USED FOR GOD'S GLORY

We had a pretty nice little snow last night - but as today wore on the temps rose to 32 degrees so the driveway mostly melted - but at 4:30 pm the Lord said "Go outside and shovel"

I went out through the garage - truly there was very little snow....I started near the house, went up by the street, and was back to the middle when a man with a shovel almost identical to my own came riding up the street and into my driveway on a BICYCLE. I smiled at him and said, "wow, I'm pretty much done - there wasn't much to begin with". He started talking and asked if he could clean my gutters (they still have leaves in them because a) I have no help and b) I have no ladder. I said that I was going to try to get my son to help me do it. As we were talking Jesus came up - he has been saved for 8 years - did time in prison - his wife (also saved) recently left him because a man who also had just been released from prison and saved only 8 months, told her that she was to leave her husband and spend time with God.

The Lord told me this was an error - so here's this brother - TODD - and he's alone, no car, no driver's license, out trying to make a living shoveling snow or doing odd jobs - and so I asked him how much he'd charge me to do the gutters and as he was looking at them the Lord said "Tell him you're My minister" - so I did. His eyes lit up and he was so blessed - he said "How about $20?" I said, "The Lord already told me to give you that but you don't have to earn it. Then we started praying for him and his wife - MICHELLE - in the middle of my driveway - his hands were lifted to heaven - and we were praying in the Spirit and I prophesied to Him the Lord's words of love....it was phenomenal. He started shoveling the street - and I went inside and the Lord told me to give him much more than $20 - I came out and told him he didn't have to earn God's provision....and the Lord had me tell him to sit at the Lord's feet and worship (he doesn't have a radio or cds or anything) - but said the Lord gives him songs so the Lord told me to tell him to sing them - and also instead of study study study, to instead sit at the Lord's feet and listen to Him speak -

While he was shoveling he said "You've had a very hard life - lots of trials - but that's why you can hear the Lord so well and help people - your spirit is very very sweet and loving...."

And then he came to me and shook my hand - I gave him the Lord's financial blessing and his mouth dropped open and his eyes grew big (VERY child-like) -

As he was riding away he asked if he could visit me from time to time - I told him only as he felt led from the Lord.

PLEASE PRAY FOR TODD AND MICHELLE - OUR FAMILY IN CHRIST - THAT THE LORD WOULD REUNITE THEM (THEIR SEPARATING WAS DECEPTION AND THE DEVIL) - THEY THEY WOULD HAVE VICTORY OVER REBELLION, SUBSTANCE ABUSE, TOBACCO, THE FLESH - CANCELING ALL ASSIGNMENTS OF THE ENEMY - LIFTING THE VEIL FROM THEIR WORLDLY EYES THAT THEIR SPIRITUAL EYES WILL BE OPEN - ALSO i COME AGAINST THE DEAF AND DUMB SPIRIT, THE SPIRIT OF PERVERSION, THE SPIRIT OF ANTI-CHRIST IN JESUS' NAME FOR YOUR GLORY LORD

The Lord truly loves this brother named Todd -

What a lovely way for the Lord to minister - oh I wait for these moments - wow -

CHRISTMAS IS PAGAN - WHAT ARE YOU DOING???

To love Jesus means to die to self - dying to self is THE ONLY WAY into His presence. No flesh can abide in His glory....

Why oh why won't those who claim to belong to Jesus LISTEN TO THE TRUTH? CHRISTMAS IS NOT BIBLICAL! CHRISTMAS IS PAGAN! What, is it because His name is in the title? ("CHRIST"-mas?) If that were the biggest hindrance, you seriously won't like it that antichrist is also not of Christ! ("christ" is in that title as well)....

LET IT GO! The world has been led astray - pretending that christmas - december 25th is Jesus' birthday or anything remotely ordained of God for celebrating Him. DO YOU NOT CELEBRATE HIM 24/7, 365 days per year?!?! And yes He came in the flesh for mankind's sake, but He ALWAYS WAS. Before the foundations of the world, God the Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit were ALL PRESENT! So technically it's not even His BIRTHDAY - because while He was born of a virgin it was a supernatural experience bringing forth One who ALWAYS WAS!

Every single thing encompassed by this pagan ritual is FALSE! From the trees to decorating to gift-giving - have you ever looked it up? IT HAS NOT BEEN AROUND SINCE THE TIME OF CHRIST! EVERY SINGLE THING the Lord asks of us is already IN HIS WORD - for HIS WORD IS HIM~ therefore, do you not think that a Holy Sovereign Omniscient God would have SAID "CELEBRATE MY BIRTHDAY" if it were meant to be so?

