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Friday, September 05 2008

WHY?WHY?WHY?

 

There are a lot of questions I have had.  Believe me, if anyone could have asked God the question "why" and worn Him out with it, it would be me.  I can just imagine God sitting in Heaven with the twelve disciples saying, “I sure will be glad when Molly comes home.  I will have so much more time for everyone else.”  My Crosswalk, as I have come to call it in my heart, has been tough.  But! With having said that, I can tell you God has faithfully answered every “why” I have asked Him.  I didn’t and still don’t like the answers sometimes.  But, I have enough history with God to know that  if He is allowing something to take place that I don’t like,  I might as well take a deep breath, stop complaining and let God be in control.  I have discovered that most of the time these trials and delays are for my benefit, but it took me years of “walking through” with Christ to mature and understand this.  He has used my sorrows to help minister to others greatly and will continue to do so.  I certainly don’t want my life to have been in vain.  But, I also have learned that not everyone wants to hear that what God is allowing to take place in their life, for their benefit, may involve things they do not like.  Most people want a prayer prayed, an answer given (the one they want) and the problem fixed, so they can get back to their way of life.

 

There are times when Satan comes at you trying to make you doubt God as well.  He wants you to doubt God’s Word, His ability to heal you, deliver you and set you free from whatever bondages that hold you back or down.  He wants to put doubt in your mind that God has the ability to bring to you goodness in all areas of your life. 

 

When you are facing something that only God can do, I can tell you that if you do your part, God will do His part…. every time.  When you have fasted and prayed and offered up to the Lord until you are blue in the face, then it is your job to STAND.  By that I mean keep going, believing and above all, stay steadfast.  It is not the time to fly off the handle and curse God and die.  Every time in the Bible when God’s children started complaining and griping, God didn’t listen.

 

We have to understand that God is God.  Just because we confess Jesus Christ as the Savior of our lives, it does not mean we will receive all we want from God and it is not His fault.  If God doesn’t move the way you want Him to, understand that HE is God and YOU are not.  Remember, “thy kingdom come, thy will be done.”  Well, whose Kingdom and whose will do you want done, His or yours?  We can say that we are letting go and letting God, but are we really? 

 

Why do bad things happen to so many?  Why does God let things or allow bad things to happen?  Well, I can tell you that I am not God and whatever God wants to happen is going to happen whether I like it or not.  I have learned the hard (very hard) way that I have to surrender my complete will to the Master.  It is my job to be Obedidant.  If you are trying to walk with Christ in this earth and  trying to do His will, then be patient.  He is Father Time and He will do everything in His time not your time.

 

If you remember nothing else of this Blog…pull out the white flag and wave it in front of God…Surrender your will to Him.  Do all you know how to do and then let God be God.  The days of jerking God’s chain to get a miracle are over…. but, were they really ever here?

 

Molly     

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Friday, August 29 2008

I GOT UP ONE MORNING THIS WEEK AND WHAT PLAYED OVER AND OVER IN MY HEAD WAS THE PHRASE, "WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE A CHRISTIAN?"  SO AS I DRANK MY "CUP OF JOE," I THOUGHT ABOUT IT.  THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT JUST CAME POURING OUT OF MY SPIRIT:

 

DOES IT MEAN THAT WE LET PEOPLE WALK ALL OVER US?

DOES IT MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO BE SEEN AND NOT HEARD AS WOMEN?

DOES IT MEAN THAT I THINK I AM BETTER THAN YOU?

DOES IT MEAN THAT I CAN SMILE TO YOUR FACE AND THEN TALK ABOUT YOU BEHIND YOUR BACK?

DOES WEALTH, OR FOR THAT MATTER POVERTY, MAKE YOU ANY BETTER OR WORSE THAN ANYONE ELSE WHO IS TRYING TO FOLLOW JESUS?

SO, I THEN THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT IT MEANT FOR ME TO BE A CHRISTIAN AND THESE ARE A FEW OF THE THINGS I CAME UP WITH:

I TRY TO FOLLOW JESUS, NOT A RELIGION, AND BRING HIM INTO EVERY SITUATION I CAN.

