...The beauty of holding your tongue...

When words are many,  sin is not absent. But he who holds his tongue is wise.

Proverbs 10:19 Don't let your tongue trip you up! Be silent! Don't let your "many words"  make you stumble! Don't let your "many words" make you wish you regret that you said them. Be PRUDENT, hold your tongue! Be SENSIBLE, and shut your mouth! Do not let these words "multiply" but be one of few words,  and be wise. **** Ever witness a person caught in a lie that grows wordy? The truth should have sufficed! But at the moment, the LIE seemed "easier" yet, it failed! Lies always do! Too many words have TRAPPED the liar. His SIN trapped him! It is wiser to hold your tongue and not lie. Shut your mouth and do not sin. Ask God to direct your mouth your mind and heart and be FREE IN HIM; without the trap  of the lie. The TRUTH will always  set you FREE! JESUS, I pray for the one who needs this message.  The one who has trouble biting their tongue.  Lord, I ask your Holy Spirit to minister to their spirit. Please show them Abba, that they need to repent of their sin.  The sin of a liar, the sin of being a big mouth, the sin of breaking the barrier of peace, Lord displeases You.  Allow Your PEACE to resonate in our hearts, Lord, and we ask you to forgive us now of our sin. This we ask together, in Jesus name. Amen Jesus!   Thank you that YOU are with us, in scripture, in the lesson of Wisdom, and in forgiveness as we learn to be WISE and bite our tongue; instead of sinning.   This scripture is because YOU love us, Lord.  Thank you! Amen

Daniel prayed: 

"Praise be 

to the name of God 

forever and ever; 

wisdom and power are His. 

He changes times and seasons; 

He sets up kings and deposes them. 

He gives wisdom to the wise 

and knowledge to the discerning. 

He reveals deep and hidden things; 

He knows what lies in darkness, 

and light dwells with him. 

I thank and praise you, 

O God of my fathers: 

You have given me 

wisdom and power, 

You have made known to me 

what we asked of you, 

You have made known to us 

the dream of the king."

Daniel 2:20-23

Glory, glory, glory to the King!  Our Heavenly Father, His wonderful Son.  Glory!

ALL wisdom and power belong to HIM!

Forever and ever are His, and now He gives FOREVER to us!

He is the MASTER in control of the believer's life!  He created the seasons, He knows all!  He knows even the secret things, nothing can hide from the Master.  He lights up the darkness and exposes it.  Sin can not hide from the Lord.

It is Wisdom of the Lord poured out to the believer who also receives this Wisdom.  God gives us His Power and wisdom.  He opens His mysteries to those who love Him.

Just like with Daniel, God is no respecter of persons.  He will bless us in the same way, even more, if we believe in Him!

Glory, Glory, Glory to the King.  Thank you for Wisdom and Knowledge and Understanding, Abba Father!  Thank you for discernment. Thank you for revealing the secret things to the one who trusts and adheres to You.  Lord, YOU light our darkness and make pure Your child so we can see You.  You make that way for us.  Thank YOU, Lord!

This Thanksgiving from our heart we pray, in the Precious name of Jesus.  Amen Jesus!

OUR FOREVER....WITH JESUS.....

The world  and its desires  pass away,  but  the man  who does the will of God  lives forever.

1 John 2:17 The best place to be is with our Lord! Our FOREVER place with Him is our home, HEAVEN! THIS WORLD HAS NOTHING to compare!!! This WORLD is a very temporary place for the believer of Jesus Christ, Almighty God, Creator of Heaven and earth, and the Holy Spirit! Do not give away your precious gift by not believing. Believe and be saved!!! It is the best decision you and only you can make. I pray that Jesus come and minister to your heart.  I pray that you not pass by this simple message of LOVE, but accept the Lord into your heart.  IT IS SO IMPORTANT. Oh Jesus.  please bless the one that You are tugging their heart strings.  Abba, please minister Your love to them.  I pray blessing over their salvation, and over their lives as You come and forgive and give them their gift of FOREVER with You.  In Jesus name, I pray with thanksgiving.  Amen Jesus!!

WHO ARE YOU IN CHRIST JESUS?????

"You are the salt of the earth. 

But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? 

It is no longer good for anything, 

except to be thrown out and trampled by men."

Matthew 5:13

Remembering back to a message with this scripture.  Reminding us “who” is the salt and light: we are!

We are the spice that makes the recipe of God’s goodness delightful!

