PRAYING FOR YOUR LOVED ONES

I was watching a 10 year old rerun of praise the Lord last night and a woman gave a testimony of a revelation word of God on praying your family into the kingdom. Her husband did not want to be with her any more and he divorced her. She was devastated. In time she joined a women's prayer group who were in like circumstances. They taught her how to pray for her husband. They asked her if she wanted him back and she said yes. They taught her to start putting her husband's name into the scriptures and calling what was not as if it was.....for instance.....Psalms 1:1 blessed is Jake who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But Jake's delight is in the law of the Lord and he meditates on it day and night. Wow! Three years later that man returned and they were remarried and now have a ministry with divorced Christians and non-Christians alike. That is a powerful word. The word of God never returns void. I have known people who have prayed for family members for years with not many results but I feel in my spirit this will bring results. I have family members I will pray this prayer for. If this prayer is for you the spirit will bear witness with your spirit. Let me hear your testimony of victory when it comes, for beloved it will come. God bless, Linda

SILVER AND GOLD

What price can be put on healing, be-loved? Healing is a priceless gift as is salvation and the baptism of the Holy Spirit. There is a story in the 3rd chapter of Acts about a man lame from birth. Every day he was layed at the gate beautiful to ask alms of those who entered the temple. This was his place of business, his job to beg for daily wages. Jesus had passed by him many times and never offered to heal him, yet after the Holy Spirit came upon Peter and John they were going to the temple at the hour of prayer and the lame man begged alms of them. I will paraphrase. Listen up fellow, get you eyes and mind off your job. Stop begging for a minute and look on us. We don't have any money for you, but we have something worth far more. We will give you what we have and it will change your life forever. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk. Peter reached down his hand and lifted the man to his feet in faith never doubting and the man's ankle bones received strength and he not only rose up and walked as he was commanded but rose up leaping and walking and went with them into the temple praising God. That was probably the first time the man had ever attended a prayer service in the temple and he went leaping and walking. A restored healed man who could now work and never again beg for his daily bread. Notice how God always over answers prayer? Saints of God, silver and gold have I none but such as I have I give to you in the name of Jesus of Nazareth rise up and be healed and delivered from the bondage of illness in our body receive the healing Jesus and go leaping and walking and praising into the house of prayer God bless, Linda.

BLESSES AMONG WOMEN

BLESSED AMONG WOMEN

Blessed among women,
Yes that is me,
Walking in God's favor,
Toward my destiny.

Healed and saved,
And divinely loved,
Looking forward to eternity,
In heaven above.

Wrapped in His grace,
Protected from the enemy,
Lost in His love,
None can intimidate me.

He is the Sonshine,
The rainbow in my life,
He makes my burdens easy,
And takes away the strife.

His handmaiden is my name,
He dwells within my heart,
His spirit brings me joy,
Never to depart.

He's closer than a brother,
He will never leave or forsake me,
His blood paid the price,
For all eternity.

ALONE BUT NEVER LONELY

I have been a widow for over 10 years. Recently a friend asked me, don't you ever get lonely living in this big 2 story house alone. No, I softly replied,( ever notice how people strain to hear when you talk softly). Actually I live with three men, there is not time to be lonely. They raised their brows in shock as I whispered, the Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Then they laughed and shook their head. A Christian can live alone but lonely is not in the DNA. I am ever busy with my Father's business. There is to much word to hear to watch to read and then there is my job to distribute that word. No time to be lonely, only time to live in the blessing and favor of God. Alone yes, lonely never.

LIVING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ALMOST

If you are living in any percent of almost you are living in 100 per cent of failure. King Aggrippa said to Paul you have almost persuaded me to be a Christian. As the old saying goes, close only counts in horseshoes. If you almost caught the biggest fish in the pond, you 100 per cent did not catch it. If you almost won the award, you 100 per cent did not win it. If you almost sunk the basket, you 100 per cent did not make it. If you were almost saved you absolutely were not and unless something changes you are on your way to a devils hell. There are only two choices. No room for almosts. We need to live on the flip side of almost. Instead of I almost got saved, our cry needs to be I almost did not get saved meaning you absolutely 100 per cent did get save. Instead of I almost caught the big on, it should be I almost did not catch the big one. You can not almost make it to heaven be-loved. Don't fall into King Agrippa's trap of almost persuaded. Make a decision today to live on the flip side of almost. Amem

