BENEATH THE VEIL - FRESH VIEW CHRISTIAN INSIGHT: 2025

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

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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

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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

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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

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Sunday, September 7, 2025

WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

My mom passed away a few years ago. In 1 Corinthians 15:55, God tells Christians to consider the question: “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?” The answer is that for Christians who take their last breath on earth, death no longer has a sting, and the grave has no victory either. We pass from one life to another, a life that is wonderful and everlasting. But when a pivotal person passes away, those of us who are left are sometimes forced to answer a different question: “Where do we go from here?” Everything is different now and it's kind of scary and empty feeling.

My mom’s passing was the end of an era: No dad and mom anymore, no more Christmases like before, no more laughing at silly cards, no more talking about the deer and birds we saw out her big picture window. Certain traditions stopped suddenly, and I asked myself: “What now?” I realize many of you have experienced this feeling and you’ve gotten through it. People have lost husbands, wives, children, siblings, parents, and best friends. People have lost their countries altogether. I never knew how many things change as a result of certain losses. And I definitely feel like I have gained more empathy for those who have experienced great loss.

Some losses are less painful, and then there are those that hit deeper, and the changes are not gentle, but radical. I felt like I was stuck in a bit of an empty space. What am I going to do? This feels kind of lonely and weird. But I had choices.

I could either stay in a quandary and just let life happen, or I could change the “empty” to “opportunity.” I chose opportunity. It’s kind of like a rebirth. I could discover new things and make new traditions, but never without the guidance of my Lord would I ever even attempt such things. I had to let God guide me to the next thing, which at that moment, well, I had no idea what that might be.

This new frame of mind made me think of Abraham when God told him to take off to a place he didn’t know.

Genesis 12:1-2 says: “Now the Lord had said unto Abram, ‘Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee: and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing.’”

At the time, God didn’t even tell Abraham where He planned for him to go. It was less about the physical destination, and way more about the spiritual relationship, daily destined to pay attention to the Lord’s leading. Abraham’s physical destination didn’t matter nearly as much as his destiny to daily dwell in the presence of God. That is our ultimate destination and destiny as well.

Hebrews 11:8 reiterates: “By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.”

Psalm 91:1-2 gives me inspiration: “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”

My mom loved God; she loved the Bible; she loved adventure; and she loved new things. Her passing not only opened a new life for her, but it opened new things in life for me, too. I now have more compassion for those who have lost pivotal people in their lives. I stick closer to God and to the Lord Jesus, living more by faith.

We obey the Lord like Abraham did, making new traditions, but always determined to be flexible to the Lord’s nudgings. We remember to live for God first.

Where do we go from here? I don’t know, but I do know we have the absolute best guide.

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

JESUS THE INSTIGATOR

When the dentist finished putting the composite filling in my tooth, the dental assistant held something in my mouth that looked like a fat pen. I heard it buzz a couple times. Then she took it out. What the heck was that?

The dentist explained that it is a blue light. He said it’s an instigator—it starts a chemical reaction in the two mixed materials for the filling.

In looking up the light spectrum, I found that blue light helps boost alertness, heighten reaction times, elevate moods, and increase the feeling of well-being. It’s a high-energy wavelength. I immediately related this to my Lord Jesus.

I thought of the verse where Jesus said: “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12). Jesus is like the blue light. He’s an instigator. He gets things started. He starts us out as a fresh Christian when we accept Him as Lord of our lives. His light cleanses us of all sin, guilt, and shame. Later in our spiritual walk when we need new inspiration or a fresh revelation, He’s there to give a jump start.

We call on Jesus to give us more light on a situation where we feel like we’re in the dark or confused or anxious. Jesus makes a way out of any aspect of darkness and will continue to guide us with His light if we let Him.

I’ve found that when I prayed for the light of Jesus to intervene in a situation, it triggered a domino effect in circumstances that I really had no control over, things I certainly couldn’t change or fix by myself.

The Instigator, Jesus, gets things rolling, and then we get to watch and see how awesome the results follow through, often in ways we would have never dreamed of or expected.

My dentist said the light instigator shining on the two parts of the composite material made it set up much faster than in the old days.

I want to be quicker to call on Jesus’ light in my situations. With His jump start, the results will most likely be speedier too.

