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Good Fear, God Fear

Good Fear, God Fear

“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom…” Proverbs 9:10

“The fear of man bringeth a snare…” Proverbs 29:5

“You are more concerned with what they think of you than with what I wanted you to do,” the Lord spoke to my heart in the middle of the night one time. The last thing I wanted was to be up at 3:30 am, especially when I had a big day in ministry ahead. But there I was, pacing in my prayer room as I prayed, half asleep, half awake – awake enough to hear His ad...

The Beautiful Confessional

The Beautiful Confessional

“Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16

“For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all,…” 1 Tim. 4:5-6

A teacher decades ago told my class about her Catholic upbringing and how as a young girl she had been taught she needed to enter the confessional with the priest and confess her deadly sins. Needles...

The Abortions I Had

“Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.” Ezekiel 18:30

You can say anything you want to say, and believe anything you want to believe, and fall for anything this world is telling you, and buy into anything science has to say about it, and fall for anything you have heard, and listen to all the world’s voices patting you on the back and saying it’s alright it’s no big deal it’s not a sin it’s just well you know whatever, and you can subscr...

You Hurt My Feelings

You Hurt My Feelings

“Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.” Galatians 6:1

My friend had been given the dirty work. She had been called to wash my feet. I keep my feet relatively clean thanks to bathing and socks, but daily as I learn to walk with the Lord I still find myself getting my feet dirty by walking in places – and ways – I should not walk. Have you ever notice...

Falling in Love

“Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Psalm 119:18

So often it seems I’ve heard people say they don’t like the Old Testament. So many people seem to stay away from it outside of perhaps hearing a sermon on it. So few people it seems dive deep into it of their own volition. I was the exact same way until the Holy Spirit got a hold of me and took me diving down deep into its endless infinitely precious treasures. Now I LOVE the Old Testament. Some people may t...

Top 5 Ways NOT to Choose a Church

“And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.”Acts 2:46-47

“You definitely should try that church,” I overheard a woman tell her customer. “You can come as you are, and you can dress however you like!” she exclaimed. There was no mention of God and the Bible, or of the...

Angel in the Wheelchair

“Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God; him shalt thou serve, and to him shalt thou cleave, and swear by his name.” Deut. 10:20

Angels don’t always have wings – in my experience anyway. Somehow lots of us humans decided all angels fly in the sky like airplanes and have great big, magnificent wings that whir in the wind and drop down bouquets of blessings from above. Strong’s concordance says the Hebrew and Greek words translated into angel also can be described as “messenger”. If angels are messen...

Stop Veering

“Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.” Deut. 5:32

When the Spirit of God told me while I was driving one day to STOP VEERING, I knew immediately what God was telling me. I knew instantly He was not talking to me about my driving. And I knew almost right away that His message to me was for others also. Maybe even you.

I had been driving for decades by then, and I knew plenty about the danger of veeri...

The Most Unusual Messenger

“In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight. And the same John had his raiment of camel’s hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Then went out to him Jerusalem, and all Judaea, and all the reg...

Are You Wearing Yourself Out?

“And he [Jesus] entered into one of the ships, which was Simon’s, and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. And he sat down, and taught the people out of the ship. Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy word I will let down the net. And when they had this done, they inclosed a grea...