This is a sneaky shot of temptation. Just before it happens.
But hold that thought for now….
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This morning, I have my Bible open and I have been listening to Revelation on Spotify. I like to ‘hear” the Word of God being read. It’s great to hear the Word and also follow along in the Bible. I call this a “double” feeding. You hear and you also read!
Imagine the absence of temptation where you are full of the Word of God!
Not that the temptation is never there, but rather you were so aware of God Himself, that you always knew He was the best choice!
I know Satan is real.
He visited me three times in my own home.
I never forgot His presence.
It was unforgettable.
If your interested to hear the long version, please message me and I’ll share it with you later.
When Satan tempts us, He wants us to forget the power of God that is on a believer’s life, that comes when we don’t give in to him.
He tempts our senses and as a result, we become weaker after giving in to temptation.
When I think of a weaker me in the future and being robbed of God’s best, a great sense of indignation rises up!
We don’t have to be tempted as much as we are, and if we prepare ahead of time, we can finish the day strong!
Last night, my daughter and I were talking about not giving in to sin.
What helped me?
When I was in high school, in year 11, I remember coming home from school and kneeling by my bed.
Time and time again!
I pleaded to God to take away the desire to sin and to follow Him instead.
It was a very difficult battle but one thing I never stopped doing…
I never stopped praying and seeking His face.
There was no special formula.
Of course I understood the importance of reading and hearing the Word non-stop!
After the struggle, I knew victory was mine, as I felt His peace and joy in a way I had never experienced before. The year after, I was baptised and I knew it was the best choice I had ever made.
These three steps below that I made up, are very helpful when you are just about to lose that great peace and joy of God!
But then you don’t…..
Only because –
You didn’t take Satan’s BAIT
You didn’t ENGAGE with him
You didn’t ENABLE him
The devil’s B.E.E. is designed to bring you down.
Bait
Engage
Enable
The more B.E.E.S. you have, the weaker you can feel.
The B.E.E. plan of attack ensures you are tempted at your weakest point.
“They swarmed around me like bees; they blazed against me like a crackling fire. But I destroyed them all with the authority of the Lord. My enemies did their best to kill me, but the Lord rescued me.”
(Psalm 118)
Don’t be robbed of God’s great peace and joy today!
Even anxiety and anger can be demonic temptations but Satan packages them so naturally, that they seem to come from only yourself!
Recently I was thinking about how important our choices are.
Wasting God’s time, will weaken you.
It is much easier to give in to Satan’s temptations when we forget God.
“Put on salvation as your helmet, and take the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.” (Ephesians 6:17)
Godly obedience, helps to kill the B.E.E!
Lately I realised how much stronger I felt as a Christian, when I kept choosing God, even after I chose God!
As a Christian blogger, Christian piano player, Christian singer and Christian Support Worker, you may think I need a break from all this God stuff!
But when God’s “sharpest point” is laid down (His Word) and me gets back to me, I found that nothing could satisfy me like God could.
I found that I wanted to be with God all day long.
Satan hates when we awaken to his B.E.E.
Why?
Only because when we do, we are the least tempted! We also learn not to get angry as quickly.
When that rough patch hits, you will be tempted the least when you choose God the most!
The world will shout, “Obsessive!” (Jesus Freak)
I like to think God whispers, “Progressive.”
Imagine Satan hearing you singing to God today and he runs away!
“Why bother tempting her? She knows I’m coming. I am no longer hidden to her.”
That’s already one temptation, that didn’t happen!
Feel free to use my screen shot below.
I’m so thankful that God allowed me to brush off those angry B.E.E.S. today!
Did you know that in heaven, the “past” is also the “present” in the sense that God remembers and will continue to bless the earlier work you did for Him?
A seed you planted earlier may be a gorgeous flower that only God will see.
The planting, the seed, the watering, the nurturing all happened slowly over time.
This initial “sprinkling of salt” may be one grain of salt only.
But as it is God’s salt, it is like heaven’s gold that will live on and multiply.
“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet.” (Matthew 5:13)
Why is salt important?
Only because a grain of salt that comes from the Holy Spirit, is “salt” that is supernatural.
This salt and light continues to change others around us, including ourselves.
