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Bitter Rage

“The room erupted with bitter rage because of this Sabbath-day healing. And from that moment on, the religious leaders plotted among themselves about how they might harm Jesus.” Luke 6:11TPT

Bitter rage! This phrase stops me dead in my tracks! Why would this mind set be included in this Bible story? Luke 6:6-11.

Our text comes from the ending of the story about a man with a deformed hand. Everyone was at church. Scribes, Pharisees, religious leaders, Jesus Himself, a high ranking Rabbi, all coming together to read the scriptures and worship God.

There in their midst was this man with a deformed hand. [We’ve seen these people in every walk of life. Some hands deformed from birth, others by accidents or strokes. Whatever the pre-condition was, this man was unable to work like others or live like others.

What is anger?— Per psychiatry— is often caused by an emotional hurt, conscious or subconscious. Using this definition let us dig deeper into this story. Is it possible the Scribes and Pharisees were a bit jealous of Jesus? Already, Jesus had performed many miracles. Lives changed forever. Some of these leaders had been around for years, never having been granted power by God to heal anyone. Could these leaders have felt slighted by God causing them to be subconsciously jealous?

The key in my mind is the word, ‘bitter.’ I’ve known angry people, those filled with rage. Those who flew apart at the slightest provocation; Spewed harmful words like volcanic lava;. Threw and broke things; then apologized later.

‘Bitter’ with the word rage indicates a slow, long-simmering, seething-rage which plots revenge— cold-blooded merciless revenge. To my way of thinking this type of rage is demonically fed.

Genesis 4:4-5, 8ESV “…the Lord had regard for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering He had no regard. So Cain was very angry, and his face fell. …Cain spoke to Abel, his brother. And when they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.” The first occurrence of bitter rage ended with plotted and committed murder. Cain, Adam’s offspring, fell from the pride issue of his parents to hate turned murder.

What did Jesus say about being angry? Matthew 5:22ESV “But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire.” Perhaps this doesn’t equal ‘bitter’ rage, but it shows how seriously Jesus considered the passions of anger.

How do we stop rage? Love alone can quell the passion of emotions. Our hearts and souls must be brought to Jesus, allowing Him to live and love through us. There’s always a second where each of us can choose how to feel. We must refuse to be controlled by emotions. Every problem in this world is caused by two things— selfishness and ‘bitter rage.’ You can be a part of the problem or part of the solution. Which way will you go? It’s your choice. You choose.

PRAYER: Holy God, the same spirit that crucified Jesus is working to destroy us. Fill us with Your love. Help us love even our enemies, in Jesus’ name I pray.

Based On The Facts

“Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.” Hebrews 11:1NKJV

Volumes have been written on the subject of faith. Believer’s faith has to founded on Jesus Christ— Mark 12:10-11ESV “Have you not read this Scripture“ ‘The stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone;  this was the Lord’s doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?” The foundation of all things of faith in Jesus Christ.

Apostle John puts it this way John 1:1-3NIV “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made.”

Even our salvation begins in Him. Jesus said, per John 14:6NIV “…No one comes to the Father except through Me.” Not one person can suddenly decide, ‘I think I’ll become a Christ Believer today.’ It’s not in our nature to head for God but away from Him. We are drawn to Christ by Holy Spirit like a moth to a flame.

When faith comes to become born again— aka saved— it doesn’t come from inside of us, but rather is supplied to us. “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God” Ephesians 2:8NIV. This faith for salvation isn’t something a person finally reads enough scripture to believe, (see Romans 10:17). Faith begins and ends in Jesus Christ. He is the sum total of FACTS that the entire foundation of the scriptures rest upon.

This process is called ‘born again’ because the spirit inside of every human body is dead. All spirits died in Genesis 3, when Adam and Eve partook of the forbidden fruit. Spiritual death was immediate and came to all humans born thereafter, except Jesus Christ, because He had no seed of man in Him. His seed came for God Himself. What God had intended to have a vibrant life as His friend, instead came through every birth delivery dead.

Once man’s-woman’s spirit comes alive to God through Christ Jesus the spirit life is based on the facts of the Bible. People would like to do away with the Bible as a fiction book, but it’s proven to be 100% accurate in historical facts.

When we base our lives on the facts of the Bible, faith comes continually as a gift from God. Jesus said it didn’t take much faith, “…If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it will obey you.” Luke 17:6NIV. Well I’m not too sure I’ve got a mustard seed sized faith because I’ve never commanded a tree to go jump in the ocean. But I have enough faith to pray and believe God will answer those prayers. Do you?

You can have more faith, just by asking, like the boy’s father who prayed— “Immediately the boy’s father exclaimed, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!” Mark 9:24NIV. Or not. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God Hebrews 12:2 says Jesus is the Author and Finisher of our faith. Help us to have more and more faith based on the facts of the Bible, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Set Time

“For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall My word be that goes out from My mouth; it shall not return to Me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.” Isaiah 55:10-11ESV

Before Dad was crippled in an auto accident, we gardened a 110’ by 40’ garden plot. We grew, canned, and froze the household’s food for the fall, winter, and spring. It didn’t take years for me to figure out a bean seed wouldn’t grow corn or vice versa. Whatever we put in the ground came up as the plant producing the same seed. That simple seed was pregnant with another plant to reproduce itself.

