Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Loving the LORD With All My Mind May 29 2012

Teaching myself to think...to meditate...to contemplate on what the LORD would have me do...is a skill that is not easy to obtain.  It takes much effort!

I find that the battle for the mind grows stronger and harder as we approach the coming of the LORD!

I've know the Word for along time that says, "Out of the issues of your heart, the mouth speaks."

In other words, wherever I have my heart...my mouth tells the tale.

I'm very concerned about the Moms, wives, and women today...more so, we females, because we set the pace in our homes...

I was where many of them are in my young married years...

I slept as long as I could in the mornings...even when I had children in school...readied them for school and then wasted a lot of precious time on the mundane...

I watched game shows...and soap operas...a lot of time on t.v...or...

I talked on the phone...I mean for hours...if anyone would talk to me.

Every once in awhile, I would read my Bible...or talk about spiritual things...

I knew what sign I was born under...did a little yoga...and was addicted to some soap operas...read some magazines...and books...

I let hours go by with out spending any time with the LORD!

When I was 24 years old, I made sure I was saved...I was re-baptized...and I began marching to a new drummer...

I wanted so much to be sold-out for the LORD!  I wanted so much to love the LORD and to serve Him with all my heart, soul, and mind...

I went more faithfully to Church...mostly just me and my children...

I began seeking out people who seemed to have what I didn't have.

I marched against the ERA...and met some women who seemed really strange to me...as they seemed to have a very intimate relationship with the LORD...much more than I did...

They were also much more confident that God answered their prayers.

After the ERA was defeated, I spent 7 or more years, studying the Word, and praying...but not early in the day...I'd do it while my older sons were in school...and my baby was napping or playing in the same room...

I was meeting at least once a week with sisters and friends, leading a Bible Study...and attending Church several times a week...

I was closer but  still not consistent...I was a part time prayer warrior and I believed in God's healing power through prayer and laying on of hands...but I would have to prepare for a day or more in order to go pray with people...which I did for several years...

I became a teacher in 1991...and it was about 2000, when things really changed...from part-time to full-time...

I had already been praying early for several years...at least 15 minutes or more...before I went to work.  I was the prayer director in my Sunday School Class...

I prayed with people at school or anywhere...but the anointing was strong after I had spent time in the Word...fasting or not...but preparing to minister...

Then, revelation came!!! I mean that the revealed Word...or application of it to me...came to me...

It was through some teaching...listening to tapes of Ken Copeland...and some spending time with ones who believed this way...that I began to walk in the revealed Truth!

It is the Word that is anointed.  Jesus...the Word in flesh...was the Christ...the anointed...and Christians...are to be anointed...in the Word!!

The more I'm in the Word...the more flow of the Holy Spirit in me...and pouring out of me on others...

Wow!!!

Can I find support for this in the Word? Yes, I can! If I could not, then, you should not believe me.  If I am not aligned with the Word of God, then, I am a liar.


"My son, give attention to my words; Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes; Keep them in the midst of your heart;
For they are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.
"Keep your heart with all diligence, for out of it spring the issues of life." 
Proverbs 4:20-23

What sayings? What words? The Word of God!!

Are we looking for divine health? Are we looking for prosperity?

Where is it found?  At the doctor or in a magazine? How do we prosper?

Guard the Word...Keep your heart...with all diligence...

So many people are afraid...or they are distressed...or depressed...

"When wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
Discretion will preserve you; understanding will keep you,
To deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things,
From those who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who rejoice in doing evil, and delight in the perversity of the wicked."
 Proverbs 2:10-14

How do we stay safe?  How do we please God? We allow wisdom to enter...we hide God's Word in our hearts that we not sin against Him.

See if you haven't heard lately...I mean very recently...either from a friend...or someone in Bible Study...or Sunday School...or on the phone...making excuses for why they don't have time for the Word...

I hear every one making time for something else...for a person...a group of people...for family...me time...reading magazines, novels, playing games (challenging and mindless), and reading love novels, etc.,...the same people saying they have not time to pray or read the WORD.

If we have time for anything else, we have time for the Word.  That may be offensive to you, and I hate to be offensive to anyone...

But, we are a people who want to be entertained...we have soooo much that we do not appreciate what we have...

I hear people say they are bored all the time...I see adults playing games on their smart phones or texting...when they stop at a red light...or while they are talking with friends...

Confusing to me...since I don't get bored.

There's always something for me to do...I'm not looking for entertainment...for someone else to do the work for me...

I love learning to do and then doing what I learn.  I'm the eternal student, I guess.

I'm learning even today...along with you...if you'll learn with me...God says, the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge...

What is that? Am I to tremble or be terrified and run from my God. No...of course not...but it does mean that I am to recognize His magesty and to worship it! 

I am to do whatever He says for me to do.  God is my creator...He is the potter and I am the clay...

In other words, it is not up to me.  I am not in charge...and no matter what I do...kicking, screaming, and squirming...He's the Shepherd and I'm the sheep...I'm His bond-servant...He's my Master!

"But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may do it.
See, I have set before you today life and good, death and evil,  in that I command you today to love the Lord your God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments, His statutes, and His judgments, that you may live and multiply; and the Lord your God will bless you in the land which you go to possess. But if your heart turns away so that you do not hear, and are drawn away, and worship other gods and serve them, I announce to you today that you shall surely perish."
Deuteronomy 30:14-18

Now, if we put the 3 scriptures that I've posted here...we see that the WORD leads, guides, lights the path, speaks to me when I lie down and when I get up...is hidden in my heart that I not sin.

Now, there's power in the Blood of  the Lamb, and we over come by that Blood and the word of our testimony...

Are we all overcomers!??

I believe that we all have the potential...if we have asked Jesus to save us...if we've repented from our wicked way...to overcome...

However, I know that we all know people about us...those that have received Christ somewhere along their life...but they are depressed...sullen...even in despair...

Why is that? If what God has written us above is the Truth...and not a lie...then, why are we not taking our God at His Word?  Why are we not abiding in Him...and His Word abiding in us ...that we ask whatever we will and it will be done for us...

Do you believe this?   If so, why?   If not, why???

I'm reading about Loving the LORD with all my Mind,  in a book by Elizabeth George.  Today, by email I received Daily Prayer from Germaine Copeland...

It was about the LORD wanting my soul to prosper!!

What does that mean? My soul is the part of me that is my mind and my will.  The Word says that it is the LORD's will that I prosper as my soul prospers.

If I am depressed, distraught, or thinking on perverted things, then my soul...my mind and will...are not prospering.  I am being robbed of my birthright!

As a child of God...as a Christian...I have the potential in me...the power to overcome! 

However, if I continue feeding my mind on trash...on unhealthy information...whether it's scarey about murder or vampires or aliens....or whether it is about unhealthy relationships outside of marriage (between one man and one woman) ...

Even if I spend your time...and my mind...wishing I was somewhere else...or that I was someone else...in magazines...or pretty homes...or pretty people...

Never satisfied with what the LORD has blessed us with!! Never able to bloom where we are planted...

Complaining like those who left Egypt...remember what God allowed to happen...they were bitten by snakes...

I've gotten very interested in my older age...in my more mature walk in the Spirit also...that it's all up to me...

I can choose where to place my thoughts...I can choose peace ...I can choose to see from the full glass instead of the empty glass...

I actually can say to my mind when it begins to think thoughts that are harmful to me...or that cause me stress...I can say, "I'm not going there...and not go there."