But what about a grain of salt that has lost its flavour?
It is only bound to earth.
It doesn’t go anywhere special.
It is not heaven’s gold.
It is as the chaff that dies.
A real grain of God’s salt is supernaturally paired with an eternal soul .✨️
God does this pairing, never us.
For how can we, fuse His salt to an eternal soul and say we did this impossible work?
Instead, we use our spiritual gifts for God’s glory and allow God to continue His work.
God’s salt excites me the most!
It’s the golden grain from God’s table.
This is the salt that flies!
I don’t want to be tired all the time with work that has a “zero amount” of God’s salt and light.
God’s supernatural pairing =
God’s salt + an eternal soul = His will being done.
God’s salt.
An eternal soul.
His will.
When I write, I pray that my posts are supernaturally paired with the right person.
Your ministry of salt for God may not be recognised by the world just yet.
Keep going anyway!
Some of my readers/subscribers are WordPress crew!
Keep writing ✍️dear friend. God sees! 👀
Being a salty Christian writer can be lonely at times, but at least God is with us.
God recognises His salt in us.
We will never be able to fake Heaven’s Salt!
I like this because we can never be salt on our own.
You are salty because of God’s work in you.
I am salty because of God’s work in me.
Your Godly influence is like one diamond star 🌟 travelling through the darkness.
When the morning finally breaks, your light is still visible.
A star that shines on during the day is the rarest of kinds.
“And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)
Last night as I lay in bed, I felt the real presence of God!
My bedside lamp was on, and I was resting after a long day.
I suddenly felt God’s presence in a real, non imagined way.
I just knew God was with me in the room.
There was no introduction necessary at all.
God knew that I knew Who He Was.
There was no question about that.
I said, “I’m so glad you came! I love you God.”
God was simply there in the quiet, and thinking about this later, I wept.
“You came to me, God! Really? I can’t believe it!”
This personal experience, does not replace the Bible, but we need to share how God works in our lives, if this is God’s will, and where the experience is truly God Himself.
Thinking about God at the supermarket, I prayed while walking along the aisle!
Rejoicing!
I hope I didn’t look weird.
Here was this woman who looked liked she was talking to herself.
In actual fact, I was talking to God!
I never usually feel God’s presence like in the way I did last night.
I know that I am a saved child of God, Jesus lives in my heart and I have great peace and joy. But usually, I don’t feel God as such, I simply know He is there by faith.
When you feel the presence of God, the last thing you want to do is to watch “Nowhere” on Netflix.
I was just about to watch this gripping drama earlier on, but after only watching abit, I switched it off.
I decided to sing Christian songs on my acoustic piano instead and also prepare for the upcoming Christmas program at church!
It was the same thought that went through my mind as always, “God is better than Netflix.”
It seems the prayer, I prayed for you Willie Torris, to have a bit of heaven in your day, actually happened to me!
Willie, I hope God encouraged you too!
Funny how when you pray for someone else, God answers that prayer, and gives you, what you wished for them!
I wonder if I had not turned off Netflix, and had not sung to God on my piano, but rather stayed right there on the couch, would I have still felt the presence of God?
I don’t know.
But I am overjoyed that I decided not to crash on the couch. Because after this decision, God came.
This experience makes me desire God even more.
He is truly real and truly with us.
I felt His actual real presence but I cannot prove this to you!
Will His felt presence return?
I pray and hope so.
One thing I do know, is that what we are doing, when God’s presence is known, is very important.
If I was crashing on the couch watching Netflix, would God have observed this and just let me be?
What I learnt today, is that there is wonderful beauty in choosing God Himself.
When we seek God in everything we do, we experience the supernatural and our own personal faith is strengthened.
This week, I am on super high alert.
Waiting for God! 😊
God’s presence is so very special, He is like the rarest diamond that can never be found until He actually lets His presence be known!
Then we experience something so precious that a soul who hasn’t even felt the presence of God yet, is moved to tears by someone else who has. This then encourages them to keep seeking the real Christian God of the Christian Bible!
God is 100% real and not just in your imagination. 🙏
I was walking outdoors enjoying some fresh beachy sunshine today.
