Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Sunday, October 21, 2018
GOD'S WORD ON WITCHES
GOD’S WORD ON WITCHES
Witches and Satanists get
together in our communities around the world to put hexes and spells on people like
you and me. People in other nations around the world are way more aware of the
devastation of witch doctors, Shamans, Satanists, and witches than we are in
the US. Even though the Word of God has much to say about witches, we choose to
ignore it or think that the idea of
witches being real, is foolish. I guarantee you, it is not. This weekend witches
got together in Brooklyn NY to cast spells and curses on President Trump and
Judge Kavanaugh. You may not like these men, or
you may despise them, but casting curses, spells, and hexes on them is a
spiritual matter that is not to be tolerated.
The law of the Old
Testament says: “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live” (Exo. 22:18). In Old
Testament times, they physically stoned witches to death. But that practice was
denied by the coming of Christ Jesus. That’s not God’s will today. We have much greater power and authority now.
If you kill a person that
embodies a demon, that physical person dies, but the demon goes free, looking
for another person to inhabit. Instead, we have the power and authority in
Christ, to stop the demon, and let the person go free.
God tells us: “The weapons of
our warfare are not
carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds” (1 Cor. 10:3-4). “For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers,
against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness
in high places” (Eph. 6:12).
So, if we look at the Old Testament verse in
light of what God gave us in Christ, we see a new picture for how we can deal
with, cast out and stop activated witchcraft in our areas of influence. “Thou
shalt not suffer a witch to live.” Let’s break that down. What does it mean “to
live”? What do you think of when you think of something or someone living? It
has movement and influence, and that’s exactly the meaning of the Hebrew word
used here. “Chayah” means: “to give
life, to cause to grow, to sustain life, and to live prosperously.”
As a believer in Christ, we
have the spiritual power to come against the spirit of witchcraft. God is
bigger than any demon! He said we should not allow a
witchcraft spirit to live. In the name of Jesus Christ, we say to the multiple
spirits of witches, “Stop! You have been relieved of any life in your curses.
Your hexes die before they even get out of your mouths. Your spells are withered
and drying up now in the power of the living Lord Jesus Christ! They’re going
nowhere. Your gathering, your intentions, your words will not prosper. God will
see to it that all the evil you intended dies now. In the name of Jesus Christ,
I command you to leave those people right now.”
When Jane and I prayed a similar prayer to
what I put above, we knew that the Lord and warring angels went to arrest and
stop the evil that was spoken at the witches gathering in Brooklyn. Many of the
witches spirits were cast out to the feet of Jesus to be tormented before their time.
For those of you who speak in tongues,
remember that God says it’s perfect prayer (Romans 8), so do it often.
This is serious stuff but know
that we have a seriously MIGHTY GOD! And we have MIGHTY VICTORY.
Love, Carolyn
Here’s a link if you want
to hear a little more about the gathering in Brooklyn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qbhX5VUrgY
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
INSTINCT OR CHOICE?
INSTINCT OR CHOICE?
The ranger told us about
the tarantula migration. At this time of year, every year, the males come out
of their burrows and walk across the desert seeking the females. Some travel
over 50 miles to find her. It’s instinct. As humans, we have the instinct to
seek God, our creator. The difference between animals and us is that we can go
against our God-created nature. Unlike animals, we have the free will
to deny instinct—we have the choice to say no, and crawl right back into our
holes.
It’s in our nature to seek
the truth, a truth that is deeper and
farther reaching than even our conscious minds are aware of sometimes. It’s
just a part of who we really are. Some
people distract themselves and busy themselves, so
they never have to confront this essential self-awareness. Others know they’re
seeking, but they don’t know who or what.
That was the case with the
Apostle Paul when he went to Athens. He went to where the people gathered to
discuss philosophies beliefs and “addressed them
as follows: ‘Men of Athens, I notice that you are very religious in every
way, for as I was walking along, I
saw your many shrines. And one of your altars had this inscription on it: ‘To
an Unknown God.’ This God, whom you worship without knowing, is the one I’m
telling you about’” (Acts 17:22-23).
