Since the week of August 15, 2011, as I have been praying I have had a GREAT URGENCY deep within my soul and heart that something MAJOR is just about ready to take place and happen just around the corner.
I feel that major things are going to occur, especially with things that 'man' cannot control.
In my prayer soul it feels like a pregnant woman whom is trying to PUSH OUT her baby and the pain that comes from the CONTRACTIONS of labor pain. The actual baby is not ready to be born yet, but it is only the pain that comes through the CONTRACTIONS and great is that pain....
There is a BIG STORM around the corner.... Are you prepared for the STORM? Do you say you BELIEVE IN GOD when everything is great in your life? But what happens if the bottom falls out from below you and you lose everything, your house, your job, your income, and you get HIT BY A MAJOR STORM of life...
Do you still BELIEVE IN GOD or will your heart fail you....
Are you able to still lift your hands up and PRAISE GOD for ALL THINGS... no matter what happens - will you still BELIEVE IN GOD?
I feel that major things are going to occur, especially with things that 'man' cannot control.
In my prayer soul it feels like a pregnant woman whom is trying to PUSH OUT her baby and the pain that comes from the CONTRACTIONS of labor pain. The actual baby is not ready to be born yet, but it is only the pain that comes through the CONTRACTIONS and great is that pain....
There is a BIG STORM around the corner.... Are you prepared for the STORM? Do you say you BELIEVE IN GOD when everything is great in your life? But what happens if the bottom falls out from below you and you lose everything, your house, your job, your income, and you get HIT BY A MAJOR STORM of life...
Do you still BELIEVE IN GOD or will your heart fail you....
Are you able to still lift your hands up and PRAISE GOD for ALL THINGS... no matter what happens - will you still BELIEVE IN GOD?
Is GOD your TRUE PROVIDER within your life? Do you look at your employment and the income you receive from that employment outside of GOD being your PROVIDER?
Is it not GOD whom has blessed you with your employment/job?
Is it not GOD whom has provided for you through this income from this employment / job?
Praise Him daily for these provisions that have come directly from Him for your life....
We as people should NEVER look or trust our WORLD MONEY SYSTEM for the WORLD is not our provider.... Yes, we are suppose to be wise stewards of this provision that has been given to us - at the same time - the WORLD MONEY SYSTEM is not our provider.... but GOD HIMSELF needs to always be our PROVIDER for His Name is Jehovah Jireh (my Provider).... regardless if I have little or if I have much - GOD is my PROVIDER, according to His Riches in Glory.
Matthew 6: 23But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness! 24No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. 25Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Also Luke 16:18
Do you BELIEVE IN MONEY or do you truly BELIEVE IN GOD HIMSELF for all your provisions and all your needs?
Jesus, himself, did not have the RICHES of this world through money ... even when he had to pay his taxes Jesus did not actually have the money to pay these taxes but he looked to God the Father as His provider and when a fish that he caught had a coin in its mouth so Jesus could pay his taxes....
Jesus was RICH (not according to the world was he rich from money, but He was RICH because of Glory.)
Jesus, himself, did not have the RICHES of this world through money ... even when he had to pay his taxes Jesus did not actually have the money to pay these taxes but he looked to God the Father as His provider and when a fish that he caught had a coin in its mouth so Jesus could pay his taxes....
Jesus was RICH (not according to the world was he rich from money, but He was RICH because of Glory.)
Matthew 17: 24 After Jesus and his disciples arrived in Capernaum, the collectors of the two-drachma temple tax came to Peter and asked, “Doesn’t your teacher pay the temple tax?” 25 “Yes, he does,” he replied. When Peter came into the house, Jesus was the first to speak. “What do you think, Simon?” he asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect duty and taxes—from their own children or from others?” 26 “From others,” Peter answered. “Then the children are exempt,” Jesus said to him. 27 “But so that we may not cause offense, go to the lake and throw out your line. Take the first fish you catch; open its mouth and you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for my tax and yours.”
Do you pay GOD your tithe TODAY in the current, that is due Him as written in His Word? Do you pay God 10% of your gross income of your first fruits income before taxes or anything is taken out to your local storehouse where you receive God's Word and Food from within the 'church'?
If you are not paying your tithe to God - then how can you expect anything back to you from God?
