GREATNESS IS MADE TO BE SHARED

GREATNESS IS MADE TO BE SHARED

We are all familiar with lines from Ecclesiastes 3. The first verse reads: “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.” As we know, some things happen immediately, and some things take longer. It took the Israelites 40 years to get to the promised land. I’m praying that 2018 is my 41^st! Promised Land here I come!

But guess what. When God’s people went into the land God gave them, there were giants and mighty kings they had to battle. And no one could fully enjoy the fullness of what this new land promised until everyone was in!

That’s how I feel about this upcoming year. We, as individuals in the body of Christ, are stepping into a new place, a wonderful place. We are leaving behind what is past and not letting it dictate or captivate our futures. We have places to go, people to see, new adventures, new delights, and new encounters with greatness.

But we are not alone. We need to stretch out our prayer to encompass more individuals in the body of Christ, reaching out in our empathy, reaching higher in our faith. People desperately need our sincere, Christ-inspired prayer, as well as our giftings in our many other fields of service.

The Lord Jesus will show us as individuals and groups, how to do the Father’s will in every aspect of our lives, and let’s expect an amazing year.

Love, Carolyn

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STARTING THE NEW YEAR FREE AND CLEAR

STARTING THE NEW YEAR FREE AND CLEAR

Want to start 2018 free and clear of emotional, mental, and perhaps even spiritual baggage? Then do this exercise. It will surprise you in several ways and will set you on a clean and happy path for the upcoming year.

Thanks Margo for sharing this with me so many years ago!

STEP 1: Make a list of every grief, major or minor, that others caused you this past year. List names and incidents. The more details, the more liberated you’ll get.

STEP 2: Add to the list any past hurts people have caused you that are still bugging you.

STEP 3: Go through the list and categorize the grievances. I’ve listed some of the categories I’ve addressed over the years, as examples to get you started:

-egotistical people not caring about other people’s feelings

-good people letting evil people bully them

-people getting angry when confronted with the truth and trying to hide from it or ignore it

-people who use their power or position to manipulate others

-broken promises and deliberate deceptions – outright lying

-people who know they need help but don’t seek it

-people who pervert the truth and lead others that way

STEP 4: For each of the categories ask yourself, “Have I ever acted this way toward God?”

When I did this exercise for the first time, this fourth step was a great awakening. And every year since has been a huge refreshing. I realize I am just as much of a sinner as anyone who has offended me. I acknowledge what God has forgiven me for and then I know I have no right to withhold forgiveness from anyone else. 

So, I let them go. I am for-giving, in favor of giving those I need to forgive over to God because I can't deal with them as well as He can. I make an effort to forgive because it's the right thing to do, not necessarily because I want to. After we confess forgiveness, God works in our hearts to get around to really meaning it!

If I feel any lingering hurt or anger, I need to give it to God. I remind Him I need some help: “God, I’m not doing so well with this, so You’re going to have to do something from here.” And, of course, He does.

The servant in Matthew 18:21-35 was forgiven, but then he turned around and wouldn’t forgive. The Bible tells us this unforgiveness tormented him, and that’s how it is with us. When we don’t forgive, the disturbing thoughts are going to be still attached to us and be like arthritis or cancer, that just wants to grow, spread and take over. Doing this one small exercise is the floodgate to awesome freedom as we begin 2018.

Charge ahead! Like the Bible says, “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Phil 4:13). We are what God says we are and we are not weaklings or doormats. Romans 8:37 tells the truth: “Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.”

Love, Carolyn

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MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

 MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

HOPE YOU HAD A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND WILL ENJOY A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR! GOD BLESS YOU; AND I PRAY THAT THE LORD TOUCH YOU AND EVERYONE YOU LOVE WITH HIS PRESENCE.  

Love, Carolyn

PS: So sorry you didn't see a post from me in the past couple weeks - My house got broken into and computers stolen. But now I am up and running again. Yay, God!

EXHALE. TODAY YOU RULE!

 

EXHALE. TODAY YOU RULE!

A heaviness came on me. Jane and I talked and prayed and the Lord revealed the source of my burden. Then I opened a birthday card from Jane’s sister Marie. It said, “Every day you sparkle, but today you rule!” I instantly realized that I had been going out into the world without being as prepared as I need to be. I was allowing circumstances to push me down. When I looked at the card, I knew that I should put it up on the door to my garage, so I take notice every time I go out. “Today, with the Lord, I rule!” I’m an ambassador for the Lord and I need to act like one, every day, not just when I’m writing preach letters!

Then, after I texted Marie to thank her for the card, she texted back with something so simple, but so revitalizing! She instructed:

“Stand up by the open patio door. Put your hands down by your ankles and sweep them up to your head and throw all that negative out the door. Let the wind carry it away. Do a big exhale.”

I’m asking you to do it right now.

Her instruction was straight from the Lord. She gave it to me; I did it right away, and all the heaviness left. It was so amazing. I’m smiling and happy now.

God wants us to be happy, healthy, whole and free. What a great God we serve!

Love, Carolyn

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CRACKS IN 7 MOUNTAINS

CRACKS IN 7 MOUNTAINS

Jane and I have been praying for “Snowdens” to expose the corruption in the 7 Mountains of the world. We didn’t know how God was going to put big enough cracks in the evil strongholds of these mountains, but today we saw it start. TIME Magazine announced the “Person of the Year”: “The Silence Breakers of the ‘Me Too’ movement.” These are the women who finally got the public’s ear, as they spoke out about their experiences of sexual abuse and harassment. This evil cuts across all 7 societal mountains: Arts and Entertainment, Media, Government and Law, Business, Religion, Education, and Family.

