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Jesus is on the mainline, you can tell him what you want!

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Mark 11:24 (NIV): Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

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One thing I love about Jesus, his line is never busy and you can always call on him.   I feel like praising him…  Listen up to this wonderful praise song and be blessed!

Norman Hutchins – Jesus on the Mainline

 

Here are some helpful scriptures enclosed when you  need to get Jesus on the mainline…

 

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D&T:  06/09/2014
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When you can push your problems and pain aside, and  pray for someone else,  God will work it out for you!

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Storms

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Bible Verses about Storms:

Matthew 8:23-27 ESV / 112 helpful votes

And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him. And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep. And they went and woke him, saying, “Save us, Lord; we are perishing.” And he said to them, “Why are you afraid, O you of little faith?” Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm. And the men marveled, saying, “What sort of man is this, that even winds and sea obey him?”

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 101 helpful votes

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

Psalm 107:29 ESV / 88 helpful votes

He made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Psalm 34:17-20 ESV / 75 helpful votes

When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Nahum 1:7 ESV / 52 helpful votes

The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 51 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 34 helpful votes

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

2 Corinthians 12:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes

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.

Acts 27:20 ESV / 16 helpful votes

When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

Psalm 150:1-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens! Praise him for his mighty deeds; praise him according to his excellent greatness! Praise him with trumpet sound; praise him with lute and harp! Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe! Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

2 Corinthians 4:17 ESV / 10 helpful votes

For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison,

Psalm 34:1-22 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-18 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore encourage one another with these words.

Revelation 1:1-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood

Matthew 8:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And when he got into the boat, his disciples followed him.

Ezekiel 38:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

With pestilence and bloodshed I will enter into judgment with him, and I will rain upon him and his hordes and the many peoples who are with him torrential rains and hailstones, fire and sulfur.

1 Peter 4:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Genesis 9:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth. The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth and upon every bird of the heavens, upon everything that creeps on the ground and all the fish of the sea. Into your hand they are delivered. Every moving thing that lives shall be food for you. And as I gave you the green plants, I give you everything. But you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood. And for your lifeblood I will require a reckoning: from every beast I will require it and from man. From his fellow man I will require a reckoning for the life of man.

Jeremiah 5:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes

I will go to the great and will speak to them, for they know the way of the Lord, the justice of their God.” But they all alike had broken the yoke; they had burst the bonds.

Genesis 9:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant that I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for all future generations:

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D&T:  EDT/May 30, 2014

 

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Just because the adversary said I could not do it!

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1 John 4

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4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.

6 We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.

7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.

10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.

12 No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

13 Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

14 And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.

15 Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

17 Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

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God owns everything and everything belongs to him…

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Jesus is everything

According to the word of the Lord you will find in the scripture referenced below in the book of Hebrews that Everything belongs to God!

Hebrews 2:10-18

Contemporary English Version (CEV)

10 Everything belongs to God, and all things were created by his power. So God did the right thing when he made Jesus perfect by suffering, as Jesus led many of God’s children to be  saved and to share in his glory. 11 Jesus and the people he makes holy all belong to the same family. That is why he isn’t ashamed to call them his brothers and sisters. 12 He even said to God,

“I will tell them your name
    and sing your praises
when they come together
    to worship.”

13 He also said,

“I will trust God.”

Then he said,

“Here I am with the children
    God has given me.”

14 We are people of flesh and blood. That is why Jesus became one of us. He died to destroy the devil, who had power over death. 15 But he also died to rescue all of us who live each day in fear of dying. 16 Jesus clearly did not come to help angels, but he did come to help Abraham’s descendants.17 He had to be one of us, so that he could serve God as our merciful and faithful high priest and sacrifice himself for the forgiveness of our sins. 18 And now that Jesus has suffered and was tempted, he can help anyone else who is tempted.

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D&T: 5/11/2014

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Faith without works is dead..

