How do we fight when the battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms?
Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Ephesians 6:10-17
This is no ordinary fight, for there is spiritual wickedness in high places. When you are battle weary, come watch this and be refreshed.
Remember, “The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.” 2 Corinthians 10:4
Hello from second lock down. Yes, I am deprived of my liberty again. What a year. There are lots of jokes about 2020. I’m sure we’ve all got some. Here are my favourites …
All jokes aside, I see 2020 as the dawning of a new era – the day of world government which must come before Jesus returns.
It’s an evil day. The world government is being aided and abetted by the World Health Organisation. Did you notice it has for its logo a snake on a pole? It signifies Asclepius, a son of Apollo.
In Revelation 12:9 the snake is defined as “that ancient serpent called the devil, or Satan, who leads the whole world astray.”
The serpent has different names according to the culture where it was worshipped. In Egypt it was Uraeus, the sacred serpent. In 2018 a sculpture called Uraeus was installed at the Rockefeller Center in New York. It consists of a gigantic open book with eagle’s wings 30 feet in span, both made of lead, on top of a 20-foot-tall lead-clad stainless steel column. Clustered around the base of the column are further outsize lead books, while a large snake coils up the column.
Does it remind you of anything?
I see that serpent wrapping it’s coils like a python around each country, constricting us in the name of health, and choking the life out of our economies and our livelihoods.
After this vision, I learned that Satan is written with three Hebrew letters: The letter Shin, which means to consume or destroy, the letter Tet which means a snake, or to surround, twist, entwine and ensnare, and the letter Nun, which means life. So Satan means ‘the snake which surrounds, consumes and destroys life’.
It’s time to put on our armour and make a stand.
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. Romans 13:12-13
My brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Therefore put on the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:10-13
We are up against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world. The principality making itself felt worldwide is in Geneva, where the headquarters of the World Health Organisation and GAVI are.
GAVI is the Global Vaccine Alliance that Bill Gates started in 1999. It’s a mix of private-public partnerships, i.e. government and big pharmaceutical companies.
The WHO is a United Nations organisation. Bill Gates is the second biggest donor, which gives him an inordinate amount of influence. Neither he nor the head of the WHO are doctors. Gates wants to marry a universal biometric ID with vaccines, as part of Agenda 2030. The initiative is called ID2020. You can check it out on my other blog, the one I use for warning people. I began warning about this in November last year, and again in January, before the Covid thing kicked off.
The UN has an agenda for us all. As part of Agenda 2030 the World Health Organisation intends to use vaccines to replace our God-given immune system with theirs. The goal is called Immunisation Agenda 2030. That’s why you’re now hearing about “global health.”
Who is behind the WHO? Satan is described in the Bible as the god of this world, or of this age. I believe it’s his symbol on the WHO logo.
The serpent on the pole is a counterfeit healer. The devil can also perform miracles, but Jesus was the one who was lifted up on a pole; “And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even somust the Son of Man be lifted up,that whoeverbelieves in Him shouldnot perish buthave eternal life.” John 3:14
The account is in Numbers 21, where the Lord sent venomous snakes among the people who spoke against God and Moses. The Lord said to Moses, “Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.” Numbers 21:8
The snake god is ancient, and the Lord took it on in Egypt. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “When Pharaoh says to you, ‘Perform a miracle,’ then say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and throw it down before Pharaoh,’ and it will become a snake.”
So Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and did just as the Lord commanded. Aaron threw his staff down in front of Pharaoh and his officials, and it became a snake.Pharaoh then summoned wise men and sorcerers, and the Egyptian magicians also did the same things by their secret arts: Each one threw down his staff and it became a snake. But Aaron’s staff swallowed up their staffs. Exodus 7:8-12
As God’s ambassador, Moses staff was more powerful than those in the court of Pharaoh.
The magicians’ names were Jannes and Jambres. Their names crop up again in the last days, when Paul warned there will be perilous times in the last days.
Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth.” 2 Timothy 3:1-9
Society is going to be very divided. There are churches who have abandoned God’s eternal truth in favour of a social justice gospel. Their ministers are false teachers, wolves in sheep’s clothing. Do you think they’ll help if people are forced to take mandatory vaccines? Will they warn about not-so hidden agendas if people start trusting the World Health Organisation for their health and healing? When people put their faith in a counterfeit, it’s called idolatry.
How do we stand? How do we battle this thing?
First, we should submit to the government as far as we can. Now that’s a radical idea, but in Romans 13:1-2 we’re commanded to be subject to the governing authorities, unless their laws demand that we disobey the Lord. When that happens we can practice civil disobedience.
In the name of Covid-19, we’ve been forced to put a Ministry of Health Covid-19 tracking app sign on the entrance to our business. Do I like it? No – but I have to obey the government.
Second, we need to pray for discernment.
The image of the serpent on the pole that Moses had made was supposed to prepare Israel for Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross – but when the people turned away from God and started worshipping the image instead, it was destroyed.
You can read it in 2 Kings 18:4: Hezekiah the king of Judah broke into pieces the bronze snake Moses had made, for up to that time the Israelites had been burning incense to it.
Nehustan
The serpent on the pole was called Nehushtan, which in Hebrew meant “a worthless thing of brass.”
Third, we need to turn away from the worthless thing, stand on the Word of God and shield ourselves with faith in His Word.
Psalm 91 promises that “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. In verse 3-6 we read, “Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with His feathers,And under His wings you shall take refuge;His truth shall be your shield and buckler (small shield.) You shall not be afraid of the terror by night,Nor of the arrow that flies by day,Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness,Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.”
Verse 9 promises, “Because you have made the Lord, who is my refuge, Even the Most High, your dwelling place, No evil shall befall you,Nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.”
The shield of faith is one of the six pieces of the armour of light. So put your faith in Jesus, be wise, and don’t listen to those who employ deception. Turn off the TV if you have to, it’s broadcasting fear.
Jesus said,“Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves.Therefore be wise as serpents andharmlessas doves.” Matthew 10:16
Third, we need to remember this while making our stand, “owe no one anything except to love one another, for he who loves another has fulfilled the law.” Romans 13:8
In New Zealand, our Socialist prime minister Jacinda Adern urged us to be kind in the so-called Covid-19 pandemic, while setting up a police line to dob in our neighbours if they were seen to be breaking the government’s restrictions.
Teddy bears in windows aren’t a substitute for kindness. Jordan Peterson said that “Kindness is the excuse that social justice warriors use when they want to exercise control over what other people think and say.”
The snitch line is another thing I chose not to use, because we’re told in 1 Thessalonians 4:11 to make it our ambition to lead a quiet life: we should mind our own business and work with our hands,so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that we will not be dependent on anybody.
So what do we have to do to make a stand?
#1 Submit to the authorities, but not if they contradict what God says, #2 Pray for discernment, #3 Turn away from the snake on the pole and trust Jesus instead, and #4 Love one another.
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People will betray each other in the last days.
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! 2 Timothy 3:1-4
Ardern minions have filed “4,200 reports to police”, reporting on their neighbours who breach New Zealand’s house arrest rules. As The N.Z Herald quipped, “curtain-twitchers outing members of the public crashed the new police reporting site within an hour of it going live yesterday.” Neighbour devouring neighbour under a cloud of suspicion and fear, in an eerie echo of the kind of public denouncing, carried out by Soviet Stasi, and Nazi Gestapo, collaborators.
Know that we have the power of Christ’s blood, and in his blood is immunity: “Did you know there is proof for the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ? We even know his blood type, from the cloth wrapped around his head.
