The “Do over”

For several weeks now, the phrase that keeps going over and over in my heart is “get back to basics.”  We as a generation of people have a lot on our plates right now and we could use someone to come along and wipe it all off so we could start all over again….sort of like a “do over.”

Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just do that?  A “do over” in life.  Hey! I’m on that bandwagon!  Let me start all, and I mean ALL, over again.  I assure you that if someone was in the marketplace today and there was a person saying, “I know a way that you can do your life over if you will just do this or that,” that there would be millions, if not more, who would “bite the apple,” so to speak.  I would be one of them if I had not discovered what I have….and I can tell you that I certainly would be listening to what they were selling…and believe me, they would be selling something.  People are stressed about many things, from home life to jobs.  God sees it and He is trying through this ministry to help you.

To take your life in the middle of your years and start to do a new thing isn’t easy, but I can assure you of one thing:  It will be the safest place for you to be in the days and the times that are upon us.  But you are going to have to step up to the plate and get it. God is not going to make you.

God is not some funky thing that people wince at when His name is mentioned.  Some people give God not only a bad rap, but also a bad look.  They turn people away from the only living Savior who can really help them.

We have lived in a fast food, quick dried existence for so long that we have almost become desensitized to the only one who can really help.  I had a vision in my head of a plant that needed water.  If you don’t water a plant, it is going to shrivel up and eventually die.  On the other hand, if you over water a plant, it will also die from being too soggy.  We have become, on the whole, especially in parts of the Body of Christ, so watered-down with what God tells us clearly in the word that WE are the ones who are dying because of it.  Then there are those who water it just enough to stay alive.  God tells us that if we follow Him, rivers (do you hear me?) of living water will flow from us.  There are many who are dying from thirst and we need watered.

To the world I am nobody but to God I AM somebody.  I am somebody that has followed what He tells us in the word so my numbness can be rejuvenated and so I can live a good, happy whole life while I am here.  What I learned I didn’t learn in a church. I learned one-on-one with the Holy Spirit.  The things I have learned were basic, yet needed to be learned so I could finally grow up into the adult I need to be.  I had a hurt, young child inside of me that needed the care and attention of a Gardner who knew me from the time I was born.  I needed something more than I knew how to get……I needed the river of living water to water me.

We need to get back to the basics of life….you can learn from the greatest Master of them all.  “Feel good” religion makes you feel good sometimes momentarily, but the lasting results aren’t there to help you in your everyday life.  We are being misled a lot and I am here and have come at this time to give you “Another View”.  Just because you walk with Christ in your life doesn’t mean you are a fuddy-duddy…shame on those people who make God appear in such a manner that turn people from Him.

Basic things need to be taught about how to walk in KINGDOM life so you can get the victory.  They are simple, yet need to be taught.

I cannot give you a “do over” in your life but I can sure tell you that I have found the next best thing. How about a drink?

God Bless you,

Molly  

Super Bowl Sunday is here!

  Sunday is the Super Bowl.  To be honest with you, I don’t even know who is playing.  I used to be a Dallas fan but before that I was a "Broadway Joe" fan. I started to call someone and ask but I decided to just tell you I really didn’t know this year.  Honesty….what a relief it is.

  I was going back over some of the blogs I have written recently and found one about football.  For a moment or two I thought I would post that up on the site again to commemorate Sunday and then I thought, no, just write a new one.  YOU deserve a fresh word not a stale one.  So here we go.

  In the whole big scheme of life, I have come to realize that our best offense in the days in which we live is a good defense.  Being prepared physically, mentally and spiritually for what is going to hit us or come up against us in the game of life will be a key factor in the success of our everyday lives. 

  I wrote a little poem years ago entitled Stop to smell the Roses.  It was just, as I look back, a silly little poem but it meant the world to me at the time because I never used to take the time to write anything but a check!  I felt that it was possible that maybe my life was destined for something more than I had known.  These poems would just seem to effortlessly blop out on a page over and over again.  I wondered what they were for.  They came as a result of my spending time with God.  Over and over they would come forth.  I tried many times to get them published as anything…but to no avail.

