Army of the Lord / a story and a prophetic message for you

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Tuesday,  03/19/2012 at 12:32 P.M.

 

I received a birthday gift from a dear friend of mine. It arrived in a silver box with my full name engraved on the top. It reminded me of the type of gift box that may have been like one that the three kings had presented to Jesus so long ago. Inside there was a black velvet pouch that had another pink velvet pouch inside of that. This pouch had a set of silver dog tags in it. The top plate has a trellis like design and a cut out heart so that you can see through it to the bottom plate. The front of the bottom plate has my Army Serial number art323, my position Disciple of God (DOG) and the back of that same plate has HOPE 111 engraved on it. When the top plate is directly aligned with the bottom, you can see the words OF GOD inside the heart that is on the top plate. The initials are smaller case to remind me to stay humble. The message of HOPE 111 was a revelation that God had shared with me a few years ago that I had shared with my friend.

 

I remember before this package had arrived that day, I was in the restroom at work and when I looked in the mirror, I had acknowledged that the outfit I was wearing reminded me that I am in the Army of Lord. It was a black T shirt with a silver Jesus Fish and Capri's that had camouflage on them.

 

Some may call this a coincidence but I know that it was not. It was a confirmation for me that I am a part of His Army. It was as if He was handing me the dogs tags Himself.

 

For the last few years I had made it a point to have dinner on Monday nights at my Mom's, (who lived with my Grandma),. I brought my son with me, and eventually my Brother started coming and he would bring his girlfriend. Once Kyle started to date someone, he would bring her as well. Eventually, my brother started bringing his friends at times. Everyone had always been welcomed in that house and my loving Mother with a gift of serving had made it a feeling of home for all.

 

When I came to my Mom's house that night, I had noticed that every single person that was in the house had camouflage on. This was actually pretty unusual and even my Mom had it on. Granted hers was a Disney shirt with blue camouflage but camo nonetheless, LOL.

 

As I am writing this story now, I do so with a smile in my heart mixed with sadness and revelation. There has been much turmoil on my Grandmothers side of the family in the way of the siblings. They are all very kindhearted, loving people however the family was steeped in religion that bore it's natural fruit of judgement and condemnation, rather than love and mercy towards each other. Needless to say, once my Grandmother passed last year, it has only gotten worse. I am not sure why my Grandmother did not  leave the house to my Mother who moved in with her and had taken care of her but I suppose it is not my place to judge her actions. I stand with a broken heart watching the family succumb to the spirit of Greed in ways that I could have never imagined. I guess in my heart, I thought they would do the right thing and let my Mom have the house. You see the house would not be if she had not moved in. Grandma could not make the payments so, she asked my Mother to move in with her. I love all of my family and I will always strive to believe the best and try to convince each of them to believe the same in each other. My Mom did not expect to be given the house, and agreed that the siblings are entitled to their inheritance. Over the last year I have seen and heard things that have really stretched my Faith. I have been moving my Mother for the last couple of months who is now an hour away from me :-(.. Life has been very hectic for me. I went from not having to suffer much loss to suffering a great amount of loss and it seems to continue to be more and more. It dawned on me today that the worst of this started right after I received my dog tags and how appropriate that I went to that house after having received them and all of my immediate family who are in this battle, were wearing camo as well.

 

Today is a colder rainy day. These are the types of days when I seem to be able to hear God the clearest. After feeling as if God has been anywhere but in my midst for the last few months, I watched the Hobbit this AM and then I read a book and prayed. It was through all of these vessels that God spoke very clearly to me. There is a scene in the Hobbit where there are Eagles that rescue the gang and sweep them away to a safe place on top of a mountain. They are able to see their homeland from this high point, that they have been trying to save on their journey. A dragon was able to steal it away from their ancestors when their kings heart became set on gold. I thought to myself, why didn't they just fly them over all the way? It was still a very long journey from where they were.  I heard, because they will not be  prepared to fight the battle unless they take the entire journey. For it is on the journey that they will experience trials that will teach them what cannot be taught by words. It is our trials that make us stronger, not our comfort. It is the time that it takes to make the journey that gives us the chance to have these experiences.  If we lean in closer to God during these times and wait for Him with a Hopeful Heart, we can win the battle and the Kingdom He has promised us!

The last memory that I have on the last Monday we all shared together in Grandma's house was all of us hugging in a huge pact like formation telling each other that we love each other jumping up and down being goofy. My Mom who was sitting in a chair at that time even jumped up and joined in. I remember thanking God for giving me that memory to hold onto. I was hopeful that God by way of miracle would let my Mom keep the house. It appears the answer at this time is no but things are not always what they seem. Please if you are reading this post, pray for the peace of all in my family in the Will of God and restoration.. I pray for your peace in your life in the Will of God as well.

AND NOW TO YOU the reader.........................................

