something in her eye that made you
think she might come.
When we got back, we mentioned to the guys and my sister,
who had not been with us. We all continued to prepare dinner, and just before
it was going to the table, I saw her coming. I went to greet her, all six of us
guys and gals, spent time with her and rethought how to put the food on the table.
With potatoes and steaks cut up and salad, we had a
bountiful amount of food, with more food left over than had we had done our
original way. All were fully satisfied…not nearly as miserable.
The neighbor said the nicest things of what her husband said
of me and my husband…and, when she had met my sister, she had said, “Oh…her
sister.”
My sister’s response was, “Your realizing I’m her sister
made you even more glad to meet me.” She smiled and nodded.
Hold on to that thought as I continue to tell you…
My sister made a point to tell me how sweet and giving that
was of me. ..but I quickly placed that blame on the giving heart of our sister
in-law.
Now, you need to hear the message in today’s www.Shinegirlsshine.blogspot.com
Bible Study today from 2 Samuel 9:
David is looking all over…and having others look all over
for anyone that is alive from Saul’s family.
This is after all that happened between David and Saul, and David is
King of all Israel in this chapter. Finally, the king’s servant returns to tell
that there is one found that was related to Jonathan…one with two lame feet. He
is Jonathan’s son and Saul’s grandson, named Mephibosheth. He fell prostrate before David. David told him
not to fear, that he would surely show him kindness for his father’s sake, and
that he would restore to him all the land of Saul your grandfather, and that he
would eat bread at David’s table continually.
Mephibosheth said basically why me? A dead dog. But David called Ziba, Saul’s servant and
commanded him and his sons and servants to work the land for Mephibosheth and bring it to harvest that your master’s
son will have food to eat, but he will eat at my table. Ziba had 15 sons and 20
servants. Ziba gave his word…all were blessed…and Mephibosheth ate at David’s
table everyday.
Well, as always, as the Word is penetrating my being, I’m
getting excited over what this might mean.
I was just walking around…don’t know why I went into what was my
office…where I had received and written many Truths at my dinosaur…now not
working computer. I don’t know what I went in there for now, but ….now get
ready….
As I realized that David, the king…hear it?...listen to
every word here…the king did not know the lame man. He knew his father and his grandfather. His
grandfather had not been good to David, but Jonathan had made covenant with
him. And, because of the faithfulness of his father, the son was eating daily
with the king.
I thought the Truth was so wonderful….then,…..
The presence of the LORD was soooooooooo magnanimous …the
Glory of the LORD ever present…as I was receiving what this meant to and for
me…and all that concerns me…
For the sake of my Mama…for her prayers…her devotion to the
LORD…for her service to the Most High God …her prayers for me before I was
born…her speaking the Word of Truth…her love for her disciples…her girls…so
many daughters…as teacher for so many years…and sons also in later years…sons
in-laws and grandsons and greats and great-great…her visits to the sick…her
prayers for the sick…her love for babies…for people…I could go on and on…but
for her sake…the LORD communes with me and we are daily at His table , Manna and living water!!
I mean He walks with me and He talks with me and He tells me
I am His own!!! I know I’m His servant…His daughter…but because I obey Him and
abide in Him…I’m His friend!!! I am a friend of God!!!
And now, the Words He spoke oh so long ago…”If you will
follow me, I’ll bring them all!”
I know that I know that I know that I know that I know that
I know!!!!!!!!!!! For my sake, He’s bringing them allllllll!!!!!!
Can you hear me saints? If you’ve been thinking what’s the
use? My kids are a mess…and my grandkids…and my siblings!!!
He’s only looking
for one for each household…
in order to say…for Rebekah’s sake, or Betsy’s sake,
or Beth’s sake, or Diane’s sake…or whoever’s sake!!!
It’s not just whosoever will!!! It’s whosoever and their
household!!!
Gloooorrrrrryyyyyy!!!!!
I lift up a memorial to you LORD!!!! Jehovah Shammah!!!!
Just like when You called me…You presented Yourself to
me…and I was prostrate before You , in Toccoa Ga at that retreat…and You said,
“Teddi, I want you to quit praying your prayers and pray my prayer! “ I was crying in gut-wrenching silence…my
friend hovered over me not knowing what I was doing. Others could have come by…but
they didn’t…it was just me, the LORD, and our witness to this covenant to pray
the WORD only!!!
The WORD is the LORD’s prayer. The Bible includes stories, but
the stories are for demonstration and explanation of the God and His promises!!
Today, in Your presence, LORD, in my house…I also was
prostrate before you as you said over and over to me…for your mother’s sake….
As I have typed this today, You have gone a step further…as
You do LORD everytime I grasp the Truth of Your promise…for my sake…for my
faithfulness…You will save my children…and You are for her sake as well!!!
To You, LORD, be all the Glory….
Amen and Amen!!!!
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