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“Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life. God is Sovereign My Father, the late,  Reverend J.E.Thomas  said to me, and God be my witness , “Evelyn, if I should die, I know with that call on your life, would you do Daddy a favor?” Yes Daddy.. “Would you continue to stand and preach the unadulterated Gospel of Jesus Christ and sing unto God’s glory?” “Yes, Daddy”, as we continue to praise God loudly in the privacy of his private Hospital room at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, which I stayed so many days and nights helping care for my Father… I said: “Daddy, it’s good that you asked,  because I have no choice in the matter if I want to continue to live and fulfill God’s will for my life and reach my destiny” He said: “Can we pray?”  I said nothing but immediately began to cry out to God, as we  praised and worshiped, touching and agreeing in Jesus Name in prayer that God’s will be done for the both of our lives.. He looked at me and said, : “Would you be fool enough to agree with me and God that he is going to heal me?”  I said: “Yes Daddy I will, because I know you are a Man- of- Faith,  and he began to elaborate to me about the great bible story of “Hezekiah”, and he went into full details about Hezekiah’s  disbelief , and how God added 15 years into Hezekiah’s  life after he decided to trust God with his life. He then looks at me and said: “I believe that God is going to add 20 more years on to my life”  I stood in agreement with him that God would do just what Dad had requested and proceeded to take full control of his medical decisions as we began to go over his Final Five Wishes , which are referred to in the medical field as “Advance Directives“.  This document is in place so the patient can free willingly choose three people  that were capable of carrying out  the person’s desire to make quality care decisions of the patient’s  choice , when they are no longer able or coherent enough to  make rational decisions for themselves.  Advance Directives, entails the kind of medical treatment a person wants or don’t want.  How comfortable they want to be, and how they want people to treat them and what do they want my loved ones to know.  He did that, and as his health began to deteriorate rapidly, I took charge of most  of his health care decisions as Power Attorney number one.

There were times that he got temporary  breakthroughs, and  then he  was able to make some decisions for himself when he was at Long Beach Memorial Hospital. Nevertheless, I would take the time discuss with him in detail what each modality consisted so he would understand and know about each decision he would make would entail. He said out of his own mouth, and it was written word-for-word on his five wishes, signed by him, and witnessed by two people that were not related to us that he wanted to fight the good fight of faith, and have everything done necessary medically that would help him to tough it out until  the  appointed time when God said, not man, it was his time to leave this earth, which is not our home.   We almost made through what he wished until his attending hospitalist ( doctor)  of his medical group  felt the need to move me out of his way, so he could convince Dad and his family that at this point that he had reached,that they felt strongly that  he should go to hospice.  They were offerring hospice when he was fully ambulating, and I made it clear and had it noted in the records that he was not interested at that time to go to hospice ever.  I want you all to know that I  fought down to the end by myself because he asked me too when he was in his right faculties to stand by him in faith and just believe God at his word.  I refused to take part in that part of the process sending him to hospice, but they did anyways and started the process without my signature as power attorney number one, and then and only then when things started looking bad at Earlwood Convalescent Hospital which is right behind Torrance Memorial.  I made a conscious decision by myself as power attorney number one  to have him transferred to Torrance Memorial to to do everything necessary for him to be stabilized to  carry out  all of his final five wishes, and they  were ALL fulfilled because I refused to take NO for an answer.

Nevertheless,  he did fight it out down to the end, and the day they decided to transport him to hospice is the day he died!!!  December 22, 2013.   They moved me out of the way, and refused to let me transfer my father from their facility at Torrance Memorial Hospital, and I was livid.  After which, they were walking around the hospital showing people and anyone who come to visit my Dad my picture as if I was going to harm someone for only wanting to be by my Dad’s side and carry out my father’s wishes.   This bizarre behavior on the behalf of a healthcare provider  is Unheard of ,  and I’m certain of that because I’ve been in the Medical Field for most of my entire career.  I was very upset at the fact that Dad was not capable at the time to say barely anything we could understand being that he had been on a ventilator induced into a comma for about two consecutive weeks.

