I GLIMPSED GOD'S HEART TODAY

I woke early today and put on a pot of coffee.

I made my way to a little porch just off my kitchen with my first cup,

It's a cozy little porch with a small table at the center, lovely vines climb the columns at the entrance to the porch. There are geraniums on the side of each step planted for their sweet frangrance. Planted just in front of the geraniums are tiny pink rose bushes . One of my favorites.

Just beyond the little porch is a garden; my garden. I take such delight in it. There are over a dozen bird feeders along with bird houses and bird baths.

As I sat with my coffee, I watched as a beautiful red cardinal flew to the large feeded at the center of the garden. I had been out of town and realized that the feeder was probably about empty.

I got up from my comforable chair, left my coffee and went to fill the feeders. WHY? Because I want the birds to keep coming. I take such pleasure in just watching them come and eat.

I sat back down and watched as they came one by one, as if each one that flew off went to tell a friend "The owners back and the feeders are full."

As I sipped my coffee and watched the birds come and partake of the food that I had put out for them, The Lord began to speak to me and I heard the words "COME AND DINE"

In the same way that I had created a garden for my pleasure , to watch the birds, The Lord created us for His own pleasure..He longs for us to come and be in His presence, He has set a table before us.

As I continued to sip my coffee and watch the birds I observed how some birds come and go and some linger. Some grab one seed and leave as fast as they came. Some sit in the middle of the feeder and stay awhile.

I thought how we are like that with God. Sometimes we run to take just what we need and fly away. Back to the business of life and don't go back to God till we need another seed. Others have found the pleasure of lingering a little longer in His presence. Still others have made their home in the birdhouses provided with no desire to leave the garden.

While watching the birds suddenly a song bird began to sing and I can't help but feel that the pleasure that I feel when I hear the song bird sing Is like that of the pleasure that the Lord feels when we sing our praise songs to Him.

There have been mornings when I have sat and did not see a bird in my garden, my heart longed to see just one. I am reminded of the verse where the Lord says that He would have gathered us under His wing but we would not. How He longs for us.

There seem to be many similarities, like the bird that flys to the feeder and finds no food.. How many times have we gone to the Lord and come away feeling like we didn't receive anything, yet like the bird that keeps coming back till the feeder is full again the Lord says to us " Keep knocking and you will receive."

FLY TO JESUS TODAY AND LIKE THE SONG BIRD SING YOUR SONG OF PRAISE TO HIM.

A DAY TO REMEMBER

Today we remember those who lost their lives in the terrorist attack on the World Trade
Towers. On this day seven years ago these two towers crumbled in a cloud of dust. Here you see them pictured with a brilliant light forming a cross. And I am reminded of what scriptures tells us of the spiritual war that we are in.

Ephesians 6:12 says " For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places."

Like the terrorist who want to destroy America , we as Christians have an enemy who is out to destroy us.

1 Peter 5:8 says "Be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil, prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour."

Some years ago I had a dream.

Before the world trade center towers fell.

In this dream there were people I knew , friends and people I worked with on one side and on the other side was an army dressed in white. I knew that the army was the Lords army and that I was supposed to be a part of His army.

In the dream I was going back and forth between the two sets of people.

Suddenly there was a war and I found myself on top of a tall building, much like the towers that fell.

The building was shaking out of control and I found myself moving closer and closer to the edge of the building. I was trying to save people and I found myself hanging on to the edge of the building and with that I woke up.

That same morning I got a call from my daughter, Brittany. I could tell from her voice that she was shaken up. She said " mom I had a dream"

For those of you who have never read any of my stories Brittany is my oldest daughter who was prophesied over as a little girl that she would be greatly used of God in the last days. I pondered those words for twenty years till one day she began to have very spiritual dreams and then suddenly she and I were having the same dreams on the same night.

On this particular day that is what happened. She, living across town and with no conversation with me, dreamed the same dream as I had dreamed but she said "Mom, I saw you fall to your death." This is why she was so upset. Where in my dream I woke just before I could fall. She saw me fall.

I was not upset by the dream, I knew it was a dream from the Lord so I just went to him for understanding. I came to believe that the death was a spiritual death. Which is what the Lord ask of each of us.

Luke 9:23-24 states " If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me. For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he is the one who will save it."

Romans 12:1 tells us to present our bodies a living sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.And verse 2 tells us not to be conformed to this world.

