WHAT IS INIQUITY AND WHY DID JESUS HAVE TO BE BORN PERFECT?

WHAT IS INIQUITY AND WHY DID JESUS HAVE TO BE BORN PERFECT?

2 Corinthians 5:17 tells us: “If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.” And verse 18a tells us: “And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ.” How did Jesus, the Messiah, play a part in reconciling us to God?

 

A key to understanding how all this developed, is found in Psalm 103:3a, which says God “forgiveth all thine iniquities.” Iniquities are all the bad things that came from others in our past, passed down from generation to generation through our family’s DNA all the way back to the first human beings, Adam and Eve. Iniquities passed down are the left overs of all the sins and results of sins passed on to you through the blood. They are NOT you and God doesn’t want those iniquities to hang on to you!

 

He says He forgives them, and that means they can be utterly gone! Vanished forever! But He had to find a legal way to accomplish this and of course He already had it in mind.

 

Forgiving is not just saying, “I’m not going to look at it anymore; I’m just letting it go.” Nope, it doesn’t work that way.

 

The word, forgiving, is made up of two words, “for” and “giving.” God kept His own Word, as He always does. When it says “God forgiveth”, we must understand that it means God is in favor of giving. He gave his only begotten son, Jesus, a perfect human being with NO iniquity in his blood, because his blood came from God Almighty, Elohim the creator!

 

Only a human being with a perfect bloodline, could take on the iniquities and be a substitute for all of us! God gave all that iniquity from all generations, and He was “for” “giving” it all to Jesus, because He knew that a perfect human had to be sacrificed for the generational sins that the devil inflicted on all humanity. And Jesus had to be born into the earth even from conception to birth as a tiny baby, to cover for all iniquity that would already be developing in the embryo.

 

We say, “But a baby is so innocent!” Yes, but all human babies are born with issues; they’re called iniquities. They usually don’t present until later in life but they are already there. We know that as innocent as a baby is, there is a sin nature in the blood and even babies need to be reared in a Godly way until they can understand spiritual matters and can make ethical choices for God and against the devil. I’ve been told that the age a child can begin to understand things outside of the natural is usually around eight years old.

 

But God tells us right away in Genesis 8:21 that children are not born innocent. “And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, ‘I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.’”

 

God said He wouldn’t do another flood to wipe out humanity, but He did give us a way to escape from evil, and that’s to accept Jesus Christ as Lord and release all our sin and iniquity that Jesus already knew about and took to the cross to be destroyed so that we could be free.

 

God tells us the raw truth in Isaiah 53:6 “All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him [Jesus] the iniquity of us all.” It had to be done this way.

 

God puts meaning to every word He’s inspired to be written in His Holy Bible. And it’s interesting that in Isaiah 53:5b He says: “He [Jesus] was bruised for our iniquities.” A bruise is when there is bleeding that is under the skin, in a sense, hidden, not blood that is not freely spurting out or running out on the surface, and that’s how iniquity is, under the surface, and we are often unaware of personal tendencies toward sins and iniquities that have been passed down to us from past generations.

 

But once we see those iniquities, we can call them out! We recognize what they are and why they are, and we don’t have to carry out any of it anymore. Jesus came to earth as a tiny baby so that he could take every single thing that attacks us from conception to death, he took it, and it doesn’t belong to us, so we can throw it back at the devil, where it originated and where it belongs! No more false thinking, wrong reactions, demonic influences, weaknesses of will – ALL of the fleshly garbage and all of the demonic pestering from within, gone in Christ!

 

God knows that almost every addiction comes from a false choice for some relief, almost every act of disobedience to God is because of learned mistrust and fear of rejection, and stubbornness from fear of someone putting you in bondage or oppression of some sort. God knows better than anyone why we made the choices we did; it was in the blood, and when we chose wrongly, He was already ready to forgive. But we had to ask.

 

Jesus willingly came to earth and knew he would have to take it all. It was the only way we could get rid of generational sins and iniquities, and be redeemed back to God. Jesus, like every human, had a choice, and he chose to save us. Jesus chose God’s way, unlike Adam, who chose his own, which in reality was not his own, but the one originated by the devil himself. The devil’s plans were and still are to destroy the earth and the humans God created.

