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Amen, Sister!!!

Hi Connie, thank you for your reply! Yes, it might of been the Holy Spirit. The reason I thought it was an Angel was because of the wind. It was coming in gentle waves. It felt like it could of been created by something very big, like at least the size of a door or even bigger slowly and gently moving back and forth. In my mind I thought of big Angel's wings. I know not all angels have wings, but this is what I thought: big wings = Angels :-) I've never felt such presence even physically on the outside of me, only from the inside like weeping, chills, heat trembling etc. So this is the first time I ve experienced it like that so that I could even tell exactly where He was standing. It was totally AWESOME!! Regarding the blessings, yes, we do have them every second of every day. Many of them we even take for granted, like air we breathe, the beauty of God's creation like sky, sun, nature around us, our ability to move around, our health, our families, kids, jobs etc. Yes, we need to be fully aware of what God is giving to us every second of every day and develop a thankful heart! God bless!!

Thank you so much Daisy, Connie and Chimere!! This means a world to me to know that you all are supporting me in faith! I have peace in my heart! God bless you all!

Thank you so much, Mark!!! God bless you richly!!!

Dear Saints, could you please join your faith with mine as I stand on God's Word of supernatural protection for my step-son (17 years old) as he goes with some relatives to Jamaica for his aunt's wedding for a week. They are flying there this Saturday. I pray Psalm 91 over him and all people who are going. I cover him with Jesus' Holy Blood and pray that NO WEAPON formed against him shall prosper. I take authority over and bind up all the evil forces in Jesus' Name and forbid them to plot any evil against this boy or anyone who goes on this trip, against their means of transportation, lodging, food they eat and people they come in contact with. I forbid them to place any evil temptations into their hearts and minds and especially to plot anything against all the youth who is going, in Jesus' Name! I put God's Holy Angels in charge of the planes, cars, all transportation to bring them there and back safely and peacefully with no delays or mishaps. I pray that God's Angels are watching over him every single moment of day and night and keep him from any evil, every temptation to get into any kind of trouble. I pray that no temptation to use any alcohol, drugs or any other kind of dangerous activity will never enter his heart or mind, no matter what or who is tempting him. I pray that God's supernatural peace and joy is with him and all the people who are going and that God blesses this wedding and newly weds abundantly! I pray that the Angels are accompanying them at their right hand and left hand and keep them safe and sound. IN Jesus' Name! Amen adn Amen! Thank you so much and God bless!!

Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, I have an awesome testimony to share with you all. Hopefully it will bring more strength to stand agsinst doubts for those who are struggling. Ever since I found out that the spiritual world is open for us to see it and know it intimately and have encounters with the Heavens as we are here still on this earth, I wanted it so much. But no matter how hard I was trying or crying out to God to make this possible for me, nothing happened in this realm. However I heard the Lord promising me that I will see and experience amazing things that I've never ever dreamd of before. Well, last night it HAPPENED! I was sitting at my computer desk in my prayer room with the door closed (the door is just few feet behind my back). I always have my ear phones on when I worship so I can listen to the songs on the internet. Last night I was soaking and listening to Grace Williams' songs. After that I was planning on reading God's Word. I did not feel "spiritual" at all. Actually I felt quite down. I asked the Lord to come and touch me as I drew closer to Him, I was believeing He will draw closer to me. And He DID! He always does. This time I felt inside of me the move of the Spirit and I knew He was near me. Then I felt like a gentle breeze behind me and I thought someone has opened the door as this is how it felt. I turned around to see but the door was shut. And I kept feeling this breeze very gentle blowing from behind me and I started weeping and weeping and weeping. Then my shoulders started shaking and I felt this heat all over. This was going on for quite a while. I know for sure there was God's Angel standing behind me. I am not going to lie, I did not see this Angel with my physical eyes or spiritual eyes, but I knew beyond any shadow of doubt (I have no idea how to describe this), He was there! This experience left me in total and complete awe! I am still trying to get over it and I can't! Praise God! But guess what happened tonight. I was in need of a treadmill for quite a while. My old one broke, but I desperately needed one as it's necessary to improve my health (nothing to do with weightloss). I just need it for my orhans to function properly and regain vitality. There was no way on earth I could afford to buy a new one. They are way too expensive. So I asked the Lord to provide one fo me. Well, tonight my husband brought one home for me. It's a brand new one. Someone returned it at a store where my husband works. The belt was broken but got repaired, it had few scratches here and there and a magnet was missing, no box. So it was sitting there and they were going to simply throw it out. So my husband asked them if they would sell it to him. THis was a $1200,00 treadmill!!!!!!!! They said, yes, sure! Guess how much they wanted for it?! - $20.00 That's IT! This is all they asked for it! IS GOD AWESOME OR WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am thinking this was an Angel of provision that was in my room last night! I also believe this is just the beginning! I mean, getting a treadmill provided for me was great, but the greatest thing yet was the way God has moved in my life. How He cares and how He just pours His Love on us. Receiving gifts like that is awesome, but I want God for GOD! Not for the gifts, but I want HIS HEART! I want to feel His Heartbeat like mine! This is my life's goal. Calling for His Name and then FEEL His Holy Presence cannot be compared with anything else in the whole universe!!! I know I just started and I am so very excited for much more of God!!! WOHOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! God bless!!

