GOD IS THE PROMOTER

GOD IS THE PROMOTER 

If you’ve tapped into certain talents you were born with, and you’ve made great strides in life, that’s wonderful. But never make the mistake of thinking your talents or special abilities originate with you. If you’re good at something, give God the glory. Give Him credit for putting certain wonderful, inventive, creative, and insightful abilities in you, and give Him the thanks.

 

The older I get, the humbler I get. A while back someone told me, “You’re a much better gardener than I am.” It wasn’t as much of a statement of fact, as a concession speech, as if we were competing. I was flabbergasted! I had no idea this person was competing with me—over gardening? Crazy.

 

Gardening is a pleasure for me, a pastime, a hobby. The fact that things grow for me is not because of my great skill, but because of God. He loves me, and I love Him, and so my garden grows. God gives me the insight and the direction, and I just follow and have fun. It works the same with my painting.

 

I didn’t even start painting as a career until I was 40-years old. I don’t have a degree. The Lord Jesus gives me the ability to see and copy. He’s the one who put me on jobs with prestigious clients—projects other painters would be jealous of. But for me, it’s not about the client; it’s about the challenge and fun of succeeding in the painting itself. It’s the Lord who puts the “how to” in me. From my viewpoint, I’m never in competition with anyone, because I know the Lord is my promoter, and I look to Him. I don’t have to compete.

 

If it seems that people are trying to compete with you, don’t let it bother you. Be happy with who you are. You are only in a position that others may covet because God put you there. He can do it for them too.

 

Psalm 75:5-7 tells us promotion is from the Lord: “Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.”

 

David was a great warrior because God made him that way. And Saul started off with the God-given ability to be a great king, but Saul got covetous of what David had, and it drove him to demon infiltration.

 

1 Samuel 18:6-12 tells us:

 

“When the victorious Israelite army was returning home after David had killed the Philistine, women from all the towns of Israel came out to meet King Saul. They sang and danced for joy with tambourines and cymbals.

 

“This was their song: ‘Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands!’

 

“This made Saul very angry. ‘What’s this?’ he said. ‘They credit David with ten thousands and me with only thousands. Next they’ll be making him their king!’

 

“So from that time on Saul kept a jealous eye on David. The very next day a tormenting spirit from God overwhelmed Saul, and he began to rave in his house like a madman.

 

“David was playing the harp, as he did each day. But Saul had a spear in his hand, and he suddenly hurled it at David, intending to pin him to the wall. But David escaped him twice.

 

“Saul was then afraid of David, for the Lord was with David and had turned away from Saul.”

 

Saul was stubborn. Instead of being happy with the abilities God gave him, He wanted what David had. But he couldn’t have it and because of his stubborn ambition, he also lost his kingship. 1 Samuel 15:23says: “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity [sin in your ancestors, passed down to you] and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, he hath also rejected thee from being king.”

 

Meanwhile, God showed David how to avoid Saul, and David kept his heart in the Lord.

 

So don’t worry if you feel others may be a little jealous of you. Just keep looking to Jesus and be happy with yourself. Let’s be humble and thankful because all the good things we are, came from Him. Other people don’t need to be covetous. They can be just as happy as we are if they just do what we do—humble yourself to Him.

 

1 Peter 5:6 is the best step to promotion: “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.” It’s God’s Word. It always works.

 

Love, Carolyn

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CHASING PHANTOMS AND THE SPIRIT OF OBSESSION

CHASING PHANTOMS AND THE SPIRIT OF OBSESSION

I had difficulty figuring out what I wanted to do for my vacation. I wanted to go on one, but I couldn’t settle on anything. It shouldn’t have been so hard, but somehow it was. I had such an idealized picture of what a vacation should be that I had a hard time letting go and letting God open a door for what would be best for me. It turned into a major problem.