It's up to me to look into the Word and to read the truth about His promises...and then, to think on things that are True...

I have to choose what is a good report...and think on the good report like the good news of the Gospel...and refuse to think on the bad report...to think on Jesus bearing all my sins and diseases on the cross...and not think on what the doctor has said...

I have to choose to rejoice at all times...no one can douse me with JOY...I have to put on the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness to leave...

I have to speak things that be not as though they are...in order to speak Faith...Faith is the evidence of things not seen...the substance of things hoped for...

I have to declare by Faith...in order to overcome...because I overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and the word of my testimony...

I am to be judged by my words...and my actions...and amazingly...

If our thoughts are clean and pure...then our words are clean and pure...and our actions are clan and pure...

Out of the issues of our heart, the mouth speaks...

Create in me a clean heart O LORD...and all things will begin to come into place...

For I think what is in my heart...and then, I speak what is in my heart...

What am I to hide in my heart?  The WORD!! 

Why?  That I not sin against God.

So simple and yet we just stumble all over it!!!  

I have a challenge for you...

You know how in weight watchers'...the diet...you are to write down every single bite of what you eat...in order to measure.  Once you begin taking charge of the intake...then, there is weight loss.

Well, we are on a diet...we all are!  We feed our minds on something all the time...

I challenge all of us to measure what we're "eating" mentally...

Measure it...input = output ....

For example...5 minutes reading the Bible ... an hour in a novel...
10 minutes singing a Christian song...an hour of a game...1 hour exercising my flesh...
20 minutes of prayer...2 hours watching television...etc....

We all have the same 24 hours.  There's no such thing as seeing if we have time to do something...

We inevitably will not have time, if we play that game...

There's never time left over...just like money...you tithe first...or you won't be able to tithe...

Like a dog chasing its tail...not ever enough....

The same with time to read the Bible or pray...

You may do it one day...or maybe a week...or month...but if you are not laying down boundaries...and setting a certain time that can't be changed...not matter what....you won't be able to do what I'm doing...

I soon enter my 10th year of praying the prayer blanket every day....

And, you know, I love it more and more!!  At first I had to take time...and it was not a pretty sight...I was a late person...I had to make myself go to bed...in order to get up...

I had to do it...I had known to do it for a long time...but until I did it ...over and over and over....and, then, remarkably, it was 1st priority in my life!

This very morning...we began with 3...and the third person who is on faithfully every day...had to get off at her normal time...but no one came on to pray aloud...one was on listening and agreeing which was wonderful...

When that used to happen, I might seem overwhelmed and my prayer partner, Emily, might also...but instead, after all these years...of our Faithful God...doing mighty miracles and pulling down strongholds...over and over...

Now, when we have more to do...it means, we are getting more helpings of this precious meal...the WORD!! Our Bread of Life!!!  

I find myself, more stirred...with more stamina...after feeding on so much Word!!!

It is health to all my flesh!!! 

Woo Hoo!!!

OK, now, you've been challenged...

Measure the amount of time you spend on each thing...each category...

You might say, "Teddi, you need to have more fun!"  or, "You need to get more sleep."  Or, "You need more exercise."

I would have to say to you, that He renews my strength...my youth like an eagle...that an exercise in Godliness...in Holiness. ..is much more favored by God than a marathon.  

I'm not saying not to do other things...I'm saying measure your input...You want prosperity?
You want success?  Where are you lax in the things of the LORD?

You may be in Church...and even receiving some good food...every time the door opens...but if You are not dwelling in the Secret Place of the Most High daily...seeking the Kingdom first daily...then, there will be need in your life...

Habakkuk tells us that to build our own homes instead of the House of the LORD causes our pockets to have holes in them.  Do you have holes in your pockets?

I can't outgive God!! If I give Him my self...my time...my talents...my money...then, He takes what I give and He blesses and He multiplies what I give Him!


He molds and makes!!


He's in charge!!!

If I continue to say, "I'll do that when I finish what I'm doing now...it won't ever happen..."

We aren't promised tomorrow.  Today is the Day of Salvation!! 

Let's make the most of every day!!!

Love you!

Teddi









Thursday, May 24, 2012

Teddi, Lovest Thou Me? Feed My Sheep 5/24/2012


How great You are, God!!! How great You are!!!

As I listen to that song, How Great Is Or God, playing to me as I write what You are laying on my heart just now…

I mean right now…9:33 a. m…Thursday, May 24, 2012…

How so amazing it is…How unworthy I am…but because I love You, my Shepherd…and I hear Your voice…I sit before You now…

Not because I have nothing to do…

I have clothes washing…I have my granddaughter watching a movie…just having had her breakfast…

I’ve gone out and looked over the plants in the yard…and as I go …I hear You…
You talk to me…You walk with me and talk to me in the garden…just like You have always done from the beginning…with Adam and Eve…

One of my favorite songs…I Come to the Garden Alone…and I walk with Him and talk with Him…and He tells me I am His own…Woo Hoo!!!

I can hardly sit here…LORD…rocking…trembly almost…Your presence…LORD!!! How great You are!!!!

Listening now to When I Survey the Wonderful Cross…O the Wonderful Cross…

Thanks to Beka, my niece, and Mary…that I’m even on this blogsite that I had quite a mess of when I sat with her…then, they talked and worked on it…

And, here it is!! Anointed of You, LORD!!!!! Woo Hoo!!!!

Love so amazing…so divine…!!! Sing to me computer…J!!!!!

Now, let’s see…I’m hearing from two older things that I’ve written…combined with what I’ve heard from our leader on Shinegirls…

You know sometimes I hear things or see pictures…that I have to shelf until I know what to do with them…that’s been my younger years of hearing and holding…meditating…and writing…

I’d hear write…and I’d have the writer’s block of all writers’ blocks…couldn’t write a thing…at least…not until I sat down and the Holy Spirit would take over and write …things that I still have to go back and read…

I don’t understand it all…believe me…but when He says Trust me! It’s not just for that 1st step into this marvelous race we’re in…

It’s for every trek of the way!!!  I mean even vocabulary that I may not know much of only heard…and sometimes not…have to look up to be sure…comes up! 

Now, I’m hearing Amazing Grace!!! I once was lost, but now I see!!!!!!

Woo Hoo!!!!

I may have to turn it down…to stay focused…but I’m loving it, LORD!!!!

Thank You for the writers of these songs!!!

My God, My Savior, rescued  me!!!...unending love…amazing Grace!!!!

The first picture I see today…or saw…bringing back to me was that wonderful story about Judy…that old goat…

No sense in re-inviting the wheel here…I’ll copy paste from the other writing this part…and edit where led by my Shepherd…

When I learned this…My Purpose ( the name of the post on this blog)…it was sooo wonderfully real…I still owned Judy…and this was burned in my heart forever…and I’ve shared many times over…
,
Here goes…(excerpt from My Purpose dated Jan. 10, 2012)

Among the thoughts…today…came a wonderful memory of a teaching God gave me many years ago..when I was pondering my purpose.  At the time I had a big ole’ goat named Judy. The old woman, who sold me Judy, was named Bernice…and she shared with me about goats…all who in her herd loved her much! Bernice dressed a lot like a man…working outside…and had a cigarette that hung out of her mouth when she talked..and Judy loved the tobacco as Bernice would give her like it was a treasure.

