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Wow Cholette! Thank you so much for the scriptures. Angelwings' husband's boss sounds SO MUCH like my boss. I too worked for the company just slightly over 7 years (with the exception of "good money" the experience sounds the same).
I have been trying to figure all this out for a while and one day a while ago all of a sudden the Lord said "I have My Hand upon this place firmly". Back then I could not quite figure this out because our workplace looks like total chaos due to the boss (owner of the company). Now it comes so much more into focus. I will be seeking the Lord in this direction much harder now: this part :"When a man's ways PLEASE THE LORD...". I'll be dedicated to this part and the rest is the Lord's!!!!! Amen!

No problem, Sister! James 5:16 says "The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man (or woman) availeth much."

Tons of blessings!!!

Hi Mamoyo,
Please do not think that I said the above to correct you in any way. I out of all people have no right to do that. The word "pride" never even remotely crossed my mind. I know it's so easy to slip into condemnation here, but that's exactly the opposite of what the Lord wants.
And please don't think you are a sinner. You are NOT! Your heart is pure and right as you have the heart of Christ. If you were a sinner you'd never even think that your friend is doing wrong. I believe you have a zeal for the Lord and huge zeal for your friend. Unfortunately sometimes people don't respond to other people's efforts to show them the way out. I don't know why. But when this happens our hearts hurt for them so much that it brings us to the point of "burn out". This happened to me so many times as well.
But when we pray for them and show God's Grace, the Lord, knowing exactly what needs to be said to them, when and exactly how, they, all of a sudden, listen and turn around.
Romans 8:1 says that there is now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. That is us, Christians. I don't even believe this is about who is bad or good, who is "goodder "or "badder" :-). I believe that now it's about what we see or don't see.
I know that I don't see so much and so I ask the Lord to open my eyes and let me see what He sees regarding my life in general and particular situations where I feel I am stuck and He always does. And He never gets mad or frustrated, but like a good Teacher, lovingly explains and shows and He never gets tired of it. Never gets frustrated even if I ask the same question He has already explained to me many times before. He NEVER condemns!!!
I wish I could give you a big hug, Sister!! The Lord has blessed you so much and He gave you His Heart so you will shine bright to the others!
Tons of blessings and thank you so much for blessing me as well!!

Just wanted to add one more thing to what I said previously. You ARE NOT above your head here! I know what you are talking about and even though it might look like a bit too much it's only if you look at the matter through the eyes of a mere human. We, however, are NOT ALONE in this or anything else. When the enemy is lying to us or afflicts us, he automatically is facing JESUS, our BIG BROTHER! Who, by the way, has already DEFEATED that enemy.
Simply come to Him in full understanding of who you are in Him and boldly believe His Grace will be given to you to overcome. This is HIS Desire and Will for you, so who can possibly stop Him from helping you? No one!

Hi Mamoyo,
Sorry to hear about your friend being in such trouble. Dear Sister, I do believe that your friend is not choosing to be that way. I believe she is in great trouble because she believes the lies about herself and does not know who she is, her True Identity which is the same as for all believers - the Image and Likeness of God, our Creator.
When we don't know who we are we keep on believing all sorts of lies of the enemy and keep on living in all sorts of bondages. This does not mean we are bad or wicked people. This means we are confused and simply don't see the way out clearly.
She keeps on seeking satisfaction of this particular desire, driven by lies, not her choice. So often we fall for this one (not necessarily sexual "satisfaction"). This is called lust and the definition of lust is simply a sinful desire that cannot be satisfied. The reason it is sinful is because we place anything but Christ Jesus as something to pursue in our lives and most obviously the satisfaction cannot be achieved simply because we were DESIGNED and CREATED to only be satisfied by our Lord. It's basically running in a circle like a hamster in a cage and never ever arriving.
So many of us have such lusts in our lives. Some chase after money, some after greater possessions, some after career, and some after feeling "important" and "secure"... you name it.
Please pray for your friend for the Lord to open up her eyes on who she is in Him, free her from this bondage as well as lies and false chains of sickness and her life will be restored, she will stop chasing after illusions. She simply will never feel the need for it. When we pray for all the right reasons and from understanding the truth, the Lord does answer and turns people's lives around in amazing ways. The Lord is waiting for His beloved daughter - your friend - to seek Him First and Foremost. Let's pray according to His desires and will and not what our eyes see!!

