Booster Shots For Living

Messages of Hope

2012-02-14T16:40:00.000-05:00

This is just a brief message to all those who are working on behalf of God today. Especially God’s chosen people. I will be communicating with everyone as time goes by.

This is important that I will be telling you. God is a very loving God, God would have had a specific plan for your son the one who is not himself right now. That is why God sent this “Holy Person” to your family. He sent them to save your son not to hurt him. Any hurt he his going through right now is all psychological and some physical changes but he will live for a very long time. This is important for you to remember, no he won’t die young.
Okay, this part is very important also. God has is original spirit his soul in temporary rest on hold. I know it sounds strange to you right now but bear with me. The spirit he has right now is there because we need to keep that spirit earth bound. God had to do it this way so that everyone including those in your family remains safe. That way God and can do his work. God had no other choice but to do it this way.

This is very important. Do not discuss any plans concerning this “Holy Person” around the brother who is not well right now. He is very sharp, every time he is up to no good I know. Yes, I know. He’s always coming up with nothing but bad things all to hurt everyone including me and everyone on this planet. He could use what you say to hurt the “Holy Person” or his brother. Don’t discuss private things around him. Trust me, I know how he works. Anything you say he will continue to use to create more opposition so don’t discuss nothing private around him from now on or in the future. He is too messed up emotionally right now. Remember he is not him, the soul he has is corrupted, so when he speaks it’s not him talking. It will take years for him to calm down mentally.

Purgatory

Please know that God’s intention is not to harm anyone. Notice God did not hurt him physically with bodily harm. Any changes he goes through right now is all emotional as well as the changes with his hair. I would like everyone to hold on to this hope of a better time for him. It won’t happen now but in the end he will go on to heaven. What he his going through his what I call “Spiritual Suffering.” Where the soul is then Reborn. Think of “Purgatory.” It seems like God is punishing him but in fact he is in a better state than the rest of the people on this planet. He his in “Purgatory” right now on earth, that way by the time he’s ready to pass over which will be a long time from now he would have repaid his debt back to God so to speak. Many people in this world won’t make it to “Purgatory” so this is not so bad. Please try not to worry too much so stop concentrating on him burning in hell because he won’t be going there after been on earth and been in the situation he his in right now, he will stay in purgatory a state of rest so his soul can be “Purified then go to heaven.” So think of this of “Cleansing of the Spirit.” Everyone within your family right now will be going to heaven those whom God have chosen because you will all receive “Everlasting life,” the ability to live a longer life on this planet. Your son/brother will be with you as the years go by for a long time so don’t worry about him passing. That is why I said, “Keep him safe don’t let him try to hurt himself or anyone because in the end he will be okay to go to heaven.”

Yes, He will not be himself for a long time because his spirit is soul is going through a rough time. Make sure someone is around him all the time and keep anything away from him that he could use to harm anyone around him. So, I am asking everyone including his brother not to concentrate on his brother burning in hell because he won’t be going there, when God is ready to take him home he will be going to Heaven instead so there is some good news. His soul will be fully cleanse of any sin he was carrying. He is also not allowed to be intimate with anyone at anytime during purgatory. Yes, it will be difficult but it must be done. He is also not allowed to be in any contact with small children or babies. This is very important. I am not trying to embarrass him far from it I am trying to protect him. He will be telling you constantly to keep trusting him. He will say trust him, trust him. Well don’t Especially if he needs to go somewhere on his own. Someone must always be with him at all times. Like I say, I am trying to keep him safe if he goes anywhere on his own, he will do things that no one can see. If he continues to sin then he will not be able to go to Heaven. Yes, he will have to be under a strict regimen. If everyone wants him to go to Heaven then these are the things we will need to do to protect him.

Do not leave him at home by himself, he could hurt himself even if he says he his okay, never believe him, it will take years for him to be anywhere mentally stable enough to be on his own, he is too angry emotionally right now and is not thinking rationally. I want everyone to keep him safe. If you have to hire people to help keep him stay safe then do that. If he needs to go to the office someone will have to be there to follow him or let him work from home which most people do nowadays with all the technology God created he can work from home. He should also not be drinking any alcohol at this time. (If I think of more things I will post it.) If everyone thinks of anything else to keep him safe then do it.

His mind is not rational right now. Think of men who become Priest on this earth everyday. Well, that is how he will have to be for the rest of his life in order for him to go to heaven. That is why we call it “Spiritual Suffering.” I have been through alot of Spiritual Suffering to get to where I am right now and I am sure I have more to do in the years to come. This is very important when someone is going through purgatory. That is what purgatory is all about he has to do this to cleanse his spirit his soul so he can go to heaven. Yes, he needs to stay away from sin or been with people who will want to take him down that road again.

The same thing goes for everyone else around him right now. After his brother goes through this state of “Purgatory” he will be safe enough to go to heaven. It was the only way God could keep him safe. In the meantime, please continue to keep each other safe especially around him because for a long time to come he will be very angry, violent at times, depressed, sad all those emotions. Don’t hold to those emotions, Hold on to where he will be in the end, yes, he will be going back to heaven but he has to go through this stage of “Purgatory” for now.

This is why God has Purgatory for those who will need to save their souls. So, your brother is upset with himself right now, I can understand that but he needs to try to calm down and focus on going to a better place after this. Many people in the world will die and not get this opportunity. God is trying to save him and God knows this that is why he is there now in that situation so that he can “Cleanse his Soul.”

For the Brother

To the brother who is safe I know your name I just don’t want to say it. I was not only trying to save you, your family and your brother but everyone on this planet. I knew you were there the whole time, I know how difficult it is for you, I know what you went through, torture comes to mind, it’s been over one year plus now so I know it was extremely difficult for you. Yes, things will go on for a bit longer but that is part of the whole thing. I want you to pray for your brother even though he’s angry with you right now.

Since it is a difficult time for you right now I want you to concentrate when you get stressed out on anything other than sex even mental sex, fantasies about sex, the less the better. I know it is hard but focus on healing your spirit. Concentrate on other things. Hit the gym, hang out with a few friends who won’t want to lead you to trouble. Yes, your brother will be angry about this, he knows if you concentrate on too much mental sexual fantasies, it could cause problems for you spiritually. So, notice he will always want you to get stressed out all the time. I tell you, be careful around him, he’s very slick, don’t discuss nothing around him. That is why he is causing all this opposition.

The key to all of us staying safe is sexuality. So, no porn for anyone in the family, limit the sexual fantasies, limit masturbation. In order for all of us to stay safe you and the “Holy Person” must fall in love sincerely with each other. So, stop thinking about your brother going to hell, he’s not going to hell anymore, and start to get reacquainted with the feelings you had for me when you first met me. Try to get your spirits uplifted again, slowly but it can happen. Don’t stay depressed long. It will take some time but do it slowly, I will do the same. Everything I am telling you right now will upset your brother but don’t worry with him. Focus on getting focused right now. I have so many things I need to tell you about to stay careful not all of it I can write on the blog, because your brother and who else knows is reading all this. Maybe contact by email would work.

I know how you feel sometimes. Sometimes you don’t feel like you want to say any prayers for him because you are angry with him and that is okay to be angry, I get angry too. I know, I am crying too right now, because I didn’t want him to be in that position. I am sorry for what you had to go through, but I knew you were there and I know how you feel. Try not to let your brother get you too upset. Right now he’s very angry it will take a long time for him to calm down a long time. I know how stressful it has been for you. What motivates me everyday are my two children, now I know why God gave them to me, so that I could hold on to them when things get difficult. Yes, I know your brother in the state he is in wanted to hurt me and the kids, I knew but I tried real hard to focus on what I came here to do. Why? I don’t want anyone on this planet to get hurt, and I don’t want to come back and do this again. It is so difficult and yes sometimes dangerous. Anyway, pray, stay safe and surround yourself with good people. Talk to you later.

One last important thing, try to let him be outside whenever he can be but not on his own. On a porch or outside somewhere don’t let him stay in a dark room all the time not good for the mind, it will only depressed him further. So, when spring comes lots of sunshine, you get the idea, but never leave him alone by himself. He is a risk not only to himself but to others right now.

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Sometimes Our Minds Can Play Tricks On Us

2012-02-13T18:27:00.000-05:00

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Booster Shots For Living

One important note and I will be posting this some other time, people who wish to receive the “Gift of Everlasting Life” don’t fall to temptation. It is better not to, because you don’t want to fall to temptation and then keep thinking about the experiences you had in the past. So if people out there reading this knows that they are safe meaning they haven’t sinned, that they are on Dry Land so to speak, please I implore you to stay on “Dry Land” now is not the time to “fall to temptation.” Find something else to motivate you, also be careful of people around you who will try to get you to fall to temptation.

If there are people around you, that you don’t trust at this time my suggestion to people who want to stay safe is not trust anyone. People will try to take you out to parties, with close friends or at home. I wouldn’t drink anything from anyone, not even those people close to you. They could put something in your drink get you drunk, try to set you up by getting other people close friends or pay people to set you up to fall to temptation.

Look for people around you to want to stress you out to the max so that you can fall to temptation. If anyone invite you to watch porn reject the offer. Don’t stay around people who you know wants to hurt you. Another important thing is people who already fall to temptation already will want you to fall to temptation too and will want to seal your faith. Then if they do now you would be the one who would start worrying about Gray hair coming. So be very careful. If you have anyone around you right now who fell to temptation they are going to not only want to seal your faith too, but they will no doubt be working on a plan to get you fall to temptation so watch your back.

I Repeat Watch Your Back Trust No One at this time.

Yes, to those involved please watch this person don’t let them be alone by themselves at all yes, even when they go to sleep. If you have to pay someone to keep watch then do it. In the safety of everyone I believe you should do this. If he hurts himself he goes back out into the spirit world he needs to stay safe.

Also, the people who are safe already don’t do anything that could hurt yourselves, meaning try not to get too angry try and remain calm, I know it is hard but try. If you hurt anyone you could sin which would make Lucifer happy. I know the situation is rough, but everyone needs remain as calm as possible. If you get mad or overly angry and feel like you want to hurt someone you could end up sinning, so remain calm as much as possible. Don’t let the person who is turning grey push you over the hedge, because this will be part of Lucifer’s plan. That way he could take you to hell with him. Remember his goal is to take everyone with him. So, don’t hold on to anger, try and stay calm. Everyone please. It is for everyone’s best interest. If the person makes you very angry, then find someone else to watch over them and you go calm down, take some fresh air outside.

I know how difficult it is, I know the stress levels and anxiety levels are high right now, not getting enough sleep.I know how everyone feels. It is tough but we have to find the strength and pull through, one day at a time. When things gets really bad, just think about the millions of lives you are saving on this planet. Does everyone see how hard it was for Jesus? We can’t let his suffering goes to waste along with the people on this planet.

(I will keep communicating with everyone like this, that is why this blog was set up in the first place, yes, God did everything in advance, over 6,000 years ago. Trying to save peoples lives. I knew everyone was there. God equipped me with many gifts.

The person who fell to temptation if you watch them you will see how desperate they are. They will be extremely worried, stressed out, angry, acting like they want to kill someone, to the point where they seem like they are going crazy. Well, that is because they need to get “Everlasting Life,” without it they will soon start turning grey if they haven’t already. Desperation and worry will lead them to come up with all sort of elaborate plans to get someone close to them to fall to temptation, yes even their own family or friends. They will do anything to accomplish this, so be wise and watch the person very carefully, yes, watch them try to keep them from harming themselves or anyone else. Those who fell to temptation they always act desperate enough to want to kill other people.

Trust no one around you. Don’t leave food or drinks around you unsecured people could put stuff in your food. Don’t go on any vacation with anyone who fell to temptation that is the perfect place for them to take anyone so they can fall to temptation. If they suggest they take you anywhere for you to relax and hang loose don’t go. Never Trust Anyone who falls to temptation. If they are willing to kill others they—then they will want to kill you too. Heed my warning so you can stay safe to get the gift of “Everlasting Life.” I know how Lucifer operates, he his mean and cruel, cruel little thing. Yes, with Lucifer you feel like you are fighting a war. Yes, it is a war to save not only your life and your future children and grandchildren but millions of people on this planet. That is exactly how he operates, when he enters peoples souls, he always makes people feel like they need to kill someone. That is not the person talking that is Lucifer speaking through them. Also, anytime Lucifer enters anyone soul, this could cause them to turn grey, so watch and see if they are hiding the grey hair that is your first sign that they are starting to turn grey, and this will cause them to act and appear very stressful, angry, sad, or even dangerous, etc.

If there is anyone around you like this I would suggest you keep an eye on them make sure they stay safe, stress and anxiety can cause people to harm themselves or others. Yes, everyone needs to stay safe. Yes, I know everyone is in a stressful situation right now.

This is important: The one who has grey hair will make several attempts to hurt the other one. Yes, he will do it, if he hasn’t already tried. His goal will be to hurt him. Yes, this is true he needs to stay safe away from him so he doesn’t harm him. He is not himself right now, he will be very angry, loud, depressed and even suicidal so watch him carefully. He will go on like this for a long time, so try to get as much support as you can from those close to you and those you trust. Stay strong, God is with you, He knew that your family could handle this. He knows you can manage this. I know it’s hard, I know, pray your rosary when you can.

God have been working on this trying to save all these millions of peoples lives on earth today. For 6,000 years people have been aging and dying too early. Cancer, heart disease stroke, many illnesses. War, famine, diseases, our planet is deteriorating if we don’t save this planet this world we know would be gone forever. God doesn’t want that to happen and neither do the millions of people living on earth today. Yes, our world is real. Everything we do affects us in the spirit world—Everything.

Today on my blog I decided to post articles that were not written by me but came from reliable sources like the “Oprah Winfrey” Website. There are great articles there and people can search the site anytime. I always love helping my readers of my blog who happen to come across it, so they can help themselves live a better life and everyone in the world deserves that. I also posted these extra articles because I will be taking a break from writing for a while. I have two children a 6 year old and a 12 year old that keeps me busy everyday.

Anyway, in past few months I have been writing articles on my blog about “Everlasting Life.” In particular even in my recent article “7,000 Year of God’s Creation of Earth” I spoke about Everlasting life and this Holy Person who would offer this. Well, sometimes in life we get carried away. I will explain. This persons thought for many years that God has a plan and that God was using them for a greater purpose. This person assumed yes, that God sent them to give the gift of “Everlasting Life” so they can save people in this world. One of the ways, people know if God gave them this gift is if the person had no grey hair. Well, this person happen to find quite a bit of grey hair in their hair recently at the hair dresser mostly in the middle of the head so it was hard to see them. Mind you it was a shock to them to hear this.

Yes, this person wanted to believe, and really did believe they can offer the gift of Everlasting Life but they can’t. I mean you can’t hide grey hair no matter how much you try. You women who have grey hair knows what I am talking about. You dye your hair for a couple of weeks and it’s back again. My Grandmother God bless her, had grey hair and she would dye her hair and the grey would come back over and over again. Many women who read my blog know what I am talking about.

God appeared to this person when they were 9 years old, and in their hearts they carry this strong sense of purpose believing for many years that God had a greater plan for them. God may have a plan but it is not the gift of “Everlasting Life.” Far from it. Out of respect for God and because I knows he see’s everything, this person had to admit that they cannot continue to fool themselves or try to fool others. You cannot hide from grey it will show eventually. Yes, it was disappointing to see the grey hair, but maybe it was a “blessing disguise,” who knows. It goes to show though that we all want to live longer, but God is working on it but it won’t be now maybe in the future. Maybe by the time my children and your children get older years from now then God will send someone to give life to people on this earth.

In any event, God does have a plan for everyone in this world and I am quite sure God will send the right person to do his job. God have sent many people over the years to do his work, many people and he will send more. In the bible it says Jesus will come again to Judge the living and the dead. So, God will send Jesus one day to save the people in the world and give them “Everlasting Life.”

Many people who are spiritual always feel that they are here for a greater purpose. Many readers have friends or relatives who talks about God and faith and spirituality many times and some of us we get little bit caught up, if you know what I mean, not realizing we are hurting ourselves sometimes when we let our thoughts get away from us. It happens to many people all over the world everyday but many people don’t realize unless someone points it out to them. Then they say, “Ah, okay I guess I was wrong.” It’s like when Scientist work on a drug in the lab for years that can cure cancer only to find out the drug doesn’t work and have alot of side effects.” That is how our minds are sometimes, it happens to even politicians, Heads of State, anyone in society. Especially people in power, who always feel they have the cure to all the worlds problem but they don’t.

My suggestion to many people out there who love spiritual, faith and God, and this is speaking from experience, try not to go over board with your thoughts, take it easy. Stress can cause people to say things and do things that just doesn’t make sense sometimes. Yes, I know sometimes you try to tell a person that what they are thinking or doing doesn’t make sense, but they can’t hear because their minds are working over time. Even Oprah Winfrey spoke about this many times over the years on her shows. It happens to the best of us.

Yes, that is why I am taking a break from writing, we all need some time out to rethink and focus and find ourselves again. We women go through lots of stress and it can do wonders on our minds.

Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When I Need Comfort and Guidance

Lord, I pray You will guide me continually so that I never get off the path You have for me. And if I have already strayed from Your will in any way, I pray You will give me a convicted heart and the determination I need to get back into the center of Your will right away. In the dryness of my soul, I pray You will comfort and refresh me with Your living water so that it becomes an eternal spring in my heart. Make my soul and my mind to be whole and flourishing.

The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Isaiah 58:11

Cunning Cons

2012-02-13T11:48:00.001-05:00

My Comments on this article:

This is a great article and I wanted to post it so it can benefit others out there. Yes, Con Artist’s comes in many sizes, shapes and colours. The worst thing is that some of them will get so greedy and so desperate where they loose a sense of reality and this eventually lead people to kill others just because they are either greedy or desperate. Yes, many people are never satisfied in life. They always keep wanting more, and more and more. Nothing satisfies them.

When People in the world reach the point where they would kill someone or try to get something from someone and their intentions are not good, then it says that these people need some serious help. Many people not only kill for money, but for fame and power. Not thinking about the greater purpose for mankind. They don’t care about saving lives, all they want is Money and Power. Which only leads to destruction.

Many people in the world today get killed by Con artist’s and many times they kill people who have children and these children are left with no one. “How can people get so cruel in this world.” It boggles my mind. I know this article will help many people it certainly helped me. Many of these Con artist’s work on elaborate plans for years hoping to make it big in the end and guess what they always get caught or something worst happen to them where they get killed by the same people who helped them create their plan in the first place. Yes, many people end up turning on each other because everyone of these people always wants to have it all. All of what I don’t know, because all of us will leave this earth one day and in the end we can’t take anything with us….Nothing.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

“What do a Florida lawyer, a California heart surgeon and a New Hampshire accountant have in common? They were all caught up in an international scam that rakes in more than $3 billion a year.”

According to Brian Ross, ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent, this e-mail scam—and others just like it—are so seductive that many victims end up losing their life savings or going to prison.

During a three-month 20/20 investigation, Brian uncovered thousands of cons on the Internet, which he says is home to the greatest collection of scam artists ever. These computer-savvy criminals are logging on in Internet cafes around the world. For one story, Brian set his sights on e-mail scams originating in Nigeria, a West African nation that has been plagued by government corruption for decades.

Brian says many times scammers ask their "mark" to send money to them in order to help someone in need—or help them transfer huge sums of money. They promise that if the money comes through, the donor will receive a huge return on his or her investment. "They'll say, 'Here's $15,000. Send me $4,000. You keep the $11,000,'" Brian says. "People think, 'This is pretty good.'"
Unfortunately, the payout usually comes in the form of a counterfeit check...or never comes at all.

Nigerian con artists aren't just targeting e-mail accounts. Brian says these scams are also infiltrating a post office near you. Postal inspectors have intercepted at least 6 million scam letters and counterfeit checks sent to the United States from Nigeria, all addressed to specific individuals.
Postal inspector Steve Korinko says scammers use American phone books and special computer programs that pull up e-mail addresses to find their next victims. Of the millions of Americans they target, Steve says about 1 percent of people fall for it, which is enough to keep them in business.

Brian says very intelligent and well-educated people have fallen for these scams. Some are motivated by greed, while others are truly trying to help those in need. "A lot of the victims have been Christian ministers," Brian says. "They're told, 'There's $30 million [in Nigeria] we want to give to help small churches across the country. Just give us some money to [help transport] it out of Nigeria.'"
Many of the cons lure people in by stealing the names and photos of real people. One e-mail Brian came across claimed to be from an American soldier in Iraq who found Saddam Hussein's hidden fortune. All the recipient had to do to share in the wealth was pay the fee required to transport the funds.

To get to the bottom of these scams, Brian travels halfway around the world to Nigeria, home to more than 13 million people who earn an average of $1 a week.

There he learns that scammers are known as "419 men," which refers to the section of Nigerian criminal code that makes it illegal to obtain money under false pretenses. "Until very recently, it was a law that was almost never enforced," Brian says. "Police here say at any given time, there are thousands of 419 men online at small Internet cafes trying to scam Americans."
Local investigators help Brian infiltrate a cafe, where they catch con men in the act. One of the men they arrest is in the middle of trying to cheat an American woman who had just sent him her photo and bank account number. Brian says Americans are the primary targets of these scams because scammers see them as "mugus"—which means "big, gullible fools."

Brian says one of the reasons Nigeria is a source of so many scams is because a large number of citizens are living below the poverty level. "This is a desperately poor country with wonderful people who are very intelligent, a good school system [but] no jobs," Brian says. "It's [also] a corrupt country where the leaders have been corrupt for years. They've doomed their people to a life of poverty, and the lesson has been taught that you can get away with crimes and nothing happens."

For years, Nigerian con men got away with their crimes and made small fortunes...but not anymore. Pressure from the United States and Great Britain has prompted the government to start cracking down. The men caught during Brian's investigation are facing criminal charges.

When Oprah Show producers began investigating financial fraud, they received e-mails from people like Patricia, who fell victim to the same kind of scams that Brian uncovered.
Patricia was working at an ad agency when she responded to a fax. It was a desperate plea for help from a wealthy Nigerian businessman. "He had supposedly been in a logging truck accident, and needed to the United States for some reconstructive surgery," Patricia says.

The man told her that before he could travel, he needed the use of someone's bank account to transfer funds from Nigeria to the United States. Patricia called Nigeria and was told that in exchange for her help, she would be financially rewarded. "Part of me was willing to sacrifice some of my money for the opportunity to perhaps doubling it, maybe even tripling it," she says.
The story also appealed to Patricia's compassionate side. "He sounded so sincere, so desperate for help," she says. "[He said] he was in great pain."

Once Patricia agreed to help, the man asked her to wire him $10,000 to cover his international banking fees. She sent it, but the requests for money continued. Before she knew it, she had emptied her checking account and maxed out all her credit cards

In all, Patricia says she sent the stranger in Nigeria $50,000.
When communication abruptly stopped, Patricia says she went online and did a search for the bank that she wired money to. Instead of finding an address, her search results revealed that she had fallen victim to a common scam. "I just froze," she says.
Years later, Patricia says she's still being targeted by scam artists. "They will go after every last dollar you have," Brian tells her.

Now, there's a new con out there that targets people just like Patricia, Brian says. Con men are sending out letters that appear to be from an official government bureau in Nigeria that's been set up to compensate scam victims and make amends for past scams. "[They say], 'Just send us $4,000, and we'll send you a million dollars because we want to make our victims whole again,'" he says. "They know these people are gullible, and again and again the people will send off the $4,000 to get the million."
Brian says any time someone needs money to send you money or mails you an unsolicited check, you should be suspicious. Most times, these counterfeit checks look so real—thanks to high-tech computer graphics—even banks will cash them.

When Shannon, a mother of two, lost her sales job, she went online to find work. She came across a work-at-home website and applied for a part-time job as a correspondence assistant.
When she was offered the position, she accepted, hoping the extra cash would help her catch up on a few bills.
"I thought the company was very professional," she says. They asked her to fill out employment forms and set up a PayPal account to receive compensation for her work, which she says was pretty easy.

All Shannon had to do was receive boxes in the mail, repackage the contents and ship them overseas to Russia. Most packages contained items like digital cameras and clothing, she says.
After a few weeks on the job and a supposed payment totaling $845, Shannon got a knock on the door—and the surprise of her life.

The Secret Service arrived on Shannon's doorstep to inform her that she was part of a credit card scam. Someone had paid for goods with a government credit card, and the agents tracked the merchandise to Shannon's house.
Then, they asked Shannon to participate in the investigation by continuing to receive packages but to end all communication with the "mail-forwarding company" that hired her. After receiving several more boxes, the agents had Shannon e-mail the company to say that their packages had been confiscated. "Of course, the packages stopped [coming]," she says.

Twenty days later, Shannon's PayPal payment was revoked. "Apparently they used somebody else's credit card and paid me with that," she says.
Currently, no arrests have been made. Shannon says the Secret Service told her they couldn't do much since the scammers were overseas.

Scam prevention expert Sid Kirchheimer, author of Scam Proof Your Life, says Shannon is lucky she didn't get arrested. "Hundreds of people get arrested each year on charges of receiving stolen goods," he says. "If you are shipping these goods via the United States Postal Service, you're also liable to be arrested on mail fraud charges."

Sid says she's also lucky she didn't give the scammers her bank account information. "Once they have that, you don't get any money, but they take what's in your account," he says.
Work-at-home scams are some of the most popular cons these days, according to Sid. They can either be reshipping scams—which is what Shannon fell for—or check-processing scams.
In the second scenario, con artists create an overseas company. Then, they mail unsuspecting Americans big packets of checks—usually in amounts under $5,000 to avoid raising the ire of banks—and ask them to deposit the checks into their accounts and wire them the money, Sid says.

"It takes the banks about two weeks to authenticate these checks. After you make that wire, the money you've sent is gone," he says. "The checks come back. They bounce. [And] you're held liable, and you could be arrested for counterfeiting charges."

Christina, a struggling mother of four, couldn't believe her luck when she got a letter in the mail saying she won a lottery in Australia. "I have four children and I was living with my mother, and I was like, 'Wow. I can put a down payment on a house. I can pay a lot of my bills," Christina says.
The letter said Christina had just three weeks to claim her $50,000—all she had to do was pay the taxes, and the remainder of her winnings would be sent to her. Three days later, Christina received two checks in the mail for a total of a little less than $8,000. "[One was for] federal fees and one was for state fees," she says.

Because she was skeptical, Christina says she did some legwork to try to make sure the checks were legitimate. She called the Better Business Bureau and learned that a company referenced in the documents—a firm that deals with unclaimed funds—was an actual business. Christina says she tried to verify the checks' authenticity by calling the phone number written on them and pretending to be a bank official who wanted to confirm the routing and account numbers. The person who answered the phone said the information was correct. Christina also had a friend look on the Internet to check the bank's address.

After doing everything she could think of to find out if the checks were genuine, Christina finally went to the bank. She says the bank cashed the checks for her right away—no questions asked—and the people there even congratulated her. "They put the money in my hands. I was like, 'I really actually truly did win the lottery,'" Christina says.

Following the instructions given to her by the people who sent her the letter, Christina wired the money she received from the checks to New York. She thought she was paying taxes on her lottery winnings. Then, Christina got a third check in the mail. "They said they did not send enough for the federal fees the first time, and once I sent that, I would have my money," Christina says.

