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Today begins my husband's video broadcasts of messages for your new year. Just go to www.gregoryholley.com for a uplifting mini word for your day!
He is a great preacher who really gets down to the common man and helps encourage people on a real level. I have never gone to sleep listening to him preach!! Often he is funny.... but he brings balance to an often overwhelmed life. Go receive something fresh for your day.....
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I have conversations in prayer with God, as I am sure you do to. And in my life there are Rhema Words that the Lord has spoken to my heart down thru the years. Some are tucked away in various Bibles and they continue to bring strength in my life as they are timeless. Here is one that I found anew in an old Spiritual Warfare Bible and felt to share with you this morning.
You are my instrument. I need you in the earth. You are the flesh of Christ now. How can I move unless I have the Body of Christ? You are more valuable that you realize. You are more cherished than you know. You are more loved and needed than you have ever known. You are My instument to play through to the world.
May you be His Instrument today.....
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This weekend starts a new change in the way the tithes and offerings will be received at church. The offering will be done by videos showing our various ministries at home and abroad. It will be refreshingly different, not to mention sharing with everyone about all the areas of New Life. It's sure to be a enjoyable way to fund God's work, and be a partner in all that is happening here.
Have you planned your offering to bring to God's House tomorrow? Please don't assume that 'someone else' will take care of the needs at hand. If that is so.... then will 'someone else' get your blessing too? Ouch! Don't let that happen!!
Even if you are working..... you can still give to His Kingdom. Mail it.... bring it to your church during the week, give online.... just do it. According to the Word of God - His promises are true for those who are faithful.
This Pastor's Wife is amazed at those who progress in every area of their lives - because they are faithful to support God's House.
It's Offering time.....what will you do?
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Read this! Many pastors are sending out the very same call around the world all at the same time!!! This is written by Pastor Steve Owens in California.
When fall arrives we search for the rake. We admire the beauty of the
changing colors of the trees. When winter approaches we pull out our
coats, sweaters, jackets, and hats. Then we make sure there is an ample
supply of firewood to keep us warm. With the approach of Christmas,
most people begin to prepare. The stores change their decor' in
preparation for the coming season. It is impossible to miss the
changing seasons, and when seasons change, we change.
"For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape. But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief. Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober."
(1 Thessalonians 5:2-6)
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The rapture of the Church is at hand...... are YOU ready?
All prophecy has been fulfilled.... the world is now covered with the Gospel via the Internet.
The most Awesome Day in all of mankind is about to happen.
What do you need to do to prepare to hear the Trumpet, when Jesus will come to receive his own? To be sure you go with Him when Trumpet sounds?
GIVE YOUR HEART TO JESUS, ASK FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF YOUR SINS, BE BAPTIZED, FIND A SOLID BIBLE CHURCH TO ATTEND, SINCERELY BEGIN TO SERVE THE LORD, FOLLOW THE LEADERSHIP OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND OBEY THE WORD OF GOD.
Everything in this world seems to be designed to distract, hinder, side track, and even stop believers from watching and waiting for this Day.
But it will surely come..... it will surely come.
Are YOU ready?
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During the night the Lord woke me and gave me a vision.
I saw a record player with all the detailed parts, the turntable and the little knob in the middle turning.... and turning. Then the long stem that was an accessory that used to be put into place to drop down another record when several records would be loaded to play. And the details on the long stem, the intricate parts that would cause the next record to slip down into place, the threaded piece that was fit just right, at the right time to drop.
The understanding of what I was seeing ....was how long it took a creator to create this whole system. The hours and hours to think about it, the hours and hours to come up with a workable design, then the hours and hours to actually make patterns of each piece, and then the hours and hours to actually manufactor it all. From the tiny knob in the middle of the turntable that had to fit just right, but be removeable... to the accessory piece that was also removable but would be a perfect fit to work properly. It took someone probably years of their life to invent it, create it, produce it. All for the joy of hearing music on big round disks.
Then I saw a cd disk.... then a MP3.... then an IPod.
And the understanding that came was did the record player creator actually waste his years of life? Because all of his labor and effort is now useless. Unusable... unwanted. Through time and transformations, no one now has the meticulous record players anymore. So did his life count? Was it a complete loss? Is there lamenting and regrets for having spent a life on an invention that is obsolete and useless now.
I went back to sleep with these thoughts running through my mind. Is it worth it to spend one entire life on a project that will only be outdated and unused by the next generation?
But by morning my perspective was completed.
Yes....Yes.... Yes... because if we are to build block upon block to build up humanity, it takes the former foundation to help create new thoughts and ideas for the next generation to dream up. There would be no completion of the Ipod ideas and creation, if there had been no record players to start with.
So the early efforts were not a waste by former generations , but rather had to be created to become the foundation upon which greater ideas would be formed.
Do you feel like your efforts have been in vain? All your work lost? That is impossible, for you cannot know what will be the end results of your generations.
Take heart.... God is fully in charge. Your heart will sing again the music of completed prayers. Turn your records..... into Ipods.
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Gayla come walk on the water with me, the voice of the Lord calls over the deep. Hearing my voice and obeying was Peter’s righteousness. Shall it be yours? I call and you answer. I speak and the listening ear must decide to obey or disobey. You think you know the plans I have for you. Yet the hour comes when you will think not. Yet the future times that depend on the actions of today lay as hinges upon the door causing it to open for you.
Seek and find – two action words that require you to obey. How shall the avenue of continuing way be found unless you seek. And how shall you find unless you look. Those who hear and set will do just that – motionless activity. They are busy waiting on the waters to part for them.
I could have had the Israelites walk on the water, yet I chose for them the waters to part. And for Peter is was to get out of the boat to follow me on the glassy seas. And for you?
That which you don’t know comes to bless you. And that which makes haste runs right over the prize I have laid out carefully for you. Do the waters in your life have a voice? Do they dictate how the Creator shall use them? I gathered the waters together. I caused them to part. I turned them to blood. I walk upon them and cause the sons of man to do so. That which looks like effortless values is as such to me. For I created them, and shall use them as I wish. Can you hold water in your hand? Is it somehow contained by your own clay? Do you feel as if you can control it? Only by containers and moorings can man hope to control the waters of the deep.
So say I unto you – the waters that cover your depths shall be melted away and the cities shall contain the areas now outlined with banks. And the voice of man shall call out but in vain, for he wears not the Blessing of the Deep.
Do not despair upon this hour, have I not told you in advance so that your heart is steadied and your hope steadfast. I am reaching for man, yet in his haste he has forgotten me. To one it brings blessing, to another it brings a curse. Come stand with me on this day. Know that you are safe in Me. The elements themselves call out for justice to come…….
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You really
have no idea how the big picture of your entire life looks. All you can see is the tiny portion of life
that you are currently living. But God
sees your whole eternal being and wants to make you a portrait of inspiring
beauty.
Never look
at the temporary – relax in the fact God is painting a picture with your life
that is far bigger than your mind can conceive.
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