Joanie Stahls Field Notes

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What I find most saddening is how many millions of people have exchanged sound Biblical doctrine for false prophecies. Today, another president sits in office and it is not the one that was prophesied by false prophets that would be re-elected. For the last four years big celebrity, hyper-charismatic celebrity-like men and women told vast multitudes that they had direct words from Jesus Christ. They boasted great boasts and declared great declarations. All of which none of them came to pass. Not even one.  

There were other smaller men and women videoing themselves giving out false prophecies from dreams they were having, or words they isolated in the Bible, or said they were hearing in their ear. Again, all of which did not come to pass but failed completely. I do not say this to be divisive, but to make a strong and solid point of why we are always exhorted and admonished to cleave to the solid rock, who is Jesus Christ.  I do believe on a side note that there are many faithful, beautiful men and women of all ages who do dream, get a word of knowledge, or word of wisdom that is real, and do come to pass. I have lived long enough to observe and experience it.  

God says of Himself, "For I am the Lord God; I change not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed." Today millions have been consumed with every wind of doctrine and every prophecy that amounted to nothing. Yet still they will not lovingly and quietly read His word, and mediate on the purity of the word of God. God is allowing everything to happen for a good reason and we have to trust Him.   He changes not, and if you cleave to Him, then everything around you that is changing will not move you, nor consume you. Time to turn off the voices of these false prophets that are now made manifest who they are. And cleave to the unchangeable God Jesus Christ. "A thousand will fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand but it will not come near you."  Keep in the paths of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgement. It is the ONLY sure path that leads to your eternal home. 

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The subject of prayer is a vast one. There are many that are able to express themselves in prayer beautifully. While others feel uncomfortable with the whole thing, and would rather just have others keep them in prayer. But there is another group that I believe are the greater percentage of Believers. They make up the enormity of many who feel like they sound flat when they pray, or they feel like everything they say is dumb. They are totally self focused about every word they say and how they say it, until they have done everything but pray. Therefore with their prayers they unpray their prayers.

There are others that feel that they can never pray for themselves, and keep themselves out of the beautiful, personal relationship born out of prayer with Christ. There are others who spend money on books that teach them how to pray. What to say in prayer, what not to say in prayer. They buy books on already written out prayers that end up as dusty forgotten, unused books on their shelves.

One of the key ingredients to prayer that has been the pitfall of natural flowing prayer is the absence of the assurance of the presence of the Lord.  It is easy to look back at their past and see Christ in every step of their way. They remember how the Lord delivered them out of trials. They remember every moment He comforted them. Therefore they see a "past Christ." They can also look into a future and believe that Christ will see them through the next year. They can see that Christ will walk them through this and through that. They believe in a "future Christ." But there is a stark absence of that reality in the "here and now Christ" in every breathing minute.

His presence is what causes the feet of the Believers to slip, and some to fall, while others deem themselves "unheard" of by God because they say they cannot determine His presence, so therefore they go away sad. This must not be the case. Prayer is between the person and God. There must not be any middle-men, or applications of theologians even if they are the mighty men and women of old. It will never work.  Not until that Believer comes to Christ boldly, and that boldness only comes with the confident knowing that Jesus is in every present moment in life. Not a God that has to be coaxed out of heaven, and begged for His listening ear.

In reality, the true prayer of the saints is really only that of the heart, WITH the knowing reality that God is "a very present help in trouble." He is not just present, but VERY present. When you pray, remember first and foremost that the presence of the Lord is as much with you NOW as with Abraham. As much with you NOW as with Moses, or Isaiah, or Paul and the apostles.  When you come to terms with this truth, prayer then takes on a new life, and the beauty of that friendship with God explodes with the power of an endless life.  Contact:

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There are so many Believers that have a difficult person they care about they have labored in prayer for decades. Yet there has never been the slightest change in them. In fact they become angrier, and more bitter. They have even taken the abuse from the person they have spent years in  prayer for. The human aspect is exhaustion especially where there has been mocking, scorning and abuse. Yet, prayer continues though it be a life of longsuffering. The thought of them dying without Christ is worse than another day, or another 20 years of their abuse. The love of Jesus Christ is the power behind the choice to push through.  

There are many times temptation comes in to give up. This is not a demerit mark on some score card God has on everyone. Sometimes God wants us to rest to regain strength, and to pray again. True prayer for the ungodly is long and hard, but is has eternal reward for the person they prayed for, and for themselves when they meet together in heavenly places.   The two malefactors which were on opposite sides of Jesus on His cross, were standing on the edge of eternity. Think about it, the only two human beings in earthly and eternal history who died along side their Savior. Yet only one saw Him as Savior, for he called Him "Lord." His eyes were opened to see Jesus as His Savior, yet the other one did not. One railed on Him saying "Save thyself and us!" The other one said, "We deserve what we are getting," which is true heart contrition and repentance.   