If you use the excuse 'I can't afford paying tithe?' then you do not truly believe or trust in GOD if you cannot TRUST GOD in His Word....
If you are not paying your tithe to God - then how can you expect anything back to you from God?
If you use the excuse 'I can't afford paying tithe?' then you do not truly believe or trust in GOD if you cannot TRUST GOD in His Word....
When you say 'I believe in God' - actions speak louder than words and my question to you (if you do not pay tithe) is "DO YOU".....
God's Word says:
Malachi 3: 8Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. 9Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD of hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. 11And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts.
Notice in God's Word written about it says v 10: Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse (where you get fed in a church) (Not on TV); that there may be meat in mine house, and PROVE ME now within, saith the Lord of hosts, if I will not open you windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it....
v11 - And I (God) will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts...
If you are NOT paying tithes which is 10% of your gross (before taxes), PAID TO THE LOCAL STOREHOUSE, then how can you expect GOD to bless you from the devour stealing from your crops... and how do you expect GOD to provide for you when our WORLD ECONOMY comes crashing down and is NO MORE...
Where will your TRUST be then? WIll you still believe in GOD?
In Mark's and my 34 years together we have always paid our tithe regardless if we could actually afford it or not for we believe in GOD and we BELIEVE GOD'S WORD.
There was a time that when Mark and I first married, Mark made a total of $79.00 net per month (for 40 hours of work) at the Rescue Mission Ministry. Our apartment rent was $125.00 per month. We lived mainly on the income the Lord provided through me working. We could have easily said to God 'well God we know your word says to pay 10% of our first fruits but Mark only makes $79.00 net a month so surely GOD you would understand why we cannot pay you $10.00 out of Mark's income. But then where is our "BELIEVING and TRUST IN GOD"... and TRUSTING OF GOD'S WORD that He is our Provider...
We had a plaque that said "As I obey God in paying my tithe to Him, I may not have a lot, but the benefits are out of this world'....
We had a plaque that said "As I obey God in paying my tithe to Him, I may not have a lot, but the benefits are out of this world'....
Mark's and my GOD CALLING in His Ministry (as His feet and hands) has always been in Rescue Mission Ministry to the poor / homeless / street people in society. We have given out of our own need to give to the poor.
When Mark and I first married, during the time that Mark made $79.00 a month (for 40 hours a week work at the Rescue Mission)... we had to walk everywhere as we did not own a car. Imagine what it is like having to walk in pouring down rain about 6 blocks in taking 3 baskets of laundry to the laundrymat... (This is what we had to do at that time, since we had no transportation.)Proverbs: 19: 16He that keepeth the commandment keepeth his own soul; but he that despiseth his ways shall die. 17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
About 4 weeks after we married, we received a $400 check from the taxes and we found a beat up ugly old Toyota car for $350 which gave us enough money to purchase 6 months of insurance and transfer the title of the car. The car even had rusted out on the passenger side floor board so we put down a old board and some old carpet to cover it up. The most important thing to us was that the car ran good....
But two days after we got our car... Mark came home from the Rescue Mission as he had meant a man that had just got out of Pontiac Prison. He was married to a woman that had severe polio and because there was snow on the ground and she had to go to many doctor appointments she would always end up falling... Mark came home and we decided together to give our car to the as a gift to bless their lives. We convinced the license bureau to transfer the car into their names without them knowing that it came from us. We then transfered out 6 months insurance, the title, and gave this couple our car to bless them. We wrote a letter from JESUS and that He loved them... They NEVER knew that the car came from us.
One day as I was once again walking to the laundrymat carrying our dirty clothes I sat this couple drive by in the vehicle that Mark and I chose to give to them. I was more than happy to see this couple blessed in life, as I knew GOD was FAITHFUL and would provide for Mark and I in His time.
Many times as I have walked down a street and it is winter and I see a homeless women that does not have gloves, hat, or a winter coat.... I have literally taken off my own hat, gloves, and/or winter coat and given to the person in need knowing that the Lord will provide me once again....