Our text scripture tells us how rains and snow are pregnant with growth for seeds producing food for everyone to eat. Next we’re told that Yahweh’s Words carry the seed of whatever He desires to create or grow. He speaks words pregnant with whatever He desires. Example: Genesis 3:15NIV “…I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head, and you will strike His heel.” This was spoken at the beginning of time, aka Garden of Eden— like 4000 years before it happened. Those words carried the power to create the woman’s offspring 62 generations later.

Today, we believers read-hear a prophecy, or have someone give us a personal prophetic word. (I’ve been so guilty of this.) Writing the prophecy down as such-and-such-date. Then we start looking at the calendar, — ‘it’s been two weeks since God said that. Why is it taking so long to come.’ Or we begin wondering if the words spoken are false.

In 1984 a prophet spoke a prophecy over me. Later, in 1986 another word was spoken over me with further details added to what the first prophecy spoke. Then in 2000 another prophecy came to me regarding the first prophecy. Little old me began wondering if the prophecy would occur before I died, (as I’m getting older.) Suddenly, it hit me square in the head— what if the prophecies are all for one of my offspring yet to come. Galatians 4;4NIV “But when the set time had fully come, God sent His Son…” Yahweh Adonai has a set time— not a minute before or later.

Solomon explained in Ecclesiastes 3:1NLT “For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven.” The set time will not be late by even sixty seconds, for my prophetic event, for every word spoken by the Lord will come to pass— it is impregnated with enough power to bring life at the right moment. All we have to do is wait. There’s no need to worry or try to help something along. God’s words will come to pass. Do you believe it? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God whatever You have said will be done. Help us please to become patient in waiting. Thank You, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Vulnerable Children

“…Anyone who welcomes a little child like this on My behalf is welcoming me.” Matthew 18:5NLT

Working for the children’s ministry is one of the most difficult jobs for any church and pastor to fill. Parents who head up this department head out the door as soon as their children age out of children’s church. To many smaller congregations there is no option for hiring a children’s pastor.

Children’s areas are also highly sought after by satan. He sends in child predators, pedophiles, and those without a relationship with Jesus in authoritative positions in the children department. A pastor can’t be too careful with the background checks necessary to protect his vulnerable children.

We had a couple in one church who became very angry and left the church because they weren’t allowed to work in the children’s department. They made lots of noise about background checks being ridiculous. Within a year it became known they participated in a group of married ‘swingers.’

A son-in-law of one former church member was led to go pray on the neighborhood school playground. As he walked around praying in tongues the swings began swinging violently. The merry-go-round began spinning at top speed. Noises came from all around the area. Demons didn’t like his intercession prayers in their area. Since that time he’s gone back there to pray often.

Cartoons have been headed into the demonic realm for years. Disney promoted witches, fairies, genies etc. and parents sat their children in front of the demonic garbage to have them ‘make-believe’…..yeah sure take your precious gift from God and induce them to imagine they’re a fairy princess— really? Video games glorify murder. Pokemon and YuGiOh playing cards are active parts of witchcraft cults in Japan. Matthew 18:6 says there’s a hotter place in hell for those who hurt children.

Christ has heard the cries of the children. Some are trafficked, some are horribly abused, some can’t articulate from neglect. For several years now Holy Spirit has been telling the prophets that He’s going to begin a revival in grade-school age children. Healings, prayers, and salvation will be pouring out of the children as they gather in compassion around others in need.

I can this happening. In the 1990’s I attended the Brownsville Revival in Pensacola Florida. One a couple of occasions I happened past the children’s meeting rooms as the children lay on the floor praying and crying out to God for souls in the adult services. Also, the teens would meet for prayer long before the services started. Watching those teens circle the outer perimeter of the auditorium, then bend and groan as if they were giving birth to a baby, ushered in the full alter calls as lives were changed, was amazing.

Yes, the children are vitally important to God! They are examples to adults of trust— aka faith in God. My friend told of her two year-old great-grandson. He climbed the ladder to the highest slide at the park. Suddenly he decided to not go down the slide and jumped off the ladder towards his dad several feet below. This child totally trusted his dad would catch him. Jesus said we must trust Him just like the little child trusted his dad. Matthew 18:3AMP “I assure you and most solemnly say to you, unless you repent [that is, change your inner self—your old way of thinking, live changed lives] and become like children [trusting, humble, and forgiving], you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”

Our position is to protect our children; teach them to believe and trust 100% in Jesus Christ from babies upwards; live out Christianity in front of them everyday; expect Daniel in the lion’s den miracles in their lives. Then trust Yahweh Adonai to bring them the rest of the way through. But will we? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Father God the children need You desperately. Help them to be kept from the evil one, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Anointing Is There

“…When in time to come your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you shall say to him, ‘By a strong hand the  LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery” Exodus 13:14ESV

What Moses was instructing the Israelites to do is called —bear witness. There’s not enough word space in this devotional to follow the words ‘bear witness’ to the climatic end.

Let’s do this quickly, ‘bear’ in its simplistic form means to ‘carry.’ ‘Witness’ means ‘the act of seeing or confirming something.’

What is the origin of ‘witness?’ ‘To personally observe or be present for an event.’ Hence our text verse is an instruction to those who personally observed something ‘done.’ The Israelites were to ‘tell’ anyone asking— this is what God did and saw Him do it.

Messianic Jews today believe that everything comes full circle— what was will circle back and be again. What happened has a potential anointing to accomplish again what happened before. Anything witnessed can come again out of the words spoken telling what was seen. How? Words are pregnant with power forpgood or for evil…. Proverbs 18:21ESV “Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruits.”