In the dream I saw a army dressed in White, many places in the bible Gods word speaks of us being clothed in white. One example is found in Revelation 3:5 which says " He who overcomes will thus be clothed in white garments and I will not erase his name from the book of life and I will confess his name before My Father and before His angles."

2Timothy 2:3-4 speaks of us as Soldiers of Christ. It reads "Suffer hardship with me as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. No soldier in active service entangles himself in the affairs of everyday life, so that he may please the one who enlisted him."

In the dream I knew that I was to come out from among those who I had been with who were not following Christ.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 " Now we command you brethren,in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us."

In the dream the building was shaking out of control. God's word tells us in Hebrews 12:26 that ONCE MORE I WILL SHAKE NOT ONLY THE EARTH BUT ALSO THE HEAVENS."

"SEE TO IT THAT YOU DO NOT REFUSE HIM WHO IS SPEAKING for if those did not escape when they refused him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from HIM who warns from heaven." Hebrews 12:25

There is a war going on and it is a war for your soul.

BE AGLOW WITH THE SPIRIT

A few years ago I was asked to speak
at a small church about an hour from my home.

It was a small church out from town that I had visited a number of times and was growing to love.

On this particular night after I spoke, a young lady from the service approached me and she had her hand up in front of her eyes as she spoke to me.

She told my she enjoyed the message I gave and when I asked her why she held her hand over her eyes she said

"The light around you is so bright that I can not look at you."

I left that night trying not to give too much thought to what she had said, until it happened again.

Then I was reminded of a time when the Lord first called me to total surrender to Him and how right after that I was in line at a little hot dog stand and the elderly man behind the counter came over to me and said "honey I see your spirit all over you." Now I was questioning what exactly did he see? Did he see what this young lady had seen?

Not long after this I was having dinner at a restaurant here in town. I had been asking the Lord for divine appointments with people. That He would send people to me that He wanted me to tell about Him.

My husband and I were meeting a couple that we only saw once a year for dinner.
We were seated with one friend and were waiting for his girlfriend to arrive, who had been caught in traffic.

When she walked up to the table and sat down we barely said hello and she blurted out to me ...

"when I walked in and saw you, the light around you was so bright that I could hardly look at you."

She went on to say "I just bought a bible and have been asking God to show me the truth and when I saw you I knew that you were going to tell me. "

With that the guys excused them selves from the table and I moved closer to her and began to share the gospel with her. I told her how Jesus had come, born of a virgin. That He suffered and died on a cross to pay for our sins, and that He rose from the grave and that He did all this because of His love for us. And right there at the table she bowed her head and asked Christ to come into her heart and save her.

Talk about a divine appointment!!!

The boys came back in , we had our dinner and went our separate ways. The next week she began attending church and is now walking out the life plan that God has for her.

There are a number of verses in the bible that tell us of people who had a radiant face that was visible to those around them.

Acts 6:15 tells us that Stephen face had the appearance of the face of an angel and that all who sat in the council were able to see it.

Exodus 34:29 says " When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand, he did not know that the skin of his face shone and sent forth beams ..."

Romans 12:11 tells us " Never lag in zeal and in earnest endeavor :BE AGLOW AND BURNING WITH THE SPIRIT serving the Lord."

Ephesians 5 tells us to be imitators of God. This chapter talks much about the light of the Lord. Verse 14 says " Therefore He says AWAKE O SLEEPER and arise from the dead and Christ shall SHINE upon you and give you light.

Verse 8 states " For once you were darkness but now you are light in the Lord walk as children of Light (lead the lives of those native-born to the Light)

My hearts desire is to boldly proclaim Christ to the world. I continue to pray for divine appointments. I pray that as you read this if you have never asked Jesus to come into your life and be your Lord and Savior that this moment in time is your divine appointment. You are- not here by accident. God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.
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John 3:16- For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes in (trust in ,relies on) Him shall not perish but have eternal life.

ROMANS 3:23 " All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God"

Romans 6:23 "The wages of sin in death."

Romans 5:8 "God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."

1Corinthians 15:3-6 "Christ died for our sins, He was buried, He was raised on the 3rd day according to the scriptures, He appeared to Peter then to the 12, after that He appeared to more than 500."

John 14:6 Jesus said to him "I am the way and the truth and the life NO one comes to the father but through me."

1John 1:12 "As many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name."

Ephesians 2:8-9 " By grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourself, it is a gift of God, not as a result of works that no one should boast."

Revelations 3:20" Christ speaking "Behold I stand at the door and knock, if any one hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him.