 

In my mind, the image of the ideal vacation was from the past—an image, a phantom from my youth—having a great time camping, fishing, and floating down the rapids. But every time I tried to duplicate that kind of vacation, it didn’t measure up. The image pulled at me so much that I was getting really aggravated, and everything I planned fell through. I needed a vacation so desperately that I was exhausted just thinking about it. It started as a desire, but I let it become an obsession and idolatry. I’d put it on a pedestal and focused on doing everything I could to make it happen.

 

The Holy Spirit interrupted me in the middle of my intense aggressiveness and let me know what I was doing, so I instantly stopped seeking the vacation and sought God instead. I looked up the word “idol”: “a phantom, an image in the mind.” I told myself that I had to just let the old phantom image go, that past vacations with the family are now memories, and really great memories, but still memories. I couldn’t continue chasing ghosts. I had to trust that God would open doors for new kinds of vacations. I knew He would want me to have a great vacation, so I quit trying to figure it out myself. It ended up that God gave me an amazing vacation on an island trip with my sister and my mom.

 

Chasing a mirage doesn’t deliver true results. The Bible calls this “vanity.” “Walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind” (Eph. 4:17). The book of Job puts it this way: “Let him not trust in emptiness, deceiving himself; For emptiness will be his reward” (Job 15:31). The vanities (illusions) are all around us, promising things, looking good, baiting us, but they don’t deliver. They are only air. Living in Las Vegas, I see this all the time.

 

There’s one casino we’ve nicknamed “the sex hotel.” The young guys come in, and you can see the hunger and expectation on their faces. I watched one guy in a restaurant start flirting with a waitress in a way that he fully expected her to take him in the back room for sex right there on the spot. It was kind of hilarious but sad, too. The billboards advertise sex, so the guys come in expecting to get it, but it’s a phantom. They can look around the casino’s main floor and restaurants and be sorely disappointed. Visions of their imaginations trap them. 

 

I had been caught up in chasing the illusion—a mental and emotional image I had of the perfect vacation. But my picture was something that really wasn’t available in the same way as I saw it in my mind. I wanted to understand how this delusion was working on me so if I got tempted in this way again, I would be able to recognize it and stop it more immediately. I thought about how being obsessed by this phantom idea made me feel and act; I had become totally crabby and irrationally irritable. I felt like I was being squashed in a vise grip.

 

The dictionary says a vise is a “screw, that which winds, consisting of two jaws opened and closed to hold or squeeze with.” That’s exactly how I felt. The idol, the image, the vacation mirage had me in its jaws and was squeezing. Obsession is a demon that makes people feel pressured and unsatisfied until they get what they want (or die trying!) The spirit of obsession follows the devil’s objectives, as stated in John 10:10a: “The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy.” Obsession is just one of the demons that Satan utilizes to destroy as many good people as he can.

 

When I looked up the word “vise,” the dictionary said it could also be spelled “vice.”  I realized that a v-i-c-e (a fault or harmful habit) works much the same way as a v-i-s-e with people’s minds. The vice gets a grip on the mind and won’t let go. We usually don’t even know the real reason we got trapped by it in the first place.

 

God tells us that His desire for us is to be free. Paul wrote to the Galatians: “Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage” (Gal. 5:1). The “yoke of bondage” is the obsession, the vise grips of the unprofitable bondages the world puts on people, rather than the freedom that comes with Christ and walking by the Spirit.

 

The world is a big billboard of phantoms, and we’ve been bombarded with them since we were young—things we were led to believe were right for us to seek and seize. They were presented to us through all kinds of media, including books, magazines, TV, the internet, religion, our parents, teachers, peers, and our cultural and ethnic backgrounds, to name a few of the sources of these phantoms. We have even combined what these sources put out and developed our own versions of certain ideas or pictures of how we think we’d like things.

 

My recent picture was of a vacation I idolized and obsessed over. Another example comes from when I was twenty-one. I had the idea of having twelve kids. I figured since I really liked teaching Sunday school classes with lots of kids, I would love having twelve of my own. But that was my imagined scenario, and I didn’t check it out with the Lord. I also dreamed of being married by the age twenty-five, and I felt devastated when that didn’t happen.

