Hello World in Focus International (WIFI subscribers), family and friends… I rejoice in the Lord on today just knowing how good God is and knowing deep in my heart that God don’t make mistakes like man.
In reality, death is hard to accept, but through Jesus Christ and leaning on him we can see the beauty of it all…. I do realize on today
that we are just pilgrims and strangers passing through this very land… This is a great place here on earth that God created it to work out our soul salvation, but he told us in his word in the book of John 14:1-4 – 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in Goda; trust
also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.”
In Genesis 23, we see Abraham mourns for Sarah. Jacob, in a sense, erroneously mourns on account of the death of his son Joseph—he is not dead, but he rightly mourns at least his loss. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob at the time of his death, and David in 2 Samuel 1 mourned greatly over the death of Saul and his beloved friend, Saul’s son, Jonathan. We see mourning throughout the Bible on the occasion of death, but not only death. For example, when Absalom is responsible for murder and flees from Israel to escape any possible consequences, David mourns his absence.
In Numbers 14:39, when the Israelites come to Kadesh-Barnea and fail to go in and possess the land, they are told that that generation will die and will not enter into the land, and the people mourned; they mourned the loss of the benefits of the blessings that were literally within their grasp and were lost. They mourned deeply. You remember the outcome of that mourning was not good because they then tried to go into the land and were defeated.
In Psalm 119:136, you find the psalmist mourning over the sins of God’s people. He says, “Tears stream down from my eyes, because they do not keep Your law.” Hosea 4:3 tells us that the land mourns because of Israel’s sin and because of the consequences that have come upon the land as a result of that. There are countless examples, and there is a transition in the Scriptures from the beginning in Genesis, where the mourning is focused on the loss of one who is loved (mourning that comes as a result of death), to mourning that has a more direct relationship to sin and its consequences. Let’s make an effort to come to some kind of definition by looking at some of the essential elements of mourning.
I realize on yesterday that “Mourning” is an normal emotional response.
Through it all, I still smile because
God is the head of my life….
“RESOLUTION ONE: I WILL LIVE FOR GOD. RESOLUTION TWO: IF NO ONE ELSE DOES, I STILL WILL.” ~JONATHAN EDWARDS
“If everybody would do one thing everyday for somebody else… Step-by-step, the world we share together would turn in to a much better and peaceful place…” (Status Update – By Corinne Van de Broeck) –
“We Give” – ~Dan Stevers ~
Hello To my World in Focus International Ministry (WIFI) Subscribers, family, guests and friends… I was touched by the above quote, because this is what God spoke to me on yesterday… I thank God for all my friends on Facebook, Twitter, Etc… Thanks for sharing all your wonderful inspirations …
God loves a cheerful giver…. He loves when we can be a blessing one to another… Sometimes I ask the Lord to bless me so I can be a blessing to someone else… Sometimes, it seems as though the rich just keep right on getting richer, and for the most part it is so because they strive for that purpose and that purpose alone… I pray the day that when God blesses us, we learn how to be a blessing to someone else. I’m often puzzled to the fact that I’ve never really had a lot personally, but I’m awesomely blessed with my own recognizes.. Nevertheless, I often dream about what life would be like with more than enough… I’m directly connected to people who have more than enough, but I don’t make it my business to reap their benefits because I don’t feel as though anyone owes me anything.
I’m often mistaken being that I’m the mother of a prevalent person that I gave birth too… I serve notice, that I’m just that same young girl that you all knew from the hood in Long Beach that loved the Lord and has always helped wherever it was needed. I feel in this life that you have to become approachable… I said “approachable” not easy… There is a difference, and I do believe this… Sometimes when we are put in the position to ask others for help, we often feel indebted to that person and that should not be so being that Jesus paid it all and he said in his word that; ““If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ Let learn how to be a blessing and lend a hand one to another if we can….
In the book of Acts 20:35 – I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. …
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
But you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lordyour God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. …
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.” …
“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lordyour God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
“You are in my thoughts on this morning” – Sis. Sharon, you wrote the vision, and you made it plain to me what it is that God put on your heart to do in ministry.. . May you forever R.I. P.
Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Greetings to all my WIFI ministry subscribers, family and friends… I’m so thankful that the Lord has brought us together one more time, and for that I’m truly grateful…. When I stop and look back over my life and think about all the good days, the bad days, the ups and the downs and I still can’t complain because on this journey called life we are expected to encounter what we consider good days and there are times when things fall completely out of our control, and we tend to label those as are bad day or not so good of times.. Nevertheless, I do believe that God knows that plans that he has for each of our lives … I’m just thankful on today that through it all, God still gave us another chance on this Christian journey and for that I just want to encourage someone on today and let you know that Jesus Love you and don’t give up and don’t give in … Just stop right wherever you are and say Thank you Lord!!! Thank you Lord for the good, the bad days, knowing that as long as we have breath in our body , we still have a chance to get it right with the Lord….
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, …
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. …
And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him. Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.” Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained. Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.” And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life. …
Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” …
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house. And when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.” …
Song Selection: “I don’t know what you come do….” “He has done great things, bless his Holy Name!”
Scripture Reading: Matthew 14:15-20
15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
16 Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
17 “We have here only five loaves(O) of bread and two fish,” they answered.
18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves.(P)Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Sermon Notes
It’s amazing in the hour we currently reside.. Computers have become our personal companions.. People look at their phone 135 times a day.. .Do you know what it would be like if we looked at our mates 135 times a day… Do you know what it would do for our children if we looked into their eyes 135 times a day… Life test or halt test, which is a stress testing process in engineering used to measure the level of stress.. It’s used to test stress and failures… It finds it’s limits and it’s used to find it’s balance.. It’s pushed to the limit to only find that it’s limited..If God is taking you through something more than regular people have to go through just so you can find your balance…Halt – stop before we react so we can connect..Halt stands for – Hunger – If you did not eat it will effect your equal liberty… The “H” in halt will effect your decision… When were the last time your made good decision… Maybe it’s because you are not in a place where you are being spiritually fed.. Halt stands for: H- hungry A = Anger – L- lonely – T- Tired…
Am I hungry?
Am I angry?
Am I lonely?
Am I tired?
L- Lonely – Have you cut from your conscious, your crowd.. Sometimes your results and actions are doing what you do because you are lonely.. Are you lonely because you don’t like your own company.. .Being around people does not neccistate companionship.. Being alone will make you slip into depression….After you access, Am I hungry, and I anger.. .Many of us don’t understand that if we don’t slow down…What happens when your gift has no anointing?The reality is that many of us are juggling bowling balls.. Walking around wounded trying to act balanced…This is my thesis statement… Church is not for you to have balance.. The intention of Christ was for you to never have balance… You are suppose to have… Did I hear you clearly that God’s intention was never for you to have balance… Even God’s aim when he died on the cross what to give you life, and give you life more abundantly..You have hit a brick wall, and you realize that you have nothing left… I’m trying to throw out some life line balance…Evening has now come.. He has not practiced time management.. How long have you been teaching because my mind has a short attentions span.. God will keep talking to us even when he knows I have other stuff to do… He’s been talking so much that the sun has now elapsed… Somebody has got to remind them that we have been here all day and nobody has not eaten.. He gave me the word but I’m now hungry… How can I function on the word, and I’m now hungry.. Because I have not eaten and I work for God, it has given me a chemical imbalance on how I function…You have to be careful who you operate under ministry.. How do you sit under God and tell them to send people away.. Next time you confront a negative spirit in church.. You don’t need to pray for them or pull out no oil.. Ask them if they have eaten today? Maybe they are doing to much… It’s effecting his equal liberty… He now says: “You feed them” Sometimes, I have to walk you through…Sometimes so many people in church becomes selfish about the person that is pouring into them…It is illuminating to the theory at hand… Master, this is what we got… 2 fish and 5 loads of bread… I know we don’t eat like this no more.. Aluminium foil and a brown paper bag ..You can put one fish into 2 slices of bread, but I still have an imbalance because I don’t have as much fish as I have bread. The dilema that is brought to Jesuys…
