FILLING EMPTY PLACES

In the year 2000 I became a widow, a name I never thought I would be called. It left an empty place in my heart and my life. People were good to run in and out of my life for about three weeks and then everyone went back to their own life. The emptiness....the loneliness set in. There is no one to hold you at 3 in the morning. About three months after the funeral I heard a preacher teach on believers meetings. He asked if we knew what a believers meeting was. It is a meeting attended by only believers. No non Christians are assembled there. He said that every believer should have something to share at the meeting. Every believer should have spent enough time in the prayer closet with God to receive something from Him......a song, a spiritual song, a psalm or a word of prophesy. He said if you wanted God to give you a song just get in your prayer closet start praising Him and ask Him for a song and He would give you one. With childlike faith I went home to my prayer closet and began praising God and asked Him for a song. Just that quick He gave me one. I do not have a rhyming bone in my body so I knew it was God. The song was only a chorus but it brought me such joy I sang it from 10 at night till 3 in the morning......I had great joy because God had spoken a paragraph to me......A word from the King can change everything! I never asked God for another song but as is the custom of God He always over answers prayer and it is His delight to give His children good things. In the last 10 years He has given me over 250 poems songs and stories plus a book. Has He filled my empty places?????? YES! He has filled my cup and overflowed it! Filling empty places....go to your prayer closet begin your prayer with praise and remember one word from the King can make desert places bloom. An empty place is a blessed opportunity to go where you have never gone before....God Bless, LINDA

A GRATEFUL HEART

Wasn't yesterday wonderful, full of sunshine and spring breezes. I set off to go shopping. I was looking forward to it with great joy. I had not been able to shop for myself for a year and a half without collapsing for lack of air. I pulled into Aldi's handicapped parking. A man next to me was unloading his cart and I asked to buy it from him. I thanked him and he put his hand to a magnified throat apparatice and said thank you through the sound mechanism. And I thought, you should be grateful you can speak without help Linda. As I was cruising the first asile, a man and I reached for the same item, we laughed and exchanged greeting and blessed the sunshine. Sunshine makes happy faces have you noticed that? We met again in the 2nd asile and the third and the fourth and the fifth and he said you are just everywhere. Yes, I said that's what I do go everywhere. He had no idea that just a few months ago he could have got his groceries paid for them and loading them in the car before I made it to check out if I did not pass out. I shopped two more stores passing out smiles and sunshiny conversation, returned home unloaded my supplies and put them away within the hour. Used to take me two days to put a few things at a time away. I say all this to say what you all take for granted and do not notice is a gift from God. I stand here with a grateful heart that He is restoring to me, what the enemy stole, my very breath and strength. JUST DOING SOME BRAGGING ON GOD! Enjoy the sunshine! GOD BLESS, LINDA

I DON'T HAVE TO BOW

An evangelist came to town. He preached for 5 nights in 2 hour sessions. He preached on Mark:16 the great commission and the commands to cast out devils, lay hands on the sick that they may be healed. He asked me to write a song so I condensed 10 hours of the teaching into a 2 minute song..........



I DON'T HAVE TO BOW TO SICKNESS


I don't have to bow to sickness, I don't have to bow.
Jesus left His healing power, said I could use it now.
He said these signs shall follow, all who believe.
This sickness has to go, it just has to leave.
Go and preach the gospel, all around the world,
Heal the sick among you,by the power of His word.
Those demons of poverty, they just have to go.
In the precious name of Jesus, by the word you know.
Go and cast out demons, speak with other tongues,
By the power of His name, we'll just call it done.
By the power of His name, His blood will speak for me, Shouting from the throne of God, to a defeated enemy.
I don't have to bow to sickness, I don't have to bow.
Jesus left His healing power, said I could use it now!

