Your Words Are Powerful

Spiritual attacks are all around us. Most of us are more than aware that the enemy has set landmines for us that we have failed to negotiate and too often we have ended up falling prey to his tactics. When we pray, do we expect God to intervene? Are we able to see into the Spirit to know just how much He wants to bless us, protect us, provide for us, how much He loves us? It seems that we often allow our thoughts to lead us astray, believing more in the enemy’s power to enslave us than in God’s power to deliver us. As we succumb to the lies of the enemy, we begin to speak out words of death, destruction, sickness, and weakness instead of life, liberty, health and strength.

The Bible tells us in Proverbs 18:21 that the power of life and death are in the tongue. As I have been meditating on the power of our words and the faith we exercise as we speak them, I have been led to a few teachings on that subject that I have actually heard before but this revelation hadn’t come to me as it has more recently. I heard Perry Stone, a well-known teacher of Biblical prophecy, speak on the power of our faith-filled words of blessing in a past television broadcast. He was reporting on documented evidence from Dr. David Van Koevering, a noted scientist who holds many patents for his discoveries, regarding his research on how our words affect our environment. He had microscopic evidence that our words of blessing and cursing produce very different results in the molecular structure of water. When blessed, a water molecule looks much like a snowflake with exact and beautiful dimensions. When cursed, it is misshapen and shows patterns of confusion and brokenness.

Dr. Van Koevering had also done experiments on rice. He had cooked a pot of rice, divided it into two jars, did not speak over them, but wrote words of love and affirmation over one jar and words of hatred and death over the other. After 85 days, the first jar still looked to be fresh and edible. The second was black and moldy. The impact of this hit me as if I’d heard it for the first time. Even the words we think have an effect because of the spirit behind them. “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.” Proverbs 23:7

I have followed this teaching of watching my words for years and have understood the power of my words regarding my health, my family, finances and provision, etc. I speak regularly to the 125 billion cells in my body to be restored back to their original capacity and function, muscles and ligaments to go back to their normal length and strength, and for health to be restored and apparent in every part of my physical body. I speak over my food to bless it with nourishment, that the Lord will take all sickness and disease far away from me. However, I caught an additional revelation which in turn has opened up a few other windows of revelation. I am excited to share some of this with you.

It is important for us to pray and speak blessing over every area of our lives and we often believe we are ‘covering all the bases,’ however; many still live in fear regarding certain areas. There has been much publicity in recent years that our food and water supply is being compromised, genetically-engineered, chemically-altered and, overall, used for the destruction of our health, which it is. We are prompted to buy organic products, as often as possible, which are advertised to ensure our good health. This is good, in that we need to be buying and eating responsibly to properly fuel our bodies. In truth, however, all of our food supply in this fallen world is tainted. It is why it is so important to bless our food before we eat it. Blessing our food should not just be limited to thanking the Lord for His provision, though, that is an important step. It is also to ask God to heal our food and water.

I believe that our words of faith and blessing can and will genetically restore our food back to its original state to be utilized by our bodies as it was originally intended IF we will pray, seeking God to restore health into that food. We should bless our water, our coffee, and other beverages and command them to be life-giving and health-filled for our bodies, that all harmful chemicals would be removed, in Jesus’ name. If any are taking medications or if any have received medications through medical treatment, pray over those medications that they do only what they were designed to do and cast out all side effects, in Jesus’ name. Pray over the baby’s formula and finger foods. We should not put one thing into our mouths that we have not sought the Lord’s blessing over. If we garden, we can and should bless the seeds as we plant them, speaking restoration and healing of genetic codes within the seeds to produce as God intended. We have been ‘redeemed from the curse of the law of sin and death’ and we need to think like it, we need to speak like it and we need to act like it.

I believe that God wants us to speak to this mountain of genetically-engineered foods in our homes to be removed and be cast into the sea. Matthew 21:21 I believe He is directing us to deeper understanding of the authority we have as believers to affect every area of our lives, even our food and water supply, through what Jesus Christ has done for us. It is a part of what He is teaching us regarding taking dominion in this earth. He wants to bring restoration into our lives and He has promised to guard us and keep us even in the midst of turmoil.

