I Stand in The Presence of God, In The mist of The Thorns

 Love, love such wondrous Love. As I listened to a youtube video of Barbara O Neill, giving her lecture on mental health , I started to cry. I remembered the parabel of The Sower, who sowed seed by the wayside. Some fell among the thorns. She was telling the audience how repetition is the mother of retention. The more you repeat a thing in your mind the more it deepens the impression. It will cause actual thorns to grow on the dyndrites of cells in your brain.

Earlier this morning I was listening to Alistair Beeg on Luke 1: 19 Gabriel, had been despatched to Zacharias, the priest ,to tell him he was going to be a father. Zacharias didnot believe, so Gabriel struck him dumb until the child was born.

Gabriel said," I stand in The presence of God."  This is where all need to be. I cried for some time.

In this hour of humanity, we must be prepared by The Holy Spirit to enter His presence.

Many will not be able to stand in His awesome presence because they refused His invitation to do so. They refuse The cleansing Power of His Blood. 

Zacarias and his wife Elizebeth were both righteous before God. Yet Zacarias didnot believe Gabriel.

This is a powerful statement that was made. I have cried for hours, Then as I listened to Barbara give her lecture it hit me. The damage that was done when Adam sinned was even more powerful than, anything we could image. Just trying to wrap that around my mind was so profound that all I have been doing for hours is cry.

The cautionary tail to all this is, Zahcarias was righteous! If this doesn't put The Fear of God in us, what will?

So as I see Gabriel, standing in The Presence of God, in the mist of Thorns, I pray,

Please father, have mercy on me and my family.

Betrayal Is Never Fun

 The Lord has kept me very busy these passed months. He took me seriously , when I said to Him," Give me souls , or I die"

I have been about Father's business, in my life. Checking all the areas in which I am deficient. Asking Him to point out what is in need of fixing. It wasn't long before The Holy Spirit answered. That old saying, be careful what you wish for, has away of coming out. 

What I have found out was so amazing. Those people in my life, whom I loved the most, Were the ones whom I never thought would hurt me. But, behind the seen, where I could not see or know, lurked evil. I questioned myself, as to why didn't I see this. Blinded by faith in people that I thought loved me and wanted only good for me. Not testing their spirits, to see what I should have seen.

We all need eyes of discernment. My problem was blind faith in people, I loved.

That Scripture," Depart from me, I never knew you", that Christ utters when he returns, I now know what He meant.  Thinking you know someone and all the while you really were far from understanding, what The Holy Spirit knew all along.

He alone can repair a broken heart, keeping it from shattering into small pieces and not able to repair it yourself.

So many people in our tired old world are suffering each day, some being tortured, some slain, some sold into the sex trade, children dieing for lack of food because a government gone awry that is unable to meet the needs of the people due to drought and crop failure.

But there is Jesus, The Son of The Most High God.

He alone can repair a heart that has been betrayed.

Betrayal is never fun, it leaves your heart so undone

No sleep, no rest it leaves your heart, within your chest 

longing for peaceful, peaceful rest

Betrayal Is Never Fun.

Oh to God my heart does cry, mend this broken heart of mine

Betrayal Is Never Fun.