That dying man was able to look into the face of his brutalized Savior and say, "Remember me when thou art come into they kingdom," and Jesus said, Today ye shall be with Me in paradise," where he is today with Christ in glory. We cannot tell who will come to Christ at their final breaths of earthly mortal life. Only Jesus knows. Jesus Christ died for both men condemned to die, and only one went into heaven with Him. Both were given the same opportunity, the same as Judas or Ananias and Sapphira, but their choices purchased for them an eternity they will never escape from. A Christ-less eternity.  Do not give up praying for those you love no matter what it looks like. The last act of the Lord on earth before death was forgiveness to filthy criminals legally condemned to die an ignominious, cursed death.

 Though it does not say it in the word, I somehow believe that even in Jesus' final moments of earthly life, perhaps He was praying to His Father to open the eyes of the worst, filthy criminals legally condemned to die. Two people whom I am certain had family members who gave up on them long ago.  I believe our Father in heaven answered those prayers. For "no man can say Jesus Christ is Lord but by the Holy Spirit." Never give up. Jesus said He would "see the travail of His soul and be satisfied." Amen, never give up praying for the hardest of them, and let the Savior of the World do the rest, He wants them in heaven more than we do. Shalom.  

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Just go Quietly On:

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This beautiful elder sister in the Lord shares words of wisdom that are so powerful and full of the Holy Spirit. Ms. Esther Walker explains the phrase she uses “Just go quietly on.”   Whether we like it or not times come around where we become overwhelmed. There is a breaking point we all have. There are hard things that challenge us all our lives. If it is not one thing, then it is another in greater or lesser degrees. However, there are times where something comes around that is not expected, and down we go.

The strength we thought we had is not available. There is a paralyzing that happens to our whole being. It cripples prayer, and reading the word is impossible. Of course there are varying degrees and extent of the thing that comes around, but the power it has to disable us is the same. It seems that no human can help us, no words of comfort. Like C.S. Lewis said after his wife passed away, "I feel mildly cuncussed and afraid, the flowers that used to be so bright and full of color are dull and everything looks gray, there is no taste to food....her absence is like the sky spread out over everything."

David wrote in the Psalms, "When my heart was overwhelmed me, then thou knewst my path." There is a time when our hearts are overwhelmed and we cannot see the way out. But something begins to arise in us like the rising of the sun in our darkness. A power enters in of the life of Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, and quickens us to get up. To cry aloud to the Lord our Maker, "Hear my cry O God! Answer me in my distress!" And He does answer and sets the overwhelmed in quiet, peaceful habitations in Him.

The Lord Jesus Christ is our Friend, and those that serve Him continually do not falter or fall away when evil comes, but they, like Daniel throw their windows open to heaven and look to Jesus Christ. David said, God knew His path to continue on because the pain was so great he could not know it anymore. Year after year, war after war, fight after fight, as saints grow old, the way Jesus knew that they should go upon, is the one they finally stay upon. They put their hands in His and trust Him, and receive a spiritual peace while the world rages around them. They learn to go quietly on all the way into heaven.

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There is a kind of profound sorrow and grief so deep that no human can touch because it is untouchable. We have all experienced trying to comfort a person who is heavily mourning, or in intense, paralyzing sorrow. We find that there are no words adequate to say. The words we do sincerely try to say seem to not even so much as skim any surface of their rivers of sorrow. It seems to be a place that no other fellow friend or loved one can enter into. It seems to be a sacred place that only God can enter into. I think it is.  Jesus said to His disciples that He prayed to the Father that He would send the Comforter in Jesus name. That He would be with us forever. Jesus also said, "I will not leave you comfortless." He then gave them a parting gift by saying, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." We then see that the His peace comes by the Comforter.   

The Comfort of the Holy Spirit will extend over the entire earth during the Millennial Reign of Jesus Christ. The "whole creation that groans and is in travail" will be comforted forever. This means the animal kingdom will be comforted as well as the whole earth, along with saved humanity. There is an eternal destiny for all people who have "born the battle and the heat of the day" will enter into, to be comforted forever.   "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful."   The Comforter who now dwells in you, and is with you, will be with you in spectacular glory. And that comfort will Know no bounds through the Eternity of Eternities. Unimaginable, amazing Comforter! 

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When we become born again we know something real happened. Something strikes within us and it is real, the new life has entered in. We know that we have become a new creation and we come alive. Our hearts instantly begin to burn within us when we read His word. We find that we cannot stop praying and looking towards heaven within our hearts. We run in the path of His commandments like the wind. We fall seven times and rise again, and year after year we grow up in Him. We grow as cedars of Lebanon stretching forth our branches to heaven, bearing fruit in old age. During these years, we are exercising ourselves unto Godliness, denying ourselves, and picking up our crosses daily, and follow Him.