1John 5:11-13 God has given us eternal life and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life, he who does not have the son of God does not have life. these things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, in order that you may KNOW (NOT HOPE) THAT YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE.

If you prayed to receive Christ you have just begun the great adventure!!!!


GOD BLESS.

ARE YOU A MISFIT?

Do you ever fill like a

Misfit?????????????

I do...

Imagine how Joseph must have felt.

God gave Joseph Dreams.

(sound familiar to any of you?)


Joseph in his excitement I'm sure ran to tell his brothers. Not stopping to think how they might respond.

Genesis 37 tells us that Joseph had a dream and he told it to his brothers and they hated him all the more for what he said.

Did God stop giving Joseph dreams in fear he might get hurt by what his brothers said?
....NO....

Verse 9 if Genesis 37 tell us that God gave Joseph yet another dream and once again Joseph ran to tell his brothers.

This time the scripture tells us that Joseph's father rebuked him. Joseph I'm sure continued to share with his family all that the Lord was telling him. And things seemed to only get worse. The brothers conspired to kill Joseph, but God had a PLAN. The brothers end up selling Joseph into slavery

From the place of slavery, to the prison dungeons God raises Joseph up to be over all of Egypt and Joseph's dreams do come true.

And consider this the next time God tells you something that takes awhile to come to pass, Joseph's dreams took years to come to pass. GOD IS NOT BEHIND TIME ON ANYTHING HE GIVES YOU...HE CAN BE TRUSTED!

Many times God calls us to a task in this life that carries with it situations that are not always pleasant . In fact many of us feel like Misfits... Some times the words spoken to us feel like stones, and the bruises stay around for awhile. But God soothes our hurts. And the excitement of knowing Him...of hearing His voice...and following Him far out way the pain!

Next time someones words are coming at you like stones remember what Jesus endured and the words He tells us in Hebrews 12:3 "Just think of Him who endured from sinners such grievous opposition and bitter hostility against Himself(consider it in comparison with your trial) SO THAT you may not grow weary or exhausted, losing heart and relaxing and fainting in your minds."

I write these words tonight for those of you like me whose coat of many colors (whatever robe the Lord has placed on you) is looking a little torn and tattered from the stones that have been hurled at you from the mouth of others..Say with me what Jesus said "Father forgive them, they know not what they do."

THE WOMAN AT THE WELL----SPA

I was given a gift certificate for a massage at a local spa.

I called to book the appointment. "Would you like to make your appointment with any particular person? " the receptionist asked."No" I replied. Little did I know that God had prearranged this meeting and He had a particular person in mind.

When I arrived at the spa I was taken to a room given a robe and shown a table to lie on and that the therapist would come in when I was ready.

I crawled up on the table, there was a knock at the door. "Are you ready?" Asked the therapist.
"Yes" I replied. But what happened next I don't know if either one of us knew we were ready for.

In walked a young lady in the last month of her pregnancy. As she extended her hand to begin the massage the Holy Spirit began to speak to me.

The moment that she put her hand on me I began to see her life.

I could tell you that she was carrying a baby boy with her womb. I could see a vision of a little girl that she had at home.

I began to see her family members and details about what was happening in her life.

I saw that her little girl was having visitations from angles at night.

The Lord went on to reveal detail for me to be able to give her a word of comfort that she had been crying out to the Lord for.

She had been married to another man who was the father of this little girl and they were now divorced. He had been threatening to take this little girl from her mother because he did not want her raised in a Christian home. The mother was afraid that he would take the little girl.

I was able to tell her all that I saw and assure her that God has her protected. She wept with joy.

When I was finished with my massage, she told me that the night before I came in that she had a dream that a woman she had never met that she was serving began to tell her all
about her live, and helped her. Just as had happened when I came in that day. She also confirmed all that I had spoken to her, every detail. She did have a little girl at home. She went on to say that each morning the little girl would come to breakfast and tell of the angles that were coming to see her. She confirmed that she was indeed carrying a baby boy in her womb.
She asked me to write it all down for her and I did. She was so excited that God had answered her cry.

She was hurting and was crying out for the Lord and He heard her.

He is the same, yesterday, today and forever.

In John 4 a woman of Samaria came to draw water from the well.

Jesus met her at that well and there He told her all about her life. She knowing that He was a stranger to her perceived Him to be a prophet.
Jesus tells her that he is the Messiah.
Christ the Lord.