Are you aware that we are God’s delight??? :-)

Salt can be good.  But salt can also be bad.  Too much of a good thing can ruin a good meal.  And not enough, can make a good meal bland.

Who are you in Christ Jesus???  Are you “just right” in the eyes of God?  Are you righteous?  Are you holy?

Or, have you lost your “saltiness” and are no longer good for anything?  

How is your walk with Christ?  Does your “light so shine” so men can see your good works?  

Do not allow your “worth” for the Kingdom to be thrown out or trampled upon!

But be strong and courageous, righteous and holy, and bringing GLORY glory GLORY to the Father, because YOU are the salt of the earth!

It is YOU who God chose for this wonderful mission!  It is YOU God will make perfect in His wonderful recipe.  We are part of the meal as we sit before the table of God in the midst of His enemies. Hallelujah!

Purpose in your heart to be perfect before your Lord.  And when you goof up, repent! It is that simple.  

We are the salt and light!  Thank you Jesus!

Jesus, please bless all Your children around planet earth.  Bless the salt and light who represent You, King of Glory!  Bless our faith today.  Bless the one who You direct for us to minister to, in Jesus name.  Thank you for Salvation, for Deliverance, for quieting the storms that try to distract us.  Thank you for showing us that it is YOU who is LORD.

In Jesus name I pray, Amen Jesus!!!

.....QUIET THE STORM.....

QUIET THE STORM

I can say I have seen many storms this week.  Storms that tried to shake me to my very core.  Storms that my Father has shown me that they need not be LOUD, but ‘in Him’ very quiet.  For NOTHING is impossible with our Abba.

I spoke and prayed for my lovely friend Mr. C, in California.  He is having a storm right now going on in his body.  This storm is a category 5 in the eyes of the medical staff.  But, Mr. C, Jesus loves you, and promises NEVER to leave you comfortless.  I prayed for your comfort and peace from the top of your head to the bottom of your feet.  I prayed for God’s perfect will to accomplish all HE wants, as His Word is sent out to “quiet the storm.”  This storm is in God’s hands, and can be quieted by way of Jesus name, and saying **PEACE BE STILL**  So I declare in Jesus name, the same words that Jesus spoke out, so do I, regarding this storm.  Allow the Jesus you believe in to calm the storm, Mr. Bill.  Be like the disciples that marvel and say, even the wind and waves obey Him!

A storm regarding my sweet daughter, Melissa.  A fire in the mountains that shifted in her neighborhood, where the deputies had to call her and tell her to evacuate immediately.  We prayed against that fire.  Faith silenced the fire storm, and stopped it.  Her home was not damaged, yet a couple doors down homes were destroyed to rubble.  We called up on Jesus, our anchor, our peace, our vision of the Quiet Storm, and utilized His faith and His Word in our prayers.

My Father-in-law is blessed indeed!  So much prayer has gone out on his behalf.  He has been ‘diagnosed’… but NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE for our God!  God is the giver of peace, and the quieter of the largest storms!  He can stop fires, he can stop cancer, tumors and big stones.  He can fully give HIS PERFECT PEACE, until we marvel and say: LORD, How GOOD You are.  You quiet the storm and give to us Your peace that passes understanding, because we Trust You!!! Hallelujah!!!

My friend Kevvo, who last I heard was in a convalescent hospital being treated for out of control diabetes.  Kev, even Jesus who took the many stripes can heal you completely, as we believe.  Where two or three who are gathered in His name, believing together, there He is in the midst.  He is in our prayers!  Keep the faith, brother.

As we know, Harvey, and Irma have been quiet loud.  Wind and storms moving at 185 miles an hour.  Creating noise and devastation.  But GREATER is HE that is you and I, even GREATER than the storm; Yes, even GREATER than the noise and the devastation.  God will move, His perfect to will be done,  and no matter the storm, it is God who will quiet it.

So together, let’s pray:  Abba, we cry out PEACE, PEACE BE STILL.  Peace be still to the storms.  Storms of sickness, affliction, of sin, of poverty, of the things that are NOT Your will in the lives of your children.  Jesus, please be with us, and Abba, we pray that you quiet the storms of the things that are not of Your will.