More recently, as I have observed the skies and have seen that they are becoming a dumping ground for chemical spraying of the populace, I asked the Lord what we should do about that. He told me to start speaking cleansing to the air and to the environment around me, around my family and around God’s people as a whole. I also speak cleansing to the electromagnetic frequencies coming from cell phones, televisions, computers and other electrical appliances as well as towers and power plants in our communities. I rebuke any adverse effects to our bodies, in Jesus’ name.  We have been given dominion and with that comes the assignment to enforce it.  

Even if we blow it and something slips by, scripture says in Mark 16:17-18, “And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name…… if they (eat) drink any deadly thing, it shall not harm them……..” Notice that Jesus does not say that these signs might follow them that believe nor does it say that maybe some things won’t harm us. No, He tells us that these signs shall follow us that believe and that if we eat or drink any deadly thing it shall not harm us.   It is what He WILL do for us, if we believe and boldly declare in Jesus’ mighty name. The Lord has put His stamp and seal upon it for us. “For it is not by might, not by power but by My Spirit, says the Lord.” Zech. 4:6 It is His desire that “No weapon formed against us shall prosper.” Isaiah 54:17 “His promises are ‘Yes!’ and ‘Amen!’” 2 Cor. 1:20

As this has done for me, I pray that it will take you from revelation to revelation as He leads you toward greater wholeness in Him. Our faith should not reside in what the enemy will do against us but in what God has promised to do for us.  I pray that it will bring great comfort to your soul as you think, speak, and act according to His Word which is His Will for you. His truth is ALL truth. We are not left powerless in this world. We have been granted the privilege and the right, as joint heirs with Jesus Christ, to call upon the power of Almighty God, Our Father, Creator of the Universe to keep us, to protect us, to heal us, to provide for us. Glory to God! There is nothing that He won’t do for us, His children, because He loves us. Be blessed, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Risen One!

Love and Honor

I am being led to speak here in regard to healthy relationships. I am thinking especially of marriage relationships. I have seen and continue to see such a breakdown in relationships between people that I know and love. It seems to me that it all boils down really to honoring one another.

The first relationship we are commanded to honor is our father and mother. The Lord tells us in the fifth commandment that honoring our parents comes with the promise of long life upon the earth. It stands to reason that if we want to be successful in that and in every other relationship we have it must be that we honor one another. This is especially true in marriage. Honor and love go hand in hand and, by the way, neither involves emotion. They involve a choice. In 1 Corinthians 13, the chapter we typically call the love chapter, it states that love is not jealous, is not boastful or rude, does not demand its own way. In my understanding, honor and love always considers others first. If we say that we truly love, then we must also choose to honor.

When did we get to be such a society of demanding our own way? It seems to me that everyone is singing their favorite hit song, “It’s all about me.” Are we making some sort of doctrine out of ‘me first?’ Even in everyday language, I hear people putting ‘me’ first, i.e. “Me and my friend went to a movie.” Or, “Me and her are hanging out.” You may say that it’s just a grammatical error, and it is, but the subtlety of self-importance and entitlement is reinforced every time it is spoken.

I see that same attitude on the road as drivers push their way through traffic, cutting in and out between cars, even putting themselves and others in danger. I see it in stores as customers rudely assert themselves in the lines to the cash registers and in restaurants where diners engage in crude behavior toward the staff. I even see the employees in these establishments play this same role as they fail to provide good customer service as a part of their job. Whereas, I don’t appreciate the lack of common courtesy and the attitudes of entitlement in public, I really hate to see this taking place in the home, in families, among the people we have made a commitment to and who we profess to love. Beloved, in the family of faith this is no way to treat our Christian brothers and sisters, especially the ones that live under our own roof.

