THE ZOMBIES CAN'T GET US

THE ZOMBIES CAN’T GET US

In the movie, “World War Z” the zombies are on the way and the hero of the movie tells the family, “People who keep moving, live.”

 

Movement is life. A while ago at work, I had to be standing in one position on a cement floor for 7 ½ hours. When I got home my back was stiff and sore. I did an exercise to stretch it but I had to do it four times before I heard that wonderful popping as the muscles stretched out.

 

When we feel like we’re on pause, or like we’re not really moving ahead with our life, we need to think about asking the Lord to help us to become more flexible and yield quickly to His urgings, without second-guessing ourselves. When the Pharisees got stuck in their ways, or even when Jesus’ disciples got stuck in their thinking, the Lord said they were slipping fast into hard-heartedness. We don’t want that. People need our love and our care, things we can’t give if we’re angry and ridged in our thinking.

 

Recently I’ve been exercising the ability to stay flexible mentally. When I got blocked from certain capabilities on Facebook, the first thing that popped into my head (after a brief dance with disappointment) was: “God will make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert” (Isaiah 43:19). I wasn’t going to give up on reaching people with my writing, but I knew I had to be compliant to the Holy Spirit, ready to go in a divergent direction if necessary.

 

At work, I may think I have the right answer, but I’ve learned that often others have even better ideas. My co-workers would tell you that they’ve heard me say many times, “I’ve got a lot of ideas, but I can’t say they’re always good ones.”

 

When we know that we’re doing God’s will, nothing can stop us, but we may have to be a little flexible in the execution. We can’t be making all kinds of our own rules about how we think things should be done all the time. I know we all get into comfortable routines, but putting stiff unbreakable rules on ourselves can lead to rigidity and unnecessary hard heartedness.

 

That’s what happened to the Pharisees. They knew it was God’s will to heal people but they also knew that they weren’t supposed to do any work on the Sabbath. They became overbearingly inflexible about not working on the Sabbath, to the point that when Jesus went to heal a man on the Sabbath, they were furious:

 

“And he [Jesus] entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.  And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.  And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, ‘Stand forth.’

 

“And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness [blindness] of their hearts, he saith unto the man, ‘Stretch forth thine hand’. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.

 

“And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.  But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea” (Mark 3:1-7).

 

Now I know none of us would want to be as ridiculous as the Pharisees, but at times we’ve sacrificed the greater blessing and gotten mad about having to change.

 

But we don’t want to lose sight of the bigger picture. When obstacles come up against the traditions we’ve set up, we want to let the Holy Spirit take us around some new bends in the stream. It may be more thrilling and more satisfying than we ever imagined.

 

Don’t get stuck in rigid rules. If we get brittle, we’ll break. Let’s be willing to go in a slightly different direction as the Holy Spirit opens new ways. The zombies will never be able to get us if we just keep moving with the Holy Spirit.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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LIVING FAITH

 LIVING FAITH

I don’t wake up anymore dreading the day ahead. It’s because I studied familiar spirits in the Bible and got rid of the one that was bringing around the tremendous dread every morning. I’ve been delivered from many other generational curses passed down in the DNA of my parents, grandparents, and ancestors. Some generational curses we experience come from so far back, we can’t possibly recognize their origin. But we can get clues to our personal spiritual ancestral history from studying the Bible. God will use His written Word, and then add personal revelations to us when we desire them and or need them.

 

Any person can study up on generational curses and can even recognize them in themselves and others. But studying isn’t a requirement for deliverance. Faith is.

 

Hebrews 11:1 tells us: “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” The Amplified puts it this way: “Now faith is the assurance (the confirmation, the title deed) of the things [we] hope for, being the proof of things [we] do not see and the conviction of their reality [faith perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses].”

 

Faith believes a thing before it’s seen in our reality. God wants us to “walk by faith, not by sight” (2 Cor. 5:7).

 

It’s in my nature to work. Even when I’m off for the weekend, I end up working in my yard. But faith is a different type of work. Faith is a yielding work, where we just believe God. The only way we even are able to claim that we have faith is because God gave it to us. It’s a spirit thing that is attached directly to Jesus’ spirit and the spirit of God Himself. We believe that what He’s said in His written Word or said to us by revelation, is true. It’s an intimate thing, personal, and based on is grace to us.

