Loving my Sister as Myself April 30, 2012

What about that title? Haven't heard that one?

Of course, it's a play on words from the 2nd commandment, according to our LORD and Savior Jesus Christ!

I just happen to have spent my life in a family of 4 girsl...me and my three sisters.

I am sister #3...I'm the 3rd daughter of a man named Ted...that's why I'm Teddi.

I've been very blessed in the fact that those three sisters...all three of them...love the LORD with all their hearts!!

How wonderful is that? I mean, if I need encouragement, or if I need prayer agreement, I can call any of my three sisters and know that they are there for me...standing in the gap for me.

It has been wonderful that even from childhood, I've know that I'm loved by and prayed for by my sisters.

I am also very blessed that these sisters are also my sisters in Christ.  When Mama was alive, we would all pray in agreement in person, by phone, and now even by text...caring for and loving our family.

We have so many sisters in the family of God ! Amazing!!

I was with a few yesterday...and, so blessed!!

I'm in a Bible Study called Shinegirls on the internet...and the leader of that group had us to her house just to love on us.

How wonderful was that?

We, who pray together almost every day...and many of us not having met in person...were able to do that yesterday.  We feasted, too!  That's something women like to do...so we just ate and shared.  Lots of hugs!!

Inspired is what I am today! LOL!!! :)

I awakened this with the idea to invite some local Women Who Pray ladies and do the same thing.  It will also be a love feast.

You might think I'm stealing Jill's idea, but I believe that it was Jesus' idea first.  They met.  I mean He met with his disciples.  Not only at the LORD's supper, but other times, they were with Him and ate and let Him love them.

I'm also thinking of a bigger feast.  I can see people in it like Germaine Copeland, Reann Ring, Pam Moore, Bobbie Jean Moore, Barbara Beeler, myself, Jill, and others...I don't know who all they are...and I don't know the where or when of it.

I even believe Stormie Omartian, Beth Alves, Beth Moore, Sheila Walsh, Beverly LaHaye, and Phyllis Schlafly might be at one ... or that might not be until Glory!!!

All of these women have inspired...and breathed life to me!! All of them that I have named have mentored me!

I'm just so blessed to be a sister, aunt, Mom, grandmama...not only in my own family...but in the family of God!!!

Thank You Jesus!!!





                                             

Loving the Last Days April 11, 2012

As I look back over the last 62 years, and even though I've had quite a wonderful heritage, I do not regret one bit that I'm here living in the time of the Last Days' Church.

I remember when I was younger...so much was going on...much change...and I was a bit confused at all the hurrah...

I was raised Southern Baptist, and due to the fact that abortions were done at a hospital in my city that was supported by my denomination...I transferred my membership to the Independent Baptist Church.

I was convinced for about 6 years of that time that it was wrong to be dressed in men's clothing...so I gave up pants.  I also gave up shorts and any scanty clothing.

I was convinced that I was growing closer to the LORD by all of this sacrifice...it was a lot like lent...only it lasted for 6 long years of my married life.

I led a pro-family, pro-life group during that time with many speaking engagements in churches, including the Independent Baptist and Pentecostal churches.  Not wearing pants was to my advantage in convincing those pastors to allow their women to stand with us against the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

The LORD let me know it was ok to go back to my previous dress-code through my husband.  During the time that I didn't wear pants, I learned to be a submissive wife.  Somehow, my change of attire had a direct effect on my attitude as wife.

I remember during those early adult years having the LORD ask if I knew that I was a Pharisee.  "I can't be a Pharisee, LORD, You called them vipers!" 

I know I was struggling with accepting the new styles of worship.  Years before, I had been at a Billy Graham crusade where a black lady sitting near us kept shouting back at Billy.  My mother told me that's how they did in their church...they talked back to the preacher.

I also was struggling with all the Jesus Movement and those praying and singing in the spirit.  In fact, I remember delivering telephone books to a Pentecostal church...locking my children into the car as I ran up steps to deliver the phone books.  I was terrified!