Cloud, I have been thinking about your situation for so many days and at first it does look like you are stuck. But the longer I think about it the more I see that what you are trying to do is to walk in two different (actually directly opposite) directions at the same time which is physically and spiritually IMPOSSIBLE! You are striving to be spiritual and follow the Lord but at the same time your flesh is totally leading you where it wants to go. See the conflict?! I already can't remember in which thread you asked if there is a certain phrase or words you can say that will get the Gates of God's Kingdom open for you. There is actually no such phrase. All you have to do is to say you are sorry for your mess-ups to the Lord and ask Him to be the Lord and Saviour of your life. And you already said it! So now that all the "saying" part is done, you need to do the "doing" part and this is the hard one. At least at firts. You see, so many people want Jesus to be their Saviour, but not too many want Him to be their Lord! The Lord means - Master.And that means we need to do what He tells us to do whether our flesh feels like it or not. Before we got saved we used to follow the lead of our flesh for years and years. Everything fleshly seems so easy and natural to us. So flesh became very strong, but our spirit, when we are first born of His Spirit is weak. So guess what part is winning?! This is happening to you now and this is why you are struggling so much. What you need to do is cut your flesh from leadership position right away. All these wonderful things of the Spirit that are alive in you now are just like little sprouts among huge dry trees of the flesh. In order for them to grow and manifest in your life you have to uproot the dead fleshly trees. Yes, this will hurt! But you have no choice! It hurts at first, but it does not kill. I'd compare this like going to a dentist and ask him to pull your sore tooth out. What would you rather prefer, him pulling it out slowly, a bit at a time or pluck it out fast and right away? You keep asking what it is that you need to do. You know perfectly well what you need to do, Cloud. You just don't want to actually do it! That's where the problem is. You probably do not realise how dangerous it is to sit in this position for any length of time. Chimere is very right here. Paraphrasing the Bible, you can't follow God and your flesh at the same time. They are walking in different directions!!! Besides, your accountability level is much higher now for the sins you are commiting because you are not ignorant about them. You were told numerous times what they were and you were told you need to stop. You are still doing it. You admitted it yourself on number of ocasions that you are NOT WILLING to give them up just yet. What are you waiting for, Cloud?! God is merciful, yes, but He is not the only one out there that knows what you are doing. Even though He is grieving about your situation, but He is ready to forgive you any second and support you on every step. Your enemy, however, is very very real and he is making use of every second of your disobedience and building traps for you even as we speak. Rest assured, you will have to deal with them later. So why give him more chances to destroy you more and more?! The longer you wait the more nets he is putting around your heart. You keep saying "God needs to do this, God needs to do that for me...". This is such a childish talk and it needs to stop. God does not need to do a thing for you because He already DID IT ALL! When Jesus died on the Cross for you, remember what He said? IT IS FINISHED! Now the ball is in your court. And don't push YOUR responsibility on anyone esle, including God. It won't help you a bit. If you don't stop now and turn right around the enemy will destroy you. Don't give him this chance. This is very very serious! I see you are so excited about the gifts of the spirit, like joy, peace, speaking in tongues. And they ARE YOURS! What you need to do is clean up your spiritual house and they will start shining through you! This WILL HAPPEN! Just get your heart in the right position befor ethe Lord and it will come! So do whatever it takes to get rid of these bad habits. Don't call them "my ...addiction". They are not yours. Once you accepted Jesus as your Lord and Saviour, all things are new and you are a new, righteous, clean creation. Claim it, leave it out, decree it over yourself. All this junk is devils, not yours. This actually means a lot. This makes all the difference in the world. This actually means that you are in position and in power to kick this junk right out of your life for good! Don't lie to yourself. God gave everyone the same measure of faith and the same abilities to resist the enemy! This is why He said in James 4:7 "Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." If we did not have to resist, He would not tell us to. If He said "he WILL flee from you", it means that you HAVE all you need in you to resist and make him flee! Praise God! So do whatever it takes to get out of the place where you are now. Don't try, when you try you set yourself up for a failure. You give yourself room for failing. But when you do determine - I will do it no matter what. I might fall flat on my face first few times, but I am going to GET IT DONE! So be strong, Cloud, go and do it! Don't pity your flesh, it does not have any pity or mercy on you - get it's desires killed in you! God bless!

