BENEATH THE VEIL - FRESH VIEW CHRISTIAN INSIGHT

Sunday, November 2, 2025

STEPPING OUT INTO THE UNKNOWN

Several years ago, I was chubbier and I had a goal to lose some weight. I thought I would look prettier and I’d be healthier too. But as I lost the weight, I was getting more looks from the guys and it made me uncomfortable and self-conscious. I nearly sabotaged myself and thought about going off the diet. It’s kind of a silly example, but how many times have we had a God-inspired goal for a Godly reason and just as we were really making progress, we ran across the first obstacle and wondered, “Did I really do the right thing?”

It’s at those points that we have to go back to our original motivation for the changes we’re making. If our reason for even wanting to make a change came from a godly point of view, then He will help us through the challenges and help us overcome any hurdle we may come across. We can clearly see that the men and women of the Bible grew spiritually as they were led by the Lord to step into the realm of the unknown.

As the author Israelmore Ayivor says in his book Shaping the Dream, “Break away from the box confining you. Positive dreamers do not follow the status quo. They keep raising the standard of the bar higher and higher. Raise the bar.”

But with raising the bar in our spiritual lives, we need to know that what we aim for, what we will gain in the end, will be well worth the jump. As one Bible teacher puts it, “New level, new devil.” Growing spiritually is not for sissies.

In Matthew 14:28-32, Peter took a bold step of faith. He could have drowned! “Peter said, ‘Lord, if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water.’ And he [Jesus] said, ‘Come.’ And when Peter was come down out of the ship, he walked on the water, to go to Jesus.” So far, so good. In fact, amazing! “But when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink.” Okay, big obstacle!

But look what Peter does and it’s what we have to do too. “He cried, saying, Lord, save me.” I just love that. Just because we have the courage to start something new, or enter a brave new phase of growth doesn’t mean we have to brave it alone!

Look at how the Lord reacted: “And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him.” Jesus then said to Peter, “O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?” That’s where believing in the original aim is so important. Peter wanted to grow his faith and that is a godly aim, so he shouldn’t have let the demon’s distraction and stormy obstacle get to him. He should have kept his eyes on the good future Jesus promised.

Jesus reprimanded Peter, but He didn’t abandon him. “And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.” Notice that THEY came back to the ship. So many people miss that. Jesus AND PETER came back to the ship. That means that Peter was again walking on the water and this time he reached his goal! The devil had to give up. He wasn’t going to win. The Bible says: “the wind ceased.” The demon was deflated!

We’re like Peter. When we get into a new phase of life, or a new spiritual level, the devil will try to back us down. If we are wanting to be more loving, you can be pretty sure the devil will put you around the most unlovable people he can find. If you’re praying to be better at exposing and casting down demons, you can be sure you will be meeting some of the most insidious. Are you are aiming at being a more patient person? You better be ready for some really annoying stressors. I’m not trying to scare you; just telling the truth.

The great thing is that there is no demonic force that can stand up to the power of Jesus Christ. Hebrews 13:8 says: “Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and forever.”

As we courageously step out toward those God-inspired aims, goals and dreams, we will have times of attack, times of distraction and even fear, but Jesus will always be there, just like He was with Peter. The Lord Jesus will lift us up and we will walk on water with Him to reach what we were aiming for.

Love, Carolyn

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Saturday, November 1, 2025

JANE MUHA

Many of you have never met Jane, but you've heard about her in my Preach letters.

On October 27, Jane, my sister in Christ and best friend of 43 years passed away. She was 75 years old and her body gave out from renal failure. Jane and I met in a Christian group and when I prayed for help running classes that helped people to understand and read the Bible on their own, Jane came forward to help. It was in one of those classes that God told each of us separately that He wanted us to go to Africa. We did, in ’84 to ’87. We remained friends and were sisters in Christ and best friends for 43 years. We were what they used to call "spinsters", never married, just friends and no gay shit either.

For the last several years, she was in some kind of pain pretty consistently, but didn't complain much. She always was very sharp mentally and spiritually, but the physical health just wasn't there.

When Jane read about the Tesla technology and the existence of the Medbeds, she studied it intensely and that was her biggest desire, to go in the Medbed, get healed, and then work with people who came to the Medbed centers to get the therapy too.

The Lord did not forget or forsake Jane. At the end He did a huge miracle for her! He answered her prayers about the Medbed healing experience. Just before she passed, I looked at her face and it was changed!! She had no wrinkles, her skin was so smooth, and perfect. And she was prettier than I'd ever seen her! Her face glowed!! She was so beautiful!! And then she passed. I was so happy Jesus gave her His own Medbed experience before she went🙂.

