Thursday, November 29, 2012

REAL Birthday of Jesus Christ

Hello Beloved,

I just received an email about Christmas and how people are saying that we should not be saying " Happy Holidays"  but Merry Christmas , because Jesus is the reason for the season..You know what kind of email I mean... Anyway as I was reading it and thinking about it  something came to mind.

" I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE ENDING."
You will find this in Revelation 1:8 (KJV)
" I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE FIRST AND THE LAST:"
You will find this in Revelation 1:11
"I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END."
You will find this in Revelation 21: 6
"I AM ALPHA AND OMEGA, THE BEGINNING AND THE END,
THE FIRST AND THE THE LAST."
You will find this in Revelation 22: 13
Now you may be wondering why I wrote that down.. Well, I want to share with you what I learned in church about the beginning and the end of the Jewish year.

Nisan, is the last month in the Jewish calendar.  This is when the Passover is held. ( mid- March- mid April)    Passover:    The Exodus from Egypt slavery.
Adar, is the first month in the Jewish calendar.. ( mid- February-mid March)
We know that baby lambs are born usually in the early Spring of the year.... We also know that Christ Jesus is often referred to as " The Lamb of God".  Now we have learned in Revelation that Jesus is the ALPHA  and OMEGA, the BEGINNING and the END...  The FIRST and the LAST.
As  the  world celebrates the birth of Christ Jesus on December 25, you and I will now know that it is really not the  correct time of His birth..... For Him to be the first and the last He would have to be born in the first month and die in the last month of the Jewish calendar..( during the time of Passover).  So, now you know the rest of the story.
As you go about your Christmas shopping and enjoying time with family and friends I want to ask you if you would say to them 'MERRY CHRISTMAS" and to all that you meet..  Not just in the month of December but in EVERY month of the year.... Let folks know you love Christ Jesus everyday not just one day of the year.....
Remember to Smile:  It is a free gift from God for you to share with all you meet..
From my house to your  I wish you a MERRY, MERRY  CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!
tenderly with arms wrapped about you, your sister in Christ Jesus, vickie

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

Listening To God's Voice

Hello Beloved,

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I would like to tell you about two people who live thousands of miles apart.
First Person:
A lady named Lori.  I met Lori in a hardware store about 7-10 years ago. I did not know who she was or that she would turn out to be someone SO SPECIAL. I found out
from her brother ( whom I worked with) that she was a preacher lady.
Second Person:
You have already met this person; " THE YELLOW ROAD WARRIOR", my friend Sherry.
Sherry had come home to be with her family as she was very sick.  I met her in a church meeting about 4 years ago.. As sick as she was ( and it really showed) she was praising and dancing before God.  I looked over at her and fell in love ....I fell in love with the spirit around her..... She was very, very, sick and in all the times following, seeing her in church, she never, never, failed to stand and praise God.
She worships God and prays and teaches what she knows to those who listen...  NO, I don't think she is perfect but I love her anyway. I tell you all that so I can tell you this.
Last year Sherry was in a coma and the family was told that she would not live. So has they made preparations to have life support taken off, she awoke.  She sat up in bed and starting talking to them like nothing had happened.
GOD IS A HEALER.
She was told she had some heart problems and would have to take medicine for that and she was released from the hospital.  She went back to the doctor and was told her heart was fine.
GOD IS A HEALER.
So for the past year she has been teaching a Sunday School class and worshipping and praising God.
On October 30, 2012, Sherry was in a very bad automobile accident.  She broke almost everything about her waist.. A URGENT prayer request went out .  Now this is where my two friends Lori, and Sherry come together.
God knows when one of His children needs Him and He also knows who to send the task to.
We are suppose to be open enough to hear God speak to us. It is when our spirit is talking to us.  We should be listening..  Well, this is what my friend Lori did.
She listened to GOD'S VOICE and prayed .  Night and Day she prayed for Sherry who lived thousands of miles away.  She would keep in touch with me and ask about Sherry so she could pray specifically. 
God brought together two spirits who love Him and obey Him, thousands of miles apart, He brought them together.
Sherry has a long way to go in her recovery but with angels like Lori praying for her it won't take long
So to be God's hand extended.......... listen to His voice and obey.  We don't know how our lives may cross with someone else's life but God does...
Please listen for His voice...... as I will...
God Bless each of you..
Remember to Smile..... It is a free gift from God for you to share with all you meet.
tenderly with arms wrapped about you.... your sister in Christ Jesus vickie

Sunday, November 4, 2012

My prayer for today ......

