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There's a river running through this design and it might just run through your soul, too. Get yours or bulk orders to sell at your shop. Variations in color and product type available. See them here and order immediately.

There's a river running through this design and it might just run through your soul too... 🤗🤩🥰

There's a river running through this design and it might just run through your soul, too. Get yours or bulk orders to sell at your shop. Variations in color and product type available. See them here and order immediately.

Loving, faithful God our salvation, merciful and true, is He who purges sin and iniquity, and fills our lives with His beauty and the bounty of His goodness. He causes to flow out of the belly, rivers of living water. He waters and prunes His fruitful trees of righteousness, His planting, so that they may bear more fruit, to the glory and praise of His name. 

He cares for His earth; He waters it and causes things to grow.

Isaiah 61:1-3

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord has anointed Me to preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in Zion, to give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.

Genesis 2:8-10

The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there He put the man whom He had formed. And out of the ground the Lord God made every tree grow that is pleasant to the sight and good for food. The tree of life was also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now a river went out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it parted and became four riverheads.

Genesis 2:15-17

Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and to keep it. And the Lord God commanded the man saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.

Psalm 65:9-13

You visit the earth, and water it, you greatly enrich it; the river of God is full of water; You provide their grain, for so You have prepared it. You water its ridges abundantly, you settle its furrows; You make it soft with showers, You bless its growth. You crown the year with Your goodness, and Your paths drip with abundance. They drop on the pastures of the wilderness, and the little hills rejoice on every side. The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered with grain; they shout for joy, they also sing.

Revelation 22:1-2

And He showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (See also Revelation 21:6)

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So, I've been in a tunnel. It wasn't a bad tunnel; there wasn't any depression. There was a lot of sleeping, and resting, a little work. It appears to have been a reckoning. As in REconnoitering, or Re considering... Something like that.

My beliefs have been changing for a while, or so I thought. It turns out my beliefs are actually pretty solid. I always had a problem with proclaiming any particular church. When I would try to tithe something would always come up, I have been led by The Spirit for a long time. Even when I got myself lost I was covered. Things could have gone much, much worse.

One particular incident came to mind, this evening. QAnd it is one that only I am witness to, at least among the people around me. But I guarantee that the people of River of Life Church, In Clearwater, Fla. Circa 2006ish still pray for me.

Things were pretty rough for Tim and myself. Issues that are not important right now. I was in pretty desperate straights. I had been considering getting back on the psychotropic drugs the medical community had prescribed for me in the worst of times. Instead, I went to church. Man! did that work out good for me. Circumstances didn't improve... much, Well, Off And On. But they got much worse first.

So, anyway, I was going to church at least twice a week , and sometimes more. One night, Tim decided to go with me, and, After the service, at the invitation, The preacher turned and looked at Tim and crooked his finger. Tim Didn't even look at me , he just started forward and i stayed in place. But when Tim got down that aisle, walking like he was entranced, when he was about two paces from the man on the Steps of Acceptance,(my creative license, here). That Preacher man reached out and Tim laid back, looking in total sync, and Tim was on his back. My whole Torso went to billowing , in and out, arms almost acting like a bellows. suddenly there were women on every side of me calling on the Lord, and I went back too. As they lay me gently across the bench and held their hands over me. I could hear the preacher, I could hear the ladies around me, but my eyes were rolled back and closed and my belly just kept billowing. I heard one of them say, The one behind my seat, leaned over with her hands outstretched above my belly, Remember, my eyes were closed. She said, "You are going to birth something huge". A few minutes later, I opened my eyes, Tim stood up and returned to me, we finished the service and went home to the motel room we rented for about 6 months, and life continued. There are many things I remember about this church, But only a couple that apply to this particular subject I am touching on today. One was a comment the Lady of the church made one evening during the announcements.

She was just up there chatting to us, with her beautiful smile and her truly beautiful spirit, and she commented that there was talk about their theme, that parishioners were asking them not to teach on the doctrine of prosperity, and that maybe those people were in the wrong church. My ears perked but I didn't pay it much mind I was there to worship, and for me at least, The Spirit was there. Another evening, while the Man was preaching, I felt the urge to open my bible, And I do not remember the address of the verse I opened it to. I do remember, however, what it said. It was talking about the river of life and the trees bearing fruit on both sides of it. it was in the Old Testament.

I did not need the pharmaceuticals I had been considering, The ones I was actually totally against using. They had done their job in the crisis. Some they had prescribed were far too much to ever allow me a productive life again. That is the problem with pharmaceuticals. They are not meant to make you well. They are meant to improve your existence enough to keep you on them, making money for Big Pharma.