MARGARET AND THE TREE FROG

Yesterday awaking from my Sunday afternoon nap, I had been dreaming. I rarely remember my dreams but I remembered this one. I had been dreaming about Margaret, a little feisty 80 year old firecracker I was N.A. to for six years. She suffered from alzheimers. In the dream Margaret was sitting in my kitchen laughing and visiting with me. I sometimes brought Margaret to my house for lunch just to get her out and about. It seemed to be one of these times. Suddenly her daughter who lived clear across the country as Margaret often commented was there. Margaret threw her arms around her daughter and started laughing in surprise and delight to see her. Her daughter started singing her a song and Margaret joined in. The daughter called the brother and he came and joined the festivities. We had a grand lunch of cheeseburgers, potatoe salad and porkn'beans with twinkies for desert. Margaret always ate her desert first in case she ate too much food and would not have room for it. I sang to Margaret...here she comes, Miss America and she strutted across the floor with one hand on her hip and the other behind her head like a model laughing all the way. She was such a hoot. Then I awoke, I thought you never lose the ones you love. They always show up in a conversation or a memory or a dream. Even being gone so many years the joy of who they were lives on. I remember one hot summer day I went to Margaret's house wearing knee length shorts. Her favorite show was the price is right with Bob Barker. I think she liked the applause and laughter. She was sitting in her recliner and I was sitting in Putts. By the stone fireplace. All of a sudden a tree frog who must have got inside someway and was clinging to the fireplace flew off and splatted on my bare knee clinging to my skin with those balled feet. Simutaniously I screamed, knocked him across the floor with my hand and shot up out of the chair as if I was on fire. Margaret calmly asked me what in the world was the matter with me. As I told her how a tree frog had startled me we began to laugh so hard we almost wet ourselves. Did you kill it Margaret asked. I don't know let's find it. We found the poor little creature huddled in front of the basement door trying to be invisible. His heart was pumping so hard from the trauma we could see it beating. We rescued him and put him out in the grass. Margaret thought the story was so funny she went to the phone to call her son. By the time he answered she had forgotten what she called about. Margaret could only remember for 5 minutes but they were a great 5 minutes full of laughter and joy. Margaret was a hoot. I miss her, but I have the fun time memories. Hope you enjoyed the saga of Margaret and the tree frog. God bless, Linda

LET IT RAIN

LET IT RAIN

It rains on the just and the unjust,
The sun shines on them too,
But walking in God's favor,
Is a place designed for me and you.

God's grace means unmerited favor,
By faith a place we seek to be,
Learning of His promises,
And the liberty to be free.

No jail or circumstances,
Can hold you prisoner, my friend,
As long as His love surrounds you,
It is just a place you have been.

The enemy will try to put you in bondage,
As you make you're daily walk,
He is the father of all lies,
Don't listen to the way he talks.

Jesus holds the keys,
To death hell and the grave,
He defeated that boogy man on Calvary,
And the keys to man He gave.

So let us walk in victory,
Blessed assurrance so the song does say,
Slaying giants with His word,
As we hurry on our way.

FRUIT SALT AND LIGHT

FRUIT SALT AND LIGHT

We are the fruit of the earth,
It says so in His word,
We are the salt and light,
A voice that needs to be heard.

He is our salvation,
Our joy and our King,
The love of all ages,
The reason for everything.

To serve Him is to know Him,
To know Him is to give,
Love to all we encounter,
And declare to them He lives.

He is a God of action,
And faith moves Him there,
Creating amazing adventures,
As we go to Him in prayer.

He loves us so much,
He gave His only Son,
So we could be clean all over,
As if we had just begun.

The enemy would try to confuse us,
Laying guilt upon our heart,
But God does not condemn us,
But cheers us on to a brand new start.

God never restricts us,
We can grow as much as we like,
Gathering manna as each man desires,
So tell that lying devil to take a hike.

Bloom where you are planted,
Is what He wants us to do,
The reward is heaven with Him,
And it is reserved for me and you! AMEN

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WORLD

HAPPY BIRTHDAY WORLD

Happy birthday world
It is a brand new year,
A chance for new beginnings,
For you and me and those we hold so dear.

The trees are bare and stark,
Against a cloudless sky,
Snow scatters from the branches,
As a northern wind roars by.

The temperature is dropping,
There is snow here and there,
When you are retired,
You can stay inside and not go anywhere.

A pot of vegetable soup is bubbling,
And there is a nice hot cup of tea,
A sweat shirt over a flannel one,
And I am as warm as I can be.

I remember childhood winters,
Delivering papers and such,
Returning with frozen fingers and toes,
Kids wanted to play snow forts,
And I said no, thank you very much.

