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Refocusing Your Faith

The Lord had burdened with desire to have Women s Ministry but at the time it seemed to be something of a far off reach, this was a couple of years before I would met Cherie Zach, founder of SALT Ministries. Cherie is one with great insight and the Lord had shown her what was to come, I was asked to speak and I believe this is one of the first messages I spoke , I hope that it inspires you to once again as we sometimes in this walk must do examine our hearts , and our faith. Ask your self , DO I REALY BELIEVE?

September 11,2007

Food For Thought
Wounds from a friend can be trusted, but an enemy multiplies kisses.
Proverbs 27:6

Title
Do you really believe ?

We are familiar with the faith scripture, Hebrews 11:6, With out Faith it is impossible to please God!

What does Faith mean to you?
What does it mean to God?

According to Hebrews 11:1 it means this:

Now Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. For by it the elders obtained a good report.

Have you obtained a good report?

The whole first part of Hebrews 11 contains accounts of what the Elders did by Faith.
Lets pretend that, that chapter is currently being written and God was looking at the people here tonight what would he be able to write about you. What would be accounted unto you as Righteousness.


“When by Faith was your name and your action, accounted unto you as righteousness.


For the past year in a half I have been in a Spiritual Struggle, I left what many would consider the Garden of Eden as far churches are concerned and I entered the Dessert. Devotion time was easy for me until now. Every time I sat down to study it would just be emptiness. I had become very sad about this. I used to enjoy my time with the Lord. What was happening? I read a book a little while ago called having a Mary Spirit in a Martha world. Basically it taught about how the Lord will lead through seasons of serving and then sitting at his feet and learning. Well I wasn’t able to study and I had not been serving so I thought I was waisting my time. Now I believe I have gone through a season of learning.. Don’t do anything just sit here and watch and learn.

This past year many of you know I found out I was pregnant a very big surprise for me I thought I was finished having children. God told me this is going to be a time I develop Trust in you for me. You are going to have to Trust me.

That meant I was going to have Confidence in him also, now you know you can only have Confidence in someone whom you Trust which means you believe them in their actions and words.

So, I ask Do you really believe the scriptures you read, do you really believe that God is not a man that he should lie?

As the 9 months progressed I stayed in my mind pretty much depressed, time was approaching I had nothing done regarding preparing for the baby I couldn’t every time I wanted to do something or buy something, that voice would say WAIT! He made it so I had no choice but to wait because our finances where tight especially after I went on maternity leave. I like to be in control so this was difficult for me.

I would soon learn why he told me to wait.!

Lets pause a minute you need to understand I was under mental attack all along. I saw pictures in my head of my baby being deformed, I saw my self dying on the operating table, I was constantly being bombarded with images in my head. This had been going on for months! I felt very weak!

I did not tell anyone I fought this battle alone. I would go into my prayer closet, the bathroom , can anybody relate? I did not even tell my husband or Lisa , although I think I hinted to her, what was going through my mind.

I knew I had to find scriptures to fight what was going on in my head. I had to ask my self again,
DID I REALLY BELIEVE!

Did I believe,
That no weapon formed against me shall prosper. Isa 54;17

That, The Lord is shepherd, I shall not want. He leadeth me beside the still watered. He restoreth my soul , he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name sake. Yeah though I wall through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou prepares a table before me in the presence of my enemies, thou anointest my head with oil, my cup runneth over
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the day of my life and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for Ever. Psalm23

That By his Stripes I am healed.1st Peter 2:24
That no sickness or disease will come nigh my dwelling. Psalm 91;10
That I can have peace that passes all understanding. Philippians 4:7
That I can think on things that are of a good report. Philippians 4:8
That I am never alone! Matthew 28;20

I came through this pregnancy in better health than I went into it. All my baby needs where met. I had no infection in my wound. The doctors marveled at how well the surgery went. The nurses marveled at how well I was healing. Family and friends have marveled at how well I looked and moved at only 2 weeks after surgery .Outsiders have marveled when told I haven’t had to buy anything for my baby. Everything was provided.
My Soul has been Restored my Faith has been Restored, My mind has been Renewed!
I have peace in the midst of a financial storm.

God has also shown me through putting this together that when Mary Jesus’ mother found out she was pregnant that her journey also one of Trust! And also like John the Baptist Gianna was chosen before birth and has already been used by God. She was also born under the sign of The Cross they cut me under the belly vertically and cut my uterus horizontally.

Part 2
Are you willing to accept Scooby Scraps?

Can you recognize the test you are being asked to take so that you prayers can be answered?

How much do you really believe?

According to Matthew 21:21
Verily I say unto you If you have faith and doubt not your shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree but also if ye shall say unto this mountain be thou removed and be cast into the sea it shall be done!

And all things whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer believing you shall receive!

ALL THINGS! WHEN YOU PRAY BELIEVE AND YOU SHALL RECEIVE!
Doesn’t sound like he has placed any limitations on himself.

How much do you believe? How much Confidence do you have in what you read?
How much Confidence do you have in what you hear?
Scriptures say Faith comes by hearing.

