What I learned this Summer in Jamaica WI.

This year in April 2013 I attended the funeral of my children's father and was able by the mercy of God to pray for reconciliation, healing and some deliverance to come to a family that was torn apart, and hurting from many wounds. This miracle brought about a desire to revisit Jamaica like a tourist and reconnect with many who I knew as an early Christian, and as a student in High school. .

 I turned 60 this past December (12/22/2012) It was predicted to be the end of the world according to the Mayan calendar. Well, I decided to follow the suggestion of a beloved friend who encouraged me to focus on things I would like to do, and ways to take better care of myself. God must have wanted to show me as my Father, that He would give me the desires of my heart. So, after the funeral in April, I had a desire to rediscover my roots, but I did not know how I would do this. So I prayed that if God wished for me to visit Jamaica as a tourist, He would have someone invite me to visit.

To my amazement within two weeks of that prayer, I received an E-mail inviting me to Jamaica with no strings attached, no cost to me, and an open welcome to come as a tourist, to be treated as a daughter of the King. My vacation to Jamaica was made possibly by a sister in the Lord, who in obedience to Holy Spirit, invited me to come and spend my summer vacation with her. I accepted her invitation right away, as I recognized this was an answer to my bucket list of prayer requests.

The first lesson I learned from my many hand of God interventions, and God moments in Jamaica: is that God is always giving. In order to help someone experience God’s unconditional love, the Christian has to be willing to give of their resources the 3T’s (time, talents, and treasures)

The fruits that God gives to every believer they are shed abroad into our hearts: love, joy, peace gentleness, goodness, faith, self control, contained power (meekness) and long suffering. It is only by Holy Spirit’s power that these fruits will be evident in each believer and by seeking to demonstrate God’s love as we are told in

1 Corinthians 13

The Message (MSG)

^3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.

This lesson was what I learned in Jamaica this summer. I have to be sure to guard my heart against the pull of the world, and its fleshy way of living. It’s duplicity, saying one thing but doing something else. It’s pull towards self and selfishness. If I am to do things God's way it will be unselfish and with a willing heart. 

I am now very refreshed. I’m inspired and ready for the new school year. I realize that one way to not be stressed this year is to give of my self with out expecting anything in return. To plant seeds as I give of my time, talents and treasures. God will always give back to me exceedingly, abundantly, above what I could ever ask or imagine or even think. 

So saints, be encourage do not be weary in doing well. Your Father who searches your heart, He knows the intentions and will always give you back, much more than you could possibly give to Him.  

I want to thank my sister in Christ, who gave of her time. talent and treasures this summer. I will always see this summer in Jamaica, as one of the pivotal moments in the year of 2013 

Does God listen to Prayers that are NOT HIS Will?

Jesus said this to disciples when they asked Lord teach us how to pray

“This, then, is how you should pray:”‘Our Father in heaven,
hallowed be your name,¹⁰ your kingdom come,
your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
¹¹ Give us today our daily bread.¹² And forgive us our debts,
    as we also have forgiven our debtors.¹³ And lead us not into temptation,^[a]
    but deliver us from the evil one.^[b]…….."

If we expect God to hear and answer our prayer we need to know God does not contradict His word, or his will, or his commands. So if His will is to be done on earth as it is in heaven. We have to pray His will NOT Man’s will.  I’m glad that pastor stepped down since he would not be praying to The Almighty God. Neither could he expect God to answer his prayers.  The God of creation, the God who made this world, the King of Kings and Lord of Lords watches over his word to perform it. God is NOT interested in answering prayers made to promote man’s imagination, laws, ideas or philosophies, He is God and does not change for majority, minority, or any special interest group, Americans, leaders, demigods etc.   HE IS THE ONLT TRUE GOD!