But Jesus also knew that for himself and for us, even the worst thing the devil could do to us, which the devil thought was death, would not have to be destruction, if we only believed God’s truth.

 

So, our God offered Jesus. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Rom. 10:9).

 

Jesus chose to take our place, and he suffered all that people would ever suffer here on earth! But he was raised from the dead, as we will be too. And when we believe in Jesus and take him for our Lord, all sin and iniquity is wiped out and we become new, able to grow in faith, love, and wisdom throughout the rest of our lives if we so choose. So, every day we can choose God’s ways.

 

“Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. And all things [these new things] are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation” (2 Cor. 5:17-18).

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

Have a wonderful Christmas celebrating the birth of our God’s only begotten son, Jesus the Messiah

Love, Carolyn.

HONORING GOD, JESUS, AND EACH OTHER

HONORING  GOD, JESUS, AND EACH OTHER

At a Christmas party many years ago, I was honored with a special hardhat and a $1000 travel voucher, for ten years of continuous service as a mural painter and faux finisher. I had no idea I was getting it, so the blessing was especially sweet.

 

Since my best friend Jane passed away recently, I was thinking a lot about how to honor her life. I wanted to do something to honor her for being such a blessing to me all those years we were roommates and best friends.

 

She carried many spiritual anointings that I benefitted from, and I felt that God was saying to me that He didn’t want those anointings to be lost to the world. So, I felt the best way to honor Jane would be to make sure the wonderful anointings she had didn’t go missing, so I asked God: “Could I have a double portion of Jane’s anointings like You gave Elisha when Elijah passed away?” And He showed me that His answer was “Yes, you can!”

 

I was astonished, but within just a day or so after I asked, I found that I was exhibiting some spiritual anointings that I’d never experienced before. I had new wisdom in the natural and the spiritual, like Jane did. I had the ability to speak easily “off the cuff”; it just rolled out, where as before, I was a person who mulled things over and had difficulty speaking clearly and easily on the spur of the moment. But Jane could.

 

Jane had a very close relationship with God that she called “the portal.” She said God would open the windows of Heaven, like it says in Malachi 3:10 (the portal), and He would give her something to pray about. She immediately prayed it back to Him through the open portal, and almost immediately the answer came—within a day or two, at most, a week! I’ve been experiencing that like an automatic rifle going off with so many rounds so fast I can barely keep up!! There’s more, and I know it sounds a little weird, but the things of God that sound weird are often the supernatural things that He has already told us about in His Word, but maybe we thought that they couldn’t happen to us. But they do!

 

The shepherds in the hills around Bethlehem got an amazing visitation by a host of angels. They were honored for their believing in the coming Messiah, and the angels honored them by telling them to go and see for themselves. They were among the very first to witness the Christ child!

 

The shepherds went to honor God after they experienced the visitation of the angels. Then God honored them, bringing them into the presence of Mary, Joseph, and the baby who was the one prophesied about throughout the Old Testament as the Messiah, the son of God coming into the world to save those who would believe.  

 

The shepherds were “abiding in the field, keeping watch over their flock by night” (Luke 2:8). The angel of the Lord came and told them that they were in the right place at the right time and it was to them that this blessing had come.

 

How often are we going about our normal routines, endeavoring to do God’s will the best we can, and all of a sudden, we meet someone new who really blesses our lives? Or we’re inspired to get in a certain grocery line and end up blessing a total stranger? We end up in the right place at the right time to either be blessed or be a blessing. Hebrews 13:2 even tells us we should “be not forgetful to entertain strangers: for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

 

That’s what happened to the shepherds. They were in the hills by Bethlehem and that’s where God wanted them. The angel of God found them and told them the good news. “And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.  And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2: 9-11).

This event brought “glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men” (v.14). The shepherds went down into the city of Bethlehem to witness this for themselves.

