Month: May 2016

Confusion Who to Listen to

Bethany Uncategorized

isCDQ8IBZ3I have been watching more video’s and I feel I have to write this urgently. I have enjoy Kat Kerr video’s very much about what heaven is like. The confusion was she claims certain people that lived a very wicked life that they are in heaven, because somebody prayed for them, so they repented just in time. I am also hearing people that I feel are very honest and they do not agree, because they claim that they either saw them in hell or God has told them they are there. So now I am wondering about if Kat Kerr has been deceived herself. Good people can get it wrong. And another confusion came about, which God used it for His glory and that is some people say there will be a rapture before the great tribulation and others say it is going to happen in the middle of the tribulation and others say after. So I ask God ‘is there more than one rapture. I looked in the Bible to see if He would answer me, but He chose not too. The very next day I was watching another prophet of God that I believe he is very honest and God told him that there will be three raptures. So I feel God has answered my prayer, but in a different manner than what I expected Him to.

I know God is telling me through the Bible for me to get ready now. I feel there is some few things that I am to do and I feel it will happen very quickly, but still not sure about it. All I know the rapture is real, even though Kat Kerr is saying that Jesus has told her ‘pick up your rapture rug.’ I know false prophets often will tell you what you want to hear. She is talking about there will be no rapture that we are not living in the perilous times, which everything in our era does indicate it is so. So these times are very tricky, so be very careful, what and who you believe. One thing for sure is to obey God in all things. Live a holy life and pray for your own salvation and everybody else. And ask for decernment in everything and give witness much as you are able that their is only one way to heaven and that is through Jesus Christ our Lord. And ‘repent of your sins before God!!!’ I am sorry if I have mislead anybody and I am praying if I have that God will come to their aid.

God Loves Us Using Our Imaginations

Bethany Prayer

I believe sometimes it is a very good idea to write down some of your prayers in a journal. It helps me when I am having trouble articulating my needs before Him. Over a period of time you have a record of how you are growing in faith. What I am finding too, after a period of time saying the same prayer over and over again like we do with the Hail Marys in the rosary, God will often rearrange your prayers here and there, by giving you the perfect word with deeper meaning than the one you chose for yourself. I believe writing things down opens you up for deeper communications of The Holy Spirit. In time you will notice God is speaking to you. Once this becomes natural to you then you seem to notice Him giving you words of knowledge while you are doing your day to day activities in the world. It seems writing my thoughts down is one of the quickest ways for me to hear His voice. I suppose for some people it could happen when they are painting and maybe for somebody else it be gardening. There is no harm in trying different ways to open yourself up to God.

I have been writing down different declarations and finding a great deal of joy using different scriptures and personalising them and then sometimes putting a few verses together. To strengthen my faith. For example if I want to pray for courage I will use verses from scripture on that subject, if it is healing I use verses from scripture on healing. Below is an example of what I mean. I wanted to pray that God’s children will grow in knowledge of Gods truth and receive His divine help. So I used Psalm 25:5 and Isaiah 45:2 and put both together in one prayer. is(9)

I Declare before Your Divine Mercy in union with all the inhabitants of Heaven in Y’shua (Jesus) Name that I and all Your beloved children be led by Your truth and teach us, for You are the God who saves us. All day long may we put our hope in You. As You have said ‘I will go before you and make the crooked places straight, I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and cut the bars of iron.’ And You have also said that Your words does not come back void. So may it be as You have promised.

Try it for yourself. It is a great deal of fun and it is a powerful way to pray.

Daily Prayers

Bethany Prayer

isK9K5GSHBMay the Most holy, most sacred, most adorable, most mysterious, and unutterable Name of God be always praised, blessed, loved, adored and glorified in heavens, on earth and under the earth, by all the creatures of God, and by the Sacred Heart of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Most Holy Sacrament of the Altar.

The above prayer was given to a Carmelite nun, Sr. Mary of St. of Peter of Tours in 1843. Jesus told her. “This Golden Arrow will wound My Heart delightfully. And heal the wounds inflicted by blasphemy.”