After that We went To Groveland, And ended up staying there with my friend, who had a home there, and my brother who was living and homemaking with said friend. Things happened and I went to church. It was called The Church of Deliverence. And what was delivered to me there was A Word. A word meant for me to remember today. For this time right now.

I walked to the church. I didn't mind the heat. I needed to worship. Our existence was pretty miserable, even with the temporary soft landing provided by my friend, in her home, with my brother. The very small church was totally welcoming. The leaders and congregants numbering not more than 20, and children. Horrified that I walked in that heat, insisting in the end, that i catch a ride home with them. And No, It didn't matter that it was the opposite direction. They gave me the tithes and offerings that day. I did not ask for it. In fact I protested. A lady spoke out and said that she felt the push to give it to me, and another lady said she had been thinking the same thing. And there were several 'ayes'. And my protest meant nothing. I replied that they didn't even Know me. The returning reply was " No but the Lord Does know you".

Things still didn't get better. But I continued on my River Of Life with my faith intact and strengthened. From both these church experiences. And these are just a few of the very memorable experiences that I have witnessed in the churches, in my quest for God and community. And Poignantly, I want to note that these were both Black churches. except for me.

All of that said in order to say this. I do believe the church age is over, for the vast majority of us who have studied and searched very hard for truth. Those of us in search of the wisdom of God. An answer to the incongruencies of this lost world and the spiritual darkness and blindness we find ourselves confronted with in this church age. I do still consider myself to be faithful to the living God and His word, which somehow comes down in wisdom and spirit through the corruption of the church and politics and general living conditions of the day and age we find ourselves living in.

I do believe in the Trinity- the God-Head, Mind, body, and soul. The beastly, or animal body we find ourselves in, houses the intellect in our mind and transports it all with the Spirit that comes down at birth and inhabits it for each lifetime. I believe that Jesus Lives. He did walk the Earth and we have been counting time on that fact ever since.

I believe that there was a reason the Spirit reached for Tim before he could even get to the Steps of Acceptance. And I believe that we are one. That I had, on that day, very clear proof that our spirits had combined into one unit on the day that we married and took our vows. for better or for worse. And i believe that my faith has outgrown and overcome the need for a church. Not the need for connection, but the need for what the church was meant to provide. I believe the church was meant to be an introduction. That finding The Way, doesn't mean being limited to rules and regulations of man. That religion is an overstepping of what the spirit needs from us. Jesus came to give us the power of divinity. He said so in his very own words. Jesus did not come to be worshipped, but to be followed, and believed... To give us an abundance of goodness, and health and life. That life is meant to be enjoyed , not endured. And that i am so glad i left the spirit of lack and neediness behind.

I believe that we are to study to show ourselves approved, and that walking in the Spirit in this River of Life will lead to the House of Deliverence. Which was , Ironically the Last church I attended in Knoxville, Tn. Before finding The Water Angels, A Ministry of Ministry.

I don't go to church much anymore. When i do It is to worship, not to receive. I receive Daily. I have for many years.

Now I am Involved with Reverse Speech and The Voice of the Spirit in Each of us. I practice with Herbs and Gems , plant and stone. The elements the Creation of this world gave us to live with and heal ourselves. And I live this under the stars, and the heavens that God wrote his wisdom in for us to read. That is not an aspect of my path. But I have always known it was there for a reason, and for an organization of Man to tell me, and others how to live it, is a hampering of the potentiality of the life we have come into. the Life the Father meant for us to live, No matter what you call that Father. There is no gender in Spirit, gender lives in the flesh, and there is a divine reason for that. We can't change that. and my perspective doesn't have to be yours.

So, Finally, I give my testimony. I have never really done that before... I know my path now. It has just opened up, and I can see it now, It only took all my life. I think I am going to live to !@) years. Yes I did that on purpose. Because i am going to live it by the word of God and The spirit given me to live it. And I am going to spread that word as it is given me . With all the color and sound and intent this world provides to give it with.

My name is Trina Carroll, And I am going to be Singing the Trinity. Body Mind and Spirit. He Called Me By My Name. I didn't always Know that Name. That is a whole 'nother story in itself. But I knew He called me. And I have finally have the direction for the blog that I named many years ago.

He Called Me by My Name. I didn't even know what my name was , but I always knew it is Not for your use or for Mine.

And this excerpt , we are going to call "the Reckoning".

You heard it here. And all because I got this stupid thing in my email, and I did not need to go there and hear it(screenshot to follow). THe music is my invocation. I use it often.