God's Love Heals; God is ALIVE! Man's Love Kills, Men are DEAD!

                                God’s              Love            Heals

                                        No              Friends

                                      Look        To        Jesus

Rest for the Weary

Matthew 11:25 At that time Jesus said, “I praise you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. 26 Yes, Father, for this was your good pleasure.

27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.

28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”

    How can you help someone if you are sick, how can they help you. Jesus is the only one who can help all of us. 
Matthew 15:13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. 14 Leave them; they are blind guides. [5] If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.

P”eople cause a great deal of pain and suffering.  They are dead in sin and trespasses! Look away from everyone, dead people.  Mother, Father, Brother, sister, Aunt,  Uncle, cousin, friend, government, boss, spouse, children.  Their love kills!  They are all in sin they are dead!  Look to God his love heals, he is Alive, sinless.  His love is perfect and without sin!  Jesus is sinless.  God does not have unconditional love, like the world.  He will not stand by and say; "go ahead, lie, steal, falsely accuse others, get drunk, have a perverted mind etc. and I will still love and bless you."  God’s love is perfect. His love delivers and heals those who turn to him.  God’s love heals the broken heart, soul and mind.  A Saved, healed sound mind then heals the body!

 Mark 10:28 Peter said to him, “We have left everything to follow you!”

29 “I tell you the truth,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”

Luke 14:25 Large crowds were traveling with Jesus, and turning to them he said: 26 “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be my disciple. 27 And anyone who does not carry his cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Matthew 6:21 For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

22 “The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. 23 But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Colosians2:13 When you were dead in your sins and in the uncircumcision of your sinful nature, God made you  alive with Christ. He forgave us all our sins,14 having canceled the written code, with its regulations, that was against us and that stood opposed to us; he took it away, nailing it to the cross. 15 And having disarmed the powers and authorities, he made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross. 

  
 When you solely love and know Jesus, He tells you that you are special to him and he has something for you to do for him.  He needs you and you are important to him.

More Than Conquerors

Romans 8:28 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to      his purpose.

   Bad guys start fights, wars, with insults and sinfulness to get your attention and to get you to turn from the knowledge of God to see and hear only them. They cause chaos, fear and confusion in the minds of others.  When bad guys have your attention you become weak and powerless, susceptible to all kinds of sicknesses, disease, accidents. Your immune system is weak, you don’t think clearly, and you make mistakes.

2 Timothy3:1 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them.--------------6. They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to acknowledge the truth.

2 Timothy 3:13 while evil men and impostors will go from bad to worse, deceiving and being deceived.

           With the knowledge of God’s love and salvation you can separate yourself from the troubles others may have.  So our minds are not dragged down by the sorrows, sufferings of others.  Jesus said, "my yoke is easy my burden is light."  Think about Jesus that he is love, he is perfect, he is sinless, his love heals, cleanses, purifies, calms, soothes brings peace an ease to your soul.  You can easily say Mom might have problems, Dad might have problems, my neighbors might have problems but I have no problems because Jesus died for me because he loves me and takes good care of me.  When I pray for others; Jesus loves me and answers my prayers so the person I am praying for will be healed!  Jesus makes everything better.  Like a mother who would say to a child, “I will kiss it and make it all better”.  That is what God’s love does it heals everything!!

    
         To be called by God is to be separated from all others by knowing they have problems but I don’t because Jesus takes good care of me!   You can TRUST GOD!! 

      God’s love heals and God gave us his love:  Jesus his son.  Knowing Jesus loves us, and heals our minds! Our life’s!  Every thought must be brought into submission to the knowledge that Jesus died on the cross to give me a sound mind, restore my relationship with God, and be sinless, sin causes pain and suffering so if I am free from sin and those who sin, I am healed.  For those who sin deserved to be beaten, whipped, like Jesus, 40 lashes.  But Jesus took my punishment on himself and died for me so I can be sinless therefore healed.  The words of my mouth now confess Jesus died for me, my words are clean, my mind is clean, pure, wholesome, holy before all men.

2 Corinthians 10: 2….as bold as I expect to be toward some people who think that we live by the standards of this world. 3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. (Jesus loves me, and died for me!)

Psa 50:22				Now consider this, ye that forget God, lest I tear [you] in pieces, and [there be] none to deliver.
Psa 50:23				Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me: and to him that ordereth [his] conversation [aright] will I shew the salvation of God.
Eph 2:2			Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Eph 2:3			Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
Eph 4:22		That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
Eph 4:25	Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

NO Friends?   James 4:4…….don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God…….. 7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. 9 Grieve, mourn and wail. Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.

