June 7th, 2024
God said something very interesting to me, “You live in the present and you are a present person. Your spirit calls into tomorrow. Prepare for tomorrow because you see what is coming.” Then He led me to 2 Corinthians 4:1 in the Message Translation, “Since God has so generously let us in on what he is doing, we’re not about to throw up our hands and walk off the job just because we run into occasional hard times.”
I followed this with an outpouring of telling God what I have sown for, what I am seeing in my future and thanking Him for it, as if I already have it. I don’t share my vision with anyone, because I don’t need people saying to me, “you got to be kidding, you believe God is going to do that for you? How do you think you can make that happen?” I don’t think I can, but I know God can.
Because we have been talking about this for years, I am going to use this as an example. I have always liked having more than enough in my pantry, and it has saved my bacon more than once, when money was tight. We could always eat in lean times due to the fact that I would buy extras for the pantry when I could. When I lost my job and had no income for four months, we ate well. I wasn’t in fear, because I was prepared. When my truck ran its last trip for me in the beginning of March this year, God showed me where my money was, the new vehicle showed up, and I was on the road again. During the short adjustment period, we had food, so I didn’t have to worry about how to feed my family when I had to put out more money for a new vehicle.
If you have read the series, I wrote on threecrossescanada.com, called “Demand of Me Like I Demand of You,” I go through the whole process of how this is all possible. When I apply God’s Word, put a demand on what He has written in the bible, and put my faith on that Word, He has to respond to it. Isaiah 55:11 and 12 says, “so is my word that goes out from my mouth; It will not return to me empty but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it. You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace.” (NIV) You have been given the authority to use the name above all other names, and permission to demand of the Word in that name, and Jesus will come and collect those Words and perform them. You will know you are on the right path when you step out in joy and led forth in peace. That peace will be in your gut region, that is where your spirit is located. That is where your spirit is, and Jesus and Holy Spirit live.
You will go, the Word says. That means you must be involved, you must put pressure on something, you must be willing to go where Holy Spirit leads. You can pray for revelation knowledge to come to your spouse and family, but you cannot do the work for them, you cannot force them to move, and you can not stay back with them if they choose not to move. Didn’t Jesus say, leave your parents, your spouse, your children, if they don’t want to follow me?
Your walk with Jesus is not their walk. They have their own destiny. I didn’t marry the man I was supposed to have married. Instead of seeking first the Kingdom, I sought out the lust of the flesh. I didn’t become a Christian until I was 26 years old, and before that, I fed my flesh. I married my first husband, who was addicted to drugs and alcohol, because I had a need to be loved. I didn’t care how it came, I just wanted to be loved. It wasn’t love in the first place, it was lust, uncontrolled lust. I couldn’t satisfy it, it didn’t last, it left me miserable and in tears. Although God showed me mercy and grace, and called me, my lust ran ahead of me, and I remarried a man I shouldn’t have married. We divorced, and I ran again into the arms of a man God told me not to marry.
I chose to walk in my ditch, not on the road that God had for me, but in the ditch of despair, hurt and envy of other people, because they had it all together. Marriage is two people working together to become one. Not one person trying everything to get that round peg in a square hole.
My adult children learned so much from me that they are living out my mistakes. Generational curses are real, and we follow the path the previous generation taught us. Here is an amazing thing, we can garbage those curses, but they can take up to three generations to dissolve completely. Let me give you an example: My grandmother was born outside of marriage, and my great grandmother didn’t marry the man who got her pregnant. My mother was born in the middle of thirteen children, but I was conceived before my parents were married. I gave birth to my daughter outside of marriage and conceived my son outside of marriage. My daughter gave birth to a child than married the man, but they divorced. Now I am telling my children and grandchildren to get things in the right order, date, engage, marry before having children. My granddaughter says she is not interested in having a baby because she heard from a source it is painful and you can die. (Working on getting that out of her head, because you live what you believe.) My grandson says, “that is the way it is done, babies come after marriage.” My son is dating a sweet girl, and I pray, that he turns the curse on its heels.
Going back to 2 Corinthians 4:1, it says God lets us in on what He is doing. God does through His Word. He tells us plainly to choose life, and if we don’t, we will walk in curses. He tells us through the prophets what is coming, and He tells us personally, if we are listening. If you don’t know the Word, a demon dressed in light will fill us with false prophecies and lead us where we don’t want to go. That was me. Even though God told me not to marry this man, I believed a demon instead, and followed my uncrucified flesh.
The Message continues, “We refuse to wear masks and play games. We don’t maneuver and manipulate behind the scenes. And we don’t twist God’s Word to suit ourselves. Rather, we keep everything we do and say out in the open, the whole truth on display, so that those who want to can see and judge for themselves in the presence of God. If our Message is obscure to anyone, it’s not because we’re holding back in any way. No, it’s because these other people are looking or going the wrong way and refuse to give it serious attention.”
I cannot tell you how many people tell me, I am unkind, my writing is too harsh, or they read a title on an article, and stand in judgement of me. Let me know if I am wrong, when I say, the Word says, be married before having children. Hebrews 13:4 says, “Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.” (NIV) Don’t get all caught up in legalism, yes, Solomon was conceived outside of marriage, and he did great things, yet He later in life went against God, and had relations with women outside of the covenant.
The Word says, when you have sex outside of marriage you commit adultery, even if you are not married. That is because Jesus is your husband. You are in a covenant relationship with him. Blood was given for you to cover you. When two virgins come together, the woman spills blood, a covenant is formed. Did you know that a soul tie is formed between every single person you sleep with, and you share that soul tie with every person you sleep with afterwards? So, every person you slept with before marriage, is shared with your spouse, unless you have repented, and broke all those covenants in the Court of Heaven. No wonder, suddenly things have changed in a marriage, when one spouse cheats.
You might be in a relationship, whether married or not, that you are being abused in. God never intended anyone to be abused, whether physically or mentally. Demons torment, abuse, and torture, not God. What did God intend? “Husbands have the obligation of loving and caring for their wives the same way they love and care for their own bodies, for to love your wife is to love your own self.” (Ephesians 5:28; TPT) You cannot love anyone more than you love yourself. The level your spouse shows love is the level they love themselves, and until they learn to love themselves more, they are capped out. You cannot receive more than what they can give. When I lived with my alcohol abuser, I did not realize that, and kept demanding from him what he didn’t have. “Why are you still drinking? What about your family?” He didn’t have anymore to give, and I didn’t understand that.
What God has written in His Word, is our place to strive for. Every single thing God wrote about, we can have. Think about that. If He said it, we can have it. In order to have it, we have to do things God’s way. In order to have it, we have to do it God’s way. God has given us everything we need to be successful. Having money and fame doesn’t mean you are successful. Surviving another night of someone’s drinking, or doing drugs, or putting up with someone gambling or watching pornography is not successful living. Picking up God’s revelations and walking them out does. We are here to bring God glory, to make Him our source and supply, and to trust Him. That is true success.
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