 

Jesus healed iniquities (generational curses) that the people did not know about: the man born blind, the man from the Gadarenes, the man with the withered hand. The Gospels are filled with the wonderful healings and deliverances God did through Jesus Christ. One that especially hits my heart is recorded in Luke 13:11:

 

“And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.”

 

If we were reading in the original language, we would know that this infirmity could have been in her body and in her mind. The infirmity was an inborn weakness or frailty of the body and soul. It was a lack of strength or even capacity to understand a thing, the inability to restrain corrupt desires, to bear up under trouble or trials, or ever do great things. She just didn’t have it in her. We all know people like that. In this woman’s case, her inborn frailty even affected her posture, and she was bent over under the overall strain of life itself.

 

“And when Jesus saw her, he called her to him, and said unto her, ‘Woman, thou art loosed from thine infirmity.’ And he laid his hands on her: and immediately she was made straight, and glorified God” (Luke 13:12-13).

 

The woman knew this was from God and she honored and celebrated Him for healing her. Life could no longer push her down. Jesus gifted her with the understanding and the strength to do great things and overcome corrupt desires and bear up under trials, things she could never do before.

 

We all have things that bother us about ourselves, but Jesus is here to heal us of all that. As He said to the man whose son was suicidal: “If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth” (Mark 9:23).

 

Got a problem? Jesus has the answer. Let’s respond like the man who had the suicidal son: “And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe” (Mark 9:24). And “When Jesus saw that the people came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying unto him, ‘Thou dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him, and enter no more into him” (v. 25).

 

The spirit was causing the child to jump into fires and caused the boy to try to drown himself. So why didn’t Jesus cast out a suicide spirit? Because Jesus had to get right to the source. Instead of casting out a suicide spirit, He went straight to the spirit causing the son to be deaf and dumb.  It was a “foul” spirit, the definition is “unclean in thought and life.” Had Jesus cast out only a suicide spirit, the child would have been stalked by more suicide spirits later. Jesus got to the real problem of an unclean mind and lifestyle, a big foul spirit which resulted in him not being able to speak or hear.

 

“And the spirit cried, and rent him sore, and came out of him: and he was as one dead; insomuch that many said, He is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand, and lifted him up; and he arose” (Mark 9:25-27).

 

We have the faith in us to believe like the father for big deliverance, and we can be lifted up like the boy.  We have the kind of faith like the woman in Luke 13. She was lifted up—she was straightened up and set free, relieved from all her weaknesses. Faith makes us strong. And faith connects us to God.

 

Check out the Gospels this week and take a look at Hebrews 11 for great and small leaps of faith. :-)

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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WE CAN BE PATIENT BECAUSE THE LORD IS FAITHFUL

WE CAN BE PATIENT BECAUSE THE LORD IS FAITHFUL

In May of 2017, it was slow at work, but I was able to find a few things to do to keep busy. However, in about a week and a half, I started to get low on new ideas. It’s a good thing the Lord is faithful. He took this opportunity to teach me to be patient. It’s not that my boss doesn’t want me to work; He does. But I like to do tasks that will be profitable. We didn’t have any samples to work on, and I hate standing around trying to look like I’m busy. So Jesus came through for me and gave me new tasks to do.

 

Isaiah 48:6-7 says: “I have shown thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them. They are created now and not from the beginning, even before the day when thou heardest them not, lest thou shouldest say, ‘Behold, I knew them.’” I sure couldn’t brag about coming up with the new projects to make our work easier or more efficient. It was the Lord who gave me ideas, one at a time, and as I got started on one, He led me step by step into the next part or into an entirely new project. It was amazing.

 

At the beginning of this slow time, I had no idea of the ideas He would give me. One after another, the innovations came. There was the rattle can inventory—over 100 cans of spray paint! I wanted to be able to see what they’d look like once sprayed, but how was I going to do it in a neat and useful way? Ephesians 1:8 says: “He hath abounded toward us in all wisdom.” I love the way The Amplified Version puts it: “In all wisdom and understanding with practical insight.” I needed that practical insight in this situation.

 

The Holy Spirit gave me the idea to make a template with a small square-shaped opening just big enough to spray the paint through and show what the color looked like. So I divided up the colors in different categories and had three templates going at once. (In dry time, I experimented with some wild color spray paint covers for my new books.)

 

Once I finished that project, I wondered what would be next. Lamentations 3:22-26 says:  

 

“It is through the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning; great is Thy faithfulness.

