No matter who you are in the world you are important! A child of God and loved….we all have mothers and
it is great to honor them, but I have to think of those wonderful women, who aren't mothers….we need
to have a day for them too.
Two of my closed friends never married and they show the love of God to all those around them. All
too often single women are the unsung heroes of the world.
So may the Lord bless all those who are blessed by being mothers and all those women who are not.
There are enough blessings to go around and we can all rejoice in just 'who we are,' in Christ Jesus.
It would honor the Lord to honor women everywhere this Mother's Day…..give them a hug!
Tell them how beautiful they are, because they truly are, you know! And,
May we all give our mothers a special hug and 'thank you' and love them as Jesus already does!
Part of our new look are ads on our page…..we are doing this to raise funds for the ministry and appreciate the opportuniy to present some people who may bless you.
HOWEVER, THE ADS ARE NOT NECESSARILY ENDORSED BY THIS MINISTRY.
We will see how it goes, as we want to do more ministry and keep up with our bills with the companies that support and supply what we need to keep on keeping on, so thank you for your interest, support and patience in all this.
This is a great time to live because regardless of all the bad news we face daily, wonderful things are happening in the Spirit as approximately 25,000 people are accepting Jesus across the world every day.
In spite of all the negative we could list, there is a ground swell of young people who love the Lord and are passionate to change the world……and we can celebrate and encourage that.
It is not negative or evil to speak the 'facts,' rather it can be negative and possbily evil in the way we handle the facts. When we walk in the love of God (wanting the best for everyone) and do not judge people or circumstances we can offer prayer and answers for the negative or the needs.
CELBERATE WHO PEOPLE ARE, NOT WHAT THEY ARE NOT!
Because we get so much of the negative from the far East, I want to share an email from our good friend, Victor Khlil. It is just an example of how God is working world-wide, and this is so encouraging.
I pray this is a blessing, and will inspire all of us to pray more for our spiritual family and new believers through out the world! Thank you, Jesus!
One morning as I talked with the Lord, I was thinking how I belong to Jesus, because I am 'born again,' I am in Him and He is in me. Then suddenly,
I realized not only do I belong to Jesus forever but Jesus belongs to me forever too!
Jesus, Lord, Friend, Husband–belongs to me, little me, for eternity. I was so excited, I just walked around all day, saying, "Jesus belongs to me, Jesus belongs to me." It gave me such joy!
This may not be new to you, but I wanted to share it, with the hope that we might be one in thanking Jesus for His sacrifice on the cross, and the joy of knowing our Jesus pesonally, being one with Him in our heart, mind and spirit!
As I sought the Lord on this whole issue of 'positive thinking' this is what He put on my heart:
"Your thoughts do not attract or direct destiny, your prayers do There is a great push now, from the enemy, to think, talk and speak 'positive' as you have realized….putting the emphasis back on man, not on God" (That would requires me to be righteous…..the original sin of dependency on man rather than dependency upon God.) "Thoughts and actions empower the enemy or connect with Me (God). Then it is MY power not yours that directs energy, establishes the Kingdom, to rule the world. As long as man can direct his own path, he will not see or feel any need for ME. The devil thrives on it. The 'law of attraction' has just enough truth to be delicious."
Here some wonderful verses to consider:
"…out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh" and "For by thy words thou shall be justified and by your words you shall be condemned." All from Matthew 12:31-37 Please read the whole section for greater insight.
"Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof." Proverbs 18:21
We quote these scriptures often, putting great emphasis on what we say, what we quote. When Jesus was confronted by the Devil in the wilderness, Jesus said, "It is written…." Jesus knew there is 'spirit and life' in the words of God (John 6;63). Jesus had the Holy Spirit and knew 'what He spoke' had the power of God behind the spoken word.
When we quote scripture verses, we are acknowledging the power of God, resident in us because when we are part of Jesus, He is in us and we are in Him.
THE DANGER, THE EVIL LIES IN, THE PERVERSION OF WHERE THE POWER COMES FROM.