The cloth, called the ‘Sudarium’ is kept in a Cathedral in Oviedo, Spain. And here’s something from the evidence room: The blood stains match those on the Turin shroud …
Have you ever heard the noise of the heart? I’ve heard it on a fetal heart monitor when I was pregnant. It makes a noise like “Leb-bab, Leb-bab, Leb-bab.” Leb and lebab is the Hebrew word for “heart.”
Did you know the Throne of God has aspects of the human heart?
Twenty-four ribs guard the heart – twelve on each side, and in Revelation 4, twenty-four elders surround the throne of God along with the four cherubim.
The heart has to be guarded. Proverbs 4:23 states, “Above all else, guard the heart, for it is the well-spring of life.”
Because the heart is the throne of our conscience, the seat of our decision making. We need the cleansing of Christ’s blood.
1 John 7 states “the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.”
Source: Knowing Jesus
The heart removes the C02 and pumps blood around the body. Jesus’ AB negative blood is used for universal blood transfusions. I’ve written about it on my Red Sky blog:
In our cells we have laminin, the cell scaffolding protein foundation structure for most cells and organs. Laminin is vital for the maintenance and survival of tissues. Does laminin remind you of anything?
Colossians 1:17 states that Jesus “is before all things, and in him all things hold together.”
As Romans 1:20 states, these are some of God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—to be clearly seen, being understood from what has been made.
Great designers always leave their mark.
My thanks to Carrie for providing the inspiration for this article.
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Hebrew word study: Lebab (03824) means heart, mind or the inner man, contrasted to the outer man (See Dt. 30:14: Joel 2:13;1Sa 16:7). Lebab is often compounded with “soul” for emphasis, as in 2Chr 15:12 (cf. 2 Chr 15:15).
Have you ever read the verse about the kingdom of heaven suffering violence and the violent taking it by force, and wondered what it meant?
"And from the days of John the Baptist
until now the kingdom of heaven suffers
violence,
and the violent take it by force."
Matthew 11:12
The context for the verse is “the days of John the Baptist.”
“In those days John the Baptist came preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!”
For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah, saying: “The voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord. Make His paths straight.’ ” Matthew 3:1-3
After hearing him preach, what do you think the Jews were looking forward to?
They wondered if John was the Messiah, or Elijah – who Malachi prophesied would be sent before the day of the Lord (Malachi 4:5.)
The Jewish leaders in Jerusalem asked who he was: “Now this was John’s testimony when the Jewish leaders in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was. He did not fail to confess, but confessed freely, “I am not the Messiah.”
They asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?”
He said, “I am not.”
“Are you the Prophet?”
He answered, “No.”” John 1:19-21
Jesus indicated John was a type for Elijah when He said, “And if you are willing to receive it, he is Elijah who is to come.” Matthew 11:14
The Day of the Lord is yet to come and so is Elijah. He may be one of the two witnesses described in Revelation 11.
Elijah will explain both Testaments and unite Jews and Christians, as he shows how Jesus Christ is the fulfillment of the Old Testament.
And he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Malachi 4:6
Elijah will probably also heal a generational divide which I fear will happen as our children are being taught a different version of end-times after receiving an Agenda 2030 based green gospel at school. Imagine being a climate skeptic with a child like Greta Thunberg.
Hitler said, “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” It doesn’t bear thinking about. If it’s uncomfortable now – what will it be like in the future?
But getting back to Jesus’ day, the Jews believed John the Baptist when he announced the Kingdom of God was at hand. When Jesus fed the crowd of 5000 bread, they intended to make Jesus king by force. (John 6:14-15)
Were these people violent or enthusiastic and desperate? I don’t know, but Jesus separated Himself from the the crowd. Their idea of the kingdom of God was not His or His Father’s.
Before the Kingdom of Heaven can come, a false messiah and a false kingdom headed by ten kings will come first. Jesus warned us not to be deceived.