Jesus had her attention. How could He know these things about me, she must have asked her self.

Jesus told her "The hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in Spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in Spirit and Truth."( John 4:23-24)

God's word tells us that we have the same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead. That same Spirit dwells within me.

The Spirit is all knowing. God's word says that He (the Spirit) will lead us into all truth.

John 14:12
Jesus tell us " I ASSURE you, most solemnly I tell you, if anyone STEADFASTLY BELIEVES IN ME, he will HIMSELF be able to do the things that I do; and he will do even greater things than these because I go to the father." ( and sends the Spirit to US )

John 16:13
But when He the Spirit comes...He will TELL YOU whatever He hears from the Father (He will give the message that has been given to Him) He will announce and declare to you the things that are to come (that will happen in the future)

Genesis 18:14
Is anything to hard for the Lord

THE PURE ROAD

Early one morning, while visiting a dear friend at the beach, God gave me a vision.

I was out on the deck overlooking the beach.
I was praising the Lord and began to ask the Lord what He would like to speak to me on that particular day.
As I was praying the Lord showed me a clock with the time displayed at 6:15. He showed me other things and I journaled them in my notebook.

As the day went on I visited with my friend till it was time to leave. We said our goodbyes and I started out on what was a familiar four hour drive home. While driving my usual habit is to spend time praising the Lord and I usually begin my drive by asking the Lord to show me something with my physical eyes and speak to me in my spirit. A couple of hours down the road and lost in conversation with the Lord I suddenly heard very clearly in my spirit "look at the clock" and at the moment that I did the clock said 6:15 just as I had seen in the vision earlier that morning. As I raised my head my eyes fell on a little old country road sign that said "PURE ROAD" and it was on the corner of a small old PURE gas station. As I continued to drive the Lord began to speak to me about Matthew 5:8 which says

" Blessed are the PURE in heart for they shall SEE God."

My heart had been crying out to the Lord for a number of years. "I want to see you Lord." The Lord had been purifying me over the years as I had been seeking His face.

I woke the next morning and headed to a tennis match across town. As I left the club that day I began my usual request :

"Lord show me something with my physical eyes and speak to my spirit."

No sooner had I finished saying those words that I looked up and there in front of my eyes was a very large billboard with giant letters saying nothing but "KEEP IT PURE". My heart cried "I hear you Lord." The next day in a totally different part of town after leaving a bible study I again asked the Lord "show me something with my physical eyes and speak to my spirit." And again I looked up and there above my car was another large billboard with only the words "KEEP IT PURE." Now I'm laughing...saying "thank you Lord...Purify me Lord."

The next day my husband and I head out to go back to our little place at the beach. And as usual I ask the Lord to speak to me. We had been on the road for just a little while when I heard the Lord speak to me in my spirit and say when you get to the little PURE gas station look at the clock. As soon as I saw the gas station the clock said 1:33 and he said look at the PURE ROAD sign again. This time I noticed that the sign that was joined to the PURE ROAD was road 331. I had not noticed it the first time. The Lord spoke to me about the road numbers being 331 and the time being the same number in reverse 133. There was a whole message in that which He began to unfold, but still the message was the same "stay on the PURE ROAD."

Later that evening as I went to spend time with the Lord , I went to pick up my bible and as I reached for the bible I hear the Lord say in a very clear voice "Charlot do you want to KNOW that it is really Me speaking with you and telling you to walk the PURE ROAD?" He said "then pick up the book under your bible," My Utmost for His Highest " and look and the scripture reading for today. I opened it up and the verse was Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the PURE in heart for they shall SEE God.

Just telling this story again blesses me. To know that as I type these words He is right here with me. And as you read these very words He is right there with you waiting to talk to you. We were created to fellowship with the Lord.

Ask Him to speak to you and then listen for His still small voice.