So, Christina took another trip to the bank to cash the third check, but there was a problem. "[The bank] said, 'Oh no, the first check came back. It's counterfeit,'" Christina says. "I thought I did my homework. I thought I was very thorough, and they said I'm responsible for the money."

Instead of reaping $50,000 in lottery winnings, Christina ended up being scammed out of nearly $8,000—even though she says she tried to protect herself. "She did all the right things. The fact of the matter is that these are professional con men who do this," Sid says.

By examining Christina's documents closely, Sid finds several red flags—starting with the grammar of the letter. "This is allegedly an Australian lottery, yet read it—this [is] scammer grammar. Australians know the English language better than this. There are misspellings. There's improper grammar use," Sid says.
He says the fact that the scammers asked Christina—who lives in Alabama—to mail her supposed tax money to New York is another hint that something is wrong. "When you pay your taxes, you're paying it to the regional office, probably in Atlanta," Sid says.

Even the phone number that Christina called to verify the check's authenticity—which she found on the check itself—is part of the scam, according to Sid. "These scams operate on a sense of urgency. It's like, 'You won $1 million. How come you haven't claimed your prize yet? Time's running out! Here is the number to call.' It's a boiler room. She dials a toll-free number. It could be set up anywhere," Sid says.

Christina's bank cashed the checks so quickly, Sid says, because federal mandates require that banks make the funds available within one to five days. But that does not necessarily mean that the bank had actually gotten any money. "You have to hear that the funds have been collected. That will take two weeks. That means the ... bank has gotten those funds from the check issuer," Sid says.

Julia, a legal secretary, was tired of the New York dating scene, so she decided to look for love online. She soon met a man who said his name was Scott. He told her he was a young widower from California who was volunteering at an orphanage in Nigeria. "I was very touched. That said to me that this is someone who has a lot of love in his heart," Julia says.

Julia says she and Scott made an immediate connection. After a month of daily e-mails and instant messaging, Julia says they began to fall in love. When Julia discovered she had skin cancer and had to have surgery, Scott was supportive and loving, even from 5,000 miles away. Julia was thrilled when Scott proposed a few weeks later. "He said, okay, so shop for your dress. Money is no object. As soon as I get there, we're going to be married," Julia says. "I felt like Cinderella."

After sending him money to help support his orphanage, Scott asked Julia to put on a white dress and meet him at the airport. She waited for six hours, and her Prince Charming never showed up. "My heart was broken. I was devastated," she says.

In order to find out more information about Julia's scammer, Sid visited a website that reports information about online dating cons. There he found the alleged con man listed, along with several of his aliases. Sid says the handsome, blond man Julia thought was her boyfriend is actually a model who isn't involved in the scam. "What scammers do is they steal photos from online modeling sites," Sid says.

Each month, thousands of people—men and women—get caught in similar traps, Sid says, and the scammers know how to work their victims. "From the outside you may say, 'How did she fall for that?' But you heard Julia. She was being wooed every day—e-mails before work, after work. [She] probably expressed that she liked children. He has an orphanage," Sid says.

Sid says the scam artists often pose as rich American or British businessmen living overseas who charm their victims, gain their trust and then have some sort of financial need—often money for surgery or passport cash to fly to the United States and get married. He says the con artists claim to be paid in U.S. postal money orders and ask the victims to cash them and wire over the cash. "Once you send the money, you don't hear from them. Or they're brazen enough to actually call you and say, 'I scammed you,'" Sid says.

Julia says the victims can be any age, gender, ethnicity or sexual orientation, and scam artists target them in many different venues—from dating websites to gaming chat rooms. According to Sid, the FBI estimates that about half the victims of these kinds of scams are male. They are oftentimes conned by men posing as female Russian models.

Online buyers and sellers beware—sophisticated con artists could be watching your every move. Blakely found that out the hard way. She says she had always dreamed of getting married in a Monique Lhuillier wedding gown, but the $6,000 price tag was out of her budget. So Blakely did what a lot of cost-conscious brides do these days—she checked on eBay, and there she found her dream dress. She started bidding—all the way up to $2,400.
When the auction ended, Blakely realized she had failed to meet the minimum sale price and lost the dress. But later that day she got an e-mail from someone offering to sell her the dress at the price she had bid. "I was just ecstatic. I just couldn't believe it. I just wanted to get the dress in my hands. It was a dream come true," Blakely says. Although Blakely had a PayPal account, the person who contacted her claimed his own account had been hacked, so he asked Blakely to wire him the money instead.

Blakely wired the money right away, but she never got the dress. She later found out she had wired the money to a scammer who had been watching the bidding. "Basically from what I found out, he watches for big-ticket, emotional items," Blakely says. The scammer had sent her an e-mail that looked as though it was sent via eBay, but it was a fake, Blakely says.
Sid says many people are conned on auction sites in the same way as Blakely. "Once you leave the confines of eBay, you're kind of on your own," he says.

Rob Chestnut, who heads up eBay's fraud unit, says that's exactly what users should avoid. "Our security teams are working to keep the site itself safe, so the first thing [scammers] want to do is try to drag you away from the secure environment and get you off where they can communicate directly with you," Rob says.

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Although Blakely paid a con artist for a dress she never received, her story does have a happy ending. "Monique Lhuillier heard my story, and because they believe in happy endings at Monique, they sent me the dress," Blakely says.

Rob says eBay—the number one online target for scam artists—has 2,000 employees around the world dedicated to stopping scammers. Many of the scams involve what is called "spoofing" or "phishing." Con artists create e-mails that look like official correspondence from eBay—right down to the eBay logo and the official fonts—and go "phishing" for your personal data.
"It's always an urgent call to action [such as], 'We've lost your information,' or 'We regret to inform you your account needs to be updated and you'll be suspended if you don't act.' That's a sense of urgency, and they always want you to click on a link in the e-mail," Rob says.

Rob says that eBay and PayPal will never send you an e-mail asking for a password, personal information or an account update. "Most responsible companies won't do that. You don't communicate securely by e-mail because of these sorts of risks," Rob says. If a company does need to contact you for some reason, Rob says, it will get to you when you sign onto its own website.

"The key to remember in these sorts of situations [is] treat e-mails like strangers," Rob says. "Just as you wouldn't give this kind of information to a stranger who knocked on your door, look at an e-mail like this." He says if you do get a suspicious e-mail, do not click on any links and delete the message.

Sid says there are things you can do to prevent yourself from falling victim to scam artists:

Be suspicious of any e-mail that comes from a company but has a Yahoo or a Hotmail address, instead of the company's address.
Be suspicious of correspondence asking you for money.
If you take a check to the bank, make sure you wait until the bank hears that the funds have been collected. Do not just let them tell you the check has cleared.

Get more advice from Sid on how to avoid identity theft.
"I know we're going to get a letter from somebody saying that Nigeria has a lot of wonderful people. You don't have to send the letter," Oprah says. "We already know that. We're just talking about this particular scam that's going on. We're not talking about the entire country and everybody in the country."

Learning from Losing: One Woman's True Story of Failure

2012-02-13T11:01:00.000-05:00

"You mean the failure theory of success?" Lani Guinier asks with characteristic vigor. Even on the phone, she radiates energy. I had begun our conversation somewhat hesitantly— I wasn't calling to inquire about her accomplishments as one of America's top legal scholars, the author of five books, and the first black woman to become a tenured professor at Harvard Law School: Would she be willing to talk, instead, about failure?

She clarifies: "The idea that failure can be a moment of liberation at the same time that it is a moment of sadness or despair. Right?"
Right. This had been the subject of an unforgettable commencement address I heard her give at Bard College last spring. In his introduction, Bard president Leon Botstein had listed among Lani Guinier's achievements her surviving the infamous debacle of 1993, when former president Bill Clinton nominated her to be assistant attorney general for civil rights. She was immediately attacked in the press.

At first only a trickle of conservative journalists excoriated her for ideas she had expressed in academic journals, taking them out of context and distorting them. In the most notorious instance, very subtle points she'd made about the unfairness of the winner-take-all system of voting, which denies any minority participation in decision making, as opposed to a system of proportional voting, were described as radical demands for racial quotas—quite the opposite of what she had written. The attacks were then taken up elsewhere, repeating the inaccuracies. No one from the White House defended her. On the contrary, they told her not to respond to the attacks. With no organized stance to unite them, her academic colleagues and many supporters could only watch, aghast and unheard in the circus that destroyed her as a viable nominee.

As she recalled, "I quickly became branded a 'quota queen,' 'looney Lani,' 'America's madwoman.' Within a month, I was—as my son, who was then 6, liked to say—'dumped.'... I was publicly humiliated. And yet that failure ultimately gave me a public platform to talk about the very ideas that had gotten me into so much trouble."

It is always moving to see dignity combined with vulnerability, and Guinier is a powerful orator—tall, imposing yet warm, deftly establishing great intimacy with her Bard audience. The usually restive graduating seniors and their families were absolutely silent while she spoke. "Many of us are afraid of failure, and, in fact, some of you may never have experienced failure, and it may seem odd to be talking about failure on a day in which we are here to commend you for your success," she told the class of 2003. "What I'd like to talk to you about today is not to be afraid of those failures, because in many ways success and failure are interrelated: Success is failure turned inside out. And I say this because I used to be very afraid of failure."

She quoted Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian writer who teaches at Bard and was in the audience that day: "'The poet who is not in trouble with the king is in trouble with her work.'" She looked up at the graduating seniors and repeated the line: "'The poet who is not in trouble with the king is in trouble with her work.' She is not doing her job. I took that as a lesson. I know what it's like to be in trouble with the king. But I hope ultimately that history will not judge me to be in trouble with my work."

She continued, "I want to talk to you about what it means when people don't like your ideas, when you are disappointed because people don't like your ideas. When, in order to succeed, you have to have the nerve of failure, the willingness to do things you believe in even though that may mean some people don't like you; the courage to speak truth to power, to get in trouble with the king every once in a while. The nerve of failure is actually what David Riesman, the late Harvard sociologist, described as the courage to face the possibility of defeat and even aloneness without being morally destroyed."

She repeated the last phrase, and it rang with gravity in the hushed tent: "...the courage to face the possibility of defeat and even aloneness without being morally destroyed."
Watching her and imagining her dire situation in 1993, it was impossible not to feel a little shiver of...what was it? Horror, sympathy, awe. A feeling of both identification and fear.
Her words and her appearance and her manner were so memorable that day that I kept replaying these moments in the months that followed, with the sense that an important lesson was embedded in Lani Guinier's crucible, as well as real consolation—or inspiration, depending on how one views such universal but mysterious personal trials. And also with a sense of wonder at her survival and transformation.

When we spoke by phone shortly afterward, I quickly realized that Lani Guinier's views on failure were the result of a lifelong process of analysis. "My experience in 1993 crystallized what I had already been thinking," she says. "My mother pushed me to think this way all my life." Guinier recalls, in first or second grade, some older kids from across the street making fun of her. "We would play school, and they would always be the teacher and I'd be the student, and they would tease me if I misspelled a word. When I talked to my mother about it, she said there were many ways to interpret their behavior. One was that they were white and they were being racist; another was that they were jealous because I did very well in school and they didn't; and a third was that kids are just mean." She laughs. "What my mother did for me was to introduce me to all three possible explanations—which were important because they said that it wasn't my problem."

From this perspective, failure is an opportunity. "It gives you the chance to see yourself reflected in the mirror of the world, not dwell on your internal faults or your internal deficits. When you feel sorry for yourself and misunderstood, you usually have a very internal conversation. It becomes so crushing. The failure theory of success encourages you to have a conversation that involves yourself and the ways you've contributed to the problem, but then allows you to move in many different directions. And you can follow these vectors in ways that are liberating, not just oppressive."

Certainly, her remarkable visibility in the past decade as an activist and expert speaking out on voting rights, the theory of democracy, affirmative action, the politics of gender, and the law is evidence that her analysis has merit. Guinier's eloquence about her experience doesn't only serve to explain herself but also to further her goals. "This failure theory of success is a critique of the excesses of radical individualism, right? Because radical individualism says, If you really work hard and if you are really a good person, you will succeed. But it has no explanation for when you fail except that there's something wrong with you. When everything is a function of the individual, the individual succeeds because the individual is great; the individual fails because the individual is a failure." She laughs. "No! When people fail, it's often a function of their relationship to other structures, and it can be a lens on a larger set of dysfunctions, deficiencies, or problems."

*****

The lessons she learned from her Jewish mother were potently reinforced by her black father's experience. A brilliant student, he was admitted to Harvard but not granted financial aid (the reason given, she says: He "hadn't submitted a photograph with his application!"), not allowed to live on campus, not spoken to by his white classmates, and never called on in class. He dropped out after two years, lacking the funds to continue, and responded to an earlier job offer from The New York Times for former high school newspaper editors. When he appeared at the Times, the position offered was operating the freight elevator. He accepted. "He was poor," Guinier explains. "But he used the job to read the paper cover to cover every day. It became one of his most cherished habits."

Ewart Guinier eventually finished his education at Columbia and New York universities and became a union leader. After a difficult period during the McCarthy era in which he lost his job after his union came under attack, Ewart became the first chair of Harvard's Department of Afro-American Studies. "No, I wouldn't say he was devoid of bitterness," Lani Guinier acknowledges. "But he didn't obsess about things. He was much more of a fighter. His view was: This is an injustice that has to be rectified—not necessarily for him but for the larger community."

In her 1998 book, Lift Every Voice, which recounts the circumstances surrounding her nomination as assistant attorney general for civil rights and what she came to call her "dis-appointment," she writes about how one of the most nightmarish aspects of it all was her sense that she was reliving some of her father's worst experiences, a sense of not being allowed to defend herself, of being betrayed and humiliated by people she had thought were friends, including the president of the United States.
What of her own bitterness? She had gone to Yale Law School with Bill and Hillary, and they were guests at her wedding. She hasn't heard from them since 1993, except for official Christmas cards and a mistaken letter of condolence (no one had died) sent to her mother's house.

Does she carry a grudge, or has she found a way of forgiving?
"Well, you know...forgiving..." she muses. "I think I'm more of the school of forgetting. That is, you move on. It's not that you forgive, it's that you don't dwell on it. Well, it could be that as I get older..." She laughs. "I used to have a fabulous memory...so that's convenient. The slights don't resonate for me over time. They become less interesting. There are so many other things happening. That's not to say you truly forget, but you don't invest the memory with the same overwhelming significance."

She says that took a while: "I'm not a saint! It energizes you to act, right? So that's a good thing. And then the question is, How do you act? How do you channel that energy constructively?" In her view, especially when you're dealing with someone more powerful than you, "fighting back may get you into a paralyzing situation. If you use that energy against yourself—if you blame yourself—that's also paralyzing."

What saved Lani Guinier when she was marooned in her ordeal? "I did not feel that I had lost face. I never, ever considered repudiating what I had written or claiming that I didn't mean what I said. I felt that people had misinterpreted what I said. But it never occurred to me to go back and look at those articles that got me into so much trouble and rue the day I had written them. Or regret that I had said what I said. I believed in what I was saying, you know, as a theory or as an idea. I thought I was putting forward valid ideas, and I did not distance myself from them."

This commitment to integrity endows Guinier with tremendous personal power and seems at the heart of her capacity to hold an audience rapt and receptive. That day at Bard College, she invoked Howard Thurman, the theologian and educator whose work was the origin of much of the civil rights movement's nonviolent philosophy. "He said, don't just ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and then go and do it, because what the world needs is people who have come alive." She continued: "And in fact, in 1993, through that experience of failure, I learned what made me come alive, I learned who I really was, I learned what I really stood for, I learned what was most meaningful to me...I learned that however much I was suffering from the public humiliation that I experienced, there were many people in this country who had suffered much more every day than I had."

When she finished her talk, looked up, and smiled at us, she received a long ovation. Many in the audience were wiping away tears—an unusual display by college graduates who are so often exhorted to Do It and Make It, and implicitly urged to feel powerful rather than compassionate, to value quantifiable achievements over exploration and openness.
Perhaps we have a profound need to hear of the failures of the people we admire. They bring us relief and inspiration, and suggest to us that the story of our own losses can also be the story of our triumphs. And it seems to me that what stirred so many of us in Lani Guinier's audience was the sense that she had earned the right to speak not only of her own experiences but also of the community we all share, and to remind us of bigger stakes and deeper hope.

Living the Law of Attraction

2012-02-13T10:37:00.000-05:00

Millions of people have now heard of The Secret , a theory which brings phrases like "positive thinking" and "the law of attraction" to everyday conversations. Although the The Secret is a fairly recent phenomenon, spiritual thinkers say they've been studying the concepts for years.

Acclaimed author Louise Hay is considered the mother of positive thinking. She is back to continue the conversation about the law of attraction, which is the basis of The Secret . "The law of attraction is that our thinking creates and brings to us whatever we think about," she says. "It's as though every time we think a thought, every time we speak a word, the universe is listening and responding to us."

Louise says negativity can keep you from obtaining the things you want in life. "We don't want to put ourselves down," she says. "We don't want to say, 'Oh, it will never work for me,' or 'I'm not good enough.' Because that's what the universe hears and returns to you."

Instead, Louise says you can transform your life by staying positive. "You have to start saying things that you feel really good about yourself. 'I love who I am. I love life. Life loves me. It's going to be smooth and easy. Life works for me.' And you just start doing that—it's planting seeds. You're not going to get it the first day, but you plant a seed and you water it and you continue the affirmations, and things start to shift and change in your life."

Author, life coach and O, The Oprah Magazine columnist Martha Beck says the law of attraction doesn't work at the snap of your fingers—at least not at first. "At the beginning, you have to be careful what level you are on in your consciousness when you're making your requests of the universe," she says. Martha says it's important that your thoughts are not coming from a negative place. "If you're in a fear-based place where you need and you want and you're going to die and everything's scary, none of your intentions or desires has much power."

People hoping to use the law of attraction are told to write lists of what they want to obtain, like a "love list." So why is it that some people still don't get what they want? Cheryl Richardson, life coach and author, explains that negative energy could be the cause. "I think sometimes it can be exactly what Martha said—that we're asking from a place of desperation," she says. "When you put desperate energy out into the world, you don't get back what it is you want."

Cheryl says the items on your list may not come to you right away. "I know that there's something called divine timing," she says. "Some of the most amazing things that have occurred to me in my life took longer to occur than I wanted because I needed to grow as a woman. I needed to evolve in some way."

For people who are more concerned about being able to pay their next bill than they are with the law of attraction, it's hard to think that keeping a positive attitude will change anything. Louise says that just hearing the ideas behind the law of attraction can help a person begin to make small changes in her life. "When the student is ready, the teacher appears," she says.

Martha says she noticed the law of attraction at work in an unlikely situation—while coaching homeless heroin addicts in Phoenix. Martha says they lived on the street because they couldn't afford apartments. "Then, I found out they were spending an average of $180,000 a year on heroin," she says. When Martha asked how they got the money for their addiction, she saw a change. "They would become completely different when they were talking about the one thing they believed was necessary. And as I've worked with them, I've seen that what they believe and expect is what they get."

Before Karen had ever heard of the law of attraction, she was going through a very frightening time in her life. "A year and a half ago, I thought I was having a heart attack, and I literally thought I was going to die," she says. "My heart was beating really fast. I had a burning sensation throughout my chest and into my stomach. My whole body went numb."

After that experience, Karen says she started having panic attacks and didn't leave her home. "I always felt like something bad was going to happen to me," she says. "I didn't leave the house for close to a month and a half. I had to have someone by my side at all times."

Karen says her healing began when she started reading about the law of attraction and began saying affirmations every day. "My two biggest ones are 'I feel safe' [and] 'I deeply and profoundly love and accept myself,'" she says. "I would say them over and over again, and I think that instead of just saying it, it became the essence of my life. It's what I believed in."

Louise says affirmations help the law of attraction work. "It smooths your mind so the universe can work out the answer."
Now, Karen says she is in a completely different place in her life. "Everything started to fall into place, and I became more positive," she says. "I started to love myself, and I stopped thinking with regrets.”

In addition to affirmations, a vision board is a great way to visualize the positive things you want to bring into your life. When creating your vision board, Martha says you shouldn't expect a straightforward process. "I get in a really calm place. I go to my core of peace, and I taste what is delicious in the future. It could be something I've never heard of, or it could be just the essence of something. I'm not sure what it is. And then I go through magazines or on the Internet, and I find pictures of things that represent that to me. It could be the actual object or it could be something that has the same feeling."

Some of the things Martha put on her vision board were money, friends and spirituality. Martha says she also included pictures of people on the board—poets Mary Oliver and Maya Angelou, author Alice Walker and even Oprah! Martha says she wasn't looking to meet these people, but instead put them on her board because she admires their spirits.

Martha says you need to be careful that you really want what you put on your vision board. She says one day she pasted a picture of puppies on her board because she thought they were cute. "Now I have a yellow lab and a golden retriever," she says. "They need so much walking, it drives me nuts."

Joking aside, Martha says has received many of the things she hoped for on her vision board, including a visit to Africa. "I have to say, as I was putting it together to bring here, I realized that I have to add more because everything on this board has already happened," she says. "It happens so fast now I have to keep making new ones

Since Cheryl made her vision board 15 years ago, she says much of what she's wanted has come true. At the time, Cheryl says she was looking for a partner—and now is married to a man who looks like the picture of the man on her vision board. Other than love, Cheryl says her vision board has also brought her success. "Phil Donahue was on here, and that's the first national show I ever did after I put him on the board," she says.

In the center of her board Cheryl has the word "God." She says a vision board shouldn't only be filled with material objects like fancy cars and expensive jewelry. "It's not just about getting things," she says. "It's a spiritual principle, which we've said a million times. But, yes, these work. And they're kind of cool to look at."

After welcoming the bounty of good things from your vision board, Louise says it's important to have proper gratitude for all you've received. This will keep those positive gifts coming. "The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It's that simple," she says. "The universe really loves gratitude. And the more gratitude you have, the more goodies you get."
When should you show this gratitude? "Morning, noon and night," Louise says. "Be grateful when you look in the mirror at your own face. 'I love you. I'm so grateful.'"
"What God loves most is appreciation," Oprah says. "So when you show appreciation, you get appreciated."

Wendy says long before she had heard of the "law of attraction" or The Secret, she knew she could change her life by picturing exactly what she wanted. "No one has ever taught me this," she says. "I have just known that in my soul. It's so awesome because it's not something that we have to go get somewhere. It's something we all have within us."

After years of bad relationships with men, Wendy says she decided to focus attention on herself. "I deserved something better," she says. "I was not going to waste my time anymore. And the moment I made that really clear decision, I met the greatest man I've ever known in my life."

Cheryl says though everyone wants good relationships, bad relationships don't have to be all bad. "The gift of the bad relationship is you get very clear [about] what you don't want anymore," she says.
While Wendy found what she was looking for almost immediately, Cheryl and Louise describe finding things they were looking in stages or in waves.

"You're always being steered." Martha says. "If I start to go the wrong way for myself, my body starts to hurt and I know immediately [to] pay attention."

It's easy to feel gratitude when good things happen…but what about dealing with a devastating blow? Denise says she was once a very positive person with what seemed like a charmed life. "A supermom, a wife, beautiful boys, a nice home," she says. "Just a really good, good life."

When her son was diagnosed with cancer, she says everything changed. After about a year and a half of fighting the disease, he died at age 18. Shortly after that, Denise's husband left. "He wasn't happy, and he wanted to start his life over and felt it was too much pain," she says. "When he left, just everything crumbled. And it's surreal. You just almost can't believe that it's actually happening. I felt like I was just waking up from a nightmare."
Denise says her despair was so bad that she was on the verge of suicide. "I literally had his pain medication, a bunch of pills, in my hand," she says.

Then, Denise says she felt the pills being knocked from her hand and heard the words of her late son in her head. "He said, 'Mom, I was here as a gift for you, and you have to go on with your life,'" she says. "I felt his presence around me—that warmth, that comforting feeling of someone standing with you."

Denise says dealing with the twin blows of her son dying and her husband leaving left her with so much pain and so many questions. "It's hard to see that you can do something more with your life. You think God doesn't love you, and why are you going through all these things?"

While watching the movie You Can Heal Your Own Life, based on Louise's book, Denise says she found herself relating to the main character—a woman who was completely withdrawn from the world. "I saw her and I thought, 'Oh, my God. That's me,'" she says.
The film made her realize that she needed to forgive her husband, which she did on his birthday. "I said, 'Good morning. I just want to wish you a happy birthday and hope you're having a beautiful life because I know I am. And I know I'm on that path,'" she says. "It was like a weight lifted from me."
Louise says Denise should prepare herself to live again. "You have no idea what's in store for you," she says. "The most wonderful adventures are coming."

Susan from the audience asks for clarification on the difference between an intention and a wish or dream.
Cheryl says the biggest difference between the two is how they originate. "A wish is often coming from what isn't working in your life. Like, 'I wish I would win the lottery because I'm in debt. I wish I would meet a partner because I'm lonely and I don't feel comfortable living alone.'"

"An intention is a soul goal, not a head goal," she says. "My prayer is always, 'If this is in the highest and best interest for me and those around me, then please allow it to happen.' And that sort of is a humble way of saying it's not just about me and what my head thinks because I'm a physical being and I'm having a physical experience. It is also about me and this greater energy, this greater creative force, and that's where an intention is set from."
Martha says she has an even simpler way of knowing whether something is a wish or an intention. "What I found is that if you really want something, it makes you feel physically stronger," she says. "And if you think you want it but you don't really want it, it makes you feel physically weaker."

One thing many parents wonder is how they can raise children to grow up living with of the law of attraction.
Twelve-year-old Dominique and 9-year-old Brittany are sisters already are! They've even created their own vision boards. "The law of attraction is a way of life. The way you think. The way you react to situations," Dominique says. "If you're a positive person, you get positive results. If you're a negative person, you get negative results."

"On my vision board are some of my long-term goals," Brittany says. She's included things like becoming a fashion designer, visiting the Great Wall of China and meeting Johnny Depp.
Dominique says the law of attraction is good for more than just long-term goals. "During school, I try to keep a positive attitude with my friends," she says. "Because I notice that if I'm negative, then I'll attract negative things and negative people during the day. So I try to keep a positive attitude."

Dominique's vision board includes places she would like to go in her life, like Rome and England, and people she wants to meet, like the Dalai Lama. One of her vision board goals just came true…she wanted to be on The Oprah Winfrey Show!

Confront Your Toxic Relationships

2012-02-13T10:14:00.000-05:00

Are you afraid of confronting someone in your life who is critical, judgmental or just can't be happy for your success?
Your life may be full of people who are draining your energy and therefore not letting you live the life of your dreams. Life coach Cheryl Richardson helps you find out how to identify these people and take steps to heal or end these relationships.
Toxic Qualities in People
Several types of people deter you from your path to living a fulfilled life. Cheryl describes six toxic qualities.
Test the Quality of Your Relationships
Determine whether a relationship drains you or fuels you. Ask yourself the following questions.
Confronting Conflict with Grace
If you feel a relationship can be healed, follow these three steps. Plus, get the words to say to stand up to your toxic friends and family.

Some relationships constantly drain your energy, in both obvious and subtle ways. Several types of people will exhaust you or deter you from your path to living a fulfilled life. Life coach Cheryl Richardson describes six types of toxic qualities in people.

