1Thessalonians5:16-28. Pray without ceasing!🙏🏾

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Colossians 4:2

“Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving;”

(KJV)

Hello everyone.

As I grow older each day, and each day that our beloved FATHER GOD gives me, I learn a new thing. Each lesson will then help me with the next day given to me to survive with.

Each day will have a situation in it that will involve the previous lessons given. As a true believer in GOD and JESUS, I grow in my faith daily. I learn more spiritual discernment.

In these days and times, we all need this. It is a part of life, like breathing air. When communicating with others, we need it to have a righteous understanding.

With people who are used to texting and not really having good verbal communication ,we need to pray over how to do so.

This is why I have prayer in the title. Not only prayer for things we need, but for us to understand each other in a GODLY way.

I pray to be more compassionate, patient, loving, and concerned about who I am speaking to. Asking GOD for more wisdom and discernment, too. Because no matter what, I think I understand what another person is going through, I don’t.

Only GOD can claim that perfectly. 🙂

Pray for healing of the body and mind of all of your family and friends, too. Pray for your coworkers , those who are on levels of political offices, too. All mankind, for we all share the same earth. Not one person is better  than the other.

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

1 Thessalonians 5:16-28

16 Rejoice evermore.

17 Pray without ceasing.

18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

19 Quench not the Spirit.

20 Despise not prophesyings.

21 Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

22 Abstain from all appearance of evil.

23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

24 Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it.

25 Brethren, pray for us.

26 Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

27 I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.

28 The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.

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Wake up in the morning and talk to GOD and JESUS. Pray. I do.

Listen for the answer given and accept it. Our beloved FATHER GOD will answer, giving you a righteous answer.

It may not be what you want to hear, but it will be right. For our heavenly FATHER GOD knows all. And can fix all in HIS perfect timing. 😀

Ask me how I know, and I will give you more than one testimony of my faith. For I serve a loving, perfect FATHER GOD and have JESUS as my loving savior.

They hear our prayers. We just need to be patient and listen.

Peace and blessings ❤️

What I understand about faith.

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What advice would you give to your teenage self?

I grew up in church. And understanding my GOD and HIS SON JESUS at a young person’s faith. Immature as was my age as well. A teenager has not lived long enough to experience the same things as most adults have.

So there is a limit to what you would be exposed to if you are living in a good home.

Growing up and giving more responsibility,  meeting new people good or bad. Learning not everyone lives as you do or thinks the same from clothes to icecream.

This includes faith and trusting GOD and HIS SON JESUS. Not everyone is one of the same levels of faith. Some will have no faith at all and will treat you better than one who proclaims to be an honest Christian.

Or a Buddhist or Catholic  or Jewish or a jehovah witness. Each one has a different belief about JESUS.

I wonder if my life would have been different  now if I knew what I know now back then about my faith in GOD. 🤔

Peace and blessings ❤️

The KJV Bible.

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What books do you want to read?

I have not found any books like the Bible that is as comforting when I read it. It can talk back to you. I love it!

The Bible is the living word of GOD. It will talk to you and give you understanding to your daily life struggle. Giving you the comfort you need.

As soon as you pick it up and read it, you will feel the power in it. Or even be led to a chapter to read concerning you. Giving you a moment of understanding.

You can get an “Aha, i get it!” moment when reading the living word

You will get comfort as well when you need to stay until the end of the race!

Revelation 21:4

“And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.”

KJV

Peace and blessings ❤️

Numbers 14:18. GOD is patient with us.

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Hello everyone.

It is time to get right with our beloved FATHER GOD. For those who will say I am not ready to do so and will do that later is taking a great chance in getting right with GOD.

Every single day I need to repent. Repent of the wrong that I know is wrong that I remember I did and those things I do not remember. We all are sinners. This is why we all need to come to JESUS and repent daily.

It is easy to go about life doing what you want, disrespecting GOD yourself and other people. It is easy to commit sins and not be fulfilled and keep doing them without complete satisfaction. And not realizing you will never get satisfaction from doing evil. Never, not in life and certainly not in death when you have chosen hell.

It is hard to be right. You have temptations you need to rebuke of that come at you in all directions. You work hard at being right, but you know you cannot do right unless you have JESUS help you.

GOD is patient with us.

Numbers 14:18 KJV

18 The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

HE is loving and has the last say in everything here on earth and in heaven. GOD knows what we think and sees what we do. GOD knows what is in the future of the choices that we make, and we don’t from being stiff necked and hardheaded people. We need to see for ourselves.

The devil messes with us humans. Distracts us from paying attention to what our beloved FATHER GOD is trying to warn us about what is going to happen. If we don’t listen to HIS warnings we will suffer from our bad choices. Instead of GOD good choices.

Friends, we are living in the last days if not the last minutes here on earth before our beloved JESUS will return. Then it will be all over. Judgement will then be in process and we all will have to stand before JESUS. Awaiting sentence.