We need to pray for each other. The Lord gave that woman a friend - YOU - to pray for her bacuse where she cannot see - you can and you do! Who esle will support and uplift us before God if not our Christian brothers and sisters? That's why we have each other. Your friend does not live her life in the Lord to the fullest because of the lies she believes about herself. When you are alone with the Lord, cry out to Him for her not out of frustration, or judgement, but to free her from bondages of the enemy!!

God bless you richly, Sister!!

I certainly will, Mia, and again, thank you so much and God bless you!!

Mia Sherwood wrote:

Astra,

You said that she came to terms with it, not that she didn't have any feelings about it.

It certainly could be running off but would you feel totally horrified, crushed, etc. about her running off with her BF?

It could be someone else completely and your feelings could be exaggerated.

Otherwise, it makes sense the way it is. I would be in intercession and I am praying about this. We don't know exactly what it is but what we do know is that God wants us praying about it.

No, I think if she ran off I would feel less intence, but I personally see cutting off the connection between a child and parents is in a degree a "loss" of a child because he/she still is in great need of parental guidance, support and protection even though the children themselves do not realize it. So running away and not keeping in touch with the parents could be a n act of rebellion which opens up the child to all kinds of evil. And could be seen as "miniature death", however not final because there's always hope that the Lord will bring them back according to our prayers.

Anyway, I did pray for her covering every possible area and thank you very much, Mia, for praying for this family as well. God is good!

O my!
Ok, if God shows you something like that (a potential disaster of epic proportions for that family), does He usually give confirmation in another dream? What gives me hope that death is not literal is girl's mother's reaction. She did not seem to be crushed. I wonder if it might mean that the girls just ran off with her boyfriend. She can't wait to get out of the house and already made an attempt in the past. But I am praying! Should I warn the mother?

I had another dream last night which I totally understood and interpreted right (I hope) only because of your last post. I looked at the feelings and emotions and figured out which situation in my life fits these feelings. Otherwise I'd probably try and take each symbol and try and figure out what they mean separately.

In this regard I do have another question. There is a situation at my work that looks like it would develop a certain way. So I am thinking that it most possibly will happen that way. Last night I had that dream which told me that this is the outcome of the situation (just like I thought).

Here is my question: is such dream a warning of what is going to happen or is it the product of my mind because I am kind of anticipating this outcome? Or could it be either one? How can you tell the difference between our own view of the situation and the Lord warning us about what's coming?

Thank you again so much, Mia, for your time and patience! I really have hopes now that I can get better at understanding dreams

Thank you so much, Mia!!

Hi Mia,
I am trying my best to see the big picture in my dreams, but I guess the overwhelming amount of symbols is still confusing me.

Just like you said when God sends a message I always get it with I think only couple exceptions (which I did not quite understand right away but understood later once I went though some experiences). These are crystal clear and I even understand the symbols real well.

But most of my dreams I have such trouble figuring out that I simply give up on them :-(

Last night i fell asleep and right away had a very frightening dream. I believe it is prophetic (meaning it warns of something bad happening in the nearest future).

In it there are literal things mixed with symbols which totally confuses me.

Feeling in a dream - totally horrified, crushed, hopeless.

Dream: I am watching a video in which the youngest daughter of the lady i work with is doing pirouettes I believe on ice (like an ice skater). As the video is concentrating strictly on her doing this I am beginning to get a real bad feeling that something bad is going to happen to her very soon. Sure enough, I find out that the girl is dead (the video did not show it though).

Then I see the mother - my co-worker and it seems like she has come to terms with her loss while I myself am so overwhelmed with grief that no words can express. I keep thinking, she had 3 children and now she only has 2. I cannot be comforted.

Then I see that our boss at work wants to put this video into our catalogue. I feel terrible again because I think it is awful disrespect to my co-worker to publically display this video only because the boss wants it there. I feel he's being very arrogant. I decided not to push the boss to take it off the catalogue because I know that out of being spiteful he will definitely do it. Then I woke up.

In real life my co-worker has 3 children and the name I kept hearing in my dream was the actual name of her youngest daughter (in her late teens). I am actually working on a catalogue at work right now. The boss wants it to be finished in 1 week which usually takes over a months. My co-worker will start another smaller catalogue on Monday. The boss in real life is very arrogant and will actually act out of spite.

So there are many literal details. I believe the death of daughter is symbolic but can't figure out what it represents. If the death of daughter is NOT symbolic we are in huge need of intercession right away. The feeling of terror and loss was absolutely overwhelming in my dream.