My idea of a good time,
When all the chores were done,
Was to cuddle up to the wood stove,
With a good book and think of summer sun.

In the bitter chill of winter,
The saying that impressed me most,
Was this too shall pass,
Kept my thoughts warm as morning toast.

I have endured many bitter winters,
And now I am getting old,
Wrapped in my blanky with my book,
I can sit here and write poems to be told.

Happy birthday world,
Thank you for a brand new year.
Shall we praise His glorious name,
Have another cup of tea and sound a joyful cheer!

KELALA IN HEBREW

THE HEBREW ALPHABET HAS A PICTURE FOR EACH CHARACTER. THE WORDS READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT. THIS IS THE HEBREW WORD FOR CURSE. THE FIRST LETTER SHOWS THE BACK OF THE HEAD, THE 2ND AND THIRD ARE THE SAME AND MEAN TEACHING OR LEARNING, THE LAST MEANS GRACE. SO THIS HEBEW WORD CURSE MEANS TURNING AWAY PERSISTANTLY FROM LEARNING GRACE. NOW THAT IS AN AMAZING DEFINATION IS IT NOT SAINTS? IN THE GREEK THE WORD CURSE IS KATARA WHICH MEANS TO SPEAK DOWN. THE WORD IN THE GREEK EULOGEIA MEANS BLESSING AND IT MEANS TO SPEAK WELL. THE bIBLE SAYS BLESSINGS AND CURSES ARE IN THE MOUTH.

IT IS A GIFT

When you belong to Jesus everything that happens in your life pushes you toward Him, to becoming His image. It is a gift. Even the bad experiences push us toward Him to become more like Him. It is hard to view it as a gift but when we do.... we find our ministry to others. I heard a lawyer tell the story of a young man who had been sexually abused by a doctor while he was in the hospital. The experience had damaged this young man's life and his marriage. When they won the suit the young man told the lawyer he and his wife had determined to stay together until the settlement and then divorce. The lawyer started to minister to the young man from the word and told him how his experience was a gift to move him closer to the image of Christ and when he could think of it as a gift he would move closer to the Holy One. Those words turned the young man's life around. It changed his mind abut how he saw the experience turning a curse into a blessing.He began to feel valuable and loved once again and was able to love his wife again and they did not get a divorce. Recently I wrote a blog called don't curse your crises and this story seems to be a second witness. Just sharing

WHY NOAH?

Ever wonder why God picked Noah to build the ark and save a seed of humanity. Because of all the people God found Noah without spot or blemish. The sacrifice had to be without spot or blemish. He was the only pureblood line left. When the angels fell with Lucifer they were demonic. They were called the sons of God. The Bible says the sons of God went into the daugthers of men and there were giants in the land. Until the flood these dark angels had relationships with the women which produced an offspring of giants. Noah was the only pure line left. That my friends is why Noah?

PRAY HARD

FOR LITTLE PROBLEMS WE SIMPLY SAY PRAY, FOR BIGGER PROBLES WE SAY PRAY HARD. How do you pray hard anyway. Do you grunt and make passionate faces and moan and groan. What does pray hard mean. Do you shout, God is not hard of hearing. Let us see how God reacted to the bigger problems, shall we. When Jesus fed the 5000 He used 5 loaves. When He fed the 4000 He used 7 loaves. Seems when the problems are bigger He used less and when the problems were smaller He used more. Is it not amazing how different God thinks than we do. My point being prayer is easy my friends not hard. It is based on a relationship with Him. We may be overwelmed by the bigger problems, but God is not startled or worried about how to solve them. The red sea gets in the way of deliverance, He sends a messenger to hold up a stick and speak a word of faith and boom the sea parts. Did Moses pray hard... No even though the millions behind him were upset and probably yelling to each other to pray hard, Moses just raised his stick in faith. When someone asks you to pray hard they are usually operating in fear, anxiety and emotions which motivate the enemy to operate freely in their life. Fear and anxiety do not motivate God. Faith motivates God. The first thing you should do is pray the peace of Jesus on that person and when the peace comes then you can move into a deminsion of faith prayer which will motivate God's mercy to save heal and deliver. Amen!