But it is NOT! This is not anti-God - it is PRO-TRUTH!

Each and every time a believer acts according to the ways of the world it is GROSS COMPROMISE! How are you to be trusted to represent Jesus when you are participating in pagan rituals?!?!?! A house divided cannot stand! You cannot do pagan things then do holy things - it just doesn't work that way!

Jesus NEVER ONCE compromised to draw people unto Himself. He hung out with the worst of the worst but He didn't BECOME THEM - no! It was HIS HOLINESS that drew them and CHANGED THEM!

WOE WOE WOE unto those who defend this day! For truly you are doing this for YOU - making up excuses and reasons WHY you don't give it up! The Lord admonishes you "THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMETH RIGHT UNTO A MAN BUT THE END THEREOF ARE THE WAYS OF DEATH! (PROVERBS 14:12 KJV) -

D - E - A - T - H ! ! !

How are you going to STAND BEFORE HIS JUDGMENT THRONE and explain your deeds? "Well, Lord, it was your birthday - I was celebrating YOU - the decorating, the trees, the gift giving, the parties - it's because of YOU!" and He will reply, "DEPART FROM ME I NEVER KNEW YOU" - - - because if you really and truly KNEW HIM you would know what an offense these pagan celebrations are! (and not just christmas folks, but easter is pagan also!) - - -

"Then I will tell them plainly, 'I never knew you. Away from me, you evildoers!'" - Matthew 7:23 NIV

"Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you." 2 Corinthians 6:17

"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him." 1 John 2:15

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God." Romans 12:2

A great sorrow for me are two members of my family - pretending to know Him but doing what they want when they want and ignoring truth. My mother and sister found a way to sneak the holiday in by going to my daughter's house - when leaving, my mother said to my son, "I wonder if your mother would like Christmas if her dad was still alive - he loved Christmas".

WHAT?!?!?!

How can I LOVE SOMETHING THAT IS PAGAN! There is NO EXCUSE for participating in something that is anti-Christ! HOW CAN I POSSIBLY LOVE SOMETHING THAT OFFENDS MY LORD??? Would I love it if my beloved earthly dad were still living? NO! I would tell him what the Lord has me telling all: that Christmas is pagan and does NOT HONOR GOD IN ANY WAY! Which is TRULY ironic that my dad loved Christmas because my dad was born a JEW!

If you love Jesus - do things His way. ALL THINGS - not just something here and something there. And just because churches the world over are also celebrating this pagan holiday it does NOT MAKE IT RIGHT OR HOLY! People, only about 2 percent of all professing Christians are really TRUE CHRISTIANS! The Lord said MANY are called but FEW ARE CHOSEN! And NARROW IS THE WAY - in 25 years I have yet to meet hardly ANY who are truly HIS and walking 100 percent non-compromising, dead-to-self/world/flesh lives!

"For many are called, but few are chosen." Matthew 22:14

"So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen." Matthew 20:16

"Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it." Matthew 7:13-14

ARE YOU ONE OF THE FEW WHO ADHERES TO THE NARROW WAY???

THUS SAITH THE LORD: "THE PRIDE OF YOUR HEART DECEIVES YOU"

Truly I know what it is to be hated - scorned - mocked - gossiped about - - - it does get easier with time, but truly He has had to teach me to guard my heart....

"If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you." John 15:19 "Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." Proverbs 4:23

MESSAGE FROM THE LORD:

"Beware of My Messenger, and obey her voice, provoke her not; for she will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in Her." (Exodus 23:21)

PLEASE LOVE HIM ENOUGH TO DO NOTHING TO OFFEND HIM - NOTHING THAT WOULD COMPROMISE YOUR WALK, YOUR PLACE AT HIS FEET....IT IS NOT EVEN ABOUT YOU BUT ALL ABOUT HIM - DO NOT OFFEND HIM, HE WHO PURCHASED YOU WITH A TERRIBLE PRICE - HE WHO FORGIVES AND IS LONG-SUFFERING BUT HE WHO SHALL NOT TOLERATE SIN AND DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS FOR TRULY HIS RIGHTEOUS JUDGMENT SHALL EXPOSE ALL THAT IS FALSE IN YOU AND YOU SHALL BE ASHAMED FOR YOU DID NOT HEED, YOU DID NOT YIELD, YOU DID NOT OBEY. (6:28 pm)

Deut. 12:30-32 Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God: for every abomination to the LORD, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods. 32 What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

Jeremiah 10:2-4 Thus saith the LORD, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. 3 For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. 4 They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not.