One time I met a man named 'Michael', the street people called him 'Preacher Mike'... He lived on the streets of Albuquerque. Mike was a huge big man and only had the shattered clothes that he was wearing. It was winter. That same day when I met Mike I asked him to remain at the Mission that day as I had a surprise for him. I immediately went out to the LARGE MEN'S STORE, purchased him two jogging sweat pants and sweat shirts in size 10XXX, purchased him a new winter coat, gloves, and a hat, and new underwear, socks, and a pair of new tennis shoes... I wrapped them all up in a special fancy bag and went back to the alley alongside of Albuquerque Rescue Mission, found Mike, and gave him the gift from GOD. Mike started crying and said he had not ever had such a gift given to him. He was so excited about the new clothes to wear.
(This of couse was only only a few small times of many times of God using Mark and I to bless others... as we did this often when we saw the need in front of my eyes.)
As a CHRISTIAN BELIEVER, when you see a need of another in front of your eyes, do you try to find a way to meet that need or do you close your eyes and pretend not to see...?
As a CHRISTIAN BELIEVER even if you see a STRANGER in great need of need of care as with the GOOD SAMARTIAN do you choose to walk across the street and pretent you don't see the needs (as the religious people) or do you actually see and do what you can to TEND to the care and needs of even a stranger...?
Mark and I have been in great need within our own life, but yet we have always been faithful in the little that God has blessed us with as according to His Word in paying our tithe to Him and God has always come through for us.
God's word says:Psalm 37: 24 though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the LORD upholds him with his hand. 25 I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. 26 They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be a blessing.[a]
Mark and I have seen GOD continually in our own lives come through for us for HIS PROVISIONS. We have NEVER begged for bread as we have always gone to GOD for our provision:
Just to give a couple of examples (of many) within our own lives of God providing for us in a time of need:
Just to give a couple of examples (of many) within our own lives of God providing for us in a time of need:
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Mark and I had a ministry on campus at Christ for the Nations Bible College. We prayed about this and the Lord told us to do this as an outreach to the students on campus, especially international students.
We started a small grocery store directly from our apartment. We got approval from Fred Lindsay (President of CFNI)... a friend whom I worked with one day came to me (whom knew nothing about this little store) and said to me 'Jane, I have a brand new side-by-side refrigerator that we cannot use since we moved - would you take it as a gift)...
Once again - GOD the provider - provided.
We took this refrigerator, placed it inside our apartment and used this for the food supply to give out to the students on campus from campus housing.
Every Saturday morning at 4:00 a.m. - Mark and I would take our little car and go down to the Farmers Market in downtown Dallas Texas. It was all within a huge square of selling these fresh items and it was HUGE. The farmers got to know us and often would actually give us extras of their crops to bless this ministry on campus. From our own money, Mark and I would purchase eggs, produce, and vegetables, and day old bread - but it go to the point that so many people were getting to know us and wanting to bless us - that we hardly ever had to purchase anything. We also got a dairy farmer that would allow us to bring sterilized milk jugs to him and he would fill these milk jugs up and drop them off at our campus apartment site for 25c a gallon. So this is what we sold the milk products for on campus 25c a gallon. (We never made any kind of profit as this was not our goal - but it was to simply bless the students on campus).
For accountability, Mark and I chose not to ever eat and drink any products from the Loaves and Fishes Warehouse from our apartment and we kept this completely separate for the students on campus only.
It was not for us - but for them.
One day, Mark and I, had no money at all and no groceries remaining for ourselves. So instead of taking out of what God had supplied for the Loaves and Fishes - we prayed...
That evening at about 10:00 pm we prayed out to Jehovah Jireh to provide us food and some money as we had none... We looked to God and not to man for our provision.
About 10:30 pm as I was going to go to bed - I went to lock the door and right after I locked the door we got a large knock on the door. I went outside to see who it was (as we constantly had students coming in and out of our apartment) for food, and fellowship (mainly international students). When I opened the door - NO ONE was outside the door (and I opened it almost immediately after receiving the knock on the door). But sitting in front of the door was two one gallons of milk, two full bags of groceries, and a $50.00 new dollar bill and it said 'For Mark and Jane only'....
About 10:30 pm as I was going to go to bed - I went to lock the door and right after I locked the door we got a large knock on the door. I went outside to see who it was (as we constantly had students coming in and out of our apartment) for food, and fellowship (mainly international students). When I opened the door - NO ONE was outside the door (and I opened it almost immediately after receiving the knock on the door). But sitting in front of the door was two one gallons of milk, two full bags of groceries, and a $50.00 new dollar bill and it said 'For Mark and Jane only'....