St. Michael the Archangel, defend us in the day of battle. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of the devil, May God rebuke Satan, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan and all the other evil spirits who prowl through the world seeking the ruins of souls.

The above prayer was composed by the Pope Leo after he had a vision of a fearful battle against the Church in the future, The vision he saw back then, we are now seeing it before our eyes being fulfilled. The church desperately needs this prayer daily said.

May Your Will triumph over all of us, May Your love consume all of us, May our misery glorify you.

May Your Will triumph over me, May Your love consume me, May my misery glorify you.

Sr. Josefa Menendez was given this prayer by either Our Lord or by Mary I am not really sure, but this prayer has helped me so much that I rearrange the words from ‘me’ to ‘all of us’ as you can see from the first prayer. Jesus has said we can prayer for other people in a big way like this to another visionary.

She was also given this prayer by Mary.

Eternal Father make me worthy to accomplish your holy will for I belong to you.

I say the prayer above, which is in its original form and I also say the one below too.

Eternal Father make us worthy to accomplish your holy will for we belong to you.

Jesus had appeared to me when I first said the prayer using the word ‘us’ instead of ‘me’ He was telling me this prayer He wanted said with so much urgency. That I couldn’t say enough of this prayer. Not exactly in those words but His presence said it.

O Jesus, Who in Thy cruel Passion didst become the “Reproach of men and the Man of Sorrows”, I worship Thy Divine Face.

O My God! Source of all mercy! I acknowledge Your sovereign power. While recalling the wasted years that are past, I believe that You, Lord, can in an instant turn this loss to gain. Miserable as I am, yet I firmly believe that You can do all things. Please restore to me the time lost, giving me grace, both now and in the future, that I may appear before You in “wedding garments.”

Great and wonderful are Thy works, O Lord God Almighty; just and true are Thy ways, O King of ages. Who shall not fear Thee, O Lord, and magnify Thy name? For Thou only are holy; for all nations shall come, and shall adore in Thy sight, because Thy judgments are manifest.”

My God, I believe, I adore, I trust and I love Thee! I ask pardon for those who do not believe, adore trust and love Thee.

Precious Blood

Precious Blood, ocean of divine mercy; flow upon us!

Precious Blood, most pure offering; procure us every grace!

Precious Blood, hope and refuge of sinners; atone for us!

Precious Blood, delight of holy souls; draw us!

 

 

God Has Made Us All Different

Bethany Christian Living ,

I was motivated to write this article in answering to a comment I receive on this blog. I am one of those people who have trouble communicating one to one, since my life is one of isolation due to excessive shyness when I was young and then followed by breakdowns and social phobias for many decades. Communicating is a very precious skill and those who are good at it, often do not realise what a wonderful gift God has given them. They take it for granted like we all do with our own gifts. I thank her very much for her comment, because it has led me to think more deeply about the different characters that God has created us all in. I believe we all reflect God differently. If we are true to God and love Him we all love one another, but show it differently. We show our love by the characteristics that have been given to us by Our Dear Lord. The thing I have noticed lately, there seems to be two major groups in God’s Kingdom. One are the lovers and the other group are the fighters. And God needs both in His Kingdom, to expand it and to protect it. To me that is one of the reasons in my opinion He created us this way. And I also believe since God is infinite each and every one of us reflect different parts of His nature. is(7)

If you look at the angles for example God has His messenger’s and healing angels and they are very beautiful I am told. Then you have the warrior angles and they are not beautiful but very dangerous looking. They all love God with their everything and they all love us, and willing to help us, because of their great love for God. They have different roles and characteristics in their way of showing it. I believe without a doubt in heaven everybody understands one another perfectly and there is no confusion what your role is in how you are called to serve and love God and one another. On earth we are still trying to figure one another out.