Good Morning Beloved,

I am just thinking out loud today.  I have been listening to the news and reading the news about New York.
About all the problems that they are having because of  Hurricane Sandy that went through and now about the problems they are still facing and with a cold front moving in..  I am so sorry for them but......
Have any of  you read the book " The Harbinger" by Jonathan Cahn?  I have and I can not seem to get what I read out of my mind....   It just makes sense to me... I know that the book is written as fiction but I have also read in a NON fiction book called, The Holy Bible.   Specifically in the book of Isaiah, in the Old Testament..  I believe that the effects talked about in this book are REAL. 
I really pray that people , ( you) would read this book... it is not all that long, only 253 pages and while reading it be sure to have your  Holy Bible beside you, okay?   Things are happening at a very fast rate now..  Jesus Christ our Lord is on His way and I think He will be here VERY soon. 
We all need to be praying for our Nation..  we need to remember that we are suppose to be loving towards each other and praying for each other.  Please let me encourage you to pray..... don't put it off until your ready because then it will be to late...  Do it now....... PLEASE.
Dear Lord Jesus,
What a awesome God you are.  You are Merciful and Just... You are the strength we need and the peace we seek when we are troubled.. Thank you for always being just what we need in all things..  Father, I am asking today for anyone who is reading this to seek You with all their heart.. I am praying for the souls of those who are lost... I pray that peace and strength would be there for the troubled heart...Father, our country is in need of so much prayer... I am praying for the leaders of this country to stop and think before they speak.... I pray that the people of this nation would pray and seek Your will for this nation...  I pray Father for Your guidance in making good sound choices for this nation...... I ask Father for Your forgiveness in every place of my life that was and is wrong before you... I pray that all those who I have hurt or offended will forgive me as  I have forgiven them..   I pray Father for your comfort to be with all those who ask.
I pray that Your will be done.... In the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.   Amen.
Beloved, I hope that you will take time to seek for this country a peace but I pray that you would pray for your own readiness to go to your eternal home... I'm praying that you choose  to go with Jesus Christ...
Remember" Smile , it is a free gift from God to share with all you meet..  God Bless you and be with you.
your sister in Christ... vickie

Monday, October 15, 2012

Who to Believe


In Genesis 3: 1-5  is the story about how the serpent ( the devil, Satan, liar) deceives Eve.
He speaks in 3:1 and again v. 4-5. In this story the serpent speaks  about 45 words. ( KJV)
Now in Job 1: 6-12, the story is about how God and Satan are speaking about Job.
Job 2: 1-10 is how Satan has come back and talks with God again about Job and in
both chapters Satan speaks about 131 words. ( KJV)
Now in Matthew 4: 1-11 , this is the story of how Jesus was tempted in the wilderness by Satan.
and he speaks a total of about 71 words.  so in scriptures out of the KJV Bible  we have a total
of about 247 words that Satan speaks...
Yes, Satan is spoken about but I am talking about him speaking the words. Satan is NOT God...

Why do we give Satan so much time and power over us?  He is really nothing but a deceiver.
We give way to much credit to him... Why , if we are saying  we are a Christian  do we believe
Satan more that what God has said?   God does not want us to live in want...... nor in lies... Satan
wants you to need  and he will lie to you about EVERYTHING!

So who do you believe; God or Satan?   Have you ever thought about what God has promised you?
Have you ever thought about what God has already done for you?  He sent His only Son, Jesus Christ
here to die for YOUR sins ( yes mine too) and if nothing else was ever promised that should be enough.
But, He has promised so much more.  Read John 3:16 .     He promised everlasting life.. Wow!  We
get to live with Him forever!!    1 John 4:4  ; " greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world"
He also promises to send a Comforter to you to abide with you for ever..  John 14:16.   So many promises
if we would just see them.. Please check out the Word for yourself  and see.  I am still in the learning mode myself..... I do know that the choice is up to  me and to you to make,   who to follow... I am learning to
lean on Jesus Christ and I will follow Him...

Satan is a liar and that is the choice he made... PLEASE  don't let him make that choice for you....
God loves you.  God is Love..God loves you..

Remember: Smile it is a free gift from God for you to share with all you meet...
tenderly with arms wrapped about you.. your sister in Christ Jesus, vickie

Monday, September 3, 2012

Law versus Grace

Good Morning Beloved,

I was just reading in one of my Bibles and found something I would like to share with you.. It is not long.
It is about Law and Grace ;

Law:

Moses was a representative of the law-  ( Law brings to Jordon)

Jordon, means death - ( judgement) , law brings us to death and leaves us.

Joshua came and took over ( Joshua means Jesus) , Joshua led them over Jordon

Jesus will take you through valley of the shadow of death , over into eternal life

John the Baptist was the last representative of the law.  He brought people down to the Jordon River to be baptized, but he left them at the Jordon.

When Christ came he went INTO the Jordon and brought the people out.

This is the difference between Law and Grace.

Law:     slays a man
Grace:  makes him live
Law:    death and judgement
Grace:  eternal life

This was taken from a D. L. Moody sermon I heard.  Pretty much sums it all up don't you think?
Remember to Smile:   Someone out there needs it today and You are the most beautiful you can be
when you smile and share it.  God Bless and Have a great day!!
tenderly with arms wrapped about you , your sister in Christ Jesus, vickie

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Who Is To Blame?

