If the Name of Jesus was on More Lips than Covid 19

Staying Out of the Maze of Confusion

In a conversation today at noon, my husband was driving from one office to another office in his working day. He always checks in at home to make sure I am fine. As we were finishing our conversation, he said those words listed in this weeks title: " if the Name of Jesus was on more lips than covid 19 this whole thing would be over......( I am thinking: for Jesus would have returned for those His believers')! And how so true that would be indeed if we spoke more about Him than the ills of some rotten virus. So I thought by the Holy Spirit to write about that name of Jesus and how to stay out of the maze of confusion!

Knowing those things like viruses pertaining to ebola, coronavirus and even Sars are under our feet, still how many choose to proclaim it or them? Surely we are to be warned of what is raging? We should certainly know what is within our region and lurking within the community or the town next door. We certainly would not want to take a trip in a snowstorm when the safest place would be in a warm dry home or hotel room away from the wind chill factors that kill the average person in just minutes!  Or you certainly would want to know that a bridge is out and no traffic is allowed especially if said bridge is connecting the roadway you are traveling on to get home to spouse and children . Still many will drive on through without heeding any of those truths given to them. And while some people have no regard toward those living around them with some underlying weakness that could cause them to die to the "unseen" yet living virus with at least two names right now, many are still being infected! Like the woman who found out she had it, and then yes, boarded a plane and flew from JFK to Florida and be arrested to being a typhoid Mary spreading disease. Yes, she is now in prison for doing just that.

In the first two or three weeks of this outbreak, I heard of how many were running to emergency rooms to get in quickly only to find out if they had the new strain of virus. But all they learned quickly was that they had long lines of people ahead of them. They could have asked us how fast they might get through those lines, for some five years ago we had been asked to go to the emergency room and ask for so-in-so and to have a blood transfusion for iron for me. But when we got there we were at the end of the line and yes, it was a long line. And one by one, each name called would head to the waiting nurse with her clipboard in hand . In regard to those checking us in at 5 pm,  I had been given a chair to be wheeled around in, for in view of the man at the desk, he diagnosed my coloring as somewhat jaundiced! Yikes!

Those in line continued to go in and come out....and some we did not see come out and finally about 10:30 pm we got in....some five hours after we had arrived and the doctor said I needed a room and would not require iron but something more serious: Blood!
Indeed, we can know many things today and yet how do we forecast what is going on in our bodies? But many of those on that specific day were given things to help them get over an over dose of some drug they took and others, who did not have a regular doctor and they came for some kind of aid. Yet, all in some respect each had required some "help"!

You and I can do something to improve our health. Everyday we must speak truth against any pretentious attitude that we are fine, our blood pressure is normal and that we may only have a few pounds to lose when reality speaks, it may appear a lot differently. Weight additions can mount up and blood pressure can change from normal to real a "high" mark! But I also know making those choices to speak right words makes a lot of difference in whether we will be at peace or active in chaos on our street!

I know that between my husband and myself we made many changes and still seek to change some things. We have also found my blood pressure is back to normal like it was suppose to be. And yes, pounds are lost when avoiding that sweet high road of sugar and carbs! We must be also be intentional to rid those same things out of our thinking...and yes, in our speaking......to remove the wrong from us!

God's word equips us to take the needed steps to change our thinking and to make our body line up with that TRUTH God has given us in the Holy Bible.

Choices are to be for the right things that produce more life and not for death and dying.

On the road to Healthy Whole, we remember that this is the day the Lord has made for us.....We are to be glad in it: Psalm 118:24 This is the day the LORD has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.

Through salvation, God turned things around for us! We have the Holy Spirit to direct our way through what may appear as a maze of things that might confuse. But when we truly ask Him for help with our body in mind, He will direct our path into that which is of life.

I like what Charles Spurgeon wrote on Prayer and Spiritual Warfare. He said and I quote here: I write this with all reverence: God Himself cannot deliver who is not in trouble. Therefore, it is to some advantage to be in distress, because God can then deliver you. Even Jesus Christ, the Healer of men, cannot heal a person who is not sick. Therefore, sickness is not an adversity for us, but rather an advantageous opportunity for Christ to heal us. The point is, my reader, your adversity may prove your advantage by offering occasion for the display of divine grace.

May Divine Grace appear for you in your road to health. If you find you are in a darken place, and if depression seems to be everywhere you look, then you are focusing on the wrong thing. We must have a focus on what He has given us to run the race set before us! Depression can occur and many people experience it at some point in their lifetime, but we have HELP from the Holy One!