"Men go abroad to wonder at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, and they pass by themselves without wondering."

–Saint Augustine

The Blamer
This person likes to hear his own voice. He constantly complains about what isn't working in his life and yet gets energy from complaining and dumping his frustrations on you.

The Drainer
This is the needy person who calls to ask for your guidance, support, information, advice or whatever she needs to feel better in the moment. Because of her neediness, the conversation often revolves around her, and you can almost feel the life being sucked out of you during the conversation.

The Shamer
This person can be hazardous to your health. The shamer may cut you off, put you down, reprimand you, or make fun of your or your ideas in front of others. He often ignores your boundaries and may try to convince you that his criticism is for you own good. The shamer is the kind of person who makes you question your own sanity before his.
The Discounter
This is the person who discounts or challenges everything you say. Often, she has a strong need to be right and can find fault with any position. It can be exhausting to have a conversation with the discounter, so eventually you end up giving in and deciding to just listen.

The Gossip
This person avoids intimacy by talking about other behind their backs. The gossip gets energy from relaying stories, opinions, and the latest "scoop." By gossiping about others, he creates a lack of safety in his relationships, whether he realizes it or not. After all, if he'll talk about someone else, he'll talk about you.

Since soulful connections require an investment of time and energy, you'll want to choose the people you spend time with wisely. To determine whether a relationship drains you or fuels you, ask yourself the following questions.

Write down the name of a person in your life.
Am I able to be myself with this person? Do I feel accepted by him/her?
Is this person critical or judgmental of me?
Does the relationship provide an even give-and-take exchange of energy?
Do I feel upbeat and energized when I'm around this person, or depleted and drained?
Does this person share my values? My level of integrity?
Is this person committed to our relationship?
Can this person celebrate my success?
Do I feel good about myself when I'm with this person?

From Cheryl Richardson's book Take Time for Your Life.

Wondering how to confront people who drain you mentally, physically and spiritually? Once you have identified that you have a toxic relationship in your life, there are specific words that you can use to confront this family member or friend in a graceful, loving way. Your goal is not necessary to sever all relationships, it's to set boundaries with this person. If you feel the relationship can be healed, follow these steps.
Step One: Set the stage.
"In an effort to honor our relationship, I need to tell you the truth..."
Step Two: Follow up with how you feel.
"When you _______ it makes me feel ______..."
Step Three: Then ask your family member or friend.
"Are you willing to stop doing that?"
Examples
"In an effort to honor our relationship I need to tell you the truth. When you complain about your boss every week, it leaves me feeling drained of energy. If you're willing to do something about the situation, I'll support you 100%, but I can no longer listen to your complaints. Are you willing?" Then... "If you forget this conversation in the future, I promise to support you and our relationship by asking you to tell me how I can support you in taking action to fix the problem."
"In an effort to honor our relationship I need to tell you the truth. When you put me down I feel angry and hurt. In order for us to continue seeing each other, I need to ask you to stop. Are you willing?"
"In an effort to honor our relationship I need to tell you the truth. When you criticize me I feel drained and upset. I'd like to ask you to stop doing that so we can move closer instead of further apart. Are you willing?"

How to Think Your Way Free

2012-02-13T10:03:00.000-05:00

Wait—you can transform your life by altering your thoughts? Believe it. Martha Beck on the mood-altering, immunity-bolstering, luck-making impact of changing your mind.

By Martha Beck
O, The Oprah Magazine | From the August 2004 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine

Okay, this time you're serious. You're going on a regimen that will really improve your health—not like that crash diet: You'll snort down antioxidants; exercise moderately but consistently; balance fats, proteins, and carbs; and pay attention to the way you explain whatever happens to you.
Wait a minute. The way you explain what happens? What does that have to do with physical health? According to findings from the burgeoning field of behavioral medicine, a lot. How we think can affect physical processes as surely as diet and exercise do. For example, putting a positive spin on events in our past is associated with an enormous array of health benefits, from improved immune function to reduced stress to quicker healing, with all their emotional and physical advantages. To some degree, we may be able to literally explain away many devastating physical problems. If you want to have a healthier body, I suggest changing your mind first.

So What's Your Story?

Caroline, one of my brightest, prettiest, best-educated clients, was a wreck. Her pet cockatiel, Bonkers, had flown away.
The way she told the story of her bird's disappearance—what researchers have called "explanatory style"—was making her situation much worse. Her explanation of Bonkers' great escape showed the three key markers of pessimism: She described the problem as being personal ("I made it happen; these things always happen to me"), permanent ("Things will never get better"), and pervasive ("My whole life is rotten; I'm such a loser").
On the other hand, I'd noticed that whenever something good happened, she explained it as a fluke. " This cute guy from work asked me out," she said one day. Caroline explained the man's interest in her as his own "insanity" (not personal) and assumed it wouldn't last (not permanent). She stressed that other people's interest never lasted, even though I knew she had been the one to end most romantic relationships (not pervasive).
Bear in mind that Caroline didn't think like this only when she talked to me. Day in, day out, her mind serialized every piece of bad luck into another episode in a continuing Saga of Doom and deflected every happy event into the Meaningless Trivia scrap pile. Her style was crushing her mood—and was probably damaging her body as well.

Why See the Glass Half Empty?

Despite its attendant miseries, there seems to be a useful place for a pessimistic explanatory style. Some people appear to downplay positive aspects of their situations to limit their expectations and help them feel less pressured. They're less likely to feel let down if things go wrong.
Researchers Julie Norem and Nancy Cantor call this defensive pessimism. My friend Julia calls it inoculating yourself against disappointment. In the seven years I've known her, Julia has changed her explanatory style deliberately, gradually, and successfully. Giving up defensive pessimism may invite disappointment in certain situations, but overall, Julia's quality of life and her physical health are benefiting as she turns herself into a thoroughgoing optimist.
This doesn't happen overnight. If you're a habitual pessimist, you know there's nothing worse than those bouncy optimists.
Habitual thought patterns are like ruts in a dirt road. The mind slips into them over and over, and at first, steering down another route is extremely difficult. Stopping habitual thoughts as they flash along these pathways, turning one's mental energy to a new way of thinking, requires an effort that is not merely impressive but heroic.

How to Change Your Mind

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: The way to start changing your mind is not to force it or command it but to watch it. Jeffrey Schwartz, MD, who studies obsessive-compulsive disorders, teaches his patients "mindful awareness," a form of meditation that can free them from intrusive thoughts—a technique that has also been shown to help other patients stop a blue mood from becoming full-blown depression. The idea is to identify a destructive thought pattern, then simply label it and watch it and let it pass by whenever it appears in your mind.
When Caroline did this, her mood changed immediately. Instead of drowning in thoughts like "Bonkers never loved me!" she learned to say, "Oh look, there's a pessimistic explanation." This gave her enough space, enough mental distance, to at least consider a more optimistic story.
If you want to change your explanatory style, start by evaluating where you fall on the spectrum from pessimism to optimism. Researchers do this by analyzing the way people use the "three Ps" (personal, permanent, and pervasive elements) in their descriptions of past events. (You can use this quiz.) Unless your score shows you to be wildly optimistic, consider nudging yourself further toward the bright side.

Testing your explanatory style is the beginning of mindfulness, of watching the way your brain tells stories. Initially, you may simply notice that a thought seems negative; as you pay more attention, you will begin to see how you use the three Ps.
Once you've become aware of your explanatory style and its elements, make a concerted effort to describe positive events as personal, permanent, and pervasive. Tell the story of a bad event without personalizing it or thinking that it will have a broad, lasting impact on your life.

Staying the Course

The great thing about developing an optimistic explanatory style is that it's self-reinforcing. It increases your hope and expectation that your whole health-and-fitness regimen, mental and physical, will be worth the effort. This frame of mind will help keep you not only happy but healthy; studies have linked it to improved immune function, better lung function, quicker recovery from heart surgery, and a lower risk of heart disease. I've also noticed that it correlates with my clients' ability to achieve all their goals. Changing your thought diet—your way of thinking—may be the best thing you can do to stay on your food diet.
I suspect this is why Caroline, like many of my clients who successfully change their explanatory patterns, has experienced an unexpected side effect: She's in the best shape of her life. She's managed to drop a pattern of emotional eating, stay on an effective workout schedule, and lose five pounds. Even more dramatic are the changes in her posture and facial expression, which have gone from cringing and miserable to alert and interested, making her much more attractive and approachable. Not only does her mood improve every time she observes and alters a negative explanation rather than getting mired in it, but her body appears to love the change.
And I suggest that Caroline can expect this trend to continue. Is this an optimistic explanation? You bet. I'm sticking to my diet.

Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
www.stormieomartian.com

When I Need to Stand Strong in Times of Weakness

Lord, I thank You that I can always see Your goodness in my life, and I know I will continue to see it in the future. Even when I lose hope and can't find joy in my heart, I can live by faith that my hope is in You, and Your joy shall once again rise in my soul. And it will happen this side of heaven. When I have trouble standing strong in certain difficult situations, help me to not lose heart and fall into discouragement. I ask that You would be my strength. Infuse me with Your power so that I become emboldened and invincible.

I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.

Psalm 27:13

Parable of Jesus: The Rich Man and Lazarus

2011-12-17T00:11:00.000-05:00

Picture courtesy of “Coastal Living Mag”In the living room, a bleached oak armchair from John Rosselli is covered in a casual, striped linen fabric by Peter Fasano.

Assuredly, the evil man will not go unpunished, but the descendants of the righteous will be delivered. He who is steadfast in righteousness will attain to life.
-Proverbs 11 v.19 & 21

Booster Shots For Living

My previous blog post was suppose to be my last for Christmas but I decided to post the parable of the rich man and Lazarus because I felt it was important to do so. Especially at a time during the Christmas season when we should not only be giving of material things to those we love but with our heart and soul as well and learning to be compassionate to others, especially those less fortunate than yourselves. This Christmas my kids have been counting down to Christmas Day. Everyday my son asks, “mom how many days are left for Christmas?” Yes, they can’t wait for Christmas Day to arrive.

My 6 year old son is funny sometimes, if I get upset with him he will say to me, “talk to the hand mom, talk to the hand.” He no doubt heard that at school, or on television. I am like, “little boy I will slap you silly for giving me lip!” Of course, I don’t. Oh, my, gosh! He will just laugh and run to his room…too funny. Talk to the hand mom, talk to the hand, he’s too bad. See, when I was a little girl, If I misbehaved like that my Grandmother would have spank me and send me to my room. Over here, these kids get away with alot not the same like back then. Yeah, my Grandmother was very strict, but she had a loving, kind and generous heart.

The Parable of the rich man and Lazarus (also called the Dives and Lazarus or Lazarus and Dives) is a well known parable of Jesus which appears in one of the Four Gospels of the New Testament.

According to Gospel of Luke (Luke 16:19–31), the parable tells of the relationship, in life and in death, between an unnamed rich man and a poor beggar named Lazarus.

The story the parable is as follows:

Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. A certain beggar, named Lazarus, was laid at his gate, full of sores, and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. It happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried. In Hades, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. He cried and said, "Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame."

But Abraham said, "Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us."

He said, "I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house; for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment."

But Abraham said to him, "They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them."

He said, "No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent."

He said to him, "If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead."

— Luke 16:19–31, World English Bible

My Interpretation of the Parable:

Okay, this parable is for all the mean, greedy, obnoxious and self-fish, people in the world who have no compassion towards anyone. The one’s who treat people including myself like garbage everyday, just because they feel that they are above others due to wealth or some form of status in life. Sometimes people treat people with contempt and lack of respect because of one’s race or complexion. Yes, many people today on this planet don’t take kindly to people of another race other than theirs, we see this play out on television everyday. All of them will soon get a big wake up call. We also have the people of course the wealthy ones the ones who have a little more than the average population. Their bank account is loaded, they feel they own everyone, they feel they can walk over everyone and abuse them and make them feel like they are a beggar off the street. Yes, I have had many people treat me like this, over the years. Yes, it’s all good, “let them keep their money, I don’t want a penny from them, because where they are going no amount of money in the world can’t help them, unless they repent of their sins. Yes, these are the people who don’t care about God or humanity. They feel money is everything in the world. With a loaded bank account they fool themselves into believing they are God. When in fact, God is the one who gave them the ability to be wealthy in the first place—God gave them life, yet they have no respect for God. No, but don’t tell them that. They say, “I worked hard for my money, it is mine, God had nothing to do with my success or wealth.” I don’t need to thank God for nothing. Or, some will say, God doesn’t exist, everyone just happen by chance. Yes, the planet materialize out of thin air, we are all surviving by chance. These are the “atheist and the ones who fall to temptation,” the people who don’t care about God but themselves. When they are in the lake of fire burning then they will have plenty time to figure out if there is a God or not.

So, Lazarus the beggar would beg this rich man for food even the crumbs the rich man didn’t care to give to Lazarus. Lazarus died but was taken to Heaven. Then the rich man also died, and was buried. In Hades, (Hades is also referred to as Hell) he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. He cried and said, "Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in anguish in this flame."

Can you believe it? After he treated Lazarus with contempt by not even wanting to give him the crumbs from his table, the rich man now wants Lazarus to come to Hell to wet his lips because he is in so much agony in the flames. What nerve! Yes, you have many people like this in the world today, millions and millions of them. If I were to go on the streets and ask someone for a quarter to make a phone call 99% of the time they would not give it to me. I am not usually someone who like to ask someone for help, so if I am asking someone for help it means I really need help. However, I have had people who could help me refuse to help me, even though they were in a position to do so. Over the years, many people treated me with contempt, and hatred, many people, too many to count What can I say, everyone have a choice to do good in this world or not in the end, man brings on his own judgement—because God gave everyone the gift of “Free Will” . Mankind then can choose their own faith—choose to be kind, helpful and compassionate towards others regardless of race or someone’s status in life. Love God and Jesus Or Perish with Lucifer in the flames.

Anyway, Abraham said, "Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none may cross over from there to us."

Yes, this ending part of the parable is quite significant. What Abraham is saying to the rich man is, Lazarus is in Heaven it would not be “Holy or Righteous” for a person in Heaven to cross over to Hell or for the Rich man to now cross over from Hell to Heaven—It is plainly two different worlds. So, the Rich man is dead he is in Hell he can’t go to Heaven anymore too late for him. When he was alive, he had the opportunity to reach out to God and Jesus, treat people kindly and with respect, love humanity, show compassion and do good in the world, he choose not to. The “Rich Man” had plenty time before he died to “Repent of his sins and to even get into Purgatory so his soul can be saved, but he choose not to—He had a choice.” Hell is Hell. It is a totally different place it is also a place for the Damned, the Sinners. However, Heaven is for the righteous and for those who have suffered in order to get to God, and for those who did not fall to temptation and who have strong trust and faith in God.

So here is the last part of the Parable:

He said, "I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father's house; for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of torment."

But Abraham said to him, "They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them."

He said, "No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent."

He said to him, "If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead."

Yes, this last part of the parable where Abraham said: “If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.” Yes, many people in the world millions and millions of them are like the rich man. They hear the word of God, God show people signs and miracles, God send many prophets over the years including our most famous “Jesus Christ” who was crucified and died for our sins 2,000 years ago. God did all that and still people still carry on living in sin everyday disrespecting God, when God has been working so hard trying for people on this planet to have longer lives and not go to hell. Temptation so easily accessible especially now to everyone thanks to the internet and yes, garbage people like “Hugh Heffner of the Playboy Mansion who abuse young women, and steal their lives and souls everyday. Yes, I hope he had a good time because when he pass on he will not be going to heaven. Yes, “Sin City, Las Vegas where everyone go if they really want to fall to temptation.” The Bachelor or Bachelorette parties, the groupies, and on and on. The people who become prostitutes, the Prostitution ring leaders, or Pimps as they are sometimes called. The men who sleep with men, the women who sleep with women. Yes, everyone have been having one big party. Well the party will soon be over. Yes, in 1,000 years from now those on earth or those who have died or those who will die today or tomorrow or in the future who did not receive “Everlasting Life” and are not written in “God’s Book of Life” will be thrown into the lake of Fire.” They can all party in the flames then. God gave people plenty time over 2,000 years to follow God, so don’t complain now, everyone had a choice.

So, Abraham is saying why resurrect anyone from the dead, that can’t help the rich man’s five brothers. Bringing someone back from the dead won’t help. Why? They themselves are dead. “How can anyone prove anything to sinners and people who have abandon God and believe that God don’t exist? How? Just like Noah in the days of the Flood God gave those people plenty time to know God and worship God 120 years to repent and love God. They refused, because they were all sinners who had already fallen to temptation. Living in sin feels too good. Been able to Fornicate, have orgies, sleep with people of the same sex felt too good. Having just one woman is not enough especially when they say to themselves, “I have lots a money let me just get 10 more women, one woman can’t do for me.” Having relationship with the opposite sex is not enough for sinners. Even if God is offering them “Everlasting Life” sleeping with the same sex i.e., man with man, woman with woman feels too good to them they rather burn in hell. So, Abraham is saying these people are blinded by sin, they are drunk from lust and desire and from the wealth they have obtained in life, that have taken over their souls. Even if he were to raise the dead people, they would still continue doing all the evil things that Lucifer stands for. Do you understand what the parable is saying now?

“God’s Chosen who can give “Everlasting Life.”

Why would the person who was sent by God to give people the “Gift of Everlasting Life” reveal themselves to anyone? The person wouldn’t until the appropriate time. Listen to what Jesus said, “If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.” What do Jesus mean by this? Jesus came back 2,000 years ago to offer the “Gift of Everlasting Life” to the millions of people on earth, but Lucifer had the people in the community turn against him and they crucified Jesus had him killed. So, why would someone who was sent by God go on public announcement and say, “Hi everyone I am here to give you—all people on earth, “Everlasting Life.” Even if the person were to prove to the people on this earth that they can make them live longer lives and yes, stop greying and turning old and dying young. Jesus is trying to say that the only time people will believe the truth is when they are in the “Lake of Fire” and their soul is burning only then will they believe—by then it will be too late, too late for them. Do you get what Jesus is saying?

At present in this world today, there is only one person on this planet today that can stop people from aging and getting old, dying and for them not to enter the gates of hell or the lake of Fire. However, that person will not reveal themselves because it is not time yet to do so. Only one person on this planet today can give the people in this world “Everlasting life” the ability to live beyond the mere 60-80 years of age. Does this person have “Everlasting Life themselves?” Yes. No, I can’t say who that person is, but in time people will come to know that person. “Why would this person reveal themselves to the people in the world especially when it is not time yet, Like Jesus said “If they don't listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.” Seeing is believing, but even when people see sometimes they still don’t believe. That is what Jesus said 2,000 years ago and what he said still stands today.

In the meantime, this person can “Pass Judgement” against all humans on this planet. This person can send people to hell or heaven they just have to say the word. Why? They are a “Holy Person” and they have the same power as God to Judge all humans on this planet. Only a “Holy Person” can offer the “Gift of Everlasting Life,” and in the same breath send people to hell or give them the gift of “Everlasting Life.” Once a person receives the Gift of Everlasting Life they are then entered into God’s “Book of Life in Heaven” automatically and they then cross over to heaven even though they are on earth. Isn’t that sweet? Yes, God is good and great and ever powerful. The person whom God has chosen to give the gift of everlasting life, all they have to say is a few short words and “Walla!” Anyone in the world would have “Everlasting life” just like that. They can be present next to the person or millions of miles away doesn’t matter. Millions and Millions of God’s Angels waiting to offer “Everlasting Life to the Faithfull's—those who love God and worship God.”

Unfortunately, many people in this world today will be going off to hell and then to the “Lake of Fire.” I have been preaching this to people since I was 9 years old but no one would take me seriously, yes, just like Noah. Everyone insulted Noah back then, mocked him, called him crazy old man and many other names. I have had people called me insane, just because I talk about God and Jesus. God have given people plenty time, plenty time to turn to God but unfortunately even as I write this blog post, many people have chosen to follow and worship Lucifer. Don’t the people in this world feel that God gave them enough time to repent and follow God? God gave everyone plenty time 2,000 years. Yet, people still fall to temptation, commit major crimes, run prostitution rings, kill others and do many more wrong things.

Yes, there are some good people still left in this world, the ones who follow God and Jesus and who have strong trust and faith in God. The ones who worship God and praise God and respect God and know that God is the Alpha and the Omega. Unfortunately, they do have some very mean people out there in this world who treat people really badly. Over the years as a small child growing up I have had so many people persecuted me, hated me, made fun of me, bullied me to point where I felt so much fear to attend high school. They caused me alot of pain and sorrow. I have also had many people treated me over years as if I was a beggar off the streets. That’s okay, why tell people who I really am, I want to know who appreciate or like me for me, let them show their true colours and then I get to see who they are. Yes, unfortunately every single one of them will be going some place else other than Heaven. How they treated me was not necessary but they are full of hate—they all had a choice to be nice to me or not, they choose not to be, but instead they choose to bully me for no reason. No one treated me kindly in High School, there was so much hate towards me. Yes, all of that was part of my “Spiritual Suffering.” That though was just a small part of what I had to endure. There is too much hate in this world and it is time for all of this to come to an end. I am sick and tired of people who are just filled with hate and who doesn’t want others to live a happy life. They will have to pay for their sins. It is a crime in God’s eyes to ruin peoples lives and make them unhappy and persecute them to eternity. It is not right to do this.

In the past several months on my blog I have been writing and pleading to my readers of my blog to always do what is right by God, always. Don’t side with perpetrators of evil, don’t side with people who are mean and who want to destroy peoples lives.

“Anyone that wants to send you to your grave early is just full of pure evil, and need to seriously work on themselves and find God and Jesus again.”

We all have an obligation in this world to do the right thing. God gave us that choice. Yet, many people in this world today, still see other people trying to ruin someone else's life and people make excuses by saying things like, “oh, I don’t know, I can’t get through to the person, they won’t listen to me, they won’t change their behaviour.” I have been working on them but they won’t stop their mean behaviour—All excuses, Stop making excuses. My Grandmother was faced with that same predicament like many people, many years ago, and she stuck to her decision and did the right thing by God. She did not make excuses and lament over her decision and let other people get in her way.You don’t wait for the person to change their behaviour, you take matters in your hand and do the right thing. Why? Your “Salvation is at hand your soul is in jeopardy.” You either choose to perish with Lucifer or go with God to Heaven. There is no in between—Make the change not only for yourself but for your children or future children or grandchildren or those you love dearly.

Always remember this, “God has never destroyed man. Man always destroys himself. Man brings on his own judgement.” My Grandmother always say, “If you know better, then do better.” Meaning, always do what you know is the right thing to do, God shouldn’t have to show you miracles for you to believe in doing the right thing and having faith that everything will work out fine—You should know to do the right thing by God. Yes, my Grandmother is right.

Man brings on his own judgements when people decide they will side with evil and instead they don’t do the right thing by God. God gives everyone the right to choose. The right to “Free Will.” People do know by now especially adults “Right from Wrong,” but instead many decide to take the path of Lucifer. We are all given the right to choose in this world, so don’t go calling God all sorts of names and Blaspheme against God, because you choose to follow evil instead of worshiping and loving God. God is a fair and Just God. God gave you a choice, it was up to you to decide to do the right thing.

So, like one writer once wrote, people who turn down mercy they become unmerciful. They turn down faith and therefore they are faithless. Therefore the judged fit themselves to the judgement. They cause the judgements themselves. They fit themselves to the judgement.

Okay, so people in this world have two choices (2):

1. Be saved by obeying God’s Commandments, remaining faithful to Jesus and by refusing to accept Lucifer into their lives. Doing what is “Right, Just and Fair and making decisions that is right in the eyes of God.” and in so doing received the “Gift of Everlasting life.” Don’t ever fool yourselves into believing that God can’t see you and know what you are doing, you can’t hide anything from God—never. God see’s all things and hear all things, God is everywhere.

2. Or, choose to perish with Lucifer, go to hell then to the “Lake of Fire where your soul burns for eternity.” Just so people know, when people go to the Lake of Fire they will feel the fire just as if they were in real life when they get burnt except your soul burns for eternity. Just like the “Rich Man” who is in hell suffering. “Your Soul is you, You are your Soul.” You will feel everything as if you were alive. Millions of People believe all this is just fairytale. Which goes back to the Parable above. Only when people are in the flames—“only then will they believe the word of God.” By then it is too late.

How does the Gift of Everlasting Life works?

Once a person receive Everlasting Life, it is done through the “Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit descends on each person like a dove and the gift of Everlasting Life is given unto them. Only those who worship God, love God and who do not abandon God will receive Everlasting Life. Those who wish to repent of their sins can receive “Everlasting Life.” If a person hates God, blasphemes against God or the Holy Spirit they have sinned against God and if they choose they can repent and ask God for forgiveness, only time will tell if they get “Everlasting Life or not.” It will be up to them to love God and worship God, their life will literally be in their own hands.

Once a person receive “Everlasting Life,” they are no longer sinners they have now literally crossed over to Heaven even though they are on earth. It doesn’t matter what age you are you can receive the gift of “Everlasting Life.” If you are 70 years of age or older you can get everlasting life, it doesn’t matter what age you are. What matters is, “Do you love God and worship God and make God present in your life and haven’t fallen to temptation, become prostitutes or commit other crimes against God?” Anyway, people can live for however long God has ordained. Usually, longer than 300 years old. Many people will be able to live up to 700, 900 and close to 1,000 years old. Just to give an example, J lo who happens to be 42 years old. Whom I love dearly, she has been through a lot to get to where she is. If given the gift of everlasting life, would see herself at 300 years looking like she does today. Isn’t that awesome! No need for plastic surgery, no gray hair. Just looking young and fresh at 300 years.old

Awesome! I just love God. “Why on earth would I want to love Lucifer, when Lucifer offers aging, gray hair, early death, cancer of all kinds, many illnesses, suffering, hell and the lake of fire?”

Or, lets take a look at a male, like Robin Thicke whom I love as a singer, if given Everlasting Life at 300+ years old, he would look just the same as he does today. Priceless, isn’t it? By the way Robin Thicke is 34 years.old

When someone is chosen by God to give the gift of “Everlasting Life.” They cannot under any circumstances have relationships with people who have fallen to temptation i.e. have relationship with people of the same sex, who have denounced God, abandon God, hate God, blaspheme against God and have no respect for God and Jesus. This would be “Sacrilegious.” Meaning: (grossly irreverent toward what is held to be sacred towards God and Jesus) and is totally forbidden. People like these their spirit is now “Unclean” and it also means that Lucifer resides in their soul this can make a “Holy person” unclean or unfit to give the gift of “Everlasting Life.”

Now, if Lucifer knows that the person is a “Holy Person” Lucifer will go after that person with a vengeance. For those who have watched the “Passion of the Christ,” Lucifer turned an entire town against Jesus by entering their souls. The people then had Jesus crucified. Now, in the 21st century Lucifer’s strategy haven’t changed except in today’s world no one can’t crucify anyone it is illegal to do that, plus we are living in a different era. We are not living in villages like Jesus was 2,000 years ago. Where it would have been quite easy for people to attack Jesus. So, instead Lucifer uses “Strategy#2” use someone close enough to a “Holy Person” maybe someone they know personally, a family member, a friend, an acquaintance or someone they came into contact with at some point in time to cause “Major Opposition,” for them. Trying to block God’s plan. Just like he did with the people around Jesus 2,000 years ago, he will turn people he’s entered into major liars. They can never tell the truth about anything.

