4 Therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Sovereign LORD. He speaks to the hills and mountains, ravines and valleys, and to ruined wastes and long-deserted cities that have been destroyed and mocked by foreign nations everywhere. 5 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: My jealous anger is on fire against these nations, especially Edom, because they have shown utter contempt for me by gleefully taking my land for themselves as plunder.

6 “Therefore, prophesy to the hills and mountains, the ravines and valleys of Israel. Give them this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am full of fury because you have suffered shame before the surrounding nations. 7 Therefore, says the Sovereign LORD, I have raised my hand and sworn an oath that those nations will soon have their turn at suffering shame. 8 But the mountains of Israel will produce heavy crops of fruit to prepare for my people’s return – and they will be coming home again soon! 9 See, I am concerned for you, and I will come to help you. Your ground will be tilled and your crops planted.

10 I will greatly increase the population of Israel, and the ruined cities will be rebuilt and filled with people. 11 Not only the people, but your flocks and herds will also greatly multiply. O mountains of Israel, I will bring people to live on you once again. I will make you even more prosperous than you were before. Then you will know that I am the LORD. 12 I will cause my people to walk on you once again, and you will be their inheritance. You will never again devour their children.

13 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Now the other nations taunt you, saying, ‘Israel is a land that devours her own people!’ 14 But you will never again devour your people or bereave your nation, says the Sovereign LORD. 15 I will not allow those foreign nations to sneer at you, and you will no longer be shamed by them or cause your nation to fall, says the Sovereign LORD.”

16 Then this further message came to me from the LORD: 17 “Son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own land, they defiled it by their evil deeds. To me their conduct was as filthy as a bloody rag. 18 They polluted the land with murder and by worshiping idols, so I poured out my fury on them. 19 I scattered them to many lands to punish them for the evil way they had lived.

20 But when they were scattered among the nations, they brought dishonor to my holy name. For the nations said, ‘These are the people of the LORD, and he couldn’t keep them safe in his own land!’ 21 Then I was concerned for my holy name, which had been dishonored by my people throughout the world. 22 “Therefore, give the people of Israel this message from the Sovereign LORD: I am bringing you back again but not because you deserve it. I am doing it to protect my holy name, which you dishonored while you were scattered among the nations.

23 I will show how holy my great name is – the name you dishonored among the nations. And when I reveal my holiness through you before their very eyes, says the Sovereign LORD, then the nations will know that I am the LORD. 24 For I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land.

25 “Then I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean. Your filth will be washed away, and you will no longer worship idols. 26 And I will give you a new heart with new and right desires, and I will put a new spirit in you. I will take out your stony heart of sin and give you a new, obedient heart. 27 And I will put my Spirit in you so you will obey my laws and do whatever I command.

28 “And you will live in Israel, the land I gave your ancestors long ago. You will be my people, and I will be your God. 29 I will cleanse you of your filthy behavior. I will give you good crops, and I will abolish famine in the land. 30 I will give you great harvests from your fruit trees and fields, and never again will the surrounding nations be able to scoff at your land for its famines. 31 Then you will remember your past sins and hate yourselves for all the evil things you did.

32 But remember, says the Sovereign LORD, I am not doing this because you deserve it. O my people of Israel, you should be utterly ashamed of all you have done! 33 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: When I cleanse you from your sins, I will bring people to live in your cities, and the ruins will be rebuilt. 34 The fields that used to lie empty and desolate – a shock to all who passed by – will again be farmed. 35 And when I bring you back, people will say, ‘This godforsaken land is now like Eden’s garden! The ruined cities now have strong walls, and they are filled with people!’

36 Then the nations all around – all those still left – will know that I, the LORD, rebuilt the ruins and planted lush crops in the wilderness. For I, the LORD, have promised this, and I will do it. 37 “This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I am ready to hear Israel’s prayers for these blessings, and I am ready to grant them their requests. 38 I will multiply them like the sacred flocks that fill Jerusalem’s streets at the time of her festivals. The ruined cities will be crowded with people once more, and everyone will know that I am the LORD.”

Be Blessed!

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Ezekiel Chapter 36 Verses 1-38 A Powerful Message!!!! Read ON…………..

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1 Let love be your highest goal, but also desire the special abilities the Spirit gives, especially the gift of prophecy. 2 For if your gift is the ability to speak in tongues, you will be talking to God but not to people, since they won’t be able to understand you. You will be speaking by the power of the Spirit, but it will all be mysterious.

3 But one who prophesies is helping others grow in the Lord, encouraging and comforting them. 4 A person who speaks in tongues is strengthened personally in the Lord, but one who speaks a word of prophecy strengthens the entire church.

5 I wish you all had the gift of speaking in tongues, but even more I wish you were all able to prophesy. For prophecy is a greater and more useful gift than speaking in tongues, unless someone interprets what you are saying so that the whole church can get some good out of it.

6 Dear brothers and sisters, if I should come to you talking in an unknown language, how would that help you? But if I bring you some revelation or some special knowledge or some prophecy or some teaching – that is what will help you. 7 Even musical instruments like the flute or the harp, though they are lifeless, are examples of the need for speaking in plain language. For no one will recognize the melody unless the notes are played clearly.