If we truly believe Jesus' own prophecies of end-time disease epidemics, we had better be realistic about where we should put our ultimate trust! And I understand that today there are many, many people quick to trust doctors:  "Don't we now have penicillin and other wonderful drugs that can cure almost anything?" Yes, and some work indeed and others appear to cause more harm than good.

 BUT Jesus went to the Cross and for those who would receive Him, He gave the right to be called the sons of God!  John 1: 11-13 He came to His own and His own did not receive Him. 12 But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, those who believe in His name: 13 who were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

And as those sons we are seated in heavenly places, there is no sickness in the kingdom of God.

In that Redemption by His shed blood, we are the pardoned, and the healed. He sent His word and healed us by delivering us from destruction's like coronavirus, or Covid 19! Jesus healed the brokenhearted and He binds our wounds. This is an up close and personal Jesus who desires to restore to us health and close any wounds of sorrow or grief that have festered from our childhood!

Who pardons all your iniquities , who heals all your diseases…..Psalm 103:3

He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destruction's: Psalm 107:20

He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds………Psalm 147:3

‘For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds, declares the LORD…Jeremiah 30:17

God has given us His Holy Spirit to not fear. He has given us power, love, and a sound mind to prevail in all situations. Facebook was not given to help us out of a "mess". Abiding in God and not in our cell phone will bring the needed help right when we need it! We abide in Him, speak His wisdom and declare those things Jesus taught: man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God. "You shall worship the LORD your God, and Him only you shall serve." You shall not tempt the LORD Your God".

Most certainly today, we see stadiums closed due this "virus thing". Yes those who managed a ticket to get through the front gate, can no longer get that ticket and go to that game they worshiped. They have to stay away in the case of virus that can kill a certain age group of people. But how many have gotten sick who are younger than say, fifty or forty years of age?

Holding fast the pattern of sound words and always cultivating a right relationship with His Holy Spirit propels us into the power of God for signs and wonders. And it is God Who answers, not because of you or me, but because someone out there is in need of great help. He answers to bring them closer to Him, and not to us. His will be done in you …and me……..who call on His name and according to His plan and purpose.  May you excel into His excellence following His leadership into praying His word for you and yours.

We speak His name, we lift Him high today, the personal name of Jesus ...we make mention of Him, declare His death was to give us life and in Him is the Faithful and the true. He came to bring the family of God back into unity with a relationship with the Father. Today we see and we speak the merciful justice of God that is the Gospel!

Today is push back the devil day! Today we see your lies and clearly discern between our Shepherd’s voice and any other voice! We take every thought captive of coronavirus and exchange it for the word of truth as we thirst for You Lord and we hunger for that truth of God daily. WE resist lying thoughts for we have the mind of Christ.  For where the enemy’s lies of any kind of virus speaks, we have pushed back ……… by inviting the power of the Holy Spirit to cleanse our minds.

Lord, You have given us authority over all the power of the enemy. By that authority given to us in Jesus Christ, we command all lying spirits be put far away from our minds, our spouses' mind and even our children and grand-children’s minds.

Today we proclaim that God has given us a sound mind. We will not entertain confusion, but live in clarity. WE will not be tormented with impure, evil, negative or sinful thoughts, but be transformed by the renewing of our mind, that we may prove what is that good, acceptable and perfect will of God. (Romans 12:2)   

 “We shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday” (Psalm 91:5-6) may the Spirit of the Lord rest upon us, “ the Spirit of wisdom, and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD” ( Isaiah 11:2) Amen and Amen.

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In These Times of Violence

Father, we repent as a nation of not turning to YOU in these times of violence. As Daniel prayed in 9:4-19 …..O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land.

O, Lord, righteousness belongs to You, but to us shame of face, as it is this day----to the men of this nation who have been unfaithful to YOU!

(v.8) O Lord, to us belongs shame of face to our (leaders, our fathers) who have sinned against You  …….To the Lord our God belong mercy and forgiveness though we have rebelled against Him.  v. 14 Therefore the LORD has kept the disaster in mind, and brought it upon us; for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works which He does, though we have not obeyed His voice. V. 15 And now, O Lord our God, who brought Your people out of the land of Egypt with a mighty hand, and made Yourself a name, as it is this day-----we have sinned, we have done wickedly!

v.16 O Lord, according to all your righteousness, I pray, let Your anger and Your fury be turned away from us….this nation which was established in YOUR holy name…

v. 17 Now, therefore our God, hear the prayer of Your servant and his supplications, and for the Lord’s sake cause Your face to shine on Your sanctuary, which is desolate. 18 O my God , incline Your ear and hear; open Your eyes and see our desolations  and the city which is called by Your name, for we do not present our  supplications before You because of our righteous deeds but because of Your great mercies. 19 O Lord, hear! O Lord, forgive! O Lord, listen and act! Do not delay for Your own sake my God, for Your city and Your people are called by Your name.