In this narrow way, we have found that way is the surrendered life to Jesus Christ. The longer we stay on that way, the more deaths we die on our crosses. I believe that mostly what we die from is the result of persecution, which brings rejection, loss of who we thought were friends, members of households becoming our worst enemies, and all forms, and degrees of meanness and abuse. A time comes in a life surrendered to Christ, that it is a life of death. "Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body."

As true Believers we take a lot of persecution, and we do so because we seek to not "repay evil for evil." We chose "not to let our good be evil spoken of." We choose from our burning hearts to obey Jesus when He says, "But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."

But there comes a time where something strikes within us, and like Paul in 2 Corinthians chapters 10 and 11, we see a picture of a man who owned his faith, calling and position Jesus called him into. Something struck Paul in these chapters as he confronts his contenders. One day he said, "When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things." There is a spiritual maturity of ownership that is beautiful, free and strong.

These beautiful chapters show the maturity that each of us are to arrive to, and like Paul, something will strike you in your life. That striking within is something that causes you to stand up for yourself and tell it like it is in the firm power of a true servant and friend of Jesus Christ.  And not to convince a person, or get them to like you, or defend yourself, but to declare your personal position of eternal faith like a valiant man or woman. There is something so powerfully, other-worldly about it. This is the unfading life of the born again saint purchased by the Blood of Jesus Christ who count not their lives dear to themselves, but only and evermore in Christ...."World without end."

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"Sister Jaz" YouTube Channel Link:  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaEnJbXeysWSM21wuERZftw

Today Jazmine and discuss that after two thousand years that Jesus gave to humanity to know Him has culminated into millions thinking they know Him, but never have met Him personally. There has been no issue on God's part. He is ever-present and always ready to reveal Himself to anyone who calls upon Him. However, there has been a grave departure from KNOWING Him, to the self-satisfying perception that He is personally known to millions. A time is upon this world that will try that claim. Jesus said to the Pharisees, "Ye seek the scripture because in them ye think ye have eternal life, and they are they which testify of Me, but ye will not come to Me that ye may have life." It is high time to go at once to Jesus personally. Not via a church leader, or third party. It is time now to know Jesus Christ for yourselves.   

He is a real person, more real than you and me. He is your Maker, He created you to KNOW Him. Do not ever be satisfied to dwell in the shadows of men, but in the shadow of the Most High God. Throw down everything and run to Him. You do not want to find yourself in a position where you thought you were saved, and then find out you took Jesus for granted. This is not about works or earning. This is about your eternal life and your life even now. Like Blind Bartemaeus when he was told by someone, "Arise, be of good cheer, Behold, the Master calleth for thee!"   Well, then arise, and go now to Him and do it now. We are those living in the final closing seconds of the church age and Jesus Christ IS coming again. When He does you want to be ready for Him. If He shall tarry a little while, then regarding the horrible times coming upon all humanity, you are going to want to be His. His door is open right now and He is waiting for you. He will immediately receive you, and reveal Himself to you. It is time to KNOW Him, and not just about Him, because it will do you no good when "a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand" and find out you never knew Him. Time is of the essence....Go! 

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As this year closes out the view ahead will demand that we individually take a stand. It is a personal stand, one that is verbalized the same way many people in the Bible proclaimed. "As for me..." Over the past 20 or more years the church has become weak and anemic. New generations emerged out of the YouTube theological "every wind of doctrine" era. Dark days are ahead of us, and the time to KNOW Jesus Christ is NOW. And not through a third party, but for themselves. Every kind of intellectual ascent has slowly replaced knowing Jesus and our Father in Heaven personally through the Holy Spirit.  However, soon that mental furniture is going to prove to be a "broken tooth or a foot out of joint." It is in the KNOWING Jesus Christ one on one. KNOWING His voice and claiming the Cross. To the intent that no matter what, in the hardest situations and circumstances, you will be able to say, "As for me...." You may find yourself alone in that resolution, but you will never be alone. Jesus Christ "stands on the right hand of the poor to save them." It is time to KNOW Jesus. Use your time wisely, and make sure you are on HIS path, and not find out you have been on another path that leads to destruction. Remember, "the righteous are as bold as a lion." 

Over the last decade or more, the people of God have slowly, and little by little given up their personal time to internet theology, fast tracking their spiritual growth. They slowly began to replace what was an hour of prayer and reading, to 30 minutes of prayer and reading, in order to add on yet another theology teacher. Then the 30 minutes turned into 15 minutes. Because they begin to tell themselves that, "at least I got a sermon or a good word to carry me through."

Next they begin to give up a day here and there, until they barely ever pick up their Bible anymore. This has greatly impacted and molded this generation's Christian, and now they are unstable and baby-like. After so many years, they no longer hear the voice of God, because of all the other voices they are now listening to. They consequently, sadly replaced His precious voice.

