My six year old grandson
loves to watch the Power Rangers. It makes me feel tired watching them fight
continually. It sort of reminds me of life at times when you are in a battle.
If I just sit at home and watch television all the time, I don’t have to worry
about a spiritual battle, because I’m not making forward progress spiritually,
but I notice when I start sharing the gospel with others, reaching out to the
poor, getting in the word and prayer, that is when the battle begins.
It was a blessing Saturday
night when I was trying to relax and stay home, my daughter invited me to go
out with her, but later that evening I started talking to my new roommate who
moved in Wednesday who is from China. She said she does not believe in
any religion and she asked me about my faith. I got a chance to
share some of my testimony and invited her to church, but she said that her
mother is a Christian and she has been to church, but she is “not into the
Jesus thing.” She asked me if my faith has helped me with the death of my
husband and parents/sister, and so I got a chance to share a few scriptures with her.
I understand what the Bible says
by being “instant in season” and out of season –sharing God’s word at times
when you don’t plan to share it. I did not “feel” any powerful anointing
or anything when I was sharing with her.
I read this prophesy that someone said that many Christians think life is some ocean cruise liner where we engorge ourselves on the fat of the land in eating food all day. It’s a life philosophy the Bible warns about in the last days of "Let's eat, drink and be merry.”
And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry."' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' Luke 12:19
When my husband had his heart attack, I had just signed up to work in the women’s prison ministry and so had my daughter and a friend with me. First, the volunteer coordinator at the girl’s prison had a heart attack at 42 years old and passed away leaving four children and two months later, my husband died, so I believe the attack at that time on my husband’s life was a spiritual attack on my life. It was to divert me from a calling on my life.
Now, I have spent the last five years of my life sort of like the Power Rangers as far as how can I reap havoc on the enemy’s camp. It first started when I was working on a school computer class project on how I met my Christian husband through a single’s ad as a testimony. Since he died in the middle of that project, I dedicated it to my husband and a fellow student came up during a Purdue Engineering dinner who lost her mother to cancer. She told me she appreciated that I finished my class project and how much that meant to her and she got to take care of her mother the last three months of her life, but still stayed in college like I did when my husband died.
I also had a young male student that lost his girlfriend in a house fire email me who said the song I chose in m project, “We Touched the Sun” by Gary Allan ministered to him since he identified with that country artist whose wife committed suicide from depression.
We never know how we can touch the lives of others even in a small way by our actions.
There are many times I let the enemy divert me in life and the Lord showed me that he has allowed this detour road in my life so if God sees fit to put me on a detour road, I will go on it, until I get on the right road in life. I try to determine when it’s God and it’s when it’s the enemy. It’s the serenity prayer on what I can change and what I cannot change in life.
My husband’s death has taught me not to be wreckless when it comes to prayer in my life. Not to take health, prosperity, success, happiness, joy, peace and love for granted.
I went to a prayer meeting and this lady was talking about that we should not see ourselves in a battle, otherwise we are going to be battling the enemy all the time. I don’t know what planet she is on, but I am in a battle and what I have learned is to win a football game you have to have a good offensive line.
The Bible talks about that women should not teach men or exercise authority over a man (1 Tim. 2:12). I’ve not met too many men in marriage that want their wives telling them what to do or telling them their faults. I was not exempt in my marriage either except my husband did tell me that if God told me anything to not wait until it was too late to tell him something. He said, “Please don’t tell me you had a bad feeling about that after it happens, warn me before.”
In my 14 years of marriage, I could not get my husband to slow down, eat right, wear sunscreen when he went boating or a hat. My husband liked to push his body and he reminds me of our SUV where he forgot to take the overdrive off and burnt up the transmission pulling the boat, my husband burnt up his heart. With asthma his life style was not conducive of going skiing and doing other things where there is thin air and overworking his heart.
But what I did learned from my marriage is we can be reckless with our bodies and we can be wreckless spiritually. It is like in Star Wars as far as Yoda said to Luke Skywalker, “You are wreckless.” We took many gambles in our lives.
