WHAT IF........

What if I held the key in hand?
What if I already inherited the land?
What if the pain was a moment from "gone"?
What if I am about to see dawn?
What if faith is declared at "night"?
What if speaking the Word is the real fight?
What if the key is on my lips?
What if doubt sinks the ship?
What if the right way seems foolish to me?
What if pride has to bow to set free?
What if I am wrestling with God on high?
What if I limp because I "try"?
What if trying is pride on display?
What if victory is going His way? 

SUPERNATURAL PROTECTION

It was the first day of October of 1996 in Fairbanks, Alaska. It was cold out and we were waiting for the first snow. Darkness was increasing as we headed into the long winter of Alaska.  I felt so strongly that morning to pray protection over my family every single day for the month. Kind of weird, I thought. I never had that impression before.  Well, I have learned that when you think you got an impression from God and you think its odd, it well could be from Him so obedience makes the most sense. I started doing just this. Every morning methodically, I prayed Psalm 91 over my house hold of husband and five children. The first thing that happened was on a day when we were all loaded up to go somewhere in the car. Suddenly, I realized I forgot something in the kitchen. I ran up to the kitchen and found a pot on fire! So I successfully put it out and thanked God that it wasn't worse.  Then one morning shortly after that, the boys, ages 12 and 10 came running in the door from delivering papers. They were out of breath. They told the story at the same time. They had gotten between a mother moose and her calf (it was still dark out) and they suddenly saw her hoof it and charge them. They said they stood still, "paralyzed", and said they "thought they were going to die", when suddenly about 4 feet away she seemed to bump into an invisible wall and run the opposite direction. The lady in charge of bringing to the boys their papers, each morning,  came to my door an hour later and said she witnessed just that! She said she was so frightened and was getting ready to dial 911 on her phone when she witnessed the moose reverse her direction. She asked me if I had any explanation. I asked her if she believed in God..she said yes. I told her..thats the explanation! Then this event was followed by 2 more near disaster fires in the kitchen that were discovered when I ran back into the house for something. (before this month and after, I never had a kitchen fire, ever) Now events were pointing to the fact that God indeed had been speaking to me that morning. Psalm 91 continued to be prayed over my household in earnest. Over the period of that month, 2 pastors in our city, had their houses burned to the ground. Really tragic. I started praying the Psalm over the church and city. Then one day I was out helping my 16 yr old daughter with her paper route. It was about 5 a.m. and we came upon a ferocious dog in a yard of our customer. This was a new occurence. He was not about to let us into the yard; so we were discussing what our plan should be since we usually went to the porch to deliver that customer's paper. While we were problem solving a man pulled up in a truck with a woman, and rolled down his window. We thought.."oh here is a customer leaving the house early and wanting his paper". (which was not uncommon) I went to speak with him at his truck window and realized he was not a customer of ours and both of them were seriously inebriated and not making any sense at all. So I went back to Sheila, my daughter, and told her I will cross the street to the next customer and she can stay on this side and keep going and we would come back to deal with the barking dog, later. The truck people were sitting there idling and arguing so I crossed in front of them about 6 feet ahead of the truck to deliver the next paper. All of a sudden, the driver gunned the truck and I was suddenly not in front of the truck at all but back on the side of the road. Sheila ran up to me scared and said "I saw you in front of the truck between the headlights right before he gunned the truck! " Yes. one more instance of supernatural protection in that month of October, 1996.
What did I learn from this very extraordinary month of God's intervention? Do what He says, and saying His words out loud causes the angelic to come to your defense and His words do come to pass as a result. (you can read that in Psalm 103)
He is our Protector. Speak His Words over your life. They will come to pass and in the process you will discover His great love for you. 

My Day. What?

Canning jar fell on tile floor and broke in a million pieces.
Cleaning it up, I found ants suddenly everywhere.
Came home from work out to a call from Macy's saying I didn't pay my bill and the penalty was 25$.
(I did pay it online with a confirmation)
Got that problem cleared up by going to the store and calling the Credit Dept.
Went and bought ant stuff to put it around my house.
Also bought a fly trap. Have not seen one single fly since.
Went out the door for one minute to deliver something and misplaced glasses which are up to this minute still very well hidden from my eyes (weary from searching)
What? in all this nonsense, I realized I forgot to have my second cup of coffee.
Well I sat down and promptly remedied the easiest problem of the day and now I must say my day is sure to turn around.
Stay tuned for live updates. It can only get better. :)

FEAR: WAGE THE WAR

Fear. It has no place in my heart. It is an imposter.
It's not true. It is full of ideas and thoughts that challenge truth.
It hijacks my emotions, and wreaks havoc on my body.
It brings insanity in its trail. There is nothing good in it.
It does not help anything.
It does not better any situation
It does not better prepare one for the future.
It is a poison and it can become the worst habit I have.
Finally it has no place in a child of God.
It replaces faith in my God.
It replaces my God's words with something else.
Eventually, it becomes an idol if I pay it heed and work my life around it.
It must be dealt with harshly, with no mercy and promptly.
Fear. It is the ultimate lie. Wage the War.