 

The Bible doesn’t say anything about them honoring Jesus with physical gifts like the wise men did later on, but the shepherds honored Jesus by telling people what the angel told them and what they actually witnessed themselves. That’s how they honored God—by telling other people about the great things God did and that they had witnessed the baby who was the prophesied Messiah!

 

“And when they [the shepherds] had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child.  And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them” (Luke 2: 17,18 and 20).

 

Gift-giving originated with God too. Right after God created Adam, He gave him a gift. “And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and there he put the man whom he had formed. And out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil” (Gen. 2: 8-9).

 

The idea of honoring God and others, came straight from our creator and has happily invaded all cultures of the world.

 

This Christmas let’s think about honoring each with our gifts and our respect. And most of all, let’s give some special attention to how we can honor God and our Savior, Christ the Lord.

 

Have a wonderful Christmas!

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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"FOR GOODNESS SAKE"

“FOR GOODNESS SAKE”

My grandma would say, “Oh, for goodness sake” when she thought someone was making too big of a deal over something, or being overly critical of someone. “For goodness sake, stop talking like that.” What seemed to be just a saying, is straight from the Bible. It is for the sake of God’s goodness to us and in us, that we need to be less critical of others and ourselves as well.

 

There was a guy at work that was starting to really annoy me. He just didn’t ever seem to pay attention to the directions we were given. I asked Fred, “How do you handle this guy who can’t seem to remember things from minute to minute?” He replied, “It’s easy. When I see that his mind is wandering, I alert him, get his eyes focused on me and remind him of what we’re doing. And he answers, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right,’ and we carry on.” Wow! He made it sound so easy, and for him it was. Fred was a perfect example of what the goodness of God is like.

 

In Exodus 33:18 Moses asks God: “I beseech thee, show me thy glory.” “And the LORD [Jehovah] said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken: for thou hast found grace in my sight, and I know thee by name” (Exod.33:17).

 

But instead of the Lord showing Moses the fanfare, the bells and whistles, and spectacular fireworks, he said: “I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy” (v. 19). And that’s just what Fred did with our co-worker; he showed graciousness and mercy: God’s goodness.

 

There are so many great examples in the Bible of God’s goodness. In 1 Kings 8:65 to 66 shows us that God’s goodness extended into a 14-day feast! And after the feast, “he sent the people away: and they thanked the king, and went unto their tents joyful and glad of heart for all the goodness that the Lord had done for David his servant, and for Israel his people.” The goodness of God included substance. In this case, food, merriment, music, dancing, and joyful thanksgiving for all God had done for His people.

 

Another example of God’s goodness is more like what I had seen at work. Here we see in action how David treated Saul as an individual. God’s goodness is overflowing in mercy. Saul had been given instructions from God, but Saul didn’t follow through and ended up opening his mind to a demon. The only thing that brought Saul back to his right mind was music.

 

Saul’s servants found David, who could play the harp. “And it came to pass, when the evil spirit was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: So Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him” (1 Sam. 16:23).

 

David was called on to play for Saul many times, but as the demon took over more and more of Saul’s mind, he got jealous of David and this is what happened:

 

“And David played with his hand, as at other times: and there was a javelin in Saul’s hand. And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice” (1 Sam. 18:10-11). David was good to Saul in spite of Saul’s mental case. He stayed merciful and good to Saul until he couldn’t stay any longer.

 

The last time Saul tried to kill David with the javelin, “the evil spirit was upon Saul, as he sat in his house with his javelin in his hand: and David played. And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the javelin; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the javelin into the wall: and David fled and escaped that night” (1 Sam. 19:9-10).

 

As it turns out, Saul was so mad that he got his troops together and chased after David to kill him. David always escaped. Then at one point when Saul and his three thousand men were camped for the night, David and his friend Abishai snuck up on them. Abishai wanted to kill Saul.

 

But David said, “Destroy him not; for who can stretch forth his hand against the Lord’s anointed, and be guiltless?” (1 Sam. 26:9).

 

“David said furthermore, ‘As the Lord liveth the Lord shall smite him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall descend into battle, and perish. But I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go” (1 Sam 26:10-11).