Sorry it's long. I cannot place or apply this to anything that is actually going on now. I believe this is about something in the nearest future :-(

Thank you very much for listening

Thank you, Mia. Awesome instructions!!! I will apply them to my dreams and I believe the interpretation will come much easier. So far it has been quite a struggle.

Please join all those who uplift Israel before God's Throne during Hamas' attacks against God's nation. One can put thousand to flight, two can put ten thousand to flight! I plead Jesus' Blood over Israel, all the cities and people. May God's Shalom uphold, invade, protect and surround Israel day and night. I pray that NO WEAPON formed against it shall prosper and every tongue that raises against Israeli Nation shall be CONDEMNED, silenced and put to shame (Isaiah 54:17). I speak Isaiah 41:12 over God's Land: Though you search for your enemies, you will not find them. Those who wage war against you will be as nothing at all! In Jesus' Name, Amen!

Actually this is a very serious question. And looks like you have the correct answer already!
"I think eventhough he would forgive me I dont want to develope this liscence to sin attitude."
Romans 6:1,2 :"What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? By no means! We died to sin; how can we live in it any longer?"
Unfortunately many Christians don't take this seriously. They think that since sins are forgiven (and they are because of the Blood of JESUS!), we can just go ahead and sin our heads off and it will be ok anyway. No! It won't be ok.

Another scripture that is being totally ignored by many in the body of Christ is Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
He bought us with GREAT PRICE so that now we are HIM living though us and not us (our old nature) that keeps living only without the penalty of sin. We do not belong to ourselves anymore. If there is anything in us that does not have the Name Jesus on it, it's NOT US anymore. We don't explore it, we cut it off and walk away from it for good.
The bottom line is, Jesus died on the Cross not to simply rid us from the penalty of sin, but to restore that which was lost - men being the Image of God. Our old sinful selves are GONE, they have died together with Christ and our new nature is risen with Him and that's who we are after we become saved.
And this shouldn't be just some Bible scriptures. This should define our lives on day-to-day basis, define our daily choices.
BJ, you seem to be on the right track on this one! I don't know what kind of sides of your life you were referring to, but it looks like your spirit is convicting you that it's not in line with who you have become and therefore not only should it not be explored, but not even be considered a part of YOUR life anymore.

Hope this helps,
Blessings!!

Amazing testimony of God's LOVE! It always overwhelms me to just think He always there and always listening attentively to our needs and comes through.
Before I thought that a "way" was some sort of lining up of circumstances in order for something to happen like getting a new job etc. But John 16:4 says "I AM the way, the truth and the life". The WAY is a PERSON and His Name is JESUS, and He's ALWAYS with us! Why should we ever worry and wonder when in the natural it seems like there is no way? We always have THE WAY right with us and in us!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WOW! CONGRATULATION, Jasmine!!! God is GOOD! With Him sky is the limit!

:-) The trick is to say it right away before I had time to chicken out of it :-)))

Hi Mia, I think you just described it precisely :-) Kind of weird at first though but sooo cool :-). I'm not used to hearig these things about another person, but it's GREAT

BJ, they weren't my words. I heard / "felt" them in my spirit. It's hard to describe :-) I believe they were spoken to me by His Spirit for you, all I did was just "forward" them to you. I don't think I ever prophesied before but I am pretty sure this is what it was and yes, this IS so encouraging!
You are soooo blessed!!!

I felt this overwhelmingly strongly and I know I have to tell this to you, BJ:
BJ, you've GOT IT, girl! You have what it takes to get where you were created to be. You are going to SOAR like an eagel!
Right now where it seems like so much is coming against you, where many people would simply curl up in a fetal position, pull a blanket over their heads and stay there, you are just seeing it as a launching platform.
None of this junk is going to stop you. You are going to raise up and crush it all. None of that will ever stop you. You are a mighty warrior and satan is terrified of you. Nothing he can do to ever stop or hurt you because your Lord and Savior is with you, for you and He always be there right beside you. He sees you as a STRONG WARRIOR that has what it takes.
Don't pay any attention to what's against you, it's just shadows. Look at your Savior, look at Jesus only and you will be amazed where He will take you, there is NO LIMIT for you in Jesus, you will soar with His so high you never thought it was possible and it won't take long before yu'll see this.


This is the word personally for you BJ, I don't think I've ever received anything like this before. It's not some general "cheering up" for "a Christian", but personally for you. Wow! I am amazed myself.