  Then quite by chance one evening, I just sat down and went through them.  One by one I read as if being led to do that.  When I got to the last one, it finally hit me that it was one of the ways in which the Holy Spirit had tried to speak to me.  It was as if those years meant something more than just trying to walk in faith.  It was as if they were supposed to be a defense for me against what was coming, but I just didn’t get it.  So many times I just haven’t gotten “it”.

  So, the point I am trying to make is that God is always there speaking to us for our own good as a defense against what is coming, but how many of us are listening?  Most of the time I have been given the ball and fumbled and had to start all over again.  I am determined this time that will not be the case.  I forge through whatever is before me. It is not always easy.

  On the whole, we don't know how tough we really are until we are faced with a situation that seems impossible to conquer.  But, if we have been trying to walk with Christ and trying to do His will, He is faithful to give us a good defense...we just don't know how to discern it.  When the game of life is over down here I want to be the victor with the highest score possible.  I will not be defeated by not having a good defense set in place. 

  I can tell you that the best offense you will ever have is a great defense.  I am the quarterback and I am passing the ball to you.  Are you looking for me to pass the ball to you or are you not paying attention?  Jesuswithoutthejunk is trying to equip you so you can go for the touchdown. You are going to have to be the one to catch this ball and make a run for the goal line I can't do that for you.        

Remember:  Not to try is to fail…. 

Enjoy the game!!!!

Molly  

Flu Shot

I had a flu shot this week.  For the past couple of years, I have gotten a flu shot as a preventive measure against the flu.  The Holy Spirit directs me to do this.  Now in my mind, I think of a flu shot in this way:  I am given a little of the flu strain so my body can build up immunities to the flu bug that goes around.  In this way, I will be able to fight off a good case of the flu (Molly’s explanation).

It is the same way in life with immunizing yourself against the big bad wolf called the devil.  If you do not take preventive measures to ward off what is coming, and it will come, it will be just like the case of the Three Little Pigs.  The first one built his house with straw.  Hello!  Look what happened.  It certainly didn’t take much huffing and puffing to blow that house down.  The second one built his house with sticks.  It took a little more huffing and puffing but in case you can’t remember, it was blown down too.  But, the third one built his house out of bricks.  The big bad wolf couldn’t blow it down.  This house was built on a solid foundation. 

There is a devil, although we don’t talk about him much.  That is because not many know much about how to fight him.  In the days in which we live, you will have to learn about fighting him so he cannot blow your house down.  Religion, by itself, is not going to cut the mustard for you.  And by the way, YOU are the temple that the Holy Spirit dwells in.  You have a choice.  You can live in fear of him (Satan) constantly scaring you to death, to the point of death, or you can take a good shot of preventive medicine and find out how to use the weapons you have been given to fight him with.  It is going to cost you some time and effort but at the end of the day, you will be left standing and he will be left defeated.

I took the flu shot and got a little of the flu.  It really hit me hard for a couple of days but that was so I would be prepared not to get a full-blown case of it later.  I did what I knew I had to do to protect myself.  Naming and claiming everything from health to wealth is not always God and it is not always from Heaven.  We have to know when to call for supernatural help and assistance from God and when to stand on our own two feet with our big heads attached, so we can be the victor.  I knew that if I didn’t get a flu shot like I was being told to, it would have been to my detriment.  My house would have been blown down and it wouldn’t have taken much…Are you really prepared?  I am not talking about a 401K plan, stocks or bonds or a big fat savings account.  I am talking about knowing what your inheritance is as a child of God.  You have one if you will but stop and find out what it is.  

At some point in your life, the big bad wolf is going to try to huff and puff and blow your house down.  Are you ready to stand against it?

Instead of RIP (Rest in peace) the order of the day is KIP(Knowledge is power).   

Molly 

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is generally considered the tallest mountain in the world.  People from all over the world go to this mountain and climb it. There seems to be a purpose to "conquering" this mountain and fulfills a particular need in their lives…but what is it?  I liken my Crosswalk with the Lord to climbing Mount Everest.