I bought Judy in order to milk her. I had read about the Proverbial woman in Proverbs 31, and I had actually wanted a cow but did not have enough pasture…in fact I had a rough pasture. Judy loved it though..just right for a goat.  I did milk her and my children and I drank the milk.  As they got older, they hated it because nobody liked goat milk. However, I used the milk…sold it to people with bone and digestive problems. It became a ministry.

Well, one day…I don’t know if I was sleeping or awake ..but I could see a man …a caretaker of the goats…like a shepherd of sheep.  He was feeding the goats that were in the fence…older ones and babies.  He was throwing hay over the fence. 

The LORD asked me who was he and what was he doing? I described just as I said above, and I realized that the LORD was teaching me a lesson. This man was a pastor…he was feeding the flock…and Judy was eating and being filled.  

The LORD said, “What about the babies?”  “They can’t eat the grain or the hay,” I said. “They nurse their mothers…like Judy with her babies.”  The LORD said,  “You are a Judy.” You eat the meat.  You chew and chew..digesting…and nurturing with the milk.  Then, you teach the baby to eat the hay…at first it is so bad…they keep trying to bypass the hay and get to the Mama for milk.  She has to kick…to push them away…to cause them to have to eat the hay and the grain…to be able to fend for themselves.  

Enlightenment!! So illumined in the Truth of it all! I wasn’t the shepherd, but the Mama…the older woman…teaching the younger woman…

Again, this picture is so powerful!!! Notice that Judy 1st nurses her babies.  Judy eats the hay and grain…digests the food…and then allows the babies to suck at her breasts…to get the nourishment needed to live!

Then, what does she do? Judy would kick the baby away, continuing to eat the grain or hay…modeling before those babies how to eat…I’m tearing now at the wonder of our God!!!

The same one that nurtures from the breast must be the one who shows by doing how to make it…how to fend for themselves…how to be the adult goats…the future mothers to pass on the goat-life…

I think of the birds…we have had a wonderful bird nest for the last couple of years under the eave of our roof…sooo precious, watching the birds sit on the eggs…squawk at the predators…feed those babies from their mouths…and then, what is their job???

After modeling how to fly before them many times, they push the babies from the nest!!!  Sounds cruel…huh??

Can you imagine if they did not do this? 

Can You hear Holy Spirit speaking to our hearts???

There’s more...
LORD, help us take it all in today…I mean this day!!!  May we hear You today!!! 

I was talking to my prayer warrior partner of nearly 30 years just here lately, how thankful I am that my predecessors…my mentors …have not been easy on me. 

Funny, just before that came up, during prayer time, in voice 3 of the prayer blanket…I was praying and until I added, “We bind that coddling spirit especially from mothers, in Jesus’ Name. 

I meditated later and brought up in this discussion with Emily…and as we talked the revelation of that spirit not only preventing children from maturing into adults in the natural…

That wicked spirit is preventing children in the body of Christ…in the Church…from gowing into mature Believers…

The prayer in Ephesians is on hold…smothered by that coddling spirit…
I could hear it when I sounded the alarm of the LORD’s coming that I hope you read already…(www.womenwhopraybiblestudy.blogspot.com )

I can hear it when I speak to friends and family of mine’s children…

LORD, forgive me if I’ve done the same thing.  We pray for disciplers for our children and then get in the way of our spouses, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, friends from being the disciplers.

Why is that? I’ve done it.  We are jealous? Or what? I’m not accusing…I’m not judging…I’m in here, too. 

We think that if our children have an easier time of it than us…they will somehow make it?

We think that if our children don’t know He’s returning soon that that will stop anything??

What if we die? What if we are not here to help them get there.  We can’t cut their meat…or chew it…we can’t nurse them until they are school-age.

I know that’s disgusting…I nursed my children…all of them until about a year…and I know women who did longer…but only 6-months or a year or so longer…

I was sooo incensed that that mother made it look sexual!! I was angry. 

Until today…this day…right now…as I write this down…I did not see that this is the state the Church is in…

Our children…can’t fend for themselves!!! It’s not only mothers who coddle, today…but coddling mothers become coddling grandmothers to the children who will let them coddle…

And, don’t we see men coddling today?  So amazing to me when I hear children talking rudely to their fathers…and their grandfathers??  More amazing is when that “man”? allows that.

My grandgirls hear from Mimi if they talk back to their Dads or Pop!  I try to correct all disrespect but I have children correcting me for correcting the disrespect…or rolling eyes…or moving on.

Respect starts at home…what about the future? Will they respect teachers? Policemen? Judges? The law?

Of course not…not if they don’t respect their nurturers.

This next except was written in the early 80’s, in a book I wrote and published.  There are no more copies, except in my computer…but here’s the excerpt…

One day, I was really finding myself quite concerned about the body of Christ, the Church.  Everywhere I looked, there seemed to be strife, bickering, arguments, and confusion among Believers.  There was fighting going on between denominations and within denominational lines and just plain old squabbling going on between brothers and sisters in Christ.

There were judgments and condemnations being passed off as rebukes of love as well as one denomination accusing another denomination of being of the devil.  There were arguments over baptisms, gifts of the Spirit, women wearing men’s clothing, legalism versus license to sin, an on and on.

As I studied God’s WORD, I read about how Paul rebuked the Church at Corinth for this same reason:
And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.  I have fed you with milk, and not with meat; for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk as men? (1 Corinthians 3: 1-3)

I said,“Lord, that’s exactly what is going on in your body. Jealousy, quarreling and division abound.  I meet people who I know love you and are serving you to the best of their ability; and the next thing I know, they are criticizing someone else who I know is also your child.  I’ve been guilty of doing the same thing, myself.  Please forgive me!”

Then, the Lord said,

“My children are just like your children.  They begin on milk, and just like any newborn baby, they cry out to me for every little thing.  As tiny babies, all they can do is cry.  If they study my WORD, they begin to crawl and jabber; and, then they toddle and speak one word at a time.  As they begin to walk, they should also begin speaking a little louder and a little clearer.

Learn from me.  Do not give your children more responsibility than they can handle, but do not allow them to remain babies with no responsibilities either.  Do everything in order.  Let you toddler get up on his feet.  Let Franklin walk, and let him fall.  Be there as a loving parent, just as I AM there for you when you fall.

In the spiritual realm, the toddler’s fall represents sin.  As you confess your sin, I forgive you and help you to your feet.  If you fail to confess your sin, you continue to struggle and cry, sometimes never returning to your walk.

Do not carry your children while they are learning to walk, unless they are tired, for they must learn to walk if they are to be mature men.  It is the same with your spiritual children, both your husband and sons and your brothers and sisters in Christ who follow behind you.  Let them walk, but let them know that you are there to lend a helping hand.

Do you hear it?  Holy Spirit is saying that we all must learn to walk if we are to be mature.  The Word says in Ephesians that we are growing into a mature man. 

We, mothers in the natural, or mentors in the spirit…we wonder why we are exhausted?  We are carrying ones that should be old enough to walk…some us lifting and carrying ones with long legs almost touching the ground…

We are cutting up their meat? We are waiting on them hand and foot.  We cook.  We clean.  We run them everywhere.  And, we are soooo appreciated??? Not on your life.

It becomes expectation…not appreciation.  Words become bossy and judgmental from children about parents and grandparents that become doormats.

Sorry, if I’m stepping on any toes.
 