Jane was a complex person and for some, hard to take. But she always told the truth and for those blessed enough to get to know her, you know that though she could be tough, she was also the most loving, generous, and kind person you could be friends with.

I miss her so much. Love, Carolyn

Sunday, October 12, 2025

FIRST STEP TO A FINAL DESTINATION

Do you ever feel like you’re being pushed into something that’s bigger than you’re ready for? I felt like that when I started thinking seriously about taking shooting classes. I’d taken a few lessons before, but this time was different. The Lord was asking me to make a commitment. At first, I wanted to resist. Didn’t God know I already had a busy schedule? Why did I have to do this now? I didn’t feel like I was really ready for this, but I started anyway.

There’s always a first step to a final destination, even if we don’t know what the destination is at the time.

I’ve learned that when God pushes, I can’t say no.

And did you know that Jesus faced the same kind of thing? John 1 and 2 tell us the story.

Jesus had just been baptized by John the Baptist, marking the beginning of his ministry. John said of him: “This is he of whom I said, ‘After me cometh a man which is preferred before me’. . . And John bare record, saying, ‘I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him. . . And I saw, and bare record that this is the Son of God’” (John 1:30, 32, 34).

John the Baptist prepared the people for the coming of Christ, and when John baptized Jesus, he told his followers to start following Jesus. They did, and they got others to follow him too, and Jesus began to teach them.

“And the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there” (John 2:1).

So what did Jesus’ mother do? She invited Jesus and his new disciples to the wedding. When they got there, they wanted to join the celebration, and they wanted a glass of wine.

“And when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus saith unto him, ‘They have no wine’” (v. 3). They all knew that Jesus had been proclaimed as the Christ, the promised one who would save the world, and mom was no exception. She expected her son to find a solution to the wine problem and I believe God inspired her to push him. God doesn’t always have to speak to us directly, but often works through others who will deliver His messages.

But, like us, Jesus wasn’t so happy about being pushed. Hebrews 4:15 tells us that Jesus went through every thought and emotion we go through, and that includes being annoyed when we feel pushed to do something we may not feel we’re ready for!

So, Jesus basically told mom to back off. “Jesus saith unto her, ‘Woman, what have I to do with thee? mine hour is not yet come’” (v. 4). He was saying something like, “Hold on a doggone minute! I just got baptized the other day, or did you forget? I’m not quite ready for this stuff yet!” But his mother knew who he was, and she trusted whatever decision he would make.

“His mother saith unto the servants, ‘Whatsoever he saith unto you, do it’” (v. 5). Jesus’ mother was wise—she was a thinker. When it came to her son, she absolutely knew what God said about who her child was going to be. Remember in Luke 2 when Jesus was born and the shepherds came and corroborated what the angel had told Mary about birthing the Messiah, “Christ the Lord”.

“And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart” (Luke 2:18-19).

So, when Jesus was baptized into his ministry, she gave him a little shove, but left the decision totally up to him. And what did he do? He tapped into the spirit of God within him and took the first step, and immediately he was on the fast track to his destiny. Jesus did his first public miracle and made water into wine and it was the best wine they ever tasted!

When we feel like we’re being pushed a little too hard or a little too fast into something we feel we may not be ready for, if we’re pretty sure it’s of God, let’s not fight it, but just say “Okay, let’s do this”. Afterall, we only have to take one step at a time and Jesus is always there, and our guardian angels too, to help and guide us to our final destinations. No matter how old or young you are, it’s a great journey!

And by the way, by my third lesson, my instructor told me I was a better shot than the whole group of security guys that came to practice! I’ve been blessed me with a steady hand 😊.

Love, Carolyn

WINGS: A Journey in Faith from the Earthly to the Heavenly – an awesome spiritual adventure and great interactive workbook. Find it on Amazon in printed form or Kindle.

Sunday, October 5, 2025

NO POLITE CONVERSATION WITH SNAKES

NO POLITE CONVERSATIONS WITH SNAKES

Revelation 12:9 tells us: “And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world.” He uses deception and trickery to take good people down the wrong road. The first place we see his sly ways is in Genesis, with Eve.

“Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, ‘Yea, hath God said, ‘Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?’” (Gen. 3:1). The serpent tries to get the woman to question what God said. The serpent knew perfectly well that God said there was only one tree they shouldn’t eat of.

It wasn’t that God was never going to let them eat of it; it was the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we see later, they just weren’t prepared for that knowledge yet. But the serpent was doing his best to make it seem like God wasn’t quite as wonderful as Eve thought He was. The devil was trying to bend her thinking.

