Month: February 2017

Joyful Thoughts

Bethany Christian Living

is(16)We have to be more and more alert as the time of Our Lord draws near. So many Christians are being attack through witchcraft. So it is very important to keep our thoughts on how loving a God we serve and not always dwelling on our problems.

Once I was so concern about my problems, God brought my attention that God wanted to be praised. At the time I was too busy rebuking the enemy. I remember many years ago I had a dream. On the left side was Satan’s army, tanks, missiles etc. and on the right was God’s army. We were all joyful and praising God. That is our strength being joyful in the Lord and praising Him. When we do that all the time our intercessory prayers are even more powerful. We are pleasing God and getting to know Him. You can’t be joyful if you are not confident in God’s love and protection for you. A couple ways to become joyful is to look at God in all his mercy and love for you. And remembering all the good things and the protection He has given to you in the past.

Philippians 4:8. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honourable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.

There is a lot of training in this and I am still very much a beginner myself. But I am getting better at it and the relief now that I have in realising even to a greater extent of God’s forgiveness and how He does come to our rescue all the time, if we humble ourselves.

Crime is Increasing

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Crime has increase regardless of what they are saying. back in the old days when Australia was a beautiful Christian nation, there wasn’t many terrible crimes like it is today. Nobody was ever abducted etc. Once I was watching a documentary many years ago of Australian news. They brought up the ‘pyjama’s girls’. when these girls were abducted the  whole nation went into mourning. And when we saw it, we went into mourning as if it was yesterday. My youngest sister of eleven and a half years difference from me, piped up what is so special about them.’ We were all shocked, my mother and my other sister and John were present and we couldn’t believe our ears what she just said. I thought to myself this is not like her to be so uncompassionate. Then light dawned on all of us at the same time. John then turned to her and said ‘it just didn’t happened.’ It is happening all the time now and she was just wanted to know why the ‘pyjama’s girls’ stood out from all the others. There was no others she didn’t know that.

You will be Given Mercy if You are Merciful to others

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Matthew 5:7-8.  “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.”

isPLLWHJ3SGod will give us mercy at the measure we give mercy to others. There are plenty of times we want to help people, but are out of our reach to do so. We can still help and give up some offering, whether it is donations to a charity that helps the people God has put into our hearts to help or some act of self-denial to back up our prayers. There are great needs everywhere, for example children caught up in the sex trade could do with your help. Even praying for them for five minutes a day or better still say the rosary for them. God does answer prayers, especially if we keep it up. I often pray for God to stop abortions and God told me one day that many babies haven’t been aborted because of me praying for them. I have prayed for them for about eight years. So you see you can still help.

A woman by the name of Gabrielle Bossis went past a brothel and her heart went out to them and Jesus said to her ‘how many times have I told you when you can’t enter, your prayers enter.’ It is important to remember you will receive mercy if you give it. Not long ago I went through a crisis of not believing I will go to heaven if I die. I believed everybody else would, but not me. God brought to my attention because of an act of mercy to someone, giving them hope when they really need it, God gave me hope and let me know that I was fine with Him. You don’t know when you are going to need mercy from God, because of a crisis you find yourself in. Your faith may not always be strong enough. It is necessary to show mercy to others, for the glory of God and for our salvation. God said in Exodus 33:19……. I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

So not everybody receives mercy, because they did not give it. Children who are tortured every day by being sexual insulted needs our prayers as so many other people do. Let’s not be selfish and start praying for people who are in hopeless situations. We would like to know other people are praying for us when we are in a crisis wouldn’t we?

 

 

Are Vaccinations that Safe and Reliable?

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Vaccinations are they all that safe? I really don’t believe they are. So very few of us know its history. According to ‘Hard Evidence magazine'(which is a very informative magazine) the town Leicester in England had the highest vaccination rates in the world and it didn’t help because the breakout of small pox was higher than ever. When they stoped vaccinating for small pox they had the lowest rate of small pox. People who were vaccinated often had a worse case of small pox in history than those who weren’t vaccinated. I had an uncle who died from small pox after he was vaccinated against it. And a cousin who was seriously ill through her vaccination. So I believe personally that diseases have been controlled mostly through hygiene and good healthy food and exercise. My mothers generation were very strict on those things, but now days I don’t think people are as strict as they use to  be.

I believe people put too much faith in man made science and not enough in God our Creator. People can be greedy and all they want is the big bucks, regardless how it hurts others. I believe in trusting your intuition more than people’s arguments, because God does speak to all of us when we are quieten down ourselves to listen to Him.

Social Phobias

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Social Phobias

At the moment I have very little to write about, because I believe God hasn’t given me anything to say, but I still feel He wants me to write. So I thought I write a bit about my social phobias and the benefits of suffering when it is offered up to God.

I was a tediously shy at the beginning of my life with a very bad speech problem, which I now know it was due to lack of confidence in myself. My mother was the only person who could understand me until I was at the age of eight years old. When I reached twelve I prayed for nine months for a friend because I was terribly lonely. God gave me a very good friend and we still are after fifty years. She gave me the confidence in myself to talk normally so everyone could understand me. Sometimes I still get tongue tied when I am nervous or over excited about something.

At the age of twenty one I was able to socialise really well. I always had a problem of what to say to people still do, but at that time I was really good at socialising. Not for long, my father died when I was twenty two years old and the whole family had a breakdown. A year later I joined a lay missionary group in Western Australia. I shouldn’t really because I wasn’t over my father’s death and I had a mild social phobia was developing as well. But I did because I so desperately wanted to serve God. I really wanted to join the Carmelites disclosed order, but I misinterpret the saint’s writings. When they said be careful what you decide is not God’s will but your own. I thought to myself ‘do I want to join the Carmelites for myself or for God.’ And since I had no one to talk to I chose to do lay missionary work for two years. Thinking two years will go so fast. I was dead wrong, I never suffered so much I think in all my life. I can’t be certain, but it was something I wouldn’t want to go through again.

It wasn’t the work it was living with seven Christians. You think living with Christians would be easy since the commandment is to love one another, but that isn’t so. Everybody is hard to live with, because we have so many faults and if we don’t have a wise person in charge, things can fall apart easily. I lasted six months and far as I am concern I had a breakdown on top of a breakdown. And a very bad social phobia as well.

I then wanted to offer myself up to expiate the sins of pride and judging. God answered that prayer so quickly that you knew it was Gods doing. I was given the gift of discernment of the spirit.  In particular I would see pride and judging in people. I reacted very badly too the demons. I was in so much pain both physically and emotionally, I wouldn’t be able to exaggerate it. Ten years of this and then the next ten years about, I didn’t see the demons in people anymore but my reactions were like if I saw the demons. Then the next twenty years getting healed and the last ten of those years, growing out of my social phobias. Which I think is an absolute miracle what God has done for me. Much more I have had to endure than what I am saying here, but this is enough. God gave me the courage and endurance to deal with my problems and I think that is why I and so many people are receiving many visions, dreams and visitations from God.  

We all would like to have the rewards without the sacrifice and hard work, but it doesn’t happen that way. At the moment I am going through another trial and I have to learn to have faith in God in a different area of my life. I feel God is so kind to me and patient because I have to fight doubt so much. But what He is teaching me when sadness overcomes you don’t automatically think it is you, it could be a demon you need to rebuke and cast out. Refuse to give into it. I have had to do that a few times and it really does work.