Will we have to go against the crowd at a time when truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil becomes a prey? (Isaiah 59:14-15)
I’ve written about the Kingdom to come in my second book “The Wayfarer’s Guide to the Apocalypse.” It’s a unique peek at the happenings in Heaven and on earth as the world lurches through the apocalypse. Book link: https://books2read.com/u/3RaOvG
Greetings for 2020. I haven’t posted here for a while as I’ve been working on my second book, ‘The End, The Wayfarer’s Guide to the Apocalypse.’ Unlike my first book which is about the Kingdom within, this is about the world to come – the Kingdom, the power and the glory.
I wrote it to counter the doom and gloom of the climate change message being propagated by the media and those affiliated with the United Nations.
My advice is don’t listen to it. Turn your TV off and consult the Bible. Ask the Lord what He has to say. Compare the Word of God to the climate change message. You’ll find, if you don’t know already, that it’s quite different.
Writing the book in 2019, I became mindful of that. I wanted to show how different the Bible narrative is. The Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible is a marvelous book. I wanted to do it justice. Not wanting to make it a boring Bible study, I made the book a questioning journey through the Bible inside a study, where I became a character called “Wayfarer” on a journey through the Apocalypse.
It’s been a strange journey, it’s taken me more than a year to complete. I’ve been at times amazed, puzzled, baffled, frustrated, astonished and rewarded – and I’ve come out with a deeper appreciation of the enigmatic mind behind the last book of the Bible.
What do you think about coincidences? Is it God trying to get our attention? Or, as Einstein said, “a small miracle where God chooses to remain anonymous?”
I think people often get signs and dismiss them as coincidences. I don’t dismiss them, you can miss out on a lot when you do that.
Have you experienced God trying to get your attention? Has He tried to sign to you or speak to you with a word? To hear, you must have the Word. Hearing comes from the Word.
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Romans 10:17
There are two kinds of Words in the Bible, LOGOS for general application and RHEMA for personal application, where the Holy Spirit will speak directly to you, bringing revelation.
I think hearing with the Rhema word is something that is caught rather than taught. When I heard people say ‘they heard from the Lord,’ I’d think ‘how?’ In time I caught on after meditating on the Bible.
If you don’t have the Word, you will be deaf and He will sign.
God communicated by sign until I understood the Word. Now the sign and the Word tend to work together.
Here’s a practical example of a sign working with the Word; My mother died with a row of sevens accompanying her. She died at 7pm on the 7th day of the 7th month, aged 77.
The link is here if you want to read more and see the video I made for her.
Coincidence? Noticing all the sevens, I asked the Lord if it was a sign. The answer was in the affirmative. He explained to me that Heaven is a place of rest, and He’d sent the sign wanting to reassure us she was at rest.
From the Word He showed me where Heaven is mentioned as the “seventh-day rest” in the Bible. The Sabbath day is the seventh day;
There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God;for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his.Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest … Hebrews 4:9
God used signs all the way through the Bible. It’s standard operating procedure for him.
The sign either precedes or follows the Rhema word.
The Word is like a compass, the sign is like a landmark, and the discovery is like orienteering, navigating, or tracking. You have to read and look.
My book is based on how the Lord guided me using His Word, coincidences, visions and dreams, with signs accompanying.
It’s the number one thing I hope to convey to the reader of my book – how to look for God and hear Him.
After His death and resurrection, the Lord worked with the apostles confirming His word with signs.
“And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following. Amen.” Mark 16:20
He is still doing it today, because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. Hebrews 13:18
Do you believe there are animals in the Kingdom of Heaven? Let’s imagine we can have a peek in the Kingdom from the Bible.
Here’s the throne of God, with a floor of sapphire, and encircled by an emerald rainbow.
“In front of the throne on what looked like a sea of glass, clear as crystal. In the centre, around the throne, were four living creatures, and they were covered with eyes, in front and in back.” Revelation 4:6
Covered with eyes? I can’t really picture it. The creatures described in Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 4 aren’t like anything we have on earth.
Perhaps God has tried to show us with the peacock!