From verse 14, we see the LORD has kept the disaster in mind for the land! When people choose to lift up the false narratives and false ways and give praise to those who choose to be lazy and not work, but beat up and kick to the curb those who sacrifice time for their family, for their job and to be responsible then a nation has gone in the wrong direction!

What comes from our hearts? Is there a cry for righteousness or just to get our own way? What if we ask God for His way and His truth? What if we walk the straight and the narrow to see His kingdom come on earth and in us? Jesus did not come to accommodate our culture, but He did come to set up His kingdom!

WHEN Daniel prayed out his petitions to God: he prayed basing them on God’s character:   His greatness , His faithfulness, His righteousness , His forgiveness & mercies; & on the very interests God has for His people including the city of Jerusalem, the holy mountain of God, His sanctuary.

If we as a nation see corruption, do we pray for our leaders, not only in the government of this nation as our President, vice-President, those that represent the districts within states of this union,  but also for the mayors of cities & towns, for police officers, firefighters, those first-responders & medics or for our schools & those as leaders in those places? Do we stand in the gap, when so much immorality is given in war of words, paraded in commercials on T.V., flaunted on our streets & where lies prevail in the marketplace!

WHO will stand in the gap for God: Ezekiel 22:29-30  NKJV The people of the land have used oppression's, committed robbery, & mistreated the poor & needy; & they  wrongfully oppressed the stranger. 30 So I sought for a man among them who would make a wall, & stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found no one.

Are we too busy to pray? Are we caught up in tracing our ancestors of yesteryear that we have no time for today? Do we look for more ways to be entertained than to see why our children are acting out in public or at school?  For what is in one’s heart will certainly reflect what they fill up on in the place they call home.

Our grand-daughter had been over for a visit in recent weeks and one of the things I noticed that a channel I purposed showed nothing for a nine year old. It was young teens acting like they were twenty years and older and then acted  out like they were much older for those things with guys that was not prudent or safe for a young girl to see and entertain within her thinking. YES, I changed the channel!

What has happened to this nation? What has happened to your nation? Do we pray for our leaders and those in charge of making decisions or are those elected only there to direct their wishes onto the public. I heard a man speaking yesterday that all baby-boomers were spoiled children and they all acted out by becoming hippies. In regards to a past president, he made comment of the Clinton's and their thing with 'pot'.

 My husband and I were considered of that generation, but we came later and while those twenty something’s were out parading with their drug paraphernalia, going bare-footed, and speaking “groovy man” we were working after school. My husband worked till dark every day after school while he was still at home. I was to do my homework and then to find the dish soap to wash a dish when the dinner was done, and if the lawn needed cutting, my sister or I would cut it in order to help our parents out who both worked for a living.

'Pot' was not a part of our thing, paraphernalia or anything else. If my dad or mother knew we had gone to do any of that kind of thing, we certainly would know that sitting down would be a hard thing for us do for the next week and we would know that we were not to do that thing again. My parents did not drink in front of us nor behind us. They chose to leave that stuff when raising a family.

Some of the people that I knew told stories of that hippie thing were those who were born in the early and mid-forties of the twentieth century. So too me, they were those who did not have a father at home due to the battles overseas and the war with Japan. Still, we had our dad at home with us when the Vietnam war came. The sacrifice that came was because people dared to think our nation could continue as the one nation under God. And many who went to war did not return home to their home or family again!

We were taught to have a respect for those who fought those battles overseas so there would never be battles here. But I believe someone forget to teach the importance of knowing the truth of those wars and why they were fought over there!

When our daughter was growing up, we taught her about the history of our state and the history of the nation. We talked about relatives who went to fight overseas and reminded her of those who gave their lives for that freedom that she could enjoy! 

What we magnify, we create!

As Daniel prayed: " O Lord, great and awesome God, who keeps His covenant and mercy with those who love Him, and with those who keep His commandments, we have sinned and committed iniquity, we have done wickedly and rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and Your judgments. Neither have we heeded Your servants the prophets, who spoke in Your name to our kings and our princes, to our fathers and all the people of the land."