8 And if the bugler doesn’t sound a clear call, how will the soldiers know they are being called to battle? 9 And it’s the same for you. If you talk to people in a language they don’t understand, how will they know what you mean? You might as well be talking to an empty room. 10 There are so many different languages in the world, and all are excellent for those who understand them,

11 but to me they mean nothing. I will not understand people who speak those languages, and they will not understand me. 12 Since you are so eager to have spiritual gifts, ask God for those that will be of real help to the whole church. 13 So anyone who has the gift of speaking in tongues should pray also for the gift of interpretation in order to tell people plainly what has been said. 14 For if I pray in tongues, my spirit is praying, but I don’t understand what I am saying.

15 Well then, what shall I do? I will do both. I will pray in the spirit, and I will pray in words I understand. I will sing in the spirit, and I will sing in words I understand. 16 For if you praise God only in the spirit, how can those who don’t understand you praise God along with you? How can they join you in giving thanks when they don’t understand what you are saying?

17 You will be giving thanks very nicely, no doubt, but it doesn’t help the other people present. 18 I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. 19 But in a church meeting I would much rather speak five understandable words that will help others than ten thousand words in an unknown language. 20 Dear brothers and sisters, don’t be childish in your understanding of these things. Be innocent as babies when it comes to evil, but be mature and wise in understanding matters of this kind.

21 It is written in the Scriptures, “I will speak to my own people through unknown languages and through the lips of foreigners. But even then, they will not listen to me,” says the Lord. 22 So you see that speaking in tongues is a sign, not for believers, but for unbelievers; prophecy, however, is for the benefit of believers, not unbelievers.

23 Even so, if unbelievers or people who don’t understand these things come into your meeting and hear everyone talking in an unknown language, they will think you are crazy. 24 But if all of you are prophesying, and unbelievers or people who don’t understand these things come into your meeting, they will be convicted of sin, and they will be condemned by what you say. 25 As they listen, their secret thoughts will be laid bare, and they will fall down on their knees and worship God, declaring, “God is really here among you.”

Be Blessed!

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1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 14 V 1-25 THE GIFTS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT-SPIRITUAL GIFTS OF TONGUES AND PROPHECY

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I AM SO GRATEFUL OF HER PRAYERS AND HER ABILITY TO COMFORT THOSE AROUND HER. SHE TRULY IS A TREASURED GIFT FROM ABOVE. THESE ARE SOME WORDS SHE RECIEVED FROM THE LORD

“I speak. My Voice thunders. Yes, heaven and earth shake at the sound of My Voice. But you, be not moved. Stand. Stand firm. Stand still and see My glory.
Is there anything too hard for me? Trust. Trust and obey. You will see My glory. You will see My goodness. I have spoken it. I will perform it. It shall come to pass.
Who can overthrow My throne? Who can disannul My Word? Be at peace and rest. Enter faith’s rest. You have done your part – now trust Me to perform My Word. It is eternal.
It cannot lie. It cannot fail.
It cannot return void.”

#1
“Communion is not just an act – it is a state of being. When I said I stand at the door and knock, if any man open I will come in and sup with him, I was not speaking of merely having a meal with him, but becoming a meal for him. You feast on Me daily – I have become your very sustenance – your food, your drink. In doing so, you have become a meal for Me; a meal, a resting place – My sanctuary.”

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#2
I had read that the life of a Christian is nothing less than holy desire. The Lord spoke to me “I say, the life of a good Christian is nothing more than holy desire.”
What He was saying is that our life is defined by nothing else than the degree of our holy desire for Him.

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#3
The Word says that the end times will be as in the days of Noah:
The Lord spoke:
“Noah was a righteous man, a faithful man, a holy man. Noah’s heart was mine. If this were your day, could I trust and choose you as I did Noah?
Come into the ark of my cross with your loved ones. Stay there – abide there – not for 40 days, but forever. Forever I say, the cross will be enough – for protection, for safety, for deliverance, for healing, for all you and your loved ones need.
Live I say in the shadow of the cross.
Live at the cross
Live by the cross
Live for the cross
Enbrace the cross. Embrace the lifestyle that the cross demands. Die, that you might live. Die, that others might live.
Live, I say at the cross daily. Start and end your day at the cross. Live throughout the day at the cross.
The crucified life is the only way to the resurrected life. It was for Me; it is for you; so it is for your loved ones.”

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“For the joy that was set before Me I endured the cross, despising the shame. It was joy that kept Noah through all the persecution and shame. It was the joy of knowing Me and fellowshipping with Me that kept Noah. So, too, knowing and fellowshipping with Me shall keep you in these end days through all.”

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PROPHECY: A WORD FROM THE LORD FROM ANDREA

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We are all called to light up the darkness! Meaning going into all the nations to speak the Gospel of the Good News of Jesus Christ. He died one the cross to give us freedom and a way to connect to our Father in Heaven. He carried the burden for us all.

As we begin to know Him and His ways we find that the Word of God is our guide, our tool, to give us direction…And understanding on how to live our lives but most importantly how to live for God! Helping others grow…Helping in counsel…Helping them to see and get set free!

But God wants to do something more…He wants to bless us..Why?