PRAYER IS SPELLED R-E-L-I-E-F

THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS HEALED ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED of THE DEVIL. He said that infirmity is a spirit. That is good info. I met an older woman years ago at church and built a relationship with her through home prayer meetings. We had known each other for some time and seen Jesus answer many prayers in most unusual ways. She loved and served Him with all her heart and soul. She blessed others wherever she went. You could see Jesus in her. She never complained. One day she drew me into a small room at the church and asked me to pray for her. She had been suffering with back pain for some time and had suffered many things from the doctors which only offered temporary relief. They could not find the cause. This was way back when I first started operating in the gift of the word of knowledge. As I prayed for her back H.G. said, tell her she needs to forgive her father. I did not now anything about her relationship with her father so she knew the words came from God. The God of mercy and grace pierced her heart and she released the story of anger and bitterness and unforgiveness that lived in her heart for all those years. My father has been dead for 30 years. He was an evil man who abused her in many ways. A helpless child who was unable to defend herself. The abuse lasted many years. She lived in constant fear of those encounters. She thought in some way it was her fault. She was a victim of abuse. She never talked about it. The burden was always there...just a thought away. As she cried, her confessions of the abuse flowed from her like a festering boil. Jesus attacked the root of bitterness and unforgiveness with love and mercy until she was relieived of that burden, until at last she had forgiven the abuser and her back pain disappeared. This is an amazing story of deliverance. An amazing story of restoration. She sought the help of the world for a spiritual problem and the world could only offer temporary help but when she sought the great physchian He gave her a spiritual answer for a spiritual problem. And she was healed. PRAYER IS SPELLED R-E-L-I-E-F. GOD BLESS LINDA

I MADE A MISTAKE

I made a mistake in soe of the info I gave you all in the blog...I heard a prophet say...the prophets name was Perry Stone who can be found at perrystone.org the name of his book is Purging your house ad pruning your family tree. It can be bought at Amazon.com for under 10.00 sorry, Linda

YOU CAN MISS YOUR DESTINY

YOU CAN MISS YOUR DESTINY BY ONE DELIBERATE FEARFUL ACT OF DISOBEDIENCE. Remember when King Saul was told to wait for the prophet Samuel to come and give sacrifice to God? Saul waited and waited and Samuel did not come and Saul was moved by fear to do the sacrifice himself. Then Samuel showed up. Saul's disobedience cost him his destiny for Samuel told him because you have done this thing your kingdom has been taken from you. We have to be careful of the word of God beloved and do what He tells us when He tells us. I heard a world evangelist say God had told him to go to South America and he was so excited to obey God, he sold all his stuff borrowed money and moved his family to South America and suffered failure after failure and he and his family almost starved before friends got them back to the states....one year later God again told him to go to South America in September. He again obeyed and every door opened and his ministry grew and his family flourished. Was it God's will for him to go to South America... Absolutely but it was His will that he go in a specific month. Then God can open doors no man can shut. This man almost missed his destiny not by fear but by enthusiasm to please God and failed to wait for the rest of God's word. Don't miss your destiny beloved.....

AT 3 AM I HEARD THE PROPHET SAY.....

At three this am I was listening to a prophet on TBN Praise The Lord show. His name is Perry White Jr. He has written a book called cleaning your house and pruning your family tree. It deals with breaking generational curses and casting out demonic influences in your life. For many years I awake at three in the morning. God wakes me up. He talks to me or I feed on His word or we just have a cup of tea and conversation. I often tell my prayer partners that He wakes me at 3 because that is the only time I am quiet enough for Him to get in a word sideways........but this morning I heard the prophet say....in the spirit world the demonic is at it's lowest strength and the Holy Spirit is elevated at 3;00 AM.......wow! No wonder you can hear God better then. Our head is full of voices all day long and sometimes it is hard to sort out God's voice from the imitators. I wanted to share that prophet word with you be blessed, love Linda

THE GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT IN OPERATION

Tonight I received a comment on one of my blogs by a faithful reader who never fails to encourage my efforts. He was operating in the gift of the word of wisdom one of the three speaking gifts of the nine gifts of the spirit listed in I Cor. 12... Check it out. He said sing as in Isaiah 44. That is a favorite scripture which I use often when ministering to others. I knew that He did not send this word so I alone could be blessed. So I am blessing you....Isaiah 44:23 SING , O ye heavens; for the Lord hath done it; shout ye lower parts of the earth and break forth into singing, ye mountains, ye forests and every tree therein; for the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified Himself in Israel. It is a command of the most high God beloved that all creation shout and sing of His glory AMEN!