I ALWAYS TRY TO HELP THE ELDERLY.  YEARS AGO, I HAD AN ELDERLY WOMAN WHO ASKED ME TO ALWAYS CHECK HER FACE FOR ANYTHING UNSIGHTLY THAT MAY BE ON IT. SHE SAID SHE NEVER WANTED TO BE OUT IN PUBLIC AND HAVE SOMEONE SEE A REALLY LONG HAIR OR A BLEMISH AND HAVE THEM BE GROSSED OUT.  SHE COMMENTED THAT SHE DIDN'T SEE WELL ANYMORE AND SHE WOULD BE HUMILIATED IF SHE THOUGHT SOMEONE WAS SNEERING AT HER.  I HAVE SINCE MADE A POINT TO DO THAT FOR EVERY WOMAN OR MAN GOD PLACES IN MY PATH.  GROWING OLD DOES NOT MEAN THAT YOU ARE READY TO BE THROWN AWAY OR MADE FUN OF.  EVEN AS THE OUTSIDE OF YOUR BODIES GROW OLDER, OUR SPIRITS (THAT WILL LIVE ON FOREVER) WON'T GROW OLDER...THEY STILL FEEL YOUNG.  I KNOW I AM GOING TO "REAP WHAT I SOW" SO MAYBE SOMEDAY SOMEONE WILL KEEP ME FROM BEING EMBARRASSED BY SOMETHING ON ME THAT WOULD SEEM UNPLEASANT TO OTHERS.

I RECALL ONE SUNDAY IN CHURCH A FELLOW BROTHER HAD BECOME TOO OLD TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CHOIR, WHICH HE DEARLY LOVED (TODAY HE IS IN HEAVEN).  WE WERE SINGING A HYMN AND HE WAS SITTING IN THE PEW AND NO ONE WAS PAYING ANY ATTENTION TO THE FACT THAT HE WASN'T HOLDING A HYMNAL AND SINGING.  I GOT UP FROM MY SEAT AND KNELT IN THE AISLE (THERE WERE NO OTHER SEATS) AND HELD UP A HYMNAL FOR HIM SO HE COULD SING.  ANOTHER TIME WHEN HE WAS ON HIS DEATHBED, I SUGGESTED TO THE CHOIR THAT THEY GO TO HIS HOUSE AND HOLD CHOIR PRACTICE, AS THIS MAN HAD DEDICATED HIS VOICE TO THAT SAME CHOIR FOR YEARS.  YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THE LOOK ON THAT MAN'S FACE AS THE CHOIR APPEARED AT HIS HOUSE FOR PRACTICE!

FOR ME, BEING A CHRISTIAN MEANS HELPING THE HUNGRY, THE NEEDY, THE DOWNTRODDEN IN ANY WAY I CAN.  I HAVE BEEN IN CHURCHES WHERE SOME OF THE NEEDIEST PEOPLE AREN'T EVEN BEING HELPED.  WHAT IS GOING ON?  WE NEED TO START WITHIN OUR OWN CONGREGATIONS, MAKING A POINT TO FIND OUT WHO NEEDS OUR HELP.  IF WE SAY WE FOLLOW JESUS AND DON'T, WELL...THANK GOD I AM NOT THE JUDGE.

I FEEL THESE ARE A FEW OF THE THINGS ONE DOES WHEN THEY SAY THEY FOLLOW JESUS...JUST A FEW.  THE BOTTOM LINE IS "TO DO UNTO OTHERS AS YOU WOULD HAVE THEM DO UNTO YOU."  I WANT TO LEAVE A LEGACY THAT MAKES PEOPLE SAY I HAD A LOT OF CHRIST-LIKE QUALITIES.  THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE YOU HAVE KNOWN WHO HAVE DIED.  WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER ABOUT THEM?  WHAT LEGACY DID THEY LEAVE?

I CHALLENGE YOU THIS WEEK TO THINK ABOUT WHAT BEING A CHRISTIAN MEANS TO YOU.  YOU KNOW JESUS WAS CLEAR AND HE WAS VERY SIMPLE WHEN HE SAID, "FOLLOW ME."

 

HAVE A GOOD WEEK...

MOLLY

 

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Friday, August 22 2008

Is it live or is it Memorex?

 

What the Holy Spirit is putting on my heart this week is that we really don’t believe that God is really real.  If we did, we wouldn’t be acting as if there was so much defeat in our lives and within ourselves…

Is He or is He not really real?

