Walk Boldly With Jesus

What Is A Life Verse?

Isaiah 50:4-5 “The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, That I might know how to answer the weary a word that will waken them. Morning after morning, he wakens my ear to hear as disciples do; The Lord God opened my ear; I did not refuse, did not turn away.”

While at Encounter Ministries class last night, I was talking with a fellow student. We were talking about how excited we get at the beginning of the year and how much we love a good planner. I don’t really know this classmate that well, as we only see each other for a few hours on Monday nights, and most of that time is spent listening to the teachers. I had no idea she loved planners and planning for the new year as much as I did. We were talking about our plans for the future a bit, and she asked if I had scriptures that spoke to the future I wanted. I told her I hadn’t looked up scriptures for the job I wanted, although I do have scriptures surrounding me that remind me to be bold and remind me that the Holy Spirit is living inside of us. They remind me that we can move mountains with mustard seed-sized faith, and whatever we ask in Jesus’ name will be given to us because Jesus went to be with His Dad.

My friend said she has a few life verses, and one of them is Isaiah 50:4-7. I really liked 4-5 because it talks about what I want to do when I grow it. It is a verse that speaks to the future that I want to have. I thought it would be great to share this with you for a couple of reasons. First, I thought if you could see how this verse relates to what I want to do, you could see how there are verses in the Bible that relate to what you want to do as well. Second, you might really like this verse and like what it says. Although I want to fulfill this verse on a bigger scale, I think we are all called to fulfill this verse in some way. Third, I am hoping this episode will get you excited about asking the Lord to give you a few “Life Verses.” To me “Life Verses” are those ones that we can turn to and rely on no matter what is going on in our lives. They remind us of things we need to remember in difficult times.

The first part of today’s verse says, “The Lord God has given me a well-trained tongue, That I might know how to answer the weary a word that will waken them.” This is something that might not necessarily be true at the moment, but something I can pray into. We have talked about declarations in the past. Declarations can be affirmation statements, they can be scripture verses, they can be anything that we want to declare over ourselves. The best way to phrase a declaration statement is as if it has already happened. You wouldn’t want to say, someday, I will be a writer. Your brain will hear that and say to itself, ok, we aren’t working on that yet. That is a future goal. However, if you say I am a writer, then your brain will hear that and get to work on figuring out how to make that happen.

The above verse is a well-phrased declaration I could begin to say daily. “The Lord has given me a well-trained tongue.” This is actually a good declaration for all of us to say. Wouldn’t it be great if you didn’t say all the things you want to say? Wouldn’t it be great if those you are surrounded by didn’t say everything that came into their minds? How many times has someone said something to you, and you wondered what they were thinking when they decided to say that? It is crazy to me the things I hear come out of my own kids’ mouths at times. I mean, it seems like people are just getting more and more rude and they don’t seem to care. Imagine if we all had well-trained tongues. I bet our tongues get us in more trouble than we even know. Proverbs 18:21 says that life and death are in the power of the tongue. If our tongues are that powerful, it makes sense to pray earnestly for a well-trained tongue.

The verse goes on to say, “That I might know how to answer the weary a word that will waken them.” How great would it be to be able to do this? How great would it be to be able to know exactly what to say to your spouse, your child, your co-worker or your friend when they are weary? I know I have often prayed that I wish I knew what to say to cheer them up or to bring them out of their depression. I will say, if you don’t know how to pray for someone, ask the Lord to give you the words to say, pause, and then say whatever comes to your mind. You might not understand what the words you are saying mean, but the person you are praying over will.

I just got a message from a  friend whom I pray over through text messages. Yesterday I didn’t really know what to pray for, so I told that to God. Yesterday part of my prayer was, “ We ask that you heal anything else that might be going on that we are unaware of. We know that you don’t need us to know, and you don’t need us to say all the right things. You just need us to come to you, and you will do the rest. This is us coming to you, Lord. This is us asking you to help us.” Today I got a reply back from my friend who said even though I sent this yesterday, she didn’t see it until today. Today she woke up with worry and anxiety, and this prayer gave her the peace that she really needed today. The peace that she knows can only come from God. God is so good! He will give you the words. All you have to do is ask.

The last part of this verse says, “Morning after morning, he wakens my ear to hear as disciples do; The Lord God opened my ear; I did not refuse, did not turn away.” This could be another declaration. Who wouldn’t want to wake up and hear like the disciples do? Yes, Lord, please open my ears. I want to hear like they heard. I want your voice to guide me every day in the right direction. Another declaration could be the ending part of this verse. I did not refuse, did not turn away. I wish I could say that I never refused the Lord. I wish I could say I never turned away. However, the truth is I do it all the time. Anytime I sin, I turn away from the Lord. Anytime I know the Holy Spirit is prompting me to do something and I don’t, I am refusing. My friend sure picked a great “Life Verse.” There are three declarations that have been found in these 2 different verses. That is pretty cool. I think I will write these verses down along with the declarations.

When you are reading the Bible, and you find that certain scriptures are jumping out at you, write them down and pay attention to them. The Lord might be trying to tell you something. Also, when you are reading scriptures, and you read some that describe a gift, quality, trait, virtue, or whatever it might be that you really want to have, then you can write down the scripture and make it into a declaration, which is just taking the verse and stating it in a way that says you already possess what was is stated in the verse. Sometimes you will come across a verse that just speaks directly to your soul. That might be a good life verse. Have you ever had a Bible verse that you heard and it just changed your whole life or your outlook on life? I remember the first Bible verse that really began to change my life was Romans 8:11 " If the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also, through his Spirit that dwells in you.” Learning that we had the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead living inside of us was life-changing for me. I started living more into the power that we all have living inside of us. What is a verse that really means something to you?

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those listening to this episode today. Lord, I ask you to give each person listening to this episode a verse that really speaks to their heart and soul. Lord, I ask you to help us come up with declarations about who we want to be, ones that will help us become the best version of ourselves. Help us pick a few life verses so that when we have decisions to make in our lives, we can refer to those verses, and they can keep us on the straight and narrow path toward you! We love you, Lord, and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’s holy name. Amen!

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus! Today I thought I would mention another benefit of joining my coaching program. This benefit is that we know we are not alone. It often feels like we are alone, especially in a world that is tolerant of everything except for Christianity. However, when you are in a group of other people who are also striving to grow closer to the Lord, then you know you are not alone, and you can be yourself more around them. For more information about my group coaching program that starts in January, check out my website, walkboldlywithjesus.com, or CLICK HERE. I look forward to bringing you a wonderful witness tomorrow morning. You won’t want to miss it. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed day.

The Word from God for today, “My beloved children, now, now is the time. Now is all you have. This is your time, this is your now. My spirit moving among you will help you to be my light to those who encounter you each and every day. Do not be afraid. Do not be afraid, but believe. Believe in my love. Believe in my words to you that I am with you always. Now is the only time that I give you. Now is the time I ask you to be my other self to those you meet. Smile at them with my smile. Pray with them with my heart. Give them the hope that I give you. Do not wait, my children, do it now."

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An Orphan Spirit, What Is That? 

John 14:18 "I will not leave you orphans; I will come to you.”

This is the verse immediately following the verses I covered in the last episode. I originally had it included in that episode but wanted to take it out so I would have some time to devote to just this verse. In our encounter ministry class last year, we talked a lot about healing. We had a whole eight weeks on physical healing and eight weeks on inner healing. One of the things that came up a lot during the inner healing quarter is the phrase “the orphan spirit.” This is not something that I had heard before. Or at least I don’t remember hearing it before this quarter.