LITTLE VISIONS

In the previous story, I told you how the Lord opened up a job for me for which I had no training. The job was as a freelance prop master where my job was to meet with the director and producer and discuss the scene in a television commercial and occasional movie . My job as prop master was to go out and find all of the props needed to create the scene for which the director described to me. I stayed in that job for some twelve years. There were many opportunities for me to see the hand of God, for there were many situations where I needed Him. Many of these situations began with stress and ended with praise. In this particular job often I would have a producer come in from out of town and demand some rather unusual items to be brought to the set . On this particular shoot we were working with Michael Jordan at the Talladega Race Track. This particular director wanted an old bicycle built for two, a particular color, make and model. And of course he wanted it yesterday. When shooting a commercial where they were spending this kind of money on an hourly rate, you did not want to be the one to hold things up. The moment that the director asked for me to find this item, I went to my car and began to pray. I asked the Lord to show me where I could find this bicycle that the director was requesting and as I prayed I had a vision of a particular spot across town. I cranked up my car and drove to that spot and as I pulled up to park my car a lady crossed in front of my car with that exact bicycle. The very make, model and color. I quickly got out of the car and introduced myself to her and explained my job. I asked her if she would be willing to rent the bike to me for a couple of days for considerable amount of money. She agreed. You can call it coincident...I call it God. Especially since it kept happening. As time went on and I continued to seek the Lord diligently the visions grew from little moments where I needed Him and He showed up to Visions for other people whom I was asked to pray for. Often times for other people that I had never met. One such story God used to draw me into an area now where I am involved in praying for something world wide. We will, I'm sure get to that story in God's time.
This particular vision was for a woman in Washington whom as I've stated I have never met.
I received a phone call early one morning after just dropping my daughter off at school. In this phone call I was asked to pray for a woman but was told that they felt led to only give me her name. Well I did not know if she was young, old , sick , in need of a job, it simply could of been anything. But as I was driving at the mention of her name I began to have a vision in front of my eyes (yes my eyes were open...i was still driving the car) This was a first, usually I was in prayer at home alone when the Lord would show me things. I relayed the vision to the person on the phone and told them that when I got home I would get alone and pray and if the Lord gave me more that I would call. Well about two days later I was blown away. I could see so much detail of her life that there was no way I could see on my own. I could see that she was in a second marriage and that she had two children that had been taken from her by her first husband but the Lord showed me that they were coming back to her. I could see both her first and second husband in detail, description of how they looked and such things for example as that I knew that they were pilots. God showed me what I needed to see to pass on to her through the other party who asked me to pray. I asked the Lord to give me scripture to confirm that I was to pass this on to her and He did. Basically the message was that God loved her and He was with her. That He was in control and her children would be coming back to her. The next week I was forwarded a piece of a message that the woman I had prayed for had sent to her friends and in that email she told them how that when she had walked into the court on Monday that she had a peace that God was indeed with her and that she would get her children back because a woman who had prayed for her who only knew her name was given revelation of her entire situation and confirmed that the Lord was returning her children to her. She left that courtroom with custody of her children and praise in her heart. I was grateful that the Lord used me to help that particular woman but often I think it did more for me that it did for her. You can't experience something like that and not be changed. I continued to seek the Lord and He continued to show Himself .
From the time my children were born I have prayed for them. When my oldest daughter, Brittany was a little girl, around the age of two. We had an encounter with someone that stayed with me for over twenty years. While out shopping at an antique mall one afternoon I met a man who told me things about my life that at the time I did not understand how he could know.
(until as my relationship with the Lord grew and I began to find myself in situations with strangers and the Lord would tell me what to say to them) Each thing that this man would tell me he would begin by saying "I am led of the Lord to tell you" and he would proceed to tell me things, (another story for another day) anyway at the end of our meeting he said " I am led of the Lord to tell you that your children will be greatly used of God in the Last days." With that he disappeared, ok not in front of my eyes but he did walk to the side of the building where it was wooded and when I walked around the building to see where he went he was no where to be found. I pondered those words for twenty years until one day when I got a phone call from Brittany who lived on the other side of town and she told me of a dream that she had, it was a very spiritual dream and not long after her first dream she and I began to have the same dreams on the same night with no conversation before hand. One dream that we both experienced on the same night was simply that we both saw water come up in the same spot in Alabama and cover the entire world. When I woke I knew that it was a spiritual dream and asked the Lord what it meant. I said Lord I know from your word that you will never again cover the world with water to destroy us so what does this dream mean. I immediately heard clearly Habakkuk 2:14 . Well I don't know that I had ever read the book of Habakkuk much less be able to tell you what the verse said but when I looked it up it indeed confirmed my dream. The verse says " But the time is coming when the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea." Not long after looking up the verse my phone rang and it was Brittany and she said "mom, I had a dream" and she began to describe the same dream that I had . Once again you can call it coincident but I call it God. I have no doubt that this is where we are headed. And I simply can't wait for the day. Until then, I'll keep sharing my little stories with you in hopes to encourage you to be a God Chaser...if your not already.