The Hebrew word for eyes is ‘ayin‘ which represents consciousness – the idea of seeing and watching as well as knowledge. Do we not see it in the eyes of our animals? Before the throne of God, I can imagine their innocent eyes reveal intelligence and spiritual insight.
These creatures are in the midst of the throne so we can see that God has his companion creatures, just as we do.
The living creatures are of four types, and of four in number. Four is the “earth number,” for they have something to do with the earth.
The creatures on earth wait in hope for the children of God to be revealed. “They wait in eager expectation for children of God to be revealed.” Romans 8:19.
Animals have a soul. God had given his creatures breath, “ruach”, a soul – just as man has been given breath, a soul. “In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.” Job 12:10
Does God care about our animals? I’d say yes, for he writes that a righteous man cares for the needs of his animal.” (Proverbs 12:10). He cares about us all.
He knows if even a sparrow falls. He watches over them. Jesus said,“Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father’s care.“Matthew 10:29
The animals belong to God, and he knows each one. “Every animal of the forest is mine, and the cattle on a thousand hills. I know every bird in the mountains, and the creatures of the field are mine.” Psalms 50:10-11
It says in Revelation 4:11 that God created all things, and they were created for his pleasure.
Although the creatures are God’s, God placed them under Adam’s dominion. After the fall of man, all creation suffered when the Earth came under a curse.
Job, the oldest book in the Bible deals with suffering. Job spoke of the life of the creatures and the breath of all mankind being in God’s hand. He said, “Ask the animals, and they will teach you.” Job 12:7-10
The creatures can’t tell us, but they have this hope of being released from suffering. They’re looking forward to the day when they can join us in the new Kingdom, where there will be no more death or suffering.
For the creation waits in eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hopethat the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time. Romans 8:19-22
Adam named the creatures. When Adam, or mankind is restored, all creation will be restored along with man. They will be brought into a world where they can live as God intended.
The wolf will live with the lamb,
the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling
together;
and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11:6
If you’ve lost a pet, I hope this comforts you. It is okay to grieve for your animal, God understands. There is a rest for the creature, for from God are all things, and to God are all things. Worthy Of It All – David Brymer (David Elango acoustic cover)
Have you watched the Amazing Race? Imagine you are competing in it. Millions of people are watching you on TV. The prize is $1,000,000. It would change your life to win it.
You finish the first leg, and those watching you are excited about the way you’ve run the race so far. The race organiser is there to greet you as you come up to the finish. You’re still in the race. He is happy to see you make the pit stop, and while you rest you think about the decisions you made, the risks, the trials, the challenges you overcame, the pitfalls and mistakes, the detours and roadblocks.
The Kingdom is like the Amazing Race. We have to follow directions, search for signs, work out the clues, overcome the obstacles, and get through the road blocks and challenges. Only at the finish will we know if we’ve won, and what we’ve won.
The Kingdom of Heaven is open for all, if you believe in the Lord and confess your faith in Him. “If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved.” Romans 10:9-10.
But you still have to contend for the race. There is an adversary, the devil. If he can’t stop you from getting that precious ticket to Heaven, purchased for you by Christ, he will try and keep you from running the race. He will find your weakness and attempt to ensnare you.
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. Philippians 2:13
What you inherit when you enter the Kingdom of Heaven depends on how you’ve run the race here. Not everyone gets a prize. Many are called, few are chosen. Matthew 22:14. You have to overcome to inherit the promises, and they are great.
What you inherit is up to the Lord. Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Colossians 3:24-25
Get this, you can lose your inheritance while still being allowed into Heaven. Some people are going to get into Heaven with the smell of smoke on them and nothing else.
If what has been built survives, the builder will receive a reward. If it is burned up, the builder will suffer loss but yet will be saved—even though only as one escaping through the flames. 1 Corinthians 3:14
“Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God.” 1 Corinthians 6:9-10
If you are in one of those ‘nor’ or ‘neithers’, have a really good think about what you stand to lose because of that sin. This should make us intentional about how we live our lives; working out our salvation with fear and trembling.