I have learned only by trial and error (more error than not) to pray God into every situation of my life…not only the BIG stuff.  After all the years of defeat, He left me no option, but I look and see that it was for my benefit that He did it this way for me.

I use to take drugs, pills being my drug of choice.  One night I was watching Carman, who is a Gospel singer, on TBN.  At one point, he looked right into the camera and said, “I don’t know who you are, but you need to stop taking all those prescriptions and stop smoking those cigarettes.”  Well, I got flushed all over and I knew, I just knew, that God was talking to me.  That very night I stepped out in faith and stopped taking all my prescription medications (Parnate, Buspar, Premerin and Synthroid);  I also stopped smoking.  For me to stop smoking was a big deal…I loved, and I mean loved, cigarettes but I knew God was talking to me.  There were only two times after that  I craved a cigarette.  When this happened, I spoke this over myself:  “I take authority over that urge to smoke in the name of Jesus.  Get out of here, Satan.”  If in doubt, cast out!  That is a  good rule of thumb for anyone.

You see, I was bound and hell-bent to get the victory in my life and do whatever it took to get it.  It has been eight and a half years since I have taken any drugs or smoked a cigarette.  This is because I believed that I was being delivered a Word from Heaven by a living Savior through Carman.

I hadn’t grown up knowing anything much about God.  I took the Word I received that night by Carman on faith…I just believed.  I can tell you that I am glad I did.  What a mess would have been before me if I hadn’t.

If you will step out in faith to believe that God is real just one time, you will never have to wonder, “Is He live or is He fake?”  For most of us it will be a shot in the dark, but I can tell you from experience that to believe is to receive.  You'll never have to wonder "Is it live or is it Memorex?

Molly

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Friday, August 15 2008

·        He Ain’t Heavy…He’s My Brother

This last week I was shopping at the Dollar Tree.  I love the Dollar Tree.  There were times that if it hadn’t been for that place, I don’t know what I would have done.  Being a good steward of what Gad has given me keeps me going back there.  I have often thought of writing them a note to tell them “thank you” for helping me when I was trying to help pick myself up in life.  I want to thank them now for still being there and being one of my favorite places to go and shop.  I know people who would never darken the doors of a Dollar Tree but they really do not know what they would be  missing.  This brings me to the point of this week’s BLOG.

As I was standing in the checkout line, a couple came up behind me.  The circle of people I have been around most of my life would have shunned this couple because of the way they “looked.”  As I have become “born again,” I have changed in most areas of my life, especially in my thinking in regard to how people look, although sometimes I still slip.  She and he were tattooed and had earrings in places I know had to hurt them when these areas were pierced.  Her hair was coal black, but what grabbed me was how really cute she looked in the haircut she had.  I thought whether or not I should tell her how cute she looked.   It was then I knew the Lord wanted me to reach out to them.  There is a scripture in the Bible that says, “ Judge not, lest ye be judged.”  Well, once again, the Lord was trying to remind me of that.

I turned around and said, “I love your haircut.”  She was very pleased and smiled and said thank you.  What a sweet girl. Who was I  to judge the way she looked?  Yet, most of the so-called Christians in the churches and circles I have been around in my life  would have dismissed her as being way out, funky, or even worse.

This ministry challenges you to “reach out and touch” someone this week with the true LOVE of Jesus.  Over and over again in the Word we are taught to give honor to the lowly and to humble ourselves.  We are no better than anyone else and we need to realize this.  WE need to get beyond the way people look to us if it is not our norm.

“He ain’t heavy, he’s my brother”  should be the order of the day if we say we follow Christ, no matter what someone looks like, no matter  what their color or anything else. We are in danger of treading upon God’s territory when we think we are better than others.  We all need the LOVE of Jesus Christ, especially in the days in which we live.

Forgive as YOU have been forgiven and above all (in my mind), LOVE as you have been loved.

Remember:  Red, yellow, black and white…and might I add, spiked, tattooed and pierced,  they are all precious in HIS sight.