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, August 24, 2025

BODYGUARDS FOR LIFE

Mario told me he drives 23 hours straight through when he takes his family to visit relatives in Mexico. I asked him why. He replied, “There are many banditos in the hills along the way, and I am protecting my family.” It reminded me of Genesis 24, where Abraham sent his servant to find a bride for Isaac. The servant had doubts about the trip, but Abraham told him, “The Lord will send his angel before thee and with thee, and prosper thy way.” What did this mean?

The servant had to travel about 450 miles through rough lands carrying a dowry for the prospective bride. Like with my friend Mario, there were bandits along the way ready to rob the servant of his many precious treasures. Part of the angel’s job was to go ahead of the servant and make sure the bandits were not going to be around to attack and steal the goods. Abraham was wealthy, so he would have had many camels with loads of gold, silver, beautiful clothing, and other wonderful things.

The other part of “prospering thy way” was to make sure the servant got to the right destination and receive what the Lord had planned for him (the perfect wife for Isaac). And, indeed, it did happen.

How do these scriptures relate to us? If you consider that our lives are a journey, then these verses from Genesis 24 relate to us in many ways and can be applied in many circumstances. Even on a daily basis we want our journey for that day to be spiritually prosperous, and we want to get to the Lord’s desired destinations for each day.

Also, like Abraham’s servant, we travel with treasures. Our true treasures include our spiritual acuity, and our mental strength, as well as our physical ones. We want them to last and not be lost or stolen along the way.

In Matthew 26:53, we see that Jesus could have asked for the help of angels: “Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?” Twelve legions equal 72,000! Then Jesus tells us we can do the same: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father” (John 14:12).

Considering all that the servant took with him, he most likely had other people with him as well, and the angel protected them, too. We can pray as Jesus did, and ask God for protection for our loved ones, as well as for our personal safety and the security of our goods.

Part of the angel’s mission in Genesis 24 was to prosper the servant by making sure he fulfilled the purpose of his trip. In this case, it was the right woman. Whatever things the Lord has given you a desire for, you can pray that He sends an angel to prosper your way, too, and direct you to be in the right place at the right time to receive that desire fulfilled in the very best way.

It’s also something to note in Genesis 24 that the angel was sent out to prosper the way of a servant. This guy wasn’t a king or a corporate giant; he was a servant. Every single born-again person has access to angels like it says in Hebrews 1:14: “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?” Galatians 3:29 says we are those heirs: “And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.”

I hope you will take the time this week to read the record in Genesis 24 in light of your own life’s journeys and reflect on how you can receive the same kind of blessing that Abraham’s servant received: “bodyguards” to prosper your way and get you to your Godly destinations.

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, August 17, 2025

NO ANGELS UNEMPLOYED

I had a $20 tip in my pocket for my gun instructor, but when I went to take it out to give to him, it was gone! I dug in my pocket and felt all around, but it wasn’t there, so I felt around in my other pocket—empty except for my keys. So, I went back to the first pocket and dug around several more times, even in the small pocket inside the bigger one—nothing! I glanced at the floor and didn’t see it, so I got another $20 out and gave it to him.

Then when I got in the car to go home, I looked around the seat and the floor, again with no success!

So, when I got home, I prayed and told the angels I would like them to find the $20 and bring it to me.

Today I put the same pants on, and after doing errands, I went to take the pants off and there was a little crunching sound in my pocket. I pulled out the $20! The angels had transported it from wherever it was, back into my pocket. And just to show me it was them, the $20 had one corner turned down, like I sometimes do when I don’t have a bookmark and want to remember what page I’m on.

That turned-down edge made me smile. If you didn’t know it, angels aren’t always super serious. They can pull a few funnies at times too!

I know of three other believers who’ve had angels bring them items they “lost,” so I believed they’d do it for me too.

A very important promise from God’s word about what angels do is in Psalm 103: It says:

“Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.” Well, the voice of his word certainly includes the verses of the Bible. So if I am speaking the Bible with believing in my heart, I speak the voice of God’s word.

I prayed Matthew 21:22 “And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.” And I followed it with Luke 1:38: “Be it unto me according to thy word.” “So, angels, there are the scriptures—the voice of his word—go do your job and bring back my $20, in Jesus’ name.” I believe and I receive.

And the angels did it in just one day! We are told in Hebrews that angels are supposed to minister for us. “Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth the minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation.” Well, that includes us!

I like to think that no angels need to be unemployed. Let’s give the angels an opportunity to get up off the bench and do the job they love to do—going out on the “voice of his word” to minister for God’s children.