What do I do about imbalance..? I don’t have as much fish as I have bread…. This is where Jesus blows my mind… If God would have wanted me to have balance in my life, he would have broke up the fish… Why is God breaking up the bread… I’m anointing them to multitask.. I have to put more on them… You are ordained to do more with less…You are ordained to do more with less… The reason why people can’t understand why you are able to maintain with your little bit is because you have an anointing on your life…The reason why God keeps adding more to your plate is because he knows you can handle it… He knows that I really don’t want it… When he breaks the bread, he don’t even look at me… When more stuff is added to my plate, I won’t look to people. because I will look to the hills which cometh my help, because all of my help comes from the Lord…More is getting ready to be put on your plate… What I’m getting ready to put you in place for, don’t worry about not having enough time to do it, but you have enough God to do it, and I can make it happen for you…Do you understand what God is getting ready to add to your life.. More blessings, more checks. I’m getting ready to add more responsibilities… . To whom much is given, much is required…We have a problem.. Two fish and five loads of bread.. If it’s God’s intention to give us balance…. There should be an even number of fish and bread…. At the end of the day there are 12 baskets of bread left and no sign of fish.. What just happened is the real miracle because I don’t have enough… The miracle is there is an imbalance because there is too much… .I have to give stuff away for what’s God got for me…This is not going to be a life where there is not going to be pain.. This is not going to be a season where there won’t be disappointments… I’ve had some good days, and I’ve had some bad days, but when I look back over my life… All of my good days out way my bad days, I won’t complain… .God gave you the test to see if you would go to church even when you did not have balance in your life… I may not have balance but I h ave joy.. This joy that I have, the world did not give it and the world cannot take it away…All things work together for the good that Loves the Lord and is called according to his purpose… You can’t do it all, but God is able… God is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that you ask to keep you from falling…I’m getting ready to pray that the Lord add more to your plate… I pray God will be able to trust you with more responsibility… I pray that God shift you into a dimension that you did not even know existed…As you lift your hands up to God he is breaking up bread because there is some stuff you have to hand out…. The question that has never been asked in text… Where did they get those baskets? God is getting ready to provide a receptacle to put all of your gifts in… I have to elevate you into another assignment… I have to give you a bigger office, etc. to work in..Confuse the enemy and give them peace in the face of Chaos… Lord I thank you on this week that your are going to give us the opportunity to share our gift with someone else… Thank you Lord that this is our graduation day… WE are going to be able to give over to God our imbalanced life…You have a lot you are trying to figure out, but God is going to put more on your plate…How many of you right now are dealing with more than you thought you could handle? How many of us can say I am amazed that I’m doing it all?Have you ever thought how overwhelmed you are that you are keeping things together at the same time.. Keeping the lights on.. I’m getting ready to add even more to your plate.. I just needed to know if you could pass the stress test…If you know this word was just for you…. Give God some praise…Give yourself the halt test..Am I eating right?
Am I hungry?
Am I angry?
Am I lonely?
Am I tired?
am I too tired for what it is I’m trying to accomplish..
Halt means to STOP – Stop right where you are…
It’s not God’s intentions for you to thrive, but for you to strive.. Go eat and feed yourself.. Are you working this hard to prove something to somebody? Are you over compensating that you don’t want to be like your mother?
Anger comes out sometimes in disappointment…
Are you tired of arguing? Are you tired of trying to figure out how you are going to pay these bills? Tired of always having to keep my mouth shut? Tired of always have to walk away? He will keep you in perfect peace if you keep your mind stayed on him…
Stop everything you are doing in the flesh that you are not prepared for in the spirit.. I pray God makes your heart strong enough to handle your mind, and your mind strong enough to handle your assignment….
I pray that God stop letting your family use you as an emergency exit..