These Messianic Jews are so convinced of the anointing carried in words that when someone is ill, they will send those who’ve been healed from the same sickness to go ‘testify’ to the healing over the person who is ill. End result— the sick person recovers.

We believe in this and testify— bear witness to the fact that Jesus died on the cross, rose from the dead three days later, and is now seated with God in heaven. When we testify to this event, there is enough power in these words and in the blood of Jesus to bring sinners into salvation. Regularly people give their lives to Christ Jesus on the testimony of whoever is bearing witness— attesting to— declaring truth.

This is why we must share the truthful witness to everyone. Mark 16:15-16NLT “… then he told them, “Go into all the world and preach the Good News to everyone. Anyone who believes and is baptized will be saved. But anyone who refuses to believe will be condemned.” Without the witness no one would be saved.

—When we share our salvation story with our children, the anointing is there to see them born again. —When we share our healing story with others, the anointing is there for them to be healed. —When we share our story of miraculous income in the time of great need, the anointing is there for the same type of miracle to happen in the lives of those listeners.

Anyone qualifies to receive the anointing because Acts 10:34ESV says “…“Truly I understand that God shows no partiality,” If He has done something for one person, He’ll do it again for others. But —will we believe— that’s the only qualifier. We must believe in the testimony of the witness. Do you believe this? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God all of us have a tendency to believe that the testimony is true for another time and person. Please help us believe that You have anointed the testimony to accomplish what happened then in the here and now for us, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

The Merry-Go-Round

“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn

and fools hate knowledge?” Proverbs 1:22BSB

Children tend towards selfishness, sinfulness, and impudence towards parents and God. Proverbs 22:15NIV says: “Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline will drive it far away.” Discipline is necessary according to God to remove these tendencies. 

Yet, even with discipline some children refuse to learn. Truthfully, it boggles my mind how these people can spend a lifetime going around and around on the merry-go-round of sin-heartache-no-peace without ever wanting to get off. 

There’s an acquaintance who has an adult-child who has “love(d) your simple ways” riding the merry-go-round. Over the years, I’ve watched this adult-child choose the road of hard-knocks repeatedly, always without understanding the deep need for Jesus Christ. Solomon’s wisdom tells us— Proverbs 13:15KJV “Good understanding giveth favour: but the way of transgressors is hard.”

Proverbs 13:18AMP “Poverty and shame will come to him who refuses instruction and discipline, But he who accepts and learns from reproof or censure is honored.”

As I’ve prayed for my acquaintance’s adult-child recently, It struck me— I’m only remotely involved in love and concern. But Yahweh God and the mother!!! Totally different story!  Momma doesn’t give up on her adult-child. She constantly holds this child before Yahweh. God absolutely loves this adult-child, which is why my acquaintance was chosen to be  Momma. He knew this woman wouldn’t let go of Him in prayer for her adult-child begging to draw this heart to Him. Only Holy Spirit can rescue the adult-child’s heart from the realm of darkness. One day He will draw the adult-child into the Kingdom of heaven. His grace is unending.

Then I think of the wayward ones in my own family. My love is endless towards them, no matter what they’ve done wrong. God feels the same way about them. I’m praying, interceding, asking God to bring them into salvation. There’s only two things which we can do for those we love— “pray without ceasing.” 1Thessalonians 5:17ESV 

AND “giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,” Ephesians 5:20ESV for all He’s doing in their lives. 

Do you have prodigal adult-children you’ve prayed for years on end. Are you praying and interceding for family members now? He hears. Will you believe the salvation is coming? It’s your choice. You choose. 

LET’S PRAY:  Father God we intercede for the souls of our loved ones and friends. Draw them, we pray, into Your loving arms, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray. ,

by Debbie Veilleux

The Depression Trap

“In the year that King Uzziah died, I had a vision of the LORD. He was on His throne high above, and His robe filled the temple.” Isaiah 6:2CEV

Uzziah was the last godly king in Judah’s history before they were captured and moved to Babylon. Isaiah was a young man when Uzziah reigned for 52 years. Pride puffed up Uzziah’s heart. He entered the Temple and burned incense before God, the priests’ role alone. Then he left the temple as a leper.

How this sin must’ve grieved the heart of Isaiah, because he knew full well that none of Uzziah’s children were fit to take the throne in serving God by leading His people. What do we do when deep disappointment and heartbreak come?

When Lou became sick with Lewy Body Dementia I fasted and prayed; stood on God’s promises of healing; fought the fight of faith believing that God would heal him….. His condition worsened. Before Lou’s death I found myself fighting constantly against the facts I was seeing. He became more like a child while I prayed. Down to the last couple of weeks, I kept boldly praying and claiming his healing. Then came the point, where I had to release him to God’s will. My heart was breaking many different ways but the worst way was in thinking I had failed Louis in praying Lou through to healing.

Can we see Isaiah at this same point of disappointment and heartbreak I experienced? How could God actually take the last chance for a godly king for Isaiah’s nation of Judah. At his deepest disappointment God revealed Himself sitting upon the lofty throne. Isaiah saw the train of Yahweh’s robe. A huge train on the robe meant the king had vanquished every foe— even death? even pride? even leprosy? After all, there’s no limit to God’s throne.

The verses following our text reveal fiery angels flying about declaring to each other how holy Yahweh is. Their crescendos of volume escalated, as they circled the throne worshiping Jehovah God. Seeing these angels, seeing Yahweh on His throne comforted Isaiah. He could trust that God knew enough to know what He was doing.