There are Good guys and there are Bad guys!  By the spirit of God Good guys obey all Ten Commandments!The good guys are honest and truthful in everything.

1Pete 2:


1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation, 3 now that you have tasted that the Lord is good.

1Pe 2:12

Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by [your] good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

       
       Good guys are strong and would not dare to cheat their fellowman. Like saying they are trustworthy then turn around, cheat, and say, “it is nothing personal, just business.”  Good guys treat everyone equally, fairly, justly with integrity.   With Good guys you know life is fair!!

       
    Bad guys come into your lives and get real close to you, they act like they are your best friends and it “seems like you have Known them your whole life”, from the first time they meet you.  This isn't natural!  You are already being deceived to “treat” them like they are “trustworthy”, as if you have watched their upbringing and actions for their entire life and they didn't not do anything to harm another.  You can know that, you just met them.  They are twisting your minds to stupefy you, make you “stupid”, “numb”, “dumb”, paralyzed to defend and protect yourselves or you close family and friends from them. This is a con, they have come to steal something from you.  Politicians all do this.  It is a crime.

     

       Good guys do not get up close and personal.  They know it takes a long time to develop personal relationships built on love and trust.  Good guys find out from the onset of meeting someone whether they are a good guy or a bad guy.  You can tell by their manors, conversation,  and other things as the Lord gives you discernment. Good guys also find out if someone might seem like a bad guy but isn't  they have been forced to live under, near or around bad guys, and bad morals corrupt good morals. We have to stay away from even the “good” bad guys.  Always turn to Jesus, Look to Jesus.  Then there are the “bad” guys who have turn to face Jesus themselves. Good guys encourage those being healed.  They are to be forgiven 70 times 70 while letting God heal them and restore their souls and lives..

  

Hbr 5:13	For every one that useth milk [is] unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Hbr 5:14	But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, [even] those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.

    
 Jesus died to saves us from this stupidity, ignorance of religion.  He gave us laws that are fair, kind, just and good for all men. 

    Good guys stay away from bad guys!!  Good guys stay away from bad guys and those being led astray by bad guys!

   

      Good guys stay on the “good” side of the Law, doing “good”.     Good guys write  and uphold “good” laws for the wholesome good wealth fare of everyone.

       Bad guys are on the bad side of the law and do everything they can to make laws that allow them to sin, to steal, lie, kill, abortion, easy divorces, no prayer, no Christianity, no religion.  Religion is a very “good” thing.  Lack of religion is an ignorant person. When the bad guys make laws, everyone has to “love and like” them even though they lie steal, have affairs, molest their children, watch and participate in pornography, do drugs, abandon their children, marry and remarry, lust  curse, (swear words), etc.  if you were a bad guy wouldn't you do everything you could to make it so you never are punished for your crimes?  And everyone has to love you even though you hate everyone with you words, lies, actions etc.

      
  A lot of people wonder why they have so much trouble with sin in their lives, why they have pain and suffering? Financial troubles?    Because there are no “good guys”!  We are all forced like slaves to “submit” to bad guys, doing bad things, making bad things legal and good things illegal.  It happens to everyone.   It is illegal to be “good”, honest, truthful, Christian, religious, kind, loving, fair, and just.  Bad guys don’t like that stuff.   Think about it.

   

       Jesus Died for you to deliver you from Satan’s power.  The power of the bad guys, even Santa Clause.  So you may live free, healed, happy lives following Jesus.  Jesus is the “Love” of God!  You never have to ever suffer.  He suffered and died for you.  You can live eternally with God!!   Turn to God, turn to Jesus and every day, all day long remember what Jesus did for you, what he sacrificed to pay for your freedom from evil men and women.  He died for you!!!!! So you may live with him and his Father through the power of God’s spirit, the “Holy Spirit” in us that makes our thoughts and words holy like God’s!!  Then You can say, “I am my father’s son”.

   See how Jesus dresses!  His clothes are even powerful:  Isaiah 59

The LORD looked and was displeased

that there was no justice.

16 He saw that there was no one,

he was appalled that there was no one to intervene;

so his own arm worked salvation for him,

and his own righteousness sustained him.

17 He put on righteousness as his breastplate,

and the helmet of salvation on his head;

he put on the garments of vengeance

and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.