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed–not only in my presence but now much more in my absence–continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling,for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
Just like in the Amazing Race, where the competitors are gunning for the finish line, the prize in sight.
You may run the race alone or as part of a team. For years I ran alone or with friends until Isaac came to join me in the race.
When I learned about inheritance, I found there was even more to the race than I first thought. There are people who have run before who have a baton to pass on. You will know if you are on their team.
Hebrews 11 speaks of people of faith, who believed in what God promised; “These were all commended for their faith, yet none of them received what had been promised. God had planned something better for them so that only together with us would they be made perfect.
The baton can be promises to be fulfilled, victories to be obtained, or mantles to be taken up.
The Church fulfills its commission in telling everyone about salvation, but often it stops there. I hope I’ve given you something to think about. The next chapter of my story is about running the race. I’m still running. I’ve got a funny looking baton which you can read about in Chapter 79 The Year of Inheritance.
Here’s a good site I found that teaches on what I’ve mentioned here, in more depth;
We’re in a war, and it involves our homes. I should know. I come from four generations of broken homes on my mother’s side. I never knew my own grandmother.
The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. Proverbs 14:1
I repeated the broken home pattern myself, but unlike my maternal grandmother I refused to abandon my children.
My children did not have an ideal home as the father was missing, but unlike the previous generations, I turned to God and he turned this family around. He gave me strength, self worth, boundaries and a lot of practical help. When the children reached their teenage years I was given a second chance at marriage. The man I married is a good man who loves my children like they are his own.
I put two things on hold while I was raising the children on my own – dating and a career.
Did I earn as much money? No. Did I have any romance? No, just temptation.
Was it worth it? Yes! I still got to where I wanted to go, my children have safely reached adulthood, happy and well adjusted. They are navigating life for themselves now. I pray to God that the unhappy pattern of divorces has been broken, to be replaced with happy marriages.
I now respect the home maker profession more than any other. Although I’ve had two careers and now I’m a self employed business woman, I realise it is the most important job you ever get to do.
Satan targets women as they run the most important place – the home. Mothers have the most influence on children – if a mother is broken and can’t raise her sons and daughters, he wins.
He will look for where you are most vulnerable, and tempt you there. Be careful what you let into your home.
There are lots of sharks swimming in the sea of life, and you don’t always see their fins.
2 Timothy 3:1-9 gives you a list of them.
Here are some I encountered;
1) The narcissist who wormed his way into my home with charm, and destroyed it.
2) Religious wolves dressed as sheep – having a form of godliness but denying its power. The ones that are easy to spot are the ones who turn up on your doorstep holding Bibles. Not so easy to spot are the “apostles” who want a percentage of your income as “tithes”.
3) A friend of my daughter who was disobedient to her parents, unholy, and ungrateful. She tried to get my daughter to shop lift.
4) A gossip who slandered a loved one. Covered in an earlier post.
1) I invited in, 2) I did not invite in 3) My daughter invited her in 4) Got invited in with a group of people
Have nothing to do with them.
In 2 Timothy 3:1-9 they are described as “the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over weak-willed women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires …”
Weak willed? If they gain control, you have been weak willed.
Loaded down with sins? Is there stuff in your life or family of origin stuff that hasn’t been dealt with?
Evil desires? Just look at what is on your TV that may sway you, or your child.
So watch yourself. If you are a mother, you are the gate keeper of the home. Its dangerous times we’re living in.
Psalm 101 is a great piece of scripture for a gate keeper. My advice is make it intentional. Learn it, memorise it, and use it. If you put it into effect, it will save you a lot of grief.
Also, Gate Keepers need discernment. You can ask God for this gift.