I received the Baptism of the Holy Spirit over the telephone, as a dear black woman prayed for and with me.  She is my spiritual Mama until today.  

For Easter service this year, my husband and I attended our youngest son's church on Friday evening.  The service was very contemporary.  I had been there a couple of times before, but it was my husband's first time.  I was wondering how he was going to react.

I've been in on-going change mode for some time now...I can worship with any people...regardless of race or nationality...and I can worship in all types of music.  If the words are based on the Word, then, I can freely worship.  

I am also enjoying all ages! I love the elderly...but I love the babes...the children of all ages.  I love working the those ESL people in my church.  I also love the younger women that I'm Bible studying with on internet.  

Last, but certainly not least, I love chatting with, ministering to, and being ministered to by the daughters and sons the LORD has given me across the globe...on face book and on website.

I take my place in these Last Days...and like Esther knew...I was born for a time such as this!!!

Thank You, LORD, for placing me in my spot...to do the work You've given me...and to receive Your reward.  I Glory in the fact that I am a friend of God!!! 

Woo Hoo!!!

Love to all of you,

Mama/Sister/Aunt Teddi

Walking the LOVE Life April 9, 2012

Walking the LOVE Life   April 9, 2012

Years ago, I was awakened with the LORD talking to me and me answering...

Teddi, Do you love me?

LORD, You know I do!

Feed my sheep!

Teddi, Do you love me?

LORD, You know I do!

Feed my sheep!

Teddi!!! Do you love me?????

Yes, LORD!!!! YOU know I do!!!

Feed my lambs!!

Now, I know how weird it sound! I know that was exactly what Jesus said to Simon Peter.  In fact, behind the words, Teddi, Do you love me? I could hear the scripture...Simon Barjonah...Lovest thou me? ....

This was during the time, between my Mothers On the March years and the years that I taught public school.  I call those years, my quiet years...like Paul, I was on the back-side of a mountain...seeking the LORD with my whole heart.  I was about to embark on a new career...I was being sent to the public school to take the Kingdom by force...the force of the Holy Spirit!

I love the call! I love the mission! I love the ministry! I love His plan!

I've not always been here!  I've come kicking and screaming at times!

I love that I can say I am a friend of God! I'm love that I sing Oh How I Love Jesus, and I know that I sing Jesus loves me...and I know that it's all for real!!

He planned this..my life...my call...before I was in my mother's womb...from before creation...He has designed it all...that I would be here in these last days...for a time like this!

Submission to Him...just letting go...like a great bungee jump every day!

I begin the same...not necessarily the same moment of time...sometimes listening to the alarm every 5 minutes for 15 minutes or so...or I may be up at 4:00 a.m. because I must get up to get going.

Regardless of the world report that the world is going to pot...that it is depraved...very wicked indeed...I am created in the image of my Father...and I love the world...not the system and it's sin...but the people and places that my Father has created.

I love chatting with and praying for and with all peoples from all nations on my wall on fb...

Just for example, today I saw where a young woman from Malaysia had liked what I wrote on the wall.

I haven't heard from her in a long time...and I had missed her very much.

She calls me Mama, and I call her daughter.

She's been a blessing to me!  Many times just hearing from her and what she has to say has made my day!

Well, today, she came on to let me know how things are going so well and how many prayers that she and I prayed together have been answered.

The young man in her life had also called me Mama and I called him, Son.

Well, now they are planning to marry in November and we were just celebrating together!!

Who could have ever told that young me...when I first decided to follow Christ...that He would open doors to the nations...via internet!!

Walking the love life has been a wonderful adventure!!!  I would not change lives with anyone...mine has been for me!! Woo Hoo!!!

More to come...

Teddi

Oh How the Father Loves America? Why?

April 4, 2012

I am so honored and amazed that the LORD has seen fit to allow me…to call me to  this place…to speak out and to speak up for America…

I not only was born and raised in this great nation, but I have been born-again in this nation...