The orphan spirit is one that can attach itself to people who feel they have been abandoned. Maybe one of their parents left them as a child or even as an adult. Maybe both of their parents left them. It could be that they have had multiple people in their lives leave them. This person/these people leaving from their life has left them with a sense of abandonment. It has left them feeling lonely and all alone. This can happen to adopted children as well. Even if they have a loving adopted mom and dad, they can feel abandoned by their birth families. 

Often times people do not know they have this spirit within them. Evil spirits can not be in us unless we give them permission, but sometimes we do this subconsciously or without realizing we are doing it. For instance, when we come into agreement with the lies the enemy tells us, then we empower the liar and give Him access to our lives. This is how the orphan spirit can slip in unnoticed. From what I have learned, the orphan spirit is a spirit that will feed you lies, such as, “You do not have a father or mother.” “You are all alone.” “You don’t fit in anywhere.” “You are not loved.” “You are not wanted.” “You are not liked.”

This spirit can affect your relationships because you have a hard time believing someone could love you. You feel as though you always have this hole that needs to be filled, but you are not sure how to fill it. You try all the different ways you know to fill a hole, but it remains empty. You are unhappy, maybe not all the time, but you can’t seem to sustain happiness long-term. You may even be filled with anxiety and worry, and yet you can’t put your finger on the cause of these feelings. The cause is this spirit inside of you trying to ruin your happiness and whisper all those lies I mentioned earlier into your ear.

The only way to get rid of an orphan spirit is to rebuke it. You can say, even if you aren’t sure if you have one, “In the name of Jesus, I rebuke the orphan spirit. I do not give it permission to live in me, and I demand it leave right now. I bind it and send it to the foot of the cross.” All of God’s creations are bound by free will. If you tell a spirit, good or bad, to leave, they must leave. They cannot stay without permission, and yet we can inadvertently give them permission to stay without even realizing it. As I mentioned before, when we entertain negative thoughts and lies, then we are inviting the enemy into our minds, and if we don’t realize the enemy is there, then we don’t think to revoke the right to be there.

The truth is we all have a Father, and he has never and will never abandon us. Our heavenly Father has been there with us since before we were even created, and He will be with us for all eternity. He is someone we can rely on in a way that is different from any human relationship we have ever had. His love is perfect. It is unwavering and unconditional. It is hard to find that kind of love here on earth. Most of us love out of our brokenness. We love like we were loved, and that was most likely not perfect love. God is the only one that can fill that hole you are trying to fill. Turn to Him when you feel unloved. Turn to Him when you feel lost or alone. He will fill you with comfort. He will fill you with love.

There have been several testimonies about people who have received so much freedom after they have gone through some inner healing sessions. Whether it was an unbound session or an Encounter Ministries inner healing session, many people have had major breakthroughs in these sessions. Some people have reported that once they said the words to release the orphan spirit, they felt instant relief. They reported that they never knew they had this, and yet once they said it, so many things in their life made more sense. Once they released this spirit and then were filled up with the truth of all their heavenly Father had done for them over the years, they were filled with love from the Heavenly Father. They no longer felt alone or abandoned. They were finally set free.

The enemy tries to hide in the shadows. He doesn’t want us to know he is talking to us, he doesn’t want us to know that he is whispering lies to us. This is why his lies always seem to have some small truth in them. He will take this small truth and twist it to suit his needs. Sometimes we may have a spirit inside of us, and yet the feelings or thoughts it is feeding us are so subtle we may not even be aware of them. They usually affect us and our relationships, but we just don’t know why. For instance, if we have an orphan spirit that is constantly telling us subconsciously that no one stays and everyone always leaves us, then we may hold back our love and affection. We may put up a wall that we didn’t even know we put up to protect ourselves from getting too close because we think that person is going to leave at some point.

I hope all that I have said makes sense. I am not telling you this to scare you or make you worried that you have an unknown spirit living inside of you. I am telling you this because it is something the enemy doesn’t want you to know. I am telling you this because freedom can be just one sentence away. All you have to do when you notice a spirit is to tell it to leave in the name of Jesus. I am also telling you this because you might have some chronic issues. You might have some negative patterns that you have tried to fix, and yet no matter how hard you try, you can’t seem to fix them. You might have the same negative results every time you get into a relationship with someone. If this is the case, it might be a spirit causing this. If you are struggling with the same issue over and over again, I recommend going to an inner healing session. The freedom you can receive is amazing! There is nothing like it. If you want to do a Zoom inner healing session with Encounter Ministries, I believe you can just go to their website to find that. If you want to do an unbound session, I believe you can find that on the unbound website as well. Don’t keep living in the darkness when you could be living freely in the light!

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless each and every person who is listening to this episode today. Lord, if anyone listening is suffering from an orphan spirit, I ask you to put it on their hearts to reject that spirit right now. If anyone has any other spirits, like the spirit of anxiety, anger, worry, depression, unforgiveness, and any other, I pray that you will put it on their heart for them to reject these spirits in the name of Jesus and send them to the food of the cross. Lord, you are so good. You respect our free will so much that all your creations are bound by it. Thank you, Lord! You are amazing. We love you, and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’s holy name. Amen!!

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I want to take a minute to talk about my coaching program starting in January. It will consist of a once-a-week coaching call where I will teach a certain topic for 30 minutes, and then you will have 30 minutes of small group time to talk about how you can apply what you learned to your upcoming week. Also, you can get to know your group members and start to build a community to help you grow closer to the Lord. Growth happens so much faster when you are surrounded by a community. I will record the teachings so you can rewatch them or watch them at a different time if you can’t make the Tues night sessions. There will also be a members-only Facebook group to help us grow as a community. It will be a great place to post questions, prayer requests, and any struggles or successes we have along the journey. I hope you will consider joining me. It is only $30 a month, a dollar a day, and yet will help you grow closer to the Lord. Details can be found on my website, walkboldlywithjesus.com. I look forward to meeting you here again tomorrow. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I. Have a blessed day!!

The word from the Lord for today is, "My children, I love you to be with me. I do not need your efforts, I do not need your talents, for I alone will make you fruitful. Just relax, be empty, and be with me."

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The Advocate!

John 14:16-17 “And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you always,  the Spirit of truth, which the world cannot accept because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it because it remains with you and will be in you.”

Jesus is talking in this verse. He is telling us that when He goes to be with the Father, He will ask His Father, and God will send us another Advocate to be with us always. Jesus’ plan wasn’t to come and walk among us, teach us all about the new covenant, and then leave us alone to figure out what to do with all that we were taught. Jesus came to set us free from our sins. He came to sacrifice Himself so that we may live. However, when He left, He did not leave us alone.

I love how He refers to the Holy Spirit as our Advocate. Here is the definition I got for an advocate, “one who pleads another's cause, who helps another by defending or comforting him.” Our advocate pleads our cause to the Heavenly Father. Romans 8:26 says, “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.” The Holy Spirit intercedes for us because we don’t even know what to ask for sometimes. I was talking to a woman in my Encounter Ministries class on Monday, and she was saying that she doesn’t even know what to pray for right now with her family situation. My friend is not the only one who doesn’t know what to pray for. I am sure there have been times in each of our lives when we have encountered a situation where we didn’t even know what we wanted or we didn’t see a way out, so we didn’t know exactly what to ask the Lord.