Dear Jasmine, don't be scared, but do use caution and God's guidance. I pray that no weapon formed against you shall ever prosper and I cover you with Jesus' Blood and decree that the Angels of the Lord are walking with you on your right hand and on your left and protect you from every evil! God bless!

Hi lionheartedgirl, I think we all feel burnt out sometimes. I feel like that too. But when this happens and I can't seem to be "strong" i just come and sit down at Jesus' feet and just simply soak in His Love for me. Soak as long as you need and the strength and fire will come back. We all need this "spiritual battery recharge" every once in awhile :-) I lift you up before the Throne of God's amazing Grace, Love, Mercy, Healing and Restoration. I praise You and thank You, that You are our Jehovah-Shalom - our Peace, our Jehovah-Rapha - our God Who Heals us, Jehovah-Rohi - our Good Shepherd, You are our Abba - our Loving and Caring Daddy! I am asking You, in Jesus' Name, to poure Your oil of healing anointing, anointing of restoration upon lionheartedgirl right now. Put You warm blanket of Your Love over her and have Your Shalom envelop her, give her rest, take all her doubts, worries, uneasiness away! I thank You that in You she lacks nothing, that You make her lie down in green pastures, You lead her beside quiet waters, You refreshe her soul. Please show Your daughter that You, Oh Most High God, are guiding her along the right paths for Your Name’s sake. Even though she walks through the darkest valley,she will fear no evil, for Yu are with her, Your rod and Your staff comfort her. Thank You, Lord, that You prepared a table before her in the presence of her enemies. You anoint her head with oil, her cup overflows with joy, peace, wholeness, revelations, healing, divine connections, supernatural protection, security, divine provision. I praise You that Your goodness and love are following her ALL DAYS OF HER LIFE! I thank You that lionheartedgirl dwells in Your House FOREVER. In Jesus' Name! Amen adn Amen!

Hi Connie, thank you so very much for your explanations and I do understand perfectly everything you said! I do see how we get mixed into the situation and it gets messed up rather than listen to God's voice and guidance and let Him talk to HIS people instead! I would love to receive training in deliverance too! But the only people I get to talk about Jesus so far are relatives and my co-worker. To my co-worker I just tell about all the wonderful things He is doing for me and others and what the Bible says about the Salvation. And I trust the Lord will do the rest in her heart. Diane, also thank you for your great encouragement! I have set up countless websites by now and I also find it much fun to do. I had a Ministries website about 8 years ago, but kind of dropped it for some years and just last year I redesigned it and put it up again. When I first accepten Jesus I was wrapped up in lots of religious lies and it held me back for so long. What I was taught was that God is angry with us because of our sins. He is trying to keep us in submission by putting all kinds of afflictions on us. The saddest part is that so many people think the same way. I am so happy I broke out of it thanks to true preachers of God's Word. So What I want to scream about from the top of the mountains - is that GOD LOVES US and that as soon as we see His true Heart for us - no one would want to stay away from Him. I guess I get intimidated by the project because it's so much beyond my abilities (not to set up a website, but the prohect itself, if you know what I mean), knowledge and power. I have heard that when it looks too big for us to handle it's definitely from Him! :-) Last night I had a dream I was pregnant with twins and was about to deliver them. In a hospital room I met with two ladies. One was a doctor and another a nurse. They said they were sent to this hospital from another (bigger) city to help me deliver just so that I would be comfortable and happy. These could be two angels :-)