 

Molly

Molly
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Friday, August 08 2008

Summer Overhaul

Summer is here.  I live where it is beautiful.  Things are indeed beautiful on the outside but on the inside, for a lot of people, it isn’t so pretty.  It is time for us to stop and look at the things we don’t want to look at so no matter where we are, we can be happy.  Flowers are beautiful, as well, but if you are miserable inside, it will have a determination on how you perceive those flowers.  Your smeller might feel broken right now but all is not lost.

Having been truly saved by Grace was a BIGGY for me.  But, that was not the end-all.  I didn’t know it then but that was the beginning.  What I have learned and what I have been taught was not taught to me by anyone.  It was taught to me by the Holy Spirit.

What about you?  Are you just saved or have you experienced the fullness of the Godhead within you?  If you haven’t, it is time for you to do an overhaul in your heart.  There is a baptism in the Holy Spirit that will give you the power you need to accomplish God’s will for your life.  It will open up to you the more of God.

It is my job to prod you to make you think about these issues so you too can walk in the fullness of the Cross on earth.  There is a marked difference in being saved and then being baptized in the Holy Spirit.

I have seen people who are saved, yet they fall away because the “going gets tough.”  They don’t have the staying power.  They tried it, they liked it, but then Satan came along and stopped them.

Where are you with all of this today?  It is time to check yourself.  Life, as we have known it, is over.  You won’t make it just warming a pew week after week after week anymore.  Satan is stepping up his game and we have got to mature into the Body of Christ.  It is time that we grow up.

When I was young, at family gatherings we had a big table for the adults and a little table for the children. God is not going to do all of it for you.  This is a proactive walk with Christ, not religion. 

The best is before you if you want it but it is time to grow up.  We are losing our children all over this county by heinous crimes.  People are on more medications than ever before in our history.  There are malls for medical practices.  It is like we can shop for each illness we have.  What is going on?  We have more available to us as a child of God but, mind you, being a child of God does not mean we are children.

It is time to check yourself.  If you don’t have the power that the Bible talks about, then it is time for a summer overhaul.  Stop “doing” church and get with the greatest teacher that ever lived and find out what needs to be replaced, tuned up, changed , traded up or traded in.  But, one thing is certain:  It is time to grow up so we can take this nation back for Christ.  We need to take back what Satan has stolen from us…that is IF you are a child of God.

Don’t  just give yourself a check up this summer;  give yourself an overhaul.  Put on the mind of Christ.

1Corinthians 13:11

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

You are invited to the BIG table....are you coming?

Molly

 

 

 

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Saturday, August 02 2008

There is a Light at the end of your tunnel

 

Where you are might seem dark right now…very dark.  But, if you won’t give up and you won’t stop, you will make it through to the other side.  I know because I have made it to the other side and I have been called by God to help pull you through your tunnel.

In the small town where I grew up, there was a one lane tunnel.  In order to get where you were going, you had to drive through this tunnel; there was no other choice.  You couldn’t see through to the other side and you had no idea what was approaching from the other end.  As you would enter, it would be very dark and there was a sign posted at the entrance that said, “Honk as you go through.”  In this way, you could give notice to another vehicle that might be coming from the other entrance.  It would be kind of scary for a little while, but then you could see the light peeking through and you would take a deep breath and relax…safe on the other side.

A lot of us are going through tunnels right now.  I have had the most horrific week, as far as battling in the spiritual realm, I have ever had.  I have always considered myself tougher than any two men…But, I have learned not to quit, not to lay around feeling sorry for myself, and not to let depression overtake me.  I have learned and been conditioned to rise and fight back no matter what, even when my body says “no.”  In this way, the devil can longer win in my life.  Every time God had something good for me, the devil stopped me. He was able to do this through instilling in me fear, anger, rage, and disappointment.  He had me thinking I was not good enough for anything or anyone.  On and on it would go.  I have learned to pick myself up, dust myself off and start again.

We need to know one of the biggest tactics Satan uses against us is anything negative.  He does not want you to have God’s best for your life.  No one, and I mean no one, deserves to be blessed less than me.  I feel like I am the biggest sinner there is.  With saying all that, I have risen again to declare the works of the Father through my life.  I have been called to be completely transparent with my life so you can know that if God can forgive me, He will forgive you.  If He has brought me through the tunnel that Satan tried to stop me in, He can bring you through your tunnel…no matter what it is.