Some times it is difficult to connect the dots, so to speak. The quotes of Jesus I have listed make us think we should always speak good, positive things, especially quoting Him. However, Jesus did not do that. Jesus was frustrated at His followers and said, "Oh faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you?" (Luke 9:41) And that was to His disciples. Several times Jesus uses the term, "Oh you of little faith." Then angered at the Pharisees (Matthew 23) tells them off royally. Didn't Jesus remember what He, Himself has said?
Speaking the 'truth' of a situation is not always negative. If you tell people you are fine and inside you are hurting and full of pain, is that faith or causing us to be double minded. The more we talk about something the bigger the problem gets, so we need to be careful who we tell and ask them for prayer.
David complained in the Psalms about all his troubles and his enemies; and always turned to God for the victory. Paul says in his writ tings, "For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:" (2 Cor 1:8) Yet Paul declared often of victory, overcoming in Christ and that nothing could every separate us from the love of God.
I have found this last year when my body screamed with inflammation or pain, my spirit was at rest. My relationship with Jesus has been wonderful and blessed, even though I am still standing in faith for complete healing. It was a first for me in 31 years with the Lord where my spirit and body were not in agreement. What a joy to know, as Paul, nothing can separate us from the love of God.
When we are discouraged, sick, or feeling lost….we need more of Jesus, more of Him in loving worship and yes, standing on Scripture verses that 'speak' to our situation. As we draw close to Him in thought and prayer, He draws close to us, as we remember….
OUR WORDS ARE EITHER IN AGREEMENT WITH GOD, HIS POWER, HIS ENERGY OR WE GIVE THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS POWER WITH OUR WORDS. THAT IS WHAT ADAM AND EVE DID WITH THEIR 'AGREEMENT' AND THINGS HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH….THE ENEMY IS STILL THE DECEIVER!
Faith is the supernatural manifestation of what we choose to believe….our circumstance or the power of God!
"Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world; I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me; In Him I live, move and have my being." (I John 4:4; Phil 4:13; Acts 17:28)
"for without me (Jesus) you can do nothing." (John 15:5c)
Finally, I understand what Jesus meant in that verse, He gives us the power (Matt 28; Mark 16; Luke 10:19; John 20:23) but without Him there is no power!
As we thank Him for all things, we get the blessings and He gets the Glory!
I was so surprised that my son Greg sent this out, and yes it was pretty humbling to see that 'sexy hospital picture'–that's pretty funny! But, I am so terribly grateful as I am overwhelmed with all the love and caring I have received.
PRAYER TRULY WORKS MIRACLES….I am 100% better and the good news is that everything they checked was A-OK–heart, lungs, etc. Jesus did work through the Doctors and Nurses and they were great. They found nothing wrong, but suggest I continue with my personal physician, and I will. But all the symptoms that looked like a heart attack are gone and that good report is due to YOUR PRAYERS.
I am so blessed to have God in my life, all of you, friends, family and 'miracle family' around the world. It is so great because I love what I do and I just want more and more miracles for all of you. So thank you again for helping me to have more days and years to keep on keeping on. And, Jesus has just proven He is the same, yesterday, today and tomorrow! Amen!
Hi I am Carol Purcell's son and I wanted to ask for YOUR prayers.
At about 9am today mom called and was very out of breath and feeling terrible with very tight closed restricted feeling in her chest and asked me to come get her and take her to the emergency room at the hospital.
So within 20 min I had her at the emergency room at Palomar Medical Center in Escondido Ca. They did all kinds of tests and praise Jesus all tests came back showing no signs of a stroke or a heart attack and everything looks ok.
The decided to keep her overnight in the hospital just to be safe.
I know that thousands of people have been blessed with my moms ministry and I wanted to share this news with you and ask for your prayer.
PLEASE post your prayers below as a comment and I will share them with mom when she is feeling well enough to get back on the computer.
Thanks & blessings to you!
Greg
PS She's probably going to be really upset I posted this picture 🙂