What did Eve do with Satan’s sly question? She responded; First Big mistake! She actually didn’t have to respond at all. She could have just told the serpent she wasn’t going to talk to him.

When I lived in Johannesburg, South Africa, one of my jobs was acting secretary for the financial minister of the Witwatersrand University. My duties included answering his phone calls. I was to tell everyone that he would not be taking calls for the next three months, but I could take their number if they’d like to leave one. I was shocked! He was right there in the office, but he wasn’t going to take any phone calls for three months?! Before this, I never even thought anyone could dare to do such a thing. I grew to think it was pretty awesome.

When I quit the religious group I was ordained under, they sent me several letters. I read the first one, but after that, I threw away all the rest, unopened. I knew my decision to leave was the right one for me, so I didn’t need to see anything they had to say in the letters.

In 2 Kings, the evil king Sennacherib wanted to capture Judah. He sent a messenger to badger the people with words to make them respond first, then be afraid and give up. But King Hezekiah, head of the Israelites, had been given revelation and already told the people, “Answer him not” (v. 36). And they didn’t, and Sennacherib was unable to take any of the cities. Eve should have been more like the people under Hezekiah’s care.

How many times has someone asked you a stupid question and instead of telling them you aren’t going to talk to them, you get into a ridiculous conversation that goes absolutely nowhere, or worse, you get into a heated argument?

When the Apostle Paul gave instructions to Timothy on how to be a better minister for the Lord, he says, “But foolish and unlearned questions avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes. And the servant of the Lord must not strive” (2 Tim. 2:23-24). I just love that. Jesus doesn’t want us to get into foolish arguments.

We have the Spirit of the Lord in us. You and I both know when someone is asking a stupid question, or one that is intended to start up an argument. Is it really worth it? The answer is, “only if the Lord tells you to go for it.”

We don’t have to have a polite conversation with a snake. We have Holy Spirit in us and we are spiritually smart enough to discern when it’s not wise to respond.

Love, Carolyn

WINGS: A Journey in Faith from the Earthly to the Heavenly – an awesome spiritual adventure and great interactive workbook. Find it on Amazon in printed form or Kindle.

Sunday, September 28, 2025

YOU'RE BLEEDING

YOU’RE BLEEDING

My big ginger tabby, Tommy, couldn’t pee, and the last time I tried to find a reasonably priced vet, I called three places and they all said that I would have to first pay between $300 and $400 for shots before the vet could even look at him! I couldn’t afford it, and Tommy needed immediate help. We prayed for him and claimed his healing, and he did get better, but not totally healed. I was still worried, and it kept twisting into my soul like a corkscrew into a cork. I had to get it out.

I told my best friend Jane how twisted up I was getting. She listened and helped me to see things in a different perspective. Her words and actions helped me to get my thoughts clear again and focus on God’s blessing. The Lord gave her the wisdom right away and told her who to call. She did it, and Tommy got to see a vet right away, no shots required. He got a small surgery and everything he needed for less than $100. Thank you, Lord, and thank you, Jane!

We all encounter rough patches in our thinking. Some preachers like to indicate that it won't happen if we do "the right things," but I don’t believe that. And I don’t see it documented in the scriptures either. The Bible is full of people who overcome problems, not people living perfect spiritual lives without any problems.

Life happens, and we can't stop everything the devil throws at us before it hits our personal space, penetrates, and sometimes causes us to bleed.

We have the Lord Jesus Christ; we have the Bible; we have angels, but sometimes we forget that we have each other. And it’s not a sin to ask for help. In fact, the Lord tells us in James 5:16, “Confess your faults one to another, that ye may be healed.”

It doesn’t do us any good to keep things bottled up inside. If you were physically bleeding from an area of your body that you couldn’t reach, you’d find someone to put a compress on that area to stop the bleeding. It’s the same with us mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. We have been given other people in the body of Christ to help stop the bleeding.

One of the biggest errors I see is that we often hesitate to ask. Pride gets in the way. Asking for help is sometimes hard, but we have to remember that not only does it help us to get our answer, but it also gives someone else in the body of Christ a chance to do some Godly problem-solving. It’s really a very healthy exchange, if taken in the right light.

“Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another” (Eph. 4:25). I love that this verse uses the word “of,” meaning we are connected! We are part of a larger body. Truth and health is meant to abide in the whole body.

Honesty in the body of Christ and asking for help when we need it will make our bonds tighter and our overall health and strength increase.

Love, Carolyn

WINGS: A Journey in Faith from the Earthly to the Heavenly – an awesome spiritual adventure and great interactive workbook. Find it on Amazon in printed form or Kindle.