I read in ‘He and i’ where Jesus speaks to Gabrielle Bossis that God had chosen her to save a certain group of people that only she was basically called to reached. How I interpret that not everybody you are called to reach, others can, because of our different temperaments. My nature wouldn’t attract them, but only yours would and vice a versa. I have noticed since I was very young and of course this is not my doing but Our Lord’s, I find I attract leaders. They always notice me and I don’t make a point of drawing their attention to me either, I simply be me. It is just how things work out. They either love or hate me and very rarely are indifferent to me. I feel like I am a revolutionist and a reformer at heart that is why I believe they notice me. If they agree with me, they love me, if they see me as a threat they hate me. isZTIQ1EJF

My best friend is a lover and by her example I am learning to be thoughtful in the little things that makes a big difference in friendship and relating to other people. And she finds comfort in me, because of my strength as a fighter. The children of God all need each other, we all have something very important to give to one another that is how God made all of us. Once again I thank the young lady for her comment it has given me plenty to think about and I hope this article has given her some explanation on how I serve God and others who are also fighters in God’s Kingdom. We are all called to Love God with all our hearts, minds, body and strength and love one another as He loves us. And God is a God of war and love. The picture of the two dogs I love because their show of affection is so sweet and love is sure beautiful without any doubts.

Communication Breakdown

Bethany Christian Living, Protestants and Catholics ,

Communication can be a real problem. We are not always hearing what a person is actually saying. Humans have a great tendency to do a lot of presuming. We presume we know what the other person is saying. A great many times we presume wrongly and as a result we are forever arguing with one another. Some people are better communicators than others. There are different ways to communicate such as the universal language of music and art. Writing is another form. Not everybody is good at talking and being understood when speaking face to face with another. Especially when there is hostility present, such as prejudice. Prejudice blinds a person so that they are not really listening to what the other is saying. When two people from different backgrounds such as the classic example from a different culture, with a very different personality with completely different educational and emotional background, no wonder why we misinterpret one another so often. We are also told men and women speak a different language from one another and therefore have problems communicating with one another, especially married couples.

We Sometimes Speak A Different Language

What this is leading up to Protestants and Catholics also speak a different language as well. I have been both a Protestant and now a Catholic with very strong Protestants influences. My beliefs are mostly Catholic but I go about it the Protestant way. So I am a cross between the two and it is not a comfortable position to be in. There are some things that I have learnt as a Catholic from a book called “The Way of Divine Love” by Sister Josefa Menendez. It is a classic. Through her sacrifices she made way for the chaplet of Divine Mercy. She was what Catholic’s call a ‘Victim Soul.’ The word victim here does not mean what most Protestants think of when they say victim. In other words there is a language problem. When Catholic’s refer to someone as a victim soul, we consider them extremely blessed and favoured by God. Specially chosen for that important calling. It is a great honour to be chosen by God to be a victim soul in our eyes. You need to be truly loyal, humble and courageous with a huge heart. Otherwise you wouldn’t make it. After reading this book, I didn’t know how to explain it to a Protestant, about this kind of calling.

I remember I had a Protestant friend who was an elder at his church. He had the opinion if you had real faith in God, you would not experience any tragedies. Life wouldn’t be so hard. That view is the complete reverse of the life of being a victim soul. We all understand the calling of being a Martyr better. Sometimes we are called to defend the faith and that may cost our lives. One day I heard a Protestant repeating what Jesus said about her husband and that was her husband had prayed for a long time to suffer a little of Christ suffering with Him. Jesus explained it to her as a fast offering. Catholics would call it being a victim soul. Different words meaning the same thing. Jesus was speaking it in the language a Protestant would understand it. If He was talking to a Catholic He would have said victim soul.

God Does Know Our Language

God does know our language better than we do ourselves. This is fairly a new idea amongst many Protestants and not all agree with it. Catholics have always believed in it. We believe the more favoured you are the greater the fast offering of your life united to Jesus would be. Your influence is great with God, because you have proven faithful to Him. Your prayers are so much more powerful when we make sacrifices for God with love. Many Protestants see it as Catholics believe that we enter Heaven by our own works, which is far from the truth. Any offering you give God if it is not united with Jesus’s suffering and merits, which He alone has gain for us, by faith, it is never acceptable to God.

isSA7LX265Protestants know about food fasting, but it needs not stop there. Victim Souls often do food fasting too, but they also literally share the sufferings of Jesus. Of course not the whole weight, nobody is strong enough spiritually and what we do suffer is given to us by grace anyway. One Asian woman has the stigmas on her hands, like St. Francis had. They say every time you go near her you smell a very beautiful aroma. You can see this program on YouTube. St. Francis was the first person God gave the stigmas too and then many other saints received them after that. Some saint’s stigmas were invisible, only the saint knew about it and others were visible for all to see.