 

One of my friends used to envision herself having one perfect job—one that she would absolutely love and would do it all her life. It didn’t happen. Women often fantasize about what they want in the perfect husband and take the chance of missing the best husband for them—the one God sends. People get an idea of what they see as their perfect family, but then they end up as a single parent, step-mom, or a step-dad, and they may feel that their dreams have been forever shattered, and they have a hard time coping with the reality of the new family they’ve been given. And then, if a person does not cast out that spirit of obsession, the obsession spirit is glad to bring in the more domineering spirit of addiction if it can, and we all know what sorrow and destruction to individuals, families, and friends a spirit of addiction renders.

 

We’ve all had dreams we thought were our own, but sometimes those visions of what we want don’t come from God, but rather from the world’s enticements. When we insist on pursuing these things without really checking them out with the Lord, our thoughts and actions can turn un-Christ-like, and we get further away from God’s good path for us. It gets harder and harder to see the truth. Paul says: “I warn you beforehand, just as I did previously, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God” (Gal. 5:21 AMP). That’s because when we’re chasing phantoms we’re off track and can’t be enjoying God’s great inheritance at the same time. Paul isn’t saying that we’re not going to heaven if we get trapped by a delusion. It’s just that our lives aren’t going to be as free and satisfying in this life.

 

Unfortunately, many of us only find out that something is wrong for us after we’ve repeatedly sought it out, and it still isn’t doing what we wanted. These illusions disappoint and fail us so many times we finally just can’t ignore them anymore. That’s when we need to take some bold action.

 

It’s no time to be apathetic. Romans 13:11 says: “And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation [wholeness] nearer than when we believed.” It’s time to examine what we think we want and make brave changes if necessary. Philippians 4:13 says: “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.” Why wait when we can turn some things around right now?

If we truly seek the Lord Jesus Christ, he will not fail us.

 

He will help us to recognize what ideas and visions are dangerous illusions and what images are solidly from Him. If we let Christ be with us when we take a closer look, we’ll see where the visions come from: tradition, family, culture, peers, the media, the Lord, or some other source. Once we know where they come from, it’s a lot easier to deal with them. If they’re not from God, we must get rid of them. He’ll provide us with something better for sure!

 

Love, Carolyn

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LET'S TALK ABOUT RAIN

LET’S TALK ABOUT RAIN

In the past few days, Las Vegas was pelted with rain. It traveled around the valley and hit some areas more than others. At our house, we were blessed. My yard received a good watering, which was a blessing because I have gotten warnings from the water authorities that I use too much! I am grudgingly cutting back, but my grass covers a major part of my yard, and I love my grass, so I know the Lord was the one who gave me the extra heavenly water this week, and I’m really thankful. I got to thinking about God and rain and remembered a couple of miraculous incidents involving rain that I thought you’d like to hear about today. Enjoy.

 

Driving to my appointment, I came closer and closer to the nearby mountains. Huge red and black clouds piled high into the sky, and I could see the hot red and yellow flames. They swelled fatter and taller, and I felt smaller and smaller.

 

The black clouds crawled slowly and powerfully up into the sky like some thick, ghostly monster. The heavy, acrid smell of smoke filled the air. It was like the times I started a fire in my fireplace and forgot to open the flue. I had to throw open the sliding glass door to my patio and run out to get some fresh air.

 

This time, I was already out in the big open Las Vegas valley, but there was no fresh air to be had. It was eerie and claustrophobic, and I didn’t like it.

 

I had a vision of what it might feel like being up there at close range with the firefighters; our heads tilted back as we looked straight up, a wall of gray and red thick heat forcing us backward. The vision was threatening. I knew I had to do something before the mountain fire became more serious.

 

I felt that many people were praying, and I asked God to send rain to our desert and put a stop to the red and black monster. He answered that prayer. The rain came, drenched the fire, and the remaining embers were totally out in three days.

 

Our God is GREAT and MIGHTY. “The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool” (Isa. 66:1 and Acts 7:49). He made all the planets, all the stars, all the heavenlies. He is in charge of the winds, and He set the boundary of the oceans. He is God Almighty and the Lord of Sabaoth (Lord of all the elements). He can do LARGE!