 

David was convinced of the goodness of God and he would not kill one who God had made king. But he did take Saul’s spear and water to show him later that he could have killed him if he wanted to.

 

Saul finally came to his right mind and must have rebuked one of the devils that was controlling him: “Then said Saul, ‘I have sinned: return my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly” (1 Sam. 26:21).

 

What an amazing lesson for us. In the New Testament Paul prays for us: “That our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of HIS GOODNESS” (2 Thess. 1:11).  WOW! It’s our duty, privilege, and blessing to exhibit God’s goodness to people.

 

We never know the extent of trouble or grief a person is going through. 1 Corinthians 2:11 says: “For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of the man which is in him?” (1 Cor. 2:11). So, making an effort to be kinder is a good thing. Being less critical is a good thing. Better to err on the side of goodness. The LORD will show us if, or when we need to stop.

 

And it’s good to be gentler and kinder to ourselves as well. Sometimes we could be going through things we’re not even fully aware of. No matter how we’ve been in the past, or even yesterday, we can be as full of the goodness of God as we allow right now. We can let Him fill us up with His goodness and distribute that goodness to others.

 

The examples I gave are just two of the ways God exhibits His goodness, and I’m sure you can find many more examples as well. Here we saw goodness in the form of mercy like with my work friend, Moses, and David with Saul, and we saw an example of the substance kind of goodness with God providing an amazing, over the top feast for His people in 1 Kings 8:65-66.

 

Like it says in Romans 2:4: “Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?” It’s His goodness that brought Him to us and His goodness that brought us to Him. Let’s be the bearers of His goodness, “full of goodness” (Rom. 15:14) and spread it around.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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JEHOVAH-JIREH, HE SEES AND PROVIDES

 JEHOVAH-JIREH, HE SEES AND PROVIDES

When I opened up my new box of Christmas cards, the thing that struck my heart the loudest was in the verse on the inside, Luke 2:7: “And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger because there was no room for them in the inn.”

 

“No room for them in the inn”?!! Even though Mary was obviously ready to give birth, no one offered them a room, or traded them sleeping quarters, or even room to share—not much empathy there for a very pregnant mother!

 

No room for them. The majority of Hebrew people who showed up in Bethlehem to pay taxes were housed, comfortable, warm, and had provisions, but the holy couple were alone, and treated as strangers. Joseph and Mary knew who they were, knew their special gifts; had not the angel of God come to Mary and tell her she had a very special anointing, to birth the Christ child?! And yet so very few even recognized who they were.

 

Maybe you’ve felt like that at times; not honored? unrecognized? alone? Even with all those Hebrew believers around, so few responded. Later in life, Jesus spoke: “And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear” (Matt. 11:14).

 

And with Joseph and Mary it was the shepherds in the nearby hills who had ears to hear, and came to worship the savior of the world, the light of God, the gift of purity, excellence, and everlasting life right before their eyes in this tiny baby; a baby so perfect, how could he not be the most astonishing and beautiful baby those shepherds had ever seen in their lives? 

 

And the shepherds were even blessed with a host of angels showing up in all their majesty, “a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying, ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men’” (Luke 2: 13b-14). An amazing episode for the shepherds and for Mary and Joseph, too!

 

This story makes me think of one of the names for God from the Old Testament, Jehovah-jireh, the God who sees and provides. And indicated in this name is that He provides the uncommon, the unusual, the unexpected. Certainly, the shepherds didn’t expect angels, and Mary and Joseph didn’t expect a group of shepherds to show up and be so excited about the birth of their son. But that’s how wonderfully our God works.

 

The first place this name, Jehovah-jireh, is used is with Abraham (Gen. 22:1-14), when God asked if he was willing to sacrifice his son Isaac, and because Abraham was in covenant with God and had total trust in Him, he got as far as pulling out his knife! But Jehovah-jireh, the God who sees and provides, stopped Abraham, and gave him a ram to sacrifice instead.

 

When none of their Hebrew brethren in Bethlehem recognized Joseph and Mary’s anointing, our God, Jehovah-jireh, saw and provided the most unusual greeting. The shepherds came and they even got to experience the existence of a host of magnificent angels!