I wasn’t blessed to see Yahweh Adonai on His throne. There were no circling angels declaring His great and awesome power for me. Instead, I had to believe God had a better plan. Facing the fact that Lou wouldn’t be there to take care of me was scary. In God’s mercy, He made known to me in two dreams, and one act of kindness that He would continue taking care of me Himself, as He’d done through Lou all those years. And He has been true to what He said.

We can look at disappointments and easily fall into the depression trap. Or we can look at disappointments, trusting that Romans 8:28ESV will prove true— “…We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to His purpose.” Will you trust that He knows what He’s doing? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Almighty God trusting You is rarely easy. Everything in us wants to take control. Help us to go against our normal tendencies totally trusting You, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Today’s Lepers

“When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him. And a leper came up to Him and bowed down before Him, saying, “Lord, if You are willing, You are able to make me clean (well).” Jesus reached out His hand and touched him, saying, “I am willing; be cleansed.” Immediately his leprosy was cleansed.” Matthew 8:1-3AMP

In Matthew 5-7 Jesus gave the sermon on the mount, the ‘Beatitudes,’ how to be blessed, how to pray, and the importance of not judging others. He attracted huge crowds of people desiring to be healed.

Next chapter: On the way down the mountain Jesus ran into a man who wasn’t allowed to join the large crowds listening to Him— a leper. This man has been ostracized from society, his family, any workplace, from livelihood, everything which the average person had—all because of an infectious disease. Instead of moving freely among others, he had to cry out— ‘leper’ whenever he moved about.

As I pondered this, I thought about today’s ‘lepers.’ Who? Poor. Homeless. Drug Addicts. Mildly insane or cognitively impaired. Street corner prostitutes. All of those people who by personal choice, or incapacity have quit participating in society like other people.

Jesus got down on the leper’s level and touched him. This touch was a BIG DEAL. Religious leaders wouldn’t touch him. At the point of this touch, Jesus was now supposedly unclean. He was to begin proclaiming that He, the Christ, was unclean. His deity from the indwelling Holy Spirit was so powerful that His power absorbed the leprosy, cleansing the man and Himself completely and immediately.

When Jesus left earth for heaven, He issued a command— “…Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation. Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned. And these signs will accompany those who believe: in my name they will cast out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.” Mark 16:15-18ESV. We have the same power Jesus possessed. The authority to use this power to heal others.

Now the “pick up serpents” thing, I believe means handling serpents are what would be considered crooks, murderers, reprobates like a ‘leper’ because of the station in life. Perhaps a harlot, a pimp, politician would be considered a serpent.

I can tell everyone for sure that the “drink any deadly poison” is for us today. Most of everything we have available to eat is contaminated by carcinogens, and a plethora of other harmful chemicals. Some foods are even plastic. Literally the global elites would like to see 6 billion of us dead. No matter what Trump and RFKennedy are trying to do the trillions of dollars are already flowing to see our demise.

We only have Jesus on our side. He’s still coming back down off of the mountain to meet what is considered by the insanely rich to be ‘deplorables.’ Jesus holds the keys to death in His possession. Will you trust Him to meet you at your point of need, to cure what’s wrong with you? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Father God I thank You from the source of my being for all that Jesus did in Bible times and even today. Deliver us from all evil I pray in the name of Jesus Christ.

Imagine The Joy

“The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon Me, because He has anointed Me [the Anointed One, the Messiah] to preach the good news (the Gospel) to the poor; He has sent Me to announce release to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to send forth as delivered those who are oppressed [who are downtrodden, bruised, crushed, and broken down by calamity],” Luke 4:18AMPC

I became totally captivated as I read how Jesus spoke these words and fulfilled them for everyone to see—HOW EXCITING! In my mind’s eye, I could see some of the videos which missionaries show about the poor people with a stick for a crutch. People fumbling around because of blindness. In Jesus’ time, suddenly blind eyes were opened. Deaf ears were opened. A woman captive to curvature of the spine was released after 18 grueling, long years. Where people had no hope; no doctors; no miracle medical cures; nothing to help for their lifestyle —just suffering until death came. Can you imagine the joy?

Romans were cruel masters, whipping, or killing at whim because someone didn’t move fast enough. Taxing the people, then, taxing them again just because they could. It mattered nothing to them if the servants of Rome lived or died, ate or starved (similar to today.)

Pharisees, and Sadducees making up their own religious rules, demanding strict adherence to all of their rules that were supposedly ‘laws’ of God. They knew the letter of the ‘law’ killed, (see 2Corinthians 3:5), not caring, but adding more to its weight. Because as students of the law, they didn’t understand Yahweh Adonai at all.

Meanwhile, Jesus was about the business of showing everyone Who Father God really was. Jesus— the One Who fulfilled all the scriptural prophecies. He told the poor people the Gospel. Why? The Greek word ‘soteria’ in the Bible, for our English word ‘salvation covers 1. redemption from sin and death, 2. healing of the body, 3. prosperity equaling enough in finances, 4, welfare in relationships, and 5. peace. Jesus saw first hand what the oppression of sin did to people— saw that there wasn’t ever a reprieve from satan. Not a moment passed when satan wasn’t crushing people with the weight of shame, disease, and calamities, exactly like today.

Our text is only a portion of this prophecy picturing Him from Isaiah. Jesus knew the religious leaders couldn't understand or cope with His display of love, healing and hope. He left unsaid the rest, Isaiah 61:2-3NIV “to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn, and provide for those who grieve in Zion— to bestow on them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair…” All this was also coming to those who chose and now choose Christ as their LORD and Savior, both then and now. Jesus the most exciting and wonderful Man to ever live, God in the flesh.

