Time for some random musings. Today’s calendar page has flipped to one of the most anticipated, busy months of the year. We are one week away from the first night of Hanukkah, 23 days from celebrating the birth of our Messiah, and 30 days from the start of 2024.
As for Musings Along Life’s Journey, it took nine months from the time I paid to the time the first copies were printed for the first public publishing of this book with Zoe Life Communications. It is now nine months since then, and I am finalizing the second publication of the book with Amazon KDP. Many trials or journeys take 9 months, birthing things akin to a woman’s journey to bring forth a child.
This entire publishing journey has been a challenge. My next book will be testimony to the faithfulness of God as I share this journey. Also, I will include the God appointments that have come from Father’s hands on this endeavor.
Thanksgiving week, my kitchen was blissfully filled with extra people, willing hands to help, and bountiful food and fellowship! It was a blessing to have my sister Trina visit from Virginia for the week with her son Ethan and his girlfriend Penny. My son Chris and his family came from Vermont on Wednesday for the rest of the week. What a pleasant surprise to have our son Alex come for the day with his whole family, which hasnt happened in years!
By the way, a friend asked me what’s the difference between Thanksgiving and Thanks Giving. Thanksgiving is what our holiday is called, Thanks Giving is what we do on that holiday. It is good that we mark a day to give thanks as a nation
We should always and continually give thanks to the Lord. There is nothing we have that didn’t come from God. In Jesus, we live and move and have our being. He is in all creation, evidenced by the tiny crosses scientists have found in our blood cells. Also, the photos from the deepest outer space found a cross at the end of a deep hole! He truly is the Lamb slain from the foundations of the earth:
Revelation 13:8 All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world
On another topic, watch out for new versions of the Bible. The enemy of our souls does whatever possible to turn even the most Bible literate saints to false doctrines. Make sure you connect with the Holy Spirit and walk in love, exercising godly wisdom. Do not become fearful, and keep felliwshiping with those who encourage you on the path that leads to life.
I will let you know when Musings Along Life’s Journey is available on Amazon. John is helping me get the page numbers right on my manuscript file so I can republish this second printing. It’s difficult to work with a file someone else used before you, many glitches in the files to contend with. John is tenacious in solving problems like this, so I’m encouraged, especially since he’s willing to help!
Shalom to you, my dear readers. I leave you with a photo from our Operation Christmas Child packing party. We collected almost 100 more boxes than last year. Lord, bless all the kids who will receive these boxes with revelation knowledge of Jesus that spreads through their families and communities. Amen!
Give thanks with a grateful heart to the Holy One, who keeps us through all trials and tribulations. Thinking back to the beginning of the COVID debacle, it began with a spirit of fear falling on people, escalated to a spirit of confusion, then added the spirit of greed. Now we have a lingering spirit of COVID and spirit of infirmity lingering. We need to bind these spirits in Jesus’ name and command the spirit of peace, true Shalom to replace all of this. Let us obey Jesus’ command to pray for laborers to be sent into the harvest.
The following video made a huge impression on me. This is the first time Heidi Baker has done a conference in eighteen months. She shares that God let her know there was a wilderness ahead. From her home in Mozambique, she immediately contacted her ministry and told them to send two containers full of food to her. As we know, “all hell has broken loose” in the last two years, but she shares how God is being glorified and the gospel is advancing. Churches being burned? Where two or three are gathered, the Lord is in the midst. The food made an opening for the love of God to be manifest in Mozambique and the church is awakening and thriving even without buildings! Remember: what the enemy means for evil, God uses for His good. His plans will come together; even in our own lives! NOTE: if you’re not familiar with how the Spirit of God works, on this video Heidi is drunk in the Spirit, overcome with the love of God. As with the priests of old when the glory filled the temple, she was having a hard time standing in the Presence! That Presence coming through my TV brought me to my knees and into holy laughter for the first time in quite a while. I pray we all have time to experience being so humbled and wrecked by the great love of God as Heidi Baker has been!
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