 

Our God created all the existing elements and gave Jesus Christ power over all. “And Jesus spake unto them, saying, ‘All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth’” (Matt 28:118).

 

Those clouds were huge, the smoke suffocating and the fire fearsome. But our God is BIGGER! We need to respect HIM. He gave Jesus, His son, so much power, and in turn Jesus made it available to us as his brothers and sisters in Christ. He said: “And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it” (John 14:13-14).

 

That’s why we can command the elements to obey. They are subject to their creator God and He set it up “that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth” (Phil. 2:10). In ministering, I often use that scripture. It works, and it’s powerful, and I love it.

This means that ANY element or combination of elements—abnormal cells, a set of muscles out of place, a dropped bladder, a storm, a demon, a fire. ALL elements must be in submission to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. And for any computer-controlled hurricane or any other unnatural weather phenomenon that is started, we need to pray that the people who are involved and the equipment be destroyed or changed by the power of our God.

 

And God will honor our faith as we step out on this truth about His authority and dominion. “And these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them; they shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover. And they went forth, and preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following” (Mark 16:17-20).

 

When other believers and I prayed for rain to put out the fire on Mt. Charleston, God answered.

 

Another time, I had the opportunity to pray for God to stop the rain. I was on a Christian survival adventure. It included rock climbing. I had gone with several “city folks” who hadn’t even done much camping. When it came to the day we were to do the climb, the leaders went to set it up as we waited below. Dark clouds built up over us, and it began to pour. I found shelter under a big rock, began to pray, and got a revelation: The people’s fear brought the rain so they wouldn’t have to do the climb. I knew it was true.

 

Scrambling up to where the leaders were, I told them we had to pray. I prayed in the name of Jesus Christ and used Philippians 2:10 as I took dominion over the clouds and demanded a clear sky. The clouds dissipated, and the sky opened up over us. We were able to climb, and there were great personal victories for all of us.

 

These things are not just for preachers to do, but for all believers who will dare to believe in the power over the elements that God gave to Jesus and us when we use our God-given authority in the name of Jesus Christ.

 

Love, Carolyn

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A SPECIAL KIND OF PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL BUILD-UP

A SPECIAL KIND OF PRAYER AND SPIRITUAL BUILD-UP

On my walk home from grade school, I would sing songs in a made-up language. Later in life, I realized this was singing in tongues. Often when children get born again, they exhibit the freedom to yield to the Holy Spirit by speaking or singing in their new God-given language. When people in the New Testament times were born again, they were also inspired to speak or sing in a different language than they normally spoke. The Bible says speaking with tongues was an outward sign of something spiritual that had happened on the inside.  

 

There’s been a lot of misunderstanding about speaking in tongues. People think a spirit takes over, and it’s like in the movies where a person’s eyes roll back in their head, they get possessed, and then they speak in a different language and are totally unaware of it. But it’s just the opposite. The person speaking or praying in tongues completely controls their actions. The Spirit from within gives the words, but the person does the speaking. They can start or stop anytime, like speaking in their native language.

 

In the Old Testament times, the Spirit of God was “on” a person. In Jesus’ time on earth, the Spirit of God was “with” them. Jesus told his disciples that after he returned to the Father in Heaven, they would soon have the opportunity to receive the holy spirit to dwell “in” them. Then Jesus told them how they could build up that seed of His Spirit within.

 

“And he [Jesus] said unto them, ‘Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues” (Mark 16:15-16).

 

Jesus told them they would speak in new tongues. Why would they need that? Jerusalem and that part of the world weren’t peaceful, much like the world is not peaceful now. The believers need to grow that spirit in them as much as they can, to be spiritually strong, to be peaceful, and to be able to pray perfectly for even those things they knew nothing about. We need to be spiritually sharp on the inside to handle the things happening on the outside.  