If that was not bad enough, I had people fighting against me to carry out his wishes not working on one accord.  Yes, it got ugly the day before with a family member who said that my Dad had been dead to her two weeks ago because he slept on a ventilator in the day while he underwent several intense medical procedures.  What she did not know because she was too busy trying to create a story that I would describe almost down to the tee like Cain and Able.

Whoooo… Sigh of relief. Back to real matter which is Dad’s Faith and how he worked so hard to everything he could to stay alive with the care he had received.

For the most part, Dad  preached  the good fight of “F-A-I-T-H”  for over 50+ years of his entire life, and that  was his ultimate Gospel message that he mastered and preached and he never failed to take it to the cross, believing that Jesus, hung, bled and died for our sins and he rose on the third day with all power in his hands.

Rev. Thomas  (Dad) wanted no more and no less for souls to be saved and know about Jesus was what he lived for  all his life.. That is what he stood for and was really all about if you really knew him. He always made sure that NO ONE he came in contact went hungry.  He had a strong desire to work with the homeless ministry, making sure the less fortunate had food, clothes and shelter. Yes, he did just that in his lifetime!!!

Was he a perfect man?  No, but who can  you find that is completely perfect?  All I truly know is that he had a genuine heart for God and God’s people to be blessed. I serve notice to the world that “Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas”  can’t turn back now, because I have work to do in the vineyard, and I’ve come to far to give up or give in now. I must go on in Jesus name! Amen!!

dividerLet’s reiterate again the bible story he shared with me in the book of  Isaiah 38:5 – “New International Version “Go and tell Hezekiah, ‘This is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.” Dad said from his own mouth after sharing this beautiful story of someone who once did not believe, but then started trusting God by Faith for who he really was and was certain about what God the Father was capable of doing.  It was known throughout the bible that Jesus went around performing many miraculous miracles.   God is yet still performing miracles today.divider

Faith Without Works Is Dead

Faith without works is dead

James 2:14-26

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Faith Without Works Is Dead

14 What does it profit, my brethren, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can faith save him? 15 If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, “Depart in peace, be warmed and filled,” but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. 18 But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith without your[a]works, and I will show you my faith by my[b] works. 19 You believe that there is one God. You do well. Even the demons believe—and tremble! 20 But do you want to know, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?[c] 21 Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered Isaac his son on the altar? 22 Do you see that faith was working together with his works, and by works faith was made perfect? 23 And the Scripture was fulfilled which says, “Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.”[d] And he was called the friend of God. 24 You see then that a man is justified by works, and not by faith only. 25 Likewise, was not Rahab the harlot also justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out another way? 26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also. divider Posted by Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas D&T:  05/11/2014

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Though you may slay me, I still trust him…

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As I press my way through this horrific pain  I am enduring ,  I am reminded about the crucifixion of Jesus and how much pain and suffering he had to endure that we might be free and yet live. They nailed him to that old rugged cross, and proceeded to beat him up a hill up on calvary,  and they made him carry his own cross,. They spit on him, called him everything but a child of God, etc.. You all know the story; but,  what I like the most about this story is that it is not how the story began, but the joy of the story is how it ended.

After all, Jesus knew if he made the ultimate sacrifice to be hung between those two thieves on that cross , and  he stayed in the grave from the sixth to the ninth hour getting up with all power in his hands.  See Jesus he knew if he bore the pain and suffered for this entire world that we may have life and life more abundantly his pain would not be in vain.  The whole world needed to see this with their own eyes that we all might believe that he is God all by himself..   What Jesus knew was that all power was in his hands and he could have come down off that cross if he wanted to, but he proved to man if I lay my life down for his name sake, and he knew he could be raised up again from that borrowed tomb that they  buried him in, only  to leave man wondering how could he have gotten out of  this?  He yet showed man that he could get back up again  and rise with all power after all he went through.