I am a citizen of the United States of America, and I am a citizen of Zion!

I know that sounds strange to some of your ears, but I ask that you hear me out...

The Word says that I'm in the world...but not of it...which means that I am a citizen of a spiritual nation...

We have the physical world that we see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.  God created this earth and He is the Master of all creation....

As a born-again citizen, I abide in an unseen world also.  Yes, we are all here together, the children of light...among the children of the dark...

Instead of expounding on every word I'm saying...by me doing all the work...and handing it to you on a silver platter...I am challenging you, who call yourself Christian...who say that you follow Christ...to draw your sword...

Get out that Bible that you leave on the shelf...or that you carry around on Sundays...or that you look in may be a few verses here and there...

You go to your Bible...Strong's concordance will help...Google will show you all that I cover...we are the day of moving to and fro...of instantaneous information...that Malachi speaks of...

Now, back to who I am...and you, too, if you are in Jesus....

The world has its language...many languages among the peoples of the earth...but all speak English to some extent...learn it in schools worldwide...

Why is that? I taught history and language arts in public school for 19 years.  I have three degrees in education...I am a learn-ed person...I'm educated...

However, without the knowledge that I have found in the Word of God...the wisdom afforded to me as a reader and proclaimer of the Word everyday...I was like someone who had the mechanisms...the tools before me...but didn't know how to turn on the power to use them...

Now, let me tell you a quick as I can story...it is a long, detailed story, but I'll hit the high points....

I will begin at the time of Christ…the Jews…Israel…was under Roman rule....

Jesus is God! Jesus is the part of the Godhead that became flesh and dwelt among mankind…

He said, “Follow me and I will make you fishers of men.”

He said, “I am the firstfruit of many brethren.”

The LORD said, “If you believe in me and the works that I do, then greater works will you do when I go to the Father…

Now, after many miracles…astonishing accounts all through the Gospels…at the end of each…he was crucified…

I want you to notice…as long as He walked His life on earth…He spoke and touched…He prayed…He did what He has told us to do today…pray, lay hands…speak to the mountain…

He prayed that we be ONE in the Garden…as He and the Father are ONE…all of us ONE!! Glory!!!! Not just those He walked with on earth…but those to come by their testimony…US!!!

Note that Jesus spoke not a Word…being the WORD in flesh…as they took Him and abused Him…because when He spoke…circumstances in the earth changed…

Get hold of that! His silence is what allowed Him to be crucified…the crucifixion is not the story of Easter…it is only the method…the vehicle used by our God Almighty Jehovah…in order to accomplish the story…

Flesh had to die!!!! Jesus’ flesh…the flesh that made Him Son of Man…and He was fully human and fully God…

His flesh had to die!!! Selah!!! Pause and take that in…

For three days He was in the tomb…that is His flesh was in the tomb…

Glorrryyyy!!!! His Spirit…Holy Spirit Himself was not dead!! He visited those that had not until that time gone to their Heavenly abode…He took captivity captive…

How do we know that?  Hold on and I’ll tell you…

Mary was the first to be at the tomb…she and the other women had prepared His body for burial…

The tomb was empty…what they had wrapped Him in left behind…and an angel that told her that what He had told them before had happened…

Jesus was alive!! His body and Spirit were back together!! He was risen!!!

Now, was He in Heaven??

Not yet!!  Not only did Jesus meet with His disciples, who did not recognize Him in His glorified body…but the Word tells us that graves were open…and bodies were gone from the graves…and walked in the streets…

No one preaches much on this…but it gets me excited!!!

Old Testament saints and New Testament saints like John the Baptist…were among those Jesus set free from their captivity in the grave…

When Jesus arose…all of those glorified bodies went with Him…Shouting ground!!! Woo Hoo!!!

When Jesus ascended…with all disciples’ eyes on Him into Heaven…what a sight that must have been!!! 

He poured out His Spirit on mankind!

Now, the Comforter has come!!! Have all received Him? Nope…and that’s sad isn’t it?