For several reasons:

1. God wants to build the Church.

2. God wants to reach out to the lost.

3. God wants to reach people all over the Globe!

Well what does that have to do with Work? Wisdom? Providing?

Simple, God wants you to prosper so that you can help grow the church in order to help others. Let’s face it you can not give what you do not have. Credit Cards as a way to tithe?? That is not even an option but many do. That is not even your money so Why do people give away what they do not have? Let’s take it one step further…Even though this is wrong it is fact. This world is run by greed…people are not going to listen to someone who is broke…living in poverty…not taking care of their family’s….being lazy…not working…Although they might have good insight people still will turn them away! Not right but it happens all the time.

Same as someone not taking care of themselves, How are they going to be able to help someone else? It is way easier to preach to someone about their faults and tell them how to fix it. But what about yourself? Are you living what you preach to others?

In order to prosper in this life…you need to believe the impossible! You must know God and Know His ways and the only way to do that is by spending time with Him..I know I am learning this as I speak it out! You also need to sow into others lives…you need to give…that could mean many different ways…not just with your money….but with your talents your time your services…

And most of all you NEED TOO WORK HARD! God is a worker! He made the heavens and the earth and everything in it..That took WORK!!! God calls us to be wise as serpents and harmless as doves… Being wise means making the right decisions!

If your in debt…work! Work to get out. Don’t neglect your bills. That is being lazy and foolish. How do you expect God to bless you if you do not even work hard? Simply put HE WON”T

Be self-motivated! Be proactive…Do it…Don’t sit around and wait for someone to bail you out. Work Hard and Work Smart. And God will bless you. You will prosper. The bible even states that ” You not work…you not eat.” That is just about as bold as you can get! God does not prosper lazy lethargic winning people, who constantly complain. They are not walking wise. They are not being obedient to God ’s Word either. So let’s examine ourselves…Where do I stand? Where do you stand? Then chose this day to make the changes and strive to live prosperous!

Be Blessed!

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What Does God Say About Work? Providing? Wisdom?

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This is the complete testimony of the state I was living in and how God changed me in one day. When you read it, you will know more about my mistakes that anyone does at this time. I owned my home drove a nice new car and was raising a son after a bad divorce to his abusive father several years earlier. Men had hurt me a lot in my life and I thought I was doing pretty good on my own. But I was making mistakes left and right and looking death in it’s face. Here is my story.

Ya know how I got the holy ghost? I didn’t know there was one! I never heard people talk about it. I never really could conceive that God was as real as a close friend. I never could see him outside the bible. It’s like OK there is a God, He wrote the word to help us and guide us to him and tell us how to live. One day when I die I will meet him if I am saved. Then I stressed about how to know if I am saved. For years I got saved again and again and even baptized a couple times in the baptist church. But I kept sinning and I knew I was messing up. Also, reading the bible was so hard. BORING! I had no idea the new testament first 4 books was the same story told by 4 authors.

I read them wanting to know God personally and better and I thought to myself how repetitive the bible was. When I would read in the old testament I would get bored and confused about how strict God is and the law. But I promised myself I would read at least one verse a day every day until I got to know God better. So for a year I read at least one and usually a bunch of verses or chapters a day and also went to different churches once a week on Sunday. I didn’t know people went 2 and 3 times a week.

Even though in that year I was trying to find God and I had “accepted Jesus into my heart”, I was messing my life up. I had been in bad relationships even fell for a married co-worker/friend who was separated, but played between us both. At least he is who told me I could have a personal relationship with Jesus in a way I never had. But after finally telling him to stop coming around and let me get on with my life, I joined a chat line where you can meet people on the phone.

I was even approached by a female co-worker who wanted to date me and just showed up at my home. Funny how the devil sends trouble your way just when he knows you are weak and tired of being hurt. I did go out with her because I had been so betrayed by lying men. I even gave her a bible and talked to her about getting saved not realizing what a mess my life was and how far from the truth I was.

So on this chat line I met JimJohn. For a date he came to my home and did work on my roof and I fixed him dinner. The next day I met Gary. Both were simple dates, but Gary pressed me to date him and no one else. I called JimJohn to say I chose to date Gary and would not have a second date with him. He called me back later that evening and was very upset and wanted a second chance.

He was pretty upset that I would make my decision so swiftly and not give him a chance to show me his home and take me out. He was so upset about it and I had a date planned with Gary the next day. I was living 45 min. away and since the other man I was meeting the next day in his area, I reluctantly agreed to go ahead that night (what was I thinking?) and drive to the town JimJohn lived in to give him one last minute chance to change my mind. Here it was 10 pm and I drove there to meet him at a truck stop so he could lead me to his home. I didn’t even think for a minute about my safety.

It was May 20, 1996 and there was some flooding on 136 as I drove there and I felt the presence of God was with me. It was weird how I knew it, but it seemed a flash of light caught my eye in a weird way a few times and it drew me to see where the road flooded out and kinda got me to pay attention well. So I get the the station and he was there standing by a pay phone. (must have thought I stood him up) I went and said hi and he embraced me and I felt that he was sweaty and nervous. When he grabbed my hand he squeezed too hard, but I followed him to his home which was a few miles away and down some country roads to a dead end road.