Getting my $20 back with a fold in the corner was awesome! God’s love for us is so beyond awesome, and there are so many wonderful ways He shows it.

Love, Carolyn

Sunday, August 10, 2025

OUR YOUTH AND STRENGTH CAN BE RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE'S

OUR YOUTH AND STRENGTH CAN BE RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE’S

I’ve been very blessed with generally good health, and a lot of my strength and youthfulness I attribute to praying Psalm 103:5 every morning. It says: “He satisfies my mouth with good things so that my youth is renewed like the eagles.”

As the eagle goes through the different stages of its life, molting takes place, and the new feathers are graciously provided. God created a way for this majestic bird to grow the necessary new, beautiful feathers as it matures. We need the same thing: brand-new feathers to keep us youthful and strong as we also mature.

This scripture is not only talking about God providing good physical food we can eat that can renew our youthfulness, but even more important is the bread of life God’s given us to eat—His living Word. As we embrace the truths of the Bible into our hearts and as we speak them out of our mouth, we get new insight, answers that weren’t there before, fresh understanding, and youthful excitement.

I don’t know about you, but with everything that’s going on in the world right now, I feel a little faint-hearted, a little weary. But just a few minutes ago, I saw this section of scripture, and I was literally renewed and strengthened in my mind.

Isaiah 40:29-32 says: “He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”

I believe that taking delight in God’s Word, both the written Word and the awesomeness of the Lord’s presence in our everyday lives, keeps us strong, and our youth can be renewed like the eagle’s. We must believe that what God says is greater than what we experience in the physical world. God’s truths take us out of the five-senses worldly “evidence,” and into His true reality. We must feed ourselves God’s food and drink the water Jesus offered the Samaritan woman in John 4:

“Jesus answered and said unto her, ‘If thou knewest the gift of God, and who it is that saith to thee, Give me to drink; thou wouldest have asked of him, and he would have given thee living water. Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life’” (John 4:10 and 14).

Take the time today to pick up your Bible and read Isaiah 40 from God’s Word. It’s only 31 verses. I know it will bless you. Cling to God. Today, our Lord is encouraging us to rise up like eagles, and we CAN do it!

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, August 3, 2025

WONDERFUL SPIRITUAL EVIDENCE

For a few weeks now, I’ve been mulling over a chapter about speaking in tongues for my next book. Then one day last week, one of my Facebook friends posted a list entitled “The Benefits of Speaking in Tongues.”

In Genesis 41:32, God shows us one of His universal truths when Joseph tells Pharaoh: “and for that the dream was doubled unto Pharaoh twice; it is because the thing is established by God, and God will shortly bring it to pass.”

I believed this principle the first time I heard it, and I’ve seen God work this “double” principle over and over. So, when Tracy put the list of benefits up on Facebook, I took heed, knowing God was confirming His desire for me to take a closer look at some of the “whys” of speaking in tongues. So, I did.

The one that really stood out to me was number 7: “To have the Spirit bearing witness with our spirit – Romans 8:16.” The whole verse reads: “The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.”

So, what does that verse really mean? Whenever I want to understand more about the deeper meaning of a scripture, the first place I go is to a Concordance, where I can look up the definitions of the individual words in that particular verse.

In this verse, ‘Spirit’ (pneuma) is capitalized, and is talking about the highest Spirit, God! The next word, ‘itself’ is doubling down on the capitalized “Spirit.” It’s emphatic!! In other words, GOD HIMSELF is the subject, and HE is doing the action.

And what is the action? He is “bearing witness.” The phrase “bearing witness,” in the original Greek, is the word “symmartyreō.” It means “testifying unto, to corroborate by evidence, to bear joint witness together, in agreement.”

In agreement with what? “God agrees “with our spirit.” God Himself, as the highest spiritual entity, agrees with each of our born-again spirits. How do we know that? We know it for sure when we speak in tongues, because we could not speak in tongues without a direct spiritual connection with God Himself. When we speak in tongues, it is a joint effort between the person and God.

The act of speaking in tongues is a spiritual thing that you and God do together, both giving evidence of spiritual truth. The holy spirit in you that you received when you got born again receives the exact right words from God Almighty, and your part is to speak the words out almost simultaneously as your holy spirit is receiving them.

We see that Jesus met with his disciples before he ascended and showed them how to begin to speak in tongues: “He breathed on them and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit!’” (John 20:22AMPC). The Greek word for “breathed on” means to “blow on, or breathe out” as you do when you speak. And the word “receive” here means “to take beginning, to prove anything, to make a trial of, to experience.”