Part of his strategy would no doubt be to get someone to enter the life of a “Holy Person to destroy them.” Why? If a “Holy Person” have relationship with someone who have fallen to temptation i.e.. someone who sleep with the same sex, which means they carry a great sin and is now “Unclean” or someone who have a strong hate for God, someone who abandoned God, became an “Apostate,” blasphemes against God everyday. This would make Lucifer happy because the “Holy Person” going into a relationship like that would make the person “Unclean and unfit to give the gift of Everlasting Life if they enter a relationship with someone like this.” Yes, a “Holy Person” can get married, have children, and live a normal everyday life like everyone else as long as the person they are entering it with as a “Clean and Pure Spirit just like them and who also love God.” So, he will try very hard, very hard to make sure that anyone who forsake God and hate God would enter the “Holy Person’s Life.” As well, he would cause major opposition for a long, long time, hoping to spoil God’s plan for the people in this world. That creep, Lucifer is one mean freak to say it mildly. He wants, everyone on this planet to end up in the Lake of fire like him and for our planet to die, and for people to continue aging and dying early.

Unfortunately, Lucifer turns the people when he enters their soul into a cruel person just like him, because they made a terrible, terrible mistake by abandoning God. Anything about God turns them off makes them very angry. They become “Extremely argumentative, round the clock conflict everyday that Lucifer uses to cause opposition for you,” nothing makes them happy, nothing. Their soul becomes “Consumed by Hate not Love.” The Soul is barren God’s Love and Light can’t get through. Basically, they are aiding and abetting in the destruction of millions of peoples lives. Yes, been around people like these and you feel like you are “literally living in Hell.” Why? Lucifer have damaged their soul the minute they abandoned God. Remember this, Lucifer offers hate NOT love, he can’t feel love, just so you know. Only God offers Love. “Where do you think all those people who killed Jesus or those who saw what was happening to Jesus and didn’t try to help him went?” They all prevented the people on this planet to receive everlasting life 2,000 years ago.” Yes, they all went to the darkest recesses of Hell where they are tormented day and night for eternity. I always tell people hell is a terrible place to go to, terrible, just like what the rich man experienced in the parable above and even worst than that.

“When a person abandon God, they just opened up the door for Lucifer to walk right into their soul.”

Yes, if a “Holy Person becomes Unclean” This would be a tragic thing to happen because it means that millions of people on earth today would not be able to have longer lives, neither would their future children, so this is to be taken very seriously. The planet would continue to deteriorate and peoples life span would continue to get shorter and shorter on this planet. Eventually the planet would die after a few thousand years. Now, “who out there want all of that to rest on their shoulders by following Lucifer and not God?”

People who have abandoned God and decide to worship Lucifer and who have a mean spirit, and have become a Lawless person—An Apostate, have blasphemed against God have to go work on themselves and repent of their sins and ask God for forgiveness and yes, spend years, yes, years not months to find their way back to God. That is not all though. If these people have fallen to temptation at all, God won’t want anyone like this to have any relationship with a “Holy Person.” When I say they need to work on themselves I don’t mean 1, 2, or 3 years we are talking many years, basically for the rest of their lives, to really learn to love God and Jesus. They would need to work on themselves so their soul can then enter “Purgatory” where they are purified then sent to Heaven. Just asking God for forgiveness won’t cut it. These people need to seriously work on themselves and find God again, they will need to clear all that hate from their heart and learn to love God and Jesus, themselves and everyone else.

Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When You Need More Love in Your Life

Lord, I open my heart to receive Your perfect love into my mind, emotions, soul, and spirit. Help me to understand the depths of Your love at all times. Jesus, I know You are the Son of God, and because I have received You into my heart, You live in me and Your love dwells in me. Help me to live in Your love and not doubt it. Help me to grow more and more secure in Your love so that I can grow and thrive the way a child does with a loving parent.

Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

1 John 4:15-16

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Parable of Jesus: The Sower

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Booster Shots For Living

It has been a long and very challenging year for me. There were times where I was at the edge of disaster but God held my hand and kept watch over me and my two wonderful children. Yes, we emerged safely and I have God to thank for that, thank you Father in Heaven. It will be my birthday in less than three weeks from now. Christmas Day, I won’t be getting any gifts, just my kids, oh, my, gosh! People always ask me whenever they find out I was born on Christmas Day, “Do you get lots of gifts?” I always say no, which is true. I always get short-changed, it’s like everyone decides to come up short when it comes to my birthday…too funny. Anyway, this is my last blog post for the Christmas Holiday that is why I posted early instead of posting on Christmas Day.

What would I like for Christmas? Ummm….“True Love, yes, True Love.” Yes, if God could give me that, that would be a nice Christmas gift. It’s a tall order but I know with God anything is possible. Yes, only someone who truly believe in God and Jesus and who have strong trust and faith in God and who has a kind, loving and caring, and compassionate spirit. If you love Lucifer and abandon God well, go the opposite way. Go find people who entertain your beliefs, I don’t want anyone like that in my life. Fire and Water can’t mix. I don’t have room in my life for people who don’t love God, ever. I don’t want anyone who carries alot of hate, malice and spite in their hearts and who dwell on arguments, strife and endless conflict, everyday. No relationship can ever survive under that environment, none. Or, anyone who is fixated on making people’s lives a living hell, and don’t want anyone to be happy in life if they are not happy—No one else must be happy—people like these have become cruel just like lucifer. People like these are selfish, mean and childish and have no love in them for humanity, their hearts have become cold, they lost all their compassion. If they decide they don’t want anyone to lead a happy life.

I don’t ever want to go into a relationship like that because it won’t work. Anyone, who love Lucifer can’t work in my life, it would be a disaster to say the least. God always have a plan though so I will leave everything in his hands, amen. For the rest of the holiday season I will be baking for my kids as usual, baking them their usual Gingerbread House do some Christmas shopping for my kids, and so on. I wish everyone the best for the holiday season and hope that everyone have a great Christmas. Always, remember to always thank God for all that God have given you. God Bless.

The Parable of the Sower is one of the parables of Jesus found in three (often called the Synoptic Gospels) out of the four Canonical gospels and in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas. In this story, a sower dropped seed on the path, on rocky ground, and among thorns, and the seed was lost; but when seed fell on good earth, it grew, yielding thirty, sixty, and a hundredfold.

Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the birds of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: But when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, some an hundred. He said unto them, He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

— Mark 4:3-9

The explanation given by Jesus:

And when he was alone, they that were about him with the twelve asked of him the parable. And he said unto them, Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables: That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them. And he said unto them, Know ye not this parable? and how then will ye know all parables?

The sower soweth the word. And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts. And these are they likewise which are sown on stony ground; who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with gladness; And have no root in themselves, and so endure but for a time: afterward, when affliction or persecution ariseth for the word's sake, immediately they are offended. And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful. And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

— Mark 4:10-20

My added interpretation of Jesus’ Parable of the Sower

Jesus have clearly given a wonderful interpretation of his own parable. Which means exactly what it says. The only thing I will attempt to do here is to just add to what he says. Yes, many of us are told about God and Jesus everyday. I am working on behalf of God and have been doing so since the day God appeared to me at 9 years old. Over the years as a child and even today as an adult I have been trying tirelessly to get as many people to follow God, knowing in my heart of hearts that God will be coming back to this world one day. However, Lucifer comes in everyday and destroy the work I am trying to do along with the other wonderful people out there working on behalf of God. Lucifer offers everyone on a platter the “Gift of Temptation” that is so easily accessible to everyone on this planet.

Then we have those believers who have no staying power when it comes to God. As soon as they start to follow God, their intentions are good but their hearts are weak. The message of God only last so long, as soon as they are persecuted, ridiculed, made fun of, mocked at, laughed at or like in my case I have had people called me insane, and told me they will put me in an asylum, have me locked up. If you are not a true follower of God and understand your purpose and mission in life. These are people that Jesus speaks about that are “Sown among stony ground.” The persecution, suffering and loneliness is too hard to bear. Lucifer will find the meanest and most obnoxious people to get in your way to persecute you so that you can abandon God. That is his style, that is his main ammo.

So, like Jesus said, “and these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word, and the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.”

Here are the other set of people in this world millions and millions of them. That strive for the fame and wealth of the world. Money is absorbed into their skin. They become greedy and ruthless over money they don’t care who they hurt. They use their wealth to abuse others and belittle the people who are less fortunate. Then Lust and desire takes over, the “Flesh becomes weak.” That is when millions of people turn to temptation where they sleep with people of the same sex. Fooling themselves into believing that this will make them happy. Everyday you look on television all I see is more men having relationships with other men, sick, just sick. Women having relationships with women, living together getting married. They are all the walking Dead. Every single one of them will be going to hell and after to the lake of fire which is the 2nd death, where their soul burns for eternity. They don’t care though, why bother with God when I can do whatever I want, change God’s spiritual laws, I don’t care.

Prostitution is also another big thing in this world. People who are prostitutes or the people who run prostitution rings are murders. Yes, murders. They steal peoples good lives and souls from them. They are the ones that work as “Head Hunters and Recruiters for Lucifer.” They work full-time recruiting young men and women and anyone else so they can harvest their souls and send them to hell, mainly for money and because they are corrupt. All Prostitution ring leaders and followers will go to hell and then to the lake of fire where their soul burns for eternity. I am sick and tired of all these people who ruin young people lives and steal their happiness. These people are garbage in this world, full of filth. Every person on this planet today is a child of God. When people decide they will follow evil and not God and instead they work everyday to ruin peoples lives, they must suffer the consequences of their sins. Their flesh is weak, they feed off people who they feel will fall easily to temptation, people who’s spirit and soul is weak. I call them murderers because many of these people that they get to become prostitutes like them or fornicate with them end up getting diseases, getting abused, murdered or they eventually die from their disease. So, yes, they are all murderers. They are no different from a person holding a loaded gun at someone's head.

“Prostitution of any form whether you are a working prostitute or the leader of the pack you have committed a major crime against God. “People like these are cursed by God, because they are ruining the lives of some very good people.” These people are garbage, because they tear down the fabric of society with filth, and more filth.” Yes, God will make them accountable, don’t ever believe that God won’t pass judgement against them and they will be punished for their crimes.” People like these are servants and offspring’s of Lucifer dealing in destruction of lives.

Yes, can you tell I am upset? I have had to endure “Spiritual Suffering since I was a small child” words cannot describe the things I have been through. God gave this burden for me to bear so, I do so willingly.Yes, I am very upset, very upset, because I know that God have a plan for the people on this earth and ever since I was a little girl I have been telling people it is wrong, God is upset! He is angry with the people on this planet! Very angry! He wants all of you to stop all this garbage and the people on this planet won’t listen. I am crying because people don’t understand that God really means what he says, he will send all sinners to hell and then to the lake of fire—it is not a joke or a fairytale, he means what he says. God says, “Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my words shall not.” He will come back again, one last time to fix this world—but when he comes “he will come like a thief in the night.” When he does the door to salvation will be closed to millions of people in this world.

Yes, these are the people who are “Unfruitful” Their soul becomes barren even though they have the wealth and the biggest house on the block, the cool car and the hot career. They are in God’s eyes “Unfruitful.” God have no place for them in Heaven, unless they repent of their sins and try to get into “Purgatory.” Unfortunately, many of these people feel that it is their right to change God’s laws on this planet and exalt themselves above God. They will get a big wake up call one day.

Then, a few people on this planet who have managed to overcome temptation and live for God and Jesus daily are the ones who are “Fruitful.” They are ones that are sown on good soil, because they have heeded the word of God and despite the persecution they manage to rise above it and reach forward towards God and Jesus. They are the ones who have strong trust and faith in the Almighty God and don’t listen to the sinners, persecutors and haters of God and abide in God despite Lucifer’s negative influence.

Thomas ask Jesus why he taught in Parables:

Though Thomas doesn't explain the parable at all, the synoptics state that the disciples failed to understand, and questioned Jesus why he was teaching by parables, but the synoptics state that Jesus waited until much later, until the crowds had left, before explaining the parables, stating to his disciples:

the secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you, but to those on the outside, everything is said in parables so that they may be ever seeing but never perceiving, and ever hearing but never understanding.

The synoptics go on to state that Jesus quoted the Book of Isaiah, stating that by hearing you shall hear but not understand, by seeing you shall see and not perceive, and that the people were hard of hearing, with closed eyes Isaiah 6:9-10.

After this, the synoptics provide an explanation of the parable:

The sower sows the word
The seeds falling on the road represent those who hear the word but dismiss it straight away - the synoptics state that the wicked one (Matthew's wording)/Satan (Mark's wording) is what takes the word away
The seeds falling on the rocks represent those who hear the word, but only accept it shallowly - the synoptics state that these sorts of people reject the word as soon as it causes them affliction or persecution
The seeds falling on thorns represent those who hear the word, and take it to heart, but allow worldly concerns, such as money, to choke it.
The seeds falling on good soil represents those who hear the word, and truly understand it, causing it to bear fruit.

Jesus’ Parables

Jesus says he is teaching in parables because he does not want everyone to understand him, only those who are his followers. Those outside the group are not meant to understand them. Thus one must already be committed to following Jesus to fully understand his message and that without that commitment one will never fully understand him or be helped by his message. If one does not correctly understand the parables, this is a sign that one is not a true disciple of Jesus.

The Kingdom of God- “The Alpha and Omega”

When God comes back to this world of ours, just like God said in the bible he will not do the whole flood thing again. At the time when God let the flood happen and the people who were sinners died. Sin came back into the world via “Reincarnated Spirits.” Everyone brought back the original sin. So, God said, “no more flood.” All of this is in the bible I am not making this up. In the “Book of Revelations” God reveals that instead he will send everyone who are all sinners to the lake of fire where their soul burns for eternity. Yes, people reading this blog post will say that’s awful. Yes, it is awful. I will tell you why God would do this. God send all sinners soul off to the lake of fire not because he revels in our suffering but because if the souls don’t burn—“The Original Sin” that Lucifer brought to this world will ultimately come back into our world and not only will our planet deteriorate and be destroyed but our life span would continue to deteriorate until we end up dying in our 40’s instead of living up to a 1,000 years old. Yes, everything that affects us including our health, aging and dying are all linked to Lucifer and the spirit world, everything. No matter how much people on this planet diet and exercise that can never stop them from aging, they are just running themselves into the ground doing that. Only God can stop them from aging.

Yes, if we had “Everlasting Life a Gift from God,” we the people on this planet would see our children and Grandchildren grow up, go to College or University, and get married. Many of us would live to see our great, great, great grandchildren. We would lead healthy lives, not much need for a doctor. We wouldn’t start showing any signs of aging until we reach around 800 years old. At 800 years old, we would be the equivalent age of a person who is in their early 60’s. “Do you see the difference?” Now why would people want to follow Lucifer live in sin, suffer, die young and go to hell and later to the Lake of fire? Why?

The Gift of Everlasting Life a Free Gift From God

God’s gift of Everlasting life to the people on this planet would see millions of people living beyond the mere 60-75 age category. Please note that although everlasting life would be a free gift from God, you only get everlasting life if you worship God and NOT Lucifer, just so you know. People would definately live up to 1,000 years old. Okay, for the people who are reading my blog today or in the future. I don’t want you to feel scared about God’s gift to make us live longer lives. Let me put some things into perspective for you.
Currently, Lucifer offers aging to all us on this planet, then ultimately early death. When I listen to people around me or on television people will make these ridiculous comments like, “Halle Berry or Tom Cruise just turned the big 40!” It sounds like a simple comment everyone, at 40 yrs. old people feel we are getting old, but let us look at what Lucifer offers us versus what God is going to offer us one day. Lucifer maximum life span to us humans now is 60-80 years old if you are lucky. God’s maximum life span 900-1,000 years old. What can I say, people are so used to aging and dying early on this planet they say to themselves, “I wonder if living to that age would be good for me?” “Are you kidding me!” Nothing about you would change other than you live longer. Cancer would be none existent including many other illnesses and diseases.

The prayer as it occurs in Matthew 6:9–13

"Our Father in heaven,

hallowed be your name.

Your kingdom come,

your will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our debts,

as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation,

but deliver us from evil.”

“Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven.” Clearly, God is reassuring us that we will be able to live longer lives on this earth one day. God also says, “Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my words shall not.” God is saying, my word is my word. What he has promised 6,000 years ago from the day of creation of this earth, he will make do on his promise. He will not go back on his word. God will come back to our planet one last time and fix all the mess Lucifer created.

Please, I want everyone to understand that when God says, “living forever,” God doesn’t mean that you will live for eternity on this planet until you become like stones and go on living for eternity on earth. No, what God means is that once a person gets “Everlasting Life,” they are no longer sinners, when they die eventually at a ripe old age of say 700, or 900 or 1,000 years old, they would go to Heaven, where they continue to live “Forever.” Do you get what God is saying now? On the other hand if you don’t get the gift of “Everlasting life,” you go to Hell where you suffer and then to the Lake of Fire where your soul burns for eternity. Sin to God is like a Virus okay, so that is why God will send all sinners who do not repent of their sins to the lake of fire, this is in the book of Revelations—what God says he will do—God will do. That way God can cleanse the planet and preserve it. So, my question of the month is:

“Do you want yourself or your children, or future children or other relatives to live a long life or do you want to die young?” Choose wisely. God or Lucifer?

Abandonment of God

People who abandon God, and instead decide to follow Lucifer, are usually the people who fell to temptation. The minute they fell to temptation where they sleep with a man if they are a man or sleep with a woman if they are a woman. This is when Lucifer begins the process of “Stealing their Soul.” People who fall to temptation have no respect for God. None. They don’t go to church unless it’s a funeral or a wedding that is the only time they will show up at a church. People who abandon God and become an “Apostate” don’t want nothing to do with God. Everything about God, turns them off, the mere mention of God’s name make them get angry. If you have anyone around you like this. Lucifer have their soul in the palm of his hands and their soul is now--Unclean. God cannot get into a soul like that. God’s light cannot shine through to their heart, because Lucifer resides in it everyday. “Do you get what I am saying?” If Lucifer is there, God won’t go near anyone like this. As well, God won’t want me anywhere near anyone like this, anyone that has Lucifer in their soul.

I have had some close calls with Lucifer since the day I was born. When my Grandmother decided to help me to live a better life. Lucifer came after me with a vengeance.Yes, at just 9yrs.old Lucifer knew that God appeared to me and that God have a plan. My Grandmother knew after I told her God appeared to me, she knew she had to keep me safe. He used my aunts to cause major opposition for me. They would tell my Grandmother, “give her back to her mother and father, you can’t take care of her, your getting older, (by the way that was so not true, back then my Grandmother was in her early 50’s) where will you get money to look after her.” When it was time to attend court they refused to take her. My Grandmother’s reply. No. “She will stay right here with me, I am going to keep her safe.” “She is not going back to her mother and father.

My Grandmother said to them, “God will provide and I will be able to look after her, she’s staying right here.” I am crying as I write this, because she saved my life, she saved my life, I love her so much. Lucifer kept pushing, and pushing my aunts for over a year, yep, over a year plus, forcing and trying very hard to get my Grandmother to send me back to my parents. She refused because she knew God wanted her to do the right thing. Lucifer had no choice but to move on. That is why I always say on my blog, “Trust God, have Faith in God and Follow through with your plans and he will have to move on.” Yes, he is always out there trying very hard to stop any of God’s plan for us in this world. Creep! I don’t know what else to call him. Lucifer will latch on to anyone so he can use them to hurt me. God won’t let him get away with it though. Yes, God don’t call Lucifer the Beast for nothing. To me that name doesn’t fit him it sounds like a compliment. That is why I always urge people to always do what you know in your heart is the right thing to do. Always do the right thing by God and you can never go wrong, never.

When Lucifer enters these people soul, they become a totally different person. They become ruthless and, ferocious just like Lucifer, they go after everything as if they were fighting a war. They become demanding, cold-hearted, mean, no compassion they have no remorse if they have hurt anyone no remorse over the consequences of their actions, none, whatsoever. They don’t care about family tradition, they will demand that everyone gives them what they want or they make everyone around them unhappy, just because they don’t get what they want. That is exactly how Lucifer is—no different. No happiness with Lucifer, just pain, and sorrow. With Lucifer around them you feel like you are in hell. Well, not only are you getting a touch of what hell is going to feel like, can you imagine living in hell permanently? Hell is a terrible place to be everyone, awful is not sufficient of a word to describe a place like that.

People like these, to them been a sinner feels too good. With God they feel they have to work too hard and that is not true. If we are talking about men who fall to temptation, sleeping with another man to them feels too good to them. Well, that is what they tell themselves—and we women know it’s not true, not caring if Lucifer is dragging their soul to hell or not. The worse thing and scariest thing is that these men who sleep with other men, those men they sleep with also sleep with numerous people it is not a matter of will they get a disease it is a matter of when they get a disease, because it will happen. To them it’s like taking cocaine or ecstasy or some other form of additive drug, they become addicted to the lifestyle. Sleeping with a woman is not the same to them. Many men like these they are the ones who pretend to love women when in fact they love men.

They look for women who they can “Man handle, control, use as their footstool and emotionally abuse them and make the woman feel inadequate. When the woman ask them where they have been they get mad at the woman, abuse her emotionally then use the arguments as an excuse so they can go sleep with men.”It is like a virus in this world today. They marry the women under false pretenses. What can I say, it makes my stomach sick to know that us women are beautiful, beautiful wonderful creatures that God created. We are the ones who give birth to male babies who eventually become adults. Right? The fact that some of these men in this world today, millions of them now decide they want to have relationships with other men, this just gets me really mad, and my stomach gets sick just writing about this. Neither, do I have any respect for the women who do this too. I have no respect for men who do this, none. If we had a planet full of all men, this world would be barren and useless. I don’t know how many times God have to tell people that it is not right to do this. It is not Fruitful people, not Fruitful. It is just short-term gain but eventually—long-term suffering and in many cases early death.

“It is an insult to all the women on this planet, and it is an insult to God.”

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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When You Need Peace and Contentment

Lord, help me to live Your way by obeying Your laws and doing what You instruct my heart to do. I know that both great peace and a sense of assurance come from living according to Your rules. Help me to be content with where I am right now, knowing that when I walk with You, You are always taking me somewhere. You will not leave me where I am forever. At the same time, Lord, help me to know when and how to step out of where I am and refuse to be content with anything less than what You have for me. Give me peace which passes all understanding as I learn to live Your way.

The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.

Isaiah 32:17

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Movie Watched nearly a year ago: “2012”

Okay, I don’t want people to start worrying about if the world is going to end in 2012. No, it won’t so stop panicking. The reason why I posted the movie was for those people who haven’t seen the movie. There is a section in the movie where it talks about how the US government was building some ships to save as many people as possible due to the disaster that was depicted in the movie. The only way for anyone to get on anyone of the ships was if they were selected through a “Human Lottery.”

What I wanted to tell people is, if Lucifer continue on this planet that is exactly what will happen to our planet—eventually at some point in the future. However, if God fixes this planet and give the people on this planet “Everlasting Life,” the world we live in would start repairing itself and we wouldn’t end up like it is depicted in the movie. Yes, Lucifer can do all that and more to this beautiful planet we live in he is already doing it. “That is a terrifying thought, isn’t it?” We are already experiencing the effects of what Lucifer can do. Severe Tornadoes, Massive Earthquakes, Major Fires, Severe floods, Killings Everyday, War, Famine, diseases of all kinds and many more. Every year our planet becomes increasingly more dangerous for us to live on.

What happen in the movie is what happen almost 4,000 years ago during the Great flood where God used Noah to build a ark to save as many people as he could. Please believe me when I say God will not destroy this world with a flood again or any kind of natural disaster like that. These movies though can help us to understand and appreciate this beautiful world we live in and show to us how precious and sacred our lives are.

So, my other question is, “How many people would pay to have a longer life? I would if I had the money. Most people in this world would especially for their children. I have two children, I would want them to have a long life. Which is similar to what the movie portrayed. Most of the people selected for the “Human Lottery” were wealthy people who were able to pay their pay to get on one of the ships. See, with God everyone is welcomed into to God’s Kingdom rich or poor all you have to do is love God and worship God. If God is going to give everyone the gift of “Everlasting Life”—it would be a free gift from God—That is how much God love the people on this planet. Priceless to anyone rich or poor, no discrimination.

Originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. West is 28 years old. He attributes part of his mellow sound to the classical guitar lessons he took for a year in high school. The other part stems from listening to such influences as Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Carole King, Jill Scott and Lenny Kravitz—http://johnwestsongs.com/Genres: Pop & R&B.

Loving this new single from John West…his voice is awesome…turn this up and Enjoy!

Released September 17, 2011

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Parable of Jesus: the Labourers in the Vineyard

2011-11-25T22:30:00.000-05:00

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Booster Shots For Living

Okay, on Friday afternoon I had a bit of a drama going on with my Van. One of the tires on my vehicle needed air so I stopped at the gas station to get air for the tire. Did that, then as soon as I left the gas station my tire went out, yes, blew out. Me and the kids in the van. I said to them, “okay kids don’t panic. I turned unto a side street that actually leads into a supermarket. Anyway, I was on my cell phone trying to get a tow truck driver to pick me up and a police officer showed up. Here is the thing, the police officer showed up 10 mins after I was sitting in the van. How did the officer knew I was there? Then just as the police showed up another guy drove up.

The Guy in the pick-up-truck said to the officer, “I showed up to help her!” The police said to the Guy, “I showed up to help her too!” Too Funny, oh, my gosh! Both of them laughing with each other because they both showed at the same time to help me. Now, only God could have done that. How did the Guy in the truck knew I had a flat? He couldn’t see from off the road because I am parked on a side street. See, if I tell people that God watches over me 24/7 people would think I am lying. I am not. I can’t prove it but God does let people appear out of thin air literally to help me, you would have to be there to see it, for your own eyes, I just can’t prove it.

Anyway, the police was nice he tried calling the tow truck people but they didn’t answer the phone, so he drove into Courtice 15mins from where I was and sent them to me, Amen. Only God could let that happen. Then the tow truck driver waited on me until I went to the bank which took about 30mins came back and he said, “don’t leave your van at the Canadian Tire, I will take it to your mechanic for you, so he took my van to the mechanic for me.” I asked him if he needed me to pay him more than the $50. He said no. God bless him. Many people wouldn’t do that they would charge a whole lot more and they would be mad if I stayed so long. Anyway, I am stuck in my apartment for the weekend, I get my van back on Monday though.

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (also called the Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard or the Parable of the Generous Employer) is a parable of Jesus which appears in only one of the Canonical gospels of the New Testament.

According to Matthew 20:1–16 Jesus says that any "laborer" who accepts the invitation to the work in the vineyard (said by Jesus to represent the Kingdom of Heaven, no matter how late in the day, will receive an equal reward with those who have been faithful the longest.

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

— Matthew 20:1–16, King James Version

On Wikipedia the person who submitted the Parable explained the parable completely wrong, wrong, wrong. I don’t know where they get this stuff about 6:00 am, 4:00am and 5:00 pm been all that there is to the parable. Basically, what the writer did was just wrote something because they didn’t know how to interpret the parable, so they wrote nonsense. They have no clue what the parable means. (See Wikipedia’s Interpretation by clicking link)

The Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard:

This parable is very in depth but it is not complicated. It just goes to show my point that Lucifer have caused so many people millions and millions of people to turn away from God, people just don’t pay attention to what they read in the Bible anymore. They just read the bible for the sake of reading it. They don’t try to understand God or Jesus. I have to confess that I don’t read the bible everyday, however my circumstances are different. I don’t need to read the Bible to know what the parables mean.