18 According to what they have done,

so will he repay

wrath to his enemies

and retribution to his foes;

he will repay the islands their due.

19 From the west, men will fear the name of the LORD,

and from the rising of the sun, they will revere his glory.

For he will come like a pent-up flood

that the breath of the LORD drives along. 

20 “The Redeemer will come to Zion,

to those in Jacob who repent of their sins,”

A Father's Scout Abuse and His Children's Recovery

      Siblings Discover Father's Boy Scout Abuse and Remember Their Own This story plays out like so many others. Friends, you do not know but many of the people around you, especially those "odd" children in school, have been or are being abused, emotionally, physically, and sexually. Children of abusers learn to adapt their actions to their abuser’s "mood" at the time. When this story talks about the siblings joining a "pack" to try to protect each other from abuse- my brother, sister and I did the same thing. The Lord has led our family on a wonderful journey to help bring healing to victims and help them discover, as we have, the great freedom one can have when they uncover the truth of what happened in their past and the truth that the power of knowing Christ died for you can set you free. It is so very true, there is such traumatic abuse that memories can be locked away. In order to be able to live and work and go to school, a very intelligent brain will compartmentalize these memories. Sometime later, when you are in a safe place in your life, your mind very well might release these memories to you like the nun in this story. I know many people whose fathers either moved onto another sibling or threatened to without compliance.

Why aren't these parents prosecuted? "my word against theirs" does not bode well for young children whose parents may be “upstanding citizens.” Often, mothers stand by and look the other way like the mom in this story. I know of one woman who was sexually abused by her father until the day she married (quite early) at 17.  Her mother knew. The whole family was a traveling church singing group and every time he abused her he would make her get on her knees and pray for forgiveness. I know I speak out quite vocally against some pretty awful things but when it comes to child abuse everyone is silent. What do you do when you suspect a child is being abused?  If you are like 99% of the population, it's nothing. Why? Because it seems there is nothing that can be done. However, there is much to be done. Whenever you hear or see perversion of God’s natural way of living, speak out.

There is a fine line between ministering to someone who themselves needs to be set free and a person who is abusing someone else. Churches have done much harm in siding with the abuser and spouting the need to forgive and have not done enough to make sure that person is truly following in Christ. You see there is black and white. There are good people and there are bad people. The Bible is very clear. You either serve the Lord or you are captive to the devil and a servant of sin. You are to help those and forgive those who are good- who display the fruits of the Spirit- love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness. Pray for the others. Example- a man who looks at Playboy may need to be set free but if he is married he is also an abuser of his wife and children. This is how sexual molestation starts, the inception is a deviation from the proper form of sexual expression between husband and wife brought together by God. One sin leads to another and then another. This is why I speak out against Playboy.

Playboy is what they call a “gateway drug” and because it cannot satisfy because it is not a natural sexual expression, it leaves the user wanted something more and more perverted. People who molest children or emotionally degrade them, give signs to those around them all the time of the kind of person they are and what they are doing at home. You just don’t pick up on them because our 21^st Century society has been desensitized. A neighbor child I grew up with was given Playboy magazines as a young boy very early, at least by 5 yrs old. My mom was appalled when she saw him showing them to my older brother and went to talk to this boys parents who explained that that was how they were teaching him about “the birds and the bees.” Seriously? Those are some pretty big bees! No, they weren’t, they were molesting their son at home. My mom didn’t understand this at the time. She is just like most of you are now, very brainwashed. But once you understand how molesters and abusive people work, it all begins to make sense. This young boy was sexualized BY HIS PARENTS and he, in turn, went on to try to sexualize other children. The grace of God comes in to help children who may, by no fault of their own, do things to others their parents or others have done to them. God can work in a child’s life and set them free and heal them but better it never happens.

This article, in part, blames the Boy Scouts for not doing more. Actually, in this case, for that time, they were right on target. Should more have been done? Absolutely, but society thought that child molestation was a mental illness and not a crime punishable by strict measures. Even today, molesters and child abusers get off fairly easy because many judges are perverted themselves. I just read about a judge who gave a female teacher probation for molesting her 13 or 14 yr old student because the judge said there might not have been another way for him to “have his needs met.” Seriously? We bat our eyes, blink, and just go on with our lives. If things like these don’t cause you to stand up and shout “NOOOO!” something is wrong.