 

When it seems like sometimes there is no room at the inn for us, we never despair, because God sees our hearts committed to Him in the best way we know how, and He does not forget His covenant with us. Jehovah-jireh sees and provides.

“Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” (Psa.107:8).

 

Have a wonderful Christmas!

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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"THY TESTIMONIES ARE THE REJOICING OF MY HEART"

 

“THY TESTIMONIES ARE THE REJOICING OF MY HEART”

I don’t go to the Bible because I think I have to, or because I’m looking for some instruction or personal help on something in particular. That happens and it’s a good thing, but more often I go to the scriptures just because I love them.

 

I was on my way to Zachariah and made a stop in Zephaniah and began reading. I wept with my God at the turning away of His people, and heard His mercy for them, and how He spoke to them more promises of stunning deliverance and the ultimate destruction of the horrid evils they had managed to survive. Reading this record in Zephaniah was, for me, more current than any mainstream or alt-media I listen to.

 

Zephaniah only has three chapters, but it is important to our God. It was dramatic and magnificent, a story with details not seen on any TV program, news station, or streaming video, and yet the colors were just as vibrant in my mind’s eye and the emotional response was as real and probably even more real than it would have been with most visual performances produced in Hollywood today!

 

I read the Bible because I love my God, and through His written word, He speaks to me. I totally understand that it is definitely not the only way the Lord reaches His people. But I would ask that sometime this week you give Him a chance to speak to you this way too. And if you choose to read the three chapters of Zephaniah, beware! Because all the bad and horrible stuffs is in the beginning and the blessings of God don’t come until the 17^th verse of chapter three! But it is there!

 

Matthew 13:43 “Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.”

 

Psalm 119:11 “Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage for ever: for they are the rejoicing of my heart.”

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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GOD'S INVOLVEMENT IN THANKSGIVING

GOD’S INVOLVEMENT IN THANKSGIVING

God did some amazing things to bring Thanksgiving all together. His divine providence provided such a remarkable event, that we continue to celebrate it today. This story would be a good one to read to your children and the people you spend Thanksgiving with, and you can talk about the new things you learn.

 

It was the Pilgrims’ second year in America. During their first year, half of the 102 Pilgrims died. Of the 50 who remained, only six or seven were strong enough to care for the others. But God had a plan for these people. A Native American man, Squanto, enter these Pilgrims’ lives to teach these new Americans how to survive.

 

The leader of the Pilgrims was William Bradford. He wrote about his experiences with Squanto. It’s in old English, but we can still understand it:

 

“They (as many as were able) began to plant ther corne, in which servise Squanto stood them in great stead, showing them both ye maner how to set it, and after how to dress & tend it. Also he tould them excepte they got fish & set with it (in these old grounds) it would come to nothing, and he showed them yt in ye midle of Aprill they should have store enough come up ye brooke, by which they begane to build, and taught them how to take it, and wher to get other provisions necessary for them; all which they found true by trial & experience.

 

“And thus they found ye Lord to be with them in all their ways, and to blesse their outgoings & incomings, for which let his holy name have ye praise for ever, to all posteritie.”

 

Bradford added: “Squanto… was a special instrument sent of God for their good beyond their expectation.”

 

Squanto was a willing teacher. He taught the Pilgrims how to find eels and trap deer. He showed them how to net birds, how to grind corn, and how to find berries. He taught them how to hunt raccoons, bears, otters, and beavers. He taught them how to fish in the bay and along the coast in the summer, and how to cut holes in the ice to catch pike, perch, and bream in the winter.

 

Squanto’s life itself was amazing; how God took bad circumstances and turned them into good for both Squanto and the Pilgrims. In 1605, a member of the Native American Patuxet tribe, Squanto was captured by an English explorer and taken to England where he learned to speak English. In 1614 Captain John Smith brought him back to America, but he was captured again and taken to Spain to be sold as a slave.  Local Catholic friars rescued him and introduced him to Christianity.