I was nursing fresh wounds from a private battle I faced yesterday.
I had just taken two rapid- panadol, I had drunk a large cappuccino from Zarraffa’s coffee and I finally had the strength to move my exhausted body.
I looked around and noticed the usual.
The houses. The cars. The street. The lawns. My back pack I was carrying.
Then as I looked, the view changed to heaven.
I saw no cars. Meaning, you thought of a place and you were there instantly. No travel needed.
I saw a skip bin outside someone’s house. I thought about the fact that there would be no rubbish removal in heaven.
I thought about my cacao almonds and choc chip crunchy peanut butter bar in my bag. I thought about the absence of food in heaven.
I saw the weeds in someone’s garden. I thought about heaven having the perfect length of grass.
I noticed the limestone walls in the neighbourhood. Even the black grubby marks.
In heaven, the walls would be perfectly clean.
The streets would be made of gold!
I think now about my sunglasses. The light in heaven is perfect there. How odd not to squint anymore!
I think about my tiredness and sore feet.
I think about the pink windcheater tied around my waist that says, “Good things are coming. Believe.”
I know that in heaven, I will never tie a sweater around my waist anymore! Only because the weather conditions will always be perfect.
I think about yesterday. It was a difficult day for me. I attended some medical training and felt weak, incompetent and traumatised.
In heaven, training may still occur, but in perfection where my old flaws won’t exist.
My memory will be perfect there. I will no longer support someone who needs special care. A Support Worker on earth, won’t exist in heaven.
Everyone will be fully healed. 😊
I think about my mobile phone.
I am using this right now….
In heaven, there will be no earthly economy, no flat batteries, no annoying SMS messages and no online YouTube sermons.
Faith will finally become sight.
I think about the nice lady that walked past me today as I was sitting under a tree, typing this. She had a sandy coloured poodle/spoodle? on a leash.
She asked if I was OK.
I was perfectly OK.
I was just typing this post under a tree so I wouldn’t forget my thoughts. Perhaps I looked a bit lost.
In heaven, no one will ever ask anyone if they are OK.
“Are you OK?” seems to indicate something is wrong.
Thank God, everyone in heaven will be Ok all the time!
I think about the three beautiful teenagers I just met after writing this post.
One of them stopped me and asked to use my mobile phone to call his mum. He didn’t have any remaining credit on his phone.
I didn’t know these boys. I told him I would call his mum for him. She picked up and we arranged to meet near the boat ramp. As the boys didn’t know the way there, I showed them where to go. As we walked, I chatted to the boys. The twin boys were 14, and in year eight. The younger one who was 13, was in year 7. They all belonged to the same family.
They didn’t like school. Just like my fourteen year old son. My heart went out to them. I related so well to what they were saying. My year 8 was horrendous. That year I was bullied badly 😢.
I bought them an ice cream each and we chatted.
The teenager years are hard! Imagine studying subjects you hate, having no money, being treated with a “herd-mentality” at school and feeling lonely.
We spoke about school, vaping and the dangers of addiction.
“Remember the three most important words”, I told them.
“What are they?”
One of the boys responded, “Do not vape!”
Nope. 😊
The three most important words are, “God help me.”
If you visit my Home Page you will read these words there. I always taught my kids that G.H.M. were the ultimate three!
One of the boys asked if I was a Christian. I told him I was.
Their mother came to pick them up and I went back to typing this post!
Back to what I was saying before about heaven….
In heaven, there will be no vaping! No one in heaven will be addicted to anything! Imagine your flesh never being harassed ever again.
Joyfully there won’t be any goodbyes in heaven.
I loved these boys already but I had to say farewell to them. I didn’t think I would see them again, considering the circumstances.
As I waved goodbye to the boys, I sat down by the boat ramp and continued blogging, for you.
Then, suddenly out of the blue, a lady walked past with two cute dogs on a leash. She had a short conversation with a woman standing near by. She left and continued on with her walk and the woman who remained, started chatting with me.
For a long time, we simply talked…two complete strangers, her and I! I found myself confessing my “secret fears” and the thought was, “I’ll probably never see her again, so it’s OK.”
We were both wearing sunglasses 🕶 so it felt easier to pour out my heart!