Anyway, learning everything about Lucifer is faster and easier but it only leads everyone to destruction,death, hell and the lake of fire. Do you know what Lucifer does to this society everyday? Lucifer reminds me of take out food. You know convenience food, quick and easy but guess what? Fast food makes us put on weight, leads to poor health, heart disease, stroke, cancer and many other illnesses. If we continue eating those kinds of foods for a long time we end up in our grave early. Isn’t that right? Lucifer always offer us the easier way out, quick and easy. While with God we have to work very hard but we live longer lives and yes, we get to go to heaven.

So, lets take this half section of Jesus’ parable and break it down.

“For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard”

Jesus is telling us that we the people, yes all the people on this planet are lazy when it comes to our spirituality, faith and trust in God. Just like everything in life we want everyone to spoon feed us, do everything for us. We are a lazy society all we care about is our own needs. For example, many parents on this planet leave the care of their children for strangers to look after or many expect the teachers at school to not only teach our children but to mother and parent them. “Do you get what I am saying?” We want everyone else to take care of our needs while we sit “Idly” by and be pampered. (Just like the workers in the vineyard stand idly by) Both men and women do this. Many women out there in society I see them everyday, and you see them everyday whether around you or on television. They wait for everyone to attend to their needs as if they are a princess or a queen. They don’t do gardening because they don’t want their nails to break, they don’t cook because that takes away from them going to the mall and shopping for things they don’t need, sending their husbands into bankruptcy. They shop for clothes they don’t wear or need, they buy frozen food everyday instead of cooking a home cooked meal for the family. They want to take a vacation every three months or go to the spa everyday, or like you see them on television nowadays, the biggest and best party they can throw for all the fake friends, yes, fake friends that don’t like them and talk behind their backs everyday. It’s like everyone just party, party all the time. No God present in their lives. “Do you see what I mean?” Yeah, many people will read this blog post and say, “your no fun talking about God all the time.” That’s okay, they don’t know me so they can say whatever they want, don’t matter, oh, my, gosh!

So, what Jesus is saying here is that millions of people on this planet wait for someone to come to them and beg them and plead with them to come and serve God. They wait for someone to show up out of thin air and say to them, “Come with me to church.” “Come let me tell you about God, please love God and Jesus.” Finally, when a person of God and faith finally get one person to follow God, the person don’t do anymore work in reaching out to God. They just sit there and wait or like some of the workers in the vineyard that Jesus mentioned they just take off and abandon the work they were hired to do. So, read this part of Jesus’ parable again and you will see what I am saying.

“And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace, And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.”

At the very end of this sentence, (And they went their way) Jesus is clearly showing how people on this planet can quickly loose faith in God. All it takes is a few minutes or less and God and Jesus can lose millions of people within a split second to Lucifer. Notice in the parable the labourer was hired for a penny a day. The householder said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. By the time the householder reach the vineyard some of the people he hired took off.“A penny a day is worth nothing.” However, the Kingdom of Heaven is priceless—do you now see the contrast. To get to the Kingdom of Heaven it is not about the money or the fame. The householder in the parable could have hired those labourers and pay them one hundred dollars, seven hundred dollars and still they would NOT have been satisfied with what they received. What else is this section of the parable saying to us? “It is saying that people on this planet are not willing to work hard at knowing God and Jesus.” If they have to work to get to the Kingdom of Heaven they don’t want to do that. It is way easier to follow Lucifer. The act to temptation is so easily accessible to everyone, that it makes it so easy to follow Lucifer.

Temptation and Sin

By the way, I want people to know that once you fall to temptation where if your a man or woman and you sleep with the same sex you are now a sinner—a big sinner, you have now sinned greatly in God’s eyes. On top of that, the man or woman they slept with have other people they sleep with too. “Do you get what I am saying?” These people always have multiple partners. “Can you imagine the germs and diseases that are been transmitted daily with these people?” Even with that high risk of death many people don’t care, sleeping with another person of the same sex to these people who succumb to temptation is like taking cocaine, they can’t kick the habit. Many of these people are so far gone they can’t stop themselves, they rather remain a sinner. God can see who have sinned and who hasn’t. God made all of us, he’s got a file on everyone. Many people in this society don’t care though.

Anyway, If you repent of your sins, you still are a sinner until your soul remains in “Purgatory” then your soul is purified and then you go to heaven. This only happens after you pass away from this earth not before—Yes, getting to God and Heaven is not easy, but it is achievable. If you are a sinner now and you have repented and decide to worship God. You must continue to love God and Jesus for the rest of your life until you pass away, no exception. Then your soul is purified and sent to heaven. All is not lost, but if you have sinned greatly you need to love God sincerely or you will never go to Heaven. Just so you know.

Now personally for me, if God knows someone have sinned greatly God won’t let them come into my life. Why? Their spirit is now unclean, tainted. Or, if someone was in my life and they have sinned in a big way God will take them out of my life, yep. I can’t tell you why, but that is what God would do for me, thank you Father in Heaven. I don’t know what I did in my pass life but thank you.

Okay, lets take a look at the remainder of the parable:

“and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive. So when evening was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day. But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”

Let’s look at this part of the parable:

Here in this section Jesus is saying that if all the people on this planet do all the righteous things. By that he means not fall to temptation, not exalt oneself above God, not Blaspheme against God, and do all the bad things, then you shall receive your due worth from God. Notice now Jesus says, “they call the labourers and give them their hire, beginning from the last person to be hired to the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.”

Jesus is saying here that it doesn’t matter if you started on your journey to find God and Jesus and seek the Kingdom of Heaven seven years ago or you started on your journey seven months ago. The person who started out earlier can’t expect to be rewarded more so than the other person who started seven months ago. Why? Basically, God treats everyone equal, fair and Just. The person who started to seek God seven years ago, even though they started earlier than you might still have more work to do before entering the Kingdom of Heaven while the person who started later, might not need to do much to get into the Kingdom of Heaven especially if they haven’t sinned greatly or not at all. The person who started seven years ago, might have sinned greatly and need to do much more work to get into the Kingdom of Heaven. “Do you see what the parable is saying?”

So, Jesus is saying that God treats everyone fairly.

“And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house, Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.”

This section of the parable speaks clearly of how people on this planet are today in the 21st century. The labourers who started last working in the vineyard only worked for 1 hour. The others worked longer and they are complaining that they had to work in the heat. Now, they are demanding they get paid more money. Remember, the “Householder” hired the men and told them clearly that he will only pay them a penny for the days labour. The householder was hiring everyone for a days work. It doesn’t matter who started first or not. “A penny for a days work is a penny for a days work.”

How God Reaches Out to Us Everyday

These disgruntled labourers are talking about us the people on this planet who expects God to keep over compensating for them. God must give to them more than what they are worth. They want God to treat them more special than everyone else. Lets just take a Priest or the Pope and put them against a ordinary woman like myself. A priest and a Pope have gone through formal education training and other rites to be who they have become. The priest is a recognized person in our community and by right they should be—only the ones though who are ethical should we look up to. Then you take a ordinary mom like myself and the knowledge that God appeared to me when I was small child. The Pope in Rome or the Priest in Paris would not take kindly to someone like me. Why?

They have done so much work in trying to reach God yet God would appear to someone like me. I could see a Priest or the Pope been disgruntled by this and asking, “Why haven’t God appeared to me, I have been trying to reach him all my life?” See the contrast with what Jesus is saying. God doesn’t treat anyone more special than the other person. God gives everyone different task to complete and yes, God rewards everyone fairly based on their deeds. God do choose certain people to do certain things in this world. In other words, everyone have a function big or small God does not discriminate, God is not a racist God. God uses all of us in different ways all the time. Sometimes God chooses people to make an example out of them, to change peoples lives and make them happier, God chooses people to enact great changes, or God reaches out to people to do the right thing or make the right decisions that will make others and God happy, etc. People just don’t recognize that God is working in their lives because they are either too blind to see that God is there or because they abandon God they failed to know God, they failed to see that God was there.

So, Even though a Priest or the Pope might have done formal training that doesn’t mean that the ordinary person in society like you or myself haven’t done the same hard work or even harder work to get to God. Always remember this, God can see into everyone of us hearts. Remember it is not your wealth or fame or occupation that gets you into Heaven it is your “Heart and Soul how pure and clean your spirit is.” Not your formal education or training. On a personal note, if God knows that someone is coming into my life or someone out there is going to hurt me and their intentions are not pure God won’t let them come within a inch of me, no. I know I can’t prove this, but if there is anyone out there that would harm me in anyway or people that is just not good for me to have in my life or who would make me unhappy all the time. God won’t let them come near me period. Thank you God, for your mercy and grace. I can honestly say, that I can’t thank God enough for watching over me and my kids everyday. I can’t say thank you enough. I don’t know what I did in my past life, but thank you God.

Many times when God is working in our lives or trying to get us to follow him, he usually puts us in a situation where we have to make the right decision, do what is ethical and fair. Which reminds me of my Grandmother. God back then when I was a little girl was calling out to her to do what was right, to do what would make my life better and happier but most importantly for my Grandmother to do what would take her to heaven, despite any major opposition she was facing. God was saying to her, do the right thing, no matter if it didn’t make her popular among other family members, it was the right thing to do. She did do the right thing, God bless her.

Here is the last section of Jesus’ parable:

“But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”

Jesus is saying what the householder said, “Friend, I do thee no wrong.” He is saying, I treated everyone fairly yet you still complain and try to make me look evil. Trying to make me look like I am a bad person even though I did you “Good.” People in this world are like those “Labourers in the vineyard”. The more we get the more we want. We are never satisfied with anything in life. Even if we had a house full of money and lord knows what else, many of us can never, ever be happy. God give to us everyday, God show us miracles, God will even answer many people prayers and still they want God to do more for them. Many people in this world will sit and pray and ask God to answer their prayers and when God answer their prayers they still want God to do more, and answer more prayers and more prayers. They don’t want to fulfill their side of the bargain anymore. They will sit and pray, “God if you give me what I want I promise you, yes, I promise you God I will make the right decision and I will trust you God.” Then when God give them what they want, they don’t follow through with what they said they promised God.

“People in the world act like hypocrites' when it comes to God. They mock God and take God for a joke. God must fulfill their wishes, answer their prayers. However, they say to themselves, “don’t ask me God to fulfill my end of the bargain, I get what I want now you can’t take it back from me. So, I won’t fulfill my end of the deal.”

Trust and Faith In God

Where is the trust and faith in God’s good mercy and grace?

“How sad is this? Don’t you think this makes God unhappy when you do this?” Then when you pray next time and God ignore you and don’t answer your prayers especially when it is something of a life and death situation—then most of us act like spoilt children by abandoning God and calling God all sorts of names. God is been fair. You prayed he gave you what you wanted yet you are not willing to complete your end of the deal. When God don’t answer your prayers anymore God is saying, “Your taking me for a fool, you have no respect for me or my time.” Other people need my help and it is only fair that I gave you what you asked for but now you refuse to follow through with your part of the deal.

“When you promise God to do something, then do it.” Don’t become hypocrites and make excuses and waste God’s precious time.”

When you don’t follow through with what you promised God you are now saying, “I don’t trust you God and I have no faith in you anymore even though God answer your prayers and showed you miracles you are still not satisfied. It goes back to what Jesus was saying in the parable: “People are greedy and spoilt in this world and have no respect for God, the more God give the more they want.” People are never satisfied with what God gives them.

God then ask, “What are you waiting for, how much more signs and wonders do I need to show you before you will do what is right by holding true to your end of the deal?” So, now you don’t trust me after I gave you what you asked for. “Isn’t God been fair and Just?”

Jesus then says in the last part of this parable, which sums up the main message he is driving home to us humans on this planet:

“So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.”

Yes, many people on this planet are called to God (See my article entitled: “Embracing Your Spiritual Calling”) God reaches out to many of us everyday but millions of people on this planet are too blind to see God or just doesn’t care about God. Why bother with God when my bank account is loaded, I have the biggest house on the block and have millions of friends. I don’t need God. Many people will say, “when I die I will go to heaven, I give money to charity every year, that pays for my sins.” My answer to all the people out there like this, keep dreaming, keep believing that just because you give money to charity or you help a few people that you now can buy your ticket to heaven. I have news for you, your not even close to the door of heaven. You have a long, long, way to go. Love and respect for God is two main ingredients first. Not living just for the material things in life is also very important.

So, Jesus says, “For many are called but few chosen.” This part of Jesus’ parable reminds me so much of Noah days and the ark. God choose Noah to try and get as many people to follow God and to be saved and they laughed at Noah, ignored him, mocked him, embarrassed him. It took Noah 120 years to build the ark. God gave those people back then plenty time to know God and seek out God but they refused God they turn their backs against God. Until the flood came. Only a handful of Noah’s close relatives got saved along with his wife and children. This is how this world is today. Many are been called to know God and Jesus but only few will be chosen.

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On a personal note, I have had people called me so many names over the years because I talk about God or try to get them to follow God and Jesus. Some people have actually called me insane and even tell me they will check me in to the asylum. People out there are funny they should join “Yuk, Yuk’s Comedy Club.” When they say things like that, I pity them. They believe they are hurting me, when in fact they are ones that are hurting themselves. They are the ones that will be going over to Lucifer’s side not me. For that I am sure. Wanna bet if I were to join them and fall to temptation, and do all the bad things Lucifer wants us to do, and become a sinner then everyone will love me. This world we live in is messed up for sure. People in society love when your a sinner and love to watch good people fall to temptation, take drugs, become prostitutes, become alcoholics, and suffer. When you lead a good clean life then people think you are weird or insane when you follow God and Jesus.

Yeah, Lucifer as always will try very hard to stop any of God’s plan in this world. I don’t worry about him, because God is not going to let him get away with it, or let anything happen to me or my children or any future person I have a relationship with, God will protect us. God is more powerful than Lucifer. Why do I say Lucifer? I say that name because he is a fallen Angel, he was a man before God curse Lucifer and causes him to lose his legs and instead he’s half man, half snake. No you can’t see Lucifer, he’s spirit. However, one important thing people should note is that if you know someone who don’t believe in God, have abandoned God, denounce their faith and trust in God. Lucifer will walk right into that persons soul and take it over. Why?

A person like that hates God and if they have no love for God, the persons soul is the perfect place and breeding ground for Lucifer to set up shop, so to speak. Lucifer will latch on to anyone who have abandoned God—the persons soul is not pure anymore, the minute they abandon God—their spirit is unclean. If you have a clean spirit and your heart is pure, Lucifer can’t hurt you except to try and block your plans and cause major opposition. All he will do to you is use other people to oppose you. Your spirit is clean and untainted that is why he can’t hurt you—so, take that has good news for you, your spirit is “Clean and Pure only God can enter your Soul” and he’s mad as heck that he can’t touch you or enter your spirit. The only thing he can do is oppose your plans for the longest while, months, a year or longer, hoping the people around you will give up and abandon you. God will always protect you, so don’t worry. That is how Lucifer can enter their spirit—people who have abandon God and cause them to oppose and try to destroy any of your cherish dreams or cause you to lose great friends, or turn your family against you or let you lose anyone you love dearly. People who have strong trust and faith in God and Love God and worship God Lucifer can’t touch them or enter their spirits.

How People are when Lucifer takes over their Soul

Listen, God don’t call Lucifer the beast in the bible for nothing. Lucifer is mean and vicious as heck and usually he turns the people he’s entered—into mean and very angry people too. They become argumentative, round the clock conflict everyday, they can’t stop arguing nothing makes them happy, just like Lucifer—nothing makes him happy other than hate. hate and more hate. They become liars. Can never tell the truth about anything. They have no respect for Family Authority or God.

Lucifer is in their soul and he is there 24/7 pushing them to cause endless opposition to your plans. The only way to shut the door on Lucifer is to follow through with any plans you have. Once you do that he can’t hurt you anymore. If you sit and wait for the person to calm down it won’t happen. that is what Lucifer uses to destroy lives. The longer you wait hoping the person will calm down you will wait for eternity—that is how he destroys lives. So, don’t wait months, or a year, or longer if you do then it means that you have doubts and he feeds into that. When people don’t trust God that is how Lucifer destroys lives. If you had strong trust and faith in God, why wouldn’t you follow through with your plans? People in this world always doubt God but not Lucifer. That is why Jesus got crucified 2,000 years ago. People doubted God. Why? Why would people doubt a God who loves them and wants to make their lives better? Why would people doubt a God who created this beautiful planet and gave them life? I am just sick and tired of people in this world who don’t trust God. Sick and tired of it. Lucifer offers so much hate, unhappiness and suffering yet people trust Lucifer—Are you kidding me!

That is not just it though, you know the person have changed they are not the same person anymore, their personality have changed they have become no doubt like Lucifer mean, angry, loud, demanding, uncaring, no compassion, don’t care about anyone's feelings, they don’t care if they have hurt anyone, no love pours out of them, and they have no respect for authority including man or God—that is your sign especially when it comes to God, that is Lucifer in their lives. Lucifer don’t love anyone and if he knows you will be happy in life—he will stop at nothing to try and destroy your happiness. Neither does Lucifer love God. Lucifer hates God. God wants to clean up this planet and Lucifer don’t want God to do that because he wants everyone of us to go off to hell with him and suffer for eternity in fire. So, if you have anyone acting strange around you, the biggest sign is they don’t want to talk about God they abandon their faith in God—become an Apostate, abandon their religion. Anything with God irks them—turn them off. Just like Lucifer. Lucifer hates God completely.

Yep. A person who abandon God and have Lucifer in their lives need to seek God. They need to reach out to God and pray and find God again. Sometimes though when the person have turned their backs against God for a long time or they have sinned greatly it maybe hard to get them to Love God again, their hearts become hard and cold but you could try to save them and their soul if you have anyone around you like this, but sometimes like Jesus says, “Many are called but few are chosen.” Jesus is saying too that sometimes we can’t save everyone, even the one’s close to us. Whether a partner in a relationship, a friend, a relative or even our own children, especially if they don’t want to be saved.

Crimes Against God and Man

It is a crime in God’s eyes to watch someone destroy another persons life, happiness, cherish dreams and wishes and you stand around and make excuses and don’t put a stop to this! God will not only make you accountable but God will send you to hell. If you let someone else destroys other peoples lives and happiness it is no different than you walking over a dying man and don’t stop to help.

It is a crime in God eyes to watch others carry out “crimes of Injustices.” Crimes of Injustices are many but they range from someone who deliberately seek revenge against another human being out of hate, extreme jealousy and anger. Holding someone against their will via “Major opposition” to their future plans that could significantly alter a persons future. Crimes of Injustice also takes form when someone decides that they are the law they are above God and Man, and that they have the right to now “Rewrite a persons future,” and this we know would significantly alter a person’s life including those around them and those they love.

It is a crime in God’s eyes to Persecute another person whether you are angry about something or not. It gives no one the right to destroy someone's life or persecute them for eternity and destroy another person’s life due to extreme hate, lack of respect, no compassion, jealousy and yes, pure hate towards God.

When people in this world sit back and watch another person’s life get destroyed do you really think in your heart of hearts that God is going to now answer your prayers in the future especially in a life and death situation? Do you really think that God is going to say, “okay Tom, okay Jane now that you have taken part and aid in the help of destroying someone's life and maybe their future children or grandchildren here is your admission ticket to Heaven.” Do you take God for a fool? Do you not have any respect for God and Man? God gets very angry, very angry about this. What do people think happen to all those people in the past or even today who destroyed other peoples lives? Where do you think God sent them? God did not send them to heaven, God sent them to hell and later they will end up in the lake of fire where their soul burns for eternity. Why? They have committed a major sin and crime against God and man by aiding in the help and destruction of someone’s else's life. It is Unethical, Unjust and Unfair and Morally wrong to see someone destroying a person’s life and causing them major pain, unhappiness, suffering and even ill health and you do nothing to stop this from happening! God will not reward anyone for hate, and bigotry against another human being. No, God will not do this.

Bullying

My son who is just 6 years old recently became a victim of bullying from a male student in his class. When I spoke to his teacher I got upset with her. I told her “she was sugar coating the incident.” Why did I say that? She was doing like what every person do today in this world we live in. Side with the bully. I got so mad at her, she decided to let the Vice Principal deal with the situation. She said to me on the phone, “Are you sure your son wasn’t misinterpreting what the student did?” My son would never make up stories like that, my son is not a liar, nor, do I teach my son to tell lies. He’s a very sensitive child, but sensitive is good—it means he has a compassionate spirit and a kind and loving spirit. I was a victim of Bullying in High School I remember every girl and boy who are all grown up now who bullied me. Yes, every single one of them. On my Alumni Website some students who are adults now, I guess because they feel guilty about what they did. Wrote me and apologize for bullying me in High School.

My reply to all who wrote me, “don’t apologize to me, apologize to God.” They have already sinned God will deal with them. Why apologize to God? God is the one who will make them accountable NOT me. See, now that they have become adults and they have children who are now victims of bullying they feel guilty so they write me hoping that apologizing it will help ease the burdens of their heart, I can’t help them—only God. “How sick and sad is that?” 20 years later they are writing to apologize. Karma is a very powerful thing isn’t it? They bullied me in High School now their children are been bullied in school. “See what happens when people carry hate in their hearts?” Yes, what doesn’t get you now will get you later, or your future children or grandchildren or those close to you.

“Stop the Hate and Stop the Bullying in this World—Stop it!”

The point of my story is people in this world always side with the Perpetrator NOT the Victim. I get really mad when people see other people bullying people and trying to destroy peoples lives and baby sit the Perpetrator like they are babies. The Vice Principal told me he was also a victim of bullying as an adult in College. He understands perfectly well why I would be upset with what the teacher says. Stop taking sides with the Perpetrators! What happens to the Victims? Why would people side with haters big or small? This is how messed up people are in this world.

Bullying happens in relationships too. In my own personal life the minute I decided to leave a bad marriage behind all I got was “major opposition” left, right and center. I know when God is telling me it’s time to move on. Don’t flipping demand or bully me into loving you it won’t happen. If I said I no longer have feelings for a person OR I am moving on with my life—Leave me alone! When a man wants to bully a woman into loving him and can’t respect the woman boundaries—These men are men who are “Emotionally abusive and sometimes Physically abusive.” If I don’t love you anymore then it means that God have someone else who is more suitable for me. God have someone else who he knows will love me and respect me and who is my “Perfect Match.” If the man have any self-respect and confidence in himself he will go find another woman and stop hunting me down like I am a criminal or you are the “Bounty Hunter.” Which is how many men are. “Woman I own you, I won’t let any man come into your life—because I own you.” I will make your life a living hell if you love someone else. “Red Flag Ladies These Men are Abusers run from them don’t walk—Run .”

Are you flipping kidding me! Talk about taking hate to the 10th Degree! Listen, to all the men out there like this. Go take a hike! Have some respect for yourself and go find another woman to latch unto. You had your chance to prove yourself to the woman and you messed up! Generally speaking, only when a man see another man falls inlove with the woman they had or in many cases the woman they kicked to the curb, OR the woman they were not interested in having a relationship with in the first place—they now want the woman back. Hypocrites! Losers! Don’t try to come back now, you had your chance and you lost it. I am speaking on behalf of all women who had this happen to them. God already knew you would have messed up anyway and it shows to everyone—it was not meant to be. Now God says, “I have just the perfect person who the woman will be happy with but it is—NOT YOU!” Now, your the biggest Jerk around town. The man who did not want the woman in the first place will now make it his day job 24/7 and will stop at nothing to prevent the woman from been happy. I don’t know if people don’t have some common sense and realize that the person who is working hard against another person trying for them not to be happy in life—Is just no good of a person their heart is full of hate. These people need to work on themselves first before they can ever love anyone or have a successful relationship with anyone.

“That right there everyone is not a sign of Love but a sign of “Pure Hate and Bigotry and lack of respect for one’s right and freedom.”

Do you get what I am saying everyone? These men are losers. Their financial success in life have nothing to do with their personal life. A man can be very successful in his career but—have a poor record when it comes to relationships. They have no respect for the woman, themselves or God. Forcing me to love you won’t ever happen. When I say, I have moved on—I have moved on, darn it! Don’t Come back, I don’t want any relationship with you, the past is gone, done and over with and I never go back on my word--never. Only the future beckons.

People will stand around and see people destroy another persons life especially when these people are adults and pretend they don’t see what is happening and don’t put a stop to it. If adults are grown enough to bully other people then why would you treat them like children and nurse hate under your bosom? They are grown people don’t harbour hate—PUT A STOP TO IT OR GOD WILL MAKE YOU ACCOUNTABLE!

“Don’t give Perpetrators of hate a welcoming Mat.” When you uphold wrong doing you are saying you have no respect for the victim OR God.”

As I was saying in regard to Lucifer. Along with hate and more hate, Lucifer have brought along temptation to this world, our planet is deteriorating rapidly and so are we. We are aging too fast people, we are dying too early. Our life span is getting shorter in another 50 years from now or less most of us could see ourselves dying by the time we reach 45-50 years old, yes by that age we would be full blown seniors. Isn’t that scary? Our children and future children lives are at stake. Think about it by the time we hit 60 years old we are seniors—At this age we are babies people, babies!” Not good. That is not how we should be. Yes, he’s one pissed off Angel, mad as heck for what God did to him. So, if God is going to make our lives better Lucifer doesn’t want this to happen, he wants us to die young and to drag as many of us off to hell with him including our children, nieces and nephews and then eventually take as many people to the Lake of fire where all sinners who do not accept God and Jesus and repent burn for eternity.

“So to all the people out there,You can’t take the stuff you have to your grave with you.” Your Soul is what travels to Heaven or Hell. Not the stuff you possess. Yes, the only place you should be seeking to go to is Heaven.

Amen and God Bless.

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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When You Need a New Attitude

Lord, help me to discern the lies of the enemy so that I don't give any credence to thoughts that are not in alignment with Your truth. Help me to examine my thoughts in light of Your Word at all times. Enable me to purify my thoughts and my heart so that evil will not find a place in me. Adjust my attitude to fit life in Your kingdom. Overflow my heart with Your love, peace, joy, gentleness, kindness, and mercy until my attitude is a blessing to all people at all times.

Examine me, O Lord, and prove me; try my mind and my heart.

Psalm 26:2

I have already posted these two prayers on my blog but I have reposted them, enjoy.

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Living in the Moment

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Booster Shots For Living

In the past year I wrote my blog articles just about every week because I love writing, but most importantly because I wanted to chronicle my journey. My Journey been one where I ended a 17 year marriage that was not good for me and me moving forward to a new life. Today, I am posting my blog article just a few days earlier, usually I post my article every Saturday. I am posting early because I am in the midst of moving literally, yes, literally.