How would handle it if your child was sick and you approached Jesus because you had heard and believed that he could heal your child and you also knew that you where of an unaccepted race but you approached him and partitioned him anyway and he says to you, that it is not fitting that the little children’s’ bread be fed to dogs.

Would you say how dare you call my child a dog? and be offended!

Or Would you accept your child being called a Dog and say God I’ll accept your Scooby Scraps.

Because of the Canaanite Woman s’ faith and her staying focused on her daughters’ healing and not being offended Jesus told her “Be it done unto you as you wish!”

Again I ask, HOW MUCH DO YOU BELIEVE?

Finishing the Foundation That Was Laid

MY Story Part 3

an Evangelist could tell me about. God is good. I soon began to change. The Pastors Affirmed my Salvation. I began Bible College, and learning what God requires.

“All along my common law husband kept asking me to marry him and I kept saying no. I wanted no part of what I had witnessed in my Mothers’ Home.”

It was my turn now though, I told my common law husband. Until he married me there would not be any husband benefits from that day on. Within a month we where married. The problem was now I had exactly what my Mom had and what I grew up in. A divided house! The stronger I grew in the Lord the more the war Raged! The difference is this time. My children were on my side. They had seen Mom change and they wanted Daddy changed also. We waged a two year war over his Soul ! And We Won it! Praise God! The Road has not been easy the burden has not been light! But in God I have the Victory my Family has the Victory! My husband was Baptized by Pastor John Harwell at Evangel Temple AOS almost two years ago now! With God on my side I have changed my children’s Destiny and effected future generations. God has changed my daughters’ Future. Satan tried to lead her down the same path I took with almost the same circumstances. We waged a two year battle with her and the Devil when she turned 11 years old including thoughts of suicide and feelings of hatred towards her farther and the temptation to have premarital sex. Guess What! I Won that Battle also with God on my side! I have witnessed my daughter say to me Mom, “Thank you for not giving up on me.” “Thank you for all that you have done!”

My daughter and her Father know have a special bond and a Loving Relationship! My husband is still a Truck Driver and we miss him when he is gone. We aren’t lonely anymore! God is ever present in our Home keeping it Safe and Protected!


Thank you for taking the time to read “My Story.” I know we all have one. Each one different and effective for the Kingdom in a different way! My Prayer is to see the lives of Young Women, Mothers, Fathers and others see the value of a Right Godly Example and the Power of Its’ Influence on the Salvation of not just on this generation but generations to come as long as the lord terries!


Mothers’ and Fathers I urge you to teach you Daughters what to look for in a Godly Man. Teach your daughters to value themselves. God views them as special and precious gifts from God. No man has the right to miss treat them. They need to What kinds of men to stay away from! The other is also true. Our Sons need to know what kind of seducing Spirits to stay away from. Train them to keep their minds pure and their hearts pure.

MY Story Part 2

By the age of 21 I moved out. I moved in with a House full of other young women. Hormones raging. I could hear my room mates. doing their business with men in the next room. I would try and go to sleep. The sounds would just penetrate my hearing. Which got my mind to thinking . Thinking about what they where doing and I was missing out on. I began to Club hop just like they were doing. One night I propositioned a young man and he said yes. That was the beginning of a very long promiscuous life style. God has provided much protection. Now in front of my family you realize nothing was going on. As far as they were concerned I was just a hard working well behaved young Christian girl who had just moved out to start her productive life.

I finally met a young handsome black man that got my attention. He just wanted my company he did not want to take advantage of me. In fact he would often tell me I needed to go home in order to stay out of trouble with him. However eventually defenses where let down on both sides. Six months later I found myself pregnant by him. By this point things had not gone so well living out of the house. My parents had gone through a divorce ! My father would soon die of Cancer. Within two years, I moved back home in the room where my parent used to call theirs. When it came to light that I was pregnant I was kicked out. I am not sure if it was the fact I had made a bad choice or the fact the bad choice was with a black man. I was always told to judge people by their character. That is what I did . He had a good heart. I knew it. We were just young and dumb . My parents conflicted me. They were going against everything they had taught and so called represented . There was no unconditional love!

The father of my baby and I moved in an apartment. It was a struggle. God smiled on us and we made it. Notice I am not married. Finally two children later, many moves later, and many jobs later my common law husband and my two children are now living in Augusta, Georgia. For many years I felt safe and secure. Now though my husband is a Truck Driver, always gone. I have no car, no friends, no church and strangers as common-law- in- laws. Plus two children.

Remember I always called myself a Christian, I truly believed in the existence of God but very unaware of his requirements. There were no true examples that I trusted. Except for Mom and she was critical and judgmental. Anyway I’m up here in Georgia isolated and lonely. Along comes the Devil in the flesh and sits down beside me. He starts telling me how fine I am and all the rest of the smooth talking words that come with seduction. I began to fall for the lie that I can have the bad man along with the good man. I when I say bad I mean bad! Into drugs, abusive, but he satisfied an unfulfilled desire. An ungodly desire that had been in affecting my life ever since the night of the rape. The destruction that this man sowed into my life through Lust was so bad I thought I was going to loose everything! My children, my home my common law husband who was a professed believer of God but did not want to give anything up.