Sunday, September 21, 2025

A MAN STANDS UP FOR TRUTH

A MAN STANDS UP FOR THE TRUTH

In reading the book of Exodus, I came to the part where God is preparing Moses to bring His people out of Egypt. God told Moses: “Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you, that I may lay my hand upon Egypt, and bring forth mine armies, and my people the children of Israel, out of the land of Egypt by great judgments” (Exod. 7:4).

We know that these judgments included plagues of frogs, lice, flies, and eventually death to the firstborn. But what does the word “judgments” really mean in the original language? I looked it up in Strong’s Concordance. It comes from the Hebrew word “shephet,” which means “a sentence, infliction, punishment.”

Then the Lord inspired me to scroll down on the same Strong’s Concordance page where it shows other places in the Bible where this word is used, and my eyes bugged out!

Proverbs 19:29: “Judgments are prepared for scorners.” And I immediately thought of the death of Charlie Kirk.

He was mocked and scorned in life, and people actually celebrated and rejoiced over his being murdered!

If anyone thinks the Bible doesn’t relate to the world we live in today, think again! GOD IS HERE. We have already begun to see His judgments on the scorners. Repent and be turned back to God through His son Jesus Christ.

Love, Carolyn

Sunday, September 14, 2025

special message for 20&30yr old Christians along with Preach ltr: WHEN THINGS DON'T TURN OUT HOW WE WANT THEM TO

Before I share my Preach Letter, I want to say to you Christian believers in your 20s and early 30s, you make me happy, and I’m so impressed by you and so thankful for your strength in the Lord. You are a generation of good conscience, ethical morality, and respect. You are not afraid to stand up for true Godly ways, and you really give the world a new hope. I love you and pray for you. (from a fellow Christian in her 70s). Thank you!

WHEN THINGS DON’T TURN OUT HOW WE WANT THEM TO

It was December, and the rules of the contest were that if you completed your year-long goal, you had a chance at winning the money. I got an e-mail the night before, and I was a little nervous: “Were you able to complete your goal?” (They remembered me. That’s a good sign, right?) I shot back: “Yes, I did.” The next day was the meeting, and when they came to the contest part, I was piqued.

But as hard as I had tried to see a positive picture of me winning, it just wasn’t happening. As the negative thoughts kept popping up, I’d force them away, and I quoted victory scriptures instead. The announcer walked up to the microphone, “Okay, we have two people who completed the challenge. The winner gets $40 and free meetings all year long.” It wasn’t so much about the money as it was about winning something for my hard work and achievement. “Oh good, only two of us,” I thought. But when she drew the name out, it wasn’t mine! “OH NOOO! What happened?!”

All that positive praying and I just couldn’t make the outcome be what I wanted. The truth is, I really knew it in my heart, but I didn’t want to believe it. In this minor experience, I was reminded of a much larger truth.

Sometimes the Lord’s messages to us are going to seem negative and not what we want to hear. Instead of trying to force the positive result with scriptures, if they aren’t doing anything, then we need to stop pushing and just ask the Lord: “What’s going on?”

God, and Jesus too, expect us to have that kind of relationship with them. I was trying to muscle through with my own will, but it wasn’t to be. Next time this happens, I’m going to be more sensitive to the situation and just ask, and save myself some grief.

My incident was small, but Ezekiel tells of a much graver situation. The prophets didn’t like the messages God was giving about war coming. They decided to enforce their own will and preached peace instead.

God said: “I will destroy you for these visions and lies. My hand shall be against you, and you shall be cut off from among the leaders of Israel; I will blot out your names, and you will never see your own country again. And you shall know I am the Lord. For these evil men deceive my people by saying, ‘God will send peace,’ when that is not my plan at all!” (Ezek. 13:8-10)

When we pray about anything or anyone, we go for the best, and that’s a good thing. But if, in our Spirit, we sense it’s honestly not to be, let’s remember to stop and ask the Lord what’s up. He’ll let us know.

Honest raw truth from the Lord is better than even the slightest bit of “positive thinking” that is not true. The sooner we accept the “negative” message from the Lord, the sooner we can deal with it and move through it.

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies” (Ps. 23:4-5a).

If God needs to tell us negative things, He will do it, but He also leads us through it, no matter what, and we “will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever” (Ps. 23:6).

Love, Carolyn

I have published two Spiritual Life Workbooks and am working on number three. They are designed to help Christians grow in spiritual understanding and practical application. These books are packed with 52 short true narratives (one for each week of a year) to inspire and enhance your spiritual growth.