No one was there to stand up for my brother, sister, and I. I tried to take my father to court when I was in 3^rd grade but my mom’s female lawyer was flirting with the defense and the judge wasn’t much help either. My mother tried to protect us from the violence and it’s only by the grace of God we weren’t hurt even more. My dad’s girlfriend was molested by her father as was her sister and brother. Her brother went on to molest several other children. I know one little girl whose memories are so very dark I wouldn’t even mention them. I remember being around these two men and on an Easter Sunday we went back to my dad’s girlfriend’s parent’s house as they watched Jerry Springer Uncensored. It was one of the most vile things I had even watched 2 secs of. I just wanted to leave. No such luck, but I left that room. Those men gave me the heebie jeebies and one time they looked at my legs and made very inappropriate comments to my 16 yr old self and I expected my dad to say something to these perverts. Nope… so I took my little sister by the hand and led her away from a man who molested his two daughters and the son he spawned to molest other little children. Oh, and the father’s wife was a Baptist church secretary who did absolutely nothing to stop her husband.

She couldn’t. A woman in a relationship with a molester, especially when it’s a father molesting his children, has had to turn off that part of her brain that distinguishes between good and evil. In order to survive these women are no longer human. God can set them free but they cannot help their children. I know one woman whose husband molested her sons, told her  5 yr old son when he questioned her about his daddy’s Playboy “Your daddy said that the day he stops looking at these magazines is the day he stops looking at mommy.” See, this man was a homosexual pedophile who used pornography to get himself “straight” for him to abuse his wife. Even when confronted with the truth, this woman denies it.

The link below tells a common story, for molesters do not have just one victim, but many. They force themselves on whoever they can get their hands on, those who won’t or can’t say or do anything. The boy is this story said he would offer himself to his dad when his dad was “moody” or aloof- to win his affection. The mother knew. This story plays out again and again. Friends, if you were one of these boys or girls, there is hope. If you feel guilt, the Holy Spirit can show you, Go is not mad at you, he does not punish you for something someone made you do, it is not your fault! The Holy Spirit will show you whether it is the wrong kind or right kind and you can be forgiven and returned to a cleaned healed sound mind for anything you may have done or done to you. With the knowledge that Jesus loves you, you can be washed clean of the things done to you.

Isa 53:4-5

4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed

Isa 58:6-11

6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? 7 Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? 8 Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. 9 Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; 10 And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: 11 And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not

Jer 30:17

17 For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the LORD; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

Mal 4:2-3

2 But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall.3 And ye shall tread down the wicked; for they shall be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I shall do this, saith the LORD of hosts.

If you have hurt others, turn, repent, STOP, and allow the light of God to rule and reign inside of you. If you’ve been hurt, go back, remember those memories, remember the truth, and allow the Lord to show you how your life SHOULD have been.  Beloved, remember, if you are following Him He loves  you. There are those God hates. It is true. God wants all to repent but not all will. Our faith will bring about the justice we need!

 Siblings discover Dad's Scout Abuse and Their Own

Holy Garment!

Subject: The Holy Garment

A late Valentine's Day gift for my good friends Leah and Michelle, as well as our brothers and sisters in Christ.  May God's timing be swift and your blessings right around the corner.

Love,

Matty

Brothers and sisters, I as we prepare to embark on this extended Valentine’s Day weekend, we once again urge you to turn to the Holy Spirit as your guiding light.  Dive into the Word of God, and ask Him what His will for your life is.  For we are not to ask what do I want to do with my life?  The proper question is what does God want me to do with my life?  For when we are healed; cleansed of the devils lies that were case upon us through abuse, molestation, and mindsets that are worldly and not of God, we all realize that from our birth people in our lives were pushing us farther and farther away from God’s will.  My friends, when we are of the world we are not merely farther away, we are blind to His complete peace and understanding;  For He is our all-knowing, all caring Heavenly Father.  Paul writes of his cleansing, forgiveness through being saved by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and healing his mind of the lies that are not of our own in Romans 7.