 

I was prompted to share this story with you and felt a prompting to relay a prophetic message to you. This post is anointed to get a Word to you today. If you are reading it, it is not by coincidence or chance. You were destined to read it and let it serve as a confirmation for you. There are feelings that you have already had on your heart about the spiritual warfare that is in our country and all around the world. You have seen the signs and YES, THIS IS WAR! God has been and will continue to prepare you for this battle. You are enlisted in His Holy Army. The best weapons that you have are your relationship to our Father, love and mercy. You look around and see pain all around but don't worry and keep pushing forward in FAITH and TRUST. God will work ALL things out for the good of those that LOVE HIM. Do not choose to let your heart grow cold in distrust in His Promises. WE NEED YOU! HOLD THE LINE!  

IN LOVE AND SERVICE,

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GOD IS LOVE

Biblical Fact: GOD IS LOVE. Human Beings mail fail us, however God will never fail us..
What is love? 1 COR 13:4.. We have all heard it at weddings, so if God is love, then God is all of the things of 1 COR 13:4 towards us.


(ASV)
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.

KEEP HOLDING THE LINE!

So many things are happening right now, I felt it appropriate to share this message again.

HOLD THE LINE!

A Hold The Line mission is a type of Timed Mission, where instead of completing a mission in a set time, you have to prevent the enemy completing their objective before the time runs out. This usually means you are defending your base, or a certain character, until reinforcements arrive, or vital repairs are carried out on the base. Sometimes the enemy is an overwhelming force, so actually defeating the enemy, or even surviving much beyond the time limit, would be impossible, without reinforcements or similar. Fortunately for you, victory will usually occur instantly and automatically as soon as the time runs out, even if you were moments away from defeat.
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I hear a message in my head over and over, HOLD THE LINE!!!!!!!!!!!!! No, it's not the song from Toto, but that is a really good song... LOL. Where was I, oh yeah. I feel like there is a huge message for us in this regarding the Kingdom Of God. I feel as if we are God's soldiers and we need to hold the line, waiting for His re-enforcement at the end of times. We know that whenever they yell this in the movies, all of the soldiers get as close together as possible, and work as a team to hold off the enemy. While God has His Heavenly hosts assembled and ready to go on that glorious day of His return, His earthly army is presently being built. We are that army. The next time you see someone in pain, I want you to remember these words HOLD THE LINE! Do whatever you are able to in order to stay close to this person until the storm passes. Encourage them to get their strength from our Father through His Word, and keeping relationship with Him daily. Together with God, we will be victorious. Remember that even though it may seem as if you are moments from defeat, Greater is He that is in you, than he that is in this world. We cannot see what lies ahead but that is what true Faith is all about. We know how this story ends!!

HOLD THE LINE!!!!!!!

Entitlement Part 2

I posted about an inncident that happened with a young man last. This incident actually happened a couple of weeks ago.

Today I walked outside to take a walk and he was standing at the front door. I looked at him smiled and said hi, he said hi back. I thought wow some headway. When I got home there was a note by my door, a picture of Jesus's hands praying and on the back a note:

I am sorry for disrespecting you. THe Lord taught us to forgive so that is what I am doing. Sorry.

Love your neighbor,
Sgt XXX


Thank you for you prayers over the situation. A smile and forgiveness go a long way.

Entitlement

If you serve in the Armed Forces, First  Thank you for choosing this as your profession. Secondly, I want to remind you that a part of protecting our country is not using your title as a platform to mistreat people around you and think it is ok. Serving means just that. There was young man mistreating a woman today in my parking lot at my condos. After about 15 min of hearing this woman ask him to stop what he was doing, and him kicking a big dent in the car she was in that had a small baby in the back seat, I could take no more and went to find out if she was ok. Of course this started him after me. All I can take away from this interraction is that I pray for our youth especially. He told me that I was just a civilian and was not worthy of me telling him anything, that he served in the Marines and if I called the cops they would laugh at me. He then let me know he protects our country therefore he could do and say as he pleases. Then he told me that I needed to respect my elder? I am 40.. I am really worried about our youth. The respect factor has gone out the window. Not with all of course but it is at a very all time low. This kid was about 17-20. I thanked him for serving for our country but let him know that protection starts in your own home and serving in the Marines did not give him any type of special rights to treating people poorly. This is not the first I have seen of this behavior and again I say, not everyone that serves is like this (of course). He asked me who I was to say anything and I said I am someone that cares about how other people are being treated and that gives me a right to a voice. We need to start standing up in this country for morals and integrity and the good of all. We need to get back to where we were as a society. I ask you to please pray for this young man and his baby and the Mother and everyone to care enough to do what is right.