God never calls people that are not busy… God called the disciples that were already busy and he added more to them…
Matthew 24:36 (New Living Translation)”However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.”
Hello to my WIFI Ministry Subscribers, family and friends… I write on today with a heavy heart, but nevertheless, I feel the the rain… I can’t explain it to anyone, but if you ever felt God’s rain in your life you can identify with what I’m trying to convey…. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it’s raining in my heart and God has opened the flood gates of heaven on me, and it really raining in my world…
‘Open The Floodgates of Heaven’- Bishop Paul Morton @ GE Patterson Church
I learn on today that I lost a long time friend that recently shared her vision with me, and God had so many wonderful gifts and ideals inside of her…. I’m thankful that God allowed her on last week to share her vision with me… As we came to the conclusion that saints of God need to realize that there is plenty of work in the vineyard to be done… I totally agree….
She will be truly missed.. It’s amazing that her vision was in alignment with the vision God has given to me many of years ago… There is a book that has been pressing heavily that I’ve been wanting to share with the world for over 28 years named “Let my Baby Live”…. I recently realized that I was that baby that needed to live and not die… I know this story I’m holding will bless some young woman’s life and possibly save some little lives that probably would not make it to the world without some guidance from God… I’m compelled to hurry up and release this book because NO man knows the day or the hour that our will be cut short… However, I’m certain that if we write the vision and make it plain, it shall live on forever….
God has given me a vision and he has instructed me to teach and preach his Gospel to a dyeing world… I’ve been commissioned by God to do his wonderful work…. I don’t a want a choice, and I’m certain that this is my only choice I have left in life and that is to fufilll my God given purpose that I was put here on earth to fulfill…
I’m just thankful on today that God has opened up the flood gates of heaven to me, and it’s raining… I feel the rain… It’s all good, and it’s all God!!!!
Habakkuk 2 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 I will stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.
The Just Live by Faith
2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the visionAnd make it plain on tablets,That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.Though it tarries, wait for it;Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
4 “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.
Woe to the Wicked
5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.
6 “Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? 7 Will not your creditors[c] rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.
9 “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster! 10 You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it.
12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity! 13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain? 14 For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, As the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, Pressing him to your bottle, Even to make him drunk, That you may look on his nakedness! 16 You are filled with shame instead of glory. You also—drink! And be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you, And utter shame will be on your glory. 17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.
18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’ Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, Yet in it there is no breath at all.
20 “But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, andled them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” …
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” …
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” …
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. …
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’” …
And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” …
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
Greetings to you all, and God’s blessings to God’s people
on today and forever more!
My God today, I’m still on fire from last nights sermon preached by Bishop T.D. Jakes…
1 Kings:18 – The drought is over…..
Elijah and Obadiah
18 After a long time, in the third year, the word of the Lord came to Elijah: “Go and present yourself to Ahab, and I will send rain on the land.” 2 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab.
Now the famine was severe in Samaria, 3 and Ahab had summoned Obadiah, his palace administrator. (Obadiah was a devout believer in the Lord. 4 While Jezebel was killing off the Lord’s prophets, Obadiah had taken a hundred prophets and hidden them in two caves, fifty in each, and had supplied them with food and water.) 5 Ahab had said to Obadiah, “Go through the land to all the springs and valleys. Maybe we can find some grass to keep the horses and mules alive so we will not have to kill any of our animals.” 6 So they divided the land they were to cover, Ahab going in one direction and Obadiah in another.
7 As Obadiah was walking along, Elijah met him. Obadiah recognized him, bowed down to the ground, and said, “Is it really you, my lord Elijah?”
8 “Yes,” he replied. “Go tell your master, ‘Elijah is here.’”