I mean as believer…as a follower of Christ…I am amazed at the amount of dark, depraved people are in the earth today…

Had each believer told one…and each one told one…and on and on…and on…would that be so?

Had we gone, therefore, into all the world, and preached the gospel…the good news of Jesus Christ…to every creature....

Had we baptized them? Now, what is baptism?? I know I’m Baptist, but many Baptists don’t know the importance of baptism…

When we are buried…under the water…that symbolizes the grave.  We are showing the world that we are dying to flesh…our flesh is dying in the watery grave. 

When we come up out of the watery grave…that is symbolic of our bodily resurrection with Jesus’ Christ…this symbol is also prophetical of what happens when we, believers, die. 

We are raised to new life!! Thus, Gal. 2:20

For we are crucified with Christ! It is no longer us that live, but Christ lives in us; and the life that we live in the flesh, we live by Faith in the Son of God, who loved us and gave His life for us! 

Now, after remaining in my Jerusalem, and receiving power …the Holy Ghost…the Holy Spirit…in me…like dynamite….

We the Church…triumphant…have a little time left…I have no idea how long…but I do know that He is coming soon!!

Look at the continuation of the Church…Paul and other Apostles and men…inspired by God…left us with written Word from God!

From those…the Gospel went forth…and through the Roman Catholic Church…it was held and rewritten by hand….

That and the hidden scrolls…praise God…in tact…

In the 1300’s, the printing press…certainly an invention from God…as are all the inventions God has given to man for the going forth of what??? Southern living magazine?? Or novels???

No!! for the printing of the Word of God!!!

Then, after the time of the Louis’ and the Henry’s…and the Elizabeth’s…etc…and the Spanish and English Armadas…

Through tribulation…trials...hardships…the persecuted Church had no where to go…and they came to the New World…

I know many think all is by accident…but not me…or those filled with the Spirit of God…and given a post to watch…

So, the Europeans came…persecution was the trial…but God’s plan always has trial and testing….like our Savior…and the Apostles…and through history…

History is HIS story!!

The Native Americans taught the strangers…and they had our first Thanksgiving!!

Even the story of our Africans came to America had trial.,.and jubilation!!  Slavery was the trial….sold by chiefs that traded their slaves to the Europeans…

Both above had the story of the ocean trip…which was a trial in itself!

It’s true that everyone has not acted Christ-like through the ages…

It’s also true that all of us who live here, today, except the native Americans…of several different tribes …came here…

It’s also true that Jehovah God had a plan…that as the seed of Abraham…He sent the remnant of the Church here…and the laws of this land are based on the tenets of scripture.

One Nation under God!!  Jehovah God!

One of my best friends, sisters in Christ, and Mama in the Holy Spirit is a beautiful black woman.  Her wisdom with regard to her beliefs as an American might surprise you…

She says, “I’m not an Afro-American.  I’m an American with black skin! I was born in Augusta, Georgia, I’m a citizen of the U.S., and I’ve been here as long as many white people.”

How right she is because the potato famine that brought the Irish and the wars that brought us the eastern Europeans was later than 1600’s when the slaves came to this nation.

I am so thankful to be on this side of slavery! I’m so thankful that the whites, mostly of European descent, that voted…electing officials to make laws…that set the slaves free. 

I’m also glad to be on this side of the days of my youth, with different bathrooms, and restaurants, dividing the races. 

We’ve come so far!!!

Today, I see our nation struggling…with the economy in trouble…and with people out of work…and men and women struggling to care from their families…we’re seeing racial tension in this nation…a set back indeed!

I’m thankful that in Jesus, there is no color…no Jew…no Gentile…no male…no female…no Greek…no barbarian…we’re all ONE in Jesus.

I praise God for all the precious sons and daughters, sisters and brothers, nieces and nephews around the globe that I have the privilege of ministering to. 

We sang the song, as children, “Jesus Loves the Little Children …red and yellow…black and white.”   This is as true today as it was the first time I heard it! Glory!!