GOD PROVIDED once again.
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Another provision by GOD:
As students attending Christ for the Nations Bible College we were told that we were not to PLEDGE on anything but our first PLEDGE was to get our school bills paid first....
But one day CFNI had some pledges during the Sunday Service and it was various church needs for brothers and sisters in 3rd world nations and during the church service they asked for people to bid in providing these needs...
One of the needs that was being bided on to pay off was for a small church building that was being built in the middle of a jungle in the Philippines. They needed someone to sponsor this small little church building in a remote area within the jungles to get it completed as they had run out of money to finish building the small little church building for the people...
Mark and I both felt led of God to go ahead and pledge to pay off the needs to complete the building of this little church inside the jungle area of the Philippines... We obeyed GOD with this pledge...
Mark and I did not have the money to pay off this building but God told us to bid on it and pledge to it and that HE would provide... We obeyed out of faith.
The very next morning as Mark and I were going to classes (Monday) there was a note on our time card for class to come to the Business office immediately. I got scared and thought 'what is this all about?'... When we got to the business office we were told that someone anonymously had paid off our entire school bill....
But one day CFNI had some pledges during the Sunday Service and it was various church needs for brothers and sisters in 3rd world nations and during the church service they asked for people to bid in providing these needs...
One of the needs that was being bided on to pay off was for a small church building that was being built in the middle of a jungle in the Philippines. They needed someone to sponsor this small little church building in a remote area within the jungles to get it completed as they had run out of money to finish building the small little church building for the people...
Mark and I both felt led of God to go ahead and pledge to pay off the needs to complete the building of this little church inside the jungle area of the Philippines... We obeyed GOD with this pledge...
Mark and I did not have the money to pay off this building but God told us to bid on it and pledge to it and that HE would provide... We obeyed out of faith.
The very next morning as Mark and I were going to classes (Monday) there was a note on our time card for class to come to the Business office immediately. I got scared and thought 'what is this all about?'... When we got to the business office we were told that someone anonymously had paid off our entire school bill....
Since our school bill was not paid in full, because we had been saving to pay off this bill - we had the exact amount saved to pay of our PLEDGE in paying off this little church building....
God had once again PROVIDED not only for Mark and I through school, but HE provided for brothers and sisters in the Lord, whom were strangers to us, but now they had the money to finish and complete their church building in the middle of a jungle in the Philippines...
God had once again PROVIDED not only for Mark and I through school, but HE provided for brothers and sisters in the Lord, whom were strangers to us, but now they had the money to finish and complete their church building in the middle of a jungle in the Philippines...
Two months later we received a picture from our family at this church that now was completed and the members of the church were standing outside waving to thank Mark and I for the PROVISION that GOD made...
This was such a gift... to see how JEHOVAH JIREH not only providing for Mark and me with our school expenses but for our extended family across the sea...
In December 2011 - CFNI (Christ for the Nations) contacted us about this same little church that we had contributed towards 30 years ago. The original Pastor had left this earth and now has joined up with JESUS but the new Pastor of this little church said that this church building has grown out of the building so they currently are now building a larger church building and needed a new roof for this new church building. Because our own finances are depleted at this time, we were not able to financially contribute but our God-given son, Emad, whom the Lord brought to us from Egypt - he decided to contribute to this small church to help...
GOD IS SO GOOD - GOD IS ALWAYS FAITHFUL
In December 2011 - CFNI (Christ for the Nations) contacted us about this same little church that we had contributed towards 30 years ago. The original Pastor had left this earth and now has joined up with JESUS but the new Pastor of this little church said that this church building has grown out of the building so they currently are now building a larger church building and needed a new roof for this new church building. Because our own finances are depleted at this time, we were not able to financially contribute but our God-given son, Emad, whom the Lord brought to us from Egypt - he decided to contribute to this small church to help...
GOD IS SO GOOD - GOD IS ALWAYS FAITHFUL
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There is a time coming where we will all have to help each other, even as strangers in order to survive on this earth... Where we no longer will be able to have 'church' in a building but where we become the actual 'church'....