I look back on my walk and if I had known the heights the Lord wanted to take me to while I was here on earth, I am not certain that I would have bought into the Jesus journey.  It was not at all, and still isn’t, what I expected.  I wanted to go in and grab what I needed to "ease the pain" in my life and then go back to the way I knew how to live.  God loved me too much to allow me to do that.  He already knew the mountain I faced.  I stood at the bottom and up was the only way out of the mess I had created for myself.  I didn’t realize how tall the mountain was and it was for my sake that He kept that little detail from me.  Many times I could only see what was right in front of me.

God knew what I was going to need to climb the mountain before me and He was faithful to equip me with it all…and I mean all.  The weapons that He equipped me with were spiritual and tangible.  But, I was going to have to be the one to climb my mountain.  He couldn’t and was not going to do it for me.  There were times when I couldn’t get a sure footing…there were times when my foot slipped and I thought I was going to have to go back to the beginning and start all over again.  There were times when I felt like Satan was going to con me into jumping off even though I knew to stay steady as I was climbing…. little by little and inch by inch...Through it all God was faithful.

I have looked up to Heaven and told God that people would never believe what He has brought me through and what He is bringing me to.  I have experienced more here tangibly in the form of true miracles than I deserve.  I have seen more in the spiritual realm than people would believe and through it all, He kept me.  Many of the things He has done for me have been unseen by human eyes but nevertheless, they are tangible and only Heaven will know the true depth of what has been revealed to me.  

No matter where you are in life, if you are trying to climb your "mountain" stay the course.  It won’t be easy but it will be worth it.  I get very tired of people who don’t say walking with Jesus on earth is not easy.  We, on the whole, have been mislead.  This is not a game.  The stakes are high but the price you will pay is worth it.  Truth…we need truth so we can all partake in what God has for each one of us…The hour is late and it is time to rise up, get dressed, get your gear and get going on your climb.  Put those hooks into the rock (the solid rock, I might add) and get going.  Sometimes the mountain before you can seem too much but I promise you that the only way to get through it, is to walk through it.  Don’t quit and you will make it.  Satan wants you to be a quitter.  He got me to quit more times in my life than you can imagine.  Now I know that when I want to quit I won’t, no matter how much I want to at times….

Don’t try and let anyone stop you.  God says to “come out from among them and be ye separate unto Him.”  It might get lonely and you will get tired….but don’t quit.  The climb might get hard and you might want to give up and quit but if you do, you won’t get the prize that awaits you at the top.  There is a rest that you can enter into on this earth that is attained by obedience, diligence, and proving to the Lord you’re trustworthy.  There is no greater feeling than to know whose arms you are going to fall into when you have done the will of the Father.  He is waiting for you and will say, “Well done, good and faithful servant."

What is it that needs to be fulfilled in you?  What is your divine destiny and purpose?  Do you know that you have one?  Don’t let a few rocks stop you from God’s best…if you start to fall, yell to the only one who can help you…..JESUS.  What is the mountain before you?  I promise you one thing if you will allow Christ to guide you through the rough terrain you will come out the victor.  The bell will ding and you will have won.   

Molly    

                                                                                                                                                                                                                Reflections

It is almost 1:00 in the morning.  I am awakened.  Thoughts of the year are running through my mind.  As I am thinking on the past year as it comes to a close, I thank God it is almost over.  I reflect on my life and wonder if I would have opted out of the walk I am on now if I had known what lay ahead of me.  The New Year is upon us and thoughts trail back to my past celebrations…

I recall the days of getting all dressed up on New Year’s Eve.  I would have something special or new to wear.  I would have my hair done.  I would be going out on the town to a fancy meal, dancing, getting drunk and singing Auld Lang Syne, never knowing why I was singing it.  One year I watched When Harry Met Sally and they explained the words in the song at the New Year’s Eve party.  I still wondered why in the world people picked that song to reflect back on the past year and all that it had encompassed.  It reminded me of how I thought my traditional life in the church had been.  Why had I almost worked myself to literal death?  What was it for? Did I really know?  Did I really understand fully why I was doing what I was doing?  At the time you would have thought that I alone was the only one capable of bringing God into any given situation at this particular church body.  I literally tried to work myself to death in order to please God and the people I was around.  (I think it was the people first, and God came in second.)