When this happens, it is okay to ask the Holy Spirit to intercede on your behalf. The Holy Spirit knows what is deep down inside your heart, and He takes our deepest desires, even if we don’t know what they are, and He presents them to the Lord in the perfect way. This is why I love the gift of tongues. When you are speaking in tongues, you do not know what you are saying, but the Holy Spirit is speaking directly from your heart to the Lord’s heart/ears. It is a direct communication that no one can intercept. It is between the Holy Spirit and the Lord. Even the enemy doesn’t know what is said when we are speaking in tongues. If you do not have the gift of tongues, it is not too late to begin praying for that gift. If you want me to pray for you for the release of that gift, reach out, and I will definitely do that. If you would like me to pray over you for the release of that gift, reach out, and we will set up a time when I can either do it over the phone, via Zoom, or in person if you are somewhat local.

Jesus calls the Advocate the Spirit of truth. This reminds us that the Holy Spirit speaks the truth. In John 14:26b, Jesus says, "—he will teach you everything and remind you of all that [I] told you. The Holy Spirit not only speaks the truth, but He can teach us everything and remind us of all that Jesus told us. It is important that we realize that the Holy Spirit we have living inside of us isn’t just something that sounds nice and yet doesn't really mean anything. The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity. The Holy Spirit, the one living inside of you, is powerful, and it is capable of helping you do incredible things. This is why it is important to work with the Holy Spirit. It is important to consult the Holy Spirit and to invite the Holy Spirit into whatever you are doing. Did you ever wish you knew what God wanted you to do in a particular circumstance?

Have you ever asked someone to pray for discernment for you because you really didn’t know what to do? I have too! When we are in this situation, we can ask the Holy Spirit to help us. One of the gifts of the Holy Spirit is discernment. The Holy Spirit knows what we should do and can tell us if we make the time to ask and then listen for an answer. Sometimes there is not just one thing we can do. It is important to pray and ask the Lord what the best option is. However, sometimes the Lord doesn’t tell us because He is ok with either option. Sometimes there are multiple paths that would all lead to the same place. It is not necessarily which path we choose, it is more what we do on that path or with that path that matters.

When I actually sit and think about how incredible it is that we have the Holy Spirit living inside of us, it just boggles my mind. I am just in awe. I mean, we have the same Holy Spirit inside of us that Jesus had inside of Him. Can you even imagine that? I also struggle to understand how everyone is not blown away by this information. It says right in the verse above that the world cannot accept the advocate because it neither sees nor knows it. But you know it because it remains with you and will be in you. I guess if you don’t really believe in Jesus, then it would be hard to believe in the Holy Spirit, especially since Jesus walked the Earth. There is definitely proof that Jesus lived. There are so many people who don’t believe in Jesus or even God. I can see how they would now know the Advocate. The verse says that we know it because it remains with us and will be in us.

So, what about those of us who do know Jesus? We do know God. Do we know the Holy Spirit? Do we know the power and love that we have inside of us? Are we calling on that power? Are we talking with and praying to the Holy Spirit? Are we asking the Holy Spirit to pray for us and intercede on our behalf? The Holy Spirit was a gift from the Lord to help us stay on the straight and narrow path. The Holy Spirit was a gift to help us remember all that Jesus taught us. It was a gift to help us do the right thing. Why are we not using that gift? Why are we not calling on the power of that gift? There are so many gifts of the Holy Spirit, and Truth is only one of them.

I wonder how amazing our lives would be if we called on the Holy Spirit more often. I wonder what it would be like if we prayed to receive all the gifts of the Spirit and then we stepped out in Faith and used those gifts. There are so many gifts, and so many of us are just letting them go to waste or just lie dormant. Imagine how different this world would be if we all started leaning into the gifts of the Holy Spirit more. If we had more people spreading peace, love & joy. If we had more people being willing to be an instrument of God in healing the sick and spreading the Word of God. What if we all took a minute today and asked the Lord what gifts He wanted to reveal to us, and then we took those gifts and practiced them? This is a big part of my Encounter Ministries class. We learn about the gifts, but then we practice them in class, and we have homework to practice them outside of class as well. You can do the same. The Holy Spirit will help you. I am happy to help, too, if you want to reach out to me. Your life will never be the same when you start to discover the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those listening to this episode today. Lord, we want to call on the Holy Spirit more. Please show us how! Please help us to have the courage to ask for the gifts of the Holy Spirit. Help us grow in these gifts. Help us to understand why you sent us the Holy Spirit. Help us to pray with and learn from the Holy Spirit. We love you, Lord and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’ holy name, Amen!

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I am so excited about the group coaching program starting up in January. It is a great opportunity to grow closer to the Lord, learn more about the gifts of the Holy Spirit, and how to walk more boldly with Jesus. It will be a time to get to know others on this same journey. It will be a great opportunity for growth. And the best part is, it is only $30 a month. That is $1 a day. We definitely spend more than that on things that are not nearly as important as our faith journey. I hope you will join me in this new program so we can get to know each other and grow closer to the Lord together. I look forward to meeting you here again on Monday. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed weekend!

The word from my prayer group for this weekend is one of my favorite ones. It is, “If you move more in trust each day, all can be. Trust in the secret. Trust in me, trust in my love, trust that I will give you the grace to meet whatever there is in life. As you move forward in trust, you will see things that you never thought were possible. All can be as you trust me more and more.”

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Where Does My Help Come From?

Psalm 121:1-2 “I lift up my eyes to the mountains— where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.”

I heard this verse while I was listening to the Big Life Devotional by Pamela Crim yesterday, and I instantly thought of this song. The song is called Shoulders by for King and Country. I will place a link for the song in the show notes if you want to give it a listen. It is a really good song, so I do recommend checking it out. For King and Country is a great group of artists. They moved to this country from Australia in 1991 when their dad accepted a job here. I love this song because it reminds us where our help comes from. It also reminds us of various ways that God helps us. It also says the words from this verse. They both start the same way. 

I look up to the mountains

Does my strength come from the mountains? 

No, my strength comes from God

Who made heaven and earth, and the mountains

When we are struggling and suffering, we look around for strength anywhere we can find it. We look to TV for distractions, we look to food for comfort, and we sometimes turn to alcohol or drugs to numb the pain. We look everywhere for something that will take away the pain or help us get through it in some way. As long as we keep searching everywhere but where God is, then we will never find what we are looking for. God is our strength. He is the one that can get us through the hard times. We just need to turn to Him and ask Him. We just need to seek Him out instead of all the other things that we turn to when we are struggling. 

When confusion's my companion

And despair holds me for ransom

I will feel no fear

I know that You are near

Think about what it is we do when we are confused and the feelings of despair set in. Do we turn to the Lord, or do we turn away? Do we have hope that the Lord will bring us out of this despair? I love the line that says, and despair holds me for ransom. That is such an accurate visual of despair. You feel like you can’t do anything but sit in it. This verse ends with I will feel no fear. I know that You are near. My prayer is we can all say this. My prayer for each of us is that we can look to the Lord when we feel confused and full of despair. We can look to the Lord and not be afraid because we know that our strength comes from Him. The one who made the heavens and the earth. If He can create all of that out of nothing, think about what He can do in your current situation!

When I'm caught deep in the valley

With chaos for my company

I'll find my comfort here

'Cause I know that You are near

How many of us are in a deep valley right now? How many of us feel like we have been in this valley for a long time, and we see no end in sight? I love that it says with chaos for my company. Have you ever had chaos in your company? I am one of 11 children. Chaos and I are old friends. However, how often have we had comfort and chaos at the same time? This verse says I’ll find comfort here because I know You are near. When we find ourselves in a valley and we are surrounded by chaos, it helps to remember that the Lord is always near. We are never alone, even when it feels like we are.

