The Spiritual Mannequin

 What is and where would we see the spiritual mannequin? We should be people of the kingdom of Jesus He is King of and leads us daily. But mannequins are shaped in a form to smile lots and make no movements of their own. They should be those who are faith people, filled with God's word and on fire for His glory and to His praise.

Matthew 11: 19-19 For John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, 'He has a demon.' 19 The Son of Man came eating and drinking and they say, 'Look a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of the tax collectors and sinners!' But wisdom is justified by her children.

Unbelief will not respond to truth! John the Baptist was and is the one who spoke of Jesus' coming. And Jesus demonstrated the faith walk with every word He spoke! They spoke wisdom of God. They regarded truth the priority. So where does that leave us today?

What are the children of wisdom? We would know them as those who have good works and good fruit. They who would be wise or the foolish would be seen and know by the fruit they bear. In this, their work accomplished or life lived it out in truth would bear it out!

In this day and hour we should control our desires as any excess over what God spoke.  Do we have that flesh gluttony? For losing control of oneself in this excess is sin! It is truly feeding the belly, that little god of excess. And it is bad when running to it eagerly to participate in it. God's wisdom is available for us to live by. But do we do it? Do we speak it and believe it to be His truth?

Today we have people tending toward joining this culture thing or that culture thing. They want people to hear them, but most of the time they give voice to the wrong thing. Any platform should be made available to Jesus and truth He spoke! The people Jesus spoke to, had a meal with, did not drag Him into their culture thing. He gave them choice of His truth against their sin! He spoke to their hurt and pain.

Sin today is so rampant, even among church goers! People should not be relying on drugs to tone down their pain, emotional distraught or recreational joy ride. They should want Jesus' words to penetrate their hearing for healing! On the Cross, Jesus had two men beside Him. One spoke against Jesus and the other regarded Jesus: Luke 23:39-43 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him saying, "If You are the Christ, save Yourself and us." 40 But the other answering, rebuked him, saying, "Do you not even fear God seeing you are under the same condemnation?" 41 " And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but his Man has done nothing wrong." 42 Then he said to Jesus, "Lord, remember me when You come into Your kingdom." 43 And Jesus said to him, "Assuredly, I say to you, today you will be with Me in Paradise."

Paradise is the blissful place of fellowship with God. Now, today, is the time to worship, give God place in us.....it is not a mannequin, but a person who reads the Word of God, prays and gives place to praying in  Tongues, and songs to glorify God. It is done with others and is done alone. When you find a dark place, a bad report from a doctor, a loved one has passed, others moved away, and now you find another dark place. Yet, Jesus is for us when He hears us cry out to Him. It is a rallying cry, not boots on the ground, but sound words of truth declaring Jesus is Lord.

No cowboy hats, and white boots to the thigh, no it is not a culture but a place, a living maybe in some weakness and some strength, maybe fatigued, maybe with less interest in life, but get a spark of life from Jesus today. Find yourself in Him, hearing His sweet voice and learning your body should obey His every command.

The disciples did not want Jesus to leave them. Judas Iscariot wanted a King so he was paid 30 pieces of silver  to betray Jesus. What gluttony betrays us today? What flesh excess needs to be cut off right now? Peter thought he would never betray Jesus, but he did! We are not mannequins. We are to always exercise and discipline ourselves, bringing under authority our canal affections, those bodily appetites and any worldly desires we would have. We should endeavor to in all respects to have a clean conscience, voice of offense toward Father God and toward men. We should keep ourselves from idols. Those representing culture will find many "gods" while continuing to be themselves in sin!

What occupies our hearts? To be spiritual is to be Holy Spirit minded.  It is asking Him to give the fruit of our lips that draws thanksgiving from our innermost resources, that secret place of our heart.  Humility and fear of God brings wealth and honor and life to us. To be clothed is clothed in compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

Yes, I will ask if you are for your family, community and nation. Do YOU pray for them all? If not, then why not? Do you follow all rules of this land or not? Unfortunately we have many from other nations who choose to flaunt their language and flag in this nation. If you love your old flag and tongue, by all means go back to that which you love. The Lord gave us a place to voice His name, His faith, His kingdom and His way of life. It is is being aware of what is falling apart in this nation.

What will it be?