The
Greeks were such seekers, they didn’t want to miss out on any deity, so they
even put up a shrine to the one they might have missed! Hilarious, but it goes
right along with our human nature to seek the truth.
When Paul came along he had the opportunity to tell them about the God they
didn’t know, and the significance of His son Jesus Christ.
In Jeremiah 29: 12-14, our
God gives just a few of the great benefits of searching Him out:
“I will
hear and heed you. Then you will seek Me, inquire
for, and require Me [as a vital necessity] and find Me when you
search for Me with all your heart. I will
be found by you, says the Lord, and I will release you from captivity.”
But like the tarantula,
our journey across the desert has its obstacles, and that’s why we need to seek the Lord every day and in every
situation. It’s so easy to fall into some kind
of mental, emotional or even physical captivity if we dare to think we
can do fine on our own. It’s pretty simple really. God created us, Jesus knows
everything about us, and we are just not
that smart!
For the tarantula, there
are the huge rocks to go over, the snakes and predatory birds to avoid, and the
cholla cactus that throws out barbed spines if you even get close to it. You
don’t even have to touch it for it to become an enemy. And then there’s the
infamous tarantula hawk, a large orange-winged wasp about two inches long.
The tarantula hawk is
mostly passive at every other time of the year, eating only vegetation, but
when the tarantulas migrate, the female wasp becomes a vicious one.
She flashes those
beautiful orange wings and injects her paralyzing venom into the spider, then
pulls the paralyzed victim (about eight times her weight) into a hole below the
sandy desert floor. The spider may or may not awake out of the paralysis as it
becomes the first meal of the baby wasps whose eggs were injected into its hairy flesh.
The point: seeking has its
dangers. The journey has unseen obstacles and hardships. But the tarantulas
don’t just stop. They carry on—it’s instinct. A few get stung by the wasp and
won’t make it, but most of the seekers find what they’re seeking. It’s the same
with us.
God’s Word says, and Jesus
confirms: “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will
find; knock, and it will be opened
to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and
to the one who knocks it will be opened”
(Matt. 7:7-8).
Sometimes
we read a scripture and/or say a scripture to ourselves and think
it should work, and then we get disappointed and discouraged when we don’t
get results. That’s because we keep it in our own
realm. We say it to ourselves, and it
doesn’t go where it needs to go. We read and say, “Ask.” But we don’t DO the
asking.
Instead
of just reading and saying the scripture to ourselves, we need to speak
directly to our God, and/or say it to our
Lord Jesus: “Lord, your Word says ‘ask,’ so I AM ASKING You
now. I am SEEKING You now.” Bend your ear to me
now and answer me. I am listening and expecting. Thanks for being here with me
now. Amen.”
There are
many examples in the gospels of those who sought after Jesus. I love the story
of Zacchaeus, who was a short man and climbed up into a tree to be able to see
Jesus, unobstructed by the crowd. And what did Jesus do? Luke 19:5 tells us:
“When
Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down
immediately. I must stay at your house today.” The Carolyn translation would go something like this: “Hey,
buddy, come on down. I want to spend some personal time with you, so let’s go
to your house.”
The male
tarantula’s instinct is to seek a mate once a year. Our instinct by nature is
to seek our Lord and God daily. Let’s follow that instinct and go with the plan
our creator has set before us, one day at a time.
Love,
Carolyn
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Sunday, October 14, 2018
MEEKNESS AND VICTORY
MEEKNESS AND VICTORY - THE
DESIRE TO BE MORE LIKE JESUS CHANGES OUR SOUL
God knows what’s best for
us, but, depending on our personalities, some of His requirements seem so much
harder to accept than others. For me, it’s submitting to secular bosses. I wish
God didn’t say that in His Word, but we have the very first example in the very
first book of the Bible, so it must be important. Genesis 16 tells us Sarai was
jealous of her maid, Hagar, and treated her so badly that Hagar fled. An angel
comes to her and says: “’Hagar,
Sarai’s maid, where did you come from, and where are you intending to go?’ And she said, ‘I am running away from my
mistress Sarai.’ The Angel of the Lord said to her, ‘Go back to your
mistress and [humbly] submit to her control’” (Gen. 16:8-9 AMP). WOW,
what a huge bummer!