Yet you may slay me,  but I can take it,  and still I trust Jesus with life even more now than I ever have before.  I can sacrifice and endure this pain I feel that somebody else may see what Jesus can do today in the lives of man, and live  free from guilt, sin and shame.

The difference between Jesus and I, I talked back to God through my pain suffering after this surgery  I had to undergo with no choice, but through all Jesus’s  pain,  he “NEVER” said a mumbling word, because he knew that was not how the story would end, and  in three days he knew he would rise again from that grave  and live again,  that we ALL may live free today. If that’s not real LOVE, I don’t know what is?

Signing off.. Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas .. ” I CAN TAKE IT!!!!”

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Matthew 27:32-56  NIV)
The Crucifixion of Jesus

32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means “the place of the skull”). 34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: this is jesus, the king of the jews.

38 Two rebels were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, “You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!” 41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 “He saved others,” they said, “but he can’t save himself! He’s the king of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, ‘I am the Son of God.’” 44 In the same way the rebels who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

The Death of Jesus

45 From noon until three in the afternoon darkness came over all the land. 46 About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli,[a] lema sabachthani?” (which means “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”).[b]

47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, “He’s calling Elijah.”

48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a staff, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest said, “Now leave him alone. Let’s see if Elijah comes to save him.”

50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[c] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, “Surely he was the Son of God!”

55 Many women were there, watching from a distance. They had followed Jesus from Galilee to care for his needs. 56 Among them were Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James and Joseph,[d] and the mother of Zebedee’s sons.

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May 11, 2014

 

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Your pain is worth it if one soul accepts Jesus as their “PERSONAL” Lord and Savior

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Starting from the bottom and going back to the drawing board again is not so bad if the result are your child that had no intentions of accepting Christ for himself as his personal savior, came to me and said on May 10, 2014 08:15 a.m. that he wanted to be saved and he loves our Jesus, because he healed you and made you smile again.  My family know that we have been struggling with him about this invisible Jesus for 11-years. He was diagnosed with Autism at an early age, and he is a visual learner.  He was not buying it.  It just did not seem real to him, and he fought me on every hand when I said it’s time to get dressed for church.  He never wanted to go to church and be apart. We did get him to sing in the choir a few times, and he seemed to enjoy it. I knew he had it in him.

My job was to take him to hear the good news About Jesus.  The word of the Lord says his WORD will never come back void.  It is real, and it felt good in the privacy of our own living room to ask my own son do you accept Jesus Christ as your PERSONAL savior? He said yes, I ask him did he believe that Jesus hung, bled and died for our sins? He said yes!!!  Tears of joy took over and the Holy Spirit entered into the room, and I called a witness so man would not make God out of lie.  A replicable witness that Justin confessed to that he “HE LOVES JESUS~~” Ohhh weee, what mother can ask for better than that?

Of note: Justin Jeremiah Larkins” accepted Christ for himself and is truly now in the body of Christ on this day 5/10/2014.  He now knows the real meaning of what Jesus can and will do.  He was baptized as a little boy on  November 26, 2006 at the AME church.  He did not fully understand the journey at the time.   My son was diagnosed with autism when he was younger, and he is a visual learner, and us personally going through many of issues this past year and this past week, he saw with his own eyes how God works.

Justin accepting Christ  happened after I originally made a portion of this post on Facebook.  I realize now that everything that happened in our lives had to happen,  in order for God to get the glory…  This is what this Christian walk is all about.   If we are able to reach one soul at a time, God is well pleased.   It feels good to be here on earth to witness this beautiful day, and be the one to  officially welcome him in the body of Christ.

God is really pleased because” One”  soul came running this morning  on this day asking about our Jesus,  and asked  to be saved. His exact words: “He said he does not want to go down there with them roaches.”   Wow.. He heard that Pastor preach a sermon last Saturday that I sang at in Compton, CA.   God was already working it all out,  but I just could not see where he was going with all of this because I was blinded by all the trials of life had put on my plate.