This day, I went with my husband to grocery store. Had stayed in vehicle to keep it cool for our little dog who was with us. The place was busy, watched vehicles drive by. I then saw a man walking in middle of street toward our parking space. He stayed in the opposite lane, but stopped for a moment. He stopped in front of an Auto Parts Store. Then looking in my direction, he started screaming, that yelling at the top of his lungs. I first thought he was talking to someone behind our vehicle, but there was none. I looked once at him, when he crossed intersection toward us. Although staying in the opposite lane, he proceeded to yell and curse. He pointed and waved his hands and arms....lifting them toward the sky. He stopped opposite our vehicle, but continued with his explosive language. People driving by watched him in his bodily anger. He started walking again. I did not watch him. But could see him walking waving wild arms and yelling loudly. He continued that till he got to end of mini strip mall. Then he was gone. Alas it was quiet again! 

I told my husband about it. And when I finished immediately I knew Holy Spirit was showing me Jesus at the Tombs. The demoniac was yelling at Jesus, and the man who knew Jesus would fall to worship Him but the demon would have "the man" yell at Him.  Yes, it got quiet when the man left that parking lot in the city today. But he was loud when Holy Spirit was close by. Interesting truth I was reading in the book of Titus when he started to cross into our parking area.

Call it what you will, but truth will call out! It is not drugs, it is not a plastic smile, and unbelief. No we must be on the alert for Jesus. Be on the alert when someone passes by us and with a not to happy platform. We pray for him who chose loud behavior, to be rude with anger that others could hear. May he know Jesus as we know Jesus. May Holy Spirit enlighten this man to truth today.

Things are happening all around us: 28 plus earthquakes in Nevada. flows of liquid from Yellowstone Lava Lake, a large asteroid is entering our solar system first of October. I think it comes by Mars on October 3. Hey, if it misses Mars, it might miss us too! And the bad things occurring to rabbits and deer. Those with tentacles coming out of their heads, chest and backs. Yikes! Something is happening guys. Put away culture and seek truth in our Lord now!

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Modern Stone Age Family

Are setting up our "kids" to live in a place that is of rocks, and stones?

Some might remember this: Flintstone's meet the Flintstone's ...they are the modern stone age family, you know from the town of Bedrock, they are that place right out of history. I heard that history repeats itself.
Yes, Shelley but this is just a cartoon show, right? Yes but how people today insist on casting stones, whether they live within this country or without, they seem to let it all hang out, with every type of attitude of defiance possible. Even the costumes seen from that very show seem to indicate a representation of the things Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble wore are seen in some who entertain like the music industry in today's culture. Yikes!


Jesus came to roll the stones away! He came to move people out of the dust bowl society and stone throwing to set captives free. He came to show us what we needed to be set free from!

John 11:17-44………NKJV ……...17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already been in the tomb four days. 18 Now Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away. 19 And many of the Jews had joined the women around Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother. 20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met Him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

21 Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You." 23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." 24 Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?" 27 She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."   

28 And when she had said these things, she went her way and secretly called Mary her sister, saying, "The Teacher has come and is calling for you." 29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly and came to Him. 30 Now Jesus had not yet come into the town, but was in the place where Martha met Him. 31 Then the Jews who were with her in the house, and comforting her, when they saw that Mary rose up quickly and went out, followed her, saying, "She is going to the tomb to weep there."

 32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died." 33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34 And He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, "See how He loved him!" 37 And some of them said, "Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?"

38 Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it. 39 Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of him who was dead, said to Him, "Lord, by this time there is a stench, for he has been dead four days."

40 Jesus said to her, "Did I not say to you that if you would believe you would see the glory of God?" 41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying.

And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank You that You have heard Me. 42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of the people who are standing by I said this, that they may believe that You sent Me." 43 Now when He had said these things, He cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth!" 44 And he who had died came out bound hand and foot with grave clothes, and his face was wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Loose him, and let him go."  

There were many things going on in this region when Lazarus had died. And two women had wondered why Jesus had not appeared. Each had a response about meeting Him.

First we find Martha speaking this from John 11: 21 Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You." 23 Jesus said to her, "Your brother will rise again." 24 Martha said to Him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." 25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. 26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?" 27 She said to Him, "Yes, Lord, I believe that You are the Christ, the Son of God, who is to come into the world."   

Martha knew of the resurrection on the last day, and when she ran to meet Jesus, she did not bow before Him. Did she not notice He carried the very presence of God?

Next we look at Mary: John 11: 32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him, she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, "Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died." 33 Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled. 34 And He said, "Where have you laid him?" They said to Him, "Lord, come and see." 35 Jesus wept. 36 Then the Jews said, "See how He loved him!" 37 And some of them said, "Could not this Man, who opened the eyes of the blind, also have kept this man from dying?"

Oh yes, Jesus certainly love them and loves them today! Jesus spoke with Mary and she too gave a response to His arrival>>>>.. "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."

Sooner or later we must move out of the stone age where stones are thrown at people and live in faith as the Lord has directed us to live. Mary knelt at the presence of God in Jesus. Can you see the difference?