So, Jesus is showing them that they begin by believing, by breathing out, breathing out the words, beginning to prove the presence of the holy spirit in them, and making a try at it, experiencing the wonderful connection with God through their own holy spirit inside them, speaking out in tongues the wonderful works from God.

And what does this spiritual togetherness prove? Why does God want us to speak in tongues? Because it proves the last part of Romans 8:16: “that we are the children of God.” So, every time we speak in tongues, even just a phrase or two, we are experiencing a direct connection with our God, our Father.

We are the sons and daughters of the Most High God, and we’ve got the words to prove it. We’ve got the evidence every single time we choose.

“The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God” (Rom. 8:16).

I’ve included the list of benefits, in case you’d like to do your own research on one of the other benefits of speaking in tongues.

Love, Carolyn

P.S. Thank you, Tracy, for posting the list of benefits and being a part of God doubling down on what He wanted me to find out and share! 😊

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Sunday, July 27, 2025

"OH MY GOSH, I'M SO OFFENDED!"

“OH MY GOSH, I’M SO OFFENDED!”

I remember when my 12-year-old washing machine stopped working. When we went to buy a new one, the worker told me they had a new delivery service and could deliver within two days. But, they couldn’t tell me what time the delivery would happen, so someone had to be home all day. What?! They expected someone to stay home all day waiting for the washing machine? That was crazy. I was appalled, offended that they would expect us to put up with such an inconvenience! Added to that, my roommate overheard two ladies in the store complaining about the delivery service, so we were ready for a hassle, but what could we do?

As it turned out, our offense was unfounded. The delivery service called us the evening before, and though we had to wait on the line for about 15 minutes, a very nice woman answered and gave us a 2-hour window for the delivery. Two very polite young men showed up right on time, installed the washer, took the old one, and finished the whole process in only 10 minutes! Our offense was totally out of line! Sorry, Lord!

These days, it seems that we are so easily offended by everything: the internet is too slow; the traffic is too fast; the radio isn’t playing the songs we like; the neighbor’s dog is barking, and so many other things I can’t even begin to name. If we started to count how many things annoy us or offend us in just one day, we’d probably shock ourselves.

Offense is bad for the heart. It’s bad for the nerves. It’s just bad for the universe in general. Matthew 24:10 tells us that when people carry offense, they “shall betray one another and shall hate one another.” Let’s make a real effort to change the course of offense in our world. It’s become quite a big problem. But this kind of problem doesn't get changed by an edict or demand. This kind of problem gets solved by one person, making one decision, one incident at a time. And you are that person, and I am that person. We can change our world, by changing the way we respond to it, one person at a time.

First Corinthians 13 is the chapter in the Bible on the love of God. Verse 5 tells us the love of God “is not easily provoked.” God’s love is like a river; when it comes to an obstacle, it just goes up and over or around. It doesn't stop and have a hissy fit, but just keeps flowing. We need to be more like that, to stay healthy and out of stress.

Jesus said this to His disciples: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid” (John 14:27). We need to not get so riled up about everything, but calmly and prayerfully observe, then engage in life from a Godly point of view, a God-loving point of view. The Lord will help us and guide us. I’m not saying it’s easy; I’m just saying we need to judge each event on its own merit and not jump to conclusions (especially negative ones) so quickly.

We have a real problem in America with critically biased news. But we all are plagued at times with certain biases in our everyday attitudes and actions. Jane and I were offended by our perception of what the washing machine delivery would be like. We were biased by what we heard and swayed to think negatively, and instead it turned out more than wonderful. We need to be more careful about letting offense go wild and ruling our actions, rather than letting the wisdom and peace of God rule.

The disciples of Jesus were offended because someone who wasn’t part of “their group” was healing people. But Jesus handled it. John self-righteously declared, “Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him because he followeth not us. But Jesus said, Forbid him not: for there is no man which shall do a miracle in my name, that can lightly speak evil of me. For he that is not against us is on our part” Mark 9:38-40). Jesus had a way to so calmly answer the disciples with the truth and take away the source of their negative bias.

When my experience with the washing machine delivery turned out so great, I immediately got on the phone to the store where I bought it. I told the lady in the appliance department the whole story and that the only glitch was that you had to wait on the phone a little bit before someone answered. She was thrilled to hear it and asked me to fill out a short survey so that others would know the truth. I pray that this will help stop the negative talk in the store and help the delivery company with their business.