One well known person was a priest who had the stigmas Padre Pio. Somebody asked him if they hurt and Padre Pio replied ‘do you think God gave me these for a decoration?’ For those who are new believers, stigmas are what we call the wounds of Jesus, where they nailed His hands and Feet to the cross. And the lanced that was speared through His Heart after He died to prove that He was dead. The thing that it also proved was that He was who He said He was, the Son of God. It is also said that the soldier that pieced His side with a lance was converted, because he witnessed with others the blood and water flowed out of the side of Jesus. Receiving the stigmas is a very high honour, but by itself it doesn’t give you a free ticket to enter Heaven. You have to believe Jesus has paid the price of our sins, put your whole trust in God and obey Him and serve no other god, but God Almighty like the rest of us.

Spiritual Mothers

isVJF7ODZBI believe God wanted me to write about victim souls, because that wasn’t my intention. My intention was about Catholics and Protestants not listening to one another and that we do a lot of presuming about one another that is not true. For example many Protestants get worked up when Catholics refer to Mary the mother of Jesus, as our mother also. I think personally it isn’t the most important concern of God whether you refer Mary as your spiritual mother or not. Some however do love to make a great issue out of things. Instead of embracing all that we share in common, they love to fight and cause disunity in the members of the body of Christ.

One thing I do notice these same people do not have any problems with Protestants Prophets prophesying that God is raising up mothers and fathers to nourish, teach and lead His flock. And they have no problems accepting Heidi Baker and Joan Hunter and few others as mothers of the flock that God has given them. If that is acceptable to them what is so wrong referring Mary Jesus Mother as our spiritual mother as well.

Are You Getting Bolder in Your Walk with the Lord?

Bethany Christian Living

is(7)I think many of us are getting bolder in the Lord. God is pouring more of Himself in us and so we are getting to know our Father better. I think more and more of us are getting to know our true identity in Him as well. I was surprise one day I just felt within me telling the devil how small and insignificant he was before God. I was really letting Satan have it and at the same time I visualised myself as a toddler jumping up and down with joy as a victor (like you can’t hurt me sort of thing) on our Heavenly Father’s lap with His huge arms wrapped around me for protection, while I was really letting Satan have it. I was real surprise, because this was just my imagination, but God became a part of it and was smiling at me and encouraging me, letting me know He was all for it. I would never do such a thing without the arms of God’s protecting me that would be mad. Only through the precious blood of Jesus was I am able to get away with it.

Just yesterday I was outside. I am becoming closer and closer with God by looking at His clouds, now that I know that it is the second heavens. While I am looking at the clouds I know there are real angels doing battle for us and especially when we release them to do so in the precious name of Jesus. I am learning that I am a king now, because Jesus has given all born again believers in Him who are faithful this role. All kings have authority and we are called to use it and the angles are stuck and can do nothing until we call them into action. Before it was only head knowledge and now I am really believing it in my heart. We always growing all the time, it never stops and I am so glad, because I love growing in the Lord.

Getting Bolder for Jesus

Well yesterday I was so unusually bold and was giving Satan what for again and I felt the power of God or angles I don’t really know, but it was sure powerful and once again they were egging me on so to speak, to be even bolder still and not to back down. Our power is in believing God will answer our prayers and when we really do that, we see results and we become even bolder again and start praying and declaring for all sorts of great things to happen in Jesus’s Name. We see clearly how much we depend on God for everything and if we are praying for the right things we are so powerful, because we have a very, very infinitely more powerful Daddy who rules and is the God of all that is seen and unseen. What a Father! It is so much fun. I am not ignoring the fact that fighting for God’s kingdom is always fun, there are plenty of times we cry out of sorrow of all the evil is going on around us, and we have to work when we are too tired or simply not feeling up to it. But there is a fun side too and we shouldn’t miss it out on it.