This is the Word of the Lord

God’s Wrath against Sinful Humanity

¹⁸ The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, ¹⁹ since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them.²⁰ For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

²¹ For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. ²² Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools ²³ and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

²⁴ Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. ²⁵ They exchanged the truth about God for a lie,and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

²⁶ Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. ²⁷ In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

²⁸ Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.²⁹ They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; ³¹ they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. ³² Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

This is the word of the Lord. All Christians who call them selves’ followers of Christ should be defending Godliness and the truth of God’s word, not looking to deny Christ. It has been prophesied and so it is to be expected, that in the last days many will lose their faith, many will fall away, and many will deny Him. just like Peter did before his crucifixion.

Who is created in God's Image and Likeness????

One of the words that came several times over this past weekend and on New Year's Day, was that God Has created us in His image and likeness.

Genesis 1: 27....Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth and over all the creatures that move along the ground.” So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

 So I asked the Scientific question

 How is an Image made? 

Scientific answer

 "Anything and everything you see is light.

We are surrounded by white light. It is in a way wrong to actually say that a car is green and a bus is yellow.. The point here is that the light is a spectrum of different colors, that together makes white. When a green car looks green to us, that means that it actually absorbs the other colors of the white spectrum, hence only reflecting green. Exactly the same with any other object. 

All colors look like they do because of their ability to absorb the other colors of the spectrum of light.

A mirror on the other hand simply reflect 90-99% of the light that hits it, hence we see a reflection in it. The  better the  mirror, the better reflection." 

So, how I relate my scientific understanding with my spirit understanding?? 

Just as the moon reflects the sun and becomes it's image to us in the night (DARK) 

 So then we too are called to reflect God and become His image to the world. Holy Spirit is here to be in each and everyone who allows Holy Spirit to take control. So, it is possible to be the reflection and image of God to the world.

We are called to be the ( mirror )of God's Image  ( It is no coincidence that Jesus says He is the light of the world... "John 95 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”) We Need His light to be able to reflect His image to others. We are called to be light in the dark.   We are to reflect in our mirror of God  Gal 5: 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness and self-control.

The Message Bible says it this way(MSG)

"The Life of Freedom Gal: 5 Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you...... What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.......

22-23 But what happens when we live God’s way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

23-24 Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good—crucified.

25-26 Since this is the kind of life we have chosen, the life of the Spirit, let us make sure that we do not just hold it as an idea in our heads or a sentiment in our hearts, but work out its implications in every detail of our lives. That means we will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse. We have far more interesting things to do with our lives. Each of us is an original." 

So may we walk in the light as He is in the light and have fellowship one with the other. Let us encourage each other to be the image and likeness of God. Let us sharpen each other this year. Let us be determined to fellowship as one family as Holy Spirit Jesus and the father are all one.

P.S

Just a reminder we are called to be community and have fellowship, relationship. We are not called to isolation in Christ. It is a Lie from Satan to be encouraged to stay home and do your own thing. There is no example of Jesus doing that.  The only time Jesus was alone was for prayer and fasting and to be tempted of the devil. Many times Jesus asked the disciples to pray with him and they were not able to keep up with His desire to pray, they would fall asleep and leave Him alone to pray. His desire was to do all in community. His desire is that we present His image and likeness to others in our communities. So, let's do that!

Why Does God allow evil?

Recently one of my dearest sisters asked the question why does God allow the devil to do such awful things to God's people and also to innocent children? 

The disciples asked similar questions of Jesus "As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”³ “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴ As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 

The Bible from OT to NT shows God's desire for us to obey Him and to resist the devil. Every story event points to God's desire for us to be whole, full of His love, and experience His abundant life.

Unfortunately, we allow the devil to continue to lie to us, as he lied to Adam and eve in the garden.