I agree with Destine and the Word of God which says in 1 Peter 2:24 that by the stripes of Jesus Christ she WAS healed, so any symptoms etc simply MUST leave. We won't back out of this agreement of faith and will stand on it as on a rock. In Jesus' Name. So BE IT!

I'd say don't turn fasting into works. By which I mean don't make it into condition for God to love you more, or bless you more or anything like that. He already loves you full blast and our fasting or non fasting will never change that.
We fast to shut out our flesh and to get quiet before Him so we can hear Him better. He never stops loving, guiding, blessing us whether we fast or not.
I used to be so full of fear of accidentally eating something that I was not supposed to during fast, so I was paying all my attention and most of my thinking on food (or not eating, watching that I don't "slip" accidentally). That completely messed up the whole point of fasting. I turned it into works and instead of being quiet and listening to Him, I managed to turn all my attention back on me :-)

I hope you don't mind, but I was reminded of this scripture and I feel it's very important that I mention it as well.
Philippians 2:13: [Not in your own strength] for it is God Who is all the while effectually at work in you [energizing and creating in you the power and desire], both to will and to work for His good pleasure and satisfaction and delight." (Amplified Bible - my emphasis added) Isn't it awesome?!
This takes us (our own human power) completely out of the picture. I LOVE this! This means we totally can be everything God created us to be because it's not even us who will be doing it all. It's ALL HIM! Both to will and to perform. All we have to do is yield ourselves to Him completely. Even when we don't quite understand, just yield and ask, He will put the desire in your heart to go after it, He will give you Grace to be able to be who you are in Him, He will give you complete thorough understanding of who you are and how things work.

I know it works, as I put it to real life test. I am listening to His Word preached and as the Living Power of His Word being preached is coming inside of me and working in me through Grace I am noticing a huge change in me. For example even compared to yesterday, I get into situations that only yesterday would drive me nuts. I mean I'd go ballistic over these things, I know me. Today I am completely immovable :-) Does not bother me a slightest bit :-) I can't even begin to tell you what an awesome feeling this is to just be at total peace where I know before I'd lose it in a second. Praise God!

Here's a trick though. When you do hear these teachings, your intention could be:
1) to hear them for your knowledge only , sort of FYI or
2) to receive them and put them into action by and through His Grace. And this makes huge difference! This makes all the difference in the world actually. Whatever your intention is towards His Word, it will go there and stay there.


Of course #1) can always be reverted to #2) but I personally would always go for #2) right away :-). I don't have a single day to lose.

Tons of blessings!!

Another thing I wanted to add. Kind of practical advice. Think of what things are causing you to get anxious. I remember you mentioned your teacher at school being too particular about details.
So what's going to happen if for some reason you fail to meet her high expectations? Is she going to think less of you? If so, ask yourself, is it HER opinion or God's opinion? You know what God's opinion about you is - you are His beloved, very own daughter for who He sent His Son to die on the Cross.
Then whose opinion would really matter to you? Whose opinion will you allow to determine how to feel about yourself, what to believe about yourself? God's or another human being's who, by the way, most likely is not even walking in His Light and is blinded to even her own identity?

And even further, would her opinion determine how you'd act toward her? Or would the fact that not you, but Christ living in you and through you determine you giving her back anything by Christ's Love?
Because we don't live this life to justify ourselves (thus has already been done by our Lord), but to love others.

By believing what the Bible says about you instead of what you feel about you or who you think you are or what others are saying about you.

You get yourself rooted and grounded in His Truth by practicing it instead of just keeping it i your mind, as mere head knowledge. Mere knowledge never saved anyone. BEING what we believe God says we are saves us.

We have to stop putting ourselves in the center of the universe and make everything else including God spin around us. We have to put Jesus in the center and everything else will fall into its proper place.