I was saying to Emily in that discussion this morning, how thankful I was for my tough parents…my tough teachers…my tough mentors…in the natural and in the spiritual things…

My Mama…Baba...would say, “Is your leg broke?” …if I asked her to wait on me when she was busy. 

Or, after she saw that I wasn’t hurt…she’d say, “That’s enough crying.”

If she corrected me and I cried, she said, “Do you need something to cry for?”

Daddy’s…Paw Paw’s…favorite words if I said, “Wait a minute..” was “Do you want some wait a minute medicine?

We did not interrupt adults who were talking.  That was a problem.  We did not take a 2nd helping of chicken in case someone else wanted it…especially and adult.

All my teachers…my favorite ones that is…taught me how to get it for myself…whether it was Algebra…or diagramming sentences…and all made me wait my turn.

In the spiritual realm…when Barbara, a precious black woman, obeyed God and came to my house to share the power of the Holy Spirit with me…and how did she do that?

She modeled before me.  I spent a lot of time with her. 

When I’d be a softie…she’d remind me of my sanguine temperament (Tim and Bev LaHaye’s books)…

She was tough as a boot!! (my mother’s words!)

She would speak the Word!  Deliverance would come!

She would pray the Word, and I saw people healed.

I wanted her anointing!  I wanted what she had that I didn’t have!

And, precious saints, she couldn’t give it to me…I had to get it for myself!

Barbara would spend much time in prayer and ministry…and she still does…and she’s about 5 years older than me give or take a year…

Emily entered the picture and Ray her husband…I attended the same church with them for awhile…

Ray would teach me something new every time I called Emily!

I was probably just like you are about now…wishing this blog would end…because Ray would expound on the Word…teaching it simply…

I watched as Ray prayed for my son…and healing was present in that room…

I was delivered from rejection under his ministry…

I learned to pray in the spirit and in my understanding every day because of my friendship with Emily…

I’d call on her to pray and she’d ask, “Have you prayed in the Spirit yet?”  When I said not yet, she’d say, “Call me back when you do?”

I learned from these precious ones and from Word-based books that I submerged in…that I had to work out my salvation…just like the Word says.

I had to lean on Christ, myself. 

Yes, I minister corporately each morning…and I use a script…one the LORD told me to write…much, much Word in it.

If I were not to be there, I believe the Prayer Blanket would continue…because it prays itself…regardless of who joins us…We pray His WORD that goes forth to accomplish what He has purposed everyday…

I have ones that come on and don’t come back…or who show up sporadically … or who come on the fb…ask for prayer…

I never don’t say, “Do you have the prayer blanket?” or, “Are you praying daily…tarrying an hour…is what the LORD asked His disciples?”

I sound like a broken record…but…

Aren’t we the last days Church?…and aren’t we preparing for the LORD’s return?
Are you interceding for your tent daily?

Matthew 24 says in says…like in the Days of Noah…when they are eating and drinking and being merry…going about their business as if there is not a storm brewing…

Not paying attention!

I mean, if I was telling you to prepare for an earthquake or volcano eruption…or for a tornado? Or hurricane? Or terroristic attack?

Would you be preparing a place of safety?
Would you?

Would you be teaching your children?  Would they know what to do?

I love seeing mothers spending a lot of family time doing fun things…


I love, as a grandmother doing the same…

But, I hear the Shepherd say…

Prepare Your heart. Clean before me by the washing of water by the Word.  Cleansed from the inside out.

Take time to be Holy…You make time to be Holy…

If you don’t have time to be Holy…you don’t have time to do anything else…

We worry about how we look…and if we have the right clothes…and the right food and drink…but the LORD says do not!!!!!

Is this disobedience?  Yes!!!

He says, Be anxious for nothing! Fear not!!!

Each time He tells us how …

Seek first the Kingdom …pray in the spirit and with our understanding…

Pray with all prayer and supplication for the Saints…

We believe that it’s just us and ours! Our 3 or 4 or 5 or however many we have in our family…and if we cover them that’s our purpose.

That is step 1 …but we can’t stay on step 1
Yes, we’ve begun well to get to and do step 1 correctly…

But…on to step 2 and 3 and 4 and on and on…

Picture if all of us who pray for our own would join arms and face outside…placing our families and friends that we interceded for behind us…

Instead of say 1,000 small groups of 4-8 or so all turned in leaving the back uncovered…
We now area 1,000 strong…with all our tents together under one big tent…

We are all facing out…arms linked…and standing and armed in the armor of God…with our shields and swords between the enemy and us…all that is ours is behind us…

Instead of only 4,000 or 8,000…with each one of us chasing 1,000.

We are 1,000 with each one chasing 1,000…7 of us chase 1 billion…10 chase 1 trillion…and on and on…God’s multiplication table.

I love you, family and friends of mine…I love you!!!!

I mean regardless of whether you ever listen to me…I love you. 

Also, I please my LORD, because I believe Him when He says He’s given us all talents…and some are planting…sowing and reaping…multiplying…

I pray that’s you!

I pray you are not hiding yours under a bushel…leaning on others…moving from one place to another never finding your place in this Army of God…

I pray you decide today to stop and hear Your Shepherd, calling you …

Can you hear Him?

Prepare yourself and your children. 

We are not promised one more day.

Today is the day of salvation.

I used think that that meant that one-time thing we do to become a child of God.

But, we are working out our salvation…

We have entered the race…and some of us have been on rabbit trails…stopping and being totally off focus…

While others like the tortoise are making headway…even with all the obstacles…one step at a time.

I hear You LORD!!! I’m coming!!!!

And, all that will come with me, I’ll bring with me!!!

Follow me as I follow the LEADER!!!

JESUS the CHRIST!!!!

Woo Hoo!!!!

What a glorious day that will be when we all see Jesus …face to face…and hear…
Well-done…Thou good and faithful servant!!!

Love you,

Teddi

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Loving Army Life With My LORD!! May 23, 2012

I'm in the LORD's Army!! I'm in the LORD's Army!!!
I may never march in the infantry...
Ride in the calvary...
Shoot the artillery!!
I may never fly over land or sea, but....
I'm in the LORD's Army!!

I can remember several years ago, my sister said to me, "Teddi, why do you talk like that? You sound like you're in the army."

We were in our late 20's early 30's, and I was just learning to Stand!!!

I had sung Stand up! Stand up! for Jesus...and Standing on the Promises all my life, as I was raised in Church!

I knew the verse: The gates of hell will not prevail against the Church!


I was learning what it meant...

The Church is not a standing still building, like the ones we worship in!

It is people!!! We are a building, growing up and together!  Wild, huh?

That building is ONE man...according to Ephesians.

It's not that we stand there and allow hell to beat us down!  Though, quite honestly, you would think that is what we believe.  Aren't we being beaten down with all the stress and sin in the Church?

No, it means...We the Church Triumphant moving forward as ONE, we are taking the Kingdom by force...the force of the Holy Spirit!!!

We are on the move...we hear those who are hearing the Shepherd lead us...and they are saying, "Get up and get on the move!!!"

Why? Because the Church of the Last Days are on the move! We are demolishing strongholds as we go!!! sickness, disease, torment, fear, addiction, etc., ..all must bow to the Name above all names.

We are resisting the enemy, and, therefore, he must flee!!

The LORD's command to us in Matthew...called the great commission of the Church...is to go therefore and make disciples.

How? Same way Jesus did.  We say, like Paul said, "Follow us as we follow Christ!"