Amen, Connie and I am standing in agreement of faith with you that God's PERFECT WILL be done in Christ Connected life right now on earth as it is in Heaven. I cover him with Psalm 91 and decree that no weapon formed against him shall prosper! IN Jesus' Name! Amen!!!

I cover this woman with Jesus' precious Blood and claim that no weapon formed against her shall proper. I ask God's holy Angels to intervene in this situation and bring her back home as well as protect her from every evil. In Jesus' Name. Amen!

Happy Birthday, Cholette! May God’s awesome blessings Be upon you this day And for the future years ahead May His blessings never fade In every area of your life May God abound much more So you may be a fruitful vine With the abundance of the Lord.

Chimere, I amsolutely LOVE your posts and I read them all. Keep preaching, girl!!! God has anointed you to give His message of His love and all yoke busting power to the world!! I agree with you, God lets us go through certain things so that we will be able to give our own personal testimony to others for their encouragement. When we preach "theory" this is one thing, but when we say "I've been there and God delivered me in such and such way" it's a completely different story! We talk we so much more enthusiasm when we talk about our own experience rather than something we heard from someone esle. I also believe that some unpleasant or even hurtful encounters we do have in our lives happen to us just with the purpose of bringing out to the light what's hidden deep in us. We need to continually pray to the Lord that He opens our eyes so we can see. This is what I've been doing for a while. I keep asking the Lord to open my eyes, unveil my eyes, open my ears so I can hear You, Lord. When I started asking this, I had no clue what will happen. I had my own little ideas as to what I wanted to "see". But when I've realised that the Lord DID open my eyes, not maybe in a way I expected, I was amazed. What He did was He enabled me to see the deceptions of the enemy, his lies and the hiding places where the darkness was hiding its roots and how to get rid of them. Before I did not see or understand any of this. When I was going through tough situations I could not understand what was going on and why I had to suffer so much. It turned out I did NOT have to suffer, but simply see where the enemy was hitting and simply ask the Lord to remove it.

Hi Connie, I love what you said about preaching the Salvation to people. I am lacking in this area. Would you please tell more about your conversation with Jesus? I really need to be preached to in this area!!! I understand what you say about trtusting the Lord. Anything we do it's not by our own power, but by His. But we still have to say something, right?

Thank you all so very much for your encouragement and prayers. They mean so much to me! A while back I've stumbled on a song on youtube that I thnk will break any heart. It precicely shows what our kids are dealing with and the worse part is - no one sees it! Even parents - born again or not, even loving parents very often don't see what's going on in their kids' hearts. Every time I hear this song I simply bowl my eyes out it's so touching: It's called "I will carry you" by Michael W. Smith, one of my favourite singers! Whenever I feel that my heart is getting a hard crust over it towards my kids when they try and drive you crazy with their "things" I go listen to this song. What our teens need is to see that someone sees their pain and shares it like their own. Parents should start taking these hurts of their kids' hearts SERIOUSLY! Not just kick their butts for the things that come out of them as a result. Instead of yelling at your kid for being "lazy" look into his/her heart and see maybe there is a big huge wound there that makes them freeze with fear and keeps them from even trying. So many wounds that outwardly manifest themselves like immorality, drug/alcohol abuse etc need healing and no one can do this but Jesus, but we, as adults, can show our kids that we see deeper and don't punish them for the "surface" behavior. I do believe that when our kids see that we are not heartles monsters that demand discipline, but do see and share their pains, most of that acting up will disappear on its own. I do agree that all this "preaching" without being a mature parent will only turn our kids away from Jesus. I know, I've tried this myself. Did not get any positive results and when I cried out to the Lord, He said "GET OUT OF MY WAY!" Well, I did not need to be told twice! My preachings stopped right there. I believe the song I mentioned above has changed the way I see my children in an instance. I believe this is one of the most anointed songs I've heard.