We have a challenge, and that is put to us in Philippians 1:10: “That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ.”

Our greatest goal is to love God above all else. That is the only answer to peace and the removal of offense. “Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them “(Ps. 119:165). Now that’s an awesome promise and challenge, wouldn’t you say?!

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, July 13, 2025

FAMILIAR, BUT NOT YOUR FRIEND

In Jeremiah 20:10, God tells us about familiar spirits. Jeremiah exclaimed: “All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, ‘Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him’” (Jer. 20:10). Why revenge? Because if you are following the Lord and the teaching of the Bible, then the devil hates you because he hates the true God, and he gets back at God by going after God’s people.

We see in the above verse that Jeremiah calls these spirits “my familiars.” Why? Because they are spirits

that are like stalkers. They are familiar with people as individuals. They are evil and concentrate on weaknesses in a person’s character, calling in other spirits that have affected the person and hurt them before.

Familiar spirits know your parents, your grandparents, and all your family history. They know what illnesses you may be prone to. They know how you act when you’ve had one too many shots of Jack Daniels. They know your triggers. They know what sets you off, what makes you angry, what makes you sad, and what makes you sick. They are familiar, but they are not your friends.

God has given us the truth about familiar spirits, and He’s given us ways to get rid of them.

And God tells us to stay away from those who communicate with them: “Regard not them that have familiar spirits, neither seek after wizards, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God” (Lev. 19:31). Real psychics operate by communicating with familiar spirits. When a person goes to a psychic, they tap into the unseen world and hear from the familiar spirits that have been watching and influencing the person and their family for a lifetime and longer.

A familiar spirit that followed your grandfather can tell the psychic exactly what your grandfather might tell you right now if he was alive. The psychic may even be able to know the exact phrases he would use and the psychic can even channel a similar dialect and the voice of your grandfather as well.

So what’s so bad about that? Satan uses just enough accuracy to get you to believe that the psychic knows you and can even see into your future. Then they’ve got you. Then the psychic can predict something for you.

But what do they predict? They now know enough from the familiar spirits, to know what kind of things you’ll believe. They will say some promising things, but they’ll also say things to mislead you and get you to walk into Satan’s traps.

Remember, your familiar spirits are only there to bring you harm, as much as the devil demands of them.

How do the familiar spirits operate? They are like the coaches on the devil’s football team. They call certain evil spirits onto the field when they see there’s an open door.

For example, when things go badly at work, they may call in spirits of dread, rejection or fear, whatever they know from the past, of things that work negatively on you. Hypothetically, they may say, “Hey, spirit of dread, come on over in the morning when he’s half asleep and lay heavy on him. He’s in the perfect frame of mind for you to really get some influence. You’re going to love it.”

Or for another person, maybe it’s hypochondria. “Hey, spirit, Jesse is starting to see some people getting sick around him. Just get a few of them to come by and cough a little. I’m sure that’s just the trigger that will get Jesse to take the sickness. He’ll have pneumonia in a week, just like the last time.”

Familiar spirits know exactly what spirits to call into their game to block us or hurt us. They feed off our weakest mental, emotional, and physical characteristics, calling in other evil spirit players to “steal, and to kill, and to destroy us,” as Jesus said in John 10:10, the first part of that verse.

Just to name a few of those demons: cancer, arthritis, oppression, jealousy, covetousness, anger, depression, low self-esteem, addictions, arrogance, pride, rejection, sicknesses, viciousness, apathy, fear, and on and on. All these spirits were cast out of heaven with Lucifer when he turned against God. But God had a plan for us and a way to send those spirits packing.

When I first learned about familiar spirits being the ones who rally up the demon troops against us, I heard that familiar spirits hang around us all our lives, so I wrongly thought that we couldn’t get rid of them. Also, I falsely believed that we only had one. After studying the Bible on familiar spirits, I learned they are usually in groups. So, if you get rid of one, be awake, because you may have to get rid of more.

Then I woke up to the truth of Philippians 2:10 and James 4:7. “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.” And, “submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” Neither of these verses says that familiar spirits are excluded from the demons that must bow and flee.

If I am resisting and rebuking any kind of spirit, using the frequency of the name of Jesus Christ or the frequency of the blood of Jesus to cast them out and send them away, the Bible says they have to flee. That includes familiar spirits! And as I’ve shown you in other preach letters, if a spirit doesn’t obey, it’s off to chains under darkness with no “get free cards!”

