CHILD LIKE FAITH

WHAT CHILD LIKE FAITH CAN DO!!!!!!!!
Most of you have heard my testimony of many things but for those of you who have not....I will give it again. If any of you had told me ten years ago I would be a poet, a songwriter or an author of books, if any had told me I would win national and international poetry contests and fly to Reno twice, if any had said I would have my songs recorded by professional artists and sent to the boys in Iraq, if any had told me I would recite my poems on two T.V. Shows, if any had said two of my songs would be made into video's and shown on cable in Hollywood, if any had said I would have a blog on the Internet and reach people for Jesus, if you had said I would be published in national magazines and write 6 articles a week for a newspaper, I would have been like Sarah and laughed in your face. But all these things have come to pass and I am not through yet. I heard a preacher teach on believer's meetings. He asked if we knew what a believers meeting was? He said believers meeting only had believers attending, no one unsaved was there. That we should spend enough time in prayer that when we attended we should not be spectators,but participators having something from God to share with the body...a song, a prophesy, a psalm or a spiritual song. If we wanted God to give us a song we should get in our prayer closet and start praising him with the spirit and with the understanding. We should ask him to give us a song and he would. I went home inspired with child like faith and did as he said and although I prayed that God give me a song I was surprised when he did and so filled with joy. I sang that song from 10 at night till 3 in the morning and I was satisfied. I thought if God never gave me another I had my moment with the SON. But God did give me more... Ten years later I have now written 250 poems songs, and articles, plus over 200 blog devotions. You see, beloved my vision for my life was so small, I could not imagine into God's greater vision for my life. My vision was to serve God and my family. Be a good mother, grandmother, great grandmother and share the faith with those who walked through my life. God had bigger plans for my destiny. Plans I could never imagine. I remember once asking God how I could write and get published? You see I live in a small farming community with no opportunities. His reply was you have everything you need in your own backyard. What a concept to me. God saw endless opportunities while I saw none. I challenge you to see with child like faith beyond your limited vision into God's vision for your life. Every thing you need is in your own backyard in your child like faith. God bless Linda

A MAN OF AUDACIOUS FAITH

If I were to ask you to tell me something you know about Joshua, most of you would answer...Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down...some of you would answer he was one of 12 spies sent into the promise land. Let us review Joshua's life for a moment. He was born into slavery and delivered by God into the wilderness where he developed a relationship with God over 40 year period of time. He was one of the spies who came back with a good report. God told him when he entered the promised land he would give him the land every where his foot touched and named the boundaries and he would deliver his enemies into his hands for the rest of his life. When he was fighting mighty enemies the sun was about to go down and the enemy was about to escape into the shadows to torment them another day and this man of audacious faith prayed that God would make the SUN STAND STILL. Can you imagine that kind of faith. God honored his request and the SUN STOOD STILL for almost 24 hours until the enemy was utterly destroyed. I remember reading an article about the space scientists in Houston, Texas having a problem with the computers. They had a missing day in history and all the scholars could not find it and then a man of faith reminded them of the Biblical day when Joshua asked God to make...THE SUN STAND STILL. They found their missing day and then the computer program worked. We have many prayer requests in our life where we need to pray a ...SUN STAND STILL PRAYER. A time where the enemy is about to slip into the shadows to return and rend us again. We too can be men and women of God with the audacious faith of Joshua and command the SUN TO STAND STILL IN OUR SITUATION. If he did it for Joshua he can do it for you!