21 I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. 22 For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. 23 But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 25 I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

We were all created in God’s image.  Through Christ our Lord are we able to be set free so that we can live as man and women of God’s own heart.  Scripture says before He formed us in the womb He knew us.  Just think of that for a moment.  We all knew God before He sent us into our earthly being.  To honor God won’t you cleanse and live today as the person He created you to be?  On this Valentine’s Day as like many before, many of you spent the day alone.  I come with a beacon of hope, a light in the darkness.  For God created man and woman, in God’s image He created them.  He created us not for the darkness, but for the light, and His light offers complete peace and the warmth of His presence in your life.  As you spend this weekend broken and alone, as your relationship or lack thereof leaves you waning, I ask for you to look to God’s promise for your life.  If you have on your heart to get married and have children, turn from the demonic lies and to God’s truth.  That is God’s will for your life, so have faith that it will happen in His timing.  For scripture tells us that:

Isaiah 55:8-9

New King James Version (NKJV)

8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts,

Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.

9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth,

So are My ways higher than your ways,

And My thoughts than your thoughts.

When you fall into doubt, just remember that God has a much more supreme calling and blessings for your life.  God is telling you that if you follow Him you will be blessed beyond your understanding.  Moreover:

2 Peter 3

8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. 9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. Instead he is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.

As we repent and follow God we will be blessed with these things, so there is no reason to fall into doubt and despair.  How do we do this do you ask?  This isn’t hard, are you ready?  All we need to do is have faith.  Your laughing, and here I thought this was a serious message.  Time and time again, God shows us that if we have faith, His blessings will come.  Many laughed, yet through a mother’s faith a child was resurrected.  Faith is extremely important in a marriage.

Mark 5

And Jesus, immediately knowing in Himself that power had gone out of Him, turned around in the crowd and said, “Who touched My clothes?”

31 But His disciples said to Him, “You see the multitude thronging You, and You say, ‘Who touched Me?’”

32 And He looked around to see her who had done this thing. 33 But the woman, fearing and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell down before Him and told Him the whole truth. 34 And He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be healed of your affliction.”

35 While He was still speaking, some came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house who said, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the Teacher any further?”

36 As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, He said to the ruler of the synagogue, “Do not be afraid; only believe.” 37 And He permitted no one to follow Him except Peter, James, and John the brother of James. 38 Then He came to the house of the ruler of the synagogue, and saw a tumult and those who wept and wailed loudly. 39 When He came in, He said to them, “Why make this commotion and weep? The child is not dead, but sleeping.”

40 And they ridiculed Him. But when He had put them all outside, He took the father and the mother of the child, and those who were with Him, and entered where the child was lying. 41 Then He took the child by the hand, and said to her, “Talitha, cumi,” which is translated, “Little girl, I say to you, arise.” 42 Immediately the girl arose and walked, for she was twelve years of age. And they were overcome with great amazement. 43 But He commanded them strictly that no one should know it, and said that something should be given her to eat.

If we have FAITH, and are free from sin, we can keep our family healthy and whole.  We can heal the sick (for this I recommend reading Michelle’s Sin and Sickness teaching).

Abraham and Sarah were promised a child by God, yet they fell into doubt.  They didn’t trust God’s timing.  His supreme plan.  She gave Abraham another woman to sleep with in order for his seed to create the next generation.  Is it any surprise that she was jealous of “the other woman?”  This is natural, as God created one woman for one man.  They were both created by God for each other.  In their old age (Abraham was aged 100 years) she finally gave birth to their son Isaac.  This is God’s supreme gift for our lives, that of marrying and bringing forth children.  Do you think your biological clock is ticking?  Well, Isaac was 40 when he married, yet they didn’t receive their blessing until he was 60.  Twins!  God’s plan is worth waiting for!  Jesus was referencing this when he exclaimed:

Mark 10

  5 And Jesus answered and said to them, “Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept (divorce). 6 But from the beginning of the creation, God ‘made them male and female.’[a] 7 ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, 8 and the two shall become one flesh’; [b] so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. 9 Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”

10 In the house His disciples also asked Him again about the same matter. 11 So He said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her. 12 And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”

This applies for the one true match God has created for you.  If you are in an abusive relationship, or were born into an abusive family, this scripture has no bearing, as God’s will is for you to be set free of your bonds and delivered from Egypt like Moses and the parting of the sea.  When scripture refers to brothers and sisters, it isn’t saying you need to accept and live with abuse.  It is referring to your true brothers and sisters; your family in Christ.  Jesus tells us that if we have an abusive family to leave, regardless of the current circumstances. 

Matthew 8

18 And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side. 19 Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”

20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”

21 Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

The man thought he should do right and bury his sinful or abusive father.  Only through Christ Jesus are we given eternal life.  He tells us to leave the wicked and let those who are dead (not having eternal life) bury the dead.  Nothing is too valuable to sweat leaving behind.  If Jesus tells us to follow, the wise will say “yes Lord, I will follow you anywhere!”  Just keep repeating to yourself that God is all powerful, and Jesus died for me!