For me, the first step I took toward learning that it is imperative to honor one another as a testimony of my love was when I realized my life is not my own. My whole life is to be a sacrifice to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, because of what He has done for me in giving His life for mine at the cross. In giving my life back to Him, I know that I must love like He loves, serve like He serves and honor like He honors. Once the choice is made to totally yield to Him, it isn’t really that difficult to follow through. As I am faithful to fulfill those simple things, I find that He gives me everything I need in return. I receive love, I receive honor and no longer have to strive for them, demanding that others fill that need in my life. Truthfully, the Lord is the only One who can fill that need, that ache for fulfillment in my heart, anyway.

It is a cruel and selfish act to demand that others serve us and fulfill our every need. We make our love and our honor conditional. We think, “Perhaps I’ll give my love and my honor if you give yours first.” I determine I will withhold from you until my desires are satisfied and then I may decide to throw out a few crumbs back to you in return. That doesn’t sound like true honor, true love and there certainly isn’t any gratitude in those demands. Does it sound like that is the example of Christ to us?

Love and honor require vulnerability on our part. It means that we may be hurt along the way. When we remember that God commands us to love one another, even as He has loved us it calls for us to trust which is ultimately trusting in the Lord. When we withhold from those we say we love then we are really withholding from God. You can’t have it both ways; love and honor God but withhold that love and honor from others. If we refuse to trust God and be faithful to love others then we do not truly love Him. Without love it is impossible to please God. This is the very thing that would possibly position us to have to hear His Words, “I never knew you.”

What do we really lose when we choose to love and honor? What do we risk when we choose to trust God in releasing our love and honor to others? The true answer is nothing. We, in fact, gain everything. I pray that God will lead you and richly bless you as you make that choice.

 

 

God Loves You

Greetings, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ!  Lately, I have been listening almost daily to You Tube videos of Heidi Baker both in interviews and of her preaching.  She challenges me in every video to “get wrecked in Holy Spirit.”  I case you aren’t familiar with Heidi and her husband, Roland, I’ll give you some background.  Heidi and Roland Baker have ministered in Mozambique for 30 years.  God called them to go to the poorest of the poor, to rescue people and to love them like Jesus loves them.  She has sat in the dumps and on dirty street corners holding and loving the dirty, smelly, diseased, starving, orphaned, lost children in that area.  Because they have trusted God in every situation she and Roland have seen mighty miracles of healing, provision, deliverance and redemption.  They have adopted over 700 children, care for thousands more orphans, have started several thousand churches in Africa, and feed thousands every day.  They have only limited resources but God multiplies as in the feeding of the 5000 and there is always enough.  She has such a childlike quality, an innocence and a purity in her love for the Lord and of her faith in Him.  Her expression of that love to the Father amazes me and leaves me completely undone.  I sit and weep at her stories of God’s goodness.

The first time I saw Heidi and Roland in person was in January of 2006, when my husband and I were newly married.  We went to a conference where they were ministering.  Before she ever preached, she stayed on the floor and worshiped the Lord with such passion and with great outpouring of her love for Him.  It was only her and her Lord.  I had never seen anyone worship God like that.  At the break, my husband and I went out to our vehicle and sat there almost stunned at what we had just witnessed.  We wept together before the Lord realizing that we had missed it.  We knew we really didn’t understand that kind of love.  We were so inspired by Heidi and we also knew we needed to seek after the Lord in a new way because we so desired to know that kind of love and we wanted be able to love others with that same sweet Spirit.  We recognized that in order to give love, we must first let ourselves be loved.

It has been quite a journey of learning about the deep, deep love of God and becoming comfortable in knowing, I mean really knowing, that God loves me with an everlasting love.  He cannot do anything else because God IS Love.  In some ways, lately, I have felt like I am back to square one in learning to experience the love of God and yet I realize that He is merely calling me, beckoning me, to a deeper revelation of His love and to a deeper place in Him.  I know that I do not love like He loves and I need to draw closer to Him to be able to do that.  I am growing in my desperation to have more of Him, more of His Presence, more of His Glory manifested in my life.  I have also learned that you can never have enough.  Thankfully, there is always more and we can have as much of the Lord God as we want.  I want more!