We were created for His pleasure…He…Jehovah…loves us!!!  It’s not His will that any of us perish but all come to repentance…and He came to earth in the flesh to show us how to live…

Jesus lived under the law…as all the Jews when He was here on earth…He came not to condemn…but to save!

He fulfilled the law! He taught us that to obey all of the Old Testament Law…we are to love the LORD with all our heart and our neighbor as ourselves.

So rich!!

Now, what a plan! Could you ever in your wildest imagination ever imagined that we would…after all the trials…and all the healing of the peoples…be here on a ship that is struggling. 

Now, I began with... Why does God love America?

This is what I believe. 

We, the Church, are the seed of Abraham, through Jesus.  When Christ died on the cross, He destroyed the partition between the Jews and Gentiles.

All of us not born Jewish are Gentiles!  When we receive Christ, we receive the seed of Abraham, Jesus Christ, into our hearts…our lives. 

Now, the Messianic Jew is a born again Jew.  Though born a Jew…a Hebrew…a Messianic Jew has accepted Jesus, the Messiah, just like I have.  We are ONE in Jesus!!

If a Muslim, or Hindu, or Buddhist, or any other religion or even one who has no religion, like an atheist…if and when any of these confess Jesus as their LORD and Savior and believe God raised Jesus from the dead...then, any and all of these are our brothers or sisters in Christ.

The Key is that Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and no one comes to the Father, Jehovah, except through Jesus!

Where as the Church of Christ had the freedom to grow? In the United States.

Here, we have the freedom to worship as we please, and the government has not been able to control the Church…at least not up until recently. 

Today, we are sensing a threat from the evil one…government is moving in to take that freedom.  The roaring lion, our adversary, has come to steal, kill, and destroy America!

Under this Nation’s Constitution, the law of our land, all churches and Christian organizations or associations have had freedom to take the Gospel…the good news to the nations.

I don’t know how many of you have been reached by missionaries from the United States, but many…maybe most of your nations have been blessed by our mission programs throughout the world.

Do I believe that any of this is an accident?  Not on your life!!!

Just as I know that  I know that I know that God created the earth and that it did not accidentally get here by an explosion or something like that…I mean the order of the stars and the planets…I mean all didn’t come out of plasma…or from spontaneous generation…give me a break!!!

If notes and instruments have to have a master instructor to deliver a great symphony…how can we be so foolish as to believe that it all happened by coincidence or luck.

And if that be so, then, the order of Church History…from the foretelling of Jesus…His birth…His life…and the life of the Church through the ages…well…we’ve had a Master instructor…or director…moving things in to place…for the great finale…

We’d better get ready!!

The LORD is coming!!

America began with the Mayflower Compact and the pilgrims…and Puritans…

We began with prayer, church and family…all foundations!!!

Note …look around…what has been under attack!!??

Family? Check

Prayer? Check.

Church? Check

Our nation has been blessed from the beginning, as we have blessed Israel.  America delivered the Jews from concentration camps. America and Europe established Israel as a nation in one day!!

The Glory of it all!!!

I’m proud to be an American!! More than that, I’m proud to be a Christian!! Not the pride that goes with arrogance and debauchery!!!  It’s like the pride of a parent concerning their children.

Pray for America, Saints!! If you are a believer in Christ, you are a saint according to the Word of God!!

    As  America  goes, so  goes  the  world ! ! !

You may have believed we’re your enemy, but the enemy…the evil one …has caused you  to believe a lie!!! And if you aren't sure where you stand with Israel...the enemy is the father of that lie also!

America must stand with Israel…the apple of God’s eye!!!

In Abraham…in Israel…are all our promises…we, the Church!!!

Father, Abraham, had many sons…I am one of them and so are you!!!

The Word says,

If my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face, then, I will hear from Heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7: 14

Will you join me and pray? Stand on the wall…pray and declare the Word…the Will of the LORD!

In Jesus’ Name,

Amen and Amen.  So be it!! So  be  it ! ! !

Until the next time…

Teddi