Yes, we have committed iniquity and it continues to grow at an alarming rate. Will people wake up to the "mess" that embroils this place we call 'home'? Or are we satisfied to go about doing our own thing as long as we are not disturbed in any way.

Many of those who came after us and still considered 'the baby boomers' have all held jobs and raised their children to become adults that choose to live in a house and pay taxes. They chose to raise their children to know truth and be raised in the admonition of the LORD. 

I pray people would stop playing the 'blame game' and come out from among them to find peace in God and become all that He purposed for His people. For He has given us direction in our identities. He purposed us from our mother's womb to be precisely who He planned for from the foundation of the world. I pray people would stop to pray whenever they read this or wherever they might be that they would set their hearts to pray and to hear from heaven for this nation and its leaders, for that place where they live and reside to be responsible with what God has placed in their hands to do for Him and His glory.

Father, we pray because we love You our creator.  As the man or woman, we have this desire to be together with You and communicate! We give praise for who You are and what awesome power and majesty surrounds You. You are our strength and You are our portion, our source and our life!

Jesus warned his disciples to watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation 
(Matthew 26:41) 

Thank You Father for the power in prayer for we have learned that having this spiritual life is air to our natural life. Today we choose prayer so that we would not become the weak and the exposed. Nor we will not allow the enemy to gain any ground in deceiving us.

We ask for intervention so that human affairs will not dominate this nation and the world. We invite You to work on earth so that Your kingdom comes into those multitudes who would be lost without this intervention.

We are thankful for salvation and we earnestly remember Your goodness to us in the land of the living. We set out to pray and not lose heart and to pray without ceasing. For in Daniel we saw him pray and be given more insight to revelations of You and Your kingdom. We know those who have been subdued by the strength of Your fire. For those raged against Daniel certainly were hushed when consumed by the lions when they had poised to take out Daniel because he prayed. Chains were broken for Paul & Silas when they praised God. And Hannah received a child into what was once a barren womb when she prayed and believed for that child that God could give. 

We pray expecting truth to prevail in this nation and around the world. We pray for our brothers and sisters in Christ, both near and far that they would see Your kingdom come into their lives, into their communities and into their nations. For in these times of violence, we pray for them to have freedom in religion to worship the true God, where the fountain of life flows and the blessings manifest!

We pray babies will no longer be aborted but live for God and for His glory. We pray marriages would be strong and overcome the works of the flesh. We pray children would be raised to know the truth of God and become the strength He has planned for their lives in the future. We call out those destined for leadership and to take their rightful places in righteousness of God to pray,  to inhale His goodness and His word and exhale the strength of that wisdom into the work place, schools, and government.

 We pray for the safety of children of all ages and that the enemy cannot touch them in the womb or within their homes. The enemy cannot have our children or grand-children, and he cannot touch what we have asked God to protect by the blood of His son Jesus!

We pray for safety for our brothers and sisters in Christ who go out to give the Gospel to those wandering in the dark. Father, thank You for their faithful hearts and give them strength to carry out Your plan. We honor You this day and this hour and speak, Come Lord Jesus, Come!

It is in Jesus' name we have prayed. Amen

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Began To Speak

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Luke 7:11-17 NKJV Now it happened, the day after that He went into a city called Nain; and many of His disciples went with Him, and a large crowd. 12 And when he came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said to her, "Do not weep."
14 Then He came and touched the open coffin, and those who carried him stood still. And He said, "Young man, I say to you arise." 15 So he who was dead sat up and began to speak. And He presented him to his mother.
16 Then fear came upon all, and they glorified God, saying, "A great prophet has risen up among us". 17 And this report about Him went throughout all Judea and all the surrounding region.



Compassion will cause you to speak.
From the passage above, Jesus is surrounded by His disciples (by this point many of them) and a large crowd. So you would have followers of Jesus, walking with Him to hear His teaching and those who walked along to see if they might view another miracle.
Here though we also have compassion! He comes along side a large open coffin being carried out no doubt to the place of the tombs.
And in the compassion of Jesus He bids the woman not to "weep". Jesus then reaches and yes, touches  the coffin and commands the young man. He gives instruction for him to arise.
The dead man now alive sits up and begins to converse. Boy, does he have a story to tell everyone!

Yes, an adventure had begun. He who was dead was now alive at the word of Jesus.
We are told that fear came upon all and they glorified God saying, "a great prophet has risen up among us."