Even today, Jesus continually fulfills these prophecies. Reach out to Him through His Words for your needs. He’s still in the redemption business, healing business, prosperity business, relationship business, and He’s top notch at giving peace too. What do you need? Ask Him for it. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Father God I praise You for sending Your Son Jesus to us over 2000 years ago that we could receive what Isaiah had predicted 700 years before Jesus came. You’re an awesome loving Father. Open blind eyes to see the truth, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Stuff Doesn’t Matter

“So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2Corinthians 4:18NIV

Do we fully understand the word — supernatural? AI overview says: ‘forces, events, or beings that exist outside of, or exceed, the known laws of nature and science’ ‘Beyond Scientific Explanation: Refers to phenomena that cannot be proven, measured, or explained by natural laws.’ ‘Originating from the Divine or Occult’

Entirely too many refuse to acknowledge the supernatural as originating anywhere but someplace we can see, touch, taste, smell or feel. Yet according to Genesis 1:2-4NLT “The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters. Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. Then He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” Making something out of nothing by merely saying words is supernatural.

When God spoke the words He was creating light out of darkness, the unseen realm, from the eternal. Afterwards, He created the earth, planets, plants, animals, birds, fish and finally humans. Matthew 24:35NIV “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.” From our text verse we see that earth, everything in it, and all upon it will decay, die, disappear, even the sky is temporary. God’s Word is ‘eternal,’ and the human soul— nothing can stop their existence.

We’ve got it all wrong! As Believers in Christ Jesus, because of grace, “Most assuredly, I say to you, he who hears My word and believes in Him who sent Me has everlasting life, and shall not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.” John 5:24NKJV. The born again soul will live with Christ in everlasting life— never die again— go from one form of life on earth to supernatural life in heaven.

Since this is true— why are we so concerned about what houses, clothes, automobiles, and all things temporal? Stuff doesn’t matter. Souls matter, and only souls. A missionary said at my church— ‘the only thing we can take into the realm of the supernatural is a soul.’

If we want to take our riches to heaven, there is a way to get them there. Ray Boltz sang: ‘Thank you for giving to the Lord I am a life that was changed Thank you for giving to the Lord I am so glad you gave Then another man stood before you He said "Remember the time A missionary came to your church His pictures made you cry You didn't have much money But you gave it anyway Jesus took that gift you gave And that's why I'm here today"

Everything will be changed soon, in the twinkling of an eye. “For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality.” 1Corinthians 15:53NIV. Stuff doesn’t matter then. Will you begin living for what is eternal? Time is running out. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Father God, please help us to wake people up to the fact that time is almost over. Temporary will pass and we will be left with the eternal choices we’ve made, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Two Wolves

“Lest you give your honor to others and your years to those without mercy, Lest strangers [and false teachings] take their fill of your strength and wealth and your labors go to the house of an alien [from God]— And you groan and mourn when your end comes, when your flesh and body are consumed.” Proverbs 5:9-11AMPC

There is a reported new phenomenon occurring in our nation and other nations of the world. The generation encompassing 14-20 year olds are seeking God in before unheard of numbers. They are choosing to abstain from sexual relationships of all types, choosing God’s way over what had previously become normal over the last sixty years.

Revival is causing these teens to gather for prayer meetings, Bible studies. They are often showing up on social media platforms witnessing the wonders of knowing Jesus Christ. To me, this news is a breath of fresh air long overdue in our world.

In the meantime— Holy Spirit has been declaring through the prophets that He will reveal the sins of the wicked. Believe me those sins have become abundant since the sex revolution of the 1960’s people have basically never bridled their passions— lust and anger. The darker side of lust is written in our text: without using exact medical descriptions of venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, inability to enjoy sexual life in the biblical way.

“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.” Hebrews 13:4ESV. Surprise— God is the One who invented sexuality. Disbelieving people change sexual partners more often than underwear. Each intimate act leaves a piece of both partners behind, much like putting the two sticky sides of duct tape together, then trying to cleanly separate them— impossible. Also, people interchange heterosexual for bi-sexual or homosexual copulating, bestiality, even engaging in the depravity of pedophilia. Our text says there are consequences, especially life’s end.

Recently, a video on Facebook showed a man teaching —all men are born with two wolves tethered to them. One wolf was lust, the other anger. He explained the importance of taming them, bringing them under control at all times. Either unleashed will destroy lives. Similarly, both tamed and controlled brings enjoyment in life.

During the four years of Biden, our head of the Department Homeland Security said there were around 446,000 children— teenagers, to one-year-olds LOST. Thus far, the DOJ, ICE, and DHS have found nearly 136,000 children of those children. Some of these children have reportedly been raped in the hundreds of times. Every incident committed by the unleashed wolf of lust. This says, there are VERY sexually perverted people in our nation. Add this to the load of our other national sins — sexual mutilation of children, transgender dysphoria and abortion — we deserve being destroyed.

Compassion in me calls out to Yahweh for justice for the children, and mercy for our nation. Only God can bring this double prayer to pass. Justice for sure for those involved in sex crimes on children. One such man, 54, raped and impregnated a 14 year old girl in Louisiana. He was sentenced to castration and fifty years in prison. Yay rah Louisiana for enacting a law which serves justice.