I reflect over the past eight to ten years and see how God used traditions to teach, train and develop me in my character and helping me get my flesh under control.  He used traditions to heal me of past hurts and pains of the abortions I have had by having me reach out and help the children in Sunday school in most ways imaginable.  He used traditional church to show me the lack of heavenly things in a local body so He, in turn, could use me to train, teach and help people “just like me” on how to enter the “rest” of the Lord that the Bible teaches we can have.  I have learned that it only comes through diligence, obedience and having a teachable spirit within.  It doesn’t come by just sitting in a church pew week after week being lulled to sleep by the traditions of man.

I have witnessed firsthand how some people will continually seek the truth and never come to knowledge of the living Christ, by trying to work their way to Heaven and God’s graces…when it is free all along.  I see people who have never changed. Whether it is by destiny, hardheadedness or being just plain lazy, they never seem to embark on the fullness that the Cross of Christ provides. 

As I reflect, I have come to the conclusion that God is so much bigger and more mysterious than I ever, ever knew.  So many times I have put and kept Him in a box that He was screaming to get out of.  I am convinced more than I ever have been that I will never know fully the scope of what He has for us as His children, yet somehow, I still want to strive to become more like Him, knowing I really never will.

Then quite by chance I took my mother to a benefit concert this past month.  The concert was being held to aid a mission outreach I had originally begun at this particular church.  I started this outreach as I was being taught, purged and tweaked for the Master’s use.  When something is “a God thing” it will have staying power.  That is why this mission outreach continues year after year.  It was good to see that my labors had not been in vain….of course God knew that all along…

I reflected on the fact that I am not in control and thank God that God is.  I have learned to finally let others find their own way.  I can’t do it for them.  It is my job to do what I am called to do by putting the truth before them and then the rest is up to them.  There is an old saying of “you can lead a horse to water but you can’t make him drink.”  That saying holds true today for the Gospel. 

It has been a very hard year.  The warfare has been second to none.  Had I known what lay ahead of me last year, I might have opted out and preferred that someone else carry the burden of just plain telling the truth and calling a “spade a spade.”  But once again, I reflect and see that God made me the way He did because He knew I would never quit and I wouldn’t give up…..no matter what…no matter what.  No one will ever know the depths of warfare I have endured just so God’s children could get the truth.  Believe me, this is straight from the horse’s mouth. 

So as the New Year begins, I urge you to sit and reflect on this past year.  Look at where you have come from, look at where you are, and take a good hard look at where you want to go.  I assure you that nothing is impossible if you believe, nothing will be impossible for you, and you shall receive whatever is the Father’s will…..but you have to make sure it is the Father’s will.

God is merciful, kind, loving and ready to give you what you want, but He requires you give Him yourself first… there are no exceptions.  So as we journey down another year, remember that you are not in control, no matter how much you think you are.  There are some, to be certain, who don’t want to be in control.  There are others who will strive against themselves and never come to a knowledge of their Father in Heaven…I find that so sad…so very sad.  It is His love alone that has healed me from years of torment.  It is that love alone that needs now, more than ever, to be conveyed to hurting people. 

God has called me to rise and declare the tangible works of the Father as I embark upon another year.

God bless you and may you have a good new year,

Molly   

"If you will just do as I am telling you"

This was written last week but it needed to go up now.

Today is Christmas Eve.  I was sitting and pondering things that were coming on my heart and one of them was my dad.  My dad died almost ten years ago but in some ways, he still has an affect on me.  During the holidays I get very sentimental.  I recall him telling me things and one of the phrases he used was:  “If you will just do what I am telling you.”  Then quite suddenly, as it always does with the Holy Spirit, it hit me to tell others at this time this very same phrase, even though you don’t really understand why…..just do what I tell you on this Website.

I was ministering to someone yesterday evening.  This is someone who really doesn’t frequent church.  As a matter of fact, church has left a bad taste in their mouth.  It is Christians who gave this person a bad feeling.  Nevertheless, I was telling them God promises that “I will go before you and make the crooked places straight” (Isaiah 45:2).  I told him if he would just ask God every morning before starting his day to “make the crooked places straight” then start your day and watch God do what He promises in His word. 