We pray for these hurricanes and the ocean waters that are unusually warm and are creating havoc.  Jesus we pray and say aloud in agreement:  BY THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST, WE UTILIZE YOUR WORDS AND SAY: PEACE BE STILL.  We call out for Your peace to come and wash over us.  Remove the anxiety.  Remove the doubt and fear.  Perfect Love, please come and cast out this fear.  Cast out this sickness, Jesus, for by Your stripes we are made whole.  Jesus, you are our peace, our strength, our energy.  Please come to us, and make us young like the eagle again, as promised.  Please Lord, as You bless, be faithful to the faithful who love you, who praise you in the storm, and rely on our God, the One and True God, the Only Invisible God, who loves us, and takes very good care of us.  Thank you again, Abba.  We love you.

This prayer we pray IN JESUS NAME, thanking you that YOU are the only one who can quiet the storm.  ALL FOR YOUR GLORY, LORD.

Amen Jesus!  Amen.

God's Path

May the Lord 

direct your hearts 

into God's love 

and Christ's perseverance.

2 Thessalonians 3:5

Three things catch my eye in this scripture: DIRECTION, God’s love, and Christ’s perseverance.

May the Lord DIRECT your hearts…  Why does our heart need direction?

Because in scripture, Mat 15: 18-19 says a lot goes on in this ole heart of ours.  It is not the “pumper” scripture is talking about but the “intent,” the “attitude” of our actions.

Things that come out of the mouth come from up out of the heart.  These things defile the man.  Ever have something come out of your mouth that you fully regret, that you wish you could take back?

Out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony and slander… these… are what defile a man, scripture says.

So, where does God’s love come in, and Christ’s perseverance?  When we surrender to God’s will…TOTALLY, COMPLETELY, without reservation, is when our Father can “work in us” totally and completely.  This is God’s truth!

When we allow God’s full direction, then, we can recognize His will for us.  We can recognize the enemy, his plans, and disarm this enemy with the knowledge and power of God’s Word.

Truth tells us to “guard our heart, and guard our mind.”  Truth tells us that when we “seek” God first all these things shall be added unto us.  In other words, God’s will falls into the right places in our life.  If we intentionally draw near to God, He promises to draw near to us!  If we guard our heart, recognizing that the enemies plot to destroy, or discombobulate, or distract, or confuse us, and rob us of our peace, our heart and mind SCREAMS out Loud, “NO, this is NOT FROM GOD” … Reject!   Resist…  Be quiet, hold your tongue!  Allow God to DIRECT your heart.

Allow God to direct you to HIM!  GOD IS LOVE…  and only LOVE COVERS!  Be steadfast in Christ!  Do not allow confusion, distraction, or ANYTHING get in your way of the things of God!  Allow God’s direction lead you into His love, and the attribute of Christ’s purposeful staying power. Apply yourself!  Do not get distracted!  Allow the Peace that passes all understanding, lead you to all Peace, Truth leading you into all truth, and God’s Word to be your lamp…alive…purposeful…active…sharp, KEEPING your heart and minds through Christ Jesus!!!  This is what God’s Word is, but allow it to be “GOD’S WORD IN YOU!”  Be on target!  Be strong and courageous!  Don’t allow the things of the world come out of your mouth.  Instead, allow God to turn things around “in you” through Him, and watch in amazement how your words, your heart, your attitude changes dramatically!   In Him, we live, move and have our being!  

Are you allowing God to direct all of you in Him?  Because if you are, you will have that joy unspeakable and full of glory experience!  You will have peace that passes all understanding! Nothing will get in the way of your faith!

No matter the circumstance, if you allow God to direct all of you, surrendering all of you to Him, you will see a BIG difference in your life.

I need to testify of this in my week/month that just happened.  I just made a month of life (returned life), which could have been a very large distraction…  ((prayers went out)) my heart valve was dissected (cut in two), But God put a very lovely Christian Doctor in my path to allow myself to live, Hallelujah.  Just this past Sunday at church, we were directed to come to the alter to be prayed for.  My father-in-law has been sick, in and out of the hospital.  With “knowledge” that he has a large stone in his prostrate wasn’t bad enough (if I didn’t have faith), but they also told us that he has a mass (stone) the size of his bladder.  Because of his age, they can not operate.  William, my father-in-law had a life goal, to make His Big 9-OH.  He made his 90th birthday!  He was allowed home from the hospital, the day of his birthday!  Just to come home, wiped out without any energy, to have his family gather around him to sing him “HAPPY BIRTHDAY.”  We sang to him, had cake and ice cream and left.  About a half hour later, my daughter calls us to inform us that the hospital called with bad news.  The hospital informed her that they found a large mass on Pepa’s (William’s) lung. ((prayers went out)) Two days later, my oldest daughter received a phone call that they were evacuating her block because of an out of control fire…  ((prayers went out))  to the back to back hurricanes that have been going on all week.  Harvey and Irma.  Prayers, prayers, prayers, peace, peace, peace and ALL of God’s timing and direction guiding the way I react.