EVERY KING NEEDS A PROPHET

Every King needs a prophet, every leader needs a prophet who tells the truth. It is up to the King to decide if he will listen to the man of God. Ever since I heard this word... Every King needs a prophet.... My prayer life has changed. We are instructed to pray for the leaders of our government. The Bible says God has appointed those in power. He appointed a pharaoh to set his people free after much affliction. The King's had prophets, the church had prophets. Obedience to the word of the prophet brought victory and blessings to the nations. Disobedience could cause the death of a King. My prayer for the leadership in our churches, cities and nation are Lord send a prophet to those in leadership who will speak the words of truth and light. God bless, Linda




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AN ILLEGITIMATE SON CAN LIFT YOU OUT OF THE PIT

An illegitimate son can lift you out of the pit. We all know the story of Ismael the illegitimate son of Abraham and Issac the legitimate son of Abraham. The two son have been at war with each other for generations unto this day. I think of how Joesph and his brothers were legitimate sons. The brothers were jealous and had murder on their hearts. They threw Joseph in a pit intending to murder him and a caravan of Ismaelites came by. They bought Joseph, lifted him out of the pit. Of course it was strictly business to them. They resold him on the slave market for a profit never realizing they had saved the promise of God on a journey to his destiny. He became the 2nd in command over Egypt, a country of illegitimate sons who became blessed because Joesph the living word of God's vision was there. Every thing he set his hand to was blessed. Several nations in fact. He impacted the world and saved ligimate and illegitimate sons. My point being if you are on your way to the destiny God has appointed to your life, God's word can not return void. If he has to use an illegitimate son to bring you out of the pit, he will. Sooooo rejoice an be glad beloved.

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

How many times have you been between a rock and a hard place? A place you can not get out of in your own power. A place of desolation. A place without hope. It occurred to me the other day that place is a lie. That place does not exist as long as your rock is Jesus. Then there is hope. Then that hopeless place becomes a place where faith is. Then that rock becomes a victory and the hard place becomes a testimony. I love you guys....God bless, Linda

A LIFE CHANGING WORD

Through out the Bible we are given examples of men and women of audacious faith who dared to believe God could perform the impossible. I want to give you a word today that will change your life and increase your vision. If your vision does not intimidate you there is a good chance it is insulting to God.....let me repeat....if your vision does not intimidate you there is a good chance it is insulting to God....let me repeat.... If your vision does not intimidate you there is a good chance it is insulting to God!!!. I have made this statement three times because if these words are repeated three times it is more likely they will be engraved on your heart and moved by audacious faith to change your life. I remember one time God said your harvest is coming in, Linda. I said, oh goody, I'll get my wheelbarrow and God said you're thinking too small, get a dump truck. I was thinking home garden wheel barrow harvest to benefit my household but God was thinking truck garden harvest to benefit the world....I repeat... If your vision does not intimidate you it is probably insulting to God.

HERO'S OF FAITH

The 11th chapter of Hebrews is called the faith chapter of the Bible. I call it the hall of faith. Only two of the hero's of faith were women. Not women you would think to chose. One was Sarah. Sarah had to be forced into her faith. She was 90 years old and the time of women was over. Her womb was dead. When she first heard the promise of God that she would bear a man child she laughed. She knew it was impossible. A few years passed and her womb was still barren so she decided to help God and sent her husband to her handmaid to bear a son through her and then the impossible became possible and she bore her son, yet the faith chapter calls her a hero of the faith.....through faith Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed..... The other woman was Rahab, the harlot. She is always referred to as Rahab the harlot. She was called by name with her profession tacked on behind. There was no escaping who she was. She lived in Jericho. She hid the spy's, asked for her family to be saved and asked that they remember her. They told her to hang a red rope out her window and her and her family would be saved on the day of battle. She told the spy's that she had heard of the mighty works of their God and believed. She had never seen his works only heard of them. In those days harlots had to paint their windows red so every one would know this was a harlots house. Picture this... The window is painted red and a red rope is hanging down and she has applied the sign of the bloody cross of salvation. Yes! The rope was made of flax from the roof. The other place in the Bible flax is mentioned is in Proverbs 31 the virtuous woman. Her community calls her harlot and God labels her a virtuous woman of faith. I also find it interesting that James mentions only two heroes of faith...Abraham the father of faith and Rahab the harlot. My point being no matter what the world labels us God can make the impossible possible due to audacious faith.



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