Dr. Phil and Oprah are fine but I am telling you that they cannot help you learn to get up the next day and face the hell that will be coming at you, no matter in what form it comes; but Jesus Christ can.  A big thing I have learned is that if someone’s personal life is not good, why would you want to emulate (be like) them?  Follow someone who is walking in victory not just talking victory.  God will never let you down…ever.  Learn God.

The tunnel won’t last forever but if you quit and run the other way out of fear, you will lose.  I know it hurts.  I know you don’t like it but when those factors are there, it is a sign to you that God has something for you on the other side.  You might be scared in the middle, but honk your way through and you will make it to the other side.  If I can overcome all of this hell, then you can too.

Is that you honking?

Molly

 

 

 

 

 

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Saturday, July 26 2008

 

I.O.U.

  

Life is not easy.  As a matter of fact, Jesus tells us that in this life we will have tribulations but to take heart for He has overcome this world (John 16:33). What does that mean to us?  It means that life is going to deal us some hard blows but if we believe in Christ,  He can and will see you through them.  I honestly don’t know how people make it through without Jesus.  I look at my life now with total gratitude for the God who loved me enough to come after me and help me.  I thought I had it going on, but I didn’t.

 

I look at humans.  We all have something that is going on in our lives.  It is my job to let you know that you don’t have to stay where you are.  You can come out of any problem you face today but it will be up to you to do it.

 

Satan is rising in his efforts to stop God’s children and a lot of us are letting him defeat us.  No matter what or where the defeat is…God is bigger than your problem.  We need to start making God the bigger thing in our lives instead of making the problems the biggest thing.  We act like God isn’t God. 

 

Jesus tells us that ‘if you believe, you shall receive’ (Mark 11:24).  We don’t act like that scripture is true.  One thing, one big thing I have learned is to stop hitting people over the head with Jesus.  People are hurting and they need help.  People need answers.  God knows this but YOU are going to have to buck up and go get it.

 

MC Hammer had a song and in it he said, “I got to pray just to make it today.”  We don’t give prayer enough attention.  We certainly give TV enough attention.  We want to act like, be like, and look like others but the bottom line is that we are all unique.  God doesn’t need us acting like one another.  He needs YOU to be YOU.  But many of us don’t even know who we are.  We are so tangled up in life and the devil has done his best to keep us from God’s best.  But the tide is changing…..and it is changing NOW.  NOW is the time for you.  Now is the time for you to get it.

 

Being preached at is good (I love a good preach) but at the end of the day if you don’t know how to walk with Christ to get the victory in your life, then what good was it?  If you are not being taught “how to flesh Jesus out” in your everyday life, what was the point?

 

I owe God.  I need to try to fulfill my destiny here on this earth. When I kneel before the Lord, I don’t want to come up empty handed, do you?  I can just picture Him looking down at me as I kneel before Him saying to me, “Molly, why didn’t you pray and let me tell you what to do?  Molly, why did you care what everybody else thought about what you were doing?  Why weren’t you just obedient?” 

 

Do you know what YOUR purpose is here?  Do you know what to even do?  It is time to find out.

 

If you will, just pray and it doesn’t have to be something big and mighty….just ask God to help show you what to do with your life and your time.  Ask Him what your purpose is, then get up, shut up and be quiet and listen.  If two or more people are telling you the same thing, then listen, 'cause God is trying to tell you something.

 

The hour is late and a lot of God’s children are lost…..are you? 

 

I owe Him more than you can possibly ever imagine…..what about you? 

 

Are you holding an I.O.U.?   

 

Molly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
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Saturday, July 19 2008

Don’t give God a Black Eye!

 

I have been struggling the last several days in regard what to post on the BLOG this week.  What I see over and over and what the Holy Spirit is speaking to me is “Get back to basics.” 

 

Well, Molly, what are the basics in the Kingdom of God?  They are  quite simple, really, but you would have had to have walked through “the message” of the Word to get what I am trying to say.  Most people I know don’t even have a clue about their Father in Heaven and what really is in the Word.  Jesus came to set us free indeed!  Praise God!  But, then there is the MORE of God that we seem to be missing…but it is the little things, the things that we tend to overlook that are really important. 