Will JESUS say you can come into heaven, or will he turn us away and say,

“I never knew you.”

Those words will cut like a knife. You don’t want to be wone of those so-called Christians who do good works like it is paying their way into heaven. That is not the way into heaven. Only JESUS is the way. Period.

Our GOD is still patient.

GOD has been warning us of our mistakes, through natural disasters, sickness, wars and rumors of wars, hate crimes and the consequences of them too. Warning us to repent from what we do to each other, ourselves and the earth that we live in.

Let us fall on our knees before GOD and pray. Pray for the whole world and of the creation in it. I mean all creation too from the earth to the humans walking around in it. Waste not one moment of time for we do not know when it will be the last moment before JESUS returns.

Then our GOD won’t be patient when HE sends JESUS then! It will be done. The Heavenly court will be in session.

I say all of this because I don’t want to see anyone choose to go to hell. Heaven is were GOD is. Where pure peace and love is. No more pain, or crying. Where we can look into the eyes of our beloved FATHER GOD and HIS son JESUS for all eternity long!

Peace and blessings.

Does Leprosy Turn Your Skin White Like Vitiligo?

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Hello everyone.

When listening to a sermon by the late pastor Stephen Darby, he explained that leprosy was not what people assumed it was in the Bible. He said to read the Bible for yourself.

I needed to know. For with understanding of what the singer Michael Jackson had, it was Vitiligo. The same thing that Naaman in the Bible had, too.

When reading the Bible about the servant Gehazi, I was thinking about how deceptive he was to get valuables from the man that was afflicted with was was called leprosy.

What exactly was that disease really? To compare it with a leopard that has spots of dark and light.

Leopard.

I had always thought that this was what it was because they used the leopard to describe what it looked like to others.

Looking into it further, there is a disease where people can lose their fingers or become disfigured in other parts of their body. Called today “Hansens Disease”.

But that is what it was called leprosy, to become disfigured that way. Losing a nose , fingers toes or whatever.

Vitiligo is what happened to Naaman, who came to the prophet Elisha to be healed. That makes more sense when you read about this affliction Naaman needed healing for.

2 Kings 5:20-27 KJV

20 But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

21 So Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he lighted down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

22 And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

23 And Naaman said, Be content, take two talents. And he urged him, and bound two talents of silver in two bags, with two changes of garments, and laid them upon two of his servants; and they bare them before him.

24 And when he came to the tower, he took them from their hand, and bestowed them in the house: and he let the men go, and they departed.

25 But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

26 And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

27 The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow

https://www.medicinenet.com/does_leprosy_turn_your_skin_white/article.htm#:~:text=Leprosy%20does%20not%20cause%20the,sores%20that%20disfigure%20the%20skin.

https://www.medicinenet.com/does_leprosy_turn_your_skin_white/article.htm#:~:text=Leprosy%20does%20not%20cause%20the,sores%20that%20disfigure%20the%20skin.

What is leprosy called nowadays?

According to Google:

Leprosy is now called Hansen’s disease. The term Hansen’s disease is often used because of the stigma associated with the word “leprosy”. 

Explanation 

  • Hansen’s disease is a chronic infectious disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae.
  • It affects the skin, nerves, eyes, and lining of the nose.
  • Symptoms can include blindness, loss of eyebrows, and nose disfigurement.
  • It’s a rare disease that doesn’t spread easily to others.
  • Treatment is very effective.

History

  • Dr. Gerhard H.A. Hansen discovered leprosy in Norway in 1873. 
  • Leprosy was once thought to be highly contagious and was treated with mercury. 
  • Chaulmoogra tree oil was used topically to manage leprosy for centuries. 

When we read the word of GOD,  we need to research it, too. Science backs up the word of GOD. In more ways than one.

Peace and blessings ❤️

Cold weather and snow.

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What do you complain about the most?

It has been in the single digits here where I live when I started this post. And it’s still cold in the 20-degree weather. It’s not good for the body.

Or your car.

Or your home.

Or whatever else you can think of.

Or anything you need to keep warm and comfortable.

Humans are not made to live in those conditions. When you live in a climate where you are at an average temperature of 75 degrees above zero, that’s good. 😃

But when it’s hotter than 75 degrees, it starts to be a challenge to be cool. Avoiding those annoying biting bugs because they can smell your body chemistry once you begin perspiration.

So then the flip side of keeping cool and drinking plenty of water.

Or  your car’s AC.

Or your home’s AC.

Or whatever else you can think of.

And anything you need to keep cool or cold.

Complaining is not really good to do! Once you get used to one temperature being one way it changes. 😂

Just remember GOD is in control. And we will be alright.😀

Peace and blessings ❤️

Romans 15:4. Learning patience.

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Hello everyone.

Learning patience is perpetual as we live each  day until we are called home to be with the LORD.

We are all students in life. Going through tests of faith. We pass when we are allowed into heaven!

