Would YOU Like Me If.....

Would you like Me?

Would you like me if I weighed less? Would you like me if I weighed more or if I were younger or how about being older? Would you like me if I were a certain color or had less gray in my hair? Would you like me if I were taller or spoke like you? Would you like me if I was more  like you?

1 Samuel 1:1-12 This man went from his city year by year to worship and sacrifice to the Lord of hosts at Shiloh, where Hophni and Phinehas, the two sons of Eli, were the Lord's priests. 4 When the day came that Elkanah sacrifice, he would give to Peninnah his wife and all her sons and daughters portions [of the sacrificial meat]. 5 But to Hannah he gave a double portion, for he loved Hannah, but the Lord had given her no children. 6[ This embarrassed and grieved Hanna] & her rival provoked her greatly to vex her, because the Lord had left her childless. 7 So it was year after year; whenever Hannah went up to the Lord's house, Peninnnah provoked her, so she wept and did not eat.  8 Then Elkanah her husband said to her, "Hannah, why do you cry? And why do you not eat? And why are you grieving? am I not more to you than ten sons?" 9 So Hannah rose after they had eaten and drunk in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat beside a post of the temple [tent] of the Lord. 10 And [Hannah] was in distress of soul, praying to the Lord and weeping bitterly. 11 She vowed, saying O Lord of hosts, of hosts, if You will indeed look on the affliction of Your handmaid and [earnestly ] remember, and not forget Your handmaid but will give me a son, I will give him to the Lord all his life; no razor shall touch his head. 12 And she continued praying before the Lord.....


For Hannah, she lived within a household that held two women! Then factor in she Hannah was favored by her husband Elkanah yet, she Hannah had no children with him. And Peninnah chose to grieve Hannah about it. In verse 7 we find that Peninnah provoked Hannah that she wept and she did not eat.
Now that is serious ....!


In all that is reported to this in scripture, Hannah did not carry a negative thought. Her desire she made mention of it to the Lord and on a regular basis she pursued the Lord for an answer of a son for her and Elkanah.

In all that is reported in scripture on  Hannah, there was nothing found in a negative way about her. Today's culture is really different from what was allowed at that time. Although you do hear from time to time of men having more than one wife. I believe some Muslims have more than one wife at a time. Yet, that would be hard for any woman, and then to have no children with your husband would make life difficult indeed!

Yes, Hannah prayed for years. She had painful experiences and Peninnah chose to aggravate the circumstances within Hannah's life. But Hannah chose prayer. She knew her answer could come and she chose to keep that prayer of supplication going out to the Lord who answers.

Hannah came to a monumental moment when speaking: "I will give him to the Lord all his life."

She chose not to be paralyzed by the fear the other woman imposed upon her. Hannah chose to pray!

   

Yes the culture dictates something different. People write things to be liked. People will do anything to have a following and yet we find in this woman of so many years ago took the road of prayer.'

In this day and time, God still answers with I sent My Son for you. In this hour, He reminds us that it does not matter the skin color, the weight issue or even how tall or short we might be.

For Hannah prayed out of a heart breaking for "a son" and God even knew then the Son He would be giving for the world to be saved.

It should not matter if someone likes us or not. It should matter when we have committed our all to God!

At some point we must be sane about life. At some point we must choose life and the life giving words that come from God alone.

In the strength of prayer time, our communication with Him, we reject the world's chatter and the world's abuse. In choosing the Lord we are under His protection...........and our expectancy is the answer from Him that will bring much light, much love, and deliver us into a restored life we were meant to have from the start!

SAD but true, cruelty appears to be on the rise today. And it appears even among those who lead others. Today as you and I take inventory of our lives, will we see the familiar anguish and pain or has our hope been set in the Lord?

We too, can be like Hannah who received a son. Within the love of God and for His glory, Hannah had a son and he became a prophet, Samuel who ministered unto the LORD!

It is more important to be found with God. Hannah's identity was found in Him, and she secured a son. Her security did not depend on any man. She kept her voice vocal about the goodness of God and prayed. Within that prayer time, she became free to become what God had planned for her.

May we choose to take our identity within God! Set your course with those who will see potential in you. Pursue people who will see where you are going and not from where you came from.

Are there any associations we must eliminate from our lives?

Find those who will encourage you in the Word of God. They will be those who will always send you fed with His life in you. 

Today, leave the dead behind and seek the land of the living. Seeks those who live for God and will encourage you to do the same!

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Healing Garden

Is it ignorance that keeps us in the "sickly place"?

I love the scripture "Thy word hath quickened me."

Healing is simple. Like David, we too, can listen and apply the Word to our lives. We, too, can have an attitude to place the word in our lives that brings life to us and yes to our bodies. The offered gift, all of God's blessings are promised to us. Will we accept them, and take the responsibility to receive not only the Word but His healing as well?

Like the Psalms that David wrote, he has placed the Word in a book for human hearts to receive. From reading through the Psalms ( and I have not finished them all) we find that David believed everything he wrote. He exercised his right in prayer and in worship with thanksgiving to the God of truth. It was David who had a heart knitted to the Father, and it was written that he, David, was " a man after God's own heart."

I can only relate my experiences in the Word of God and how healing continues to come to me and my family. We practice the Word of truth. We write it, confess it boldly and expect a harvest. Truly our bodies are the healing garden of God's word.