IMAGINE THIS

I believe this year is going to be a year of promotion in the body of Christ. We will go where we have never gone before, we will be who we have never been before, we will see what we have never seen before and we will dream what we have never dreamed before. I have received so much word this past 10 days from preachers and teachers and the Bible that I am almost overwhelmed with the knowledge of God. I would share a few things with you today. Have you ever noticed that the generation that died in the wilderness were called the children of God, but the generation that crossed the Jordon into the promised land were then called the sons of God. God no longer dealt with them as children but started dealing with them as sons. The children had a look back attitude. They wanted to go back to the slavery of their past. They were scared to depend on God and go where they had never been. They operated in fear instead of faith, but the Joshua generation had no fear and they wanted to depend on God and go where they had never been. Did you also noticed that the generation who died warred for their survival but the generation that crossed over warred for their possessions. That is good word my friends. This is a gauge to see where you are in the body of Christ. Are you a child or are you a son? I thought about the Civil War when the slaves were freed. Many of them were lost. The world that was familiar to them was gone. They did not know how to do a new thing. They were confused and afraid. This was like being set free without any directions on how to survive. They had been slaves for generations. How would you respond if God plucked you out of your home and job and plopped you down in a new place to do a new thing? Would you yearn for the past and slavery or would you look toward the future and the promise that He would never leave or forsake you. Only faith will work in that new place my friend. God's word says He will do nothing except if He tells His Holy Prophets first. Let us take an adventure into a new place. I heard an international prophet relate a vision God had given him that happens a few years into the future. God took him to a place where they had found a cure for Alhiemerzs and the people were cured by the hundred of thousands. Imagine that. We know God can do it look at polio and other cures of the past. Now what happens? Lots of people will be out of jobs in the medical field and clinics and so forth. It will have an effect that shakes the world. They will go where they have never been before and do a new thing. He said God took him to a freeway where there was no noise. Imagine that. The wheels did not touch the pavement. Oil was no longer needed. Sounds like a sci-if movie doesn't it? There was no pollution of noise,smog or fumes. That is especially hard for a man to conceive, because men like noise...... from the time they are babies they are taught to play with cars and trucks saying buuuden, buuuden. A place without noise imagine that. What happens to the world economy at that point? Wars will end, the middle east would lose their power and wealth the banking system of the world would be shaken. It would be a place we have never been before, doing what we never did before, seeing what we have never seen before. I pray I have given you lots of food for thought today. God can do a new thing. Will you be a child or a son? JUST IMAGINE THIS...........God Bless, LINDA

WHY DO HEARTS CRY

Why do hearts cry?
Because someone is not listening,
That's the reason why.

Some hearts make no outward sign of their pain.
You have to listen close.
Go searching for that heart within.

Listening is the key to all that can go wrong.
This used to be a happy heart,
Filled with rejouicing and song.

Some hide their heart with comedy,
So you will never see.
Their secret heart is ever weeping silently.

You are the keeper of your brother's heart,
And listening is the key.
So let's heal all the wounds, by simply listening

SUNDAY MORNING

Come Sunday morning and bless my day.
Let us rest awhile, from how the world plays.

Let us breathe in the fragrance of peace.
Healing to wounded souls, release.

Let us greet each other with a Holy embrace,
While bright shiny smiles adorn our face.

Let the music in our hearts begin to flow.
As the tenderness for our brothers grow.

Let us give praises to the mighty King,
As the bells of joy begin to ring.

Come Lord Jesus surround us with your love,
As angels watch over us from heaven above.

A GLIMPSE OF SPRING

It has been a long hard, cold winter. I long for spring. Sit back, relax and let my words paint you a picture. A glimpse of spring.








COFFEE WITH HIM


So, what are you doing in the morning?
Having coffee under the front porch awning?
Watch the sunrise with the colored hues?
Enjoy the deer, with the baby as they come into view?
Just sit quietly before the rest of the world wakes?
Enjoy the peace before the noise of the lawn mowers for goodness sakes?
Hear the lonesome whistle of the morning train?
Watch it sprinkle before it rains?
The dew on the roses is a lovely sight.
The thunder shatters the silence, what a fright.
Now it is time to be up, up and away.
It was so lovely, saying a prayer, spending time with Him.
Simply enjoying His creation.
Now, it is time to go, though I would rather stay.
But what an awesome beginning to the rest of the day!