 

There is an instance in the Word that needs to have a more in-depth look.  It is found in (Matthew 7: 21-23).  Jesus makes it clear that you can cast out demons and do wonders in His name but do you really do the will of the Father in Heaven?  He tells us that those who do that, practice lawlessness.  They are pretty harsh words….but I have learned just what He was saying by walking through it….

 

After we have gone to our churches on Sundays and worshiped however we see fit, I see people who appear to walk the walk and talk the talk of the Kingdom but yet they are not “doing God” at all.  What is happening?  God trained me on the back side of nowhere in this very area so when and IF I passed all the testing, I could be of benefit to Him and the Kingdom.  But, it wasn’t easy and it still isn’t easy.

 

God is clear in HIS Word that if you are faithful in the little, He will give you more….Now I know people who actually go and rebuke Satan and take authority over the Devil in far off places but their personal lives don’t mirror Jesus at all.  What do you mean by that, Molly?  The God I have come to love and adore requires that I be congruent in every facet of my life.  God requires that I align myself with HIS Word the best I know how.  Of course, this also depends on how much revelation I have at the time on a particular thing.  For example, the Bible teaches to let your ‘Yes be Yes’ and your ‘No be No.’  Anything apart from those two answers is from the evil one (Matthew 5:37).

 

I deal with so-called Christians all the time but what they do doesn’t line up with what they are saying to people.  It doesn’t line up with their Bible thumping, hand raising, tongue talking worship.  I wonder is it just me that feels this way?  Am I out of joint?  I always check myself first. 

 

We wonder why we don’t see as many miracles in the Body of Christ today.  It is because we are not being obedient.  We, for the most part, have a fluff theology without any power because we can’t be faithful in the little and we are not being congruent in our thinking, our speaking and what is really in our hearts.   

 

Something is going to have to change if we want the more of God.  I find that people are not being taught “how to walk with God”.  I mean, come on.  “What wouldn’t Jesus do?”  Well, He wouldn’t tell me He was going to do something and then not do it.  He wouldn’t NOT help the beggar on the side of the road when he is holding up a sign “Please, help me.”  He wouldn’t scream and yell.  He wouldn’t steal.  He wouldn’t do a lot of things we allow ourselves to think are covered under HIS GRACE.  We make excuses and think anything goes.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  We serve a very detailed God.  If you are in doubt of that, look at the book of Numbers in the Word.  He is very detailed.  Again, Jesus says in Matthew 5:18 “For assuredly, I say to you, till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle will by no means pass from the law till all is fulfilled.”  We serve a God who pays attention to the little things.  If we are faithful in the little things, He will give us more.

 

We, on the whole, are being mislead.  When our personal lives suffer, we wonder where God is.  Then He says, “Well, did you follow through with the last task I gave you?  Were you too good to do what I told you?  Why didn’t you tithe when you were taught about it?  Why do you keep saying “Yes” to people when you know you are more than likely not going to follow through?”  God is more than a “Feel Good Religion”.  Until we actually get taught about what God does require of us, we will keep hitting our heads up against a wall while we tell ourselves we go to church and love God but then wonder why things happen to us or don't happen for us. 

 

The Old Testament is a foreshadowing of things to come in the New Testament.  The Old Testament will really tell you about your Father in heaven.  Folks, God does not change…ever.  This fact alone has been a comfort to me.  He will never be wishy-washy with me.  I can always count on Him and lean on Him.  That gives me great comfort.  He is solid like a rock…..but He is also a disciplinarian.  But, again I need that.

 

Don’t tell people you are going to do something and then turn around and not do it.  I would say that in the last ten years of my life, I have tried to always let my "Yes be Yes" and my "No be No."  I don’t tell people I am going to do something if I know I will not follow through.  Years ago, someone told me, “Molly, don’t give God a black eye.”  In other words, we make God look bad as Christians when we behave any old way: when we don’t pay our bills on time, when we don’t take care of what God lets us have (homes, cars,children, money).  God wants more for us than what we have got right now but unless we are willing to “do God” His way, we will never enter into His rest for our lives while we are on earth.

   

I will not be the one to make God wear a big, black patch over His eye to hide the fact that I am not what I am saying I am.  Your biggest battles will be fought and your biggest victories won when NO ONE is watching.  Make no mistake about it:  God is watching and what you do in secret will be rewarded openly…it will come from your Father, not any man.  Stop being a man pleaser and start being a God pleaser.