Sexual assault crimes toward both women and men have crossed every race, nationality, culture, and system of the world.

To those who are guilty of these acts and accusations, I say: “If you have a conscience at all, you know better than that! God’s will, His glory, and His vengeance will prevail.”

Today is just the beginning of some of the more exciting current moves of God in our world. I’m humbled and glad that we are living in these times, and can take part in God’s magnificent plan.

Take a look at these wonderful scriptures from Psalm 119: 1-16.

“Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies, and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity: they walk in his ways.

“Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways were directed to keep thy statutes! Then shall I not be ashamed, when I have respect unto all thy commandments.

“I will praise thee with uprightness of heart, when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. I will keep thy statutes: O forsake me not utterly. Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? By taking heed thereto according to thy word.

“With my whole heart have I sought thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.  Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

“Blessed art thou, O Lord: teach me thy statutes. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.

“I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. I will meditate in thy precepts, and have respect unto thy ways.

“I will delight myself in thy statutes: I will not forget thy word.”

Love, Carolyn

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NEHEMIAH'S PRAYER - A NEW WAY TO PRAY

NEHEMIAH’S PRAYER

Nehemiah was one of the Israelites who was taken into captivity in Persia. God favored him and made him the personal assistant to the King. When Nehemiah found out that there was a big problem in Jerusalem (over 900 miles away), his heart went out for the people. The first thing he did was pray. It was a different kind of prayer. Nehemiah asked God for a hearing, like in a court case. We need to learn how to pray this way.

There are several places in the Bible where God requires Nehemiah-type prayer.

God asked this kind of court-case prayer of Isaiah. He says to Isaiah: “Meet me in court! State your case and prove that you are right.” That’s the Contemporary English Version. The Amplified reads: “Remind Me [of your merits with a thorough report], let us plead and argue our case together; State your position, that you may be proved right.” And the KJV: “Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified” (Isa. 43:26).

The elements of Nehemiah’s court-case prayer are as follows.

1. RECOGNIZE THE FEAR OF GOD. Nehemiah addressed Him: “I beseech thee, O Lord God of Heaven, the great and terrible God” (Neh. 1:5). The word “terrible,” in the Hebrew means “to be feared, or morally to revere. It means to cause astonishment, to be held in awe or godly fear.

Nehemiah was well aware of the wrath of God Almighty, the vengeance of God that took place when He merely took His hand of blessing off of people and let them reap the consequences of bad behavior. The results, as Nehemiah had experienced personally, were perilous, destructive, miserable, full of anguish, failure and deep depression—all the things the devil loves to put on God’s people.

Nehemiah verbally recognized God’s right to be angry.

2. REMIND GOD THAT HE IS A GOD OF MERCY. Nehemiah reminded God that He is the God “that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments” (v.5).

3. CONFESS AND REPENT FOR SINS. Nehemiah not only confessed and repented of his own sins, but he also confessed and repented for the sins of the people. “I pray before thee now, for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee: both I and my father’s house have sinned. We have dealt very corruptly against thee and have not kept the commandments” (vv.6-7).

Notice that Nehemiah mentioned the sins of his father’s house. There are sins we commit on purpose; we know better but we do them anyway. Then there are “sins of our fathers.” The Bible term for this is “iniquity.” These are patterns of thinking and acting that we “naturally” fall into, sins in our blood. They are sins we may or may not even be aware of until we see the painful consequences they bring to our lives. Nehemiah’s heart was broken when he heard about the people in Jerusalem, and he knew that they had fallen back into bloodline sins: apathy, moral compromises, rebellion, stubbornness, pride, abuse, ungodly priorities.

Nehemiah understood and repented for the people.

4. PRESENT THE EVIDENCE. This is where Nehemiah went back to the scriptures to present evidence of God’s mercy to His people even after they sinned. He reminds God of how He worked in the time of Moses, how He told Moses if they didn’t do right, they’d be scattered and how if the people would turn back to Him, He’d gather them back and bless them. Then Nehemiah put his plea forward and basically said: “Since you did it for Moses, how about us?”

5. ASK FOR PARDON AND A WAY TO MOVE FORWARD. Nehemiah then asked God: “O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer” (v.11). In the same verse, Nehemiah also asked God: “Prosper [move forward and make successful] thy servant this day, and grant him mercy in the sight of this man [the King of Persia].”

Nehemiah’s court case with God was a huge success. As it turns out, God blessed Nehemiah by working in the King to send Nehemiah to Jerusalem to take care of the problems. The King also sent letters to those in authority to make sure Nehemiah had all the physical supplies he would need to totally rebuild the walls and gates of the city. Building the walls and gates turned out to be much more of a blessing than just protection. It unified the people, strengthened their hearts, turned them back to God’s ways and healed them.

Just to confirm the five elements of Nehemiah’s prayer:

1.      RECOGNIZE THE FEAR OF GOD

2.      REMIND GOD THAT HE IS A GOD OF MERCY

3.      CONFESS AND REPENT FOR SINS

4.      PRESENT THE EVIDENCE

5.      ASK FOR PARDON AND A WAY TO MOVE FORWARD

I pray that God will help us to remember this type of prayer when we need it.

Love, Carolyn  CHRISTMAS SPECIAL GIFT

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