 

The devil is getting bolder with his attacks, but we can get stronger spiritually by speaking in tongues. That’s what the Bible says: “He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself” (1 Cor. 14:4). The Greek word for “edifieth” means “to be a house-builder, build up, embolden.” 

 

Praying in tongues also builds up our faith. “But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit” (Jude 1:20). We want to have big faith when it comes to caring for ourselves, our families, our friends, our neighborhoods, our world. Bigger faith action is needed, and speaking with tongues helps facilitate that.

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There are going to be problems with people and circumstances where we’ll want to see solutions, but we don’t really know what we should pray for. Romans 8:26-27 tells us: “The Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.”

 

The Greek translation reads: “The Holy Spirit maketh intercession for us in groanings that cannot be uttered in articulate speech.” Articulate speech refers to our known languages. We don’t know what God knows, but the Holy Spirit within us does. The Holy Spirit gives us the words in another language so that we can pray the perfect will of God for any person or in any situation.

 

We need to let our adult selves be more like children, who so easily respond to singing or speaking in an unknown language. Just ask the Lord to give you your spiritual language, then you breathe in, believe to receive the words, and start to speak them out. That’s how Jesus taught his disciples to speak with new tongues. 

 

Jesus told the disciples to breathe in, then speak out the words the Holy Spirit gives. They will be a different language than you already know, so don’t think it’s weird just because it sounds odd to you. “And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and saith unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost” (John 20:22). The original Greek word that is translated here as “receive” means “to take hold of, to take what is one’s own, to take to one’s self. It means “to receive what is offered, not to refuse or reject, but to claim and procure for one’s self. God doesn’t force anyone to speak in tongues. He wants us to receive the gift as His connection: His heart to ours.

 

If you want more documentation, read the book of Acts and see how often it comes up. Regular people all over spoke in tongues.

 

The more you speak, the more comfortable you will be. Once you start speaking in tongues out loud, you can start speaking in tongues in your head, just like you would talk to yourself silently. This way, you can speak in tongues while you’re at work or the gym or just going about your regular daily routines, without people wondering about what the heck you’re doing.  

 

There are many other great benefits to speaking in tongues that you can read about in the book of Acts and the Epistles. And of course, as you speak with tongues, you’ll also experience yourself growing spiritually in your daily life.

 

We can be better equipped as ambassadors for our Lord when we do what Jesus instructed: “They shall speak with new tongues.” He said: “Out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water” (John 7:39). So, let’s let it flow.

 

Love, Carolyn

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DON'T LET THE DEMONS DIVIDE YOU FROM YOURSELF

DON’T LET DEMONS DIVIDE YOU FROM YOURSELF

God always was and is still the Ultimate Authority: “In the beginning: GOD.” He is “the MOST HIGH OVER ALL THE EARTH” (Gen. 1:1 and Ps. 83:18b). Then comes man: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth” (Gen. 1:26).

 

The devil himself was named Lucifer (light-bearer) in the beginning. God created Lucifer as an angel of light. Light makes things grow. Things are made clear in the light. They’re illuminated physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. This mighty angel, Lucifer, was to illuminate things for humanity, but he was never supposed to have authority over us. Like other angels, he was supposed to help God by helping us.

 

God gave angels, like humanity, the freedom of will; they could abuse it just like humans do.

 

Lucifer didn’t like the idea of being subservient to God or humans. He became blinded by his own light and thought He could be greater than his creator. In this act, he began to destroy himself.

 

Isaiah 14 tells us Lucifer’s story:

 

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High” (Isa. 14:12-14)

 

To “sit upon the mount of the congregation” means to sit at the top, above all beings, and judge them. (See Ps. 82:1 and Ps. 75:2.) Lucifer liked that idea—to be the bully on the throne and rule as he pleased. He craved that position and the power.

 

But God couldn’t let him have it. There’s only one God above all else, the God of the Bible. Lucifer turned against God, so he basically threw himself out of God’s presence. He was tossed out of heaven and no longer had the name Lucifer because now his light was darkness. Any light he gave would only be a counterfeit of the true light. He could no longer be called “light,” but instead, he was called Satan or the Devil:

 

“And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.”