My help comes from You

You're right here, pulling me through

You carry my weakness, my sickness, my brokenness

All on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

Our help comes from the Lord. It can be easy to forget this because sometimes He uses human means to help us. For instance, we may think our help comes from the person giving us the things we need. For instance, help came from my neighbor when I was younger and my dad needed a car. Yes, the neighbor did help us out, and yet even he acknowledges the Lord led Him to do so. He had no way of knowing my dad needed a car, except that my dad prayed for a car, and God worked it out for him.  I like the image of this verse. You’re right here, pulling me through. Have you ever felt like God was pulling you through? Like you for sure wouldn’t have made it if He wasn’t pulling you through. You didn’t have the energy or will to walk or even get out of bed, and yet you felt something pulling you out of bed and pushing you to keep going.

The next line is great, too, because it reminds us that we are not carrying our load along. It says you carry my weakness, my sickness, my brokenness all on your shoulders. God has some pretty broad shoulders. He can handle our weakness, sickness, and brokenness. We don’t have to carry it on our own. That is just something the enemy tries to get us to believe.  We can give these things to the Lord, and He will carry them for us. All we need to do is ask.

My help comes from You

You are my rest, my rescue

I don't have to see to believe that

You're lifting me up on Your shoulders

Your shoulders

The Lord is our rest. We can just sit and rest in him. Whenever we want, whether we are weary and we need to rest, or whether we just want to rest in His love, mercy, and forgiveness. We can always rest in Him. He is also our rescue. He will rescue us from our circumstances, or He will give us the strength to get through them. I don’t have to see to believe that you’re lifting me up on Your shoulders. This is an important thing to remember. We don’t have to see it to believe it. We often worry because we can’t see the outcome ahead of time. We can’t see a way for the Lord to work things out. We don’t have to see it. We just have to trust that He can and will work things out. He is a Way-maker. He can make a way where there is no way.

You mend what once was shattered

And You turn my tears to laughter

Your forgiveness is my fortress

Oh. Your mercy is relentless

This verse talks to us about some of the things God does for us. He mends what was shattered. Can you think back to a time when you thought all was lost and things felt so broken you thought they would never go back together again? I know I can. A few years ago, my family and my marriage felt so broken I couldn’t see how it could be fixed. However, I never gave up on the Lord, and He came in and fixed what was once shattered. Our family is whole again, not perfect, but whole. God can definitely turn tears into laughter. I have seen Him do this many times. Especially when I go to visit my college roommate Kath. We spend the whole time laughing and crying.

The next line I am actually surprised it is in here, as the verse I was going to use today talked about God’s mercy and forgiveness and I didn’t use it as I had already used that verse in an earlier episode. This song verse says that God’s forgiveness is my fortress. Take a moment to think about that. What is the point of a fortress? It is to protect you and to give you a safe place to be. When I looked up the definition, it also said it was a place of defense and protection against attacks. Isn’t it interesting that the song says your forgiveness is my fortress? Did you know that God’s forgiveness can be your fortress? It can provide you protection against attacks from the enemy. The enemy wants you to believe that you are a sum of each and every one of your mistakes. However, if we rely on God’s forgiveness, we know this is not true. We know that He forgives everything when we turn back to Him and repent. Also, I want to restate what the song says, that God’s mercy is relentless. He will chase you down just to give you that mercy!! 

That is such a great song. I pray you all take the time to go and listen to the song. This song does a great job of reminding us of where our strength comes from and why we need it. Our strength comes from God! 

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those listening to this episode today. Lord, we know our strength comes from you. Please remind us when we forget. Lord, we thank you for all you do for us. We ask you to help us remember all the ways you are there for us. We ask you to pull us through all the hard times. We ask you to pull us out of the valley of despair. We ask you to be with us every step of the way! We love you, Lord and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’ holy name, Amen! 

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I want to remind everyone that I am starting a group coaching program in January. If you have ever desired to know the Lord more intimately, to go deeper into your relationship with the Lord, or to walk more boldly in your faith, this is the right program for you! I will help you get to know the Lord better, come up with daily routines that help you grow closer to the Lord, and teach you how to step out more boldly in your faith. We will learn all of that while having fun and getting to know each other. I pray you will join me on that adventure too! I look forward to meeting you here again tomorrow. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed day! 

Today’s word of prophecy from my prayer group is, “There is no demon who can touch you. There is no one who can steal my children from Me. You are ALL My children. I have given you a package of seeds. Those seeds will be scattered by each of My children. Some in small ways, some in big ways but not one seed sown is insignificant. It is all part of My forever plan. I am a part of you. Rest in My love and My peace. You are a chosen people. Chosen for me from the beginning of time. I cannot for the times. I cannot. You are whole in Me.”

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Today’s witness is a recount of one that I heard yesterday on YouTube. I will put a link to this testimony video in the show notes. The testimony is about Lauren Daigle. Lauren talked about how when she was a teenager the Lord showed her what her future would look like. He showed her stages, He showed her exactly what her Lauren Daigle World Tour would look like. She didn’t know what he was showing her, but she could see crowds of people and tour buses and charts and awards and all the things, and she wasn’t even singing yet. She was a closet singer. No one knew she could sing. Her mom talked to the choir singer at their church and asked if he could put her in the choir, maybe in the back row. Anyway, she auditioned, and he gave her a song and asked her to lead the song in those two weeks. She said every decision she made in her career was based on these visions and dreams. Finally, she made it to the Lauren Daigle World Tour. It was exactly like what she had seen in her visions. She said at the beginning of the tour, God told her to “hold it loosely.” She had no idea what that meant, but she said, “OK.” She had 12 shows on her tour, and then COVID happened, and everything shut down. She was so heartbroken. She said it took her 6 months to get out of bed because she was so filled with disappointment. She was heartbroken because at 16, He showed her these visions and these dreams, and then it took her 12 years to be there to fulfill them. Then on the 12th show, it all fell apart, and the weight of disappointment was so heavy. 

The Lord is the restorer of broken dreams. She said she used to never talk about God at shows because she wanted it to be more inclusive. But she then thought, how can I talk about Love when I am not talking about Love itself? She talked to God during COVID and asked where everything went. He told her that she needed to go back to the beginning. Why did she start singing? She sings to worship, to love me, to show me you care. God said worship is the thing that proceeds a miracle. If you are desperate for a miracle and you begin to worship and worship and worship, your eyes will be so focused on the thing you are worshiping that you won’t have time to give fear, anxiety, and stress to the things of this world. He told her that she had forgotten the heart of worship. She is grateful for the time to herself during COVID because she was missing the heart of worship. She was just going through the motions, and now she is back to worshiping and not just singing. He took away her disappointment. He made her experience at her concerts so much better! 

As much as she can look back and be grateful for the shutdown now when she was in it, she was struggling. She was going at light speed before the show, and then all of a sudden, she was stopped. The whole world was stopped. She said it felt like she had whiplash because it all stopped so quickly. She struggled with a lot of anxiety, panic attacks, and depression. She was seeing a neurologist and going to therapy, just trying to figure out what was going on. She asked God to return to her the joy of my salvation. She didn’t just want to maintain, she wanted to have zeal and passion for life. When you allow God to come into the broken places, it is like this beautiful lens gets added to your eyes, and you are able to see through His eyes. It’s like you are looking through His “Glory filter.” You can even go through trials and tribulations with joy. She was finally understanding what Paul was saying when he could find contentment in all things. She started asking God for that wholeness. 