People today put their children in a place of bondage trying to keep them so to speak in a safe environment, and yet create places that only bring the grown child into rejection and in some cases abandonment. For most it is represented by the "fear factor"!

People so fear for their children they will not allow them to get a driver's license just because of a health issue, will not allow them to get job because of health issue, but the same parent's will give the child a front row seat as to where the parent wants the child to go. Where the parent decides best suits the parent without regard for the child that they are human, created by God and should not be kept as pets!  Children in some cases are caged like an animal. They are caged by words of the parent's pride when they implement themselves as judge and jury over every and all situations in regards to the child or children.

I speak from experience for my husband and I had done that at one time. Our daughter had been diagnosed with asthma at the age of eight. And it seemed like over time working to keeping all the meds and her health in check for good was in itself another job for me to do. Although my husband was present, still I was the "person" who worried. Not a good thing to do! 

But like my husband said when our daughter was about to turn 15 that we had to allow her to live. She wanted to work and we let her work as long as her grades remained really good. And they did! We allowed her the great privilege of getting her license  to drive a car and learn some responsibility of taking care of herself in that weapon called an automobile. She learned to care for the engine under the hood. She learned how to work with others, draw a paycheck and become a responsible individual. She grew from a child, to a teenager to a young adult. She attended college and got her degree. She also continued to work and not live off others. So also learned from God's word how to put His truth at the place where asthma had been spoken. 

If we are creating danger zones for our kids demanding they obey us as we know more about their sickness, their dilemma, then we are limiting God, and danger for the child or teen!

Every decision should only occur when the truth of God is revealed !  For they should have known how to be responsible by taking out the trash at age eight. They should know how to wash a dish if they dirty one. They should know they must work if they desire to eat. They should know how to sort clothing to wash by their high school years.

But alas, some people resort to creating their lives over again in their children. I hope we are not doing that ever. Our children should live for that life God intended and not by some Mama's rule or Daddy's rule that they the child cannot do something because they are diabetic or they have heart issues, they are autistic or they have or were born premature and weakly and must take life at a gentle pace of motion and movement through their life without disrupting anyone else or anything else.

Jesus certainly disrupted the religious folk of His day and they were casting stones in that day. They wanted to push Him on a cliff....yeah, some people, right?

If a parent, then we should know that our child or children are not separated from the love of Christ. He came to give His life for them. And to prevent them from learning something of life at the different ages then at age 21 we  then wonder why they are still at home, why are they not holding a job and they still desire to be with us every moment of every day. Because they were not allowed to see through God's eyes that which God intended because Mama or Daddy said!

They were kept from driving a car, dating and working. Kept from really reaching their full potential because of Mama's or Daddy' fear factor for life. Like daddy left us when we were babies, and Mama died when we were 12 or 14 years of age. Then the person now raises their kids in same manner....to repeat history of daddy leaving, Mama dying and abandonment.

Because if the child is not taught a real structure that is of God, the stones will crumble. The foundation is not strong, and the child becoming an adult will now resent the Mama who wants to put them out, resent and will feel abandoned by the Mama's or Daddy's doing.

Father , who can separate us from the love of Christ? Can trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? No, in all these things we are more than a conqueror through Him who loves us (Romans 8:35,37)

 Lord, may our children not be conformed to our image but YOUR'S. In our act of spiritual worship, You call us to not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, not to the modern stone age family, no, you call us to be transformed by the renewing of our minds. That we will be able to test and approve what Your will is. Your good, pleasing and perfect will is for us to know. (Romans 12:1-2

Father, today I pray for parents who have teenage children to repent of their ways that is far from You and may they receive wisdom how their children should be supported to go out as adults and live for God. For Your Word tells us that anyone who trusts in You will never be put to shame. (Romans 10:11)

Father may we always receive the Message, but Your Message is better than anything. May we run after Your truth, and seek You while You may be found. Though we are in the world we are not of it! The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have power to demolish strongholds. Your power can demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of You, God and take captive every thought and make it obedient to Christ. (2 Corinthians 10:3-5) Enable us Lord! Help us not just to read it and say it, but believe it and do it! Amen!!

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Potty Training

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Yikes! Potty Training....what has that got to do with godly things?
In scripture, we were told that God created the heavens and the earth. We are also told that He created them Adam and Eve, male and female.

Proverbs 3:3-4  ..Let not mercy and truth forsake …you;…Bind them around your neck,

Write them on the tablet of …….your heart,

4 And so find favor and high esteem

In the sight of God and man.