 

“[But] woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea! For the devil is come down unto you, having great wrath, because he knoweth that he hath but a short time” (Rev. 12:9 and 12).

 

Satan, being tossed to the earth, quickly tricked Adam out of having authority over the earth. God sent Jesus, a perfect man, to give authority back to God’s people. Jesus overcame the devil in areas where Adam did not, thus taking back humanity’s dominion on the earth. “For this purpose the Son of God was manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil” (1 John 3:8b).

 

So where is the devil now? He would like us to believe that he is still running things, and he will continue to do so for those who let him. But legally, he has no authority. He is a liar and a divider.

 

Just like Satan tricked Adam into a type of suicide and self-destruction, Satan works to destroy people today. If we let him, he tries to get us to self-destruct. He gets us to turn on ourselves. When God tells us in His Word that we are wonderful, we instead listen to Satan and say to ourselves, “We are not wonderful.” All the things we see in ourselves that are not good come from demons. Demons divide. They work to tear us apart from each other and apart from our own true selves. How many diseases can you name that are in the anti-inflammatory group? Those are diseases where one part of the body fights to destroy another part of the body. That shouldn’t be.

 

God made the human body to work together. Ephesians 4:16 not only speaks of the body of Christ, the church, but to the human body: “From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.”

 

And our physical bodies are not to be at war with our minds or our emotions either. All parts of us, body, soul, and spirit, should be yielded to God. He is to have authority over every part of us, to give His salvation, His saving, His DNA to every aspect of us. Then, we can exercise our God-given authority over every demon that tries to divide us from ourselves.

 

First Thessalonians 5:23 says it this way: “And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.” The only way that happens is if we relinquish our every part to the Lord. If we are holding on to some unhealthy part of us, it is because Satan has sent a demon to convince us that we need it.

 

Let’s stop letting demons divide us from our true selves. Let’s give every part of us to the Lord, believe in our total salvation, and let the Lord personally begin to show us what the new whole me looks like! It’s available, and it’s true. The devil is a liar and a thief. Don’t let him steal any part of you.

 

Love, Carolyn

 

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LIVE LIKE THE WIND--POWERFUL JOINT HEIRS WITH JESUS CHRIST

LIVE LIKE THE WIND—POWERFUL JOINT HEIRS WITH CHRIST

God says in Jeremiah 1:5: “Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you were born, I set you apart for my holy purpose.” To have true liberty and delight in this world, we need to know ourselves as Spiritual people and be led by that Spirit within us.

 

John 3:8 says: “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit.” When we allow the Spirit to rule, we should be going wherever it pleases. Second Corinthians 3:17 tells us: “The Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” And Galatians 5:1 tells us we should “stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.”

 

Once free and endeavoring to walk by the Spirit, we’re like the wind. We are free to obey the Spirit and go where we’re guided. Colossians 2:16: “Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon,” where you hang out or what you do.

 

No one can judge you, only Jesus. Paul says he doesn’t even judge himself: “But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self” (1 Cor. 4:3).

 

Paul tells us: “Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. For the flesh is lusting against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law” (Gal. 5:16-18).

 

Verse 25 of Galatians 5 says: “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”

 

We are told in Romans: “For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. For ye have not received the Spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself beareth witness with our Spirit, that we are the children of God: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ” (Rom. 8:14-17).

 

Verse 29 tells us: “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.”

 

This means that you and I are spiritual brothers and sisters of Christ. And not only are we related, but we also have Christ in us. When we learn more about how quantum physics works, we will understand how Christ can be in multiple places simultaneously. The Bible tells us in Colossians 1:27: “To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you.”

 

As spiritual people with Jesus Christ in us, we are above every single demon, just like Jesus! Philippians 2:10 declares: “That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth.” We use Jesus’ name to operate with the same power.

 

And Colossians 2:15 says: “And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them.” We also triumph over evil when we consciously make ourselves available to Jesus Christ, gently blowing us as he says happens with the wind: “The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where it comes from or where it is going” (John 3:8).