But doing
things God’s way is always going to be profitable for us, even if we don’t
understand it, and even if it seems so hard. Notice, Hagar didn’t have anywhere
to go. That’s our mistake sometimes: we want to run away; we think we are ready
to go, but God doesn’t have our next
place prepared yet.
There are many verses in
the New Testament where the Lord talks about submitting. 1 Peter 2:18 is one of
those scriptures, and, honestly, I wish I could take it out of the Bible. “Servants,
be subject to your masters with all fear (respect); not only to the good and gentle but also to the forward.” The word ‘froward’ means “crooked, perverse, wicked and
unfair.” Are you kidding?! Do I have to “obey,
yield, subordinate” to one of these types? It doesn’t seem right, and yet the
Word of God requires this kind of action and attitude, as long as our yielding
doesn’t cross the line of what the rest of God’s Word says.
If you are like me and you
don’t like the idea of submitting to crooked bosses, then you probably aren’t
going to like the other verses, 1 Peter 2:13-17, either, but there they are. If you can accept what I present in this article, be
brave and take a look at those verses mentioned above too. They are definitely challenging for most of us I think.
Somehow our actions are
going to have to line up with what God asks of us, even if we don’t like it.
But I’ve come to believe that if we release our ego and pride, and just jump in
and do what God asks, we will get the understanding and the promise at the end of
Philippians 4:7: “And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall
keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.”
Today I needed to remind
myself that meekness is a good thing and it is already in me. But lately, I’ve been letting pride override. So, the
Lord led me to go back and re-read an article I wrote a couple of years ago. He wanted to remind me of how He worked in a
similar situation, and how I was able to receive His peace and victory.
September 2014. It was another rush job. The designers were sending over three
samples of red brick, and they wanted me
to do variations of whitewash and aging
on them. The samples arrived late. The mortar wasn’t even dry yet, but they still wanted me to finish them so they
could pick them up the next day. This was
a tough challenge.
I was under pressure to work
quickly. I got three fans out to dry the mortar first. Then I started to mix my
colors. When somebody pushes me in a situation like this, I want to push back.
But I told myself, Jesus is with me. It’s okay. I can do this.
Then the project manager told me
they were coming for the pieces two hours earlier than planned. For a few
minutes there I mentally lost it. ‘What?’ I thought. ‘They
bring me the pieces late. They aren’t even dry enough to paint, and now they want them completed two hours
earlier?’ I started to get angry, and
then a strange thing happened.
I felt a meekness come over me. I
didn’t even have to try to overcome anger or any of that. My old nature of
rebellion just disappeared instantaneously as an overwhelming meekness
enveloped me. It wasn’t me trying to be meek. It was genuine. It clothed me
inside and out, and it felt true and
good. It was like an atmosphere of meekness, through and through, beautiful,
elegant and powerful. ‘This isn’t me,’ I thought. But I didn’t have
the time to ponder it, so even though it felt alien, I went with it.
I finished up the samples before
the deadline, and I’m sure it was the
Lord helping me on that one too. I told my project manager he could call the
guy to pick them up and I followed him over to the job site with my touch-up
kit.
I was so calm and peaceful in this
new air of meekness. I walked onto the job
site in my typical outfit: a tee-shirt and painter pants that
used to be white but now were about
75% covered in paint from various past jobs. My boots were also
paint-spattered. I had on my hard hat and my safety vest which didn’t fit
because they only come in one size, large. I found a place to sit on a dusty
stack of bricks, but I felt like an elegant,
powerful queen in a gorgeous dress and beautiful crown. The meekness wasn’t a weakness.
The designer arrived and picked
the sample he said he just loved. That made me happy, but not nearly as happy
as this new meekness I was experiencing.
It was great to feel genuinely
calm inside, in contrast to the uproar I usually felt in these hurried,
stressful, last minute situations. Some part of my soul had changed. The old
me: sharp-tongued, rebellious and angry. This new meekness had to be the fruit
of the spirit mentioned in Galatians 5:22-23, part of the new me, the Christ in
me.