I struggled with this secret for 7 months until his sister, whom I now view as my guardian angel busted everything. My life changed!

But God! Had a better plan and a better way!

My common law husband was furious. Angry, hurt, shamed. Everything you could imagine. But he loved me! He loved me! He loved me unconditionally ! He was the first example of Jesus in my life that I had known and He did not even know it!

God had been watching over me for months while I was going through that crisis. There were church ladies that had been coming by and though I never visited their church they took an interest in me who I was, and what was going on with me. They counseled me. I began to go to church with a neighbor there in a Augusta. A neighbor ,who became like family. She encouraged my to attend the Bible College there at the church I was attending. Calvary Evangelistic Deliverance Church. How appropriate. Every thing I needed in one name. I needed the blood of forgiveness at Calvary, and I need the Deliverance that

Reflections on the Past

I was taking a look at some writings I have done for the past this one is called “MY Story” I know we all have one, well mask will taken off and you will be given an opportunity to see how much God has truly changed my life,  may you be encouraged to let God change your.

“MY STORY”, Part 1, Childhood

You see I was raised in a conflicted unequally yoked family.  My father was a professed Christian.  My parents where even married in the church.  Trinity Baptist Church the very first building.  My Mother was  and is still a Virtuous Woman.  As a young woman growing up in an unequally yoked environment you are torn.  You hear and see two very different ways of seeing and being.  My dad was never home always out having fun!  My mom always home working struggling with me and brother.  She was doing all she knew to do.  She faithfully brought us to Church.  Until we rebelled. 
Our excuses where if Dad doesn’t have to go why should we.  Do you know that when you live in an unequally yoked environment the One Christian Influence is not as Powerful as Two.  The bad example my father set took root.  I wanted to experience what he was experiencing.  What was he doing that was so much fun he could not come from work and spend time with his family.  There would be weeks that I would not even see him.  By the time I got up to go to school.  He was gone.  By the time  I went to bed at night  he was not home yet.
  Children do you know where your Parent are?

By the time I became a youth curiosity began to teach me some things!  Bad things!  Like the fact that my Dad hid his pornography in the house!  I was probably only about 12 or 13 years of age. when I stumbled across it.  Like the fact he did not care if I drank as long as I did it at the house and would not have to worry about me driving.  At this time I am between 21 years old. 

Let me back up for a minute to when I was around 13.  My mom had pumped it in to my heart that I needed to be a Virgin when I got married.  That was my desire.  Until one night when this older young man that had been coming around decided on a Wednesday Night while my MOM was at church and my Dad was asleep on the couch in the living room sound as asleep and could not hear anything!  This young man decided he would take all his teasing and flirting and picking on me to a different level.  I was raped right there beside my own house and no one ever knew a thing!  No one!  Because I never told!  When the ordeal was over I just simply walked in the house told my Dad that I was getting a bath and so I did! 
That was beginning of a different life for me!  What was the point of being good any more.  I had nothing good to give!  For years I secretly viewed his dirty magazines and videos.  Around my Mother I still obeyed all the house rules.  Behaved innocent!   Never got into very much trouble.  I was simply waiting until I could move out and make my own stupid choices.

I did! 

Crystal Springs Assembly of God Praise and Worship Concert, SALT will be there

 

Where the Fight Was Won

I have been studying the New Testament in our Sunday School Class, we are at the point where Pilot has washed his hands of our Savior and turned him over to the Angry Mob! We had been discussing various curiosities like where were all the people that he had healed, could some of them been at the gathering for the Passover, and that if the same situation had occurred a year ago Pilot would have killed the men challenging him on the spot. The one thing that had caught my attention was that everything was as it had to be in order for Gods' will to be carried out.

We often wonder how Jesus could have endured everything he did for our sakes. Many talk about the Victory of the Cross, I suggest to you that the Victory was in the Garden when he defeated the desperate pull of his Flesh! He begged let this Cup Pass From Me! Let this Cup Pass From ME! His flesh was battling for the Victory! His response was NOT my Will FATHER BUT THINE WILL BE DONE!

What God has shown me is that when he won the Victory in the Garden he won that Battle for me as well, and that if I will but die to my flesh I to will have the Victory!

Encouragement for all you Ladies struggling with the FLESH, eating disorders, sexual issues, emotional issues, You fill in the blank. For me personally its eating probably the most noticeable of all in my opinion. You pop a tic-tac if you drink or smoke and maybe for while disguise drug abuse but it does not take long for the piece of Cheese Cake to find its way to my hips for all the world to see.

My Prayer:

Lord give me the in sight and the strength to choose wisely those foods which would edify my body which is a Holy Temple and increase me financially so that I can afford those foods which would be more beneficial to my body and take from me those unhealthy appetites.

For all the ladies that might be reading this who feel they to struggle with body image allow them to know how beautiful and wonderfully they are made that you care for and love them for exactly who they are.

In Jesus Name Amen.