I woke up the next morning and I thought  “if he will just do what I am telling him”, he will see things start to change or smooth out in his life.  Then I thought of my dad when he would tell me that.  It sounded good when I was with him, but when I was not around him and around people who thought a different way(a lot of them defeated in their lives), I would fall into their trap and end up defeated  myself.  How I wished I had listened to my dad.  Sometimes you have to separate from others so you can get what you need for your life.

All of this pondering took me to the fact that God tells us things in His word to do to get the victory in our lives, but most of us pay little or no heed to them.  I can just imagine God sitting in Heaven thinking, “If they would just do what I am telling them.”  The word of God or someone telling us about God seems good while we are in the midst of despair and in the midst of feeling lonely and lowly.  Then a little time will pass, or at least dissipate, and we don’t really want to hear what God says anymore.  When the going gets tough on our flesh, we really don’t want to do what He says any longer. 

This Christmas I was thinking whether there was anything else to get or give anyone.  I had followed what the Holy Spirit told me to do as far as giving and buying, but then the bug hit me.  Was there something else I needed to get for anyone?  I stood in the kitchen and told God that if no one got me anything this year it was okay.  I have received the greatest present in the world:  I finally listened to what God had to say…. finally.  I can be alone and be perfectly content most of the time and that is saying a lot.  The peace I have in my heart about God being God and doing what He says He will do can’t even….. well, you can’t put a price tag on it.  This isn't a big store-bought present with a pretty bow but it is the best gift I was ever given. I was the one who had to do the unwrapping; God wasn't going to make me.

I was so hardheaded in my life that I always knew the answer for any problem was NOT God.  But, then He loved me so much He put me in a place where I had no other choice but to do what He was telling me.  Then the feeling left me about having to buy anything for anyone else.  I wondered how I could wrap up what I had which cost me no money but yet cost me years of following and doing what God was telling me to do.  But, what I have didn’t come all at once and it certainly didn’t come overnight. 

I look back and see that my dad on earth really was wise…was he perfect?  Not by any means but he was trying to talk to a hardheaded girl who had been overtaken by the devil.  Most of the time what he tried to tell me was to no avail.  I was going to do things my way, not his way.  My life happened the way it did so I could turn around and tell you “if you will just do what I am telling you”.  The God I serve is not just a puff of smoke in outer space somewhere; He is real. 

So, as I close this Blog….your life won’t have to be unhappy but it will cost you something to have it.  What I’ve got doesn’t come instantaneously.  It comes “line upon line”, a little at a time as the Holy Spirit sees fit to give or reveal it to you.  YOU have to pick up your cross (your life) and follow HIM.  He is not going to make you and He is not going to spoon-feed you for long.  He gives you more than enough chances to follow Him and do what He is telling you. 

This season is a sentimental season.  Use it to really let your heart be softened to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit, however He sees fit to speak to you….and last of all remember..

This year might be a painful one for you.  You might feel cheated out of life, presents, family and love, but if you “will just do as I am telling you” your life will start to change and be so much better than it is today….I promise you.  I have made a vow to you and to God to tell you the truth and believe me, if I haven’t so far, He would have already taken this ministry down.

What you want and what you need is only an ASK away but YOU have to do the asking and YOU have to do the following… “If you will just do what I am telling you.”  

Molly

The Blood Of Christmas

I was thinking this past week about “What If”?  As we approach the Christmas season, I was thinking about “what if”  Jesus hadn’t been willing to come to earth and die for me?  What if He wasn’t willing to be born as a mere human, even though divine, who could bleed like me, hurt like me and be tempted like me? What if He hadn’t been willing to come for me that fateful night in Bethlehem?  Where would I be right now?

It is one of those times in which I ask myself, where would my life be today if He had not made that decision?  So I thought I would jot down a few of the things that came across my heart….