Making “wise” use of our talents is making wise use of our prayer power.
We take many things in life for granted every time we get behind the powerful wheels of an automotive or airplane there will be no mechanic or human error and yet how many people have lost their lives in a car wreck. (And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.' Matthew 6:13)
My friend Scott and I prayed before we took my wave runners up to Monroe Lake for a single’s group, and I saw out of the corner of my eyes a woman who did not yield when I had the right of way when the highway was joining and I prevented an accident.
I had got in a fender bender a while back and afterwards the Lord reminded me how stupid it was that I pulled left in front of a semi-truck. When I was on the road in the past traveling with my husband who was an evangelist, we were coming through Atlanta, Georgia and a semi-truck slowed down and I wanted to pass it, but I hesitated. My hesitation saved the life of my unborn twin daughters in my womb at the time and my husband’s life. Within a few feet there was an overturned car upside down in the left hand lane, but I could not see it because of the semi-truck blocking my view when I was driving.
Recently, when we were boating when I took my work friends from India with us, my friend Scott was driving slowly through the park because of deer and then a deer ran into my car he was driving outside the park. I believe there are times that God gives us a warning, but we don’t know how to deal with those warnings (which is to stop everything and pray).
There are things that block our clarity in life at times and I want to make sure that the voice of my spirit is in tune with God’s spirit in life (I’m on the right channel receiver) and that nothing distorts God's voice. I was walking into E91 Street church one day and all three of my toilets were stopped up and I just asked the Lord, “God do I have crap in my life” and he said, “Yes you do.” I know God meant that I needed to put more of the word of God in my life.
If we continually soak ourself in this world, than when the battle comes against us – we have nothing to quote in the day of evil. When Jesus combated Satan in the wilderness with “It is written” --- if the word is not “hidden” in our heart – how do we conquer the enemy? To be more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus---we have to put God’s word in our heart and it is a continual “give us this day our daily bread.”
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119:11
Psalm 1 talks about “saturating” or meditation on God’s word makes a person prosperous. John talked about our body prospering even as our soul prospers. To get our body to prosper, we have to put the word of God in our heart. Jesus said it’s not food and drink that defiles man, but it what comes out of our heart. If God’s word is in our heart it will come out of our mouth.
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. 3 John 1:2
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:45
What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'" Matthew 15:11
I read this prophesy that someone said that many Christians think life is some ocean cruise liner where we engorge ourselves on the fat of the land in eating food all day. It’s a life philosophy the Bible warns about in the last days of "Let's eat, drink and be merry.”
And I'll say to myself, "You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry."' But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you. Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?' Luke 12:19
When my husband had his heart attack, I had just signed up to work in the women’s prison ministry and so had my daughter and a friend with me. First, the volunteer coordinator at the girl’s prison had a heart attack at 42 years old and passed away leaving four children and two months later, my husband died, so I believe the attack at that time on my husband’s life was a spiritual attack on my life. It was to divert me from a calling on my life.
Now, I have spent the last five years of my life sort of like the Power Rangers as far as how can I reap havoc on the enemy’s camp. It first started when I was working on a school computer class project on how I met my Christian husband through a single’s ad as a testimony. Since he died in the middle of that project, I dedicated it to my husband and a fellow student came up during a Purdue Engineering dinner who lost her mother to cancer. She told me she appreciated that I finished my class project and how much that meant to her and she got to take care of her mother the last three months of her life, but still stayed in college like I did when my husband died.
I also had a young male student that lost his girlfriend in a house fire email me who said the song I chose in m project, “We Touched the Sun” by Gary Allan ministered to him since he identified with that country artist whose wife committed suicide from depression.
We never know how we can touch the lives of others even in a small way by our actions.
There are many times I let the enemy divert me in life and the Lord showed me that he has allowed this detour road in my life so if God sees fit to put me on a detour road, I will go on it, until I get on the right road in life. I try to determine when it’s God and it’s when it’s the enemy. It’s the serenity prayer on what I can change and what I cannot change in life.