Will you truly say 'I BELIEVE IN GOD' when you no longer have anything remaining on this earth, including a church building, or a house, or money.....
There will no longer be any source of income or money provisions as according to what we have grown use to in America as it will be all gone.... There will be no social security, there will be no disability income, there will be no retirement income, there will be no more MONEY through our WORLD MONEY SYSTEM as we know it... but it will be a time that we no longer will be able to say 'I BELIEVE IN GOD' - but it will come down to 'DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE AND TRUST IN GOD FOR YOUR PROVISION'....
If you as a CHRISTIAN BELIEVER are not being responsible in paying only 10% of your gross (First fruits) to GOD NOW.... how can you expect anything from GOD in provision in the future...
Matthew 6: 32(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. 33But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. 4Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof
Do you truly believe in GOD? or is this just words to make you feel good inside or make others see how good you are by believing in God? or do you TRULY BELIEVE AND TRUST IN GOD?
Mark and I have truly BELIEVE, TRUSTED, and OBEYED GOD in what GOD has written... We have been more interested in BUILDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, than building a KINGDOM up for ourselves on this earth.... DO YOU?
Mark and I have truly BELIEVE, TRUSTED, and OBEYED GOD in what GOD has written... We have been more interested in BUILDING THE KINGDOM OF GOD, than building a KINGDOM up for ourselves on this earth.... DO YOU?
What is more important for you? Having great wealth and riches of this world or having great wealth and riches in GOD?
Our wealth and riches in this world will soon be gone - then where will your wealth be?
AMERICA AMERICA, SAT ON A WALL
AMERICA, AMERICA, so proud of it all
AMERICA, AMERICA, worldly riches abound
AMERICA, AMERICA, HAD A GREAT FALL
and all the nations Kings and all the nations wealth
Where is your heart today? Is your heart to obey God's Word and TRUST HIM TODAY or is your heart trusting the wealth of this world?
Although Mark and I do not have much, even today currently we have a great need financially, but we TRUST GOD - whom will always be FAITHFUL.... Today our refrigerator is not working and our dishwasher has died, and we truly do not have the money to get these things... but our TRUST is in God that He will provide for us....
Romans 8:28 God works all things out together for good for those whom have been called according to His purpose....
Are you called today for knowing His RICHES in Glory or are you following the lust of your heart for wealth, fame, money of this world... You cannot serve two masters...
For Mark and me, we have chosen to FOLLOW the only MASTER of our soul and heart and His name is JESUS IS LORD.... we may not have the riches of this world but we have experienced never BEGGING FOR BREAD OR SEEING THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN as we have trusted Him...
Let your HEART be prepared of what is coming.... rather than your heart stopping for the 'fear' that will be around....
LEARN TO TRUST GOD TODAY..... give to Him and He will return it back to you. Cast your bread upon the water and see it returned back to you.
Romans 8:28 God works all things out together for good for those whom have been called according to His purpose....
Are you called today for knowing His RICHES in Glory or are you following the lust of your heart for wealth, fame, money of this world... You cannot serve two masters...
For Mark and me, we have chosen to FOLLOW the only MASTER of our soul and heart and His name is JESUS IS LORD.... we may not have the riches of this world but we have experienced never BEGGING FOR BREAD OR SEEING THE RIGHTEOUS FORSAKEN as we have trusted Him...
Let your HEART be prepared of what is coming.... rather than your heart stopping for the 'fear' that will be around....
LEARN TO TRUST GOD TODAY..... give to Him and He will return it back to you. Cast your bread upon the water and see it returned back to you.
Be obedient to GOD in the little things on this earth TODAY...
Save up for yourselves a HEAVEN SAVINGS ACCOUNT....
Save up for yourselves a HEAVEN SAVINGS ACCOUNT....
Start TODAY in truly BELIEVING IN GOD... for I feel a real URGENCY deep in my heart and soul that something MAJOR is just around the corner... TRUST GOD TODAY...
Am I RICH by the world's standards - NO
Am I RICH by God's standards - YES - very RICH
I BELIEVE IN GOD (words are cheap) but I BELIEVE IN GOD through action... for GOD has ALWAYS come through for Mark and I when we had need and we have NEVER Begged for bread....
GOD IS OUR PROVIDER not the world...
I BELIEVE IN GOD all the way...
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