I honestly can tell you that I wouldn’t have stepped out in faith and believed for a  house for my daughter and myself to live in. (We lived there for free.)  I also wouldn’t have known about the prayer of agreement, offerings and standing on faith…

I would never have been delivered from all of the prescriptions drugs I took and from drinking like a fish as I took these drugs in order not to feel anything.  I knew nothing of taking authority over the devil and his hold on my addictive personality and body.

I would have probably been killed by my second husband, preventing me from writing this blog to you at this time in history.

I know that I would have griped my life to death because of my trying to make my life happen by myself.  I would have not known that there was a specific purpose and plan tailor-made by God just for me.  

I would not have known that there were generational curses on my life that tried to overpower me and had much to do with the way I thought and felt inside.

I know I would not have had the love of one special daughter whose whole life has been saved from the grasp of the devil because I chose to just believe in Christ.

So, you see, Christmas means so much more to me than what I see in a store, buy as a present for someone, or bake as a token of my love to others.  Christmas is everything to me as a human being because it was the night that my Savior chose to come here for the one who needed Him the most. 

My prayer this season is that you stop and allow yourself to wonder what would have happened to you if Christ had not come that one fateful night in order to die for you so that you could have the greatest gift imaginable…

God Bless us everyone!

Your faithful servant,

Molly

Wake up Call from Jesus

Several weeks ago one of the board members of Jesuswithoutthejunk came to me and said, “You aren’t going to like this but the Holy Spirit gave me this word to give to you.”  Through prayer that morning, I had been told that I was going to receive a word from the Lord that I was not going to like. I wasn’t going to like it because I was going to have to deliver it somehow.  I knew as soon as I got it what I needed to do.  

 This is the word that was given:

“A call from Jesus.  Please tell my people that I am not just a Christmas celebration.  My people need help year round.”

That was the exact word I was given to release through this web site.  Most of us are grown ups and we have trouble.  In December we dress it up with Christmas plays, Christmas cookies, Christmas celebrations, etc.  We love Christmas because it allows us to escape the hurts and pains that we have, some left from our childhood which that have never been addressed.  The Spirit of Christmas is intoxicating, to say the least.  Some of the Christmas carols are my favorite songs, especially  “ O Holy Night.”  It contains a line that says, “Fall on your knees!  Oh, hear the angel voices!”  That always makes me want to fall right down on the floor….before the Lord. 

There was a time in my life that I dreaded Christmas because I didn’t like my life and who I had become.  I would put on a smiley face and try to enjoy all of it, but then it would be over and I would feel let down and depressed through the month of January.  It was the same every year until I met Christ.  Now don’t get me wrong.  I always had lots of good food, presents, etc. I loved to dress up and I would “put on” the happy face for all of the Christmas glitz.  But then the party would be over, Christmas would be over, the decorations would be put up but then what? 

The word given to us all this Christmas season is not to let Christmas just be in December.  Let the Holy Spirit come into your heart and life so you don’t just have the Christmas Spirit once a year but all year.  That way you can walk in a higher, happier way of life all year long with the Holy Spirit.  It is not pretend ; it is real.  It is waiting for you this year.

There is a way in a Manger and it is not a song we sing…stop and get off the merry-go-round…..maybe you need to ‘fall on your knees’.

God bless you and have a merry Christmas from one who finally got to find out what Christmas was all about….

Love,

Molly

21^st Century Sin

Today I want to talk about sin.  I want to talk about 21^st century sin.  Sin started in the Garden of Eden and it continues today.  Recently I was written up in the newspaper.  Several people called to tell me how nice they thought the article was.  These are some of the same people who I know have dogged me behind my back. These Christians have failed to notice the scripture that talks about gossiping and backbiting…. (1Timothy 5:13).

So I listened as they applauded my article and I thought nothing else of it.  They proceeded to explain to me how they were now situated in a Bible study.  Several weeks later I discovered that one of the same people who applauded my article talked about me to someone else.  They asked them who in the world I thought I was and wanted to know why I thought I was so religious.  Well, as usual, when I am allowed to see people for who they really are, I was a bit taken back but then thought to myself how sorry I felt for this person.  All I have ever tried to do is help people learn the more of God.