Shepherds in Israel, lead their flock!!

If you google around on the internet awhile...look for the shepherds who lead the sheep through a narrow path or on a narrow road...one sheep behind the Shepherd ...and each sheep with one leading and one following...

I always loved following the leader! I loved being the leader, too! Remember, you did not win or play correctly if you got behind the leader and did something else.

This morning the LORD began talking to me during the prayer time that I lead each morning.

In order to hear Him and not forget later what He was saying, I took notes with dashes, as I heard the words...sort of a shorthand version...but so full that I must share...

Remembering that we are soldiers of the cross, read and meditate with me....

Army -- wounded -- hit -- eyes, ears, minds, appendages.
Boot camp (He calls our prayer blanket time in the morning) every day -- to be in shape to battle the enemy -- to stand!
We're putting on slings, casts, patches band aids, etc.
We're binding up the wounded --
We're repairing the breach --
We're building the wall like Nehemiah all the time --
We're crying like Jeremiah over those that are not hearing and turning --
We're sighing & crying -- vexed -- over the abominations --
* Just like a real army some will come through untouched.
* Some with purple hearts -- hit but still here --
* Some taken out --
*Some will leave the Army & run the other way --
*Some left behind as the Army goes forth -- protected -- babes, mentally challenged, elderly --

He told me to read about Israel leaving ... Egypt? and the desert?

I am very aware that He's not only talking about the leaders Moses and Joshua...but the order of the others as they left.

He's also speaking today about David and how David was a man after His own heart!

As I read Psalm 119, now, much more often since we pray 8 verses each day.  Instead of 176 verses 2 1/2 a year...we pray the chapter every 22 days...times almost 17.

As this Psalm...this seed...the WORD grows in my heart...it says over and over...through the mouth of David..
     I love Your WORD, O LORD!!! I love Your LAW!  I love Your PRECEPTS! I love Your STATUTES! Cleanse me O LORD with Your WORD!! Wash me LORD!!! Create in Me a clean heart!!!

Coming to bear ... to rise up in my heart ... like birthing a baby it's so intense in my heart at times is that ...

I -- not David -- but Teddi -- love His WORD!!! I love His law!!! His precepts and His statutes and covenants!!!

And, over and over and over David talks of the Fear of the LORD!!!

Listening to a video today...an interview by those doing the internet where James Dobson was before he retired...and Kay Arthur says, "I was raised where I believed that I had to go on sinning every day."

The words she spoke jumped off the page!!!

Was that what this is all about, LORD!!! I was taught that, too!!!

I've heard prayed ...we sin all the time...not only sins of omission ... but commission...I prayed like that as a child...

At the same time, hearing the verse, I hide the WORD in my heart...why?...that I not sin against GOD!!

It's taken years for the application of the WORD to saturate me!  Why?

Because, I was reading it...ocassionally...even some every day...

But, I wasn't filling with it to empty out the sin!!!!

I love that!!!

As a science teacher...I know that we can fill to the brim and the thing floating around...as we continue to fill ...must come out!!!!

Do it yourself! With anything that will float!

Water is dense and will lift even wood...

When you are camping and have no implements to clean with ...but water...

Amazing what the washing of water will do!!

I am in the Army of God!  And this Army has generals...and captains...and foot soldiers...

I know I lead...because I have a following...discipling has become a lifestyle for me...

But, I am following some wonderful ones ahead of me...and I'm not jealous for their job ...or their anointing.

I know the anointing is the WORD...the anointing is the anointed ONE...the Christ!!!

Christian means anointed one.

I am not jealous...but zealous to follow close after...huffing and puffing...on the heels of the ones going before me...that are here in the earth still in their 70's, 80's and 90's.

I'm a young'n to them...I'm 62.

And to those ones behind me..."Come On!!!"

This race is to be run and finished by each of us!!!!  There's always room for one more!!!

Woo Hoo!!!!!

Love in the LORD!!!

Teddi



Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Loving My Tent Enough to Blow the Trumpet! May 15, 2012

Today is May 15, 2012.  The LORD is into numbers...not sure all that they mean but the ones Holy Spirit reminds me of...I will try to share at times...

I wrote this, seated before the LORD on 5/10/2012.

Today is 5/15/2012.

All year, I have known that it is the year of Divine Order the #12.

I also know it is the 3rd  millenium...3 -bonded cord ... Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

I know that 5 is the # of Grace.

It is the 5th month of the year of Divine Order in the 1st decade of the 3rd millenium.

Now, the message was given on the 5th day of the 5th month...and so on....

Today, is 5 days later...another # of Grace...from the 10th to the 15th...2 x 5 and 3 x 5.

10 is important as there were 10 plagues...and 10 commandments.

I can't find my book that I learned these from...but the precious Saint of God...Mama Sarah...who is Bobbie Jean Merck's Mama...and is an elder in the Church...and just thinking of her brings a smile to my face...she is who referred to numbers every time we were together for intercessory prayer...and at one time that was once a month.

Today, May 15, 2012, the LORD wants friends and family of Teddi Holt...friends of Women Who Pray to hear:


Written May 10, 2012

As I prayed this morning, I could hear a mourning in me…I could hear…
For want of speaking exactly as my spirit is receiving…bear with me…as I relate here in earth …what I’m hearing from my LORD…

I’m hearing a WOE…”Woe to America!” 

I’m sensing and feeling a  mourning in me…a crying out…I see like adornment of sackcloth and ashes….
Today is the Day the LORD has made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it!!!

Even though today is the day that we Americans have heard…done yesterday…that our president…the one and only president of all our many presidents…has endorsed gay marriage. 

I almost could not put the 2 words together as I type…since I believe with all my heart that marriage is between one man and one woman…and is not only a gift to those of us in it…but it should be treated as Holy…remember the words Holy Matrimony?? 

America, do you remember the words Holy Matrimony!!

We can’t change what God Almighty…YAWEH…Jehovah…God of creation…master planned!!
No matter what man has done to try to change the plan…he can’t!!....because…

It is written!!!! 

God (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) created Adam (Genesis 2:7-20).  That’s why He said, “Let us…”  (Gen. 2: 26-27). He saw that man did not have a helper  (Gen. 2: 20b).  So, He created woman…taken from man’s side. (Gen. 2: 22-23)

God designed the marriage…one man joined to his wife…becoming one flesh.  (v. 24)  And, in verse 28, of chapter 1, it says clearly, “Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air; and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
God’s design!   God’s earth!   God’s creation!   God’s plan!

And believe it or not, Frank Sinatra’s song, “I Did It My Way,” was not a new song.

From the garden of Eden…until this very day…man is still trying to do it his way...or woman  her way.
Mankind means both genders and all races and nations…all ages!

There’s no way…and I mean no way to change the fact that homosexuality is sin…it is abomination to God!!

Why?  Because, there is no possible way to multiply.  We just don’t have gay animals…why?
Same reason!!!!!!!  It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to figure this out.

Sorry if I sound somber and maybe silly at the same time, but I’m in a place today of realizing that all that has been coming up…

All the prayers…the visions…the things of the Holy Spirit that have crossed my eyes or been spoken into my ear…directly or through other prophetical intercessors…is coming together.

Recently ,the LORD spoke something to me in the middle of my normal life.

I mean I’m not a super woman, or am I super human.

I’m not more perfect than others, but I do have an ear to hear what the Spirit’s saying to the Church.