I understand that many who are reading this are like me.  I have read things like this before and thought, “Yes, that is just fine for you.  You are obviously better, holier than me and this ‘church-ese’ language is beyond me.  I don’t get it.”  Well, we all have to begin where we are in our understanding so I challenge you to begin right there, where you are.  You might start where I did.  I had to stand before the mirror and say to myself, “GOD loves me!  God LOVES me!  God loves ME!  GOD LOVES ME with an everlasting love!  Nothing will ever change that.  God loves me!”  I’d point to myself and say to myself, “God loves you!”  I’d say it every day.  I said it multiple times a day.  There were times I almost choked on the words especially at the beginning because, whereas, I could believe and truthfully say that God loves You, I had a hard time believing that God truly loved me.

I had to learn to stop, quiet myself and enter into His Presence by faith believing that I had access, by necessity and by right, to come before the Most High God!  The more I practiced this, the more real it became to me.  It IS real but we have to practice the Presence of God in order to sense Him.  What an awesome thing to realize that your spirit man can go right up to the throne of God and jump into His arms, sit on His lap, lean against His chest and breathe in His fragrance.  He is Papa, our Daddy God, our Precious Lord.  Our spirit man can dance in the arms of Jesus and feel His embrace. Our spirit man can fly with Holy Spirit through the clouds of Glory and colors and the radiance of Heaven itself.  Our spirit man can bow before the Lord God Almighty and worship with the angels and living creatures.  We have access because we belong to Him, we are His dear children, His beloved, The Bride that He is preparing for Himself.  Praise the Lord!  Praise His Holy Name!!

If you haven’t yet experienced this kind of love, this kind of relationship with our Lord and you would like to then I challenge you to seek after Him until you find Him!  He promises that if we draw near unto Him, He will meet us!  Read in the gospel of John about the love of Jesus and ask the Lord to give you a fresh revelation of His overwhelming love for you.  Dare to take the first steps to experiencing Him in a new and more powerful way.  He is waiting for you, He is longing for you, He is calling you but you have to go to Him and surrender to His love.

His love is so healing.  The more we experience Him, staying enveloped in that great love, the more we are healed, strengthened and renewed.  Once we experience His love, it so easy to love others, to let Him love others through you.  There is complete freedom, peace and rest in that kind of love.  So I say to you, “Be free, in Jesus’ name, for you are loved and you are free to love!”

Choose to Forgive

You’ve heard the saying, “Hurting people hurt people.”  We know this is true and we see and hear evidence of it wherever we go.  When we hear others lash out in anger, or feel the brunt of it ourselves, we tend to strike back and make our words or actions hurt more than theirs.  This is the kind of thing we see in 2 year olds and expect them to get over.  Yet, we continue to observe young people and adults acting out their anger toward one another.  We see it on the streets and wonder what is wrong with people.  It is easy to look at others and think that they shouldn’t act like that but the real test here is when we even see it in ourselves.  How seriously do we take the words, “Treat others the way you would have them treat you?”

I am grieved by the numbers of families I see that are broken and at war with one another.  Dr. Paul Hegstrom has written several really good books but he has one entitled, “Broken Children, Grown-up Pain.”  In this book he discusses how wounds and abuses we sustained during childhood affect us as adults.  I am borrowing a quote from one description of the book, “The memory of the past may seem distant and clouded, but within its scars deep wounds remain that continue to inflict pain upon our adult lives–and often end up spilling into the lives of others.”  I would like to add that I believe they ALWAYS spill over into the lives of others.   I know of siblings who are estranged from one another, parents and children who haven’t seen or heard from one another for years all due to the anger and bitterness of the past.  Family of God, this should not be.