I found out she was a Christian. I was very encouraged God brought us together. It was odd to share such personal things and I saw the freedom in these “once off and never again conversations.”
It made me aware of opening up “more” to people I see regularly.
It was just what I needed.
“Thank you, Lord!”
We parted ways and I went and bought myself an ice cream!
It’s interesting how one off conversations can be so valuable.
Even if it’s only one time, twice, like today….
This lovely woman and the teenager boys had no idea they were helping me!
God’s souls, are never a one off, to God.
These short encounters I had today, were with real people who God always saw.
Always heard.
Always loved.
Always was with.
Always IS comforting.
God is always with you and me too. ✨️
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Have a wonderful week, dear readers. I love you all.
I will be posting another article soon, titled, “Can a Christian starve to death?”
Sounds really gloomy but when you read it, you will be greatly encouraged.
The LIKES from God don’t show up online or on YouTube……(keeping going anyway!)
The confidence God gives us, has no bad side-effects because it comes from Him.
Godly confidence is not a sin.
Carnal confidence is.
“God, please give me humble confidence, humble boldness and humble power today.”
This sin-free confidence through the Holy Spirit, produces the fat-fish-ministry.
The “pure” reeling in of lost souls, brings men to God, not to you.
If your ministry, feels like it’s floundering, this doesn’t mean God is not working.
Be encouraged….just because you don’t see a lost soul coming home to God, it doesn’t mean they are not.
The important thing is that “God Himself” sees this lost soul coming home.
He wants you to reach the lost even when you don’t see visible results.
Even a short conversation with someone about God, could be one supernatural stepping stone that God orchestrated that may bring one lost soul, one step closer to Him. You may never see “this step”, and you may never see the person again, but God most certainly will!
As a Christian, you have no idea how many desperate hearts you are touching! God sees your work for Him! Keep speaking about God to others. Even on wobbly days.
We will always flounder in our ministries but God never will.
When we don’t desire God, our daily habits change….
For me personally, I find that praying and seeking God daily, is a habit that I never forget. He is so deeply ingrained in my soul that to forget Him would be unimaginable.
God allowed me to get to a state of total dependence on Him during my weakest most difficult moments, and when these moments passed, He still reminded me of Him even in good times!
He knew that if I stopped desiring Him during my daily habits, there would be no other place to go but myself.
Losing the desire for God, then opens my own doors that are fully bound to earth, doors that lead to nowhere, doors that lead to empty rooms and doors that never fill me once I open them.
I know that if I desire God in all my daily habits, life greatly improves, not because anything changed externally but rather because God saw my desire for Him, and He reached out and desired me too!
In this unified desire for each other, God and his child, experience a unity that can never be experienced by one who never desires God.
To desire God always, is a pure child like desire with no ill side effects. Because this desire is good, it leads to pure outcomes.
We never need to limit our desire for God.
This desire is the only “one” that radically changes your daily habits.
Desire God.
Jesus replied, “‘You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul and all your mind.” (Matthew 22:37)
Have you been to Jesus for the cleansing power? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Are you fully trusting in His grace this hour? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you washed in the blood? In the soul cleansing blood of the Lamb? Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are you walking daily by the Savior’s side? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? Do you rest each moment in the crucified? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
Are your garments spotless, are they white as snow? Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb?
This song I am playing is titled, I saw the light!
Bringing Back Good Clean Worship Songs
I wandered so aimless, life filled with sin I wouldn’t let my dear Saviour in Then Jesus came like a stranger in the night Praise the Lord, I saw the light I saw the light, I saw the light No more darkness, no more night Now I’m so happy no sorrow in sight Praise the Lord, I saw the light Just like a blind man, I wandered along Worries and fears I claimed for my own Then like the blind man that God gave back his sight Praise the Lord, I saw the light I saw the light, I saw the light No more darkness, no more night Now I’m so happy no sorrow in sight Praise the Lord, I saw the light I was a fool to wander and stray For straight is the gate and narrows the way Now I have traded the wrong for the right Praise the Lord, I saw the light I saw the light, I saw the light No more darkness, no more night Now I’m so happy no sorrow in sight Praise the Lord, I saw the light
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