As I pulled up at his home at the end of the road, the wind was blowing the curtains through his front windows. How strange I thought because that meant there were no screens. A large dog met us and I became afraid then at the site of this backwoods home on a dead end road. It seemed he and I were alone in the world. If he meant to harm me no one would hear my screams.

He walked me into the home and my countenance fell even more. There were June bugs flying around in there because of the windows being open and all over the walls hung all these weird antique devices that were used such as vice grips, knives with handles made out of deer antlers or other bones, and tools that maybe were used to work leather and punch holes in things.

I immediately thought of torture devices of a sexual sadist. I felt such a heaviness. JimJohn sat me on the couch across from the door and he grabbed my hand and held it tight. It hurt. He wouldn’t let go and he appeared desperate. I had not seen this in him when he fixed my roof and had dinner I made. Why had I chose to come here? I had never been so careless before.

He said he was so disappointed I had not given him the chance and he liked me so much and wanted to spend his life with me. He thought I was so beautuful and he wanted me so bad. It was as if I was the only one for him, the dream come true that about slipped away. He then talked of how lonely he was and had no one, no friends, no close family, his dad just died and they had been so close, he just lost his job that day, and he was considering suicide. OMG! The desperation and sense of doom was building in the room.

The whole time I listened I knew I was in a dangerous situation and I could feel God with me. I started talking about God and asking if he had a bible. He said his sister had given him one, but he really never knew God or read it. He never let go of me the whole time I was there which was about 2 hours. I focused on how God loves him and will help him etc. Looking around, I saw his bedroom right off the living room.

You couldn’t walk in the door but had to crawl across an unmade dirty looking bed because the room was the size of a large closet or better yet the size of the bed. I wasn’t used to such a home. I had thought when I agreed to go there that since I had to meet Gary at 6:30 am, I might stay on the couch if I felt comfortable and if not I would just sleep in my car where I was going to meet him. I wasn’t staying there for sure! That is if I could get out of there alive! Yes it seemed that dire to me.

I could see in the kitchen those same “torture devices” mounted on the wall along with some animal heads and feet. I saw a vice grip mounted on a cabinet door over the sink. I asked where the bathroom was so I could get away from him and think. He directed meto the room behind the couch. I opened the door went in and closed it. I was in horror the moment I did. I saw an open doorway across from the toilet with a room with a DIRT FLOOR.

The kitchen was off it to the left and he could have walked in there and saw me. Why on earth is anyone living this way I wondered? What is going on here? Then I saw a cockroach in the tub. I cried, but kept myself together. I was afraid right then that I would be tortured and buried in the dirt floor. I was praying to God to save me and get me out of there alive. I was asking him what to say and what to do. I really believe that if God had not been with me, I would be dead and I worry to this day about that man.

I thought that the only way I could make it out of there alive was to make him think I liked him. I mean this man was sweating bad and squeezing my hand so hard and so desperately. I decided to try and let him know I was choosing him and not Gary and I was gonna ask him to take me to breakfast to get us out of there.

I came out of the bathroom and started in with my plan. He again grabbed me tight and sat right by me. He also hugged me. I talked more about Jesus and told him not to even think of suicide because he was such a great guy and I wanted a chance to date him. I told him I felt so lucky that I came to meet him and that I wasn’t going to go meet Gary now. I acted like I could see us in his home and that moving in together right away sounded great. And then I asked him to take me to breakfast to talk more about our future.

And I assured him I would come back with him and spend the day with him. He agreed and I was so thankful, but didn’t feel safe yet. I felt he may be onto me and may try and kill me right then. I even felt scared he may sick his dog on me if he sensed I was trying to run. There was definately a weird tension and questioning in his mind. We walked to the door and toward our vehicles and I said I would follow him.

He questioned me about it and I told him I wanted to get some more gas in my car. OMG he said OK and he led me out of that hell hole. I went to the truck stop where we met and I did eat with him because I felt safe enough then to tell him over the meal that I would not date him and that this was it for us. He was very upset, but in a public place could not do anything about it. I encouraged him to seek Jesus.

This testimony does not end there. I drove to where I was to meet Gary. He drove a tri-axle gravel truck. What a second date, but I had agreed to ride with him while he worked. (Good grief I know!) Without going into all the details of the rest of my day, I still knew God was with me. I could feel it. And something very odd happened.

There was a cassette tape on the dash board and while we were driving with the windows open, suddenly the tape inside it started floating in the air and came right between us at eye level as we sat in the seat. Wow we thought that was weird how the wind must have gotten the wheels to spin and loose the tape. I picked up a pencil and tried to wind it back up but couldn’t and just gave up on it and put it down.

At the end of the day several hours later I was so beat having no sleep the night before. I drove home in my 1996 Dodge Avenger with my windows down. As I drove on interstate 74 W, suddenly the tape from a cassette was again right beside my eyes. I was in shock! I turned to see and sure enough the tape was lying in my back seat and the wind had unraveled it’s tape. What? Twice in one day? OK God what is up?!

Just for the record it never happened before or since even with one tape for me, let alone two separate tapes in two vehicles on the same day. Right?! I grabbed the tape and threw it in my purse and thanked God for saving me from the awful night and being with me. I knew this was God’s way of saying he was with me.