I use to often hear people speak highly of Derek Prince so I thought I search him out in YouTube and I am now see why everybody thinks so highly of him. He does a very good teaching on demons, witchcraft and at one of them he finished it with deliverance and I had never wailed and cried so much in my life when he did it. He definitely has a very strong anointing for those who need to know more about those subjects I recommend him highly.

Compass

And I have just read a prophesy from Daryl Crawford-Marshall and he saw Jesus pulling things out of a bag and one of the things Jesus pulled out impressed me so much was a compass. Jesus is telling us we are going to war and we are going to win. He told this to Daryl with a big smile and I do feel it, don’t you?  I thought about the compass Jesus took out of the bag and thought compasses are real handy and life-saving if you are lost. When you at the thickest part of the battle and you cannot see anything, but hopelessness with your physical eyes, you can only survive by relying on God’s words, because they act like a compass or a lamp to your feet. That gives me great encouragement. Any Christians with strong faith, know what I am talking about, because you don’t get strong faith by sitting around doing nothing.  You get it because you have been at war with Satan and you had to rely on God and not on what you see with your physical eyes but by His promises. The reward for perseverance is a stronger faith and love for God, because you always win when you fight with Jesus and in His name.

 

 

Prophesies Can be Confusing

Bethany Supernatural Gifts from God

I have a book called “The Crusade of Prayer.’ These are prayers given to a prophetess going by the name of Maria Divine Mercy. The prayers were given to her by Jesus Himself for us to pray for the preparation of the second coming. The prayers are very powerful and I love saying them, because I know they make a big difference in God’s Will being accomplish by saving so many souls.

isCDQ8IBZ3It can get confusing sometimes when you hear so many different prophecies out there and they seem to contradict one another. What can be so confusing is that they are from very genuine people recalling visions given them by God. I remember I had a friend who was a seer of God’s once and she hated dates, because Gods’ timing is not ours. We don’t always interrupt what we are told by God correctly and that is where the confusion can come from. I do believe God sometimes can set us up as well.  I have experience it and I am sure many of you have too and we are so glad that He does. If He didn’t set us up sometimes, we would do certain things differently, but because we were trick into it, we received great blessings that otherwise we would not be privilege to have. God is good. He did command us to go out into the world as a lamb and be sneaky as serpents. If He is telling us to do that, guess who is being sneaky with us sometimes. He has too for our salvation.

Jesus is Leading

If having visions about the era of the rapture is going to get us moving, He will give us rapture dreams, but leave out it is not going to be in your lifetime. If it is the second coming that moves you then He will use that to move you. He doesn’t lie, He just doesn’t let you know everything, because it would be harmful. In one of my visions I had from God, I saw people in front of a table at a wedding feast and then suddenly everybody turned around and was dancing. I knew it was the wedding supper of His brides, but what was very interesting I complained to Him, because the picture was so small on the left hand side of the corner down at the bottom of the screen. I said to Him ‘can’t you make the picture bigger’ and then light dawned on me and I realised that was the message. More than three quarters was empty. He was telling me I knew next to nothing about the future, despite of all prophesies out there, there was a lot not being told for our sakes.

He said to one visionary that these rapture dreams were like fire drills we sometimes practise ourselves. We practise these drills to make sure if a real fire came we all would know what to do and it keeps us all on our toes. Well God apparently does these things also with us.  And without these fire drills we would all be asleep spiritually and then the end of the world would happen quicker than God planed it. We were also told because of people praying in earnest last year, the rapture would of taken place last June. Prayers and sacrifice are so important it can stop prophesies from being fulfilled. For example I really believe God was going to end the world in the 12 century. As I said once before in another article, St. Francis died with a secret and a friar wanted to know what that secret was, so he prayed and prayed until St. Francis appeared to him one day and told him that God would of ended the world then, but because St. Francis was chosen by Jesus to rebuild his church and because he obeyed God spared the world at that time in history. God does know how to motivate us into action.