 

He went back to England and got on a ship to his native America. But when he got home, he found that all of his tribe had been killed by a plague. The sudden death of the whole tribe scared the neighboring tribes, and so they never went onto the property, making it available for the Pilgrims. Also because of the odd circumstances of the tribe’s annihilation, the other tribes didn’t attack the Pilgrims, and Squanto facilitated a peace treaty that lasted over 50 years.

 

With Squanto’s help, the Pilgrims’ second winter in America was far better than the first. William Bradford remembered the habit of the Dutch, who celebrated their freedom from the Spanish with a holiday every October. Bradford decreed a day to set aside so that all the Pilgrims might “after a more special manner, rejoice together.”

 

The Pilgrims gathered their food to feed the fifty of them, but Bradford sent Squanto to invite the chief of his tribe, who gladly came with 90 of his men, tripling the size of hungry mouths. The chief must have realized they needed more food, and he sent five of his men out. They came back with five deer and started celebrating. They ate deer, turkey, fish, lobster, eels, vegetables, cornbread, berries, pies, and popcorn that the Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to make.  They competed in games of wrestling, shooting, and running. The chief had such a good time he and his men stayed and celebrated for three days.

 

The first harvest feast of the Pilgrims was more than just a time to eat together. It was a whole celebration of God’s blessing. They had survived in this new land, and in their second year, they were beginning to succeed and grow.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

If you’d like to read more about this time in Northern America, I highly recommend America’s Providential History by Mark Beliles and Stephen McDowell and William Bradford: Plymouth’s Faithful Pilgrim by Gary Schmidt.

 

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HUMILITY, COMMITMENT, AND BEING GRATEFUL

 

HUMILITY, COMMITMENT, AND BEING GRATEFUL

When I sat in the hospital with Jane, I started reading one of her books, an old book, on the life of George Muller. Jane had marked page 319:

 

“To one who asked him the secret of his service, Muller replied, ‘There was a day when I died, utterly died’; and, as he spoke, he bent lower and lower until he almost touched the floor—died to George Muller, his opinions, preferences, tastes and will—died to the world, its approval or censure—died to the approval or blame even of my brethren and friends—and since then I have studied only to show myself approved unto God.’” *

 

I took a little time to think about Muller’s commitment to God, and I knew I wanted it too—commitment in a bigger way.  

 

The Lord had been bringing up the word “grateful” to me for several weeks before, and I couldn’t stop thinking about it. He confirmed its importance in the next couple of days when I read Tony Barbara’s most recent articles. Tony uses a form of that word (gratitude) in all his writings. God used direct revelation to me first, then the insight of a man of God in the body of Christ to confirm, to open my eyes to what I believe is a very important attitude that may be sometimes missing in the body of Christ.

 

And it hit me hard how I now react to the word grateful, versus thankful. For me, grateful seems to have a deeper meaning coming from a real point of humility—from a Mueller place of I am nothing, but God is everything, I deserve nothing, but by His grace only am I able to do something good, and receive good things, good friends, blessings from heaven and earth.

 

Just as important as being bold in claiming our victory, our righteousness in Christ, and our “more than conqueror” status, I think it’s equally important to come to a George Mueller place of humbleness and recognition of how unworthy we really are as humans, and drop ourselves at God’s feet. We are nothing when we are out of connection with Christ.

 

King David was a man who understood humility and commitment. He knew about being grateful in a George Muller way, before George Muller existed. The Psalms of David are a wonderful testimony to spiritual strength based on humility and commitment.

 

In Psalm 103:14 David says: “For he (JEHOVAH) knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”  No wonder God calls David “a man after mine own heart” (Acts 13:22). David wrote this verse in Psalm 103 out of full humility, commitment, and covenant to God. And God loves and rewards that kind of attitude.

 

The Hebrew word for “frame” means “a thing framed as earthenware.” And the translation for the Hebrew word for “dust” includes “dry earth, powder, ashes, and rubbish.”

 

David even says of himself: “I am a worm, and no man” (Psalm 22:6). David humbly knew who he was without the help of God, and he knew who he was when he stayed grateful and committed: 1 Samuel 18:7: “Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.”

 

As it says in Philippians 2:13 “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.”