I got home threw the purse on the chair and was ready to go to bed but the phone rang. It was JimJohn he was crying, yelling, threatening to come there upset, devastated. I told him forget about me we were nothing alike. I told him I would never date anyone like him and was not interested and never wanted him to call again. He had left me several messages too and continued calling. I was so scared he would show up. What had I gotten into.

I called Keith the married man who had lied to me to date me and told him what was happening and how scared I was. Keith agreed to stop by and check on me on his way to work the graveyard shift. He came and comforted me, and offered to even call in if I wanted him to stay. I made it clear there was no way we would ever date again and said I was ok…

I just needed him as a friend but was adamant to break away from him as I felt he was staying around me to keep me from meeting anyone. He left after I said I was OK and I went to bed. Though Keith had betrayed me and his wife, I knew he cared about us both. He also was the one who told me I could have a relationship with Jesus whereby Jesus would be closer and more personal with me that a brother. I had been wanting that so bad once I heard that.

I awoke at 5:30 am May 21, 1996 so scared because I had had a bad dream. I had had a few end time type dreams that I felt God was trying to show me something. I called Keith at work crying and said I had this horrible dream and I was scared. He agreed to come by after he got off at 7 am. I hung up and went to the living room to sit on my couch and write out my dream. I had gotten in that habit recently. As I wrote the dream God began interpreting it to me as well. He used words that I wrote that I had never used before like “imp” “he knew not God” “the evil one” “sect”. After he told me the meaning of the dream I found myself on my knees with my arms raised praising him. I had never ever done that kind of thing as a Baptist. God was directing me bodily

God began telling me His son Jesus died on a cross to pay the price for my sins (I already knew this and had invited him in my heart) he told me I had done my will long enough and it was time I did his. Those were his exact words on the subject. I hadn’t thought I was doing such a bad job yet look where I almost ended up that weekend. God told me he had been with me this weekend and kept me safe and used me.

Then, God gave me a day vision. He allowed me to see myself on my knees with my arms raised praising him only I wasn’t myself exactly. I was covered in a red loose long garment like a sheet almost. I thought it looked like Casper the ghost only red not white. It covered me wholly except I saw eye holes and a mouth hole, but knew I was neither female or male in this image. He explained to me that this was Jesus protective blood covering me that he had told me about in my dream. My protection from the enemy.

I want to add that it’s not just one drop of blood when you are saved. You are covered in Jesus blood like a red garment, only God sees us (He told me this too) as white as snow because he looks at us through this blood and doesn’t see our sin when we repent and are saved.

Then, the most amazing thing happened to me. Suddenly a wind came from above me and entered me from above and whirled down through me and into my into my gut. I felt it’s power and felt it filling and washing through me. I was overwhelmed. I was overjoyed. I felt such a presence of God’s love. I continued praising him speaking so fast I could barely make sense of anything I said.

Likely this was tongues, but I didn’t know about tongues or being baptized in His spirit so I didn’t know what to call it. I certainly was changed and still feeling the spirit all over me even for 3 days after. But that day when Keith came, I was still talking really fast and excitedly. He said “Linda? What’s going on?” I said to him “That was the old Linda this is the new”. I had a rebirth experience for sure and I knew I was a new creature in Him. Later that day I went to the tape I had thrown in the chair and wound it up.

I played it right where it was crinkled from being unwound. It was a tape I had made and on one side right there was the song Stairway to Heaven. On the other side right there was a song by Michael W. Smith or Ray Boltz (I gotta look at it again) about the Blood of Jesus. God also led me to go to church that next Wed and testify. I had never been on a Wed. and didn’t know what kind of service it was.

It turned out that they really weren’t testifying but God was so strong on me that I cried some though it and at the end, I stood to ask if I could say what happened. I basically just said that I had an experience with God and knew that I was saved now and a new creature in Christ. They were all happy for me, but I didn’t feel the burden of telling leave me so I waited around and followed the Pastor to his office to be more specific about getting a dream, interpretation, feeling God, hearing God and knowimg He changed me.

This preacher at Calvery Babtist told me the devil gives us dreams and God doesn’t do that today. (!) He warned me that I needed to stick to the bible and what it says in there. (by the way the bible supports my experiences all of them) I left there feeling so let down. I started to question what God had done. God was so good though that he even caused me to watch the local religious channel out of South Bend IN. channel 40 and back to back two preachers came on talking about dreams and visions and telling me not to let the devil steal what God has given me. Kenneth Hagin was one and I bought the book “I Believe in Visions” that he taught out of.

Then the Lord directed me supernaturally to the next church which was non-denominational. I called before my first visit there to testify and find out if they would reject me. Instead of rejecting me they taught me what happened and when I came, they gave me the book “The Blood and the Glory” by Billy Brim to explain the power in the blood of Jesus.

So many more exciting things have happened in my walk and I truly believe that though I had asked Jesus in my heart many times before, that this day was the day of my salvation. And I believe with all my heart that those who earnestly seek this kind of relationship with God will find favor with him and will find it.