Focus your Lens

One thing that I have noticed about taking pictures is that sometimes when I get them home and look at them on my computer, I cannot believe the difference of what I thought I saw with my natural eye -vs- what the camera lens had picked up on. I started thinking about this wondering what is it that makes this so?

#1 The angle that you are viewing things from. Even though you pointing your camera in a certain area, since you don't really put your eye right up to the viewer any longer on the new cameras, you could be looking from an ever so slight different angle than what you are focusing your camera on.

#2 Things that we focus on with our eyes, are processed also in our brains. So, there can literally be something going on in our minds, that is altering the picture that we are seeing in front of us. A camera is able to take the image in front of it at face value. Did you know that our eyes are actually attached physically to the brain?

#3 The amount of light that is available to the camera will totally change the picture. In the same way, the amount of light that we have inside of us can cause us to see a different picture.

When I started thinking on these things, it was apparent to me that God was speaking to me using the camera analogy as a  parable to teach me.

We may not have the physical inner parts of a camera that is able to cast aside perception by nature, but one thing that we have available to us is CHOICE. We can make a choice to recognize when something is possibly causing a blurry picture, or worse a dreadful picture in our lives. We do not have to see through the lens of disaster and focus on problems and negativity. We can  choose to RE-FRAME and REFOCUS our minds to see the good in all situations and make a beautiful picture in our mind's eye. If we can see it there, we can in fact make it our reality. Individual reality is nothing more than individual perception. As a man believes in his heart so is he.

So, the next time that you are looking at a situation in your life, choose to see yourself as a camera that has the ability to only focus on the beautiful subjects in the picture, choose to only see the beauty in your picture. Even if you see things with your lens (eye) that you would typically perceive as ugly. 

I saw this little girl at an Icefestival. I so wish that I would have thought to chase the lady down that was with her to give her this picture. I did not think fast enough. I was trying to take a picture of the sculpture but the kids kept running up to it and when I clicked the picture anyway, a gust of wind blew and her hair went up in the air when I clicked the picture. You can just see on her face that she is so totally in awe of this sculpture. As if it took her breath away. The adults, they walked by the sculptures that day and looked at them but not like this little girl or the other children that were there. They were probably thinking of where they were going next, how to pay bills, what is for dinner, etc.
Take the moments in life to experience the beauty in all situations that God has given to you. Let them take your breath away in AWE of HIS BEAUTY.

MATTHEW 18:3
And he said: "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Philippians 4:8 
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.

Red Winged Messenger

A friend of mine had posted this after my Grandmother had passed away. I could not remember if I have shared or not:

Red Winged Messenger-

On Tuesday May 29th, 2012, the 3rd morning of the week, I headed out for my prayer walk to hear from God. I have come to know that God not only speaks to us through His word but also through His creation which is a manifestation of His word. My intention on the walk this particular morning was to lift my friend Angela up to Him, that He may comfort her and bring her peace over the passing of her Grandmother. I had barely taken twenty steps when a cardinal caught my attention. A scripture immediately popped into my mind, "a bird of the air shall carry the voice, that which has wings shall tell the matter." I knew in this instance that the voice being carried by way of the cardinal was that of God. The cardinal was standing on the largest rock boulder in our front yard just staring at me and making song. "What are you telling me Lord through this red winged messenger?" As I questioned it dawned on me that I had brought my smart phone along with me for taking notes. It hit me that I should google "symbolism of the Cardinal" when I did so, I scanned the links available and one caught my eye, "religious symbolism of the Cardinal". When I clicked it, this is what I saw, "the Cardinal Bird is symbolic of faith, it comes to remind us to KEEP THE FAITH. It also reminds us that we as believers are covered by the blood of Christ. I knew that the message, "Keep the faith" was not only a reminder to me, but was a message sent by God through this red winged messenger for Angela on behalf of her Grandmother.
When I went back through the email that Angela had sent to me, something I had overlooked stood out and confirmed the message was for her. The last thing mentioned that she noticed right after her grandmother passed, " a cardinal singing to me from the tree in the yard next to her Grandmother's house, which was the yard of her Uncle that had passed three years before." The passing of a loved one is always hard. It does cause us to reflect upon our faith and as we ponder it, God sends this very clear message to direct us, "Keep the Faith."
The picture in my mind of the Cardinal standing on the boulder is very strong imagery. It will forever remind me that Christ is the rock, the one solid foundation. The cornerstone of my faith.

Comments from me today 3-9-2013 :

I prayed a couple of days ago, God please let me have a picture of Cardinal in the snow and get it on my lunch break. I have studied the songs of birds and I knew the sound of the Cardinal. God led me to him but I also heard the voice and ran after it. If I had not have studied his song, I would not have known which direction to go in. If I had not sought after him, I would not have found him. 

 It is this way as well with Christ. The more you study the Word, the more you are able to recognize His voice when He speaks and you will find Him when  you seek Him with all your heart.