I’ve found this wind image to be very true when I minister to someone one-on-one. I consciously go to the Lord first and thank him for ministering through me. Then I open my mouth and say what he inspires me to say. Sometimes it just starts as a simple conversation with the person or a few questions, sometimes a prayer, and sometimes a bolder flow of a prophetic message straight from heaven. Often the message is as much of a surprise to me as it may be to the person I minister to. When I begin to minister, I don’t predetermine anything because I know Jesus will work it out in whatever way he knows will be best for the person receiving. It always delights me when I get to minister like this because, like the wind, I can hear myself speaking, but I never quite know which way it will come out or where it will go!

 

So, as Paul puts it in the book of Romans: “What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?  He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? God that justifieth?

 

“Who is he that condemneth? Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

 

“It is written, ‘For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ [That’s before we became Holy Spirit people!] Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

 

“For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Rom. 8: 31-38).

 

Let’s believe it, receive it and act like it! We keep reminding ourselves of who we really are and that no devil spirit or demon is spiritually bigger than we are. Like Jesus, we stand. “Resist the devil and

and he will flee from you” (James 4:7).

 

And with all people, we walk in the Spirit. “And where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty” (2 Cor. 3:17). And “we walk in love” (Eph. 5:2).

 

Let’s live free, letting the Spirit direct us like the wind, loving people, and kicking the devil’s butt!

 

Love, Carolyn

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THE DRAGON AND THE SHEEPFOLD

  

THE DRAGON AND THE SHEEPFOLD

My backyard was fresh from the watering I just gave it; the sun had set, and it was that wonderful time of the evening, just before it gets too dark. I looked up, and even in the city lights of a Las Vegas sky, I could pick out some of the constellations and stars. I found the North Star at the tip of the Little Dipper. The Little Dipper, Biblically, represents God’s sheepfold. The North Star at the end of the Little Dipper’s handle is the most important in the sky. It is now the Polar star, meaning it is at the center; its position is fixed, and all other stars revolve around it. But that was not always the case.

 

Over 4000 years ago, the star called Thuban, in the constellation Draco (the dragon), was the Polar Star. Draco represents the devil. His constellation is a large twisting constellation that circles overhead around the sheepfold in the northern sky. The Bible tells us Lucifer, the devil, wanted to be like God. He wanted to be the ultimate Polar star, the center around which everything and everyone orbited.

 

Isaiah 14 tells us the story, in written form, of what God created for humanity in the story of the stars above us:

 

“How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, who didst weaken the nations!

 

“For thou hast said in thine heart, ‘I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north. [note: Draco sits in the sides of the most northern sky].

 

“I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High’” (Is. 14:12-14).

 

But Satan did not get his way.

 

“There was war in Heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, and prevailed not.

 

“And the great dragon was cast out — that serpent of old called the Devil and Satan, who deceiveth the whole world” (Rev. 12:7-9).

 

I don’t know if the Polar star’s moving happened when Lucifer was cast out of heaven, but it’s an interesting thought. But isn’t it so great that the star in Draco is NOT the center of the sky anymore, but rather the star in the sheepfold is the center?! Jesus will forever be the center of everything.

 

I just love how God has put His truth in everything He created.

 

Psalm 19:1 says: “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament showeth His handiwork.”

 

If you’d like to know more about the true meanings of the stars and constellations, I highly recommend THE WITNESS OF THE STARS by E.W. Bullinger. It’s the best I know of.

 

Love, Carolyn

This is one of the chapters in the “Natural Phenomena” section of Vol.2 of BIBLE LESSONS FROM NATURE, coming out soon. Here’s the link to Volume 1:  https://www.amazon.com/BIBLE-LESSONS-NATURE-Carolyn-Molica/dp/B0BV4GC859/ref=sr_1_1?crid=QACB0S8NH0BF&keywords=bible+lessons+from+nature&qid=1676485121&sprefix=%2Caps%2C222&sr=8-1