Also there has been a mutation of the gospel into one that wants to build an earthly theocracy on earth, and they are actively defending that lie. They only listen to, and endorse their false prophets, and their twisted heresies, and fight for what is "of the earth earthy." While at the same time there are the TRUE believers that want nothing to do with this "present evil world" because they are in it, but not of it. Plus they know that this is the final end of the church age, and therefore they fight for what is eternal. They know that judgement is coming down hard on this nation, as well as the whole world. In fact, they see it already here and building up. These are the ones who are conditioned, and have lived surrendered lives to Jesus Christ.

Israel took for granted that God was with them, but found out the hard way that He was not. In Acts 7:38-39 it says, "This is he, that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in mount Sina, and with our fathers: who received the lively oracles to  give unto us: To who our fathers would not obey, but thrust him from them, and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt." In 1 Samuel chapter 4 we read that Israel went out to war with the Philistines and they were immediately defeated. They surmised that if they went and got the ark and brought it into the camp, it would save them. Notice they said, they thought "IT" would save them.

They were dead wrong. They were again severely defeated, and thousands perished because they took it for granted that God would defeat their enemies, their own apostacized way. This is what mainstream Christianity has become, and the religious system is nothing short of what the ark became to the Israelites. This nation and the entire world is under judgement now, and next year is going to test everything all of us have ever known, and in Whom we have had faith in. Every word of the Bible will flash into the minds of those who have been in it. Who have poured over it faithfully for as long as they have been born again. These faithful, powerful believers will be quick to listen, and swift to give high obedience in critical situations.

The MOST important thing you can do is to KNOW God. Stop listening to so many voices that do nothing but cause confusion and strife. Spend quality time alone with God. Knowing about God and KNOWING God are completely two different things. It will prove fatal in the lives of people who thought they knew Him when the heavy trials will hit, and the find out they never knew Jesus Christ personally. Yet for those that have KNOWN Him, will be valiant, full of the Holy Spirit, bold as lions and who KNOW how to wield their sword, which is the Word, Jesus Christ!

This is one of my favorite poems"

Take time for God,

as soon to say,

No time to eat,

to drink, to work, to play.

Take time for God,

or a poor mishappen thing you'll be,

When you step into eternity and say,

"I had no time for  thee."

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Lately I have found myself in very real place of heart searching. With the new year approaching, and this year soon to be behind, my mind wondered what the Lord will have me share and teach going forward. I have very real valid, legitimate concern about something. It is one big question that keeps getting stronger and stronger. That question has been sown in prayer to Christ with vigor lately. Not to mention on top of that, for the past 48 hours a powerful spirit of oppression began to afflict me which I could get no relief from.

With every one so hyper focused on the natural plane of this carnal existence regarding what seems to be, tidal waves of destruction coming at us from every side. As well as nerve wracking, synonymous catastrophes being expected, but not knowing which one will hit us first. The build up of negative information both in the natural and the physical. My big question is, "Who is hearing the word of God anymore? Who has ears to hear what the Spirit says to the saints in the earth anymore? Are people listening with one ear, while at the same time listening more to the voices of this world with the other? Is the voice of the Lord growing fainter and fainter each day in those who once heard Him?

I felt like my heart has been in some sort of awful labor, and a deep, great concern took hold of me, then I began pouring out my soul to the Lord. This morning, I knew in my spirit that the Holy Spirit had given me the simplest answer. Which was, "Never stop reading the Word, that is what you are to do, and that is what you are to tell them to do."  After I received the answer, that heavy spirit of oppression departed from me. It was "like the bright clouds, in the clear shinings after the rain."

Now I know why the Holy Spirit spoke these words to me last week over and over again in the middle of the night, "In His light shall we see light." I had wondered why He chose that verse above all other verses to repeat to me.  That is until today. I realized He had already given me the answer to my question before I pleaded with Him to show me. His orders were for me  solidly to continue in His word, and never to stop. To remain faithful in it as long as I live.

The reason I think the enemy oppressed me so badly was obvious, as the worst attack came this morning when I tried to read the word. And that he knew Jesus would have me tell you, and give you a solid charge. The devil does not want any of the saints of Jesus to keep in His word of light which dispels any and all kinds of darkness. His word is a potent quickening light force, something the enemy hates to his lowest hell.

Always consider it an honor and worthy discipline to daily read His word. It has great eternal revenues in Jesus beautiful perpetual kingdom of light. We are His children of light, and in His light we see light. Light is sown for the righteous and gladness for the upright in heart. The entrance of His word gives light, it gives understanding to the simple. Oh, that wonderful light that shines in the face of Jesus Christ who is the Word!  Keep yourself in His word because "the path of the just is like the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the Perfect Day (eternity)." This world is going straight into the judgement prescribed for it, but not for us, "the Children of Light."

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