 

“‘The Lord is my portion,’ saith my soul, ‘Therefore will I hope in Him.’ The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him.

 

“It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.”

 

The word “salvation” also means “satisfaction.” When we seek the Lord and quietly wait, when we are patient, we will experience satisfaction. I was learning to believe in God’s faithfulness to me. He would keep me working, keep giving me new things to do, not just to busy my time, but things that would be helpful to us in the shop later on. So I was patient.

 

Again the Lord got me started on another task I didn’t see coming. I looked around and saw that I could organize the cans of paint on the shelves and label the shelves so that it would be easier and faster to find what we needed. When I started marking the shelves, one thing led to another; the labeling got more detailed, making the task of finding things even more efficient. It made me happy to be doing something that was going to be beneficial, something that, in normal working mode, we would never have the time to accomplish. But, of course, Jesus knew that!

 

In this slow time at work, the Lord is taking the opportunity to teach me about His faithfulness to me and showing me that I really can be patient and like it.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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STAYING FAITHFUL

STAYING FAITHFUL

Fred had good Christian teaching as a child. He’s much older now, and he says he doesn’t believe in God anymore.  Many people who started as Bible-believing children, come dangerously close to wanting to give up on the Bible later in life.

 

Traumatic events take place, and God gets blamed. We’re born again, and we think things should be going better for us. But sometimes they don’t go well at all. The truth is faithfulness isn’t something for the weak-hearted. It takes some real inner strength to stay faithful, and our faithfulness gets tested over and over throughout our lives. Faithfulness isn’t that easy sometimes, but is it worth it? For sure!

 

Hebrews 11:6 tells us that God rewards faith: “He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”

 

In the big picture of things, our lives are short here on earth compared to our eternity. “As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more” (Ps. 103:15).

 

Though life may seem unbearable at times, God promises that “there hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it” (1 Cor. 10:13).

 

In Old Testament terms, “Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning” (Ps. 30:5). You say, “That’s the longest night ever!” But God does promise joy in the morning. And God “is not a man that he should lie” (Num. 23:19).

 

In New Testament terms, “For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory” (2 Cor. 4:17). I looked up the word “affliction” in the Greek. It is a thronging, crowding pressure. It’s narrow, burdened with anguish, persecution, and trouble. It comes from a root word meaning a rut or worn track. And isn’t that how the attacks come sometimes? We get in a rut of affliction, the same things over and over.

 

When the Bible says “light affliction” it doesn’t mean it’s no big deal. The word “light” has two meanings in the Greek. The older meaning is that the affliction is pushed like a torrential wind pushes or oars push in the water or how demonic powers push. We are all aware of what mighty winds can do to even the strongest of palm trees or buildings.

 

If you’ve ever watched the Olympic rowing teams, you know how powerful those oars cut through the water. And if demonic powers have pounded you at times, you know it’s no small matter.

 

This verse is telling us that the Lord understands that the afflictions are rough and hard to bear.

 

But the second meaning of the word “light” is just as we suspected. The afflictions we bear now are minimal, compared to the honor, praise, glory, and dignity we will have for eternity.

 

This is how Second Corinthians 4:17 is translated In the Amplified Version: “For our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure, excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!”

 

God shows us how to endure in this life. Read the Bible and see the many examples of men, women, and children who confronted adversity and came out on the other side.

 

“Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God” (Heb. 12: 1-2).

 

We have Jesus’ help! Let’s use it. “Help me. Help me. Help me!” He will help us. So let’s do our best to stay faithful even through the hard things.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE THINKING

I KNOW WHAT YOU’RE THINKING

We’ve all experienced times when we’re pretty sure we know what someone is thinking. But we don’t acknowledge it because if it’s something bad, we don’t want to be accused of being judgmental, and we don’t want to be wrong. But God wants us to believe in what we see by the spirit. He wants us to hear spiritually so that we’ll begin to understand the deeper levels of human behavior and be able to act quickly with wisdom.

 

Perception and understanding come from the Lord. When we’re pretty sure we’re getting a bead on what someone is thinking, we can ask the Lord to confirm it. Or, on the other hand, He’ll let us know when we’ve misunderstood. But we don’t give up. God gave this ability to Jesus for a purpose, and we are the Lord’s sisters and brothers, and God wants us to exercise this ability as well. This amazing ability helps us to see the problems and get to the solutions faster.