Hi Lara, I know exactly what you are talking about as I myself used to be a daydreamer BIG TIME. I used daydreaming for exactly the same reason you do - as a "cop-out" and yes, these daydreams are very vivid. I simply replaced the painful circumstances I had to be in in my real life with a "better" life in my imagination. I'd say that if one is using this "escape route" as a way to deal with pain this is not from the Lord. The Lord is LIGHT! And what He does is bring what is hidden by the enemy out in the open and then He gives us a choice - do you want to deal with it or keep buried in dark places of your soul and keep hurting you. I chose His way of dealing with the pain and problems that world is throwing my way and it simply REMOVED the need in any false "pain killers" like daydreaming. But I also think that daydreaming is a flip side of a talent that God is giving to us as very bright imagination so we can use it as it was meant to be used to see visions from Heaven. I am only beginning to do this and need lots of help from the Lord to teach me how. Hope this helped a bit. Love in Christ!! astra

Dear Brothers and Sisters, I have this great pain in my heart for our kids. I am a mother of 2 teenagers (well, my daughter is a young adult now - I still think of her as a teen :-) ) and an aunt of another girl in her late teens. For years now I can't stand the pain of watching our teens being stolen from us to drugs, alcohol, sickness, drunk driving, all kinds of bullying and immorality. And the list goes on and on. On top of all the perssure every teenager is facing in their social and home life. At work I keep hearing my co-workers talk about their teen kids and practically every one of them has some major problem going on. What's most maddening is - all this can be helped with the Lord! And so many parents are watching their kids go down and feel totally helpless. So what I'd LOVE to do is to help parents with all the resources I can find to stand against satan stealing our kids! I know we as parents have all the authority to get our kids back! My kids strayed away from the Lord and I keep helding them up before the Lord and I will keep doing this till I see their Salvation manifested! While I am standing the Lord is giving me great encouragement. The latest one I received left me speachless: couple of weeks ago I was watching on the internet one of the interviews of a well known Ministers of the Gospel. At the end when they usually pray for people or give a prophetic word all of a sudden the lady said "there is a mother watching this broadcast. A mother or an aunt that is praying for 3 children" (at this point my heart almost stopped beating!) And this is word for word what she said right after: "The Glory of the Lord is going to touch them. God holds their destiny fully and firmly in His great plan!" Tears of joy and amazement just flooded out of my eyes. I knew this one was for me!! I am praying for my daughter, step son and my niece without ceasing (so I am a mother and an aunt at the same time). So this just shows me how much we as parents can do for our kids. What I feel I shoudl do is build a community of parents empowered with God's Word and TRUTH to stand for their kids! I am thinking of a website to start with, but I know I won't be able to carry it out all on my own. So I'd love to ask you to pray in support for me and whoever would like to join and partisipate in this to be encouraged by God (I am not going to lie, I am scared to even think of starting this). For His provision of all that is needed for this. For clear directions and instructions, resources and prayer warriors to come together in the right timing. Sorry for making this so long. There's lots of pain but also lots of HOPE in the Lord to get our kids back from the enemy!! I cannot pray for each kid there is (even though I'd love to!), but each parent CAN! God bless!!!!