She wants to help people with loneliness. Someone asked her what she would like to leave behind as her legacy. She said she wants to be known as someone who helps to eradicate loneliness. Loneliness is such a terrible feeling. Lauren says it is the worst feeling. She said there are many people that don’t have friends and that is not ok. We all need to do something about this. She said there is an Old Testament command to love your neighbor, and we all need to be doing this better. She suggests different ways to do this. When you are in the checkout line at the store, look the cashier in the eyes and ask how they are, how their day is going, and what is going on. When you pass someone on the sidewalk, you can say hello. I hope you are having a good day. We need to stop being so busy and make time to love our neighbors. Let’s all talk to and interact with people more often!

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Why Share Words Of Prophecy?

1 Corinthians 14:3 “He who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.”

I have been talking more lately about hearing the Lord’s voice and how if we keep giving the Lord a chance to talk to us, then He will. Last night was a really exciting class at Encounter School of Ministry Boston Campus. Both year one and year two students were practicing receiving and sharing words of prophecy. It is always a lot of fun and also a bit intimidating because we always think when it is our turn to get a word, we won’t hear anything. As year two students, we have been learning to listen to the Lord’s voice for a year and a half now, and yet we still get nervous when it is time for us to get a word and share it.

I say this to encourage you. If you have started making time to listen to the Lord and yet you feel you are not hearing anything, I want you to know you are in good company. If you have not started making time to listen to the Lord because you know you won’t hear anything, you are also in good company. Many of us think we won’t hear anything. I mean, who are we anyway? Why would the Lord our God want to talk to us when He has more important things to do and more important people to talk to? I get why you would feel this way. We all kinda feel this way at first. As I said, my classmates and I have been doing this for a year and a half at least, some of us for a lot longer than that, and we can still feel that way at times.

However, God wants to talk to you. Yes, you! He is actually already talking to you. You just can’t hear Him because the noises of the world are so loud, and you probably aren’t spending the time to sit and listen. To answer the question, “Who am I that the Lord our God would want to talk to me?” You are a son or daughter of the one true king. You are His beloved child whom He made in His image and likeness. Yes, God is busy, and yet He is never too busy to sit and talk with you. God is not human. He does not have the same constraints we have. We each have his full attention at all times. He can be fully with us and whatever we are going through at the same time as He can be with everyone else. 

When we ask the Lord for something, we are not taking anything away from anyone else. I think this is a really hard concept to understand. We tend to shy away from asking God for things because we know He is busy, and we don’t want to bother Him with our problems. This is limiting God, it is putting Him in a box. God is bigger than this idea that He can only help so many people, so we better not burden Him with our problems. God wants us to come to Him with everything. Not just the really big stuff we can’t handle on our own but the little things too. The bad stuff and the good stuff. He wants us to bring it all to Him and invite Him into it. Ask Him to help us with the things we need help with, ask Him for advice on the things we can do ourselves, and share with Him the good things that are happening. Yes, of course, He already knows, but it is not the same as when you tell Him about it. 

God is our heavenly Father. Although He is not limited by our human constraints, such as time and our ability to be in only one place at one time, He does have feelings like we do. After all, we were made in His likeness and image, and Jesus was fully human. The difference between our emotions and the Lord’s emotions is that His emotions were not affected by the fall. God’s emotions are perfect. His love for us is a perfect love. He truly loves us unconditionally, which is a hard concept for us to understand as our love usually comes with conditions.

The verse above talks about words or prophecy. I have talked a bit lately about how God is talking to each one of us, and if we listen, we will hear what He is saying. I have also talked about how important it is to not only listen to when God is talking to us but also to get familiar with what He is saying to us in the scriptures. I mentioned how important it is to be familiar with God and how He talks with us because then, when the enemy tries to whisper his stupid lies in our ears, we will know it is not the Lord. I gave the story of the bank teller and how if they want to spot a fake bill, they have to be intimately familiar with what the real thing looks like. The same is true with God. If we want to be able to spot a fake, we have to be intimately familiar with the One true God and the way that He talks to us. This is why I have started to end each episode with a word of prophecy from our prayer group. If you are hearing a word from the Lord each day, then you will start to get intimately familiar with how He talks to us. Then when you hear the enemy's lies, you will know it is not from the Lord because He never talks to us like that.

The verse above explains why God shares words of prophecy with us. The verse says, “He who prophesies speaks to men for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.” This verse tells us why someone would share words of prophecy. If someone is sharing a word they received from the Lord, it is meant to be upbuilding, encouraging, and consoling. The reason I thought this was an important verse for you to hear today is because it can help you discern if what you are hearing is from the Lord. This verse gives you a measure to hold the word up against. When you receive a word, either from the Lord or from someone else, you can ask yourself these questions. Does it build me up? Does this word encourage me? Does this word provide me with consolation? If the answer is no to all three of these questions, then the word is probably not from the Lord. If you receive a word from someone and it leaves you feeling uneasy, anxious, or ashamed, that is not from the Lord. Shame is not from the Lord.

This is not to say that the Lord won’t ever convict us or let us know when we are doing something wrong. He definitely will, especially if we are asking Him to help purify us. He is a loving parent, and He will correct His children. However, the Lord always does it in a loving way. He never comes at us with condemnation. He convicts us of our wrongdoings in a gentle and loving way. We are not left with any shame, we are just left with a deep desire to change.

I pray this episode has helped you understand a bit more about hearing the Lord’s voice and what the purpose is for words of prophecy. I hope the verse will help you to be able to discern if you should share a word that you have received and also if a word someone else has shared with you could be from the Lord or not. The gifts of the Holy Spirit, such as receiving words of prophecy, are open to all of us. The more you try and use that gift, the more you will receive that gift. Set aside 5 minutes today and see what the Lord has to say to you. I promise you will not be sorry you did!

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those who listen to this episode today. Lord, we want to hear you talking to us. Please help us set aside the time to sit and listen. Lord, we want to share your words with others. Please give us the courage and boldness to do so. We want to know you, Lord. We want to know you so well that we recognize when the enemy is telling us lies. Please help us. Give us a desire to read your word and spend more time with you. Help us to give up less important things so we can put you first in our lives. We love you, Lord, and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’s holy name. Amen!

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. If you are still looking for Christmas presents for your loved ones, Click Here to check out my book. I will even autograph it and write them a special message before sending it out. I look forward to bringing you another witness tomorrow. I would like to urge all of you to consider giving a witness. It doesn’t really take a lot of time and yet could change someone’s life. Email me at [email protected] if you would be willing to share your story. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed day!

Today’s word of prophecy from my prayer group is, “My children, I am giving you new eyes, but just like your human eyes need time to adjust to the light or the darkness, your new spiritual eyes that I bestow upon you need to adjust to the light of My Glory. You will grow in this ability to see the glory around you. To see glory, even in pain. Be patient but keep looking.”

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Our Father's Love (Part 13) Why Praise Is So Important

Psalm 103:22 “I will bless and praise the Lord with my whole heart! Let all his works throughout the earth, wherever his dominion stretches—let everything bless the Lord!”

This is the last episode in this series. I have really enjoyed taking a look at this psalm and breaking it down to examine it. I have not actually spent a lot of time in the Psalms, and it was beautiful to take the time to go through Psalm 103. Today’s topic is one of my favorites. I think my top 3 topics to talk about would be praise, forgiveness, and God’s love, not necessarily in that order. These are my favorites because I think they are some of the most important. God has really been showing me over the last few years how important praise is to Him. He often gives us a word of prophecy at our prayer group that talks about how much He loves that we come together to praise Him each week.

He has also been telling me over the last few years that praise is a big part of the reason I have been able to grow in my faith so much and that I am able to trust so much. When I ask what I am doing differently, He tells me that I am praising more. I am praising God, not just when I feel like it and not just when all things are going my way. I am praising God every single day, whether it is a good day or a bad day. I actually praise Him more on a bad day sometimes because when I listen to praise music, it can help me change my mood.