9 “What have I done wrong,” asked Obadiah, “that you are handing your servant over to Ahab to be put to death? 10 As surely as the Lord your God lives, there is not a nation or kingdom where my master has not sent someone to look for you. And whenever a nation or kingdom claimed you were not there, he made them swear they could not find you. 11 But now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ 12 I don’t know where the Spirit of the Lord may carry you when I leave you. If I go and tell Ahab and he doesn’t find you, he will kill me. Yet I your servant have worshiped the Lord since my youth. 13 Haven’t you heard, my lord, what I did while Jezebel was killing the prophets of the Lord? I hid a hundred of the Lord’s prophets in two caves, fifty in each, and supplied them with food and water. 14 And now you tell me to go to my master and say, ‘Elijah is here.’ He will kill me!”
15 Elijah said, “As the Lord Almighty lives, whom I serve, I will surely present myself to Ahab today.”
Elijah on Mount Carmel
16 So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him, and Ahab went to meet Elijah. 17 When he saw Elijah, he said to him, “Is that you, you troubler of Israel?”
18 “I have not made trouble for Israel,” Elijah replied. “But you and your father’s family have. You have abandoned the Lord’s commands and have followed the Baals. 19 Now summon the people from all over Israel to meet me on Mount Carmel. And bring the four hundred and fifty prophets of Baal and the four hundred prophets of Asherah, who eat at Jezebel’s table.”20 So Ahab sent word throughout all Israel and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah went before the people and said, “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”
But the people said nothing.
22 Then Elijah said to them, “I am the only one of the Lord’s prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. 23 Get two bulls for us. Let Baal’s prophets choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. 24 Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the Lord. The god who answers by fire —he is God.”
Then all the people said, “What you say is good.”
25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire.” 26 So they took the bull given them and prepared it.
Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. “Baal, answer us!” they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had made.
27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. “Shout louder!” he said. “Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.” 28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. 29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
30 Then Elijah said to all the people, “Come here to me.” They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the Lord, which had been torn down. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Your name shall be Israel.” 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the Lord, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs a of seed. 33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, “Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood.”
34 “Do it again,” he said, and they did it again.
“Do it a third time,” he ordered, and they did it the third time. 35 The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: “Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, Lord, answer me, so these people will know that you, Lord, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again.”
38 Then the fire of the Lord fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, “The Lord—he is God! The Lord—he is God!”
40 Then Elijah commanded them, “Seize the prophets of Baal. Don’t let anyone get away!” They seized them, and Elijah had them brought down to the Kishon Valley and slaughtered there.
41 And Elijah said to Ahab, “Go, eat and drink, for there is the sound of a heavy rain.” 42 So Ahab went off to eat and drink, but Elijah climbed to the top of Carmel, bent down to the ground and put his face between his knees.
43 “Go and look toward the sea,” he told his servant. And he went up and looked.
“There is nothing there,” he said. Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
44 The seventh time the servant reported, “A cloud as small as a man’s hand is rising from the sea.”
So Elijah said, “Go and tell Ahab, ‘Hitch up your chariot and go down before the rain stops you.’”
45 Meanwhile, the sky grew black with clouds, the wind rose, a heavy rain started falling and Ahab rode off to Jezreel. 46 The power of the Lord came on Elijah and, tucking his cloak into his belt, he ran ahead of Ahab all the way to Jezreel.
This “2012 International Pastors and Leadership Conference with Bishop T.D. Jakes is off the chain…” “The Mission is NOT Impossible” The Rainmaker sermon came from: 1 Kings:18 – The drought is over…… The line up for tomorrow is just phenomenal… It will begin at 8 a.m. in the morning.. Pastor Sheryl Brady, Dr. Cynthia James, Pastor Joel Osteen and Bishop Tudor Bismark and more. – It’s going to be EPIC!!! – –http://www.tdjakes.org/echurch/pastorsandleaders/
Inserts from Bishop T.D.Jakes Sermon
”Claim your SEASON! It’s NOW or NEVER!! It will Happen when you Push through Negativity and DOUBT!” Bishop T.D. Jakes.
