Year: 2020

In This Unique Time

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In this unique time of this generation, we need to go forth to bring the weary and lost to the fold of peace and hope. Prayer is necessary for the Holy Spirit to go before us. I believe God has prepared circumstances to prepare people to accept and love Him. But, His voice for this generation is you. Will you accept Jesus’s commission?

We are called to holiness. We are called to speak Truth. Rejoice for God is preparing the hearts of many during this time. Be counted worthy to be His Voice. Take His divine assignment.

I believe , what we are experiencing now, is not the pains in the tribulation, but the pains that could launch us into the pains of the tribulation. We are in the period that is mentioned in Matthew 24:14, in that the gospel is preached in the whole world. When you take the word of mouth, television, and computers, I think it has been preached throughout the world. But there are more to rescue.

This is a fierce spiritual battle, which bleeds into the physical. I have never seen so many physical battles in just one year. Think about how many things are happening all at once. We have the pandemic which hurt many families. We have economic problems stemming from the pandemic. We can add fires, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, and the list goes on.

Cancer seems to invade so many families. My family before me did not experience cancer. My daughter died at the age of 14 from cancer. My husband survived. I have cancer in the lungs and now maybe cancer elsewhere. Cancer centers are crowded with people of all ages.

Through all though, you can make spiritual deposits by teaching others about Jesus and give them love with joy. Ask God to put love in your heart for Him and others. From that comes joy and peace.

Things I Regret About My Prayer Life

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Your grandmother’s prayers are still protecting you.

Here are some things that I regret not doing at a younger age and continued with it for a lifetime.

You need to keep a list of other people’s concerns. In the past I would pray for others and it would take almost an hour just to pray from my prayer list. At one point, I believed a lie, that if the Holy Spirit wanted me to pray for someone, He would bring that request to my memory and then I would pray for them. These precious people entrusted me to pray about their concerns. I had failed them and God.

Another thing I did and really regreted, keeping my prayer journals. I had so many of them. One day in a weak moment while cleaning, I threw them away. Later, I questioned myself. How could I throw them away? They were a part of my legacy. They would have been wonderful to leave these to my children. When I leave this earthly home and go to my heavenly home, it would have been something they would have treasured.

A Prayer Journal,helps you to focus on what God wants you to do or what was impressed on you. You have to be careful here and make sure you are listening to God.

Another thing I wished I had done was to keep a prayer journal for each of my children. This would have been a record of God intervening in their life at a young age or even as a baby or prayers offered up for an unborn child.

One thing I remember was a night that I asked God for a special blessing for each child. I am sure this was God putting that prayer in my heart. My youngest child was only about six months old. I had more or less forgot that prayer until God reminded me a few years later. I really enjoyed watching God move in their lives to bring about these blessings. That prayer that night formed their lives as adults. The Holy Spirit had put that prayer into my heart.

Also I wished I had done better at the dinner table. Sometimes we talked about business. I wanted my children to learn about business. A wonderful thing to discuss at the dinner table is “how did you see God move that day.”

I wished I had taught them More about prayer. I did take them through a course called, “Prayer Life” by Hunt. You can find that study at Lifeway. Also instruct them about Prayer Journals and help them get started.

Also I wished I had involved them in some of my concerns. Not all of them. Just a few. The Bible says to come to Him as little children. Yes, I would have wanted prayers taken to Him by innocent children. Can you imagine a prayer time with your child, kneeling in the presences of God.

When you are doing your Bible Study, sometimes a name is layed in your spirit. Now it may be layed on your spirit from a prayer request. But if it is one of your children, I pray it is in your spirit. If it is in your spirit, you are connecting that child spiritually. If you are keeping a journal for each child, that is something you need to add to their prayer journal. I have prayed many times for my children, Isaiah 59: 21 and Deuteronomy 6, for me and my children. Pray about the commands of God and His promises. Beloved,l put these things in your heart. Things that you pray now could envelope the following generations.

Be God’s Feet And Gather The Strays

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Beloved Ones of God, two of our purposes are to bring others to know Christ and to help other Christians grow in their faith. We are to gather up those who have fallen behind and strayed from the truth.

A Believer’s life is filled with test. Each test presents itself with choices. We must choose to continue to love Christ and obey God. We must choose to have faith and trust the Spirit of God.

God does not tempt or bring evil to His children. He does allow challenges so that our faith and love may grow by experiencing God’s faithfulness and power.

God encourages us to ask for wisdom as stated in James 1:5. The word “ask” in that verse is a command. God will give wisdom to all believers equally. How we use that wisdom in our circumstances, will be different from others. Also, wisdom will be different depending on our relationship with Jesus. Results will be different depending on if we choose God’s way, our way or some combination. But by doing things with God’s Word, God’s way develops humility, impartiality, and compassion.