If you have not discovered any really good praise music, I recommend you go to Spotify and search through Christian music. My mentor, Pamela Crim, put together an awesome playlist called The Big Life Mornings playlist. It is a public playlist on Spotify, and if you type Big Life Mornings playlist into the search function, it will come up. It has a yellow background with someone walking in red shoes. Some of my favorite artists, in case you are not into playlists, are for King and Country, Lauren Daigle, Elevation Worship, Phil Wickham, TobyMac, Cory Asbury, and so many more of the artists that are on that playlist. There are several reasons that I recommend you find some great Christian music that you like.

First, listening to Christian music has helped me learn even more how much God loves me. I have included some of my favorite songs in various episodes over the years. However, if you have not heard the song Reckless Love by Cory Asbury, you are really missing out. If you do not do Spotify, you can check out YouTube as well. There is actually a playlist on my channel, WalkBodlyWithJesus, on YouTube that is called Prayer Group, and that is a great list of praise songs. It would be a great place to start. Whether you are on Spotify or YouTube, you can save songs to a playlist, and then you can listen to that playlist whenever you need to.

Another reason I recommend you find some good Christian music is because it can change your mood or your focus. Anytime we are anxious, angry, scared, mad, frustrated, or any other feeling, it is because of the story we are telling ourselves. If we are anxious, we are probably focusing on what may or may not happen. If we are angry or frustrated, we might be looking at a situation we can’t change. Listening to this music can help shift our focus from our problems, our worries, and our situation to our God. There is a saying that says that instead of looking at how big our problems are, we can focus on how big our God is.  Music can help us do this. If you are listening to songs about how God is a miracle worker and a way-maker, it shifts your focus and helps you praise God in tough times.

A third reason I recommend listening to praise music is because it fills your head with God. God will be on your mind more because the things you listen to are the thoughts that will be in your head. Have you ever noticed that when you hang around someone a lot, you start to talk like them? This is because you spend so much time with them, and you are constantly hearing how they talk, so your brain picks it up. This can be a good thing or a bad thing, depending on what they are saying. When I first learned this, I was a bit discouraged because the people in my house, with whom I spent the most time, were very negative and used very bad language. I did not want to start talking like they did. I needed to figure out a way to surround myself with different voices. This is when I started to listen to Christian podcasts and was able to find more Christian music. Imagine if you are listening to songs each day that talk about how much God loves us, how much He forgives us, and that talk about who God is. If you are hearing this over and over again, these will be the thoughts that fill your mind, and these will be the thoughts that come to your mind in times of trouble.

I feel I could go on and on about why I love listening to praise music. However, I will end with this last point. Praising God helps us become more grateful people. I know sometimes it doesn’t feel like we have much reason to praise God. It is not as if my life has been perfect over these last few years, and so that is why I have been able to praise God. I have had some really difficult times over these past few years, actually over the past 20 years. There have been lots of ups and downs in my marriage and in my parenting. My kids have really struggled over the years, and there have been several times in the last six years that I could have gotten really depressed and lost hope. However, I didn’t, and I truly believe it was because I have learned to praise God even in the hard times. I was able to do this because there are so many songs out there about people who have made it through really dark times, and God brought them through to the other side. I was able to do this because the thoughts in my mind from constantly listening to praise music are that God is there for me, He will always be there for me, and He can make a way where there is no way.

God is so good. He is there for us in good times and in bad times. There is always a reason to praise Him. When we are in a tough time, and we can’t find a reason, we can look back to all the times He has provided for us in the past. We can look forward to all the good things He will bring from this hard time. We can look at all the beauty around us and praise Him for that. You don’t have to praise God for your situation, you can praise Him for other things. If you want to, you can praise Him for the good that will come from your situation at a later date because we know God can use all things for our good. (Romans 8:28) I challenge all of you to begin to praise God more, and then let me know if you find that your trust in Him is also growing. I know it did for me, and I know I am not the only one. It can help you trust more too. If you are in a season where praising God seems too difficult because of your circumstances, then find some good Christian music to listen to and let them praise God for you while you listen. It will change your life, I am sure of it.

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless each person listening to this today. Lord, I ask that each person listen and find some music that praises you that they really like. There are so many different genres of Christian music out there, and I pray each person who listens finds the ones that make their heart happy. Lord, I pray they find songs that fill their soul. I pray this music helps us to praise you when we don’t feel we can. I pray this music helps us to shift our focus from our problems to you and how big you are. Lord, help us to find that music that speaks to our hearts, minds, and souls. We want to praise you, Lord. Please show us how. We love you, and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’ holy name, Amen!

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I look forward to meeting you here again tomorrow. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed day!

Today’s word of prophecy from our prayer group is: “My love conquered death for all of you. I laid my life down out of this tremendous love that I have for each and every one of you. You are so precious to me. You have no idea how precious you are. You cannot fathom to what depths I would go for each and every one of you. Please remember that I love you through all things. I am with you. You have a line that stretches to my heart and cannot be broken. It is a fishing line, and it cannot be broken. I am on one end, and you are on the other. I love you all. I love you all. My passion was very difficult. I suffered greatly. But I did it for each and every one of you, and I will not see you snatched from me. I love you.”

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Our Father’s Love (Part 13) The Heavenly Angels

Psalm 103:20-21 So bless the Lord, all his messengers of power, for you are his mighty heroes who listen intently to the voice of his word to do it. Bless and praise the Lord, you mighty warriors ministers who serve him well and fulfill his desires.

These verses are talking about those who help the Lord. It is talking about the angels who listen intently to the Word of the Lord and then carry out their assignments. The Lord does not need anyone or anything. He created the entire universe out of nothing. He does not need us to help Him, He does not need the angels to help Him, and He doesn’t need the saints to help Him. Yet He allows us to help Him. He includes us in His great plan.

I have talked of the angels before. However, I don’t talk about them often. This is mostly because I do not know a lot about the angels. I have learned about them over the years. There was a two-part class that I went to about angels at Theology on Tap. I find angels interesting. Each person has their very own guardian angel. This is an angel that is assigned to look out for you. This angel is bound to our free will. So it can not do something that we do not want it to do. All creatures, demons, and angels alike have to obey our free will.

This is great news with demons and spirits because that means if we tell them to leave, they have to leave. If you are feeling depressed, angry, anxious, or any other feelings you don’t like, it could be a spirit causing that feeling. If so, you can say, “In the name of Jesus, I command the spirit of…(insert the feeling) to leave right now.” The spirit must leave. It can’t stay without permission. The problem is that sometimes we inadvertently give spirits permission to enter our minds or our thoughts. When we partake in occult activities, like having our futures told, tarot cards, and reiki, then we are opening a door to the enemy and inviting him in. Also, if we hear the enemy whispering words in our ears, and we partner with those lies, and we accept them as truth, then we are empowering the liar. This is giving the enemy power in our lives that we don’t want him to have.

Another way we allow the enemy access to our lives is through hate. When we hate people, when we refuse to forgive people, we are inviting the enemy to live in that hate and that unforgiveness. We are giving the enemy power over us to keep us in that hateful state. Each time we think bad things about people, we talk about them, or we spread rumors about them, we partner with the enemy. Sin is not of the Lord; it breaks our relationship or at least damages our relationship with Him. When we do this, we are partnering with the enemy. When has partnering with the enemy ever worked out for our good?