As Believers we need to support those agencies in our nation rescuing the children. Also, applaud those punishing these grievous crimes against children. On the other side, we must pray for total exposure and justice. Lastly, giving God glory for what is happening among the high school and college age teenagers. Will we? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God, we pray, COME kingdom of God! Be DONE will of God in this nation! May Your justice be served quickly, in the name of Jesus Christ.

Deserve Being Cast Aside

“In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria captured Samaria and deported the Israelites to Assyria. … All this took place because the Israelites had sinned against the LORD their God, who had brought them up out of Egypt…” 2Kings 17:6-7NIV

The backstory to this ending of the ten tribes of Israel begins in Exodus when the twelve tribes left slavery in Egypt to travel towards the land promised to their father Abraham 430 years before. Moses charged them with the laws of God and gave them covenant promises in Deuteronomy 28. In the first 14 verses God’s promises covered goodness in every area of life. Verses 15-68 solemnly warned all the curses and devastation which would come to them —if— they turned their backs on God.

Solomon’s sins caused the Lord to allow the ten tribes to be ripped away, setting up their own separate nation. Yahweh anointed Jeroboam king of the 10 tribes. One would think, if Almighty God appointed Jeroboam as their king, he could trust God with the people to not leave him and return to Judah when they worshipped Yahweh in Jerusalem. Instead he set up two golden calves for everyone to worship. From that point on Israel spiraled into depravity worse than the nations who were there before them. Jeroboam chose the curses of God to His blessings.

Judah’s kings wafted back and forth, some wicked, some following after God. Most of the kings had a mixture in their worship, leaving the high places for the people to worship instead of everyone coming to Jerusalem to worship at God’s temple. By this time, everyone had forgotten the Laws and the promises.

Hazel, king of Assyria, conquered Israel. Many were murdered and as our text said, he carried them out of their promised land to be his slaves in other nations.

Jewish Judah saw what had happened to Israel. They understood but didn’t take the warnings of the prophets either. Instead, they wandered further and further from the Lord, ending up being conquered by Babylon and carried out of their promised land to a far away land as God’s prophets prophesied.

Our forefathers covenanted with God to serve Him as a nation. Then we wandered out into evil, introducing worship of gods the native Americans had never heard of. Yahweh sent us revivals, awakenings, charismatic renewals, healing movements. Our service to God has been totally a mixture looking like the up-and-down spikes of an EKG— high serving Him, falling way down below the commitment line, even flat-lining. Bless God we have the covenant of Jesus Christ and grace, not the law as the Israelites had. Where we deserve being cast aside for our evil doings we’ve received grace.

President Trump called for the church to humble ourselves in prayer and repentance in April 2026. This ended with the rededication of our nation to God on May 17, 2026. We now have an opportunity of having a Hezekiah moment of tearing down the high places. Yahweh’s hope is to grant us a reset. What’s necessary is to pray and beg God to keep us from becoming proud as Hezekiah did in his last fifteen years. “So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor.” 1Peter 5:6NLT Our focus must remain on our dire need we have for Yahweh, the God of mercy and grace in every area of our lives.

Will you humble yourself? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God we desperately need You to keep us from going the way of the wicked, evil kings of Israel. Please help us LORD to look to You alone, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Mixture

“And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, just as his father Amaziah had done. Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense there.”2Kings 15:3-4BSB

Several places throughout 2Kings our text iss reiterated. The negligence in this was all of the offerings were to be made in the manner and place prescribed by the LORD God. Nothing else was acceptable to Him. Before the temple was built by Solomon, there were altars erected in many places for sacrifice and worshiping Yahweh. From Solomon forward until Jesus this was considered a sinful mixture to sacrifice anywhere other than the temple. 

Then came Christ. He was sacrificed just outside of the temple mount on the cross of Golgotha. It is thought the hill was referenced— place of the skull— because this was supposedly where David had buried the head of Goliath. In Christ’s death we find the punishment and payment for every sin and mixture of sin that had been or would be committed from Adam to the end of time.

We people always have a mixture of sin in our lives on this side of heaven. White-knuckling every part of us into being perfectly sinless is a total impossibility. That would entail keeping thoughts pure and holy; guarding our eyes 100% of the time from seeing impurities; using our words to only speak life and nothing we see through our eyes, or hear with our ears; constantly walking in love towards all people 24/7; never leaving out a small portion of truth to cause a slight misrepresentation about something. The Lord told Cain, Genesis 4:7NLT “You will be accepted if you do what is right. But if you refuse to do what is right, then watch out! Sin is crouching at the door, eager to control you. But you must subdue it and be its master.” Since the beginning sin has mastered man, not vice versa.

“Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.” Romans 7:24-25ESV This awesome grace of God given to us by the sacrifice of Christ Jesus makes us perfected before God, free from sin. By His grace we’re enabled to change from the inside out, losing all desire for our sinful ways. We also become immediately conscious of sin, to bring us to immediate repentance. 

Mixture goes out of our life by being filled and refilled with the grace of Christ Jesus. It’s no longer a sad, defeating story but a completely joyous exchange of love. Where I used to struggle to love Father God, love now abounds surpassing my imagination. 

In the Old Testament there was no grace, yet God extended mercy over and over again overlooking their mixture. He knew humanity's weaknesses.

Have you experienced His grace? Are you still trying to accomplish being mixture free on your own? Choose please to quit trying to work for salvation and freely receive His grace. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: Thank You Papa God for Your mercies which cover us through Your grace day by day. Thank You that “There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” (Romans 8:1ESV)  Glory to God, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

by Debbie Veilleux

A Small Wrong Choice

“The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.” Genesis 6:5NIV

During the time of Noah we find our text. Two verses earlier God restricted man’s life to 120 years because of man’s choice to continually sin.