THE WEDDING GUEST

Recently I was asked to attend a wedding of some friends . We had ministered to each other in word and deed for many months. The night before the wedding with a hundred details still to take care of they came to my house with a friend who brought a guitar and they played and sang songs of praise that this lady had written. They gave this audience of one a personal praise concert. What an unusual gift. Usually you give gifts to the bride and groom only this couple chose to gifts to their friends. What a blessing that was. The wedding was held in the home of a dear friend who is a decorator extrodinaire. The scene was a wall of an English garden with a small indoor water fall bubbling at the edge of the garden. A unity candle stood on a pedestal in the middle of the garden. A piano and drum stood to the side. Lilly's in full bloom decorated the altar. The wedding music was praise and worship songs that brought the anointing of heaven into the atmosphere. The preacher spoke the words that brought honor to this HOLY MATRIMONY. Vows of love for eternity were spoken. They were introduced as Mr. And Mrs. And then as their first official act as man and wife they and the guests took Holy Communion. I thought this should be a rule that every married couple should do this.They made Jesus the first and most important guest and He showed up. I think that is the first wedding I have ever attended where the Holy One of Israel was present and made His presence known. At the reception many testified of the healing power of Jesus. One had been cancer free for 26 years, one for 6 years, one(me) for one year. One man had 100 per cent blockage in one artery and 90 per cent in the other and God grew new arteries without surgery. They cll him the miracle man. He was the brides father. But for the grace of God that man would have missed his daughter's wedding. They laid hands on a lady who had cateracs and she began to see and they sang praises to the mighty King. If this is a shadow of things to come I can not wait for the marriage of the lamb. Just sharing who He is and what He does.

DON'T HUMILIATE A GENERAL

The humiliation of a general can cause you trouble for years on end. That's what happened to David. There are so many stories of David's life that encourage or warn us. I was thinking about general Abner. He was the body guard to King Saul. David had about 300 ragtag men. Saul had 3000. Saul had chased David into a corner. When you are in a corner there is no where left to go and your response is either fight or flight. Saul stuck his sword in the ground. Abner placed a water pitcher beside it they lay down in the middle of 3000 troops and went to sleep. David snuck through the assembly and took Saul's sword and water jar. The next morning David publicly humiliated the general Abner. It was enough for the private humiliation between Abner and Saul when they woke and the things were gone but David had to publicly humiliate the body guard before his men and his King. Announcing to all that Abner had not done his job... how miserably he had failed in his service to the King. David never tried to hurt Saul because he was God's anointed. It would not have mattered if Saul had been surrounded by 200 body guards David still would have walked in and got his things because God was with him. David did not have victory in his own strength. We have spiritual generals all around us. We do not have to humiliate them by pointing out their weaknesses. God can handle it without our help. Just a thought Linda

TRANSPLANTED A NOTE TO SUSAN THE FAITHFUL

HELLO BELOVED OF THE MOST HIGH GOD! Susan I am always blessed and encouraged when you take the time to comment on my blogs. You are one of my faithful cheerleaders. I miss you too girl and the others as well. As to how I am.....I am blessed among women.....a favored child of the most high God. We have to bloom where we are planted but sometimes the nutrients in the soil are depleted and the bloom dies and the plant grows weak and becomes root bound in the old familiar clay pot. I asked the gardener if we could change things and he said no. I made it a matter of prayer and was transplanted. The old nutrients were deminished. The plant taken out of the old clay pot. The soil shaken out of the root bound plant and new nutrients added to a new pot. In two days after the change the plant no longer needed oxygen day or night. No oxygen for 3 months now. The old plant needed 150 units a day and is now down to 50 soon to be none. The plant was exhausted because of a serious shortage of vitamin d which has now been rectified. I am stronger and doing things I have not done in 3 years. I will try to stop by and see you soon I think of you often and continue to pray for your family. God bless, Linda.

DON'T CURSE YOUR CRISIS

Don't curse your crisis saints. Is there someone in your life that drives you crazy? Causes you to stay in an attitude of repentance? Do you have circumstances (mountains so high) so big you curse the fatique and hopelessness of fighting them. Friends I am here to advise you do not curse your crisis because behind that crisis is the answer... the rainbow... the hope of glory... the victory... so be ready to receive from the abundant supply from the Father...heavens best is coming your way. Praise your way through to the other side. This to shall pass. Sing at midnight friends ...the rainbow awaits you. God bless, Linda

HAVE YOU MET THE MAN IN THE MIDDLE

Have you met the man I the middle? There were two thieves on the cross then Jesus appears and stands in the middle between heaven and hell. The hope of glory. It occurred to me as Jesus is the man in the middle and stands between heaven and hell because He lives in us that we too stand in the middle. We are responsible for every soul who enters our territory to stand between heaven and hell and offer them the signpost pointing to heaven. We must become that man in the middle. God bless...Linda