I believe you must find it to truly be saved. Not everyone will have the same dreams, visions or feel the same wind or have the same experience, but I believe you will know that you have been adopted and accepted by God when this does happen. I believe you will speak in tongues even if a moment and you will know the holy ghost has come to live inside you.

My dream that God interpreted was a description of the dire state of my life and the war that the enemy was fighting for my soul. I’ve added it for you below. I have had many dreams, words, and miracles from God and I am no one special as you can see by how I was living my life. But now I am changed. Thank you Jesus.
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Linda

The Saving Blood of Jesus Dream

During a period of reading the bible for a year trying to get closer to God, a friend told me I could have a relationship with Jesus. He said it would be like talking to a friend as we were.
I was trying to get close to God, but my life was full of sin even though I accepted Christ. One weekend, I had been all the wrong places but felt God with me. He gave me signs that He was there. Then I woke at 5:30 am on May 21, 1996. Another end time dream. I was so scared and knew I had to write it down to understand it. I began writing and as I did, God began interpreting the dream. He showed me I was in my parent’s home and there was this girl at my feet. She was turning gray and dying. I was trying to get her to come with me to ‘our people’ the good sect. She was too afraid to leave there. She was afraid of him.

Then a voice came from the other room. Very scary voice that said “where do you think you are going? You are mine!” God interpreted that was the evil one. I told this girl we had to go! I had to pull her and drag her and on our way out I knew we needed to grab some clothes as we were only in shorts and halter tops. I grabbed some sweats and God interpreted this was our protective clothing. God told me to notice I only grabbed one outfit. He said the girl was me! He then said the protective clothing was the BLOOD of Jesus.

Then I fell to my knees and raised my arms to praise Him. I had never done that before. God spoke to me that I had done my will long enough and it was time to do his. I was His and His son died for my sins to give me this protective blood that saves me and protects me from the evil one. He told me I am a new creature in Christ. He then gave me a day vision of the blood of Jesus covering me.

Exodus 12:13 and the blood shall be for you to a token upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

Be Blessed!

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Linda’s Personal Testimony!

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3 I think of God, and I moan, overwhelmed with longing for his help. 4 You don’t let me sleep. I am too distressed even to pray! 5 I think of the good old days, long since ended, 6 when my nights were filled with joyful songs. I search my soul and think about the difference now. 7 Has the Lord rejected me forever? Will he never again show me favor?

8 Is his unfailing love gone forever? Have his promises permanently failed? 9 Has God forgotten to be kind? Has he slammed the door on his compassion? 10 And I said, “This is my fate, that the blessings of the Most High have changed to hatred.”

11 I recall all you have done, O LORD; I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago. 12 They are constantly in my thoughts. I cannot stop thinking about them. 13 O God, your ways are holy. Is there any god as mighty as you?

14 You are the God of miracles and wonders! You demonstrate your awesome power among the nations. 15 You have redeemed your people by your strength, the descendants of Jacob and of Joseph by your might. 16 When the Red Sea saw you, O God, its waters looked and trembled! The sea quaked to its very depths.

17 The clouds poured down their rain; the thunder rolled and crackled in the sky. Your arrows of lightning flashed. 18 Your thunder roared from the whirlwind; the lightning lit up the world! The earth trembled and shook. 19 Your road led through the sea, your pathway through the mighty waters – a pathway no one knew was there! 20 You led your people along that road like a flock of sheep, with Moses and Aaron as their shepherds.

Be Blessed!

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Psalm 77

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“I DID NOT PULL YOU OUT OF THE FIRE SO YOUR TESTIMONY COULD BE HIDDEN” “I PULLED YOU OUT OF THE FIRE SO THAT OTHERS COULD SEE MY GLORY!” “DO NOT TAKE YOUR EYES OFF ME.” “SATAN WILL TRY TO HINDER YOU DO NOT BE DECEIVED” “WHEN MY HAND MOVES KNOW ONE WILL BE ABLE TO STOP IT BUT THEY WILL TRY TO HINDER IT.” “YET THEIR BEST EFFORTS WILL FAIL AGAINST ME.” “WHEN YOU HEAR MY VOICE, LISTEN TO ME, DO NOT RELY ON YOUR FEELINGS OR YOU WILL FALL PREY TO THE EVIL ONE.”

I HAVE PLANS FOR YOU. BUT YOU MUST OBEY ME. I WILL NEVER LEAVE YOU, OR FORSAKE YOU. YOU ARE MY BELOVED. MY DAUGHTER. SO MANY OF MY CHILDREN ARE IN TORMENT, THIS SHOULD NOT BE SO. FOR THEY HAVE TAKEN THEIR EYES OFF ME AND ALLOW THE ENEMY TO BURDEN THEIR SOULS. I AM GRIEVED DEEPLY. I AM FAITHFUL TO A THOUSAND GENERATIONS. MY WORD WILL NOT RETURN TO ME VOID. WHEN I SEND IT OUT I SEND IT FOR PURPOSE NOT FOR SHOW.