My Daddy preached Jesus for almost 50 years, and it was his ultimate desire to his grandson get truly saved and accept Jesus. We had countless conversation about Justin, and Daddy would say, Just keep him before God, and we are going to keep praying.

Look what happens when a mother presses her way through the pain.    Mother’s day is what it should be now, that everyone in my life is accounted for and when I leave this earth, I know that ALL of my Children are saved and know Jesus for themselves.  That is a story worth anybody telling..

It does not matter what man thinks about you, the  only person that matter is my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who died for our  sins. For the most part, (Man)  has done nothing for me but belittle me from time to time on this journey called life,  but my Jesus will has made us perfect, whole and complete in him!!!

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May 10, 2014

 

 

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Life can hurt sometimes….

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I was reading a piece on yesterday on bitterness from a website called Bible Truth, and he starts out talking about bitterness, and further in the lesson they encloses  the model prayer Jesus prayed in Matthew 6:12 which said:  “we ask for forgiveness as we are forgiving others, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” The word debt means what is owed to us or in this verse someone who has offended or sinned against us.”

“Jesus in Matthew 6:14-15 shows us the seriousness of the matter: “For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”

“In Matthew 18:22 Jesus gave us the standard saying that we were to forgive seventy times seventy the person who hurts us.”

A BITTER PERSON IS USUALLY ONE WHO HAVE BEEN HURT.

Usually there are three ways we are hurt.

    1.  By what is DONE to us.
    2.  By what is SAID about us.
    3. By what is TAKEN from us!

 

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Life hurts right about now, but I’ve “NEVER” been a cry baby or one to throw myself a pity party, but some things to me  just don’t make sense,  and it don’t surprise me,  because a lot of things “Jesus” went around doing in the bible days did not make sense either to man; but, there were always logical reason and a purpose why Jesus did things the way he did them; and, he did them “not” like man would because he knew man would do his best to take the credit, and steal all of the glory out of a moment to show the world who he really was and is, and he yet lives on today!

I tell you, I have a testimony now, even greater than I had previously when God gave me back my extremities to walk after encountering a rare muscle disease called Transverse Myelitis, that man yet to this day since 1990  have figured out.  I am a 1 in a million people who survived that disease since 1990,  and I yet live and have  a supernatural ability to yet be able to bear a child. (That’s another whole story)..

Nevertheless, today not only did I raise the two grown children I have successfully as a single mother, God gave me another unusual shot,  at my request to raise a special needs child successfully and yet live to the world what looked like a pretty good life.  What looks like a normal life to the naked eye, but it really is not what is seem.  Normal to me is this life I’ve lived on pain meds, steroids, from time time,  Neurontin consistently which is neurological drug, and so many more that I depend on daily to survive.  Yes, I’ve gotten written off as crazy, psychophrenic, bipolar, and every other cruel mental name people could find to call me.

Nevertheless, I’ve been going to physical of physical therapy twice a week for over 20 years, and this current Physical Therapy Physician in Costa Mesa, by the name of Dr. Lee , at Southland Physical therapy has  worked on me diligently for the past 9-years, give or take.   He encourages me in every way he knows how like I am worth a million bucks to him as a valued patient.  I so appreciate him right about now for believing in me.  I hold on to dear life this morning because of God first, my youngest son Justin,  and then him. Dr. Lee told me a day before my surgery, last week  before he personally realigned my body with me being off of pain medication, which was so painful, but he made sure every bone was where it was supposed to be, and he looked at me before I left the office and said in front of witnesses of men: “I will say a prayer for you at 7:30 a.m.  when I know you will be going under anesthesia for your surgery”.   I want you to know, that If you only have one person to believe in you, that is more enough,  because God all by himself is worth every pain, every hurt I’ve been through this past year.