The reason behind the name for this devotional series came from a talk with a drug addict. I was told, ‘I didn’t start to come to the place of losing everything, family, name, dreams— I simply made a small wrong choice, which led to another. It snowballed from there. Here I am unable to get free.’

Choices control the outcome of everything. Acts 5:1-10 Ananias and his wife owned property, which they sold. They decided to say they were generous by giving ‘all’ to the needy. Meanwhile they conspired to lie about how much money they received to Holy Spirit. Their lie ended in death for both of them. A chance was given to tell the truth, but they didn’t.

King Saul chose to quit waiting on Prophet Samuel to sacrifice the sheep to God, see 1Samuel 13. A seemingly small choice ended up removing Holy Spirit from his life entirely. Chosen and anointed by God to be king of Israel ended up with becoming demon-possessed. His final and worst blunder was calling upon a witch to bring Samuel up from death. He never repented,only made excuses. Saul ended up dead without God.

King David made three major bad choices. He raped Bathsheba, then killed her husband to keep from the rape being found out. Also, he counted the people. The greatest difference between Saul and David was repentance. Whenever the prophet came to David, he admitted his sin, confessed it, and changed his ways. Still those choices reaped horrible crops. All his family through the next few generations had sexual issues; his one son killed another son; that son also tried to murder David.

Yahweh gave Saul, David, even Ananias and his wife opportunities to choose to change, repent, tell the truth. Only one chose to repent-reform their sinful lifestyles.

Today we still have seemingly small, but actually major choices. Prophets are declaring God wants to reset and bless the USA. Many Believers are speaking against these prophecies— speaking against the man God chose to lead our nation at this moment. Daniel 2:21NIV “He controls the course of world events; He removes kings and sets up other kings. …”

Biden was even chosen by God to show us how awful things could become. Now Trump has been chosen and given mandates to implement for the church. Believers are going against God repeating the lying news, and gossiping against the President saying awful things about the one God has chosen for these four years. They’re also not praying God’s prophecies into fruition.

We have choices. Accept the one God has given us for President this time period. Pray for all our leaders— see 1Timothy 2:1-2. Pray for God’s plans to come to pass as He is declaring through the prophets. Shut up. Keep our opinions and the news off our lips. Don’t give our words to fuel satan’s world problems. Or we can go against my advice and see what consequences we have to pay for our arrogance and pride in thinking we know a better way than God’s way. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God help us to learn to do things Your way, quit running our mouths, and help birth what You want in this world. May we all repent in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Burden Bearer

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28NIV

Raised in a holiness church, I wanted nothing to do with the hypocritical lifestyle of 90% of every holiness person I’d ever met. In about every way imaginable I rebelled against anything resembling religion. Until…

All my life, I’d said the only way I would ever come to Jesus for salvation was if everything in my life was wonderful. No beggar’s story for my salvation story. Unfortunately, my story was ugly, horrible, unhappy, rough and I was broken, badly broken.

Then one day, an answer to my mom’s fasting and prayer arrived— a zany, fun-loving, French Canadian waltzed into my world and swept me straight into love with a whirlwind romance. His construction job took him to a new place every three months. When it came time for him to move, we married in order for me to go with him.

Lou was my crutch. His lifestyle became mine. Learning a new language for both of us, having three children— moving every few months meant job relationships were after work friends, very important for society, almost like family.

Our eldest daughter started school, forcing us to settle down. We chose a small town in southern Indiana. Some co-workers settled down with us. New friends were partiers just like us. Seven couples were our pals. Everything we did together— none of which involved church.

One day everything changed. My lifestyle wasn’t heaven bound. Every burden I’d carried and laughed off, suddenly became too heavy to bear, when the doctor added uterine cancer. Music— Laughter — Parties— Beer cans everywhere stopped as I contemplated death. It was then I decided that I desperately needed Jesus in my life. (Who, by the way, had been patiently waiting for me to come to Him, so He could carry my burdens.)

Suddenly Jesus was exciting to me. He loved me as seriously awful as I was. When He came into my heart, things began to change dramatically from the inside out. It was impossible for me to get enough of Bible reading, prayer, and worship.

One thing, we never can estimate —this side of heaven— is how many will be brought into the Kingdom because of one person’s conversion. I know many lives were changed because I and then Lou gave our hearts to Jesus.

Our besties gave their hearts to Jesus very soon after us. Her siblings and mother have come into God’s kingdom since.

One couple’s daughter is still currently serving on the mission field. Only God knows how many lives have been brought to Christ because of their family.

Most but not everyone in our friends group made it to heaven, but not all of them are deceased yet either. Not everyone will make it to heaven. Before I gave my burdens to Jesus, I didn’t care if anyone made it to heaven. After tasting and seeing how great Jesus is, (see Psalm 34:8) I wanted everyone to meet Jesus the Burden Bearer for themselves.

Holy Spirit is wanting us to be encouraged in Jesus right now. He wants us to look back at those who’ve come to Christ because of our witnessing. Then He wants us to renew our efforts. Go out a bring the lost into the Kingdom. Time is getting short. Only what’s done for Christ will last into eternity. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God, thank You for being our burden Bearer. Thank You for helping us to bring in the lost sheep. We couldn’t do it without Your help. Please help us to win more and more for You, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

New Things Never Seen

“…From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.” Isaiah 48:6NIV “…I show you specified new things from this time forth, even hidden things [kept in reserve] which you have not known.” Verse 6AMPC “…I will tell you about new things never seen before, hidden things, well-guarded secrets you know nothing about.” Verse 6TPT

Depending upon what era we’re living in, this verse holds vastly different meanings. Long before Jesus, Isaiah 7:14NIV “Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: The virgin will conceive and give birth to a Son, and will call Him Immanuel.” For certain satan scratched his head wondering how, who, when, and where this would happen. It was a “well guarded secret.”