DO YOU NOT KNOW WHO I AM? DO YOU NOT SEE THE MIRACLES I HAVE DONE? I WILL PROTECT MY PEOPLE. YOU MUST HAVE YOUR EYES FIXED ON ME. ON WHO I AM! I LOVE YOU WITH A PERFECT LOVE. OH HOW I LONG FOR MY CHILDREN TO REACH FOR MY HEART FOR IF THEY ONLY KNEW MY LOVE FOR THEM THEY WOULD RUN TO ME INSTEAD OF AWAY FROM ME. I AM SADDENED FOR THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE EVEN MY OWN PEOPLE HAVE OF ME. I WANT PEOPLE TO SEARCH FOR ME WITH THEIR WHOLE HEART.

IT BRINGS ME GREAT JOY TO SEE JUST ONE PERSON GIVE THEIR HEART TO ME. HEAVEN REJOICES WITH SINGING. BELLS RINGING. SAINTS DANCING. DO YOU SEE NOW MY GREAT LOVE? PLEASE COME VISIT ME…..SPEND TIME WITH ME…..IT BRINGS ME GREAT JOY!

This prophecy was given to Tina Bradley

Be Blessed!

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A WORD FROM THE LORD….PROPHECY….I RECEIVED THIS GLORY BE TO GOD!

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5 Who is Apollos, and who is Paul, that we should be the cause of such quarrels? Why, we’re only servants. Through us God caused you to believe. Each of us did the work the Lord gave us. 6 My job was to plant the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God, not we, who made it grow. 7 The ones who do the planting or watering aren’t important, but God is important because he is the one who makes the seed grow. 8 The one who plants and the one who waters work as a team with the same purpose. Yet they will be rewarded individually, according to their own hard work.9 We work together as partners who belong to God. You are God’s field, God’s building – not ours. 10 Because of God’s special favor to me, I have laid the foundation like an expert builder. Now others are building on it. But whoever is building on this foundation must be very careful.

11 For no one can lay any other foundation than the one we already have – Jesus Christ. 12 Now anyone who builds on that foundation may use gold, silver, jewels, wood, hay, or straw. 13 But there is going to come a time of testing at the judgment day to see what kind of work each builder has done. Everyone’s work will be put through the fire to see whether or not it keeps its value. 14 If the work survives the fire, that builder will receive a reward. 15 But if the work is burned up, the builder will suffer great loss. The builders themselves will be saved, but like someone escaping through a wall of flames.

16 Don’t you realize that all of you together are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God lives in you? 17 God will bring ruin upon anyone who ruins this temple. For God’s temple is holy, and you Christians are that temple.

18 Stop fooling yourselves. If you think you are wise by this world’s standards, you will have to become a fool so you can become wise by God’s standards. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness to God. As the Scriptures say, “God catches those who think they are wise in their own cleverness.” 20 And again, “The Lord knows the thoughts of the wise, that they are worthless.”

21 So don’t take pride in following a particular leader. Everything belongs to you: 22 Paul and Apollos and Peter ; the whole world and life and death; the present and the future. Everything belongs to you, 23 and you belong to Christ, and Christ belongs to God.

Be Blessed!

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1 Corinthians Chapter 3 New Living Translation

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4 But God is so rich in mercy, and he loved us so very much, 5 that even while we were dead because of our sins, he gave us life when he raised Christ from the dead. (It is only by God’s special favor that you have been saved!) 6 For he raised us from the dead along with Christ, and we are seated with him in the heavenly realms – all because we are one with Christ Jesus. 7 And so God can always point to us as examples of the incredible wealth of his favor and kindness toward us, as shown in all he has done for us through Christ Jesus. 8 God saved you by his special favor when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. 9 Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. 10 For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so that we can do the good things he planned for us long ago.

11 Don’t forget that you Gentiles used to be outsiders by birth. You were called “the uncircumcised ones” by the Jews, who were proud of their circumcision, even though it affected only their bodies and not their hearts. 12 In those days you were living apart from Christ. You were excluded from God’s people, Israel, and you did not know the promises God had made to them. You lived in this world without God and without hope. 13 But now you belong to Christ Jesus. Though you once were far away from God, now you have been brought near to him because of the blood of Christ.

14 For Christ himself has made peace between us Jews and you Gentiles by making us all one people. He has broken down the wall of hostility that used to separate us. 15 By his death he ended the whole system of Jewish law that excluded the Gentiles. His purpose was to make peace between Jews and Gentiles by creating in himself one new person from the two groups. 16 Together as one body, Christ reconciled both groups to God by means of his death, and our hostility toward each other was put to death. 17 He has brought this Good News of peace to you Gentiles who were far away from him, and to us Jews who were near. 18 Now all of us, both Jews and Gentiles, may come to the Father through the same Holy Spirit because of what Christ has done for us. 19 So now you Gentiles are no longer strangers and foreigners. You are citizens along with all of God’s holy people. You are members of God’s family. 20 We are his house, built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets. And the cornerstone is Christ Jesus himself. 21 We who believe are carefully joined together, becoming a holy temple for the Lord. 22 Through him you Gentiles are also joined together as part of this dwelling where God lives by his Spirit.

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Ephesians 2: 1-22

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Remember: God knows us better than we know ourselves and He and only He knows the His perfect will for each one of us. If you are experiencing a sorta tug at your heart today or if you are flooded with emotions and confused perhaps the Lord put this on my heart to post just for you?