“Don’t follow no one that don’t hear anything… Until you can hear the invisible and the untangible…”
Take your right hand out and look at it… Your right hand is a symbol of authority… You think you are waiting on God, but God is waiting on you…” Push past your flesh, your weaknesses, your insecurities, and your unbelief… God sent you to those people, that drought… You are a rainmaker.. God has giving you permission to make it rain.. I pray it fall on your ministry, on your staff, on your member… That you will go into all the earth and do what God has called you do… You are not standing under closed heavens.. If this is not your season.. Then when? “It’s now or Never!!!” Behold I give you power… The rain is in your hand.. It will happen when you push through the veil of negativity and sabotage… When God spoke it, he gave you the permission to do it!!! If you would raise your hands, the harvest will come.. That’s whey the enemy keeps attacking.. He keeps attacking you because you are a rainmaker… You are making haste…
What do you see in your Spirit? What do you hear in your Spirit? – “It’s raining at my house in Irvine, California!!!!” Praise him…
“Claim your SEASON! It’s NOW or NEVER!! It will Happen when you Push through Negativity and DOUBT!” Bishop T.D. Jakes.
Uncut / Unedited Personal Notes taken by me (Min. Ev) , and comments from friends on my FB comments thread…. The quotes and notes came from Bishop T.D. Jakes sermon at the 2012 Pastor’s and Leadership conference…
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Rainmakers have to move, rainmakers have to make noise!!! That’s why you don’t fit in, that’s why they don’t like you, because you are a RAINMAKER!!!!! Rainmakers make some noise!!!! Bishop T.D. Jakes
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”The prophet didn’t just move things outside of him…he moved things inside of him…. He put his head between his knees…. Meaning that – blocking his ears from hearing what was going on outside of him so he could hear from WITHIN….”
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas It starts in the spirit before it happen in your life. You are a preacher in your belly before you are a preacher in your life… “Anybody will follow you when it rains, but you need someone to follow you when what you hear on the inside, you don’t see on the outside.” Bishop T.D. Jakes.
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Leaders, you can’t make good decisions with “yes men” around. Tell me the truth! You can’t make decisions based off of a lie!” Bishop T.D. Jakes
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”The church has lost its runners everybody go to get payed we have lost the art of running for nothing” – Bishop T.D. Jakes
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas You have underestimated the push it takes to make GREATNESS….This is a “BIG BABY”.. I have been pregnant with it for years… It has been with me for years in my spirit… I have got to push it out off the spirit realm, into the Natural…….Bishop T.D. Jakes
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Elijah is pushing for a breakthrough… Breakthrough is what you hear in your spirit, but it breaks through in your life. With a baby they call it crowning… When they see the baby crowning they tell you to stop pushing because you have to get a break through… You have to change your strategy… God told me to tell you that you are not going to have to push as hard… God told me to tell you that the struggle is over!!!!”
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas “Shake your neighbor and say ‘”Don’t push”… I see a hand coming through in your natural world unto your spirit world… I feel a breakthrough!!!!
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”Come on and give God a breakthrough praise!!!!” After years of struggle and living through turmoil… I feel a breakthrough… I’m gone give God some praise!!!” Praise him!!!
Shalonda Renee I’m starting to see the breakthrough, the Lord said, the struggle is over, no more pushing. It’s here. BREAKTHROUGH! BREAKTHROUGH! BREAKTHROUGH!
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Glory…. I hear you over there Shalonda…… Receive it!!!! I receive mine!!! Yes Lord… “I’m getting ready to get on my chariot and ride… I feel rain!!!!”
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”Get ready, get ready… Get ready, Get ready, Get ready!!!!!” – Get ready for the rain!!! – Lift your hands in it, open your mouth in it, clap your hands in it!!! The lightening is flashing and the thunder is rolling…. You are about to get your breakthrough… “
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas I’ve seen the lightning flashing, And heard the thunder roll; I’ve felt sin’s breakers dashing, Trying to conquer my soul; I’ve heard the voice of Jesus, Telling me still to fight on; He promised never to leave me, Never to leave me alone. I’m going to push my way through from the spirit realm unto the physical realm.. .It’s going to breakthrough in my life… It’s going to start in the hand, and don’t let the little hand fool you.. Out of this little hand shall come an abundance of rain…
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Stop preaching to the people you see, preach to the people in your spirit. Get ready for the people that are coming. Bishop T.D. Jakes
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”Stop preaching to the people who have called you… Preach to the people who have not called you… You are called to be a major player…” Your whole system is going to have to change… These systems were built around your drout, not around your destiny… You have to prep for what has not happened yet… Quickly…
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”These were the days of Elijah…. These are the days of Rain makers if you hear it in your spirit, you have permission to push it into your life…” But it’s a breakthrough.. Out of a little thing shall come an abundance of rain!!!