This is one reason why the angels and saints are so important. They can help us resist the enemy. They can protect us from bad things happening to us. I have heard some amazing stories of people who have been saved by angels. I mentioned we all have guardian angels. It is nice to acknowledge your angels and thank them for all they do for you. Of course, we don’t see most of what they do for us, but you can bet they are not just sitting back and relaxing. Another good thing to do is to tell your angel that you give it permission to act on your behalf and to do whatever it takes to protect you. Let your angel know you give it permission and that if it protects you, it will not be against your will. Accept your angel into your life.

You can talk to your angel, although I don’t think they talk back like God does when you talk with Him. You can also send your angel on assignment. For instance, a friend told me your angel can be in more than one place at a time. So, when she sees an ambulance go by with its lights on or she sees an accident on the road, she will ask her angel to go and be with that person who is hurt. She will ask her angel to keep that person company and to provide them comfort and love, at least until their family gets there. I thought that was beautiful, and now I have started doing that.

You can also ask your angel to talk to the angels of other people. Saint Padre Pio used to do this before any big or important meeting that he had. He would send his angel to the other people's angels and ask them to prepare the person's heart for what he was going to say. He found he had incredible results when he did this. This could be useful to all of us. We all have conversations we don’t look forward to. Whether it is our boss, certain family members, certain co-workers, or a stranger, we all have to have conversations that make us nervous. From now on, before we enter one of those conversations, we can send our angel ahead of us to prepare the way. This is also true when you have a certain outcome you would like, and you aren’t sure the other person will agree. Not that sending you an angel will guarantee that you get the answer you want, but it will certainly help prepare the other person in advance. They will be more open to hearing you out, at the very least.

Aside from our guardian angels, the Lord has legions of angels who act on his behalf. I certainly don’t know all that they are capable of doing. 2 Kings 6:15-17 gives us one example of when the Lord sent an army of angels to help Elisha. “Early the next morning, when the servant of the man of God arose and went out, he saw the force with its horses and chariots surrounding the city. “Alas!” he said to Elisha. “What shall we do, my lord?” Elisha answered, “Do not be afraid. Our side outnumbers theirs.” Then he prayed, “O Lord, open his eyes, that he may see.” And the Lord opened the eyes of the servant, and he saw that the mountainside was filled with fiery chariots and horses around Elisha.”

There was another story I heard of this woman who was walking down a dark alleyway, and she saw a man at the end. She was scared, and she prayed to the Lord for protection. The mad did not do anything to her. The next day she found out that there was another woman who was attacked in that same alleyway that same night. When she went to the police to give a sketch of the guy, she was able to ask the guy why he did not attack her. He said it was because she had a tall man with her. That was an angel, as she did not have anyone with her.

God is amazing! He protects us and helps us in so many ways. I only touched on a few ways in this episode. However, I recommend we all take some time and learn a little more about our guardian angels, the legions of angels, and the Saints and how they can help us. It can’t hurt to be prepared and to know about all the various ways we can call on protection and help from the Lord. One very powerful prayer of protection is the St. Michael the Archangel prayer. I gave it to a friend who was suffering with anxiety the other day and she found instant relief. Here is the prayer if you want to give it a try. "St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle, be our protection against the wickedness and snares of the devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray; and do thou, O Prince of the Heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.”

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those listening to this episode today. Lord, you are amazing, and we thank you for all the different ways you help and protect us. We ask you to help us be more aware of the angels in our lives. Those who are heavenly creatures and those humans who are angels to us as well. Lord, help us see our blessings more, especially in this advent season. We love you, Lord and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’ holy name, Amen.

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I look forward to meeting you here on Monday. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed weekend!

Here is the word of prophecy from our prayer group for today: “My children, I love you, I love you, I love you!  Can’t you hear me crying out my love for you? The world is trying to mute me, silence me. But I love you, I love you, never doubt it. Whatever your condition is, I love you, I love you. I love the people that you reach out to. I love them as much as I love you. I want you all. I am not happy unless I have you all with me in my heart.”

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Our Father’s Love (Part 12) Trust Enough To Ask For The Impossible 

Psalm 103: 19 “Yahweh has established his throne in heaven; his kingdom rules the entire universe.”

God has established his throne in heaven. This doesn’t mean that is where He stays. His kingdom rules the entire universe. There is nothing that the Lord can’t reach. I think we forget this sometimes. We know God is all-powerful and all-sovereign, and then sometimes we are having trouble with something, and we don’t ask God for several reasons. We don’t ask Him because we think He is too busy to deal with our little problems, and we don’t want to bother Him. We don’t ask Him because this is a worldly problem, and what is He going to do about it anyway? We tend to put God in a box, and we think we know what He can do. We have an idea in our heads about what God can do for us, and we tend to keep our requests in alignment with those ideas.

This may seem silly when you hear me say this. We all know that God is all-powerful and He can do all things. We don’t limit God. Think about the last few things you have prayed for. Have they been for the same type of things? Do you pray for God to help you with things even when you don’t see a way that He can help you? Are you taking all of your problems to God, or just some of them? I know a lot of people who seem to get annoyed with me because I often say, “Well, let's pray about that.” If something is bothering us, then God wants to help us. It doesn’t matter how big or how small it is. He cares about everything that we care about.

The verse above says that His kingdom rules the entire universe. It does not say that it rules our health and our spiritual lives, but not our material lives. It does not place any restrictions on God. So, why do we? When was the last time you asked God to help you out of a bind that had nothing to do with health? We tend to pray to the Lord when we or someone we love needs healing, but not necessarily when we need material things. For instance, would you pray to the Lord if your car breaks down on the highway, or would you just call AAA? If you need money to pay your bills, do you think you should pray to the Lord for it? What if you ran out of food, would you pray to the Lord, or would you try to figure it out on your own? Do these sound like things the Lord can help with?

One time my dad’s car broke down, and he really needed a car if he was going to get to work. Before he even had time to tell my mom his car had broken down, a neighbor was at the door giving my dad a car. My dad hadn’t even told him he needed one. The man just said he had this feeling he was supposed to give my dad his wife’s car as she no longer needed it. One of my friends was sitting in her car waiting for the dollar store to open so she could buy groceries. She made her grocery list and realized she didn’t have enough money for all she needed. She prayed to God and told Him that if she just had $50 more, she could buy all she needed that week. The next thing she knew, her daughter had jumped out of the car to chase something that had just flown by. It was a $50 bill. One time, my parents ran out of food, and they really didn’t know how they were going to feed us that night for dinner. They prayed to the Lord for help, and a neighbor came over with all this extra food he had. His dad had to move in with them all of a sudden, and they couldn’t fit all his groceries into their house, so they asked my parents if they wanted the extras. God is so good!

These are all things where the people couldn’t imagine how God was going to answer their prayers, and yet they asked anyway. There is no way that my dad would have imagined a neighbor would just give him a car or bags full of groceries, yet it happened. There is no way my friend could have imagined that if she asked God for $50, she would randomly find a $50 bill in an empty parking lot. Nothing is beyond the reach of God. Nothing is impossible for God.

I think it is really important to remember this when we are praying for healing as well. We might not see any way that it can happen, and yet we can still pray to the Lord, even if we can’t see a way. For instance, there was a woman at the healing service who said she had several heart issues and had a pacemaker but would need a transplant at some point in the future. When she was prayed over, she felt heat in her heart, which means the Holy Spirit was working on it. She asked how that works if she has a pacemaker already. She couldn’t see how the Lord could heal her heart when she had a pacemaker. The deacon said he didn’t know either, we would have to ask Jesus. Here’s the thing, we don’t have to know. We just have to trust enough to ask and then wait and see. If God can create the entire universe, he can certainly figure out how to heal a heart with a pacemaker in it.