So, when I realized I could get rid of any familiar spirits around me, I did it. I rebuked a familiar spirit that kept calling in a spirit of dread. I ended up having to give it a one-way ticket to chains under darkness, and it has never bothered me since. Praise God.

I hope you’ll think about this, and when you recognize that certain evil spirits have been summoned into your life, you kick them out, along with the familiar spirit that brought them in! Freedom is that close.

Jesus said: “I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly” (John 10:10b). Part of the more than abundant life is getting free from those familiar spirits. Instead of letting them be familiar, let’s make them total strangers and send them far away!

Love, Carolyn

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Sunday, July 6, 2025

THE LORD CONFIRMS HIS WORD WITH SIGNS FOLLOWING

This event happened in 2015 when the Lord confirmed to me the stress-releasing power of the Word of God. I was grinding on some fiberglass sculptures. It was really hard work; there was lots to do, and we were in a rush to get the project done. I was taking it way too personally, as if I had to get it all done by myself, and I was stressing out. There were only two of us working on it, and my partner was feeling sick, so he wasn’t able to work as quickly as usual.

My arms were getting so sore from grinding, and I noticed that my shoulders were super tense. I had them raised up by my ears in a tight and pinching way. Mentally and emotionally, I was worrying and stressing out, questioning whether I could keep this up. Was this going to end in total failure?

Then I remembered the scripture Jane and I repeat every morning in prayer: “And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing” (Isa. 10:27). The Lord Jesus told me to physically put my shoulders down. I let them ease down as the next thoughts rolled in: “This is not my responsibility. The burden is off my shoulders.”

For the rest of the day, I continued grinding, and the whole time my physical shoulders were at ease, relaxed. At the end of the day, the painting boss came over and told me he was sending all his guys over to help with the grinding so we could get the project done on time. It was amazing. I thanked the Lord for what happened.

From that time on, I noticed that I stopped the mental stressing, and my shoulders stayed at rest. The few times I started to hunch them up, I quoted the scripture again from Isaiah 10:27, and they instantly released. The “burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder.”

To literally have my shoulders relax back down from being hunched up around my ears was a sign—a confirmation that I was truly released from all the stress.

In the next week and a half of work, there were more opportunities to get stressed, but my shoulders weren’t hunching. I believed that the burden had been removed just like Isaiah10:27 says, and I had a physical confirmation that I was free mentally and emotionally, and it was GREAT!

From that one incident back in 2015, I learned a lesson I’ve used over and over in situations where I would have gotten stressed: physically put your shoulders down in a relaxed position, and claim Isaiah 10:27. It really works.

As Christians, we should be expecting righteous signs and confirmations. The Bible tells us that when Jesus gave instructions to His apostles to preach the gospel, “they went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following” (Mark 16:20).

We often just hope we’re doing the right thing and never really ask about confirmation. But here it is in scripture saying that when the Lord works with us, He also confirms His word so that we can see the results. We have a relationship with God, and our Lord Jesus, where we can ask for confirmation. And here it is in scripture saying that He is totally able and WILLING to do it! “He confirms with signs following.” What an exciting and reassuring promise!

As I was thinking about the Lord confirming what the Bible says, God showed me that even Mary needed to get some confirmation about what the angel told her about having the Christ child. She went to visit her cousin, and sure enough, Elisabeth confirmed the angel’s words with a prophecy over Mary: “Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb…that the mother of my Lord should come to me” (Luke 1:42-43).

Mary believed in her spirit, but it was only after Elisabeth’s confirmation that Mary got her soul in line and, in her entirety, really truly believed. “And Mary said, ‘My soul doth magnify the Lord” (vs. 46). Her mind, emotions, and decisions were now settled and in solid agreement. (Read Luke 1:26 – 56).

The Lord Jesus confirmed that the work burden was off my shoulders. He gave me the physical sign of releasing those tight shoulder muscles. Mary, the mother of Jesus, got a confirmation in the form of a prophecy from a relative.

The Lord knows that sometimes we have difficulty hearing and believing the things spiritually said to us and done for us, so he gives us confirmation, which is a promise we can learn to ask for and expect. What was done for the apostles is for us too: “The Lord working with them and confirming the word with signs following” (Mark 16: 20).

I pray that as we do our best to live and preach the good news of Jesus this week, we will see God’s wonderful confirmations in our own lives, too. Have a great week.

Love, Carolyn

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