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”Stop overlooking what you have because it looks small… God will always use small things to meet big needs… 2 fish, 5 loaves of bread… a stubborn prophet stuck his hand from the supernatural and brought it into the natural!”
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”Dont wait for the Rain be a Rainmaker (Be a Leader) and not a runner.” Praise God!!! _ “Bishop T.D. Jakes is off the chain yawl!!”
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas Take your right hand out and look at it… Your right hand is a symbol of authority… You think you are waiting on God, but God is waiting on you…” Push past your flesh, your weaknesses, your insecurities, and your unbelief’s.. God sent you to those people, to that drought… You are a rainmaker.. God has giving you permission to make it rain.. I pray it fall on your ministry, on your staff, on your members… That you will go into all the earth and do what God has called you do… You are not standing under closed heavens.. If this is not your season.. Then when? “It’s now or Never!!!” Behold I give you power… The rain is in your hand.. It will happen when you push through the veil of negativity and sabotage… When God spoke it, he gave you the permission to do it!!! If you would raise your hands, the harvest will come.. That’s whey the enemy keeps attacking.. He keeps attacking you because you are a rainmaker… You are making haste… Every Pastor needs people that can make it rain!!!! –
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas You got to have people in your camp that can make it rain, leaders that when the devil is against you – they can DELIVER!… You have to have people with you that can deliver when people… You cannot produce glory in confusion… The rain is coming to you!!! The flood gates of heaven are about to open up!!!! Open up your mouth and give God some Praise!!!!” -Open the flood gates of heaven and let it rain!!!” – Bishop T.D. Jakes..
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas ”Look at your hand again… behold I give the you the keys of heaven… whatsoever you bind on earth it is bound in heaven… it’s in YOUR hand! You have the authority!” Bishop T.D. Jakes…
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas What do you see in your Spirit? What do you hear in your Spirit? – “It’s raining at my house in Irvine, California!!!!” Praise him…
Habakkuk 2:3 (ESV) For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow,wait for it;
it will surely come; it will not delay.
On Time God – Gospel Legends Volume 2 soloist Dottie Peoples
Mark 11:22 – Jesus said to his disciples, “Have faith in God!
Greetings to all of my WIFI subscriber’s , family and friend’s… We should always be thankful no matter what, knowing that God has got our backs…
Sometimes, it may seem that we are all alone and no one cares… I’m here to let you know that God Cares, and he is an on time God… Yes he is… He may not come when we want him to, but he will be to your rescue in his own timing… It’s not that God has forgotten about you, it’s that he was probably just waiting on us to get our life ready for the blessing or transition and plans God has for our lives.
I’ve learned in life that just because God says wait, does not mean he is saying No… It just simply means not now… Please know that when you are delayed something, you are NOT denied… Your blessing is building up even better as you wait.. Say: “Increase!”
I do believe that timing is everything… There are some things I’ve been waiting on God to do in my life a long time, but I’m not discouraged that time has elapsed and I’m growing older… What to do when you have been seeking God for a long time has not come to pass?… This is what I recommend… I recommend that you keep your request before God if you know God said this is the plan for my life.
I found in waiting that you must have FAITH.. Don’t ever give up on your dreams…. What God promised to you will come to pass because he is an on time God that may not come when we want him, but he will be there right on time, so just hold on to God’s unchanging hand… He will never leave you or fasake you…. He will never put you down, and make you feel less than a person while you wait… . Just trust in him and keep the faith and know that all things work for the good according to God’s purpose and God’s plan…
“Not our will…. But God’s will be done in our lives!!!! “
For still the vision awaits its appointed time; it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.