Amen, Chimere! I LOVE what you said. All great advise!!! Cloud Connected, I did not mean to get you more angry or upset. I obviously cannot see or know what is going on in your house. The only thing I do know for sure that the very best way to deal with a tough situation is to hand it over to Jesus! I mean totally surrender the whole thing - your dad's attitude towards you, job search, your own place to live, finances etc. The other thing to do is to FORGIVE your dad and anyone you can possibly think of that might have a spot in your bad books for whatever reason. But forgiving them you (or/and the Lord) do not admit that what they did to you is OK, but it just helps you to let go of that poisones junk that unforgiveness brings into our lives. The easiest way for me to do this when it's really really tough is to simply trust the Lord and know that He knows what's best for me and if He said give it up, I give it up. By obeying in this area you will simply hit the enemy right in the head and remove the blocks that the devil will place on your way of receving everything God has in store for you. Ephesians 6:12: "For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms." THESE ARE OUR ONLY ENEMIES! Another thing I'd recommend to do is BLESSINGS. Speak them! Decree blessings over every area of your life. If you want I can send you some awesome links that I have found for blessings that I myself personally use. I don't think I'm allowed to post the links here. The next important thing to do is to give your pain and hurts to Jesus! Cry out to Him with all your heart. Tell Him that You love Him and respect His commandments and out of Love for Jesus you make a willful decision to forgive your dad or whoever else you need to forgive and to please take the pain and hurts away. He Will!! This happened to me several times, so I KNOW what I am talking about. When people sin against us and hurt us these actions cause wounds in our hearts. So even when we do forgive them with all our hearts it still HURTS like crazy. And this is the pain you or anyone esle does not need to carry around. Ask the Lord to simply remove it from your heart. Honestly I have not a slightest clue as to how He does it, I just know He does! And if this does not work like within first five minutes, just keep on crying out! Do this till it's gone. Last time this happened to me I had to keep crying out almost a day and most of the night (when I was awake). It would go away, but then the enemy would stir it up again and it would start hurting again, so I kept on asking and asking untill it just disappeared for good! I was laying in bed all hurting inside and the next moment like "what's just happened?!" Where did the pain go? Halleluiah!! IT'S GONE!!!! Also watch out for enemy's lies. I know he won't just sit there and watch you getting rid of all this junk. He will try to deceive you. For example he told me that it will be much easier and faster to get rid of the pain by burying it deeper inside my heart. So you see, he wanted me to KEEP the pain even hidden deep inside so I will forget about it, but he can later bring it up against me. Don't fall for that one!! Go for total HEALING from your Lord!! And the last thing - be prepared to put some spiritual "muscle" into it. You'd have to be persistent and sink your teeth into it. Don't let go of what is yours. Keep fighting and standing for it till you GET IT! Take no "NO" for an answer! So GO GET THEM!!!!! God bless!!!!!

It might be fear that your dad is re-living all over again when he thinks about your future. It's also out of love for you he is trying to prevent this from happening to you also. This is actually very common for parents to do, so your situation is not unique here. You might calm his worries down a bit if you show some maturity by acknowledging your appreciation of his guidance for you. Let him know how much you appreciate his care and love for you as his son you understand the importance of making the right choices in life. I have two kids in my family that are about to start their grown up lives soon so my husband and I do expect at least some level of maturity from them when they demand their "grown up rights". We keep stressing that these come with responsibilities of grown ups. Kids often do not appreciate what they DO have when they live with their parents. Sure mom and dad are often on their backs maybe even too much, ut the kids also don't see how much they get for granted. If parents could see that what they do and provide (including parental guidance!) is appreciated I am sure they will see that their kids are not these little brats that keep wanting their rights acknowledged, but also realize that "grown up" life is quite demanding and they can take it. Keep covering your dad with prayers daily asking the Lord to take his pain away and heal his heart. Do this with respect for your dad. This is a proper thing to do and it's pleasing to the Lord. He will honor your prayers!