I have heard people say that they forgive, even speak forgiveness to their family and yet every conversation is peppered with how badly they were hurt by the one they say they forgive.  Each one blames the other for this or for that, even going so far as to question or condemn the other’s professed commitment to belief in the Lord Jesus.  From time to time, most of us have indulged in laying out guilt and blame.  We want to make them pay.  I have to ask, however, is that true forgiveness?  If you say, “Well, I forgive but I’ll never forget,” have you truly forgiven?

I have discussed in my previous blogs, “Healing of Soul Wounds” and “Releasing Unhealthy Soul Ties,” the steps to freedom from this type of oppression.  In ministry sessions, oftentimes people won’t let you touch their ‘ouchies’ but here is a perfect way to get alone with God and let Him do the surgery on you to pull this junk out of your heart and out of your life.  You still have to make a choice, however.  You can choose to hang on to your offenses, your woundedness and anger or you can choose to let it go.  It is ALWAYS a choice!!!

I hear people say all of time that he or she doesn’t deserve to be forgiven.  If I forgive then it makes what they did all right.  Does it really?  And who made you the judge and jury?  Is your unforgiveness really hurting them?  Sometimes they don’t even know you are angry.  However, as long as you hang on to the offense and the anger and unforgiveness you provide an obstacle that hinders the Lord’s work in them, as well as refusing to let the Lord work in you.  It requires an act of surrender on your part.  Remember, you are the only one that you can change.  You are not responsible to change someone else.  What about the portion of the Lord’s prayer that says, “Father, forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us?”  Can we be forgiven if we refuse to forgive?  Beloved, I encourage you to lay it at His feet once and for all.

Many of us have sung the familiar words, “They’ll know we are Christians by our love.”  And yet, do we really show love unto others?  It is often easier for us to show the love of the Lord to complete strangers than it is to our own family.  The real test of our Christian love, however, comes within our families.  It is the real proof that Christ lives in us.  We should treat them better than we treat anyone else and prefer them above all others.  Until Christ rules and reigns there, then our ministry of love to others is actually pretty ineffectual.

Our best example of the complete love of God is found in Jesus Christ Himself.  When He went to the cross, even in the midst of the pain and misery of His suffering there, He spoke forgiveness.  That was not just directed to the soldiers who had carried out the deed but to all humanity.  You may rationalize with ‘but He was God in the flesh so He could surely do that.’  He was also human and experienced humanity as we do.  Why do you imagine that He sweat drops of blood as He prepared for His own crucifixion?  It wasn’t just about the pain He would suffer.  I believe He was also struggling with forgiving a faithless, cruel, and evil people.  That would include us before we came to know Him.  He had to make a choice to love, a choice to forgive, a choice to surrender, a choice to be reconciled.  We are faced with the same choices.  If we call ourselves Christians, ‘little Christs,’ then how can we fail to make those choices?

Father God, in the name of Jesus Christ, who loved me and forgave me and surrendered Himself for me that I might be reconciled to You by Holy Spirit, I forgive those who have hurt me.  I will not hold their past or mine against them any longer.  I surrender my right to be offended and angry.  I ask that you would forgive me for hurting them, as well.  Lord, I want what You want and I believe You want me to let go.  I make the choice right here, right now and I ask You to fill the hurt and wounded places with Your love and Your healing.  In Jesus’ name, Amen!

Releasing Ungodly Soul Ties

Today I would like to discuss Soul Ties and how they impact our lives.  They can be either healthy or unhealthy, actually Godly or ungodly.   I believe Soul Ties have a direct relationship to Soul Wounds so for those who may be entering my blogsite for the first time, please be sure to read the previous article.

By definition, a soul tie is a connection formed between two people that involves mind, will and emotions.  It can bring forth both positive and negative results.

A positive or Godly soul tie is the one that is created between a man and a woman in Godly marriage.  God joins two people together and the Bible tells us that they become one flesh. They are bound together and they will cleave unto one another in a unique way. The purpose is to build a very healthy, strong and close relationship between a man and a woman.  Matthew 19:5 , And he said, ‘This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.’  That unity is a mystery in God. It is a spiritual bond and can’t really be explained but it is definitely understood.