 

We see in Matthew 13:13 that Jesus tells his disciples that people without the spirit of Christ within, often don’t perceive the truth when they see it, and they can’t understand the truth when they hear it.

 

“Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing, see not; and hearing, they hear not, neither do they understand.”

 

To consistently and accurately understand the deeper levels of human behavior, you have to have the spirit of Christ within. Throughout the gospels, we see Jesus demonstrating the ability to know what people were thinking, perceiving accurately what He saw, and understanding perfectly what He was hearing. Jesus wants us to do this too. The following are just some examples of how valuable this ability was to Jesus and can be to us as well:

 

Matt. 12:25: “And Jesus knew their thoughts.”

 

Matt. 12:14-15: “Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him. But when Jesus knew it, he withdrew himself from thence.”

 

Matt. 22:18: “But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, ‘Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?’”

 

Mark 8:17: “And when Jesus knew it, he saith unto them, ‘Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? Perceive ye not yet, neither understand? Have ye your heart yet hardened?’”

 

Luke 6:7-8 “And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, ‘Rise up, and stand forth in the midst.’”

 

Luke 20:23: “But he perceived their craftiness, and said unto them, ‘Why tempt ye me?’”

 

The Apostle Paul explains: “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Col. 1:27). And with the spirit of Christ in us, we can do what He did.

 

Jesus told us in John 14:12: “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also.”

 

Don’t doubt your ability to see and perceive, hear, and understand. The Lord Jesus gave you His same ability to know what’s on people’s minds. Test it out. Believe what you see. There are just some things in life we need to know ahead of time, and we can if we allow the Christ in us to open our eyes and ears.

 

In truth, we already see and hear. Now we need to step out in believing, and acting according to His wisdom.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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REVERSE THE CURSE

REVERSE THE CURSE

God set up certain laws of the universe such as the laws of physics, gravity, the intricate laws of what happens when certain chemicals are combined, laws of how our immune system works, laws of nature, and laws that govern many different aspects of our lives. In the first part of Deuteronomy 28, God tells us what happens if we seek to do those things that bring about good results for our lives. But from verse 15 to verse 68, He tells us about the curses of the law, which are the things that can and do happen when we deliberately break His laws and the laws of the universe.

 

We are familiar with the law of gravity, for instance. If you jump off a cliff, you’re going to fall. And yet, God is able and willing to reverse the curse of gravity for His people. In 2 Kings 6: 4-6, we see this in action. The men were in Bible school and wanted to build a place to live while they were learning from Elisha.

 

 “They cut down wood. But as one was felling a beam, the axe head fell into the water: and he cried, and said, ‘Alas, master! for it was borrowed.’ And the man of God said, ‘Where fell it?’ And he shewed him the place. And he cut down a stick, and cast it in thither; and the iron did swim.” You might want to say that he put the stick into the water and scooped up the axe, but that’s not it. The Bible says he “cast” it, and that word means he “flung” it in, or he “hurled” it in.

 

In this situation, gravity was a curse in that it took the iron axe head down to the bottom of the water, and the man was devastated because he had borrowed the axe and wanted to return it. But God Almighty reversed the curse for him. God stopped the law of gravity entirely, and the axe head floated up to the top!

 

In another Old Testament incident, God stopped the effect of poison.

 

“Elisha came again to Gilgal: and there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him: and he said unto his servant, ‘Set on the great pot, and seethe pottage for the sons of the prophets.’ 

 

“And one went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a wild vine, and gathered thereof wild gourds his lap full, and came and shred them into the pot of pottage: for they knew them not. 

 

“So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, ‘O thou man of God, there is death in the pot.’ And they could not eat thereof. 

 

“But he said, ‘Then bring meal.’ And he cast it into the pot; and he said, ‘Pour out for the people, that they may eat.’ And there was no harm in the pot” (2 Kings 4: 38-41).

 

The nature of poison is to kill, but when Elisha threw something in the pot, the poison couldn’t do what it wanted to do. The curse of the poison was nullified.

 

There are many other places in the Old Testament where God shows us that His love for people goes far beyond the rules of natural laws.

 

Then God sent Jesus onto the earth, and faith in Him was even more important than any law. Galatians 3:13 tells us: “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.”