On mediating on this, I was remembering of an invitation my husband and I got in the last few days to visit this church who has a "guest" who was raised from the dead some time ago! Now we had attended a church for some time, and I do remember this man coming for some services. He appeared at the church in the city and at the church in the country. What I was thinking was why the man's wife had not appeared with him as she was the "faith woman" who prayed him back and Jesus gave Him the boost.
So the woman or woman and friends prayed touching the heart of God, and in Jesus' name....a man was raised!

Now we know that it is "faith " that pleases God, right? So when God is pleased with our faith we too can see the miraculous just like Jesus did!
I asked the Lord this morning, "why is it that the one raised, is the one who travels to tell of his being raised from the dead, and the "faith" person or people who spent the time on their knees are the ones who are not heard of, ever!

Again, while meditating on this early this particular day I happened to see Jesse Du Plantis on Sid Roth's "SUPERNATURAL".
In his relating of testimony of God in his life, he told also of the power of his mother's prayers. He told of an event that captured him greatly!
He liked doing his own thing before being saved. And early in his  life,  one of them was to travel to a small town in Texas next to the border of Mexico and New Mexico and have a partying time. It was a "bar" area with its' women of the night thing.
He said he and his best friend got to the bar and started drinking right away. The phone rang, and some man called out in a thick Spanish accent for a Jesse....middle name...here..Du Plantis.

He looks thoughtfully at his friend and then wondering who would know he was there and know his middle name as well was calling and he was going to see who knew his whereabouts. 
So Jesse marched over to the bar.  Still he wondered who would know of his being at this particular place at this particular time, so he stands in front of the man holding the phone!
He says with a questioning voice ......"hello"???..... and from the other end he hears something like a lot like his mother with her strong and bold voice......... calling him a devil, telling him she knows what kind of dive he was in, and why he is in that place and he needed to leave then not later. Or God would put him in hell!
He goes back to the table, gets his friend and leaves. He was concerned that God was going to put him in hell forever! His mother had spoken. His mother had prayed and Jesse Du Plantis told others of how his mother prayed for him and how he walked into a life with God! AND GOD TOLD JESSE'S MOTHER WHERE JESSE WAS PARTYING.

God answers the prayers of the righteous man (or woman). God is pleased by our faith in Him!


So back to those who are raised from the dead, I would rather speak with your wife, or friends who prayed for days for you to rise! I would rather know what they experienced than you who walks. For truly the dead when raised will speak; just look at any new believer in Christ Jesus! The young man in the coffin sat up and spoke. He had much to say after dying, right?

Compassion speaks: It spoke through Jesus and speaks through those who pray for others. Compassion is not measured, it is not by the wishes of anyone. Compassion is the godly fear that arises from the reverent life devoted to God, arises from submission to God and comes from Him who is the perfected, genuine humanity WHO WAS APPOINTED BY GOD! When Jesus is BIG in our life, then we prevail by His word and His example indeed!

We know not the life of the young man in the coffin. BUT we do know Jesus or should know Him. AND Jesus had many encounters with God the Father. Any family member who has pleaded for the life of the other loved one know what it is like and what it takes to persevere in prayer. In the ministry of the priest, one will pray for their fellow man.
We have a living way through Whom we can draw near to God. We are to have the same compassion Jesus carried within Him.
I believe those who walk today being raised from a early death, has been from those who truly had the same compassion as the Savior. They love people! They have mercy for others, extend it to others on a regular basis.

Ask God to use you to pray for others. Ask Him where you can speak life to another and see their purpose manifest for all to see. The widow woman got her son back. She did not have to fear living in the street, for her son with life in him came back to life to help his mother.

In understanding that Jesus had a prayer life, we too are to have a prayer life.

Jesus gave us strength and dignity. If we truly are His, then we wear strength and dignity and in the position of prayer we are the strong and the secure. Compassion will be seen in our land when our hands are extended in prayer, extended to the poor or to the needy. (whether in body, soul or spirit)

Father, in Jesus' name we pray our lives will always carry Your presence and Your tangible anointing. With YOUR anointing, all things are possible to the believer. We pray and expect to be the wise who values all that YOU accomplished at the Cross. We value YOUR presence above all else. 

Father we desire to be those who will gird ourselves with Your word for spiritual strength, for mental strength and for physical strength as well.

Today, we believe and expect to be that "one" who will move and give the Word of God,  that will empower them to be refreshed and keep them from the wiles of the enemy. Help us to see where others may be carrying out someone to the tombs for burial when their purpose has not been manifested. Help us to see when prayer is needed to help others spiritually by prayer and then touch them with Your words of truth!

Thank You for that Word! We want to carry Your presence to the world so they can know You like we know YOU.  To God be all the glory. Amen.

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