It’s 2014 now,  and my Daddy who was a Pastor and Gospel Minister for over 40 years passed away on December 22, 2014  from a long bout with bladder cancer, and he is not here to pray for me physically like he always have for the past 38 years since I was a 10-year-old little girl. That’s why I am so confused after God really fixed that situation,  so I could genuinely learn to love my Father after accidentally bumping into him coming out of a cleaners picking up his work clothes from the City of Long Beach, where he worked for over 40 years.  Low and behold, while I sit in my mother’s car, waiting on my mother to come out of the shoe store while she  so diligently were looking for me those Mary Jane shoes that I wanted so bad.  I want you all to know that didn’t get those  “Mary Jane” shoes right then at that particular store because they did not have my size ,  but I got to reunite my Father at 10-years-old, laying my eyes on him for the first time,  knowing that, that was him walking out the cleaners, as my mom walked out of that shoe store. As my mother stood and conversed with this man before she brought him over to the car, I knew in my little heart that he was my Father.  The day unexpectedly had finally come.  I will elaborate on that in my biography “Let my baby live” that I will finish soon.  See, every time I’ve tried to publish this book for the past 20 years, the story just keeps on getting better and better.

I yet struggle daily, me and my child alone, but Only God knows and take real good care of us. I care for my disabled child for 11-years by myself, and he has only laid his eyes on his Dad one week in 2011, of his entire life when his Grandmother that loved us dearly passed away..  You can’t tell me nothing about my God!!!

I know in my heart that only “God” can pull me through the horrible time that me and my 11-year-old disabled son have encountered this past week, let alone to add what transpired at that hospital with my Father in November 2013.   The whole year of caring for him was devastating as a daughter..

If I did not LOVE “JESUS” the way I do, I would be saying right now that there is no God, and there is no “LOVE ” in this world.  I will NEVER ever utter those words from my mouth like I’ve heard so many foolish people do when they think that God has forgotten about them. “NEVER”!!! Just the mere fact that I am a today’s 2014 miracle, and “YES”, I survived through such horrible pain last night, I will NEVER care what MAN thinks about me no matter what his status or statute is. He can be the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama that I respect highly, and I would not be moved the way this invisible “Jesus” have moved my heart, soul and mind since I met him for myself.

Now, I really and truly know why God saw fit to give me one more child, that I named “Justin”..  God knew that he would be the only one in this world that would never want to leave my side, no matter what, and I thank God for him even with his little feeble mind, that God is doing a great work on him, in him  and through him…  Now I know why I had to encounter the things I had to encounter, yet God still get’s gets the glory. It’s pays in the long run to be faithful to God, because there will come a time when he will put you to the the test, and either you will stand if you really know him the pardon of your sins, or you will burn in the fire, fold and give up.  NOT ME!!! #grounded!!!

God I thank you!  Even though life seems so hard… Now, it’s all coming together to me why you would give me two children off the richter scale, and one that I’ve really had to work so hard with, only to be told while I lay flat on my back in pain by one of my other children that I am NOT a good mother, That hurts!!! I want the world to know, like my Pastor says every Sunday.. “If it had not been for the Lord (God) on my side” watching over me and my child every step of the way, where would we both be on this morning at 2:18 a.m, May 8, 2014.. I would not be here today if I had to wait on some the people I’ve given my entire life too. God is getting full credit that I am redeeming this very hour right now! God has all POWER: to do whatever he desires in all of our lives and get the glory… Just one touch, and you can be healed if you have faith the size of a mustard seed as I’ve had these 48 years God has placed me on this earth.

Wow,it’s stuff like I’ve encountered my whole life, I know only my Jesus brought me through it!  That is only half of my testimony…  Can’t tell is all, but I just wanted to share this bit of history of my life with the world.

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Bitterness will consume your whole life if you let it.. Not me!!!

Read: Ephesians 4:31 – Hebrew 12:14-15

 

 

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Posted by: ~ Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas, my heartfelt personal testimony I needed to share with the world.

Cited: bible truth’s.org

 

Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

Psalm 94 (KJV)

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O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

3 Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

5 They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

7 Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

 Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
D&T:  4/27/2014
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968

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Martin Luther King – I Have a Dream on August 28, 1963

Post by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
D&T: January 20, 2014

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