It’s not good news that I bring today, in the sense of peace and safety and ease and la-de-da-de-da living.

It’s not good news that we all live our own lives the way we want and compromise and ….sometimes we’re good and sometimes we’re not…

It’s not fun and games…

It’s not playing church…

It is not compromise!!!!

It’s not adorning the outward appearance…and forgetting that unsaved husbands are won by the gentle spirit of the heart that is very precious to God! It’s submission instead of manipulation…which God calls the Jezebel spirit…idolatry.

It’s not brow-beating, or playing games, or looking at pornography, or speaking nasty or blaspheming God…it’s treating wives as Christ does the Church and not exasperating children that they lose heart.
Today’s Church! Have you looked at it lately!

Children are out of line …acting out…all over the place.

Well, why not? They do the same at home and school and in every public place I go.
And, I love children.

Didn’t Paul tell us in that was a sign of the times…the end times!

God hates divorce…but who cares right? It is the 3rd millennium right? I mean times have changed…right?

Time may have changed …just as the prophets prophesied they would…but has God changed???

NOT one bit!!!!! 

Do you hear me, Saints??????????   

NOT ONE IOTA!!!!!!!!!!

As Job said, “The LORD gives…and the LORD takes away!  Blessed be the Name of the LORD!!!

You know the WORD is not a book to sit on the shelf.

It is not to be carried in a bag and read occasionally when we need to feel good or when we feel guilty,

The WORD is Mighty…I mean powerful …better than dynamite!!! …to the pulling down of strongholds!!!

I was in my 30’s before I began to wield my sword as the mighty weapon it is.

The WORD slays the enemy!

You know I get it now, why the demons said, “Jesus we know…Paul we know…but who are you?”

They were talking to the ones who were trying to cast out demons without the power…the authority of the WORD!!

When I say, “In the Name of Jesus”…the demons know who I am.

Do they know who you are?

I mean, When I say, “By Jesus’ stripes I am healed.”   Guess what?

Jesus not only hears me…He knows it is me.

I know that He knows all and all of us, but since He equates Himself to a shepherd…

Do you think He knows better who hears Him and obeys Him? that spends time with Him for His pleasure?

We’re all His children in the since of He created us…but we are not all of the Promise…

Abraham is the earthly picture of God!!  Abraham had 2 sons, Ishmael and Isaac.

Until this day, all of the Arabs and the Hebrews/Jews are of the seed of Abraham.

However, Isaac is the son of promise. 

God made a blood covenant with Abraham…and Sarah!  (Abram and Sarai before the promise)

The promised son was promised to a married couple way past child-bearing days.  Isaac was a miracle!!!

Ishmael was father of 12 nations that became the 12 tribes that are of the middle east and Egypt, who have fought each other…and the Jews for Palestine…the prophesy has remained intact.

Isaac’s son Jacob had 12 sons…the Patriarchs of the Jewish Faith.  Jacob was, in fact, renamed Israel.

Now, that’s how Abraham is the father of Israel and the Arab peoples, but how do we get many nations out of the promise to Abraham?

That’s where we come in.  All of us gentiles…everyone else in the earth besides the Arabs and Jews…we choose whether to be sons of promise or not. 

We become sons of the promise …the covenant between Abraham and Israel  with Yahweh…through accepting Jesus as our Savior and LORD!!!

That’s why I pray every day that we are the children of Abraham through Jesus, and we thank you for the 100-fold return on all that we sow into the Kingdom.  We thank You, LORD, for all the wells of living water dug up.

Now, I will try to explain the somberness of this day for me.

I do feel a lift off of me for sitting here and writing to you.

Ezekiel says that the Watchman on the Wall has to warn the people if the watchman sees the sword coming upon the landI

That sword in Ezekiel is not the WORD of God.  It is judgment!

I clearly heard this morning, “WOE to America!”

If I warn the people and they heed the warning, they are blessed!  Woo Hoo!!

If I warn the people, and they do not heed the warning, their blood is on their own head.

If I fail to warn the people when I see the sword coming, their blood is on my hands.

It is not the sense of joy that you laugh and kick up your heals that I come to you with today.

If do come to you,  however, in  the joy that the Truth is the Truth, and it stands from the beginning to the end!

The Truth changes not!!!

Remember, God is not mocked!

I’ve heard the woe before…I’ve heard the words abomination of desolation before…even this last year.

It was September, I believe, when the United Nations was considering Palestinian Jerusalem.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
This would have been declaring allah God over part of Jerusalem. 

That would mean that another God would be placed before Yahweh…the Muslim God, allah.

That is one of our ten commandments right? Is it not written, that we place no other gods before Him!!

I remember writing to you who were with me then…I don’t know how many even hear on any daily basis…but I sounded the alarm to pray!!!! The U. S. must not side against Israel!!!

We must not!!! To do so is such danger for us!!!

You might remember that we had an earthquake in the mid-Atlantic…and hurricanes…flooding…tsunami waves in places…and multiple tornadoes last fall.

The Word tells us clearly that there will be all these things multiplied,  like now,  in these last days...

We have increased the amount of Word we pray over Israel each morning, maybe 10 fold.

You know this is the part of my job…my call…that you … my friends and family…don’t like.

People come to me daily…many times daily in fact…to take their needs to God.

Few want me to bring them the Word from Him to the earth.

That is the job of the intercessor…to stand before God in behalf of the people he or she represents…and to stand before the people with what God is saying.

Too often, we forget, that the one that we have interceding for us …if they are truly an intercessor, seeking God’s face each day…then, the LORD is saying things...for He is alive and speaks.

I usually pray them aloud or write out the Word from God regarding the prayer request.  To speak like this, today, happens only ever so often.

I’ve sought the LORD’s face regarding the action that took place yesterday, and He would not allow me to speak until stood, sat, prostrated myself…before Him…surrendering to hear what He has to speak.

I could hear to Be Still…to Hold my tongue…that I dared not speak until I sought His face. So, I was given to prayer the whole day today.  I mean all day …until my husband was driving up the driveway.

I went no where…I saw no one…I bathed…dressed…and stayed before the LORD…only taking care of my granddaughter…who was at peace the whole day…as the manifested Glory from Monday night was still here…or I don’t think I could have done this.

Not being popular right now with family and/or friends  can’t hold me back…the LORD is returning soon…not sure what that means …but hearing on all sides around the globe reassurance that others watching on the wall are hearing the same as me.

I declare that your blood will not be on my hands! …and,  I continue…


I think at the beginning of this year…2012…God’s year of Divine Order…

Some attacks were made on the 1st amendment rights of the Roman Catholic Church.

Our government was forcing a Catholic-run hospital to give all women that came there whatever means they asked for to keep from having children…including abortion.

How has the Church not stood up and screamed…shouted…!!

Why? because we’re protestant…and they are Catholic??

Or??? What is it?  I heard Catholics not speaking out against the onslaught!! Not seeing they were under attack!!

If it happens to one of us…if the government steps over and removes any one of our Constitutional rights from any citizen of the United States…what stops them from doing it to any of us?

Is the Church going to lie down and allow the government to intervene …to tell the pastors…the preachers…what they can say or not say in their pulpits?

Where is there any difference here?

We have private colleges and private hospitals run by denominations, don’t we?

We even have rumors…maybe truths…that there are those watching what we say on fb in order to know where to go to remove the mouthpieces or to cause them to be fined or pay money.