Hello Beloved,

I want to talk to you about blame.. Have you ever  been blamed or blamed someone for something?
I am in a Bible study right now , and the lesson for this day was called " The Blame Game".   I thought
it had some really interesting things in it... I sure did learn from this lesson today.  I hope you can too..
Let's start with with what the lesson started with okay?
I want to set the stage so to speak okay?
Adam is in the garden and has been told by God that he can eat of any of the trees
in the garden except for the tree of knowledge of good and evil . ( Genesis 2: 17)
In Genesis 2: 21-25  God causes Adam to go into a deep sleep and He takes ones of his ribs and makes
woman.  So now we can go to Genesis 3: and see Who is to blame.
It starts out that the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made.
And he said to the woman, " Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Well, we all know the story and how the woman ate the fruit and gave some to her husband , and this is how
we had sin enter into our lives.. Are we in agreement with this?  Okay, moving forward.
 If we read now in Genesis 3: 3-7 (NIV) , we will get to the point of blame.
"  Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.  Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day,  and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.  But the Lord God called to the man, "" Where are you?"" He answered ""I heard you in the garden , and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid."
Now, we can start asking the question of   WHO IS TO BLAME ?
When we are reading it , it sounds like Eve should be blamed , don't you think?  Or should we really blame
that old serpent?  What about Adam?  Who is to blame? 
In the study I am doing it starts out with this...  Eve was listening to that old serpent.. Now, just listening is not wrong BUT when you listen to a lie and then you start to dwell on it, then you start to believe it, and then you act upon it...And this is what leads us onto the path of bondage..  ie...  Eve listened to the serpent tell her that she would not die, that she would be like a god , knowing good and evil... LISTENING was not the problem .  She looked at the tree and saw it was pretty and she could become wise and she gave her husband some of it to eat too..  So , she listened , she dwelt a moment and she believed what was told to her by that old serpent and acted upon it..  That was the fall , right?  Or was it?
So , now are we blaming the serpent for the lies or Eve for listening to them?    Well here is something I picked up  in the lesson ..   " God didn't ask them what someone else had done to make them sin;
He held them accountable for their own behavior.  Regardless of what had influenced them to make that choice, it was still THEIR choice."  So pointing fingers at others will keep us in bondage
and guilt.. Freedom comes when we take responsibility for ourselves and the choice that we make..
So, when someone is telling you lies, you do not have to listen to them , but if you do , don't dwell on them and please don't act on them... Remember to be free is to take responsibility for our own choice.
Well , remember to smile , you never know who is looking and might need it today.. God Bless!!
tenderly with arms wrapped about you........ your sister in Christ Jesus, vickie

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Daniel The Prophet

Hello Beloved,

I have been studying the book of Daniel in the Bible.  I had recently heard something that I just could
not agree with, so I started digging to find the answer.
2 Timothy 2: 15.  "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
I will now show you what I have learned along the way.. If you see something you don't agree with please, at the bottom of the entry is a comment line, so tell me what and why and I will research it some more. thanks.  I want to give you a little background history here..
I am going to start with King David.   King David was born about 1040 BC and he died about 970 BC.
This would have made him 70 years of age when he died... He became King at 30 years of age and he
was King for 40 years.( 2 Samuel 5:4, 1 Kings 2:10-11)  King David had a son called Daniel or Chileab with his third wife Abigail. ( 2 Samuel 3:3, 1 Chronicles 3:1)
Now lets move on to the book of Daniel.
Daniel was born about 622 BC,  so when he was taken along with Hananiah( Shadrach), Mishael ( Meshach), Azariah ( Abed-nego) he would have been about 17 years of age.  So, I don't believe it was
possible for this Daniel to be the son of King David and Abigail. I am not saying it is not possible that Daniel
was a descendant of King David and Abigail , just that it was not a direct son ship.
Daniel 1:1.
" In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it."
Jehoiakim( Jehoiachim) his birth name was Eliakim. He was installed as king of Judah in about 608 BC.
So his third year would have been about 605 BC.  He ruled for about 11 years.
Daniel 1:3 
" And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the masters of the eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the  princes. ( nobility)
In all of the research material I searched I could not find Daniel's lineage.  So I have to just take what I  see in Daniel 1: and know that he was of noble birth.

I found so much out about this period of history and it was all very interesting ... I started out trying to see
if what I had heard was correct... I believe I have now found my answer..  I hope you find this interesting
enough to look and see if I am correct .  Please DO NOT EVER JUST SIT AND TAKE FOR GRANTED WHAT SOMEONE SAYS,  SEARCH IT OUT FOR YOURSELF.
Smile:  it is a free gift from God for you to share and you are at your most beautiful  when you do...
tenderly with arms around you.  vickie