God thought it important enough to remind us from these verses to not letting mercy and truth forsake us. We are to bind them around our neck, see that they are written on the tablet of our heart and in doing so, we would find favor and high esteem in the sight of God and man!

Yet these very important words have been abandoned either by neglect or by choosing a "new pathway" that is against (out of alignment) from God established for us in His word of truth.

In training a child, you start early (like when they are mastering their walk) and introduce them to the potty chair. For some, this is a continual work in progress. For others though it flows quickly and smoothly. In regards to children we have had or seen within our families, our own seemed to take to the potty chair quickly. Always regarding her care as the utmost in bringing her up, we always mentioned the words: modesty, discreet, remembering modesty was the best policy and quality for a young girl or woman to maintain.

In regards of morals, we continued to seek encouraging her of the importance of being respectful to her body and to keep an appropriate behavior in the use of the "potty".

Now some may think this is absurd or something other than useful, but if our mouth is the "potty" mouth, then we are not useful except to someone else who has that "potty" mouth!

In training someone up to be virtuous, we remind them that God planned for them. He spoke of their coming and with our own, the Lord had me speak specific things to her on the day she was born. If GOD thought that important, then we viewed her knowing who she was and what she was to do for Him would come from Him.

Not sure where people got off on their thinking that what you were born with according to being male or female played no role in who you would be later in life. I am not certain how people who were educated could get into a whole world of hurt by thinking of you change your hormones, have some medical procedures or two that you will be "normal". WRONG!

In the rules of conduct: we are to conduct our lives with the respect that God planned us and He knows who we are and what the plan is for each of us. Psalm 127:3 Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward.

Psalm 139:13 For YOU formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother's womb. 14 I will praise You for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, and that my soul knows very well. 15 My frame was not hidden from You, when I was made in secret, and skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed, and in Your book they all were written, the days fashioned for me, when as yet there were none of them.

Yes, can you imagine it right now, what some have had sex changes will be telling God has they stand before Him, and telling Him "you made a mistake"! Yikes!

For the God, the Creator of the heavens and the earth does not make mistakes and scripture tells us that He knew us in the depths being formed and He has a book that is written about my life, your life, your children's lives and your grand-children's lives!

In what God fashioned for each of us is written. What He planned, He noted it to show us. Yet there will be many tears, many denials and certain heartache beyond what anyone could stand when confronting truth in the FACE of God's TRUTH!

In the closing verses of Psalm 139, the author wrote Search me O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxieties;  24 and if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

Lord God, see if there is any wicked way in my heart...search me O God.

Anything of the false that is contrary to God and His truth is spoken in this short prayer. The author needed to offer that which he knew could keep his heart from hate and from the practices that men tend to do by their human nature. The author wanted to be led in that way that is holy toward God…that is in spirit and truth. For in truth, we are to walk following the way the Lord is directing and not by human standards, human reasoning and human wrongs. For we know that the way that is right in a man’s own eyes is seldom the way to God but for their own satisfaction and desires.

News alert: what you were born with is who you are, whom God created with a plan in mind! Don't shipwreck your life for a moment in the flesh.

 Basing our decisions on our senses is folly. So when we see something, feel something, hear something, based without true knowledge is detrimental to you and me. When confronted with fear, confusion takes over to cover us in darkness and hide us from the very knowledge we need and that is God’s word. As fear is cloaked in darkness of confusion, then pressure will take over to be the driver to move one to act out of fear. This pressure looks much like selfishness and strife! It is a wanting to protect oneself from the thing fear has created. Words spoken from the natural man using these five senses can cause a lot of unneeded problems birthed through the false evidence.

We must have true knowledge to make right decisions. That knowledge of the heart is that we gain from the Lord and His Word. Proverbs 12:1 Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge. But he who hates corrections is stupid. (NKJV)

Proverbs 15:2 The tongue of the wise uses knowledge, but the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.(NKJV)

Proverbs 18:15…………15 The heart of the prudent acquires knowledge,

And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.  NKJV

His Counsel. His eye is of favor on those who regard His counsel. It is the knowledge of who He is and all that comes with friendship of that with a great King. (Proverbs 22:11)……

Proverbs 22:12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthrows the words of the transgressor.

To maintain the walk God planned for each of us, is to stay within the boundary of His word of truth. To do anything else would be sin and far from God!

Psalm 1: Blessed is the man who walks not in counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scornful; 2 but his delight in is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. 3 He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water that brings forth its fruit in season, whose leaf  shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. 

If one is due for potty training, may they know God has a plan for their good and not evil to give them a hope in their final outcome. May we be found in faith knowing God is for us and not against us! Amen.

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