But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples. When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.” And Jesus said to her, “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.” …
Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God’s power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. …
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”
I Expect God’s Favor~!!!! Just know that we are blessed and Highly Favored!!!
Psalm 5:12 (ESV) For you bless the righteous, O Lord; you cover him with favor as with a shield.
Psalm 90:17 (ESV) Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!
God Blocked it!!!
Greetings to my World In Focus International Subscribers, Visitors, Family and Friend’s… I’m just thankful today for God Favor that rest upon my life… I’m just in a thankful mood on today when I look back and see all the great things God has done for all of us, and how I know it was the Lord that blocked every trick of enemy and he would not let me fall.. I’m so glad that we serve a God that will pick you up and turn around you around and place your feet on higher Ground…
I know today the plan God has for my life, and I walk in it with my head held high knowing that Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world… God is so amazing…. If I could not say one word about our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, I would just wave my hand… God I have my hands high up in the air this morning and I’m waving them like I just don’t care because God has been so good to me….
I just want to encourage someone on today, and let you know that all that you do is not vain…. Remember that only what you do for Christ will last!!!
God sees all and know all… Just hold tight to God and whatever you do, don’t let go!!!!
When the turn came for Esther the daughter of Abihail the uncle of Mordecai, who had taken her as his own daughter, to go in to the king, she asked for nothing except what Hegai the king’s eunuch, who had charge of the women, advised. Now Esther was winning favor in the eyes of all who saw her. And when Esther was taken to King Ahasuerus, into his royal palace, in the tenth month, which is the month of Tebeth, in the seventh year of his reign, the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti. Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther’s feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave giftswith royal generosity.
In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,
So when the king’s order and his edict were proclaimed, and when many young women were gathered in Susa the citadel in custody of Hegai, Esther also was taken into the king’s palace and put in custody of Hegai, who had charge of the women. And the young woman pleased him and won his favor. And he quickly provided her with her cosmetics and her portion of food, and with seven chosen young women from the king’s palace, and advanced her and her young women to the best place in the harem.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast.
Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
Behold, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness in saving my life. But I cannot escape to the hills, lest the disaster overtake me and I die.
For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.
This Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you, for to you and to your offspring I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath that I swore to Abraham your father.
And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying, “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son, and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come. Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.’ But they paid no attention and went off, one to his farm, another to his business, …
The king’s scribes were summoned at that time, in the third month, which is the month of Sivan, on the twenty-third day. And an edict was written, according to all that Mordecai commanded concerning the Jews, to the satraps and the governors and the officials of the provinces from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language, and also to the Jews in their script and their language.
“You shall make an altar on which to burn incense; you shall make it of acacia wood. A cubit shall be its length, and a cubit its breadth. It shall be square, and two cubits shall be its height. Its horns shall be of one piece with it. You shall overlay it with pure gold, its top and around its sides and its horns. And you shall make a molding of gold around it. And you shall make two golden rings for it. Under its molding on two opposite sides of it you shall make them, and they shall be holders for poles with which to carry it. You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold. …
And Abel also brought of the firstborn of his flock and of their fat portions. And the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering he had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell.
The Lord’s curse is on the house of the wicked, but he blesses the dwelling of the righteous. Toward the scorners he is scornful, but to the humble he gives favor. The wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgrace.
Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
And the Lord appeared to him the same night and said, “I am the God of Abraham your father. Fear not, for I am with you and will bless you and multiply your offspring for my servant Abraham’s sake.”
By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …
Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name of the Lord, she came to test him with hard questions. She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind. And Solomon answered all her questions; there was nothing hidden from the king that he could not explain to her. And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built, the food of his table, the seating of his officials, and the attendance of his servants, their clothing, his cupbearers, and his burnt offerings that he offered at the house of the Lord, there was no more breath in her. …
Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas / May 2, 2012
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