Germany came under Nazi rule in much the same way that we are becoming federally ruled. Hitler was elected first…before he took over as dictator. 

This brings up the issue of abortion…federally funded or not…doesn’t it?

I must make it very clear here that the Word speaks to abortion
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Proverbs 6 : 16-19 lists 6 things that God hates…7 that are an abomination. 

Abortion is clearly laid out in verse 17…Hands that shed innocent blood

Now, there is no way that anyone can argue that the unborn is guilty of any wrong doing.

The unborn is a person…from the uniting of the egg and sperm…the zygote takes on personhood.

The only thing different between the zygote and a newborn baby in its mother’s arms is time.

All of the potential of every elderly man is there in the zygote.  All the genetic plan…the chromosomes …are set.

Regardless of how we compromise the truth here…not matter what we do to make this matter easier on all concerned…the fact is that an aborted baby is shed blood

All the hands involved…parents, grandparents, doctors, nurses, medical team, friends, etc, and etc, have shed innocent blood.

I’ve met with women who’ve been saved and delivered from that sin.  I’ve met Christian women who aborted their baby though they knew it was wrong…they’ve been tormented in the mind…until they repented and turned from that wickedness.

Family and friends…if you have stayed with me…God in His marvelous Grace (unmerited favor) has forgiven many who’ve come and turned from that sin.

No, they can’t replace the baby…but they can help others not fall into that snare…that trap.
Now, today, with this endorsement by our president on what our God…one Nation under God…remember?

What Yahweh calls abomination is abomination!  It is detestable!!  Just read about Sodom and Gomorrah!!
 In Leviticus 18…you need to read the whole chapter as I’ve done today.

It tells us that in order for us to live by the LORD’s commandments…His judgments…in other words, in order to be blessed, we must keep them…the commandments…the judgments…His WORD!

Verse 22 says, You shall not lie with a man as with a woman. It is an abomination.

God is speaking to the men…and the chapter covers not only homosexual but heterosexual relationships outside marriage…including incest.

Verse 23…says you will not mate with an animal…both male and female.

Now, you wonder why God would be talking to the children of Israel about these things that have become orgy type things…and have filled the entertainment world here in America and around the world?

I mean we can pay or not for just about any detestable thing we’d like to …in the privacy of our homes…our  televisions and computers are burning with lust and lasciviousness for us …all sexual impurities we might lust after.

We wonder about the children today…I hear so many things said about the children…when as I’m in the senior citizen realm now, I am amazed at the adult children.

Stormie Omartian has written a wonderful book The Power of Praying for Our Adult Children

Some of my own age people smoke pot, or do drugs…legal and illegal…or drink  and smoke heavily.

Some of us have done some of these things and taken it lightly that it doesn’t matter…whose business is it anyway? Aren’t we adults for crying out loud?

Well, it’s not my business, but  it is my call to warn.

As an intercessor, I stand not as an imperfect person in a nation of imperfect people…

Let me share with you what I could hear this morning…it was very low like I was picking up on what I knew …but couldn’t quite hear…I had to really tune in…ever do that with a radio station?

Well that would be the comparison.  I could only pick out a going throughout  a place…looking for something…and a marking of something….

I had little clues to google in to find…but there it was.

The vision or mind’s eye view,  that I have sometimes called it…or dream…is in Ezekiel 9.   God calls for those who have charge over the city to draw near, each with a deadly weapon.  Suddenly 5 of the 6 men come with a battle-ax.  The 6th is clothed with linen and has a writer’s inkhorn at his side.  First, the LORD called to the man in white linen and the writer’s inkhorn at his side and says, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on their foreheads of the men who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within.  Then, He said in my hearing to the others, “Go after him, and kill; do not let your eye spare, nor have any pity. Utterly slay old and young men, maidens, and little children and women; but do not come near anyone on whom is the mark; and begin at My sanctuary.”

Wait a minute…at His sanctuary???

Verse 7b says…And they went out and killed in the city.

Now, we know we don’t want the mark of the beast…and all sorts of worries and rumors and warnings about the 666.  I’m not concerned about the 666.  I know it’s not as I used to think.

I do know that there is a mark on the forehead of all who sigh and cry over all the abominations that are done within ….hmmmmm…well, Jerusalem is the name here.

However, since we are the Church and we are the Bride of Christ…the Church Triumphant that will be without blemish when we are totally one in the end.

Well, I believe the LORD is bringing this closer to home for me….and if for me for you also.  In this year of divine order and the last few years leading up to it, we have been as in the days of Noah…just like Luke 17 and Matthew 24 say…two of probably the most misunderstood in the whole Bible…it was for me and those like me from my background.

It says in that chapter, where the disciples/Apostles have asked Jesus to explain the last days…His Coming…that like in the days of Noah…when everyone is eating, drinking, and marrying, etc.
In other words…when all was as usual…the mundane…everyone running to and fro…not paying attention…like now!

What was Noah doing? He was extremely busy…building an ark! Why? He obeyed God, doing exactly what He said to do, In order to make it through the flood. 

Well, the Lord has promised not to flood again…but the great tribulation is coming!!!
I know many are expecting to escape…to leave here before it comes…

However, by all the signs I see now…we are here and it is as in the time of Noah…all are eating and drinking and making merry…not paying attention…this doesn’t mean they are drunkards or gluttons…it means they are not paying attention…thinking of self and not looking up…not focused on Jesus!!

Matthew 24 gives us many signs to look forward…and says when these signs come to look up…
I don’t believe that means to gaze into the sky.

It means to seek the Kingdom!

I hear people all the time …Believers saying…I don’t have time to pray or study the Word.
Or they do study and pray for awhile and then like take a vacation.

Or they do for 10-15 minutes…maybe even 30 min…and not every day but most days,

I’m aking time for me is what I hear all the time.

I’m having me-time! 

There’s time to read other books…or to play games…or watch movies…or read magazines…or whatever in order not to be bored…with nothing to do.

Boredom is not part of my vocabulary!  There’s always something to do! Being about the LORD’s business…surrendered to Him…keeps me busy!!

If I place my mind on Jesus…If I stay it on Him to have perfect peace…to have a sound mind…I am listening to the WORD…preached or sung…even when I’m working…or I’m praying as I garden or talking about God as I tend to flowers with my grand daughter.

I have many people I love on pills to not be depressed…to be calm…to not be in pain…or ???
I know that there are reasons to take pills.

I also know I used to need pills and vitaminsfor all sorts of things that I stand healed of now.

I know that confession with my mouth has changed many things about my health…and praying the Word daily has brought much healing to my body…and my mind.

Isaiah is a wonderful Book of the Bible! He was a great prophet…even had a prophet school.  I love to read about Him and to pray what He prayed as I do each morning.

The very first chapter, he sees a vision concerning Judah and Jerusalem.  He said, beginning with verse 4:
Alas, sinful nation. A people laden with iniquity;  a brood of evildoers.  Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the LORD. They have provoked to anger the Holy One of Israel. They have turned away backward. Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faints. From the sole of the foot even to the head, there is no soundness in it, but wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; they have not been closed or bound up, or soothed with ointment…. Then, verse 9…Unless the LORD of hosts had left to us a very small remnant, we would have become like Sodom; we would have been made like Gomorrah.