 "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?”² The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, ³ but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’”⁴ “You will not certainly die,” the serpent said to the woman.⁵ “For God knows that when you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”

We need to remember that God keeps his word. One day Satan will be  cast into hell for eternity. Until then Satan will still do his job, of attacking. killing, stealing and destroying all of God's creation. We too need to do our job of bringing down the schemes of the devil. As.God's children, we are soldiers in God's army. Our fight is against evil and Satan's plans. If we allow the Holy Spirit to build us up in our spirit man, if we come together and work against the kingdom of darkness, If we obey God and have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can move the mountains. It is only then that we can bring God's healing, and reverse the things that Satan and his demons have put on mankind.

  ¹³ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. ¹⁴ Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, ¹⁵ and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. ¹⁶ In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. ¹⁷ Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.¹⁸ And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.

Being a Christian is not for the weak, double-minded, ungrateful, or prideful.A true Christian is faithful, humble, and obedient to His Lord and Savior. The battle is good against evil. Jesus has given us the victory, by His crucified,and resurrected  body. Jesus has already defeated Satan and all his demons. If we allow Holy Spirit to use our minds and our bodies, we too will experience the victory over all of Satan's evil schemes.   

It's the churches responsibility to crush Satan under it's feet

Guys we are in a war for God to be restored into this nation.

We see everyday that principles of the word of God are being

 eroded and stripped from the foundations and core of America.

We have to expose the enemy among us, so that we can truly unite in God.

God has given us the strategy of war, it is the sword of the spirit which is the word of God.

Jesus has told us to unite to be one, as He and the Father are one.

 We cannot depend on the world's methods of fighting, as we know we fight

Not against flesh and blood BUT against principalities and powers in high places. 

This is why we have to speak truth and life to each other.

We have to love each other, and pray together and declare what the 

word of God says about each other.

We cannot afford to let the enemy keep us divided as the body of Christ.

We need to recognize the strategy of the enemy among believers..

We need to allow the Holy Spirit to show us His plan and obey Holy Spirit's truth

If we become strong together if we agree together with the love 

that  is shed abroad in our hearts, from the God of love. Once we agree together to 

follow God's plans, commands, rules and principles. Then we have the victory. 

Then we can move forward,and not back to the old ways of lies and division.

The Bible says resist the Devil and He will flee. Let us identify the devil's plan 

when we see it among us. When we see Satan at work in our midst we need to expose 

his lies, and counterattack Satan, with the truth of God's word.

God wants us new and improved without spot and blemish. 

Then He will help us fight for that which is just, right and true,

in the new and improved America.

Judgement begins in the house of God

Matthew 2:12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

13 And when they were departed, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise,

and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word:

for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.

14 When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

This scripture clearly indicates that Jesus could NOT have looked white with blond hair and blue eyes to hide in Egypt.

The scientific evidence of DNA and eye color, that we now know about, helps us know the heritage and ancestry of Jesus.

The Jews intermarried with so many pagan races in the Old Testament

They lived in Egypt as slave for 400 years.  Abraham who came out of  North Africa became the father of 

Israel and Ishmael (all Arab nations today ) This indicates that Jesus would look more like an Egyptian, or Arab then any 

Northern European. The  Romans the strongest and closes Northern Europeans to the Jews 

during that time, did not have blond hair and blue eyes as one of their dominant features. DNA tell us  brown eyes and black hair

dominates. So, those who promote blond hair, blue eyes, white Jesus in churches, are allowing the teaching of the those

who support hate for others, and who cannot accept other people or other colors as equal to them. It is the philosophy of

"Who do you think you are, to try to be equal with me? I am superior to you in every way."

"White supremacy is the belief, and/or promotion of the belief, that white people are superior to people of other racial backgrounds.

The term is sometimes used specifically to describe a political ideology that advocates the social, political, historical and/or industrial 

dominance by whites.[1] White supremacy, as with racial supremacist in general, is rooted in ethnocentrism and a desire for hegemony

 and power, [2] and has frequently resulted in violence against non-whites. Different forms of white supremacy have different conceptions

of who is considered white, and not all white supremacist organizations agree on who is their greatest enemy." I t is out of this

lie from Satan that the KKK was founded. Satan is the father of HATE and LIES and God is love. Two very different kingdoms. 