Hi halva, Many wonderful words have been said about how to get closer to God. If you don't mind, I'd love to share some of my experience with you. I believe that what will bring you through all the jungle of doubts, fears, all that darkness that seems to surround us when we try to get closer to God is your LOVE for your Heavenly Daddy! Once you learn how good and awesome He is there is NOTHING that can possibly stop you from moving on and on and on until the moment comes when you leave all the struggle behind and it's like someone turned on the Light! This Love will get you through anything, It won't let you stop even if you wanted to. As you are continuing on your path closer to the Lord, on each turn He will amaze you with more and more of His Love for you. I find that the further you go, the faster your progress is. Before it seemed like I was stuck on the same level for months. Now it's like I am not even walking, but running up the stairs to His Throne! It gets easier as you continue! When I first started I was so confused over practically everything. I was so mixed up, I did not think I will ever figure anything out! But I pressed as I have seen and felt the Love for my God and His Love for me and it never let go. This love connection will always be there, for whole eternity! At first when I just started, I was not even reading the Bible that often. I thought I could not handle it. I started by listening to awesome Spirit filled preachings of the Word. It's like a baby is being fed with milk first. Then I dug into the Bible. I am not saying that I am getting it all. There is so much wisdom and such spiritual wealth in God's Written Word that we'd need an eternity to fully grasp it. But as I read it it's like I am touching the Heart of my God, because it's His Word, and its Him!! I can't even describe with words what kind of feeling this is. It cannot be compared with anything else out there! And as you read it, He will breathe on His Word and it will come alive for you. You can also ask Him questions. I did and He does answer. All of a sudden it's like - WOW! How could I not see this before! Thank You, Daddy! Walking every day hand in hand with my Lord God is the greatest delight of my whole life! His Love will never ever fail you, it will never quit on you! God bless!! astra

Daisy, I am praying for your dad to be touched by God and for His healing anointing to flow into his heart, mind and body right now in the Name of our Lord and Savoir Jesus Christ! Amen and Amen!

SisterinChrist, I am the same way, except I've been this way my whole life. I'd totally freeze if I had to say anything infront of a few people, let alone a crowd. Can't approach or talk to strangers. Even squeezing out a simple "Hi" is a struggle sometimes. I agree, this ia a torture. I am praying (and also working on it) for the Lord to fill me in with so much Love and compassion for people that it will break the stronghold of shyness once and forever. I often see people that I know need a prayer, but I totally freeze from even one thought of approaching them :-( I hate this so much! This is my thought, but I do believe that being filled with such degree of compassion of the Lord that I won't even think of what is holding me back might be the answer.

Hi Lara, I myself would like to hear the answers to these questions. Here are some of my thoughts on the subject: The devil would come after us no matter what (anointing or not). He hates us with passion because we are God's children and made in His Image (whether we live our lives in God or not, we all have the potential and the enemy knows it). I don't know of any human being ever born on this earth who does not have a calling of God on their life. We all do. God does not have any "accidents", mistakes or rejects among His children. The saddest part is not all of us realize it. I believe there is a price to pay for anointing on our lives, but I do not believe its "increased oppression". I believe the price we pay is to leave our fleshly life styles and sin behind and follow God with all our hearts. I even would not call it a "price". This is actually a huge blessing once you start going this path. It's full of joy and peace! The enemy does come after us, but I do not believe we should dwell on what he can do to us. We should not ignore him, but also not magnify his powers. When we think alot about what the devil would do to us for chasing God and having an anointing on our lives, we are falling into his trap of fear. What we need to magnify and meditate all the time is God, His love for us, His ability to protect and save our lives. Actually I remember right when I made the decision to follow God with all of my heart no matter what I had these "thought" not to do this because I will be persecuted by the dark powers for doing so. I simply brushed them off like annoying flies and they stopped :-) Praise God, I am doing great so far and enjoying every minute of it :-) Not that I don't have battles to fight, but i know WHO is on my side and I know this is all I need to have victory. God bless!

Lara, being not the only child of God is not a problem! God knows how many children He's got :-) He is not going to make us compete for His provision,'cause He's got NO LACK of jobs. I also can identify with your struggling with seeing God's provision. I've been there. Lack of faith in financial area is my weakest point where faith is concerned :-( I guess I have to kick out the spirit of poverty. You see, my family does not have lack of finances. God has brought us out of this situation to the poing where we can perfectly afford paying our bills. But I am still working on believing God for more than just paying basic bills. I do this by putting His Word into my heart day after day after day. And this faith is chipping away at the powerty-mind stronghold. So It's perfectly ok to feel like you do (or I do) as long as we DON'T STAY here. Work on it and it will budge a little, then more and more and then it will come crushing down. Praise God!!