 

Do God.

Molly 

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Friday, July 11 2008

CCC       

 

It is time that we get the “Eye of the Tiger” back or as I like to call it “The Eye of the Lion of the Tribe of Judah” back.  We are in days where CCC (Cotton Candy Christianity) is over.  We need to get our umph back where the living God is concerned. 

 

I am around people who need a fresh word and a living SAVIOR to help them.  How do we do that, Molly?  Jesus Christ came to earth for us.  One of the things He came for was to “set the captive” free.  This is not only talking about people in actual prisons but people who are in prisons within themselves and don’t even know it.

 

I had a vision years ago.  I was at the church I attended and was on a stage walking back and forth. There were big iron bars that extended from the top of the ceiling to the floor.  People could come up to me and talk to me.  I could go and work at my desk, I could nap on my couch go around the corner to the bathroom.  I could do everything that everyone else did but I was in a prison within myself but didn’t even know it…..until Jesus came and set me free.  I see a lot of down-trodden people, like I was, who love the Lord but are in defeat.

 

Who do YOU say Jesus is?  There was a time in the Bible where Jesus was sitting around with all of His disciples. (Matthew 16:13-17) He asks them who He was.  This was before He had revealed Himself to them as the Christ.  Peter said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”  Jesus said he was blessed because man had not revealed this to him but His Father in Heaven had. 

 

My question to you this day is this, “Who do you say that Jesus is?”  IF He is the same Jesus in the Bible, then He still heals the sick, raises the dead and has come to set the captive free.  HE is not just some puff of smoke in outer space somewhere that you will have to deal with someday….and you will deal with Him whether you think you will or won’t.  Jesus came so we could have life and have it more abundantly but we sure aren’t acting like it.

 

It is time to get “the eye of the Lion of the tribe of Judah” back so you can get all that God has for you while you are here.  It is going to be up to you to go get it.  God will not do what you can do.  For example, when He tells me I need to workout so I can run the race He has set before me, I have to workout.  He is not going to do it for me.  When He tells me that I need to tithe so He can open the windows of heaven over my life, then I need to sow my money where and when He tells me….get the point? 

 

It takes two people in this scenario and one of them has to be you.  You have to do your part.  It is quite simple…you do your part and God does His part.  But!  He will not do what you can…

 

It is time to get off the bench and get into this race.  It it time to get the “Eye of the Tiger” and fight for what you want.  Once you are set free and delivered, the rest will be up to you…

 

I have a baton in my hand and I am running my race…

 

Who do YOU say Jesus is?

 

Molly        

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Friday, July 04 2008

My country ‘Tis of Thee, Sweet Land of liberty, of Thee I sing!!!!

 

Happy Independence Day!

 

Freedom.  Wow!  I was raised in a country where I have freedom: freedom of speech, freedom of choice…I have realized recently what a big deal this is.  No one can tell me what to think, what to wear, where to go or where I worship.  I have freedom.  Yet in the days that I live in, I also feel that there is a lot of coercion.  In other words, things are being said that try to get people off track making them think or do things that will only end up to their detriment.  The Bible talks about this as “Being sheep without a Shepard who are lead astray.”  Well, I can’t think of a better time in this country than now when we need someone capable of leading us.  We need someone who will stand up and fight for America just as our forefathers did.  In the days we are living in, it is critical that we do not jump the gun and make random decisions based on feelings.  We cannot miss the mark on this.  Everyone in this country has God-given rights which need to be exercised.  We need to stand together as a nation that is ‘One nation under God’.  If we don’t, we could end up in serious trouble.     

 

We need to seek a Father’s face about what lies ahead and what we need to do about the decisions that need to be made in the upcoming months…our future depends on the right choice.  We are in turbulent times.  Nuclear holocaust cannot be reasoned over a cup of coffee.  Nations of the world need to know that there is a leader who is not going to put up with any crap. If praying to God for direction was good enough for George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, it should be good enough for us.

 

Which way to go?  YOU pray and ask God to lead you in the upcoming fall season as we embark on our future as a country.  Having God’s choice is more than having a good choice…

 

Let freedom ring.

 

Molly 

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