Before I go on with the remedy for Judah and Jerusalem here, which, means it is the remedy for us who have the same promises in Jesus, I want to point out Sodom and Gomorrah here.  Interesting, that those marked earlier with the sign on their foreheads were those sighing and crying over the abominations going on…their hearts were vexed. 

Who was marked and delivered in Sodom and Gomorrah? Lot, of course.  Why? Because he was vexed in his heart at all the abominations.

Abraham when He interceded…when He actually bargained with God …beginning with 50 possible righteous and kept on until His final intercession was for 10 righteous in order to spare those cities.  The only ones brought out were the 4…Lot, his wife, and his 2 daughters (leaving behind their husbands).  That was indeed household salvation…only sorry the wives and Lot had not won the sons…and even the wife looked back and turned to salt.

Fear of God!!! God was marking the righteous…those vexedsighing and crying over the abominations in both places…but His judgment is fierce.  Are you sighing and crying?

He told those angels not to spare women or children…not to heed their cries.  He gave the wife the one chance to escape and not turn back yearning for the sinful cities…and she blew it.
 
If that sounds harsh, it is because I’m talking to me, as well as the reader here.  The LORD is saying this year, Get yourself, family, business, etc.,  in order.  The song, God is Building a House…a child’s song is coming up a lot with our praise time.

Today, as we are here among the sinful…the rebellious…as we are among and in the families of and the churches of and the cities of the sinful…even the wicked.

I mean have you ever heard of so much sexual perversion among adults who claim to be Christian!!

Christian is defined as Christ follower. 

It does not mean that you stand in line and follow…and He does one thing and you do another…

Follow the leader means to follow behind and mimic the leader…

WWJD!!??  What Would Jesus Do?

I love it when someone says I don’t put anything on fb that I don’t want my mother, or my father, or aunt, or teacher to read.

What about that the all-knowing God that sees everything!!!

The lie you told…the perverted thought…

The flirtation with someone you’re not married to when you’re married…

The sleazy reading material…or pictures…or games…

Jesus said, “It is written , thou shalt not commit adultery. But I say to you, if you think it in your mind,  it  is sin.”

Lust begins with a thought…if you dwell on it becomes desire…then, craving…then action if you are not careful.

Well,  when the thought came…and inappropriate thoughts come…the enemy is out to destroy you…so what do you do?  I hear, “I can’t help what I think.”

LIE!!!! From the father of lies!!!! He put sthe thought there…how do I know?

If clean?    God! 

If unclean?     devil

no brainer!

I think that I should not do this thing…whatever it is…something that does not lead to life abundant with God! 

It is a LIE!!! All of God’s Word leads us into eternal, abundant living!!

Do you have a Bible? It is written to you.   If you are a Believer, you want the Bible to guard you and keep you clean.

I hide the Word in my heart…why? does the Psalmist say? So, that I not sin against God.

If I were you, and I were picking and choosing which parts of the Word I’m going to follow, I would be checking out my salvation. 

God is not a man that he should lie!

Jesus is not only way…He is the truth!

I know I’ve talked about the Old Testament…but if you’ve read Romans 1…it clearly says what Leviticus says. Romans 1:16-32 New King James Version (NKJV):

The Just Live by Faith
16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ,[a] for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, “The just shall live by faith.”[b]
God’s Wrath on Unrighteousness
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.
24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. For even their women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.
28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality,[c] wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,31 undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving,[d] unmerciful; 32 who, knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do the same but also approve of those who practice them.


Love covers a multitude of sins! God loves us so much, He has sent His son to die on the cross for us…and Jesus has poured out His Spirit on us…We can ask and have as much of the Holy Spirit as we ask for.
 
However, there’s a catch.  It’s a covenant. We receive Jesus by confessing that He is LORD and is raised from the dead seated in Heavenly Places. We receive when we are saved the other one like Him…Holy Spirit who teaches us all things.

Are we allowed to continue to sin?  I mean if we were a prostitute? Or an Atheist? Or a witch? Or a homosexual? Or a thief? Or a murderer?  Or a liar? Or an adulterer? Or a whoremonger?

All are carnal and enemies of God and His Word. 

Grace is unmerited…it is undeserved…it is a gift of God. 

However, God is not mocked.  If Jesus was here and would not do it, then, as His follower, you do not have permission to do it either.

Pretty tough, huh?

The LORD is building a house. The Temple of the Holy Spirit. We’re told our bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit…and as we join together in the Spirit, we are ONE. 

If we look at an analogy…picture…a married couple in bed…no details…just a big hug.

Now, picture that man in the bed with another woman…God says they become one.

Now, let’s get serious here…ladies…especially those who are sharing the bed with a husband…and also another…be it his friend or yours…you are all one.

Blecchhhhh!!!!!

I'm not making this up...don't the professionals tell us how many we've slept with...how many we've contaminated with any venereal diseases? It's because the blood crosses.

The LORD says we become one with the harlot (male or female).  All under the curse of the law.

In Christ, we are His bride, and we are allowing Him our groom to clean us up…to refine us…I mean our words, our thoughts, our deeds.  We are allowing Him to create in us a clean heart !

If we lie down with any thing…or have relationship with anything that is not pure…I believe it’s Ephesians that says there is a dark side, but we are not even to look at it!!!

That does away with the permission we’ve given ourselves to look at or read about what is not of God!!
Isaiah giving us a remedy… Isaiah 1: 16-17:

Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean; Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn of good; Seek Jusice. Rebuke the oppressor. Defend the fatherless. Plead for the widow. 

The LORD says,
When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people …in other words, I send the sword or judgment upon the land…

If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways…I have to stop here…

Who is God calling to repent here? The unsaved?

Nope! He’s calling you…and He’s calling me. 

This morning with my prayer partner of at least 30 years…I had to confess all party to any and all sin before God…as an observer…or as a participant…all cooperation or collaboration…all hiding behind my hands seeing not evil, hearing no evil, speaking no evil…when evil was everywhere…any hiding my head in the sand.
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What is our promise? That I will hear from heaven , and will forgive their sin and heal their land.  What has been the hold up with the turn around in this nation?

US!!! The Church!!!

Judgment is coming to the House of God first!!! Will He find Faith is the question asked in the WORD?
We vote this year.  I’ve not been happy about choices, and I brought to God today…this very morning.

God said that I am not voting for this year
I am voting against!!! 


Against anti-Christ!!

                *abortion is anti-Christ…against Christ
               *friendship with allah/Muslim is anti-Christagainst Christ
               * endorsement of gay marriage is anti-Christ…against Christ

The LORD said that the spirit of anti-Christ was already in the world before He left this earth…

The fruit of the womb is God’s reward.  Israel is the Apple of the LORD’s eye.  God blesses who loves Israel. Children are God’s heritage.

Never in all of history has there been such an attack on God’s institution the Family…Father, mother, and children. 

Never in all of history has there been such an attack on God’s Nation Israel…and we, the Church have our past,  our present, and our future in Israel. 

Jesus the Christ…the anointed ONE…is coming soon!!!!

Yeshuah-Homoshea will judge the nations…and says we, the saints,  will judge along with Him.

Some will rule one city…some 10.

If while I prepare to be here to the end…He decides in His great and marvelous Glory to take me Home sooner…so be it!!

If He chooses to keep me alive until the very end…so be it!

If He chooses me to die for His sake…so be it!!

If I have built my House…gotten it in order…submitting to Him and all that He is…then, it doesn’t matter…whatever my plight….

To God Be the Glory!!!!