LIFE IMITATES ART?

The Lord has had me praying for actress Sandra Bullock for years. For those who remember this ministry's website, she was on a list of several celebrities who are on 'my' watch.

Recently Sandra experienced deep humiliation - her love for her husband, Jesse James, so genuine. And he betrayed her. He even sat in many public venues while she gushed on and on from her heart her love for him - and he, sitting there, knowing of his many acts of betrayal.

The Lord has been telling you and telling you that death and life are in the power of your tongue; and that that which you allow into your gates are the things that remain in your spirit. In the case of an actress (but only as an example for ALL of us 'act' in certain ways throughout our day - going about our lives in certain ways -) that which she has portrayed has truly come to fruition in her real life.

In 1998 Sandra's movie "Forces of Nature" featured a plane skidding off a runway. In 2005 her personal plane skidded off a runway and she could have been killed (a miracle (they said) that she survived).

In 2000 she was in a movie called "28 Days". Prior to the filming, she went to a rehab facility in Arizona to research her role. Today (2010) her husband has checked himself into that exact facility for rehab.

In 1998 she starred in the movie "Hope Floats". During the opening scene she is a normal housewife who goes on a national televised talk show, thinking she is going to get a makeover, but instead her best friend announces to her in front of the world that she has had an affair with Sandra's onscreen husband. The movie shows her pain and humiliation and heartbreak. In 2010.....in real life....

She played roles - followed scripts. But truly it is NOT life imitating art. She is reaping what she sowed - she planted these seeds and they bloomed fully in her life. This does not diminish the cheating lying etc on the part of her husband - but she has to take responsibility for her part.

Worldly folks will not understand this. But it is indeed truth.

The Lord has shown me so many instances where actors/actresses experience the exact things they portrayed in film.

It doesn't help that Sandra also played a witch in "Practical Magic" (1998) and was in movies involving strange phenomenon about the dead in "Premonition" and "Lake House".

We have a set path the Lord has set before us. We can choose to walk that path - or not. When we do whatever we want, we reap the fruit thereof (and truly reap His fruit when we walk the faithful path as well). If you involve yourself in things that have nothing to do with God, you will reap the consequences of that. Just as these folks portraying roles, acting out those lives, speaking the lines - can't expect it not to manifest in their real lives.

You cannot then blame the Lord (which most people do) for that which you reap. YOU have to ask the Lord to REVEAL all the hidden depths of your heart, all the things that are part of you and all that you say and do that is apart from Him, apart from His perfect will.

Does that mean they ('famous' actors/actresses) shouldn't act? YES! If it is a role that God did not ordain, if it does not portray the things of the Kingdom of Heaven, does not glorify Almighty God. "Let everything that has breath praise the Lord". This is not just for singing - this is for the words of our mouths, the actions of our bodies - all things must be for Him or it is against Him! There is no middle ground.

SO MANY tragic stories of people reaping what they sowed. One that Holy Spirit brings to mind is Heath Ledger - who portrayed the Joker in "The Dark Night" - everyone around him said the role changed him - emotionally, psychologically...that he became dark, moody, then having trouble sleeping, having nightmares, using drugs for anxiety, nerves, sleeping....certainly those who have acted in evil films have suffered greatly. So many reports of the things documented that have occurred during filming the things of darkness, and after. You would probably be surprised to know the number of deaths and lives of darkness and ruin that has happened to those portraying these roles, even musician singing dark lyrics. NOT A SURPRISE to those who know the ways of the spiritual realm but truly 'coincidence' to those who know not The Lord.

OUR LIFE ACTIONS HAVE CONSEQUENCES! You do not know how many demons you have in your life 'merely' (there is no small deed/thing) from watching a tv show or singing the wrong song or doing the wrong job, or associating with the wrong people....

You need to ask the Lord to open your spiritual eyes, that you might see the powers and principalities attached to everything in your world.

DOES IT NOT MAKE THE MOST SENSE TO WALK THE WALK JESUS HAS FOR YOU? HOW MUCH SUFFERING WOULD YOU RELIEVE IN YOUR LIFE?! (APART FROM ORDAINED SUFFERING TO DIE DAILY AND PARTAKE FROM HIS CUP) - - - YOU ARE GOING THROUGH THINGS THAT SURE, THE DEVIL IS RESPONSIBLE FOR BUT THAT YOU INVITED IN!

For the believer, most important (more important than doing a thing just so you won't suffer) - - you do what is right because Jesus asks it of you. You walk the walk He has laid out before you because of His love for you - for truly He is worthy of your obedience, your righteousness, your praise...you honor HIM when you live in His perfect will.

HE DESERVES THE GLORY FROM YOUR OBEDIENCE

GET IT RIGHT....times almost up!

Psalm 150:6
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD

Proverbs 18:21
Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Proverbs 4:23
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life.

Psalms 101:3
I will set before my eyes no vile thing. The deeds of faithless men I hate; they will not cling to me.

Psalms 97:10
Let those who love the LORD hate evil, for he guards the lives of his faithful ones and delivers them from the hand of the wicked.

Matthew 6:22-23
"The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

Ecclesiastes 7:21-22
Do not pay attention to every word people say, or you may hear your servant cursing you-- for you know in your heart that many times you yourself have cursed others.

2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.

Matthew 12:34
For out of the overflow of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:18-19
But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these make a man 'unclean.' For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

Proverbs 18:7
A fool's mouth is his undoing, and his lips are a snare to his soul.

Ephesians 4:29-30
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Psalms 17:3
Though you probe my heart and examine me at night, though you test me, you will find nothing; I have resolved that my mouth will not sin.

Proverbs 21:23
He who guards his mouth and his tongue keeps himself from calamity.

James 3:2-12
We all stumble in many ways. If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal. Or take ships as an example. Although they are so large and are driven by strong winds, they are steered by a very small rudder wherever the pilot wants to go. Likewise the tongue is a small part of the body, but it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also is a fire, a world of evil among the parts of the body. It corrupts the whole person, sets the whole course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell. All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. It is a restless evil, full of deadly poison. With the tongue we praise our Lord and Father, and with it we curse men, who have been made in God's likeness. Out of the same mouth come praise and cursing. My brothers, this should not be. Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

Ezekiel 36:26-27
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.

Matthew 12:36-37
But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned."

Matthew 5: 8
Blessed are the pure of heart for they shall see God.

His Messenger
April 2nd, 2010
2:35-2:55 P.M.