Soul ties also exist between parents and children and can also be found in strong or close friendships. They are not just limited to marriage, as we can see in the example of the friendship between King David and Jonathan in 1 Samuel 18:1.  They can exist in families between siblings and with other relatives.

Negative or ungodly soul ties are those that can be used for the devil’s own advantage. These soul ties are nearly always formed from having sex outside of marriage and cause a person to become defiled.  It is also possible for an ungodly soul tie to form in a steady dating relationship where heavy petting has invited this sort of tie to form.  This is why it is common for a person to still have ‘feelings’ towards an ex-lover or ex-boyfriend or girlfriend even years later.   It is important to realize that you have no right to be attracted in that way.  If you find yourself thinking often of an old relationship then you might ask yourself if there is an ungodly soul tie there.  An ungodly soul tie is perpetuated in the situation of abuse, as well.  It explains why a victim of abuse will often return to relationship with the abuser.  It isn’t because of love, it’s because a soul tie was formed.

Multiple sexual relationships are even more destructive.  There is a cleaving in each one and you have joined your spirit and become one with each lover you encountered. It leaves a person fragmented to the point where a truly healthy relationship is impossible without repentance and healing.  Each one of the soul ties that has been created needs to be broken and you need to take steps to reclaim what you gave away as well as let go of what you took.

Ungodly soul ties can also be formed in any other close relationship, i.e. with children, grandchildren, siblings, friends, etc, when these relationships are controlling your life.  It can be a fine line that is crossed when normally close relationships become the center of everything we do, think and say and take precedence in our lives.  Because of our love for one another, it is easy for that relationship to turn to one of control and manipulation.  Ungodly relationships occur when the Lord is not the focus of our lives.  When our strongest soul tie is to God, there is a divine covering and protection that enables us to withstand forming ungodly soul ties.  Submission to the work of Holy Spirit in our lives is crucial to walking in correct relationship to one another.

Demonic spirits can also take advantage of ungodly soul ties, and use them to transfer spirits between one person to another.  The person will probably experience severe demonic visitations and torments, nightmares, etc. all thanks to an ungodly soul tie. This type of problem requires the ministry of deliverance.

I realize that I have gotten into darker territory here but there are many who are being harassed by evil spirits because of the choices that were made in the flesh.  There is much more going on in the spirit realm than you realize but there is a way to be released from it’s torment.  Go back through the steps that I wrote out in being freed from soul wounds.  First, repent!  Tell God that you are sorry for your sin then ask for His forgiveness.  Take the steps of pulling each one out of your heart, even calling each one by name.  Place them in your hands and then give the sin along with each person you had relationship with back to the Lord.  Ask Him to fill the void in your heart with Holy Spirit and His healing balm.  Ask Him to take away any pain associated with the memories and ask for His cleansing of spirit, soul and body.  Keep declaring your freedom and your wholeness in Christ.  Job 22:28, Decree a thing and it shall be established.  John 8:6, He whom the Son sets free is free indeed.

Father God, in the name of Jesus, my Redeemer, I pray for each one who has gone through the process of cleansing today.   I pray for Your comfort to overshadow them.  I pray for them to be released from any sense of guilt and condemnation for there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ.  I ask that You would seal them in Your precious Holy Spirit and guide them on their journey to draw closer to You.  I break off the chains of the enemy that have sought to bind them and release them into wholeness before You.  I decree and declare over each one that they are free!   In Jesus’ Name, Amen!!!!

Healing of Soul Wounds

This topic of the healing of soul wounds seems to be my main focus at this time.  I have ministered this over and over again.  It is so very important, even crucial, to our receiving healing, answers to our prayers, and more revelation from our Lord.

We know from practical experience that if we chop off a weed at ground level, the root will continue to produce another plant.  The life underground has not been cut off.  We must dig out the root in order to prevent another infestation of noxious weeds in our garden.  This is also true in our spiritual life, in the garden of our heart.  In dealing with the weeds in our lives, if we only look at the surface then we are missing the deeper issues that are keeping us in bondage.