The Kingdom of darkness promotes hate, racism and lies. The Kingdom of light promotes love, unity, truth, justice and goodness 

When are the Christians in America going to repent and begin to speak truth and life to all people? 

When are we going to become ONE Nation under God? When is the church in America going to treat all people as created equally by God?  if the Christians in America really believe that God is a God of equality, then it is time to speak up against racism and the spirit of hate that has dominated this country since the Pilgrims came here, and butchered the native Americans.

Its time to embrace truth and do everything possible to bring togetherness and not feed and encourage false teaching and false beliefs. 

Wake UP American Christians, GOD is not pleased with racism as usual.
TV churches need to start a campaign of truth, and unity in the body of Christ. Try to promote godly men and women and stop the theology of hate.  

God is Love! So we can only love through God's doing.

Recently I got to fellowship with some young people who are on FIRE for Jesus. The conversation came up about the Unconditional Love of God, and man's attempt to love as God loves. Their take on love, was that even ungodly people love. This observation and acknowledgement of what the world calls LOVE, caused me to think,do I agree with these young people that the ungodly can show love? Do I agree with what the world calls love? Since God is LOVE then His action defines what love is, how it is expressed and what it should look like. So then we need to ask God what is Love. The Bible and Jesus demonstrated The God love, as Unconditional. That God is always forgiving, always willing to sacrifice, always welcoming, always healing, always truth, always just, always good, always righteous and holy. Jesus tells us, "the Greatest commandment is to First love God, and then others as our selves." The pattern is set if we don't love God first, we cannot love others or our selves. So we have to ask ourselves can a godless person express love as is defined by God? So do I think that a person who does NOT KNOW God, can show love or(GOD)? I have to say, I think the world tries to imitate everything God does. The Bible clearly tells us only God can judge what is in a person's heart. It is God who judges the heart of every human“‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules. So it really boils down to the day of Judgement. When God says to those who say to HIM "did I not do this in your name? (His Name is LOVE. GOD is LOVE) Did I not heal the sick, feed the poor, raise the dead in your name? Then God will judged the motives of one's heart. Ask yourself did you do these things out of your love for me or your love for others? 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. 22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity. 24 Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: We know in our own hearts we can also judge if our motives are pure. We know our own flesh. We know if Holy Spirit is leading us to do something. It is Holy Spirit who knows when we have called out to Him . When we have listened to Him When we have obeyed HIM. He Knows when we have done acts of love for selfish reasons. When we have given to others, made sacrifices, did God get that glory? Did our actions bring the healing of God to that person? Was our obedience to forgive helpful to the one being forgiven? When Oprah gives away her favorite things, is it to give God glory? Is it for ratings on the Oprah show? Can we at least say she already got her glory. Or is her reward for self glory? We often get the reward of the world, it's recognition and appreciation that is offered, when we demonstrate love. If truly we want to shoe God kind of love we have to allow Holy Spirit to control our motives, let Him purify our hearts, so we give glory to God instead of our selves. If we surrender our hearts, minds, hands and feet to Holy Spirit in all our relations and situations. If we allow Holy Spirit to lead us then we get our supply from the Love stream of God, who is the giver of real love, then that is when we truly demonstrate love. The glory to God Love. The sacrificial, denying your personal needs for another love. God gets the Glory in that kind of Love. The love that obeys Holy Spirits promptings. The Love that obeys God's word. The Love that is forever being willing to lay down one's rights and to humble oneself so that God comes through as a shining star. Love is a willingness to forgive because God has forgiven you. Love is supernatural. Love is allowing God to work through you to Himself, yourself and to others. Love is a heart issue, and only God judges the issues of our Heart. Love is not the chemical feeling that we get.That is the physical response we feel to stimulation. Real love is all about God. Only God can work Himself through a human to express Love.Ultimately God expresses himself through us with HIS loving action. He is LOVE!