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A Summer of Change

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The world is filled with stories of change. This year many people have seen changes due to this pandemic. Beloved, I hope each of your journeys has deepened your relationships with one another. I pray that you have allowed God to divinely influence your heart within your family. Each person is treasured by God. This is a time for us to find the treasure in each of our loved ones.

Many have had these treasured loved ones leave this world to their next world.

We were concerned about my 12 year old grandson and my daughter and son-in-law took him to the Children’s Hospital. Finally they found the cause of his severe pain. His appendix had ruptured. The hospital did allow my daughter and nursing baby to stay with him. They were not allowed to leave and return, so they stayed in the hospital room that was assigned to my grandson.

During this time, my son-in-law’s father was admitted to the hospital. They found he had stage 4 cancer. He died a few days later. His heart stopped on his birthday. They did revive him. The next day, his heart stopped again. He did not survive.

The Children’s hospital allowed my grandson to go home to say good-bye. All knew him as a loving and caring person who loved Christ. He thought of others before himself. His love, as all of us, should become legendary.

God used His children to bring comfort to the family. I remember a quote by Mike Emlet, “Offering comfort begins with your presence because your presence with a person actually incarnates the comfort of God to those experiencing suffering.

Worry Fills Every Breath

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When my breath is heavy from life, You cradle my love and bring that breath close to You. I feel the softness of Your presence and hear whispers of Your love My tears fall to the hem of Your Holiness. You take them and write them in a book. It does not matter what You wrote. For what matters is being here resting. In Your love, You are my treasured love and I am Yours. Take me deeper into Your presence. For your name is within me for all eternity. I will worship You.

WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT SUGGEST YOU PRAY

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Two nights ago the Holy Spirit burdened my heart for my youngest daughter and her family. They went to another state to move my oldest granddaughter’s things from her college dorm. This “shelter in place” happened while she was home for spring break.

The Holy Spirit that lives within me, burdened my heart for my youngest daughter and family. I did begin praying that evening and continued to pray when I woke from sleeping in the early morning. Then I prayed a couple of times during the day.

In the afternoon I prayed a couple of times before receiving a text from my daughter. She said they were driving in heavy rain and a semi-truck hit a pothole and the semi jumped into their lane. They were beside the truck when it jumped into their lane. They were fine and the truck briefly kissed their car and trailer. The truck took off their mirror and dented the trailer they were pulling. The semi did not realize that anything happened. Because of the weather they could not stop on the road since visibility was so low.

My question is, “What would have happened if I had not prayed.” I do not understand the workings of this kind of prayer. I do know, that when the Holy Spirit says you need to pray…..you need to pray

If a burden is placed in your heart by the Holy Spirit, please pray. Pray as if their life depends on your prayer.

Men Meeting God in the Mountains Women meet God?

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Have you ever noticed how in the scriptures men are always going up into the mountains to commune with the Lord? Yet in the scriptures, we hardly ever hear of women going to the mountains, and we know why — right? Because the women were too busy keeping life going; they couldn’t abandon babies, meals, homes, fires, gardens, and a thousand responsibilities to make the climb into the mountains! I was talking to a friend the other day, saying that as modern woman I feel like I’m never “free” enough from my responsibilities, never in a quiet enough, or holy enough spot to have the type of communion I want with God. Her response floored me, “That is why God comes to women. Men have to climb the mountain to meet God, but God comes to women where ever they are.” I have been pondering on her words for weeks and have searched my scriptures to see that what she said is true. God does in deed come to women where they are, when they are doing their ordinary, everyday work. He meets them at the wells where they draw water for their families, in their homes, in their kitchens, in their gardens. He comes to them as they sit beside sickbeds, as they give birth, care for the elderly, and perform necessary mourning and burial rites. Even at the empty tomb, Mary was the first to witness Christ’s resurrection, She was there because she was doing the womanly chore of properly preparing Christ’s body for burial. In these seemingly mundane and ordinary tasks, these women of the scriptures found themselves face to face with divinity. So if — like me — you ever start to bemoan the fact that you don’t have as much time to spend in the mountains with God as you would like. Remember, God comes to women. He knows where we are and the burdens we carry. He sees us, and if we open our eyes and our hearts we will see Him, even in the most ordinary places and in the most ordinary things. He lives. Original Author: Heather Farrel

It is easier for a woman to learn to pray without ceasing. We need Jesus in every thing we do. For example, clothing with stains. This list is endless.

Beloved, we need to pray about all things. We need to walk in the Spirit. The home is the center of our lives. To care for our home, the Holy Spirit must be the center of our being. That begins with worship early in the morning.

Men are busy making a living and making decisions concerning their job. Their mind is divided. It is with our love, we are to take up the slack until they can go up the mountain.