We Can’t Fit God Into A Box

October 7, 2017 by Leave a Comment

So often we try to fit God into the narrow boxes of our theology. Over the past few years as I have faced major health issues, I’ve seen God use His miraculous power but also use the wisdom of doctors, medicine, and the prayers of many who held up my arms through those challenges.

During my last challenge of hip replacement I am so grateful to God as I see my body gradually heal. But also so thankful for the many ways He is meeting that need even if it is to provide a wheelchair to help me travel through the long corridors of the airport, reminding me how He provides during those valleys of life in many different ways.

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Why is the color purple associated with Royalty?

September 19, 2017 by Leave a Comment

The color purple’s ties to kings and queens date back to the ancient world, and

even Biblical times. Purple was used to cover the Ark of the covenant depicting the royalty of His Presence. Kings of the Old Testament are said to have worn purple. At Jesus’ trial they clothed Him in a purple robe and crown of thorns when they mocked Him as King of the Jews.

During her reign, Queen Elizabeth1, passed Sumptuary Laws that forbid anyone but close relatives of the royal family to wear purple, so the color not only reflected the wearer’s wealth but also their regal status.

In Roman times, the only available purple dye was Phoenician “Tyrian purple” This was very expensive because it took as many as 250,000 sea snail mollusks to yield just one ounce of usable dye, so only the very richest could wear it. At various times its use was controlled by law, so only the Emperor could wear a robe that was all purple, while Senators could only wear a toga with a purple fringe. Some of these Roman Emperors forbid their citizens from wearing purple clothing under penalty of death.

I was feeling very royal in my purple yesterday because I really am a princess of His Kingdom having the legal right to wear purple because of His precious shed blood no longer living under the fear and the penalty of death.

CHALLENGE: Come on Sister Princesses dig deep in your closet for your purple apparel. You have the royal right to wear it!

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Are You Sowing What You Want To Reap?

September 9, 2017 by Leave a Comment

Dear Child,

Whatsoever you sow, you will reap! Sow abundantly into others lives and you will reap an abundant harvest.Whatever you sow in others’ lives will reap in your own life.

 Whatever you want in your own life, sow into others.

If you want hope, sow hope

If you want integrity, sow integrity

If you want love, sow love

If you want faithfulness, sow faithfulness

If you want motivation, sow motivation

If you want edification, sow edification

If you want encouragement, sow encouragement.

Whatever seeds you sow in the garden of your life is what will grow, and as you care for the seeds, it will reveal where your treasure is. Where you spend your finances, time, and talent is where your heart is at.

                                                            Thus saith Papa

Gal 6:7  Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

2 Cor 9:6  But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.

After I have faithfully planted a seed in my garden, there is nothing I can do to cause it to germinate and grow, because the life is in the seed not in the sower. But I must be responsible and sow the seed.  Remember although the life is in the seed, the responsibility is in the sower!

CHALLENGE: Don’t complain of lack in an area of your life, but rather sow that which you want to harvest in that area. 

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In God We Trust?

July 3, 2017 by 1 Comment

Our Schools are failing — We forbade Him in the classroom

Our Courts — Many of our courts have removed the Ten Commandments

Our Homes — We often complain our children can’t pray in schools yet fail to pray with them  in our homes.

Our Law and Order — When we have no respect or fear of God we will have no respect for any authority of police, schools or parents.

Our Sexuality — Even the very core of our creation by God as male and female is being challenged.

Our Gift of Life — We loose respect for life when we murder the unborn. As you read this there will be 3,700 babies murdered today. Since 1973 there have been 58 million babies legally killed in the U.S.A.

In all aspects of our lives we have tried to delete God’s law of sowing and reaping, leaving us with an immature  society void of personal responsible.

Political correctness is strangling our laws and the very breathe of our nation as we abuse the words “Separation of Church and State” which are not even in the constitution.

So where did the words “Separation of Church and State.” come from? They can be traced back to only a letter that Thomas Jefferson wrote back in 1802. In October 1801, the Danbury Baptist Association of Connecticut wrote to President Jefferson, and in their letter they voiced some concerns about Religious Freedom. On January 1, 1802 Jefferson wrote a letter to them in which he added the phrase “Separation of Church and State.” When you read the full letter, you will understand that Jefferson was simply underscoring the First Amendment as a guardian of the peoples religious freedom from government interference.

When Thomas Jefferson wrote his letter to the Danbury Baptist Association he never intended the words “Separation of Church and State” to be taken out of context and used as a substitute for the First Amendment, but for all practical purposes that is exactly what the courts have done.

“I tremble for my country,” said Thomas Jefferson, “when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” –

A sobering warning from George Washington on April 30, 1789, when he delivered his famous Inaugural Address to both Houses of Congress. “We ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained.” He had just taken the oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City, with his hand upon a Bible opened to Deuteronomy, Chapter 28:And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth: 2 And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

George Washington also wrote this about what he felt made America great:

“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”

To make America great again we need God back in our government, society, homes, schools, and our lives.

One People under One God saluting One Flag

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Give The Great Physician Permission

June 24, 2017 by 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I fell and broke my hip and was warned that if I didn’t have surgery as soon as possible I would never walk again. As I was being wheeled into surgery to have the hip replacement I remember Dr. Darren Friedman taking the time to put his initials on the hip he was going to replace. He would only be putting a new hip on the leg with his name.

The Lord used this as a window to my soul.

Likewise The Great Physician also writes His Name on the foreheads of those that He will be working on as we go down to the Potter’s house and place ourselves on the wheel of transformation. This is where He will remove our heart of stone and give us a heart of flesh.

Just as I signed a paper to give the doctor permission we must also voluntarily give the Lord permission to perform surgery on our hearts. He will only work on those hearts with His Name engraved.

Revelation 14:4 And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.

Jeremiah 18:3 Then I went down to the potter’s house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels.

Ezekiel 36:26 6 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. 

CHALLENGE: Are you broken today? Give the Great Physician permission to perform the surgery and He will give you a new heart that will enable you to walk a new way.

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