On Thursday my internet connection gets cut off from the home I sold three months ago. Oh, my, gosh! So, I have pre-posted my Saturday post because I will be too busy to write. Yep. When I go to my apartment it will take about a 1 week or less for me to get settled in and I’ll be okay. I have never done so much cleaning and painting in my life! Only because I had to sell my home get it prepared then get my apartment prepared. I wanted my kids to feel comfortable and happy. After writing this blog post I still have more cleaning and packing of a few things to do. Can’t wait to get settled into my apartment, gosh! I need a break, I need some rest, some me time. Someplace peaceful and quiet somewhere out there in the universe….Oh, my, gosh! Yep. That would be nice.

I did everything in advance, moving my things etc, over into my apartment over time so, no stress, I just need some rest. Just getting last minute things organized that’s all. I have also gone ahead and posted my Holiday Post over at Living in Durham Entitled: “Holiday Cheer” You can head over there and browse through holiday recipes, etc.

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In a few of my blog post I have mentioned that ever since I was 9 yrs.old God appeared to me and since then I can interpret the bible. I can’t explain it. I will just read anything from the bible and instantly know how to interpret any parable from the bible. I know that God does have a plan for me and what that entails he will reveal to me when he is ready. Whether he reveal this through a person or he sends me some sort of sign, he will do in his own time. God always have a plan for our lives that’s for sure and he always love to surprise us but always in a good way. God never do anything to hurt us, never. Anything God does, he does it because he wants to make our lives better, and happier. Ever since I was a small child I have tried over the years to reach out to people without faith in God, trying to get others to follow God and I can tell you, it is the most difficult thing to do. However, it is the most rewarding. I will never stop doing God’s work.

I have had to endure “Spiritual Suffering” as a child and even as an adult. I want so much for everyone to fall inlove with God and Jesus but it is not possible. So many people in the world today have turn their backs on God and this is not good for them. Do I believe God will come back in my lifetime? Yes. The question is do I know when? No. God never reveals the time or the hour. However, I do believe this generation will see God in this lifetime and when he comes back millions of people will not go to Heaven with him. No, I am not trying to scare anyone, this is just my belief. You can believe what I say, or not, it doesn’t matter. I never try to force my beliefs on anyone.

Anyway, below I have given my interpretation of two of Jesus' Parable. Two of many that he spoke of in the bible.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep:

In the Gospel of Luke, the parable is as follows:

He told them this parable. "Which of you men, if you had one hundred sheep, and lost one of them, wouldn't leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that was lost, until he found it? When he has found it, he carries it on his shoulders, rejoicing. When he comes home, he calls together his friends and his neighbors, saying to them, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost!' I tell you that even so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, than over ninety-nine righteous people who need no repentance."

— Luke 15:3-7, World English Bible

I love this parable because it talks about how tirelessly God and Jesus will work just so they can save one sinner. Yes, that one sinner whose heart has become cold. A heart that is filled not only with sin but with hate, deep anger, jealousy, no love for God or humanity. A person who lacks compassion, mercy and grace. A person who fell to temptation of all kinds. God and Jesus will work extremely hard to try and save that one sinner. You know the kind. The one’s that “Blasphemes against God.” The ones that exalt themselves above God, trying to take God’s place. How can a mere human try to step in God’s shoe how? I don’t understand how humans on this planet can ever think or believe that they can be God. God is not of this world. God exist in time and space. God is the Universe the Universe is God. In the bible in Genesis Chapter one it says, “The spirit of God moved over the waters, and God said let there be light and there was light.” “How can a mere human believe they can be like God?” This is why I get real upset when people talk about not believing in God like it’s a joke to them or they exalt themselves above God. No human can ever have the same power has God. None.

So, when God and Jesus manages to save just that one sinner, it feels really good. Why? God and Jesus have saved one soul from going to hell, one soul from burning in the “Lake of Fire for Eternity.” That is why God and Jesus works so hard to save a sinner. Yes, God and Jesus would like to save all the people on this planet but it won’t happen but they will try to save as many as possible. This is the same way I feel too. I will try as hard as I can to save just that one sinner who have turned away from God, because I don’t want them to go to hell or burn for eternity. I want them to go to heaven and live forever.

The Parable of the Ten Virgins, also known as the parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins, is one of the well known parables of Jesus. the five virgins who are prepared for the bridegroom's arrival are rewarded, while the five who are not prepared are excluded from his marriage feast.

Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. But at midnight there was a cry, "Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!" Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps. The foolish said to the wise, "Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out." But the wise answered, saying, "What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves." While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, "Lord, Lord, open to us." But he answered, "Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you." Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

— Matthew 25:1-13, World English Bible

This parable is a very powerful parable and I take this one very seriously because this is talking about “Judgement Day” That day when the door to “Salvation will be closed” and no one can enter the Kingdom of Heaven unless they enter through God or Jesus. Remember Noah and the Ark. Noah only manage to save himself, his wife, children and some other relatives. When God comes back to this world he will not do the whole flood thing again. It will be different. God will be extremely creative with Judgement Day. It will be completely without dramatics but it will be powerful and unexpected. The “Wise Virgins” are the ones who throughout their lives accept God and Jesus as their only true God. They love God and Jesus and receive the message of Christ and worship God not Lucifer. They believe that God is truly the “Alpha and the Omega” and that he his their “Redeemer and Saviour.

The “Foolish Virgins” are the millions of people I see on this planet everyday who fill themselves with stuff. They wrap themselves up in the wealth, the fame, they don’t help the needy, they become greedy. The more they get the more they want. They steal from the poor so that they can become wealthier. They don’t offer help to people who are hungry or dying or homeless. All they think about everyday is money, money, money. Always wanting to make more. They spare no time for their spiritual life. They have turned their backs on God. They say to themselves, “Forget God, I don’t need God, I am rich I have lots of money.” Some people get so arrogant that they will even say, “If God need some of my money I could loan him some.” Yes, for all the people who don’t believe in God, keep mocking, keep insulting God, like it is some joke to you.

This part of Jesus’ Parable speaks clearly of the Day when God will come back to this world and millions of people won’t be ready.

“While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.”

So, while the “Foolish Virgins” went to get oil—This refers to the people on this planet who when God comes will immediately grab their bible hoping that by reading the bible they can be saved. No. Can’t work like that. They are the ones who will not be prepared and the door to heaven will be closed on them. I know some people reading my blog article, will say, please! Your just trying to scare us. God is not going to come anytime soon, who cares. People have been saying God will be coming back to this world for years and he never came. Well, just like in the days of Noah this is what will happen when God comes back to this world. It is up to my blog readers to decide if they want to have God in their lives or not. It’s up to you. I have no need to scare anyone nor would I want to or have any need to do so.

Matthew 24:36-39

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man."

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Yes, God will come back to this world one last time to fix all of Lucifer’s mess that he created. I don’t know if people don’t realize that the reason why we are aging and dying so early is because Lucifer is half-man, half serpent. He is not full human in spirit, this is what makes our lifespan short. It is also much bigger than that. Lucifer offers not only early death to us on this planet but, war, famine, many diseases, plagues, suffering, long-term illness including cancer etc, temptation of all kinds, hell, torment and yes, no Love, No Love. Lucifer does not offer love, Lucifer offers, hate, hate and more hate. God offers Love, Peace, Compassion, Mercy, Everlasting Life—a long life span, the Kingdom of Heaven where we live in peace and harmony with all. See the Difference?

One last thing, though is that I never ever like when people try to spoil other peoples happiness, and God does not like this either. I have a message today for those people out there that always want to spoil other peoples happiness and try to ruin their lives. Please take some time to think about the consequences of your action. Please do. This world we live in is a very small world, and many of us just think about the moment, we hold on to resentment too much in this world. One day, you will need help from the very same people you are trying to stop from been happy. One day, “The Divine” will step in and something will happen, whether yourself will need help or reassurance or your future children or someone close to you will need help.

You don’t want to live your life like that where you become a mean person and try to block someone else from been happy in life. People will not only not respect you as a human being but people will always remember you not for been a good human being but for been someone who carries alot of hate in their heart. Not a good way to be remembered in this world. It doesn’t bode well for you or your future children. In life we must as humans learn to think about the consequences of our actions on a long-term level. Not just how we feel today.

For all the people who hurt me tremendously over the years, what kind of person would I be, if I go about seeking revenge for all those who hurt me? I would be living a very unhappy life. Revenge is never ever worthy of anything. Yes, I say this to you. Pray for the people who hurt you. No, don’t ever “Roll over and let anyone destroy your happiness.” However, do pray, yes, pray for all the people who hurt you and ask God to forgive them, and then leave them in God’s hands, he will look after them. D0n’t let them be your burden to carry. Pass them over to God, and he will take care of the rest.

Amen and God Bless.

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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When I Need Comfort and Guidance

The Lord will guide you continually, and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Isaiah 58:11

Love this song by Hayley and B.O.B….Enjoy.

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Okay, whenever I need to be uplifted, I listen to Andrew. I just love this song. It is just one of those feel good songs. No matter how low your mood is, this song just makes you feel happy….Enjoy. Love this song.

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Embracing Your Spiritual Calling

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Booster Shots For Living

Don’t be afraid to keep moving on,
For what was before, now has gone,
God wants to accomplish so much more,
But we need to move forward in the Lord.
Isaiah 43:18-19

It is almost time for me to leave this neighbourhood that I have lived in for close to 8 years. Do I miss anything? Yes, my plants in my garden. That’s it. I don’t miss the house just the garden, I love gardening. I also realize when I went by my apartment that I have more books than clothes. Not surprising, most of them cookbooks and baking books. Yeah, give me a cookbook, and I will love you forever, Oh, my, gosh! Yep, I love books more than clothes.

I will be moving out of my home that I sold three months ago in the next one and a half weeks (1 1/2 wks) Yes, it is crunch time, but mostly just trying to straighten up the last few things remaining. I did everything in advance so not much left for me to do. Myself and my two wonderful children will be off to our new apartment soon. The past year felt like I was on a roller coaster ride though that didn’t seem to want to stop but then it finally stopped and I came off the ride. Yeah. I came off the ride. It is time now for me to begin my new life, the past is gone, it doesn’t exist anymore, only the future beckons. Yes, I am looking forward to God creating new and great things in my life and hopefully there will be some wonderful surprises along the way.

“Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.”
Isaiah 43:18-19

Yes, the past is gone for good. This now clears all the debris from our lives and God makes way for the good things to come our way. So trust in God always. Have faith in God knowing that you are doing the right thing for you. As well, God wants to make you happy and make your life better all the time so trust in him, never turn your back on God or listen to the people who have no faith in God. Nothing in life can move forward unless we “follow through with our plans.” Yes, once we have established faith and trust in God, then you follow through on your plans.

The opposition I have been having in my own life have come to an end. How? Follow through. I stuck to my decision I didn’t second guess myself, doubt that God would lead me to a better life, I didn’t show lack of faith in God—I trusted him. I had faith and trust in God’s power to clear my path so I can move on with my life—and he did. Yes, God was a little slow in getting me where I wanted to be but he did. If you are like me and you are facing opposition at all in your life today from anyone. The only way to put an end to it, is to stick with your decision and follow through. If you don’t and you keep waiting and waiting, then the person opposing you will never stop until they destroy you to the very end. Don’t just sit there and wait for Lucifer to continue creating problems in your lives. Lucifer is on a mission to destroy lives he won’t stop until you stop him. If this is happening to you in your life, how long will you sit and wait for him to destroy your life 1 year, 2 years, 3 years, how long? Take your power back from him and follow through with any plans you have in life and believe me when I say he will go away from your life, he will be gone for good. When you don’t follow through with your plans you give Lucifer the power to keep destroying your life. The only way to stop any kind of opposition in your life is to not only trust in God BUT then you need to follow through with your plans knowing God will handle the rest. In life you can’t just sit there and let anyone destroy your dreams, wishes and desires. “Don’t Roll Over and Let Other People Destroy Your Life,” Never.

Everything in life comes down to “Faith and Trust in God.” Lucifer will create endless opposition in your life because just like he has been doing for the past 2,000 years since Jesus got crucified. He will test your faith, every hour of every minute until you make a definitive decision, until you make firm on your decision, have trust and faith in God and follow through on your plans. Otherwise, he will never stop until he destroys your happiness. The minute you start to have doubts or reservations, or you start turning to others for advice, start procrastinating, second-guessing yourself, doubt God’s Mercy and Grace, Lucifer will keep opposing you and cause endless, delays and setbacks, all designed for you to give up and walk away.

Think about it, It is a perfectly designed and meticulous plan he’s designed for himself. By using someone else to setup the road blocks in your life, he figures if I can just keep opposing them long enough and get them to start losing faith in God, and in the people they love the most, I have got them. I have ruined one more of God’s plan. Perfectly executed to destroy people’s lives. Listen everyone, you don’t have to let him get away with it. You take control back from Lucifer by sticking to your decision because you know in your heart of hearts that you are making the right decision and then you follow through. Once you follow through you have essentially closed the door on him, and he will not be able to enter your life again and cause anymore opposition.

That’s it. “Follow Through” is a very powerful act that just essentially close the door on any opposition you are facing. It is like when people are at court for a case, the Judge weighs all the information given to the court, and the facts of the case. Then the Judge delivers a verdict, For or Against. Once the Judge makes that final decision, that’s it the case is closed. There comes a time in life where you have to make some tough decisions but you have to make your decision and move on with your life. I made two important choices this year. One, I have ended a marriage that was not good for me and two, I was carrying feelings for someone who was completely wrong me, and it would have been a huge mistake to have them in my life. I have made my decision to end both those two very unhealthy situations.

I don’t want people like these in my lives especially for relationship. People like these are too mean, arrogant, selfish, have no compassion, no respect for women and don’t care about humanity. Especially the person I was carrying feelings for—they had no love in their heart, none, zip, zero. Anyway, it is done and over with, and I don’t want to discuss them again, I have more important things to concentrate on. Both cases are closed. I have made my decision and I don’t go back on my word it is over and done with. I have moved on from the situation. I may be slow in making my decision but once it is made it is firm and it is done and over with.

1 John 4 v.8

“The one who does not love, does not know God for God is love.” Isn’t that statement so small but yet so powerful?

1 John v.16
“God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.”

What do these bible verses mean?
People who have denounced God and Jesus and hate God and have no respect for God, can never truly love anyone sincerely. Why? “God is Love, Love is God.” Without God in a person’s life no true love can ever reside in their heart. All you get is the empty shell of a person who is “Emotionally and Spiritually Barren.” No true love can ever grow in this person’s life. If they get married and their marriage last for years it is only because the person they marry also do not love God. Anyone of faith who marries someone who does not believe in God would end up having a “Loveless Marriage, filled with endless conflict everyday.” No God present in their lives, No Love, because no God means—No Love.

Listen one of my biggest pet peeves are people who can’t take no for an answer. People who can’t take no for an answer are “Controllers and Dictators and they never want others to be happy—very sad to see people do this. Only them must be happy, very selfish people.” they feel they own everyone. It’s like you keep telling someone NO and they ignore what your saying to them. It means they have no respect for you or themselves. If they can’t take no for an answer, can you imagine having a relationship with people like these? Especially Men. Many men who can’t take no for an answer always treat women like they are objects like their “Footstool.” Well, no one owns me and I am nobody’s footstool. If I say, I am done and over with a situation or person in my life, I am done and over it. I am sick an tired of people who can’t respect people’s boundaries, who keep pushing and pushing and feel like they own me. “Do I look like I am a piece of furniture or some piece of object someone can own? I am a person darn it! I do not take kindly to people who don’t or can’t take no for an answer. Especially men. If I say I have moved on, don’t harass me, or persecute me. There are plenty women out there for them, blonds, brunettes, redheads, supermodels, career women, College Women, women without children, women at social dating clubs for them to feed off of, etc, etc.

Many Men will tell a woman no and when they say no they mean--NO. Then when a woman say no to them they think the woman flipping saying Yes. These men are Jerks with a capital J. Many men who shun women and tell the woman “It is not reciprocated.” Then go tell their friends, text all their guy friends, and they all sit back and laugh at the woman and the man say to his friends, “I just told the bitch no but she still calling me.” Sorry, I have to be so frank, yeah, I can be a little frank sometimes but I am telling the truth and many men do call women that name unfortunately because they have no respect for women. Especially the ones who uses women like dish towels all the time. Yeah, Then they sit and laugh at the woman and treat her like she’s nobody, and embarrass her. When the woman then say NO to the man, The man somehow in his head think the woman is saying yes. When I say NO—I mean NO, I do not mean Yes. Men like these need to stop been hypocrites' and stop treating women like they are second class citizens. Just because they are men or some believe because they have a successful career, the woman must take their NO. If the woman say NO—They totally disregard what the woman is saying.

Many men play these sick games with women all the time, where they tell the women, “It is not reciprocated” thinking the woman is so desperate and they believe they are so handsome that she is now going to beg them to be in a relationship with them and gravel at their feet like beggars. Then when the woman don’t pursue them, they come back later wanting to be in a relationship with the woman. My comment is, “They had their chance and they lost it—I repeat they had their chance and they lost it.” It is gone forever—Don’t come back. Yeah, to all the ladies who read my blog articles, I am speaking from experience, I had someone said those very same words to me. Yeah, sharp words, sharp words. When they do this to you and want to have a relationship with you later, don’t take them back, let them go find girls to be with because you are a woman, your not a girl. Close the door on them and move on with your life, you deserve much better than that. Trust me when I say that God will bring you the right person for you, God may be slow but he will bring you the person you deserve. Just move on with your life and let them go their way and you go yours. As far as I am concerned, the door is closed for good, closed forever on people like these. Yeah, three little words, “It’s not reciprocated,” but very powerful. Let men like these go about their business they have no clue what love is. Move on with your life and leave them alone. Let them go play their silly games with someone else, I am a grown up I don’t play with toys anymore.

Yeah, as I was saying, I am not the only female around, I repeat, I am not the only female around so just give me some space. If a man have confidence in himself he can get any woman he wants out there—plenty. Many single women hundreds of them if not thousands are out there dying, yes, dying to meet a single man, especially men who are successful in their careers at “Social Dating Clubs, Social Networking Sites, Parties, the Gym, Cooking Clubs, Matchmaking sites, etc. Plenty single women out there just waiting to feast off them. Yeah, someone just kinda got under my skin, so I had to write about that, Gosh!

Look at me, 1 year ago I decided to end a 17 year marriage, I did the right thing. I didn’t panic, even though I felt frustrated sometimes that things were moving too slowly, I didn’t lose faith and trust in God. I asked God for his help and he did help. At one point I thought I would lose my home, I didn’t. God helped me along the way, so much so, that not only did I sell my home really fast, but I found an apartment for me and my two kids. Selling my home that fast in just 3wks was God telling me, “Girl this is your time, it is time for you to move on now and leave the past behind.” God has been watching over me since I was a small child and I am so grateful for his Mercy, Love and Devotion.

“Never Stop Believing in the Power of God”

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In nearly one month it will be my birthday. Yep, Christmas Day. My Kids are already talking about Christmas Gifts. I am like, “Can I just catch my breath people!” Too funny, “like forget you mom your not important.” Oh, my, gosh! A day that everyone celebrate all over the world, but mom is not important. My kids are too funny. I go through this every Christmas. It’s okay, I know they love me, their just excited about Christmas that’s all. Christmas is one of my favourite times of the year though, not only because it’s my birthday, but I just love the holiday season.

Picture courtesy of “Southern Living Mag” This living room's bold red walls and traditional architecture call for classic Christmas treatment, complete with a grand Fraser fir and a sweeping tree skirt.

Anyway, God has done so many things for me since I was born, I can’t list them all here. He’s moved me away from danger so many times, they are too many to count. God have to work overtime just because of Lucifer. Yes, if I could see Lucifer I would gas him myself and his little friends he has doing all the bad things in this world everyday, gosh! However, God will do it first, so as usual I leave him in God’s hands. As a matter of fact if you read Revelation in the Bible God says he will throw Lucifer into the lake of fire one day, I just have to wait a little longer for him to do that.

Over the years I have tried my hardest to reach out to people without faith in God trying to do God’s work as best as I can, always trying to find creative ways to tell people about God trying very hard for them to follow God. It is extremely difficult work. Doing God’s work is never easy. Yes, God said in the bible: “Suffer little children to come unto thee for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.” Yes, the road to God is not easy everyone, but the reward of going to Heaven is too great for me to pass up. I will take whatever rejection, hardship, suffering and loneliness that comes with following God, knowing that he will have a place for me and my children in Heaven one day.

Some Misconceptions About God

This week I wanted to clear up some of the misconceptions that people have about God. Some not all, I can’t do all in this blog post.Yes, just some of the things that people might have thought of but wasn’t quite sure about. Okay, what God wants everyone to know is that first of all he created this world we live in and gave us life. He is the “Alpha and the Omega” there is no other God, but God himself. He is a very loving and forgiving God but don’t push him to the point of limitation. There is only so much God will take.

God wants us to acknowledge him. “Is that too much to ask people?” He created us we are unique beings with many talents and gifts and we can’t or some of us won’t give God thanks for what he has done. God knows that we can’t be like him, but what he asks us to do is to, not get caught up with everything else in life and abandon him or turn your back against him, even if your life gets difficult. Many people get hung up over the wealth and fame and in the end all the money we have in the world can’t or won’t get us into heaven. It is our heart and soul and our love of God that will take us there and how ethical we lead our lives.Yes, God would like to save all of us but he can’t. We have to come to that realization first. God doesn’t expect you to go to church everyday but he would like us to go to church sincerely when you can and apply him to your life daily whether by going to church or simply just praying at home. Love him and his son Jesus with all your heart.

Do not “Blaspheme” against God. Do not Blaspheme against the “Holy Spirit.” The Holy Spirit is the “Lord the Creator of Life.” We can literally think of the Holy Spirit as the "Breathe of God! To Blaspheme against the “Holy Spirit” is to also Blaspheme against God. Those who Blasphemes against God now have to answer to God. Now, for those out there that don’t believe in God, God already know that you don’t believe in him. He made you. He knows what kind of life you are going have and how it will end. Yes, this makes God unhappy that you don’t like him or believe in him, but God already knows that. Unfortunately, you will have to face him one day. The only way for you to get exempt from this is ask God, for forgiveness, sincerely, but most people who turn their backs on God are arrogant people. They believe they are God, that they are above God and God is beneath them, not the other way around.

Marrying People Without Faith In God Spells Disaster

People who abandon God, denounce God or became an Apostate is not someone you marry. If you are someone who Love God and worship God. It is like putting Fire and Water together, can’t work, can’t work. My advice to women or men out there who grew up in faith, is to not marry anyone who have abandoned God. None. Your marriage will fall apart, fail and you will live an unhappy life. You will end up despising each other. When a person don’t believe in God it permeates everything in their lives. It is like putting “Grass on Sand” nothing in your marriage will prosper or grow, it will suffocate and stop growing not only physically but Spiritually. If God can’t enter their hearts everything just die. It doesn’t matter how much money they have, how big a house they have, how fancy the car they drive and if they live to be 75 years old+.

The marriage becomes dead, and you loose your soul. When you die you go to hell, if the man or woman your in a relationship with doesn’t believe in God. The person who doesn’t believe in God is trying to drag you to hell with them. Let them go find someone who entertain their beliefs about not believing in God. Unfortunately, there are millions of people out there just like them that they can find who don’t believe in God—let them go get those ones. Anyone who does not believe in God when they die they go to hell not Heaven. I want no one like that in my life especially for marriage. I Love God too much.

Yes, one day all the Blasphemers will pass away and go to the other side. God is not in a hurry, to meet them. He his up in Heaven waiting patiently for their arrival so he can Judge them. Unfortunately, many people who turn their backs on God their heart becomes cold and it is hard to get into their hearts and try to get them to love God. In that case, if you have anyone around you like this. Just pray for them and leave them in God’s hands. God always find a way to “humble up” people like these at some point in time. Don’t fret yourself over them, God already knew long before they were born if they were going to love him or not. So, Just leave them in God’s hands.

God wants you to follow his “Spiritual Laws, Code and Ethics for our lives.” Always, strive to do what is Morally Correct, Just, Fair and Ethical. In other words, “Don’t do anything you know God himself would not do or anything that would not please him.” How does God define sin? If you listen to all the music in the world people, contemporary or Urban it won’t make you a sinner or make you sinful. God won’t sin you because of the kind of music you listen to. Okay. It is all the “Unethical Things” that people do in life that makes people sinners along with the hate they carry in their heart for others or God. God doesn’t work like that. God created me, and he gave me all my gifts and talents and yes, my love for music. He knew long before he created me what kind of music I would like or not. So, listen to all the music you want, go out and party with your friends just don’t do anything unethical. Partying and having some fun with your friends that doesn’t make you a sinner or make you sinful. When you break God’s Commandments or fall into temptation, abuse others, stand in the way of others and try to prevent them from been happy, betray other people, try to take God’s place and act like you are God, try to dictate and control others by been emotionally abusive or physically abusive, commit infidelity, Kill others, commit fraud, show lack of compassion to others etc, etc, that is when you are on “slippery ground” with God.

One last thing I would like people to remember, is to “never lose faith in God,” he will be slow in giving you what you ask for but he won’t abandon you. God is real and he is there, he can hear every single word you say just as if he were next to you in your living room. Trust in God always no matter how difficult things for you in life gets. Amen and God bless.

“let us draw near to God with a sincere heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.”

Hebrews 10:22

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Stormie Omartion Prayer of the Day
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When You Need Deliverance and Restoration

Thank You, Lord, that wherever I am locked up in my life, You have the keys to set me free. Whenever I am oppressed, You will bring justice. And whenever I have need, You will supply it. Without You, I am a prisoner of my needs and the consequences of my sin. I pray that You will deliver me from whatever keeps me from becoming all You made me to be.

Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, whose hope is in the Lord his God, who made heaven and earth...who executes justice for the oppressed, who gives food to the hungry. The Lord gives freedom to the prisoners.

Psalm 146:5-7

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The “Holy Rosary” is a very powerful prayer and something you can say on your own or with friends or family, so enjoy the prayer. I say, them most days, or whenever I can. Just find sometime out of your busy day to thank God for all the things he gave you. 10-15mins per day not much really.

The “Luminous Mysteries” also called Mysteries of Light…Enjoy the prayer.

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This song and prayer is already on my blog but I reposted it...Enjoy.

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Yes, I am on the last mile, yeah, the last mile. I survived, I made it through. God is indeed a powerful God. What a journey it’s been, but God held my hand all the way he wasn’t going to leave me on my own, thank you God for everything. Love this song… turn this up and Enjoy!

Letting go of the Past and Moving Forward

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Picture courtesy of “Coastal Living Mag”It's a short boat ride from the Fare pier three miles south to Te Tiare Beach Resort. There are a handful of pensions and small hotels scattered around Huahine, but Te Tiare is the only luxury resort, and the only one with overwater bungalows.

Booster Shots For Living

It is trick-a-treat time and my two kids will be out on Monday, October 31, canvassing the neighbourhood for candy. Usually I like to stay in and hand out the candy, that is my favourite part, everyone else can go freeze, oh, my, gosh! Too funny. It is cold by the lake, very cold and damp. This will be their last trick-a-treat in this neighbourhood. My son will be going as Scooby Do and my daughter still pending, oh, my, gosh. I guess later I will take her to get a costume. She wants to do her own thing. Anyway, I was checking other blogs that women wrote and “Redneck Mommy Blog” Is just funny. I love her recent post titled: “Romantic Comedy” where she tried on a couple pair of glasses for her husband to give his opinion. I couldn’t stop laughing I love her expressions, too funny, you can head over to her blog and check it out if you like. My blog article is a bit longer this week because I am talking about our creator God. Yes, I feel very passionate about God and Jesus. Yes, the person who created this planet and all the things we enjoy in this world today, the same God that created you that many people don’t seem to respect or appreciate. Yes, look at the beautiful beach picture above, God created all that for us and more.