What many Christians do (which included me as well) is we try to incorporate God into our lives instead of being who we are in Him. These are not just words. This has to become not our second nature, but our ONLY nature. We weren't created for ourselves. We were created for Him. So we have to die to ourselves. And it's not scary, not difficult, it does not hurt, does not offend. Instead this is the most wonderful, great, beautiful, fulfilling and peaceful experience that can happen to anyone.
As long as its about us, we will always have a big red target mark on our backs. People will always hurt and offend us and we would spend our whole time defending ourselves and dodging these bullets of offense, fear, anxiety, frustration :-(

That's only because we don't know who we are. We think we are our own and once we accepted Jesus as our Lord and Savior, our life will just become a bit better and easier. This is such a lie. This is exactly why so many Christians are bitter and disappointed. They feel like God did not meet their expectations when He did not shield them from people when they weren't nice to them. While the whole time the only part of them that was hurting and being offended was the part that needed to die - their self-centered part that was never supposed to be there to begin with. It came in through man's fall and when mankind died to who we were created to be - in the Image of God and took on the false image, false nature of self-seeking, self-centered satan.
I understand it sounds pretty harsh, but we have to face the reality and stop being lullabied into some sort of illusions that we can continue being who we are not supposed to be and know the fullness of life. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
Jasmine, you were created to be in the Image and LIKENESS of God who is LOVE and through the death and resurrection of Jesus you've become this person.
Once you BELIEVE THIS which is not hard at all, you just need to live it out. Just keep reminding yourself about this truth when ever you feel like feeling or acting contrary of that. If someone says something mean to you, claiming you did not measure up or did not meat certain expectations, just inside remind yourself that this is not true, that you already ARE all you are suppose dot be, you are RIGHTEOUSNESS of Jesus (can't get any better than that! :-) ) and all you would give back is love and compassion of Jesus to the very person who just was mean to you.
I understand it takes practice, but when is better time to start other than now?
What I do when these lying thoughts and feelings start to creep in, I just stop and think - THIS IS NOT ABOUT ME! I don't live for me, I live for Him. I AM HIM living through me. Galatians 2:20 "I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me."
When this stinky voice says I do not deserve it, I remind myself that I was not saved for my own sake, but for God's sake and who I am and what I have done has NOTHING to do with it and PEACE rules in me :-)

Hope this helps.
Many blessings!

Dear Jasmine,
you will be battling anxiety as long as you see yourself any different than the way YOU ARE ALREADY through the finished work of Jesus Christ. You can't be in peace and be anxious at the same time. It's impossible. Being anxious is not knowing who you are. It's like an identity crisis. Being in peace means knowing your true identity. So don't even waste your time trying to figure out how to be in peace in the middle of being anxious. It's an illusion, it's impossible. Instead know who you already are and be it.

When man (mankind) fell in the garden, they did not just sin. They got CUT OFF the source of Life and Love (which is God).
We got cut off of WHO WE WERE CREATED TO BE. We were created in His Image. This does not mean simply that we have a head, a body, two arms, legs etc. This means we were created to LOVE others (not being afraid of them, trying to meet their expectations or expecting them to be our source of love, satisfaction, justification etc) just like He does.
How can we love others without receiving love first? We can't. If you and I don't see ourselves the way we already ARE - RESTORED in our ORIGINAL relationship with God, having HIM as the Source of Love, knowing who we already are and not trying to become, it won't matter at all what anyone else tells us we are or are not. If they are not seeing what God is seeing it's because they are still in the darkness. If they are giving anything other then love, it means they are in deep inward anguish themselves. Not because you failed them in any way. Not because you haven't met their expectations or did not measure up.
You don't have to STRIVE or do anything to measure up because you already ARE what you were created to be though what Jesus did on the Cross. You already ARE His Righteousness, which by the way doe not mean doing the right things all the time. Righteousness means "AS YOU SHOULD BE", it means being HIS CHILD, HIS DAUGHTER.
That's how God sees you. Why do people give you anxiety? Because you believe them when they say you are less than perfect? Why would you believe this? DON'T!
Don't wake up in the morning trying to meet someone's expectations. Wake up to be His DAUGHTER!
This does not mean being ignorant to others. This means - give them love because your source of Love is your Father God. He's got plenty of it for you. Let it IN! And once you do, it will saturate you and flow out of you and start touching others. Love them instead of putting them into the position of being the barometers of who you are and how you do. Then even the idea of being anxious would be silly :-) There simply won't be any ground for it?
Jasmine, you don't need anything other than seeing yourself God's way. You don't need to strive, fight, prove anything to anyone, God or yourself. IT IS FINISHED!

Father, I ask you to touch Jasmine, Your precious daughter and surround her with Your overwhelming Shalom! Father, I thank You for Jasmine, Jesus, I thank You for paying the perfect price and restoring her into who she was created to be. I ask You, Lord, to touch her and open her eyes on who she is in You.
I speak over Jasmine that she sees and understands that His perfect Love flows into her and that she already IS perfect in Your eyes, Lord. Amen!