 

Early on in the book Genesis, we find the answer to the often-asked question, “Is a baby born innocent and good, or is mankind evil from birth?”  In Genesis 8:21 God says clearly: “the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth.” But by accepting Jesus into our hearts and lives, that all changes.

 

Even as a professed Christian, I really didn’t deserve to have Jane as my best friend, but God gave me a gift I could have never given myself.

 

If God remembers that we are dust, then every once in a while, we need to think that way too, humbling ourselves as David did, professing enormous gratitude to Almighty God for welcoming us into His family and helping us to be our best and His best.

 

We acknowledge that before the Lord Jesus came into our lives, that dust was us.

 

We must always be grateful for the opportunities the Lord gives us, even if they look challenging. We look for and expect them to come—it’s not anymore about what WE want, but what our LORD JEHOVAH wants of us!

 

Commitment to Him is the only way to live. And the rewards are enormous.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

* George Muller: Delighted in God! By Roger Steer

 

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MY LORD JEHOVAH

MY LORD JEHOVAH

In chapter 5 of Exodus, Moses and Aaron go to Pharaoh for the first time with an edict from our God: “Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, ‘Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness’” (Exod. 5:1). But instead of letting them go, Pharaoh burdened them more by keeping back the straw that he had been giving them to use in making bricks. He now required them to find their own stubble, but he still required the same number of bricks.

 

The laborers couldn’t keep up, so the taskmasters beat them, and the Israelites feared for their lives. They complained loudly to Moses, and instead of standing up for God, Moses took the side of the complainers, and told God: “For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name, he hath done evil to this people; neither hast thou delivered thy people at all” (Exod. 5:23). Moses didn’t have a whole lot of patience. But God loved him. God didn’t reprove Moses, but instead, gave him what he needed, a bigger personal blessing, one that has been passed down through the ages to us.

 

God tells Moses: “I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, by the name of God Almighty, but by my name JEHOVAH was I not known to them” (Exod. 6:3). Why was this so spectacular and wonderful and such a huge blessing to Moses and to us?

 

Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob knew God as “God Almighty.” That name is translated from the Hebrew words “El Shaddai,” meaning “THE” Almighty, (with emphasis on the “THE,” the one and only). “El Shaddai” means  the God of grace and God as the giver. He is “THE” all-bountiful, (as in the one and only with the ability to supply everything a person would ever need). Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob knew God as “THE” Almighty, greater than any other god that could possibly exist. BUT. . .

 

In Exodus 6:3 God tells Moses that his relationship with THE one and only true God would be even more personal. God would no longer only be THE Most-High God, THE Creator, THE all-bountiful giver, but Moses could call Him “MY” God. Moses was invited into a covenant personal relationship with the Most-High God. In the Bible, when the name Jehovah is used, it is always personal and refers to God in covenant relation to those whom He has created.

 

Like with Moses, THE Most-High God, THE Creator, THE all-bountiful giver, is OUR God too. It’s like a club where everyone’s personally invited, but to be in the club, you have to show up.

 

God called David “a man after mine own heart” (Acts 13:22), and many times in the Psalms David talks either to or about JEHOVAH in a very personal way. For example, Psalm 91:2 “I will say of the LORD, He is MY refuge and MY fortress: MY God; in him will I trust.”

 

In the King James version of the Bible, when the lowercase capital letters are used for LORD, it always indicates JEHOVAH. Check it out.

 

The word JEHOVAH is combined with ten other words in the Bible that show various aspects of God’s personal covenant relationship with those who choose to follow. A few of those names are Jehovah-nissi (my Lord my banner), Jehovah-shalom (my Lord my peace), Jehovah-Rophe (my Lord my healer), Jehovah-Rohi (my Lord my shepherd).

 

We can get to know God in a way He wants to know us, personally, in a covenant of love, in a relationship with Him on a daily basis. He is not only THE Most-High God, creator of all things, He is your personal God and mine too.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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STEPPING OUT INTO THE UNKNOWN

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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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
 

FIRST STEP TO A FINAL DESTINATION

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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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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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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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

 

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