We must let the Lord reveal to us the deeper source of our oppression.  For instance, you may have recently been hurt or angered by something someone spoke to you.  You may have reacted very strongly against them and even attacked them with cruel words.  You may have cried with hurt and brokenness.  You might ask yourself why that particular thing had such an effect on you.  Have you ever wondered why those kinds of things have a cumulative effect on you and why it feels like this one is the straw that broke the camel’s back?  It is because of an underlying soul wound, a root that has never been pulled out.

When ministering, I often have that person become interactive and visual in removing soul wounds.  I will say to the person that they should hold one of their hands out in front of them and with the other hand grab hold of that wound from out of their heart, their soul and place it in their hand.

Right now, you can do that, too.  Take hold of fear and pull it out and place it in your hand.  Take hold of words that became curses spoken over your life.  Take hold of anger, depression, discouragement, self-hatred, abandonment, rejection, rebellion, doubt and unbelief.  Pull out stress, anxiety, grief, and unforgiveness.  Place all of those things in your hand.  Listen while the Lord brings to mind other things you need to pull out.  Then, cupping your hands together, hold your hands up to the Lord and offer these things to Him.  After all, He bore all of those things in His precious body on the cross.  He shed His life’s blood there for you so that you might be free from all of the things you have just removed from your heart.  Now give them to Him.  Empty your hands of those things and let them go.  Let Jesus heal every one of those hurts that you have been carrying.  Realize that the burden was not yours to bear.  It’s too heavy for you and He wants you to be free.   Ask Him for His miracle-working power to heal your broken heart and make it new.  Now let the cleansing power of Holy Spirit touch you and refresh you.

Doesn’t that feel better?  I encourage you to do this as often as the Lord brings things to your mind or you find yourself reacting in a way you feel is not Godly.  God peels those layers off of our hearts until we no longer have a heart of stone but, rather, a heart of tender flesh.

Father, in Jesus’ name, I pray for each one who has taken the time to go through this process with You.  I pray for each of those wounds to be gone and be healed by Your gentle touch.  I seal this in Holy Spirit and take authority over even the suggestion that these would ever return.  In Jesus’ name, I declare that you are free.  He whom the Son sets free is free indeed.  Amen!

Welcome

This is my first post to GloryUsDay.  My name is Patricia Harrington and I welcome you to my blog.  I would like to introduce myself to those who do not know me.  I am from South Dakota originally and currently live in Texas.  I am a mother, daughter, sister, mother-in-law, step-mother, grandmother, aunt and loyal friend.

I am, first of all, a minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ!  I dedicate this blogsite to my Father God through Jesus Christ as inspired by Holy Spirit.  It is my prayer that this website will be one of encouragement, renewal, hope and even education for those who will find it.

I often find myself sharing insights from scripture and revelation from God with others.  I can’t keep quiet for long when it comes to talking about my Jesus.  I have been encouraged to find a way to share more publicly because my benevolent family and friends have been blessed by what the Lord has given me.

I must clarify that I am not a counselor.  It is merely my desire to lead others into a stronger, more intimate relationship with Jehovah God, Yahweh, our Father, through Christ Jesus our Savior and Risen Lord, by the power of Holy Spirit our Comforter and Protector.

It is my goal to address, in a practical way, how to progress in that relationship so that we all have a greater understanding of the Godhead and of our position in Him; what it really means to be “I in Him, He in me.”  I will continually point you toward “trusting in the Lord with all your heart, leaning not to your own understanding but in all your ways acknowledging Him and He will direct your paths.”  (Proverbs 3:5-6)  He has to be the beginning and the end of all of our questions, our desires, our hopes and our dreams.

I will at times be sharing my life’s experiences in order to clarify that we are not so different in the struggles we face in this life.  It is my prayer for you that you will be blessed in what you read here, that you may be open to receiving the Lord’s direction and challenged to allow Him to teach you and even make course corrections in your life.

God Bless you today and every day!!!