We serve a God who is ever watchful over what we do. Knowing this has helped keep me on the straight and narrow…I have always needed a good healthy dose of fear of the Lord…. always. But what concerns me is how many gossip, backbite, tale bear and just plain ole dog people, all the while getting dressed up to the nines and serving in a local church.  My heart is grieved over this. 

You can dress up, polish, style and comb sin, but sin is sin and it is time for the body of Christ to be separate.  I tell the truth.  The people who know me know I tell the truth.  When it is all said and done, I want to be remembered as a woman of her word instead of a woman of many words, many untruthful words…gossiping words. 

We are being fooled into thinking that we can tale bear and it have no affect on us.  That is NOT God and it is NOT the way to be a winner in this life.  Your words will come back around and boomerang on you….whether you believe it or not. Our words are the most creative force we have available to us.

Sin is sin; it never changes.  Just because we are in the 21^st century we think that we don’t have to deal with sin….wrong.  Sin is worse that it ever has been.  God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah for a lot less than what we are doing….I learned a long time ago not to talk about others.  It is my goal to help get the truth to you and prod you into searching it out for yourself.  If the same Holy Spirit dwells in people who practice religion that dwells in me, why isn’t He convicting you of the sin of tale bearing?  It is not God and it is not from Heaven. 

God has taught me that being faithful in a little gains you more, but if we are talking about one another behind our backs, you aren’t being true to yourself or the Holy Spirit....you are being deceived.  You have an audience of ONE who is watching everything you say.  The Bible teaches that we will give an account for every idle word we speak(Matthew 12:36).  We think that something so small won’t affect us but we are wrong.  One tiny stone aimed just right killed a giant.  Words created this world. There is a scripture in the Bible that has helped me and might help you.  God is not mocked; whatever a man sows, that shall he also reap…(Galatians 6:7).  Be wise.  Talking about people is not from Heaven.  Whose side are you on?

Proverbs 11:13 A talebearer reveals secrets, but he who is of a faithful spirit conceals matter. 

Molly  

It is Thanksgiving…

I can’t believe that it is time for Thanksgiving already.  I know you must be feeling that as well.  When I was young, time seemed to go by so slowly and yet at other times, it would fly by.  People say that it goes quicker as you get older…I disagree.  Sometimes it still drags by when there is something in my future that I want to get to.  For me, it doesn’t have anything to do with my age.  I still believe as a child and I still have the faith of a child even though I am an adult.

The word "Thanksgiving" separated itself to me in my mind’s eye.  It is one powerful word that means so much more.  Thanks….to be truly thankful that I have my sanity after all the years of abuse to my body.  What a gift that I certainly couldn’t put a price tag on.  Thanks...that the Holy Spirit opened my blind eyes to see the more of God and what He has to offer me as His child, was a lot...a whole lot.  Thanks...that I have someone who loves me in spite of all of the things (the bad things, I might add) I have done.  His name is Jesus Christ.

But, then there is the other part and that is giving.  I have learned to give when I have nothing so that others might have.  I was given a food card not too long ago.  I needed to make an offering to the Lord in regard to something in my life.  Now, I could have used that food card but instead, I used it as an offering for someone who really didn’t have hardly anything.  It is the selfishness that God has removed from my heart, quite supernaturally, so that when I give it is out of a pure heart instead of one that asks, “Okay, what am I going to get back if I give this?”  For me, that is a big thing and it has been accomplished by years of sowing into others lives and ministries (as the Lord leads) so that I can be in my heart, not just on the surface, what God intends for me to be. 

So this year as I sit down with my family and partake in the meal that God has placed before me, I won’t have any quilt feelings of not doing for someone who really, for whatever reason, cannot do for themselves.  I don't need to question why I just need to sow where the Holy Spirit tells me.  He sees what I cannot.  I will be able to eat my meal and know I did what God wanted me to and that is all the Thanksgiving I will need…so my heart can be light and I can enjoy myself.

What about you this Thanksgiving?  What do you have to be thankful for and whom did you give to so that they might have as well?

God bless you and try not to gorge!!!!  (Desserts are my downfall; what about you?)

Molly