When we are praying for an answer, listening so we will hear the answer and learn from the LORD. Knowing exactly what to do. GOD will tell you wait, no, or do this or that.

I want to share with you an example of what I had gone through and how our beloved FATHER GOD answered me. As an adult, I continue to learn a new lesson in my life. To step back, be humble, be patient, listen, and wait on the LORD.

This year, there was below zero and single digit weather where I live. Serious stuff when you are used to having your water flow and pressure running when it’s above freezing weather. The weather is different now, changing.

A lesson to be learned was in progress.

When pipes decide to freeze up, it could be a whole line of pipe affected. So you insulate your pipes, use heat tape, heat lamp, and whatever is proper and safe to use that you know of at the time.

Cold sharp winds will always find a way to your pipes when you are unaware. But not all homes are made the same. But like I say, not all homes are designed and made the same. You find that out quickly.

Since our beloved FATHER GOD created all heaven and earth,  we learn just how powerful HE is. In situations when it is weather and other natural conditions, you can experience it.

We had our pipes freeze up. There was no water for a few days. And from previous experience when this happens, there will be a plug in the pipes. Either ice or sediment. So the pipes need to be warmed up.

Not my house, praise GOD, we don’t live in -15 degree weather!

Calling around to see who could help from different plumbers , they were coming up extravagant costs that would be equal to a good used 2022 year car.

Praying so hard for GOD the FATHER and HIS SON JESUS to intervene to send the right person to help. GOD did. After almost 3 weeks with no water, using a bucket with a seat as a potty, using stored and bought water. The water was used for cooking and bathing. That goes fast if you happen to like to drink water, too.

Our blessings came when our beloved GOD and JESUS sent two of our relatives who believe in GOD and love him too. GOD used them to help us.

And we did not have to pay anything for what they did from a new toilet to working on the pipes.

Giving our beloved FATHER GOD the glory.

Giving our beloved FATHER GOD the praise.

Being patient and watching how HE blesses!

Not only had we received the blessings but for those who helped us will too.

Patience, trust, and sincere prayer from the heart. Our beloved FATHER GOD hears it. Knows what we need. I feel GOD puts things into place even before we ask for help.

From Google:

According to the King James Version (KJV) of the Bible, patience is a skill that can be learned through testing and trials. The Bible also says that patience can be developed by practicing walking in the spirit. 

Bible verses about patience

  • Romans 15:4: “For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope” 
  • James 1:3: “Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience” 
  • Hebrews 10:36: “For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise” 
  • Romans 5:3-4: “And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations, knowing that tribulation produces perseverance; and perseverance, character; and character, hope” 
  • Luke 21:19-21: “In your patience possess ye your souls” 
  • Proverbs 15:18: “Hot tempers cause arguments, but patience brings peace” 

Another battle won by the LORD GOD! 🙏🏾

Peace and blessings be to you all❤️❤️❤️

Spam in any type of media or communication.

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What do you complain about the most?

When you get home and are relaxed from your long day, this is what happens. You pick up your ringing phone, and a demon is on the other end of the phone.

Beware of the numbers I posted here because it is a scam.

They will try to accuse you of debits or unpaid credit cards and have your name and other information. None of what they have on you will be true. You don’t owe money.

They can’t tell you exactly who you owe , won’t send paperwork to prove that you do, will talk to nasty and get angry.

I pray for these lost souls that do this deception.

I looked on the internet for the location of this number, which called me from Almond, NY. They are usually landlines and spammers.

I am not going to give the owners the full name and address. What I am showing you is what is available free on the internet.

If you were to get a spam caller, look it up. See what’s going on for your sake. If they know about you, you have the right to know about them too.

Fair is fair.

Be safe and stay in prayer 🙏🏾 ❤️

Peace.

I not sure yet. Just give me a winning ticket then I will know. 😃

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What would you do if you won the lottery?

If only I were a gambler and bought a winning  ticket. When I get that ticket, for sure, I would pay off all of my bills first. Get the bills out of the way.

Then I would be able to help my family seond, and my true friends third.

Of course, I would give to another ministry aside from this one here on my blog. I would ask GOD to lead me on that because of how people are in some churches and ministries.

But you have to be in it to win it. I don’t buy the lottery tickets to get money. That would be gambling, and it is not good.

So there is no chance of me winning the lottery. 🙂

Peace and blessings ❤️

Fried or oven baked chicken.

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What’s your favorite thing to cook?

I really don’t get tired of eating chicken when there are so many ways to fix it. And what to serve with it.

Any fresh vegetables or salad.  Mashed potatoes with butter or gravy. Seasoned rice or corn bread. Greens like Turnip, Kale, Mustard, or Collard.

When you are hungry and this what you waited all day to eat, saying grace to our beloved FATHER GOD is quick and to the point!😄

I hope that GOD will be patient and forgive us for rushing through our prayers 🙏🏾.

Have a blessed night ♥️

Peace ❤️