My husband’s death has taught me not to be wreckless when it comes to prayer in my life. Not to take health, prosperity, success, happiness, joy, peace and love for granted.
I went to a prayer meeting and this lady was talking about that we should not see ourselves in a battle, otherwise we are going to be battling the enemy all the time. I don’t know what planet she is on, but I am in a battle and what I have learned is to win a football game you have to have a good offensive line.
The Bible talks about that women should not teach men or exercise authority over a man (1 Tim. 2:12). I’ve not met too many men in marriage that want their wives telling them what to do or telling them their faults. I was not exempt in my marriage either except my husband did tell me that if God told me anything to not wait until it was too late to tell him something. He said, “Please don’t tell me you had a bad feeling about that after it happens, warn me before.”
In my 14 years of marriage, I could not get my husband to slow down, eat right, wear sunscreen when he went boating or a hat. My husband liked to push his body and he reminds me of our SUV where he forgot to take the overdrive off and burnt up the transmission pulling the boat, my husband burnt up his heart. With asthma his life style was not conducive of going skiing and doing other things where there is thin air and overworking his heart.
But what I did learned from my marriage is we can be reckless with our bodies and we can be wreckless spiritually. It is like in Star Wars as far as Yoda said to Luke Skywalker, “You are wreckless.” We took many gambles in our lives.
Making “wise” use of our talents is making wise use of our prayer power.
We take many things in life for granted every time we get behind the powerful wheels of an automotive or airplane there will be no mechanic or human error and yet how many people have lost their lives in a car wreck. (And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.' Matthew 6:13)
My friend Scott and I prayed before we took my wave runners up to Monroe Lake for a single’s group, and I saw out of the corner of my eyes a woman who did not yield when I had the right of way when the highway was joining and I prevented an accident.
I had got in a fender bender a while back and afterwards the Lord reminded me how stupid it was that I pulled left in front of a semi-truck. When I was on the road in the past traveling with my husband who was an evangelist, we were coming through Atlanta, Georgia and a semi-truck slowed down and I wanted to pass it, but I hesitated. My hesitation saved the life of my unborn twin daughters in my womb at the time and my husband’s life. Within a few feet there was an overturned car upside down in the left hand lane, but I could not see it because of the semi-truck blocking my view when I was driving.
Recently, when we were boating when I took my work friends from India with us, my friend Scott was driving slowly through the park because of deer and then a deer ran into my car he was driving outside the park. I believe there are times that God gives us a warning, but we don’t know how to deal with those warnings (which is to stop everything and pray).
There are things that block our clarity in life at times and I want to make sure that the voice of my spirit is in tune with God’s spirit in life (I’m on the right channel receiver) and that nothing distorts God's voice. I was walking into E91 Street church one day and all three of my toilets were stopped up and I just asked the Lord, “God do I have crap in my life” and he said, “Yes you do.” I know God meant that I needed to put more of the word of God in my life.
If we continually soak ourself in this world, than when the battle comes against us – we have nothing to quote in the day of evil. When Jesus combated Satan in the wilderness with “It is written” --- if the word is not “hidden” in our heart – how do we conquer the enemy? To be more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus---we have to put God’s word in our heart and it is a continual “give us this day our daily bread.”
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. Psalm 119:11
Psalm 1 talks about “saturating” or meditation on God’s word makes a person prosperous. John talked about our body prospering even as our soul prospers. To get our body to prosper, we have to put the word of God in our heart. Jesus said it’s not food and drink that defiles man, but it what comes out of our heart. If God’s word is in our heart it will come out of our mouth.
Dear friend, I pray that you may enjoy good health and that all may go well with you, even as your soul is getting along well. 3 John 1:2
The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:45
What goes into a man's mouth does not make him 'unclean,' but what comes out of his mouth, that is what makes him 'unclean.'" Matthew 15:11
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