Do you keep meeting the same kind of person? The root of this problem is in grief. We are compelled to repeat something until it is resolved. The best way to avoid being sad is to be mad, at someone else. If you had a parent figure who let you down, you find someone else like them, and stay mad at them for 40 years! We are not people who let go of things by nature.
There is a proverb about this; As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly. Proverbs 26:11
People with damaged boundaries are perpetually in a state of loss, all the time. It manifests as depression, rage, resentment, worry. Depression can keep you on bondage to the person who feels they own you. Depression is unresolved grief. I have heard it said that depression is anger without enthusiasm.
Guilt is rage you’re lying about. People who are really mad at someone, but anger won’t work, put themselves in the victim role. We like to blame it on someone else, then we can avoid guilt. If we’re angry at someone who has manipulated us, we have to ask ourselves, “what did I want from them that gave them the power to do that?”
What I have learned is the problem is never the real problem.
The solution is forgiveness, to let go of destructive people so we can receive. Let it go, cry over it. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” Matthew 5:4
We need to take ownership of our feelings, attitudes, and behaviour. These I have learned are called the three treasures. If you have boundary injuries, so that you can’t take care of these, or you are putting somebody else’s monkey on your back, its because someone has hated your treasures. Someone wanted your compliance, your going along with something, your being a good student, your helpfulness, your being entertaining or whatever, more than they wanted you to be real, open and grow, and there was a transfer.
Jeremiah, the weeping prophet tells us ““The heart is deceitful above all things, and beyond cure. Who can understand it?” Jeremiah 17:9
That’s the human heart. Deceitful. Beyond cure. Not able to be understood.
When I went to back to College to earn my Diploma of Business, the first paper we did was Business Communication. It confirmed what I’d learned in the years I was rebuilding my life after a marriage breakup and disastrous “relationship” with a narcissist.
Like an iceberg, most of what affects the soul is submerged. The decisions we make which are based on our feelings, attitudes, and behaviour are affected by things hidden at an unconscious level. Isn’t that scary.
God knows how we are wired, even if we don’t.
“But I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives”. Jeremiah 17:10.
The good news is that the Lord is called “Wonderful Counselor” and He can bring to light those secret motives. We all like sheep have gone astray. The Shepherd’s goal is to search for the lost sheep and restore souls.
We want to be out of pain, we’re wanting to be in control, we’re wanting love, for the hurt to stop. We have all these needs that are good, that want life to be better, a hunger and thirst for righteousness not getting answered.
Jesus said “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Matthew 5:6
There is nothing more important in growing and recovery than taking ownership in life of your three treasures. This will determine how you handle everything; finances, work, family, career, body, spouse, friendships, etc. Boundaries serve as an assistant to protect these three treasures – our feelings, attitudes, and behaviour.
Boundaries are freedom and freedom is love. We will never get there until we get to grips with our own sin, to receive grace, so we can give it away. The pain leads us to the grace. We can never understand truth until we have the grace first.
Most of what I have written about here was from a tape I was given on Boundaries, which I made a passing reference to it in the part of my book where I started to rebuild my life.
I kept the notes from the tapes and have put them on the blog so it can in turn help you. He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 2 Corinthians 1:4.
The three treasures deals with what the Lord taught me here about the hidden things of the heart.
The context for the verse is “the days of John the Baptist.”
Writing the book in 2019, I became mindful of that. I wanted to show how different the Bible narrative is. The Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible is a marvelous book. I wanted to do it justice. Not wanting to make it a boring Bible study, I made the book a questioning journey through the Bible inside a study, where I became a character called “Wayfarer” on a journey through the Apocalypse.
What do you think about coincidences? Is it God trying to get our attention? Or, as Einstein said, “a small miracle where God chooses to remain anonymous?” 
The Word is like a compass, the sign is like a landmark, and the discovery is like orienteering, navigating, or tracking. You have to read and look.
The creatures can’t tell us, but they have this hope of being released from suffering. They’re looking forward to the day when they can join us in the new Kingdom, where there will be no more death or suffering.