Probably very smugly, satan coordinated everyone and everything to crucify Jesus. Again, he’d run into a trap of “hidden things.” It just revealed that he was much less intelligent than his Creator, consistently being one-upped all down through the ages. Now the prophets are once again declaring— “I will tell you about new things never seen before, hidden things, well-guarded secrets you know nothing about.”

We can speculate for a thousand years and never come up with what God means. Our 100% brain quit working when Adam fell into sin in the Garden of Eden. Nor are we the brightest bulbs on the light strand. But we do have something going for us— we can pray.

My cousin had a very simple hysterectomy in 2017. She said before even entering the hospital that she thought she would die from the surgery. I prayed for her healing. Things deteriorated daily. Begging God to heal her, I heard Holy Spirit say to me— ‘pray for My Kingdom to come; for My will to be done.’ ‘That’s not my will, I argued. I want to keep her alive,’ I cried. Yet He was adamant that I pray as the Lord’s prayer was truly written— imperative command— COME kingdom of God— BE DONE WILL of God. When she passed onto heaven, I knew it was God’s will.

Better than anything else we can pray— LORD God bring forth Your hidden things. We command COME Your kingdom; Be DONE Your will. May every plan made by evil ones, spells, and incantations go back where they were sent from and wreak havoc there. As we’re praying “…Lord foils the plans of the nations; He thwarts the purposes of the peoples. But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of His heart through all generations” Psalm 33:10-11NIV.

The prophets are declaring a glory river is coming. Get your Bibles out and study what that can look like. Pray that your loved ones will be found faithful in this. Praise and pray, or not. It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: El Shaddai may we prepare in prayer and praise for what You are about to do, things that no man nor being know. We await You. Come Kingdom of God! Be done will of God, in the name of Jesus Christ I pray.

Difference Between Believing And Knowing

“And the woman said to Elijah, By this I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the Lord in your mouth is truth.” 1Kings 17;24AMPC

Read the story of Elijah and the widow of Zarephath, 1Kings 17:9-24. Yahweh sent Elijah to her for provision. When he asked her for bread and water, she replied her provision was sufficient for one last meal— then starvation for her and her son.

Elijah convinced her, his God would provide for her IF she provided for him first. There’s a difference between ‘believing’ and ‘knowing/‘ She believed him and made Elijah’s bread first. —Believe — meaning: ‘to think, have as an opinion; to accept.’ Many times we ‘believe’ God has given us a promise. We accept and act on the belief— but do we know?

In our text, the widow said— “this I know that you are a man of God.” When Holy Spirit drew me to meditate on this I realized. Do we KNOW — experiential, intimate knowledge— His promises will come to pass? Knowing is the difference between faith and failure to receive.

Jen Tringale, an evangelist, missionary, and prophetess spoke at The Glory River Conference in Tim Sheets’ Oasis Church May 30, 2026. Here’s a portion of her sermon. — Holy Spirit called her to go to Grenada, prepare a meal for thousands, preach the gospel and prepare a work for Him there. The meal was to be rotisserie chicken with the side dishes prepared by catering from elsewhere.

After purchasing every piece of chicken in the nation, they went to the airstrip, where US soldiers had landed in Ronald Reagan’s time. There, in 90* late evening heat, they prayed for the next day.

Just as they finished, a box truck arrived. She asked what he wanted. He told her he’d brought the chicken she’d ordered. Jen asked him to return in the morning, as he off-loaded thousands of pounds of chicken into the heat.

What to do? A man drove in as they wondered what to do. He encouraged them to put the chicken in his wooden pallate shed under lock to prevent theft. Jen accepted his generosity knowing she was in God’s will. Yahweh wanted her to do the meal. They laid hands on the chicken, praying it would supernaturally remain frozen.

The next morning, when the man unlocked his hanger, the chicken was still frozen.— that’s miraculous! (Chicken thaws quickly in 90* and higher temperatures, then rots, becoming poisonous.) Cooks took the chicken to the rotisseries, while Jen was handling the service preparations.

Head cook, a team member, kept coming to Jen saying, ‘I need you please.’ She kept putting him off. Finally, he returned with great urgency. ‘The chickens had been on the rotisseries cooking for an hour but still were frozen.’

Asking God for help, she heard in her spirit —‘stretch forth your hands and say I release you from your frozen state.’ Jen released the chickens, which immediately began cooking.

News travels fast. People came, some because of the frozen chickens— a story of supernatural power from God. Thousands have been saved and a mighty work for the kingdom has been started. Behind it all, Jen didn’t just believe— she KNEW she had heard from God and was doing His will.

We must spend enough time with God that we don’t believe whatever is ‘the right thing’ to do. Lay before Him. Seek His face until we KNOW it’s the way our King wants it.

Every failure comes from the difference between believing and knowing we’re doing what God wants. In this day and age we must KNOW. Believing is too risky. Will you stay just believing or pray until you KNOW? It’s your choice. You choose.

LET’S PRAY: LORD God help us to quit listening to our heads and pray until we KNOW what is Your will we pray in the name of Jesus Christ.