Okay, Mr. Bill C, a wonderful child of God has been sick too.  But GREATER IS HE that is in all of us who believe…  He is greater!  Greater than fires (which was prayed against and didn’t come to my daughters house!  And energy and the fire of the Lord in BC’s body, WD’s body, J and L D’s body…  and answered prayers upon answered prayers to bring GLORY to our Father!!!!   So…

How do I utilize this scripture in our lives?  ((please say this prayer with me))

Jesus, direct me! Bless my faith, I ask a change in my attitude and walk, as I trust IN You.  I need your constant staying power in my life!  I need your direction and the Father’s love to help me to be just like you.  Let me not wander, or waiver in my faith, but become STEADFAST IN YOU, IMITATING YOU, choosing my path and direction to be in Your lane, on the Highway of Holiness, Lord.  Allow me to see Your big picture, Lord, no matter the circumstance.  I thank you for Your peace!  I thank you for rest on every side.  I thank you for healings, for victories, for Your glory to be manifested, always always, Lord.  Thank you for the lady who stood in the gap Sunday, reminding me that it is all ALL ALL for Your glory, this life we live.  We can SEE Your glory manifested if we allow Your direction, if we believe, if we move ourselves out of the way and only see YOU.  Help us Jesus, this I pray, in Jesus name.  Amen!

p.s. refuse “circumstance” to lead you.  When things go wrong, be anxious for nothing!  But in every situation, pray, pray, pray!  Petition God!!!  Have a thankful heart… ((always))  and present requests to God.

when “circumstance” comes your way, trying to distract you, allow God to direct your path.  What does God want you to do? TRUST IN HIM!!!

LEAN on Him, and RELY on Him!  Do not lean to your own understanding! You will faith!!!  But in ALL your ways, ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, and our promise comes… He will direct your path.

Want the path of your heart directed?  Go to God.  He promises to be a very present help to you.

I pray this message has purpose for good in your life, in Jesus name.

love your sister, friend and pal

Lorraine

p.s. love you Mr. Bill.  Am still praying for your comfort, peace, and healings.  God’s perfect will shall be done!  love you.

TROUBLE YOUR TROUBLE WITH PERFECT LOVE!!!!

There is no fear in love.  But perfect love drives out fear,  because fear has to do with punishment.  The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

1 John 4:18  There is a vivid enemy who wants to disarm us!  He wants to confuse us!  He LOVES to distract us.  He tries his best of “punish” us, in his way. But scripture gives us God’s secret, and our blessing!!!  When we choose to turn to PERFECT LOVE we have our answer! There is NO FEAR when we walk with PERFECT LOVE, holding His hand.  When we allow PERFECT LOVE to direct us away from confusion, distraction, and all that the fear the enemy tries to project on us. . .   God says NO!!!! and we have instant PEACE, because God loves us that much.  He doesn’t want us troubled, but filled full with His abundant Peace! God wants us to be made PERFECT “in” Him!  When we fear, doubt, waiver, worry…etc… we are not in Perfect Love’s center.  Because Perfect Love’s “center” is PERFECT PEACE!  The only kind of PEACE that Jesus can bring!  In this, we can hide under the shadow of the Almighty!  In this, we can say confidently “I am protected by the power of the name of God!”  In this we can declare to our enemy James 4:7, “I am submitted unto God, and you have to flee, enemy.”   I can declare, I have perfect peace from the Peace Maker Himself.  We can say aloud, I am my Beloved’s and He is mine,  He cares for me!  He lights my path, He directs my every step.  I choose not to fear, but be made strong in Him, for as I place all my confidence and trust IN Christ Jesus, and seek Him first, everything will fall into the Will of God, and His will for me is nothing but GOOD!  HALLELUJAH!!! Thank you, Lord, as I put my faith in YOU, YOU cast away all fear, doubt, and TROUBLE this trouble that tries to “trouble” me!  I thank you for the blood of Jesus that cleanses and purges EVERY dead work, and that I can truly walk IN your Perfect Love, without fear!   You are God, and there is NONE other!  I choose to walk in YOU, Lord Jesus! Thank you for this scripture today.  I love you, and thank you for loving me too.  In Jesus name I pray.  Amen Jesus!