It is God’s will for all to come to him and the only way to God is through Jesus Christ. There is no other form, way, religion, rituals…worshiping idols…ect…Guys it’s not about the “forms” or “rituals” it is through having a personal relationship with Jesus Christ that gives us access to God!

If you have read my other blogs and seen what has occurred with others you will see the leadings of the Holy Spirit working In and Through me to work with others…..It is not I it is Jesus living in and through me through the work of the Holy Spirit who guides and directs my every move. God bless each and every one of you who read His Word today.

1 In the beginning the Word already existed. He was with God, and he was God. 2 He was in the beginning with God. 3 He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn’t make. 4 Life itself was in him, and this life gives light to everyone.

5 The light shines through the darkness, and the darkness can never extinguish it. 6 God sent John the Baptist 7 to tell everyone about the light so that everyone might believe because of his testimony. 8 John himself was not the light; he was only a witness to the light. 9 The one who is the true light, who gives light to everyone, was going to come into the world. 10 But although the world was made through him, the world didn’t recognize him when he came. 11 Even in his own land and among his own people, he was not accepted.

12 But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. 13 They are reborn! This is not a physical birth resulting from human passion or plan – this rebirth comes from God. 14 So the Word became human and lived here on earth among us. He was full of unfailing love and faithfulness. And we have seen his glory, the glory of the only Son of the Father.

15 John pointed him out to the people. He shouted to the crowds, “This is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Someone is coming who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before I did.’” 16 We have all benefited from the rich blessings he brought to us – one gracious blessing after another. 17 For the law was given through Moses; God’s unfailing love and faithfulness came through Jesus Christ. 18 No one has ever seen God. But his only Son, who is himself God, is near to the Father’s heart; he has told us about him.

19 This was the testimony of John when the Jewish leaders sent priests and Temple assistants from Jerusalem to ask John whether he claimed to be the Messiah. 20 He flatly denied it. “I am not the Messiah,” he said. 21 “Well then, who are you?” they asked. “Are you Elijah?”"No,” he replied.”Are you the Prophet?” “No.” 22 “Then who are you? Tell us, so we can give an answer to those who sent us. What do you have to say about yourself?” 23 John replied in the words of Isaiah: “I am a voice shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare a straight pathway for the Lord’s coming!’”

24 Then those who were sent by the Pharisees 25 asked him, “If you aren’t the Messiah or Elijah or the Prophet, what right do you have to baptize?” 26 John told them, “I baptize with water, but right here in the crowd is someone you do not know, 27 who will soon begin his ministry. I am not even worthy to be his slave. ” 28 This incident took place at Bethany, a village east of the Jordan River, where John was baptizing.

29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! There is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world! 30 He is the one I was talking about when I said, ‘Soon a man is coming who is far greater than I am, for he existed long before I did.’ 31 I didn’t know he was the one, but I have been baptizing with water in order to point him out to Israel.”

32 Then John said, “I saw the Holy Spirit descending like a dove from heaven and resting upon him. 33 I didn’t know he was the one, but when God sent me to baptize with water, he told me, ‘When you see the Holy Spirit descending and resting upon someone, he is the one you are looking for. He is the one who baptizes with the Holy Spirit.’ 34 I saw this happen to Jesus, so I testify that he is the Son of God.” 35 The following day, John was again standing with two of his disciples. 36 As Jesus walked by, John looked at him and then declared, “Look! There is the Lamb of God!”

37 Then John’s two disciples turned and followed Jesus. 38 Jesus looked around and saw them following. “What do you want?” he asked them. They replied, “Rabbi” (which means Teacher), “where are you staying?” 39 “Come and see,” he said. It was about four o’clock in the afternoon when they went with him to the place, and they stayed there the rest of the day. 40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of these men who had heard what John said and then followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother, Simon, and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (which means the Christ). 42 Then Andrew brought Simon to meet Jesus. Looking intently at Simon, Jesus said, “You are Simon, the son of John – but you will be called Cephas” (which means Peter).

43 The next day Jesus decided to go to Galilee. He found Philip and said to him, “Come, be my disciple.” 44 Philip was from Bethsaida, Andrew and Peter’s hometown. 45 Philip went off to look for Nathanael and told him, “We have found the very person Moses and the prophets wrote about! His name is Jesus, the son of Joseph from Nazareth.” 46 “Nazareth!” exclaimed Nathanael. “Can anything good come from there?” “Just come and see for yourself,” Philip said.

47 As they approached, Jesus said, “Here comes an honest man – a true son of Israel.” 48 “How do you know about me?” Nathanael asked.And Jesus replied, “I could see you under the fig tree before Philip found you.” 49 Nathanael replied, “Teacher, you are the Son of God – the King of Israel!” 50 Jesus asked him, “Do you believe all this just because I told you I had seen you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this.” 51 Then he said, “The truth is, you will all see heaven open and the angels of God going up and down upon the Son of Man, the one who is the stairway between heaven and earth.”

For those of you who do not understand this…it means that when you become saved….Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to dwell in you…and that is why I say I am led by the spirit of God because he dwell within me.

Be Blessed!

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John 1 1-51 God Became A Human…

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