 

Jesus came to reverse the curses. Jesus took on all the curses that would ever try to hurt us, and He looked them in the face, and they ran. Philippians 2:10 tells us that: “At the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.” A virus is a thing; a demon is a thing; poverty is a thing; Nanoparticles are things. All things must bow to the name of Jesus Christ.

 

James 4:7 tells us: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”

 

God can reverse the law of gravity and reverse the law of poison in a pot of stew and reverse the law of a vicious snake bite (like with the Apostle Paul). God slowed the sun down for one of the prophets and made time go backwards. God can reverse the laws of nature and the laws of any man-made element anywhere, anytime, and for anyone!

 

Do you believe in God’s ability to reverse a curse for you? I do.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

GOD WILL KEEP US AFLOAT AND BRING US HOME

GOD WILL KEEP US AFLOAT AND BRING US HOME

Last year I had the vision of myself on an ark like Noah. I was floating on the water, not knowing where I was going, but I seemed to be perfectly okay; the Lord was making it so that all the right things happened for me as I went up the squalls and down into the valleys of the ocean under me.

 

In Genesis, chapters six through nine tell us the story of Noah and the great flood. The peoples’ hearts were so bad, only a terrible flood could reboot what was happening on the earth. After this whole event happened, God said He would never send a flood again (see Gen. 9:14-15), but He never promised it would be smooth going. Several times throughout history there has been a rebooting, and I believe now is one of those times again. We can learn a lot from looking at the story of Noah and the ark.

 

“And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth. And God said unto Noah, ‘The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth’” (Gen. 6:12-13).

 

The next thing God did was give instructions to Noah on how to build an ark and the details of what Noah would need to ride the storm.

 

“Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch” (Gen. 6:14).

 

“Thou shalt come into the ark, thou, and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons’ wives with thee. And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female” (vv. 18-19). 

 

I believe God is letting each of us know what we need to do as an individual or as a family, to be able to stay afloat during this time. Here, God told Noah to bring in animals for food, but also for what God had planned for Noah in the future, to let the animals go and repopulate the earth. The thing is that Noah had no idea what was going to happen. All he knew was to listen to God and be obedient to what He said. Figuring out the future was not in Noah’s instructions. However, preparation according to God’s instructions was the necessary thing.

 

I know the Lord is whispering to us different things to do to provide for our future as well. I can’t tell you what you need to do, only God can do that. I just know what He’s telling me to do. I’ve had to take on a few tasks that I knew nothing about. But when God says do it, I do it. Odd things could come up. Whether it is to store up some extra food and water, change the locks on the door, go grocery shopping at a different store, stash some money in a new place, think about homeschooling the kids, or any number of other things only you and God are aware of.

 

God told Noah: “And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten, and thou ‘shalt gather it to thee; and it shall be for food for thee, and for them. Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he” (Gen. 6:21-22).

 

Then finally, “were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened” (Gen. 7: 11).

 

“And God remembered Noah, and every living thing, and all the cattle that was with him in the ark: and God made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters assuaged; and the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. And the ark rested. . . upon the mountains of Ararat. And the waters decreased continually” (Gen.5: 1-5).

 

God made a wind pass over the earth. Wind influences and changes the waves. Here in Vegas, we see the wind come up at odd times. Jane and I call them “the winds of change.” In John 3:8, Jesus compares the wind to the spirit of God: “The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.” To be in touch with God, we need to be willing to be moved by that spiritual wind. It will bring us home. Isaiah 1:9 tells us: “If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land.”

 

God sent a wind to dry up the waters, and the ark rested, but it still wasn’t safe enough to totally let go. Noah had to literally “test the waters,” and God gave him wisdom as to how to do it. He sent out a raven first. Ravens are hardy, clever, and reliable. They are survivors. The raven didn’t come back. He could live above the water, and he would be fine. But then Noah sent out a weaker bird, a bird that generally is more comfortable with easier, gentler things. The dove came back.

 

“But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark” (Gen. 8: 9).

 

Not everything we want is going to work out the same. Even though the tempest may seem to be over, certain things we do will be like the raven, a survivor no matter what. But other things may be more like the dove, and we will just have to be a little more patient with our dove projects. But through it all, if we will be lithe to the spirit of God, He will keep us afloat. I know it will be as He promised:

 

“He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still. Then are they glad because they be quiet; so he bringeth them unto their desired haven.

 

“Oh that men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!” (Ps. 107: 29-30).

 

Love, Carolyn

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