Romans 7 talks about the two
natures we have in us, the old one and the new one. Only God, through Jesus Christ,
can deliver us from our old nature (Rom. 7:24-25). I had tried my best in the
past to be meek under stress, but even with my strongest efforts it wouldn’t
last very long, and it definitely wouldn’t be true meekness.
But with the miraculous working of
the Lord Jesus Christ, the rebellious,
angry nature of the old Carolyn was replaced by the true and wonderful meekness
of Jesus Christ. That’s the new nature God intended for me to have. It had
nothing to do with me changing myself. It had everything to do with the Lord
working in me to change me into my real self in Christ.
“I can hardly wait to see what the
Lord is going to do today.” It’s an exciting life.
Love, Carolyn
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Wednesday, October 10, 2018
THE LORD LOOKS ON THE HEART
One month after her surgery Anne
entered into the familiar storefront
meeting room. All her old friends were there, but
they treated her differently.
She looked pale and weak, not the
funny, fearless person they knew pre-surgery. They smiled politely and got
involved in other conversations, leaving Anne out. What was going on?
The Holy Spirit told me they were
afraid. They had been used to a person who had answers, wisdom, and strength. Here was the same person, but her outward appearance
was so different. They didn’t know how to handle it, so they didn’t talk to her. They avoided her
for several months after her surgery.
At first,
I was mad at them for being so callous and disrespectful, but then I
realized THEY were the ones to be pitied. They were
missing out on a great experience. What they could have gained in wisdom,
understanding, and guidance, they had
given up because of their fears.
They couldn’t seem to see past
Anne’s exterior appearance and perceived weakness.
People get sick and have things
happen to them that change them. That’s just a fact of life. But as Christians, we need to be able to still give people the respect and love they
need.
The other day I was driving home
from work, and Jane was in the passenger
seat. We were approaching a corner where we’ve seen a skinny raggedy-looking
homeless man many times waving and smiling at everyone. The Lord told Jane to
give the guy $2.00. He was so excited and talked super-fast as he told us he
had been off of drugs and alcohol 15 days now and he could drive, and he could work. Jane and I both told him,
“good job!” He “God blessed” us several times as we said the same back to him.
When we drove off, we both realized the
guy was not nearly as excited about the money as he was about having someone to
tell his story to and them telling him he was doing a good job. People want to
be respected and appreciated.
Our God looks at the heart of a
man or woman. When God sent Samuel to find a king to replace Saul, even the
great prophet was only looking at the exterior: “And it came to pass, when they
were come, that he [Samuel] looked on
Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord’s anointed is before him. But the Lord
said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature;
because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man
looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart” (1 Sam.
16:6-7).
God doesn’t look at race or
nationality, male or female, background, culture, sickness, weakness or health.
God looks straight through to the heart, and
we need to practice this too. We all go through down times, weak times. We
don’t want to abandon people when they’re going through something. We need to
have a little patience, respect, and more
love. Isn’t that what we’d want?
Love, Carolyn
More great true story vignettes –
opportunities to see the Word of God at work in a person’s everyday life. 😊
Sunday, October 7, 2018
SOMETHING ABOUT DEMONS
SOMETHING ABOUT DEMONS
“You drink one or two
glasses of scotch, then it’s more and it’s more. Eventually, you get to the place
this substance is completely controlling your life. It’s found in great levels
in the bloodstream to where someone might think that some of your blood is that
substance. It’s the same with demons. They start from the outside. . . .” At
least listen to the first 11 minutes. This guy has a way of making it plain.
You may not agree with everything he says, but listen for the gems of truth and
you will understand real life a whole lot better.
Love, Carolyn
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
GOD'S WAY OF STOPPING THE PERFECT STORM
GOD’S WAY OF STOPPING THE PERFECT
STORM
I congratulated Shelley, “Wow, you’ve lost 90 pounds, and you look awesome!” She didn’t even smile, “I don’t feel like it. I just can’t see any difference.” Ninety pounds and she couldn’t see any difference? Everyone could see it, but she couldn’t. She told me that she was having problems in her family and wasn’t allowed to see her grandson. And there were issues with work that were exasperating. She was spiraling downhill and attacked from all sides. This chain of events is what I call the perfect storm.