This week I wanted to write briefly about part of my journey in the past year in healing my heart so below you will find a short article on what I have experienced in the last year and how I got through it, slowly, but I got through it with God’s good Grace.

False Illusions

Over a year now, I have been trying to get over the feelings I had for someone I met briefly. Yes, I saw the signs all of them but I confess, I am guilty has charged! Yes, guilty as ever. I ignored all the signs telling myself it can’t be true. Yes, I admit it, I got caught up in my feelings. Most of us women do it, we just don’t want to admit the truth. Well, I don’t mind telling the truth. Anyway, I thought to myself no one who looked that pleasant and dress that nicely and seem to be so helpful could possible have a mean side to them. In the past year, I just let my feelings for this person run it’s course.

I had dedicated songs to them and yes, it was a long journey but for me it was also a healing journey. I know to outsiders it seems like I was acting crazy by playing songs for someone who was not in my life BUT playing those songs was meant to help heal the burdens of my heart and to make sure that I had no negative thoughts towards them. It was also meant to clear away anything negative and pave the way for nothing but good to come into my life. For someone who was the right one for me. I am not like most people I don’t carry resentment in my heart for anyone. Why? I don’t want people in general to hold me prisoner emotionally. When you allow resentment to take over your soul you are basically handing that person the right to have power over you. I don’t want anyone to have power over me. Anger is not a useful energy to have attached to you all the time. Anger can eat away at the soul. So, for me instead of been relentlessly angry and wallowing in self-pity. I did what I knew best. Acknowledge my feelings for this person and just let it run it’s course. Not that I don’t get angry sometimes, I just don’t blow things up out of proportion.

That “Healing Journey” for me has come to an end. I have officially moved on and it feels good to do this, really good. When I say I have moved on from something, I don’t go back on my word. It is over and done with finished, should have been a long time ago. That person was definately not the person for me, no doubt about it. I feel like a huge burden has lifted off my shoulders and off my heart. If I were to see this person in the future, I would not have any animosity towards them—none whatsoever. With all due respect, I don’t or would ever want to be in a relationship with them, I concurred that it would have been a huge mistake. They are made for someone else not me. There is someone else out there for them who matches their personality and temperament—but it is not me—let them take their hate, anger, and whatever else to someone else out there. Whatever issues they seem to have had going on in their life it is their business not mine. Unfortunately, it seemed at the time that they were carrying alot of deep anger, resentment and alot of baggage in their heart and unless they fixed their attitude they are not going to find anyone who will want to be with them, no matter how much money or success they have. After more than 1 year now I have moved on in my heart. My heart feels absolutely free and I am looking forward to starting this new chapter of my life on the right note. Ready and open to God to lead me in the right direction and eventually bringing someone new into my life who I can love and who will love me sincerely. Yes, I am open to love finding me again, true love that is, what I thought I had found was not love—that was something else, it was definately not love.

The love I have inside me flows endlessly so I will wait for God to send me the right person for me. I always look at the brighter side of things in life no matter what. I always say, “Everything happens for a reason and that God always have a plan for our lives.” Sometimes when things don’t work out with someone you wanted to be with, it is the universe telling us in bold capital letters, that it was “NOT MEANT TO BE.” That the person that was coming into our lives was not the right one for us in terms of relationship. In any event, it is all meant to give us a “Wake up Call.” Without any doubts or reservations that person was definately not the one for me.

My One year Healing Journey is Complete

Whatever feelings I had left that was burning have been extinguished. It’s over, it is done. I have moved on and the past is the past. It is gone. The door to my heart is closed to that person forever. It is only open for someone new, someone who has God’s love in their heart to enter that door. Someone who God knows is the right person for me. Now God will be the one who determines that and I look forward to a new person entering my life. I know God is watching over me always, and when someone comes into our lives and cause us alot of pain, it is God’s way of saying, “this is not the person you want to spend the rest of your life with.” They were made for someone else not me. I am quite sure they will have no problem finding someone who matches them and their personality, no problem at all.

When people stand in our way and opposes us which is what I have been having in my life for the past year now, and cause us nothing but unhappiness, pain and suffering you know these people are not right for you. Anytime someone stands in your way of been happy, or they betray you when they know right from wrong and try to destroy your happiness, these people seriously need to work on themselves. Many times people opposes us for a very long time because of jealousy, deep anger and resentment they carry for us, lack of respect, believing that they can dictate and control our lives, not wanting us to experience any happiness in life. “If they can’t be happy you can’t be happy either.” They don’t have the love of God in their soul and spirit. If God resides in these peoples heart then they would not oppose you. They lack Compassion and Mercy and they will try to ruin all your future plans. Listen, if you give your power away to people and let them keep destroying your most cherish dreams wishes and desires, they will always continue for the rest of your life to ruin your plans so don’t ever give anyone that kind of power over you.

Once you hand them that key to destroy your life they will latch unto to you forever and destroy your life forever. Stop them from doing that. I am the kind of person that don’t tolerate people standing in my way, not one bit. I don’t like when people try to spoil my happiness. It makes me sick to my stomach. Literally. Why? When people try to hurt me, your not just hurting me, you are hurting my children as well. People who try to spoil my happiness will have to deal with God one day, no doubt about it. I don’t interfere with other peoples lives so don’t try to destroy mine. People have so much hate, anger and jealousy in their hearts nowadays, it’s sad to see this sometimes. In just a few short weeks from now, I will be starting a new life on my own with my two kids. Yep. “What are you living for if you can’t stand up for yourself in life?” Yes, I don’t put up with people who want to prevent me from been happy. In God’s eyes it is crime to stand in someone’s way and try to spoil their happiness.

God doesn’t like when people try to stop others from been happy. God doesn’t want you to lay down and roll over and let other people destroy your happiness. So don’t let other people do this to you it is wrong, it is Unethical and Morally incorrect and Unrighteous and Ungodly for others to destroy someone’s happiness, in God’s eyes this is crime. If you see this happening and you don’t stop this from happening to someone around you or someone you know, God will not be pleased your ticket to heaven will eventually get taken away from you. Why? It is same if you see a man dying and don’t stop to help the dying man. “Do you get what I am saying?” To God this is Unethical and Morally incorrect to see someone destroying someone’s happiness and their life and you don’t try to stop this or even attempt to try to stop this from happening. We are all God’s Representative and we should intervene and stop others from destroying other peoples lives.

If you are someone who see this happening around you today where you see others trying to destroy someone’s happiness and deliberately trying to ruin their life and for their future happiness to go down the drain. You need to step up as a human being and and become a “Representative of God a child of God” and stop others from destroying other peoples lives. It is time for us to take the initiative and starting acting as “Disciples of God” and start doing God’s work. He will reward you by allowing you into the “Kingdom of Heaven if you continue to do good in this world and create happiness.”

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True Love, True Authentic Love

Yes, true love is all that I desire and will embrace in my life nothing less. Since I was a small child God has been watching over me. Whenever danger comes around me or people that was not good for me over the years God would take it away, so I know God has a plan for me no doubt about it. When God appeared to me when I was a small child, I knew back then that he wanted me to do something important. I will wait and watch for him to tell me what that is, or he will let me know when he’s ready whether he uses a person or he sends me a sign of some sort, he will get in touch when he his ready. That is why I never lose faith in God and I always tell people to not lose faith in God ever. I trust that he his there watching over me every single day. When he is ready he will send me the right person for me. Someone who genuinely cares and someone who wants a committed long-term relationship. Someone who has a deep amount of respect for me and God and who considers me their equal. Long-term for me is the next 20 years+. Yes, I do take relationships seriously. I don’t need any relationship shorter than that. I am not into multiply relationships, one person today and another one tomorrow, not for me.

I know what I want and that is all I seek, just a strictly Long-term relationship. Yes, I don’t need no bed hopper with diseases in them. Sorry, I have to be so frank, but I don’t need people like that. People who sleep around have no respect for themselves, they take life for a joke. “Do you know how many diseases and germs they have out there?” Anyway, me asking won’t stop people from doing what they want, their destruction not mine. I need to be here alive and well, so I can look after my two kids that I love with my heart and soul. My “Body is my Temple” people, yeah. My body is my Temple, your body is your temple you should honor that. I will protect it at all cost, I don’t want anyone to put me to my grave early. Frank, but true.

Yes, only a person who believes in God, Jesus and faith. A man who embraces God and who is not shy about praying and going to church, and who follows Traditional Family Values. Someone who is Catholic like me or who likes attending church. I don’t want anyone who doesn’t believe sincerely in God. How can people go through life and not believe in God or have any respect or love for God? How? I don’t get it. God made this planet and all of us in it and gave us life. Do people think we just materialize out of thin air? We didn’t people. No relationship cannot have a long shelf life if the person you are entering a relationship with have no faith and trust in God. I don’t need anyone in my life who does not believe in God or Jesus—none. I have so much faith, love and respect for God it goes beyond just a mere feeling.

Anyway,God always do everything in surprising ways, so I will leave my life in God’s hands as always and wait for him to surprise me. Amen

Knowing God-“The Alpha and the Omega”

“Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him, and he in God.—1John 4:15

What I want everyone to know about God is that, God made man and woman in his own image he gave us many gifts and talents. Some people will read my blog and ask, “How can I talk about God but then listen to the kind of music I do?” My question to my blog readers are, “Do you think God doesn’t like music?” Who said God doesn’t like contemporary or Urban music? God created all of us, he gave us the gift of music, all our creative talents. That is where people go wrong thinking God doesn’t have a sense of humour or he’s very closed off, he is not. God gets upset not because we listen to certain music, listening to music can’t make you sinful, it is the Unethical things you do and how much hate you carry in your heart for anyone or God that is what makes you a Sinful man or woman. God gets upset, when we betray others including members of our own family or a partner in a relationship.

God don’t like betrayal because they used this to kill his son Jesus 2,000 years ago who came to give us “The Gift of Everlasting life.” God does not like when we stand in peoples way and oppose them for eternity and try to kill their happiness, because this is what they did to his son Jesus. “When are people going to get the message?” God is about Love, happiness and peace. When we commit infidelity, when we kill others, when we become prostitutes, when we fall to temptation which is where (Lucifer) would like to take all of us, over to his side. Temptation is where a man will sleep with another man or a woman sleeps with another woman. God doesn’t like this—this is not what God is about. Why? It is not fruitful. I will repeat, it is not fruitful. God created Adam and Eve and he turn to them and said, “Go forth be fruitful and multiply.” God did not say go forth Adam and Adam and be fruitful and multiply—Two men together or two women together can’t bear children! Darn it! I am sick and tired of everyone shoving this stuff down my throat. I don’t get upset often, but people get me mad when they try to change God’s Spiritual Laws, just to suit their needs and desires.God have no problem with you doing whatever you want in the bedroom with your spouse or girlfriend or boyfriend as long as it is a man and a woman together not with the same sex.

This is not what God stands for.Okay, I will be very frank here and say that many people who decide to sleep with people of the same sex says it is best sex they have ever had, yeah, whatever—everything that is bad for us always feels good. Booze, cocaine, yeah they all make you feel darn good but it also send you to your grave early and it sends you to hell. However, what these people have actually done, is just take a loaded gun and put it to their forehead and sign their life over to Lucifer. Yes, your Death warranty. Yes, you will die, but there is a second death, “The Lake of fire where people burn for eternity.” Yes, I recommend people to grab their Bible and Read Revelation in the bible and you will see. Of course if you tell them that, they would say no, I will go to heaven, keep dreaming. When people of the same sex comes together they cannot bear children the world would be barren and not fruitful. The world we live in would be desolate, no children, no grandchildren, no weddings, no music, no business, no nothing, zilch! “How many times does God have to tell people this?”

*Please I don’t need gay people around the world or parents who’s children are gay to send me any emails and complain or threaten me. Just like how they believe in been gay—I believe strongly in God and his Spiritual Laws so, I stand by the
word of God.

Think about it? If we had just a planet full of all males or just all females what kind of planet would we have? Just picture that for a while. Lucifer have done so much damage to our society that just about everyone in this society thinks it is cool to be Gay. Yes, it may feel good to sleep with another man or woman of the same sex but you are essentially swallowing a bullet and your ticket to heaven. It as become a fashion statement. It has gotten so bad in society that many men, yes many, but not all get married to many women and use the women to cover up the fact that they do in fact sleep with men. Yep! They set up the ideal family charade and then they go sleep with men, it is like a virus in our society today. Young men, boys, married men, old men, doesn’t matter and the internet is perfect for this setup and breeding ground gay porn 24/7 , right at our finger tips for Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner and Dessert available to all—the Porn industry is huge and who operates it “Lucifer”—Lucifer is dragging everyone to hell with him and millions of people don’t realize this. Don’t feel bad if you have ever been tempted to do this male or female—blame Lucifer he’s the culprit, Lucifer feeds into our desires and needs and uses this to drag us to hell with him.

In the Bible where it says “Jesus was tempted for 40 days and 40 nights.” That is what Lucifer used to tempt Jesus, that freak! So, don’t feel bad or feel guilty even Jesus Lucifer tried this on. Jesus didn’t succumb to temptation though he fought hard against it trying to save us from our sins. Yes, temptation is like a drug it feels like a bulldozer, Lucifer will eat at you for as long as it takes to let you commit this act. If you have ever thought about doing it, no it is not a sin—but the minute you succumb and actually take part, he’s got you—hook, line, and sinker—you have now sinned. Think of “Temptation like a handgun.” If you keep a gun in your possession and don’t use the gun to harm anyone your safe. However, if you decide to use that gun and harm anyone you have officially committed a crime and you have also committed a major sin. I have so many names for that sick freak Lucifer I can’t remember all of them—he’s a monster and he’s cruel as heck, a very cruel monster and that is just putting it mildly. (Look what Lucifer did to Jesus? Lucifer let everyone turned against Jesus when Lucifer realize Jesus was dead, He was happy because he now had the whole world to himself for the next 2,000 years. Everyone to drag to hell with him, people dying early and can’t figure out why they are aging so fast. See The Passion of the Christ) Lucifer try to drag our own children down with him everyday to hell. See what they have now even “Teen Porn” people discuss this on the internet with articles or on television Those are your children, nieces and nephews he’s dragging to hell with him everyday. Oh, that freak! I don’t know what else to call him. Lucifer wants to take everyone to hell with him and he will stop at nothing. This is not what God stands for, it is not people, once you choose to go that route in life it means you have chosen to go to hell. Jesus came back 2,000 years ago to try and rid this world of all that and other forms of sin and they killed him. Why not? Lucifer gets to keep this planet all to himself and to kill us all and send as many of us off to hell that beast, I don’t have enough names to call him.

Apostasy

A “Lawless Man or Person” is considered someone who is an Apostate. An Apostate is defined as a person who experienced a dramatic change in conviction but “a man who, even in his new state of belief, is spiritually living not primarily in the content of that faith. In other words, the person goes through complete abandonment, renunciation, desertion and departure of their religion. If they are Christian then they abandon their “Conviction, Trust and Faith in God and Jesus and all the rules that God and Jesus have set in place for us to live by.” (See my article: The Less Desirable Parts of Our Nature) In some countries been an Apostate is a crime against God and is punishable by law.

“Stop trying to change the Commandments of God. Stop re-writing God’s Spiritual Laws because God will make you accountable.” For people out there that likes to exalt themselves above God. Stop exalting yourself above God. You are not God, you can never be like God. I repeat, you can never be like God, never. You are but a mere human who sadly, will have to face God one day and be Judged for your contempt against God.

I don’t have any respect for anyone who does not love God or Jesus and anyone who have abandoned their faith, conviction and trust in God. Or, anyone who try’s to exalt themselves above God.I am sick and tired of people in the world talking about God does not exist or they don’t believe in God, like it is some joke to them. Do you understand? I am sick and tired of it. People need to respect God, he is the Alpha and the Omega the creator of this world and he is a loving, very loving and caring God who sacrificed his only son Jesus who they crucified because of their hate just so he could try and save us. I don’t want any man, I repeat I do not want any man or any person in my life that does not believe in God or who has abandon their trust and faith in God. People like these have lost all my respect. People who don’t believe in God have no life in them, their spirit is tainted. The minute you turn your back on God you are sending a direct and clear message to me or anyone else that you have chosen to follow “Lucifer.” Who have essentially dragged your soul off to hell with him in a hand basket. Lucifer is smiling to himself because he just stole another soul from God, one more person to add to his Kingdom of hate and death. The only time people want to embrace God and pick up a bible is if they are dying, ill, their children are dying or have died or they are bankrupt or in serious trouble. Then people in this world act like hyprocrites and then ask God to help them.

“People only know God when it is convenient and it is a shameful thing to watch people do in society and yes, it makes me very sad to see this.”

Lucifer offers Death, aging, disease, long-term illness, destruction, torment, pain and sorrow, unhappiness, stress, Hell where you are tormented day and night and the Lake of Fire where you burn for Eternity. Does that sound good to you people?

God offers Everlasting Life, no aging, no disease, no pain, no suffering just, Eternal Happiness, Love, Peace, Justice, Mercy, Grace, Compassion and the Kingdom of Heaven where you live in Peace and Perpetual Bliss.

Now Make Your Choice, “Who do you want to be with God or Lucifer—Do you want Death or Eternal Life?” I am just sick and tired of people in this world who have abandoned God. It makes me sad to see how God is working so hard trying to save us from going to hell and for us to be dying so early in life and people have no respect for God anymore. We are dying too early people 6o-75 yrs. old we are just babies. In God’s world we can live for over 900 years old, like Noah did thousand of years ago. Lucifer is killing us and we are too blind to see this. He’s like a bad, bad virus that needs eradicating and soon.

“Yes, the road to God is very, very narrow filled with plenty of suffering, rejection, and loneliness to endure but the gate to hell is very wide.”

The Kingdom of God

The Kingdom of God has three areas, Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
If you lead a good, clean life, without following Lucifer and all his bad ways, you go to Heaven. If you have done all the bad things and carry alot of sin in your heart you go to hell. Purgatory is for those who have sinned in the past but try to turn their lives around by repenting of their sins, asking God for forgiveness and living for God and Jesus daily. You stay in Purgatory (to read more on purgatory click on word) until you are purified then you are then sent to Heaven. Then the final stage is the “Lake of Fire.” Those not found in God’s “Book of Life” are sent to the Lake to burn for eternity. This not fairytale people. God does have a book of all the names of people ever existed on this planet dead or alive today that will go to heaven and live forever. Just something for people to reflect on.

“Am I the only one that thinks about heaven?” Many people don’t seem to care anymore. Lucifer have caused so many people to turn away from God, millions of people around the world today don’t care about God, very sad, when God in fact stands for all that is good, clean and happy in this world and he loves all of us on this planet and he sacrificed his only son to try and save us from our sins. Yet, we don’t appreciate or love God enough. Everybody loves Lucifer, all he offers is death and hell.

Noah and the Ark

“Do you know what this world we are in reminds me of today?” It reminds of when Noah built the ark that God told him to build. Noah then pleaded with the people to come into to ark. He said, “Come I can save many of you.” Do you know what they did? They scoffed in his face, mocked him, laughed at him. When the flood came they came to the ark begging to be let in but it was too late. Too late they all died.

Well, God said when he comes again “he will come like a thief in the night.” Many people on this planet will be caught off guard. Millions of people won’t make it. I have been telling people since I was a little girl that God is real, that he will come back to our world one last time, yes, one last time and that people need to love and appreciate him, go to church and give God and Jesus thanks. What have I gotten so far? Many people don’t believe in or care about God. Well, to each his own. Your salvation not mine.

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The Garden of Eden

Listen, I am not a prude and neither is God. God made us in his image God have sex just like all of us in heaven but only if we have it with the opposite sex not the other way around. If God made us in his image, “Why would people feel that God doesn’t have sex?” What gave them that idea? Why man and woman together? A man and a woman together is fruitful we can bear children and populate the world when we go the other route—it can't be fruitful. Do you get what I am saying? It messes up the spirit world. Remember this, Adam and Eve and the “Garden of Eden.” Not Adam and Adam or Eve and Eve. People become hypocrites' and act superficial thinking God is neither man or woman or God doesn’t believe in sex. Remember God made “Man and Woman in his own image. Everyone grab your bible and read Genesis chapter one at least well, if you have a Bible that is. He made us like him to look just like him and behave and live just like him and yes, he made us so we can have sex people, to be fruitful and multiply but with those of the opposite sex. However, our world carries the “Original Sin of Temptation,” that Lucifer brought to this world, that is why our lives are deteriorating rapidly we are getting cancer and dying too early, we are aging rapidly by the time we turn 35 or 40 yrs. old we start greying, war, famine and disease, etc. Our Lifespan got cut short because of Lucifer.

Do You Pray and How Often?

Do people pray anymore? and if you do, do you listen to the words in the prayer. God said, “Thy will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.” What does that mean? God is saying that one day people on earth will live just like the people in Heaven where we don’t die, death will be no more, no disease, hunger, war etc—hence “World without Sin”. Who doesn’t want a world like that? Just filled with “Perpetual Peace just like in Heaven.” If you have people around you who have turned their back against God, against Traditional Family Values, Denounce God, have become a “Lawless Man or Woman” and doesn’t want to hear anything associated with the word God, and doesn’t want to do what is “Right, Just, Fair and Ethical in the eyes of God. Or, they Betray their own partner or members of their own family, whether a Brother, Sister, Aunt, Uncle, Mother or Father their own flesh and blood that is Lucifer right there trying to drag them to hell with him. That Monster! Unfortunately, he turns the people he’s dragging with him to hell into a monster just like him too.

Everlasting Life

The world we live in is flawed. This world is full of sin and it needs fixing. God will try to fix this world we live in, until then Lucifer controls this place. Lucifer also offers one important thing that people don’t realize, “Death on a silver platter.” People in this world are aging rapidly, by the time we reach 60-75 years old we start dying. Yes, for all the women who like to spend thousands of dollars on plastic surgery and still barely get any results, with a long life span you wouldn’t be doing that. In God’s world once God fixed this world we can live for many years up to 1,000 years without dying, your children and grandchildren would live for a long, long time disease free, no illness. Noah lived until he was around 950 years old,(Read more on Noah) the equivalent age to a man or woman who is 75 years old—see the difference? Noah didn’t need a doctor back then, neither would we need the help of a doctor much. That is what Jesus came back to this world to offer us 2,000 years ago but Lucifer killed him that monster, he took away all of our rights to “Eternal Life the ability for us to live close to 1,000 years old.”

So, don’t follow that freak, he offers Death not Life. Lucifer is Death—God is Life. Which side do you want to be on? If we had Eternal life 2,000 years ago my Grandmother and Father would be alive today, your Grandparents or Parents who died would have been alive today. People wouldn’t start showing any signs of aging until we reach around 800 years old, no one would be dying of cancer. Lucifer stole that from us.(See my Blog Post “The Passion of the Christ”) Yes, Jesus came to offer us “Everlasting life 2,000 years ago and Lucifer had people killed him because Lucifer wants all of us to die young and for us to suffer and go to hell.” That is what Lucifer likes Diaspora, chaos, he doesn’t want anyone to be happy. He wants people who are wrong for each other to come together and be unhappy all the time. Lucifer makes us fall inlove with the wrong people for us that way we end up like “Criss Cross Apple Sauce.” The wrong person for us in our lives, trying to drag us to hell with him. He could go by himself or drag someone else with him, I am not going with him. Yes, I have had some very close calls with that creep, especially when he uses other people to try to hurt me and I don’t realize Lucifer is behind them trying to get them to hurt me. I have so many names for him and so does God. God call him the Beast but to me that is a compliment.

“When we end up in relationships with people who are not our match and who is completely wrong for us, Lucifer loves this. He is smiling to himself because this makes him so happy because we now get to live unhappy lives.”

Lucifer will stop at nothing to prevent the people who are right for each other to have a good life to come together. No, he doesn’t want that to happen. He will cause opposition for a long time, months, a year or longer, however long it takes he will keep opposing because he wants you lose something precious. God don’t call Lucifer the Beast in the Bible for nothing, Lucifer is a monster, that is what he is. He’s half man, half serpent-and he enters peoples spirit and get them to become mean and angry, and opposes your plans. he just destroys lives that is what he does. I know he’s out there because I have had to deal with him since I was a little girl, but I know God was and is watching over me and Lucifer could try has hard has he can but he can’t hurt me. Don’t Let him destroy your life or those you love, Don’t. Lucifer tried to destroy my life when I was a little girl at 9 years old. Yes, that early. However, my Grandmother had strong faith in God and did not let the major opposition from my aunts or mother and father stop her from doing what was “Ethical, Right, Just and Fair in the eyes of God.”

Why would Lucifer come after a little girl like me? He knows that God appeared to me and that God has something planned. He’s been after me since the day I was born. His biggest game plan is major opposition in my life, he will find anyone to do his dirty work for him. Usually he will use people whom I have met, family members or anyone close enough to me to do some serious damage by causing major opposition, setbacks and delays in my life. Yes, that is usually his biggest game plan, his main Ammo is major opposition for as long as it takes, 1 year + as long as it takes he will keep opposing. That way people who really, really care about me will give up on me,because he wears out the people who care about me, he makes them feel like they are carrying a heavy burden and he stresses them out to the max. He wants them to lose faith in me and walk away, so he can stop whatever plan God has—I know him like a book. One minute you think the person stop opposing you and next minute they start again, Lucifer never stops—unless you get real serious and truly believe and trust in God and have faith in God and then decide you will not tolerate this and put a stop to what he is doing. Otherwise, he will keep opposing you forever and destroy your most cherish dreams. He did this with my Grandmother but she never gave up on me. Why? She had strong trust and faith in God. A great belief that God wanted her to do what was right. As long as Lucifer can stop any of God’s plans from manifesting he’s happy.

I knew that when God appeared to me when I was a little girl that God has something planned but he didn’t tell me what. It makes sense, I was too young to understand, God figure why tell me then I was too young, but he will let me know later. Via a person or a sign but he will let me know eventually. When I told my Grandmother she said, “as you get older God will let you know.” There was alot of white light around God extremely bright and he was just smiling and looking down from the mountain at me for the longest while. In my dream it felt like about 30 mins, but it could have been longer, I don’t know. I have never felt so much love, peace, calm and serenity in my life. I remember thinking that I wanted him to take me with him but I sense at that time he was saying it was not time yet he needs me to do something. However, I could tell that he had something important planned. I don’t know what Plan God has but Lucifer he knows, that freak, he knows what God has planned. Yep. Lucifer knows what it is and he will try very hard and for a long time to stop God’s plan from moving forward.

My Grandmother is not here with me, but God and his Angels are watching over me and my kids daily. I don’t need to see Lucifer, I know he’s out there somewhere trying to do whatever he can or using anyone he can latch unto to stop God’s plan from moving forward. God won’t let it happen. That “Crazy Freak!” How many times have I called him that name? No, I am not afraid of Lucifer because he can’t hurt me directly, so he uses other people to help him to try to hurt me, by causing endless opposition. As long as they continue to help him he will drag them and their soul to hell with him if they don’t stop helping him. Anyone who is helping Lucifer is basically handing their soul over to him, so be very careful people out there—Lucifer is not a toy so don’t play with him. God don’t call him the Beast for nothing. Start praying and going to church and ask God to forgive you or Lucifer will take you straight to hell with him. The longer you continue to follow Lucifer, the closer you are to losing your soul.