Matthew 19

25 When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?”

26 But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

27 Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?”

28 So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. 29 And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife[k] or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. 30 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.

Isaiah 41

10 Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.

11 Behold, all they who are enraged and inflamed against you shall be put to shame and confounded; they who strive against you shall be as nothing and shall perish.

12 You shall seek those who contend with you but shall not find them; they who war against you shall be as nothing, as nothing at all.

13 For I the Lord your God hold your right hand; I am the Lord, Who says to you, Fear not; I will help you!

14 Fear not, you worm Jacob, you men of Israel! I will help you, says the Lord; your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

15 Behold, I will make you to be a new, sharp, threshing instrument which has teeth; you shall thresh the mountains and beat them small, and shall make the hills like chaff.

16 You shall winnow them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the tempest or whirlwind shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the Lord, you shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17 The poor and needy are seeking water when there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I the Lord will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

My message this weekend is for freedom of the oppressed.  My message is one of hope my brothers and sisters.  God has not forsaken you, for God’s ultimate blessing for us all is for us all “to go forth and multiply!”  We are to be blessed with perfect marriages, as our spouses were created for us by God.  Have faith in Him, not websites touting compatibility matching and profiles.  If you are married and practicing birth control, how can you expect the Lord’s divine blessings and provision for your family if you are not living for Jesus and the reason He brought you together in the first place?  Scripture tells us that through the Holy Spirit God gives us the gift of prophecy, and tells us what will happen before hand.

If you want an example of a strong woman of faith, look no further than Proverbs 31.

25 Strength and dignity are her clothing and her position is strong and secure; she rejoices over the future [the latter day or time to come, knowing that she and her family are in readiness for it]!

She is smiling at the future, as the Lord has spoken to her of it and she rejoices at His kindness and blessings that are yet to come!

Many say, “I don’t want God in my bedroom.”   Well, we are commanded to “leave the marriage bed undefiled.”  Upon His command for us to marry, we are told to “ go forth and multiply.”  God is the one who puts us in the marriage bed in the first place.  It is only through man’s own sin and the devils lies do we lie with anyone outside of marriage.  Only through sin and perversion do we sleep with anyone other than the one true match He has created for us.  When we are married we become one flesh with our spouse.  So it is written that if a man sleeps with another man’s wife, he uncovers the man’s nakedness.  They were created for each other by God almighty, two complex puzzle pieces with only one complimentary, matching piece.  Upon marriage they are finally re-united and become one flesh.  They are but one Holy Garment, divided in two, and finally brought back together for eternity.  This is God’s pure romance!  God has a supreme love story for your life.  How saddened would He be though if we were to fall into doubt and lie with another?  There is only one for each of us, so I pray for your timely Salvation, lest the devil or abusive people tempt you to sin.  In an abused, brainwashed state their sins are not of their own, but that of their abusers, as they are not allowed to think for themselves.  However, my writing is in hopes of you finding God and not fall for the devils (through the Holy Spirit not so) tempting damnation while you are still young and able to grow into the world with Christ our Lord.

1 Corinthians 7

3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights (goodwill, kindness, and what is due her as his wife), and likewise the wife to her husband.

4 For the wife does not have [exclusive] authority and control over her own body, but the husband [has his rights]; likewise also the husband does not have [exclusive] authority and control over his body, but the wife [has her rights].

To many this is a touchy subject: your spouse has rights over your body?  How dare they?  I can do whatever I want you might say.  You were created from the same Holy Garment, so would not the stern have rights over the bow and vice versa?  For if one were to fail in their marital duties to the other would not the ship sink? 

Israel, you evoke the name of the Lord in the bedroom, yet revoke My call on your lives.  God loves children, and we are told to:

14 Leave the children alone! Allow the little ones to come to Me, and do not forbid or restrain or hinder them, for of such [as these] is the kingdom of heaven composed.

Abraham was told that he would be the father of many nations.  Before we were formed in the womb God knew us.  God knew of countless children to be born.  He knew well beyond Abraham’s comprehension.  Who would dare say, “no Lord, I know more than you, and I will not bring forth your children.”

If you have made it this far, I commend you and wish you the very best for this coming weekend.  May God bless you, and give you the peace you need this day.