Instruction for healing is the same for salvation. It is faith that produces. It is God's will to heal by His word. So that when we continually hear God's word and get it planted deep in our hearts, we are those who experience healing through renewed strength and pain-free bodies.

We must give a place for healing to occur! If I plant my garden with tomato plants and then try to plant pepper plants in the same spot as the tomato plants, then there is no place for either plant to grow. I must give place for tomato plants to have the room and right light to grow well in the summer. Each plant must be watered and watched for best results. As with pepper plants, they need the required lighting and water, but they need their amount of space to grow and produce peppers. When planting these, I know they must be in good rich soil and not in rocky, sandy soil. I cannot plant them in the cold of winter unless I have a special place to keep them like a green house and keep the temps that will help those plants produce fruit.

So too, we must plant God's word in our heart, and let nothing cause the word to die there. So the right conditions would be to seek God's desire. It is His will to heal! We cannot stay in the place called" Nazareth of unbelief". For if we are operating under the influences of the "elders" who dictate like "well, healing is for some and not for others" or "healing was during Jesus' time and not now" then we stay in a place of no healing. But God is greater than us and can override the influences of others for even in Nazareth, Jesus did heal a few. It is the putting of the Word in our hearts, and daily confessing it, that our faith grows and produces what we are seeking: HEALING!

Mark 6:1-6........6:1 Then He went out from there and came to His own country, and His disciples followed Him. 2 And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were astonished, saying, "Where did this Man get these things? And what wisdom is this which is given to Him, that such mighty works are performed by His hands! 3 Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are not His sisters here with us?" And they were offended at Him. 4 But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and in his own house." 5 Now He could do no mighty work there, except that He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed them. 6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He went about the villages in a circuit, teaching. NKJV

They thought of Jesus as just the son of a carpenter. Are you just considered someone's wife or someone's mother? Or are you like Jesus, the son of___________________? But Jesus said that the prophet is not without honor except in his own country, among his own relatives, and among those of his own house! Yet Jesus counted it unto them as "unbelief". Jesus spent time reading and studying. You can find that of him at the age of 12.AND when we study through the Gospels, we also find Him seeking God's heart in prayer.

The more we become enlightened to His Word, the more we see health restored to our bodies. When we continue to read passages and pray, we see harvest in areas we did not expect.

Our little poodle is a miniature in size. She is black WITH some apricot around her face. She had the apricot color around her face for only three or four years and then seemed to fade. Since my husband and I started reading the word of God every night together, our poodle now finds her way into the middle of the bed as we read, hear and pray with the Word of God. She likes to snuggle and we continue to read and pray. In the last two years, her coat is a gorgeous black color and color of black and apricot are returning to her head and face. Yes, God's word works! Yes, "If thou canst do anything........." we see Jesus speak, "If thou canst believe" and then this father cried out, "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief."  The man got what he asked for and the healing was a success!   ( see Mark 9:19-23)

We have to reject the traditions of men and of our culture and realize God has healing for us today! Today if you will His voice and not harden your heart..........."Faith without works is dead." It is not God's turn to action............the action part is for us to correspond with action according to knowing and understanding God's faithfulness to His Word of truth. For us to fully exercise our act of faith, means that it is in every fiber of our being. It will the same as getting out of bed and going to work the next day. It will be the same as picking up the children after school and sports everyday! That word becomes us. It will be in our heart, mind and body. That word of God for healing in us, will like taking the next breath of air into our lungs! It is the continual expectancy of knowing that word in me is producing health and strength!

In 1 Corinthians 6:20, we are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body..........how can I glorify God in body if I am sick?

Jesus brought heaven to earth, He came to bring in the Kingdom of Heaven...........and in the Gospels we find what He described it as............!

In closing, I remind you that the Kingdom of Heaven and of God was spoken of by John the Baptist. He was asked if he was the "coming one" but John gave reference to the Messiah or Jesus in Matthew 11:5. In these we see Jesus recounted His deeds of healing. Jesus' healings were the manifestations of the presence of the kingdom of God. Jesus brought it forth, to face the forces of the evil one, satan.

As Jesus was always concerned to heal, He always sought the Father in prayer before and after any one time. The healing's Jesus performed  never showed HIM to actually pray over them, but just speak God's word or say something like, "go, and sin no more". Yikes! sin can make someone sick!

We are to come to His Healing Garden! We can and should do just like Jesus did! We can believe and receive when our faith is overflowing with an expectancy to see the manifestation of a body that is whole with nothing missing and nothing lacking.

Father, I come with a fire of expectancy that is YOU who desires us to  BE
whole and healthy..........to go and sin no more! Today Lord God, I pray that we reject the traditions of men and that we accept and receive the Word that saves and heals.  What I am expecting for everyone who reads and prays this is that they will rise higher and higher in Your Word of truth. That each will put away the things of the world and receive the faith of Healing for a whole body that brings glory to God. I pray that all will stand on Your Word of truth and know the promises  of God personally. I pray that hope arises. And may we all speak that "With God all things are possible to US who believes." I am a believer who believes that all things are possible to me. Thank YOU Lord for Mark 9:23.

Thank You Father, our beloved Father who gave His best. Thank YOU for love everlasting, love unconditional and never failing. By Your Word today, we are not conformed to this world, but we are transformed as we renew our mind's to Your Word. Today I pray we all come to be agreeable with Your word and YOUR will and so shall our plans be established and succeed. Our commitment and trust is in YOU for healing today! In Jesus' name I have prayed, Amen!

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