That’s right Lucifer is not a toy so don’t play with him, if you do, you will lose your soul to him. Lucifer can’t hurt me directly so, he finds people who he can use for them to try and hurt me who end up causing major opposition in my life trying to block God’s plan whatever God has planned and to spoil my happiness. Sometimes he will let people appear in my life who will treat me terribly very badly, very badly and cause me lots of pain and heartache. Yep! Oh, that creep! God is not going to let him get away with it though. Yes, Lucifer let my own aunts my own flesh and blood relatives turn against me for no apparent reason. That is how he works, he will let your brother, sister, aunts, uncles, mother and father turn against you for no apparent reason. God bless my Grandmother I love her so much, I wish I had her with me right now but in spirit she is with me and in my heart. If my Grandmother had done differently I would not be here today, and oh, Lucifer would have been so happy—Freak! God wasn’t going to let him get away with it. I don’t have anymore names for Lucifer, beast, monster, Freak, etc, etc. There is not enough adjectives in the dictionary to describe him. In the Bible God call him the Beast but I think that is a compliment, he’s worst than a beast. I have called him so many names over the years, I can’t remember them, too many to count.

When we don’t follow God’s spiritual Laws, that encompasses Love, Peace, Justice, Mercy and doing what is Ethical and Morally correct, Just and Fair then we create disorder in this world. That is not what God is about, God is not for disorder or chaos and putting people together in relationships that are not good for us or who will make our lives a living hell. If you keep cheating on your partner, lying every single day about everything, abusing your children, your partner or friends, stand in the way of other people been happy, or we stand around and not defend the people getting persecuted, then God gets upset and this doesn’t get us into heaven. If you know someone is getting persecuted for along time and you sit back like you are dead people and don’t intervene and try to help the person, God gets upset about this—Don’t forget even if you can’t see God he can see you, he knows what you are doing 24/7.

If you know someone is persecuting someone or standing in their way and causing the person unhappiness God wants you to intervene and put a stop to it. Anyway as I was saying, working in the pornography industry, kidnapping, extortion, rape, incest, bribery, you name it these are all bad things that God does not like. When you do these things, then you go over to Lucifer’s side where you suffer for eternity in hell. So, which side do you want to be on? God’s side or Lucifer’s side? You decide. I have chosen to follow God and Jesus, that is it.

Enjoy the music on my blog, God won’t mind at all, he knows I love music God made me himself just the way I am, so relax and enjoy life—Just don’t do the bad or unethical things in life that causes you to sin greatly or try to prevent other people from been happy and offer up hate, resentment anger, jealousy and anything bad or do any of the things God does not stand for. God loves us very much and he wants to save many of us and take us to Heaven with him but Millions of people around the world have turned their backs on God, too many people, and this doesn’t bode well for them.

This is why I wrote on my blog that ever since I was a little girl I have always had to endure “Spiritual Suffering and loneliness” (See Article Entitled: God and Our Code of Conduct and Ethics Part 2) because so many people out there don’t believe in God or want to hear about anything associated with the word God in it. I have been telling people ever since I was a little girl that God appeared to me, all these years and even now today on my blog that God is real, he is real, he is there even if you can’t see him. God will come back to our world again but when he comes he said in the Bible, “I will come like a thief in the night.” That is why people need to follow God and believe in God because you don’t know when he’s coming back, if you are not prepared you won’t go with him to heaven. He will come unexpectedly without any notice. He has been watching over us but Lucifer have turn this world into one big mess full of sinners and “Mass Apostasy”—where millions of people have turned away completely from God and he keeps trying to block any of God’s plan for us in this world. That is why I have had to endure “Spiritual Suffering” It is very difficult to reach into the hearts of sinners and people who abandon God, yes, it is a very heavy burden to carry. I know exactly how Jesus felt 2,000 years ago. Hence, my “Spiritual Suffering and yes, God gave me this burden for me to bear and to carry and so I will bear it.”

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Stormie Omartion Prayer of the Day
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When You Need Help to Uplift Your Spirits

Dear Lord, I look to You to be all the help I will ever need. Even though I see no other help on the horizon, I will not be afraid or concerned. Even though I may not see a way out, or a good solution to certain problems, I know that You do. So I will keep my eyes on You. For You are the Creator of heaven and earth and all that is in them, so I know You are well able to create solutions to my problems. I praise You and thank You that nothing is too hard for You.

I will lift up my eyes to the hills; from whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.

Psalm 121:1-2

Yes, this is just a short list of what I am listening to this weekend, What would we do without great music? Listen everyone, enjoy the music on my blog music doesn’t make you sinners. Yes, God love music he gave us the gift to create music and to sing and dance. Enjoy….

Have a Great Weekend Everyone!

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Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. Here is a great song about how God works in peoples lives everyday. Whether he brings two people together who are right for each other or gives us our children, or grandchildren or our parents or he makes us live better lives this song brings that out….Today, I thank God for my home selling as fast as it did, for me finding an apartment, for my mom, my two wonderful children and for been alive. Yep, God did all that for me, “how can I not love and respect God? I really love these two, great singers and I love country music…. I think Blake made this song for Miranda isn’t that great?…. Love, Love, Love this song…..I really love Blake Shelton’s voice though so authentic….Enjoy.
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*To Watch the Original Video go to Youtube directly by clicking on the link below:
God Gave Me You

I originally posted the official video but it did not work so here is the lyrics. Enjoy

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Martina McBride, beautiful voice, love this song…Enjoy

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Love Brantley Gilbert and his voice, and I love this song…Enjoy.

Chilling on a Saturday

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Picture Courtesy of “Coastal Living Mag” Hardwoods and distressed furniture maintain the cozy feel of this coastal cottage, while a loud throw pillow adds a smidge of modern appeal.

Booster Shots For Living

It is Saturday and it is fall, I love the fall season though, but it is cold by the lake,very cold. I have been so busy in the past week trying to get as organized as I can with my moving, I think if you ask me my name, I would forget. Too funny, oh, my, gosh! Yep, I am so tired I can’t remember my name. I will be spending today relaxing listening to music and wondering, “why on earth did I decide to give myself so much work?” Oh, my, gosh. Don’t ask me where I find the time or the energy. My entire apartment is clean though so once I move in all I have to do is just pack out the remainder of the things I have. Anyway, next week will be the week that I will be packing out most of the things I have so I will be very busy. I know, my blog readers are saying, I am busy but I am still writing my blog post. Writing for me is like breathing it doesn’t feel like work at all, writing keeps me centered and focus, it comes naturally to me and yes, it calms me. Writing for me is like baking, baking comes so naturally to me it doesn’t feel like work.

Yep, that’s me always trying to get as organized as possible, staying one step ahead. Yes, I like to do everything in advance, get as organize as possible, less stress—no I don’t need the stress—Yes, I have enough to deal with already, I need a break though, some rest would be nice. Anyway, I know God is watching over me. I can’t prove it, but I know he’s watching over me everyday, no doubt about it. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have been able to make it this far. Yes, God does indeed have a plan for me, so I am just going with the flow, I will leave everything in his hands, he does a better job than I do.

So, this week I posted just some of the music I am listening to this weekend, (see below). Let’s take a look at Lil Wayne’s song: “How to Love.”

This song honestly reminds me of a girlfriend I had in Jamaica years ago, just after I finished College. We met because I rented an apartment from her boyfriend in Montego Bay. This girl was absolutely beautiful, gorgeous—I still remember her name, Mauviet. However, she got caught up with the wrong guy. This guy was into drugs, and he hung out with the wrong kind of people and yes, he carried a gun along with his friends. I didn’t know he owned a gun until months later after renting the apartment. Anyway, within about 6 months or so, I moved to Ocho Rios to work at a Resort but before I left, I tried tirelessly to get her to leave this guy.

I remember telling her, “your so beautiful you have so much potential, just leave him and find someone else.” She told me everytime she tried leaving he would find her and bring her back. What would this guy do to get her back? He would threaten to hurt her mother or the rest of her family, he knew where her mom lived. I felt so sorry for her. Anyway, her boyfriend figured I was trying to get her to leave him and and he told me to “back off and leave her alone.” Typical me, oh, my, gosh! If I see someone in trouble I will try to help them. I knew he carried a gun and he had a criminal record so, yeah, I backed off. I just prayed for her and told her to try and figure out a way to leave this guy. I don’t know what happened to her but I still think about her now and again. So yes, this song reminds me of her.

This is what Lil Wayne song is about. It’s about how some of us young women get caught up with the wrong guy or the wrong relationship because many of us, never had a role model, someone in our lives to show us what love is. As we grew up, we kinda just learnt on our own, which is not bad but it helps if you have great role models in your life like your mom or dad or grandparents. For me my Grandparents were my role models. Anyway, before you know it, most women end up in situations that is just bad for us. I think one of the important things to point out and yes, I take this advice for myself as well, my Grandmother always say, “You can never judge a book just by it’s cover.” So true, So true. Sometimes we women meet men and we take them at face value first without really seeing what these men are made from the inside. A man might dress in a nice suit, but underneath their character speaks volumes of what they are inside. So, often times we might meet someone and fall hard for them but that doesn’t help us, because you have to be able to see what a person is made of from the inside first. If a person is not sincere about their feelings for you as a woman it will come through eventually.

How? Just by the persons actions, if they cause the person more pain, suffering and even financial loss, etc, etc, then that person is not someone who loves sincerely. Yes, “you might love the person—but the person don’t necessarily love you too, or I should say their love for you doesn’t run as deep.” Everything always comes down to a persons actions. If they treat you kindly and with respect then they have good intentions. Plus it’s all about follow through. You have to watch and see how soon they drop the ball on you, because insincere people can never fake it for long. Their true self always comes out in the end. No you can never fake your personality, your personality is like your DNA it is embedded in you, you can never fake that, no matter how much you try. If they treat you disrespectfully, then they are not been sincere. I have to be honest by saying that sometimes we women see the signs, yes the signs and yes, I will say I am guilty of that, yep! Guilty as charged, oh, my, gosh! We see the signs that the person is not right for us, but we either ignore it, or we try to tell ourselves that what see can’t possible be true, because the person outward appearances says otherwise. Yep!

Sometimes you ask yourself when you meet someone and they treat you disrespectfully without any regard has to how much they have hurt us, and you wonder “How could someone look so nice and so pleasant have such a mean spirit and show such lack of compassion?” Your kinda left stunned as a woman wondering why would someone behave the way they did. What possessed them to react the way they did? Not out of love, no. They must have reacted due to some other reasons not known. When you can’t figure out why you just leave it alone and move on with your life, yes just move on with your life and God will always open up another door for us in life. Let the person who treated you badly, let them live with their actions on their conscience you just leave them in God’s hands. At some point in time they will see what they have done and realize the impact of their actions and then hopefully they will learn from their actions that what they did was not right. Sometimes when people do things to hurt me, I sometimes wonder if they don’t think about the future. Especially in terms of their children. One day they too will have children, “would they want anyone to treat their daughter that way?” A very, very important question for them to ask themselves. Before we hurt others we should all try to think about the consequences of our actions first and the impact it could have on a persons life.

When you fall hard for someone and it didn’t work out, my best advice is, pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on with your life. Always, always, look on the brighter side of life, always. I remember watching a movie once with actor John Cusack and he was saying in the movie that everytime you fall in love and your heart gets broken your heart expands and get bigger. So when you meet a new person and you fall in love with them, your heart then opens up more for this new person coming into your life. Yeah, I think that is true, Love is infinite right. It is endless, so yes, if your heart gets broken you can fall in love with someone else again. It happens to many people all over the world everyday. So, yes that statement by John is indeed true.

Another door always opens for us in life, God never, ever leaves us alone, he always has a plan, always. I always say, just leave everything in God’s hands he can see everything, even if you can’t he can, so just let him do his work, just trust in him. Nothing is ever hidden from God. Like I mentioned before, God will always open up another door for you, where there is a will there is a way, God never ever leaves our side, even when you think God have let you down, he didn’t he’s right there. So, never lose faith in God, never. Even if something bad happen to you in life, don’t blame God. Remember there is good and bad in this world God would love to save all of us but he can’t. He will however, stay by your side for as long as it takes and help as much as he can.

If you watch the Lil Wayne video you will see what I mean. About the fact that, unfortunately many women end up on the wrong side of life, but like the video shows if we make wise choices our lives could turn out really good and happy. Here is the link for the actual video: Lil Wayne Video: How to Love

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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When You Need Help in Tough Times

Lord, I come before Your throne right now with confidence, knowing that because I am Your child, Your mercy is extended to me. I need Your mercy and grace to be manifested in my life in great measure today. I face difficult things, and I know I cannot meet these challenges without Your help. Enable me to walk through them successfully or lift me out of them completely. I know You will bring good out of the difficult times I go through, and I thank You for the miracles You will do in my life in the process.

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4:16

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Yes, this is just a short list of what I am listening to this weekend, Have a great Weekend Everyone!

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Featured Musician of the Week: “Lil Wayne”

Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. is 29 yrs.old, better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. (Lil wayne and one his daughter’s seen in picture.) Lil Wayne was born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. and grew up in the Hollygrove neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana. Carter was born when his mother, a chef, was 19 years old. His parents were divorced when he was 2, and his father permanently abandoned the family. At age 13, he accidentally shot himself with a 9 mm handgun, and off-duty police officer Robert Hoobler drove him to the hospital, he almost died. After earning his GED, Wayne enrolled at the University of Houston in January 2005. He dropped out in the same year due to his conflicting schedule. He also revealed on The View that he switched to the University of Phoenix and majored in psychology taking online courses. Lil Wayne is a practicing Christian,who takes time to read the Bible regularly.

Yep, love this song from Lil Wayne digging the beat and the lyrics…Enjoy.

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Released May 25, 2011

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Love, Love, Love this song, by Karl Wolf and Kardinal Offishall can’t stop listening to it, of course the
reggae beat mixed with a bit of hip hop, is cool…enjoy!

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Pitbull and Marc Anthony love this song…enjoy.

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The Difference between Love and Hate

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Booster Shots For Living

Love forced is always false love and yes, filled with hate, no respect and is not authentic or genuine.

It is 12:011 am and I am watching Eat Street on the Food Network. How boring is that? Oh, my gosh! I can’t flipping sleep. Well, I don’t feel like sleeping that’s what I should say. I need some mommy me time, yep! That is what I need, sometime for me to just relax, take a break, chill out, yep.

I am a happy mom my daughter won a trip to the Air Canada Centre to see Nelly Furtado and Joe Jonas and others. Out of the grade 7 & 8 class in her school only 13 kids made the list. I had to help her write a paragraph on leadership in schools it had to do with a global cause so we choose a topic I felt passionate about “Child Labour in Factories in India and China.” She won! Good for her. She was like “mom your so awesome,” I am like, “Okay, I will take that, I’ll take that.” We moms know that we don’t get called awesome alot at all. I don’t get called awesome alot around here too often, so I will take that, too funny, oh, my, gosh! Later I asked her I said, “can I get awesome in writing please?” Yeah, I am happy for her.

Today will leave me with just 7 weeks for me to leave this place I once called home. I have been really busy getting my new apartment move-in-ready after ending a 17 year marriage. I was lucky to find a nice little place in a residential neighbourhood, I didn’t want to put my kids in a high rise apartment. They have a backyard to play in so that’s good. I wanted to make my two kids as comfortable as possible. They both requested their favourite colours so, I have been painting and cleaning, like crazy. I have no life, no life, gosh! I can’t wait to move in and just breathe and catch my breath. What a journey, only God would have had the power to help me to get to this stage of my Journey. Thank you God, for everything.

Anyway, my topic this week is learning to know the difference between Love and Hate or between real authentic love and false love.

The Difference between Love and Hate

Demanding someone loves you shows that you have no self-confidence and shows immaturity. The love that is been offered is cold and void of true love and is not authentic or real love. It is forced love. When a man doesn’t take “No” for an answer, right away you know as a woman that they are “Controllers and Dictators.” These people tend to be “emotionally abusive,” and in many cases “physically abusive.” I want no one like this in my life, thank you very much, and don’t think I don’t know how to spot people like this, I do.

Ladies if a man is forcing or demanding you love him this man will turn out to be an abusive man to be with in a relationship. If a man is disrespecting your rights as a human being as a woman and cannot respect the fact that you don’t love him or will ever love him, then that man is definately not the kind of man you want in your life. A man who “forces himself on a woman have no respect for himself or you.” If he has no respect for himself it means the person is incapable of loving the woman or themselves. This is a “Huge Red Flag” and warning sign for a woman. Anytime a man is forcing you to love him “he doesn’t have your best interest at heart, he doesn’t care for you, about your feelings and he doesn’t value you as a woman.” Harsh, but true. Yes, they say the truth hurts, but it will also set you free.

The man usually have a hidden agenda. He is driven by “Lust not love.” People need to know the difference. Love is calm, respectful, kind, appreciative, warm, generous, forgiving, compassionate and offers the person the freedom to be themselves without restrictions and true love radiates light and happiness for those whom the person cares for. On the other hand, lust is driven by force, intimidation, ruthlessness, lack of respect, short-term gain. Basically, lust is like “Empty Calories.” Once the thrill of the chase is over and the person has achieved their objective in fulfilling their desire then “their interests dies.” Lust is empty and is always void of true love. It is fueled by hate, and lack of respect to the woman.

When a man is demanding a woman loves him it means he “Lacks self-confidence as a man.” Men who continuously demands that a woman loves them are lazy partners to be with in a relationship. Yes, they are the kind of men who are lazy in relationships they want the women to do all the work, they are also the kind of men that don’t want to do the work in trying to find a partner for themselves. So, instead they harass the woman, become a stalker or try to intimidate the women into loving them.

I am a strong, independent woman and no man, yes, no man like this will ever be welcomed into my life. If I didn’t love you at first sight it means I don’t love you or I am not inlove with you. If I say, “I don’t love you.” Don’t try to force me to love you, it will never work. For me that’s a huge red flag. Women, any man that say something to the effect of “ I will make you love me,” Is a “Controller, Dictator and Abuser and doesn’t respect your rights has a woman.” You can’t force anyone to love you it will only lead to disaster.

Self-esteem is a huge issue with men like these. Men who are confident in themselves don’t demand women love them and don’t act like a 2 year old child. A confident man knows if a woman says “no, I am not inlove with you,” they may feel disappointed BUT they know life is for living and if it didn’t work out with a particular woman then it was not meant to be and that the universe will very soon have someone lined up for them around the corner. They know they just have to be patient.

When a confident man believes in himself he acts accordingly. He knows without a doubt that the right person for him will materialize very soon. A man without confidence in himself though, will “persecute a woman, insult her, demand she loves him and make her life a living hell,” just like that guy portrayed in the Dr.Phil video. Just because the woman doesn’t love him back, he’s now going to insult her and make her feel horribly and unhappy. Men like these need to work on themselves, seriously work on themselves and grow up and stop acting like children.

Which woman out there wants men like these? Not me, I don’t. Men like these have too many issues to deal with, and they seriously need to go work on themselves first before getting into any relationship—especially if they plan on committing to marriage. Their job has nothing to do with their personal well-being. A man might have a successful job or business but when it comes to relationships they fail in the love department because they lack self-esteem and confidence. There are deep rooted issues that these men need to resolve before going into a committed long-term relationship, such as marriage.

I have two children, as a mom I will babysit my children but having learnt from past life experiences, I refuse going forward in my new life to babysit a grown man. The man I see in my minds eye must be confident, self-assured and value me as a person and who is willing to fight for my honor, and respect me as a person. A man who don’t expect perfection because he knows that he himself is not perfect and that we all make mistakes in life. It is how we rise above our mistakes and trials that makes us who we are—that’s what makes us special and separates us from the people who feel they are perfect and it’s a crime if we make mistakes in life. The man is confident in himself and doesn’t demand a woman loves him and have respect for women. I don’t need no “Controller or an Emotionally Abusive man in my life,” thank you very much, life is way too short for that. Plus, I love myself too much and I need to not only live my life in the right way but I have to set an example for my daughter and son to follow—as well, I want nothing less for myself. So, don’t force yourself on me and demand I love you, because it will not happen.

This Is For Women

If a man is demanding you love him or is forcing himself to be in a relationship with you. “It is a huge red flag and warning sign.” Why? Respect. The man clearly has no respect for you as a woman. Has the relationship progresses, the respect deteriorates, because he had no respect for you from the beginning. Yes, at first things are fine, he will pretend to give you full autonomy in making decisions when it comes to both of you. He will pretend and act like, “Oh, I give you the opportunity to be independent and for you to make whatever decisions you want, he will be like, “oh, honey it’s your choice you decide.” Don’t let that fool you. Men like these can’t keep up the “charade” for long. Remember, men who demands that a woman loves them are “Controllers.” They will never change. Eventually, like I say the respect deteriorates. They eventually become “Emotionally Abusive and sometimes Physically Abusive.” Men who are controllers also have a “Filthy Temper.” These men tend to lie alot too, they can never tell the truth about anything. (See the videos I offered from Dr.Phil this guy lies like crazy)

No matter how much they hide their lack of respect from the woman at the initial stage of the relationship. Eventually, their bad temper shows up. It’s not a matter of if they will show their temper—it’s a matter of when. Another thing with men who are “Controllers,” most of them are the “Betrayers.” They tend to keep the woman isolated from everyone and they are great manipulators. They use their lack of respect for the women to try and break down the woman’s self-confidence over time. Which eventually deteriorates the relationship. This now creates major conflict in the relationship. Then these same men use the conflict as an excuse to betray the woman. When they betray the woman they then turn around and blame the women for the betrayal. How sick is that? All manipulation. So, controlling men and manipulators goes hand in hand. Why? You can never please a controller. They will never be satisfied with anything you do for them, very selfish people, it’s always “Me, Me, Me.” Not us. It’s all about them and how they feel, what they want, how everybody must bow to them and comply to their wishes and do what they want. Huge Ego these men, Huge.

“Everyone must comply with their wishes or suffer the consequences or die—You either do what they want or they will beat you to a pulp and harass you or make your life a living hell not only for you as a woman but everyone around them must suffer the consequences. Give me what I want and make me happy or you will live to regret it.”

For Men

When a woman does not love you, is not inlove with you, or doesn’t want to be in a relationship with you, OR she didn’t express to you verbally that she wants to be in a relationship with you, don’t persecute the woman, insult her and belittle her and become a maniac if the woman doesn’t want to be with you—for crying out loud grow up and be a man about it!

Not only will it end in disaster, but the woman will feel nothing but resentment for you, neither will she have any respect for you. Find someone who loves you back. The right person for you will show up eventually that far exceeds your expectation and matches your temperament and personality. Overall, don’t demand, dictate, or force a woman to love you. It will never materialize into anything. Especially marriage, something I have some experience with. If you are a man and you are forcing a woman to love you, especially if you are thinking of committing to marriage you are in essence:

“forcing the woman to lie to you, forcing her to lie to herself and her family, your family and friends that she loves you when she doesn’t. Especially if you are committing to marriage, basically you want the woman to lie before God, lie before her family and friends on her wedding day and say she loves you when she doesn’t.”

If a man wants a woman to lie to God about how she really feels inside then that man is not for her. I would tell my daughter not to enter any relationship with any man like this. That is one thing a man should never, ever try or attempt to try with me—they would be crossing the line of major disrespect to me as a woman of faith who believes in following God’s Spiritual laws, “Don’t ever ask me to lie to God—Never.” I respect God way too much and love and respect myself too much. Ever since God appeared to me as a small child, I have come to love and respect God and I keep God very close to me and so does God, if someone wants me to lie to God and myself about how I feel, I am sorry, I will choose God over them. I will not lie to God and say I love someone when I don’t love them especially if I were getting married to someone, “Why on earth would I lie to God in front of friends and family on such a special day, especially if I was getting married—about how I feel for someone?”

—I would never do that. My Grandmother Verona always say this when someone gets her upset or they are forcing her to do something she doesn’t want to do she always say, “ I will not sin myself for anyone.” I say the same thing too, “I will not commit a sin for anyone--Amen.”

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Stormie Omartian Prayer of the Day
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When You Need to Renew Your Mind

Lord, I praise You and worship You above all things. You are Lord over my life, and I invite You to be Lord over my thoughts as well. I don't want to have any ungodly, foolish, or futile thoughts in my mind at any time. I don't want my thoughts to control my life unless they are thoughts of You and Your Word. Help me to make praise and worship an ongoing part of my life so that wrong thoughts never find a place to reside in my mind.

Although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Romans 1:21

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Deepak Chopra is an expert in his field and yes, Deepak is right. Love is Louder. Love, true authentic love will always surpass hate or false love. That is what he is saying. Controllers are bullies. Why? Lack of self-esteem causes people to bully others into intimidation. Most people now in society also realizes nowadays that some bullies can become physically violent not only with strangers or families members but also with their own partner in a relationship. So, true what Deepak says.

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The Overall message from these two videos from Dr.Phil’s show is that, men like these have way too big a ego and yes, they don’t respect women. They think women are beneath them, they expect a woman must love them, because they are successful in their careers and they earn a six figure income. Especially if the woman earns less than them or doesn’t have a successful career as them. These men always make the woman feel like they are doing the woman a favour. It’s like “I have lots of money, so you must love me, bow to me, if you don’t love me your life will never be fruitful, successful or happy.” Please give me a break!

“Listen a woman will date a guy who takes the bus or walk to work and earn less money if he’s a nice guy, and treats her with respect rather than date a guy who have a bad attitude or a man who lacks self-confidence in himself, always remember that.”

Like the guy in the video the girl rejects him and now he insults her by saying she must be fat. This man is immature, selfish, lacks respect for himself and women. Most importantly, the fact that he calls her fat immediately is a sounding alarm for me---“This guy in a relationship with any woman will be emotionally abusive to any woman he dates—It’s obvious he doesn’t respect the rights of women.” So, if the woman “lord forbids, puts on a little weight during the relationship he would insult her or dump her?” Calling the woman fat, and getting angry because she rejects him, is a huge red flag. Guys like these seriously need to work on themselves. They need to take sometime and work on their issues before dating anyone or think about getting married to anyone at all. These guys never see their own faults or shortcomings, yet they are always quick to point the finger at someone else and degrade a woman and try to crush her self-esteem because she doesn’t love them. Their Ego is way too big for themselves. They need to learn to be humble and respectful first, but first they need to respect and love themselves, otherwise they will never have a successful relationship with anyone. Look for men like these to always want people to do what is “Unethical, Unjust and Unfair to make them happy, they have no morals or values—None and yes, they don’t respect women.” If they did respect the woman they would say, “you know what, the woman is not interested I will move on and find someone else, not belittle, insult or harass the woman to eternity just because she is not interested in them.”

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Jessica Danielle Andrews is 27 years old and lives in Huntingdon, Tennessee. She is an American country music singer.
When she was seven, a bone was growing through her spinal cord, a condition that required surgery. She had a 50/50 chance of coming out of it paralyzed. Andrews learned her passion for singing in the fourth grade.

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