We are Still Very Much in a Spiritual War

We are still very much in a spiritual war and we have to be involved in order to win. We would be disobedient if we didn’t engage and fight back and declaring over and over again that everything Satan has stolen from us returns back at the very least seven fold. I was upping it to 7,000 fold return and God was really keen for me to do this. Most of us say seven times back return, but in my opinion it is because our faith is not strong enough to believe that God is that generous He would gladly return more. Matter of fact one day I said I won’t declare seven billion back, because if I got that return I wouldn’t be mature enough to know how to handle it. And then I felt straight away God’s presence and He was sad that I thought that way. In other words He just wanted me to have the faith to ask seven billion back and that would have made God very happy. So there is no limit to God’s generosity and we always put limits on Him, because we do not know Him that well so we don’t believe.

The important thing is despite of all the different prophecies out there we need to know one thing, and that is be ready because Jesus will come like a thief in the night regardless. It really doesn’t matter if the rapture be tomorrow or 4,000 years from now. We have to be ready now, because we don’t know when Jesus will come for us. We all could die tomorrow. So we just do as He says and love Him as if we are already in Heaven and that will please Him very much and the rewards how can we describe them.

1 Corinthians 15:58. Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

 

 

Discernment

Bethany Christian Living

John 16:13 “When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.”

The Holy Spirit will give witness of what He hears from the Father in your spirit. The more in tune you are with the Spirit of God, the more you will experience a ‘knowing’ within you. We are always growing in this. The freer we are of our selfish love the more we will hear God’s voice within us. You don’t necessary know how you know, but you just know if something is authentic or not. You cannot discern anything correctly without the Spirit of God, which we call the Holy Spirit. isWNUVGOVL

To become more in tune with the Spirit of God, we first have to be willing to obey God. The more obedient we are to God the more He will favour us with His Spirit, which is also called the Spirit of enlightenment. To know God is to have the mind and heart of God. Of course we are so insignificant before Him. It is only His love for us and the price Jesus paid for us that made this possible. We are so small, we are smaller than a molecule before Him. I obviously don’t mean we will ever equal Him, but we are of the same wave length so to speak. We are made in His image, we are like a very tiny mirror reflecting the sun. Even though a tiny mirror is no way equal to the sun, when it is reflecting the sun, it can blind you with its brightness. Jesus is the light of the world and we have become a light of the world too, because of what Jesus has done for us, so that we are not only saved through believing in Him we also have The Holy Spirit that dwelt in Him.

The Holy Spirit Dwells in a Believer

So when the Holy Spirit dwells in us, after we are born again. That is completely surrendering ourselves to God on His terms, which is believing Jesus is His only begotten Son and our saviour. Depending how deep the conversion has taken place we will have the ability to recognise the true voice of a person. If the person is a fake or not.  Are the people are who they say they are Etc. If they are of God they will have qualities of His character for example God is not cruel, barbaric, hypocritical, double minded, selfish, lustful etc. Many people hide behind religion and pretend they righteous people when they are in truth not. Wolves in sheep skins, beware not everybody who smiles at you can be trusted.

We are all at different levels of maturity and we are always if we are real believers in Jesus are always finding more things about ourselves we have to strip away. That is a good thing because it means we are growing. If we are content with ourselves and think we a good Christians and worst still, consider ourselves better than others that is a dangerous place to be. You are in a good position to back slide, because you are not being alert of what needs improving in you.

Righteousness

is(9)Isaiah 32:17 And the effect of righteousness will be peace, and the result of righteousness, quietness and trust forever.

If we are living in union with the Holy Spirit of God, there is always peace and righteousness. True righteousness, shines and glorifies God. When a person pretends or is misled in thinking he is righteous there is never going to be true peace, because you have to be real with Jesus. We can’t serve two master and I am afraid that many do and don’t realise it. For the last year I have had to chuck things out of my home, after realising they are not pleasing to God. I had a beautiful dragon that I love and it was a gift from somebody who is now deceased, so I also had a sentimental attachment with it. I kept saying to myself and to God that it is just an ordainment. Something inside of me kept persisting that it was not right for me to have it, so I end up chucking it and now feel a lot more happier because of it. It does win to do the will of God and you do receive peace and it is worth the sacrifice. God can’t give you blessings if you refuse to obey Him.