I congratulated Shelley, “Wow, you’ve lost 90 pounds, and you look awesome!” She didn’t even smile, “I don’t feel like it. I just can’t see any difference.” Ninety pounds and she couldn’t see any difference? Everyone could see it, but she couldn’t. She told me that she was having problems in her family and wasn’t allowed to see her grandson. And there were issues with work that were exasperating. She was spiraling downhill and attacked from all sides. This chain of events is what I call the perfect storm.
“The perfect storm” is a
term meteorologists use to
describe a storm of astronomical power and devastation. It’s caused by a number of
separate events mobilizing to drastically aggravate the circumstances and
produce a storm of extreme magnitude.
Sometimes we feel like our
lives are thrown into that kind of
storm—no way out, nowhere to turn for safety, no rest, no escape. Swirling in
the perfect storm makes us feel like we’re drowning and we can hardly breathe.
In Psalm 18:5 David says,
“The sorrows of hell compassed me about.” The original Hebrew for “sorrows”
translates “a noose tied together twisting around so that there is no escape.”
And the Hebrew for “compasses” means “whirl around on every side, surround,
besiege, and enclose.” When we’ve felt attacked, hurt from every side and
spiraling uncontrollably down, this is what David is describing here in Psalm
18.
David didn’t mind telling
God that the enemy was too strong for him. Like in the movie titled “The
Perfect Storm,” even the strongest and smartest guy
found that there was no escape. Like that guy, sometimes we have to admit that
we truly can’t handle it, and that’s okay with God.
What happens when this
overwhelming storm of attacks surrounds a person? They can get swallowed up
like Jonah, or nearly drowned in a hurricane like Paul (Acts 27) or pulled down
in agony and terror like David. I’ve seen people end up in the hospital, or in
my case one time thrown into a long and miserable suicidal
depression.
This kind of intense
spiraling spiritual attack is no small matter. The oppressiveness mounts up
like floods, and the pot gets stirred around and around by Satan
himself. We have to remember that it’s not the people who are attacking us, but
the demons that are behind the very thoughts and actions of the evil that comes
against us.
But our God is much more
powerful than anything Satan can manipulate. I’ve seen from studying different
records in the Bible that God has a specific remedy for the perfect storm.
When David called on God
to help him, God got up off His throne, and He
roared:
The Lord also thundered in
the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
Yea, he sent out his
arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them. (Ps. 18:13-14)
God said He “discomfited”
them, which in Hebrew means He made an uproar; He agitated them and destroyed
them. In verse 15 we’re told that God discomfited them with a
loud “rebuke at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.” We’re also told in that verse that the roots of
the attacks on David were “discovered.” The Hebrew for that word tells us the
demons were “exposed, shamelessly revealed, stripped and exiled.” I just love that.
At the blast of
God’s breath, David was sprung out
from Saul’s attempts to destroy him. A blast from God and Jonah was thrown
safely onto the beach. By the loud,
strong words of Paul, the broken up ship was
hurled to shore, but all lives
were saved, including his.
When I saw the perfect
storm of spiritual attack on my friend Shelley, God gave me strong, loud words of deliverance to shout out,
in the name of Jesus Christ. I didn’t have to be there in her presence for
Satan and his devils to hear God’s rebuke. The demons were exposed and
defeated!
In just a couple hours I
got confirmation of her deliverance: She posted a new picture of herself in her
skinny jeans and a great big smile, and another photo showing a current
snapshot of her with her grandson. I found out later that the work issues also
turned out to her benefit.
When confronted with this
kind of perfect storm situation, we need to shout or speak with a strong word,
not a polite asking. Think about yelling at a sports event. Even the quietest
and meekest can get up a good yell.
Clear your lungs and your
life with a good shout! It has to be from the
standpoint of believing in what you’re doing and believing in the power
of our God to rescue. The Lord will give the words. We just have to start. No devil, not Satan himself can stand up
against the powerful roar of our God! Believe and receive.
Our God is greater than
any storm.
Love, Carolyn
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