ARE YOU AS SMART AS A GREEN BEAN?

Our community has a pre-Easter week of meetings in a different church every night. Also a preacher from a different denomination preaches every night. That is the one time of year all denominations and differences in theology are put aside and we are all united as the body of Christ. Iheard a sermon I will never forget. The pastor said, shouldn't we all be as smart as a green bean. When they push their heads out of the ground they are bowed as if in prayer and then as the sun hits them they open their two leaves to the sky as if in adoration and praise. Yes. Lord, I hope I can be as smart as a green bean. Hallelujah

A RAM WILL TAKE YOU OUT BROTHER

WHEN ABRAHAM TOOK ISSAC TO THE MOUNTAIN TO SACRIFICE HIM HE WAS 127 YEARS OLD. God stopped his hand and told him there was a ram in the brambles, to sacrifice him. Now a mad ram will take you out brother, especially if you are 127 years old. But God tangled the ram in the thicket and took the fight out of the blessing. Many times when the enemy comes against us we feel as weak and weary as a 127 year old man who has just climbed a mountain with our last strength. But God has already defeated the enemy and wrestled him to the ground and if we stand in faith and command him to go, he has no choice but to obey. That leaves the way open to receive the blessing. No ram can take you out beloved cause Jesus has your back...........the only place the Armour of God does not protect is the back....isn't that interesting.

MYSTERY OR PUZZLE

Hello be loved of the most high God. I need the help of all you Bible scholars out there today.... In Rev. 19:6-9...it tells of the marriage of the lamb...if the lamb is the groom, Jesus Christ and the bride is the saints of God,the church who are the wedding guests called blessed??????? I do not know. I know who they are not...Satan and his angels for they have already been cast in the fire.....soooooooo...if the groom, Jesus, and the bride, the church and the wicked are accounted for ...who are the wedding guests? Who is left?????? I can give you opinons of saints....... A Rabbonic, Messanic Jew says he believes the guests are the great multitude who came to faith after the rapture of the church during the waning days of Daniel's 70th week. They will enter the millennial kingdom, still in mortal bodies. This suggests that the wedding supper probably takes place on earth, in the presence of the post-rapture saints made pure through the blood of the lamb. Another source suggests it is Abraham, Elijah, David and the pre-Christ saints. Another thinks it may be angels. Anybody out there got any scripture??????? God bless, Linda

ALLELUJAH!

Did you know the word allelujah or hallelujah as we know it only appears in the New Testament 4 times...in only one book in one chapter? Rev. 19:1-6 hallelujah is a compound of 2 words...halle..lujah. In the Old Testament it is translated "Praise ye the Lord," 24 times. More literally it should be translated, "Praise ye yah." Yah is a shortened form of Yahweh which is the correct and proper name of God. Just some fun facts.....love ya, Linda

NO SHOES.... NO SERVICE.....SHOES... SERVICE

NO SHOES...NO SERVICE....how many times have you seen that sign on a place of business? USUALLY WHERE THEY SERVE FOOD. Isn't it odd what offends man pleases God. Footwear was never part of the priestly uniform. In fact the priests had to minister barefoot after washing their feet in rain or spring water...then they could enter the Holy Place.... Man says.... NO SHOES...NO SERVICE...GOD SAYS...... SHOES....NO SERVICE...Moses take off your shoes for this is Holy ground.....I have visited many denominations during my years and the only place I have found that wasn't offended when you took off your shoes to worship God was the full gospel people. My daughter-in-law is an evangelist anointed with the spirit of joy. When she walks into a room the sun comes out. Her joy is so infectious no one can resist her. The first evangelist meeting she had she came in with her long hair flowing down her back and was barefoot. When she stands behind the pulpit and starts preaching she doesn't stand there long but comes down in front of the congregation starts waving that Bible and pacing...so full of energy she can't contain it. She ministered in the gifts of healing prophesy and word of knowledge....when alter call came over half the congregation came forward humbled with tears running down their cheeks and moved by the power of God delivered by this woman. As the people left with joy and deliverance on their faces, I heard some of the church women complaining that they were offended because she did not wear shoes while she preached. Now help me understand saints.....these saints had just been saved, healed and delivered from bondages that had held them captive for years and they were offended it was done without shoes?????????? God says take off your shoes when you minister for this is Holy Ground......next time you are in a service and the Holy Spirit falls and your toes long to be free of your shoes could be the Holy Ghost saying take off your shoes beloved this is Holy ground. The last church meeting Jesus attended was the last supper where they served food to the church crowd and the first thing He did was take off their shoes and wash their feet....friends that was Holy ground....and events that followed that meeting has turned the world upside down for 2 thousand years..think about it....Jesus is our high priest and He doesn't wear shoes as He stands before God in our behalf...it is not and has never been part of the priestly uniform.......God bless, Linda

ALL THE BOOKS IN THE WORLD COULD NOT CONTAIN THEM.....

Sometimes our vision is so small we tend to keep God in a box. This week a verse keeps going through my mind. I have read it a thousand times but this time it changed my vision of who Christ was when he walked the earth as a man. John only knew Him for 3 years and yet he said in John 21:25.... And these are also many other things which Jesus did, the which, if they should be written every one, I suppose that even the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Can you imagine doing so many good works that if they were recorded would fill all the books of the world and some left over? It sure broadens your vision. We have such a small portion of His deeds recorded in the gospels, we can read them in a day. I am an avid reader. I read at least a book a day and often grieve to think I don't have enough time left to read all the books I would like to. Look at all the Christian books that have been written about Him in the last 2 centuries based on only the gospels. It is awe inspiring is it not.......ALL THE BOOKS IN THE WORLD COULD NOT CONTAIN THEM.......THE GOOD WORKS OF JESUS....GOD BLESS LINDA

SEDUCTIVE BEAUTY AT 90

We all know the story of Abraham and Sarah ........that Abraham was the richest man in the land....and from the hall of faith chapter in Hebrews 11, he was exalted for his great faith. But do you remember how Abraham acquired all his wealth? He met a King who desired his wife and Abraham was afraid the King would kill him to get his wife so he introduced her as his sister. A man of faith let fear over ride him. The King desired her for a wife to be added to his harem. Sarah was 90years old at the time. Can you imagine being so beautiful at age 90 that a King who could have any in the kingdom desired you. It is beyond my imagination,but Sarah lived in the blessings of Abraham and the favor of God. I have known a lot of 90 year old women and it just doesn't happen in my world. The king suffered much as God warned him Sarah was Abraham's wife and not to touch her ........ And he returned her and gave Abraham much wealth to take her and leave and then it happened again. Not only was Sarah desired by one king but by two at 90 years old. I suppose Sarah was a type of the virgin Mary, a shadow of things to come, as Mary's womb would hold the blessings of the nations. Though Mary was young and a virgin, Sarah was old and barren but her womb would also hold the blessings of the nations. For in Issac all nations were blessed. Food for thought saints, love ya, Linda