I don’t think we mean to place restrictions on God, I just think we aren’t accustomed to asking for big things. God tells us in our prayer group all the time that we are not asking for too much. We are asking for too little. When we ask for big things, miraculous things, things we can’t imagine how God will make them happen, then we are glorifying God and showing Him that we trust He can do all things. I have seen God do miraculous things, and I have heard about God doing miraculous things, so I believe God can do miraculous things.

A friend of mine has a nephew who has brittle bone disease. He cannot really go out and do things because he breaks bones so easily. He is also in a lot of pain. I was talking with my friend about praying for his nephew, and he said, “It’s not like God can give him a new body.” This is what we would probably all think. We would struggle to see how God could heal this young boy. What would God do, replace all his bones? Could he even do that? Yes, He is the creator of the universe. There is nothing he can’t do. However, we most likely wouldn’t think to pray for that because that seems so crazy to think about. Jesus restored sight to the blind, he helped the lame walk, and He literally brought people back from the dead. If He can do all of that, He can heal this young man.

If you are in need of a miracle, if you are in need of anything, ask the Lord for it. Ask God, even if you can’t see how He can fix it. Ask for it even when you don’t see a way through it. God can make a way where there is no way. I am sure God’s people did not see a way when they were caught between the Egyptian army and the Red Sea, yet God made a way by parting the waters. I bet no one knew that was coming or even thought of that as a possibility. The same is true for whatever you need. God’s kingdom rules the entire universe. Nothing is too big and nothing is too small for Him. You are never bothering God. He loves it every time you come to Him. I think sometimes He likes it more when we come to Him for the little things because it shows we are trusting Him more.

Think about who you ask to help you with the little things. If you just meet someone, you won’t want to bother them with little things. However, you wouldn’t think twice about asking your best friend or perhaps your family members to help you with something small. You wouldn’t hesitate because you know them and you know they would be happy to help you. The same is true with God. When you bring everything to Him, it shows Him that you trust Him and that you feel comfortable with Him. Let’s all take some time today and examine our prayers to God. Are there things we haven’t been asking Him? Is it because we think they are too big or too little? Have we been subconsciously putting restrictions on God? How can we change our prayer to reflect the fact that His kingdom rules the entire universe? There is nothing that is too big or too small for Him.

Dear Heavenly Father, I ask you to bless all those listening to this episode today. Lord, we love you, and we are so grateful you care about us so much. We want to turn to you first in all situations, please help us. We want to ask you for all things, big and small. We want to trust you in all situations.  We can only do this with your help Lord. Please remind us to pray. Please help increase our trust and our faith so we can believe in you more. We love you, Lord, and we ask all of this in accordance with your will and in Jesus’s holy name. Amen!

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey to walk boldly with Jesus. I look forward to meeting you here again tomorrow. Remember, Jesus loves you, and so do I! Have a blessed day!

Here is today’s word of prophecy from our prayer group: “All come to me be of good cheer. I see you all. I see my spirit burning within each of your hearts. I know your innermost secrets and desires because I created them for you. I live in you, you in me. What have you to fear? Why do you fear? Cast out all fear because you live in me and my love and abiding presence. I will care for my children. I am yours, you are mine, we are one. My heart beats within you, my precious ones. There is nothing to fear, ever. Believe no matter what comes. Believe in me and my love for you. It exists all and into eternity. Wash yourself in the blood of the Lamb. Stop. Stop worrying; I command it.”

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Today the witness will be about the recent Encounter School of Ministry Boston Campus Healing Service that I attended.  We witnessed many miraculous healings. The Holy Spirit always shows up where He is invited, welcomed, and expected. We always expect Him to show up at the healing services, and He does not disappoint us.  Today I will relay some of those miracles to you.

There was one young lady who had several heart issues and was going to need a heart transplant in the future. She felt a warmth in her heart after she was prayed over. Warmth does not mean she was healed, but it does mean the Holy Spirit was working. This same young lady also received prayer for her ears/hearing. She said when they were praying over her, she could feel this warmth in her left ear. As soon as they stopped and asked her to test it, she had a warmth and this weird vibration in both ears.

There was a man who had neuropathy in his feet, and the pain was about an 8. After he had a team pray over him, the pain went down somewhat. The team prayed over him again, and it was down to a 2. He was hopeful it would continue to go down to zero over the next few days. I told him about my aunt’s neuropathy healing and how that took a few days, and he was encouraged. Hopefully he will reach back out and let us know how he is doing?

There was a woman who had pain starting at her neck and radiating down to her hip. After she had a team pray over her, the pain was gone, and she had a warmth radiating down instead. Praise God!

There was a woman who had digestive trouble and food intolerability. She said she would have to eat a pizza to know for sure if she was healed of the food issue, but she was literally doubled over from the weight of God’s glory. She just felt his presence so powerfully. Thank you, Jesus!

There was a team that prayed over my friend Catherine. She said that the doctors keep telling her she has a terminal disease and that she will die, and yet it has been nine years, and she is still standing. Catherine told me that they have started her on a medicine that is used to treat brain cancer, but they are testing it out on other kinds as well. Catherine’s cancer has been reacting well to it, and she is getting better. Her doctor told her she was the exception, and he didn’t know why it was working. She knows why, though. She knows God is healing her. She said the healing service was just what she needed that night.

One of our students, Jim, has muscle pain in the middle of his back. It was about a 5 or 6 on the pain scale before he was prayed over, and then it went down to about a 2.  Praise the Lord!

There was one woman who had bursitis in her hip. Someone had a word of knowledge at the beginning that a hip would be healed. The woman tested it out and said the pain was less, but she could still feel it. When we switched to laying hands and praying over people in small groups, she was completely healed. She was so surprised and excited that she had no more pain. She ran around the church to test it out, and she praised Jesus.

There was another woman who had neck surgery a while ago and is having complications from it. She has a limited range of motion because she has a huge knot there. She just had a shot for it the other day because of the pain. It had been bothering her all day, and she had been rubbing it all day. She could not turn her head all the way to the right and look over her shoulder. After receiving prayer, the knot is completely gone and her range of motion has been restored!

One of the women praying over her for this healing also had a neck injury in 1990 and also had limited neck mobility. While she was praying over this woman for healing the Lord healed her also. Her neck mobility has been restored as well! Thank you, Jesus. God is so good. Even when you aren’t asking, He can heal you. Even when you are ministering to others, He can heal you.

Another one of our students, Tammy, suffered from an injury from a car accident in 1995. She said her neck will go out, which causes her back to go out which causes pain, lack of sleep, and a lot of other things. Tammy also had these popcorn sounds when she would rotate her neck. She said it would sound like Rice Krispy cereal. However, after receiving prayer, these popcorn sounds are considerably better. She can barely hear them now.

There was a lady who had surgery. She has arthritis in her fingers, and when she bends them, they make a clicking sound, and it is painful. After there was a work of knowledge about healing arthritis, and when she tested it out, she no longer had any pain. She can still hear the clicking, she can still feel the clicking, but now it is pain-free. She has had this pain for years, and now it is gone! God is so good!

As you can see from all these testimonies, God showed up at this healing service, and we are so grateful He did! I don’t know why I am always so surprised when He does. He told us in the Bible, ask, and you shall receive. He is a God of promises, and He always keeps them. He is a God who heals, we just have to ask. I hope you have enjoyed hearing about these healing testimonies. I pray they inspire you to attend a healing service in your area. I pray they inspire you to ask the Lord to heal whatever it is you are dealing with. I pray they build your faith and your belief in the healing power of the Lord our God.

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