"Some People Want a ..... Feel Good God.... "

Sitting here reading in Revelation today and talking with the Lord. In Revelation 11:10 "The inhabitants of the earth will gloat over them and will celebrate by sending each other gifts, because these two prophets had tormented those who live on the earth."
In this particular reading, this is during the first part of the tribulation and God has sent these two prophets to the earth to prophesy ...for 1260 days. God had given them power to breath fire out of their mouths to anyone who tried to harm them. When they had finished their testimony, Satan had them overpowered and killed (only because God allowed it for a purpose), and their bodies laid in the streets, no one allowed to bury them, for three and a half days, and the people were gloating over them being killed, they loved it, and they left them there so everyone could see, not knowing God was going to bring them back to life and take them up to Heaven.
But why did they gloat over them and why were they happy they were dead? Because the prophets were prophesying the truth and they didn't want to hear the truth. Sound familiar? Isn't that like a lot of people today? They don't want to hear the truth. They don't want to be condemned, they don't want to know this way of truth. They want a "feel good God". They want to be able to do what they want, when they want, and how they want, and then want to use God as their " go to " buddy when things aren't going right or they need something. So many times I've heard, "Well I'm not a bad person." or "Well, God is a loving God so He understands me and He won't send anyone to hell." Guess what? He doesn't send anyone to hell. He gives us a choice to choose if we are going to serve Him .... or ..... serve Satan, so if we don't choose Him, we send our own selves to hell. I've heard people say, "Well I don't have to serve either one." Guess what? You do. Because you are either going to live for God .... or the devil. Whichever one, you are making a choice.
God is a God of love, but He doesn't tolerate sin no matter who you are or how good of a person you are. We cannot earn our way into Heaven! We can talk about God all we want to, we can post God sayings on here, we can talk about how good He is to us, BUT if we do not have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, if we have not come to Him in prayer, asked Him to forgive us of our sins and come into our hearts, and then do our best to serve Him and stay away from sin and the temptations that the enemy puts before us every day, then He will not give us a pass into Heaven just because He is a God of love. We have to have a personal relationship with Him and read His word, and walk in accordance to His will for our lives. It's just that simple.
I want to be ready...don't you? I can't imagine wanting to live my life without Him anymore. PLEASE .... don't wait too long.... just please don't put it off... Don't make anymore excuses.... just choose to serve Him no matter what you have to give up or what you have to change in your life..... To know that your heart is right with Him, is worth everything! ~ReneeSee More

"Invisible Scars"

Husband and wife are sitting on the couch. Suddenly, the husband decides he wants them to go to the store or out to eat. The wife says, " Can I change clothes, or put on a little makeup first?" The husband says, "No! Besides, no one is going to look at you anyway." .... Slash to the heart.......

Wife is trying to eat healthy so she tries to change her way of eating. When it's time to go to the grocery store, the husband starts picking out what he wants to eat, and the wife is willing to fix it for him. But when she tries to get some things that she needs for her healthy eating, the husband says, "I'm not buying that! Besides, no one cares if you're fat. I know I don't." ...Slash to the heart........

Husband and wife are arguing, which seems to be an every day thing.... The wife says she's tired of him treating her that way, so she's going to leave. The husband says, "Do you realize I can have you killed and no one would ever be able to trace it back to me?" ...Slash -now fear has been applied....

Wife decides she can't take it anymore, so she's getting out, even if it means her life. The husband says, " You try and leave me and I will go after your family! I have ways that I can destroy them!" ...Slash- now fear for her family.......the abuse continues.....

Wife finds out the husband tells someone that he thought about putting rat poision in her food. .....Slash- fear again for her life......

The name calling, the cut downs, being yelled at, degraded, threats, being laughed at, being made fun of, lies, and the list goes on...... invisible scars.

Physical abuse is a horrible thing and the scars that it can visibly leave are terrible and sometimes fatal. The pain that a person experiences during being hit on is also horrible.

But there's another kind of abuse that people don't think about much.....and that is mental/verbal abuse. This kind of pain leaves invisible scars. Scars that you can carry around for a very long time, some carry it around for a lifetime. No one deserves to be treated like they aren't worth anything. Mental and verbal abuse can be and usually is just as devastating as physical abuse! The only difference is .... you can't see the scars on the outside, so no one knows. Everything may look great on the outside, but behind closed doors - it can be a mess. Sometimes, if you look close enough, you can see the pain in someone's eyes.

We live in a hurting world. A world that needs Jesus. I am thankful and blessed to have a wonderful, God fearing husband like David, who loves me with his whole heart and would never harm me in any way! I know I can trust him! But not everyone has someone like that.

If you are out there, and you are being abused physically or mentally/verbally; please love yourself enough to get help. Get away from it! God loves you so much and His plans for you is not to be abused by someone that supposedly loves you. Years ago, I asked someone who was in my life at the time, this question: "Who are you? You are not the same person you were when I met you." His reply was, " I had to act that way to get you, but I don't have to act that way anymore to keep you!" ...... WRONG.........

Whoever you are, if you're hurting, if you have physical scars or the invisible scars, ask God to help you. If you haven't given your life to Him, ask Him to come into your heart, then ask Him to help you get out of the situation you are in and He will help you. He truly loves you! If you can't get out of the situation you are in by yourself, then ask God to send someone your way that can help you get out of your abusive situation. But please love yourself enough to get away from it!

......Physical or Mental/Verbal abuse ...... Either one or both can leave scars that last a lifetime...

God bless ...... Renee'

Facing The Enemy.....

Saturday night, David had already gone to sleep, and I was sitting in the bed reading my Bible. After I read, I laid my head back and dozed off. When I did, I seen a vision and there was this huge snake raised up, and it was looking at me...eye to eye. Suddenly, I woke up and I began to rebuke Satan and told him to leave. Shortly after, David got sick and I assumed this was the battle of the snake.... Well, it wasn't........
......Today, I have come face to face with this snake...the enemy. God showed me today that this is a huge battle I am facing with the enemy.... I called my Dad, and shared what was going on. He called me back and said as he was praying, God put it before him... "Stand still, and see the salvation of the Lord"....
God spoke to me in another way this morning also, and at the time, I had no idea what I was about to face. On my phone, I have it set up where every day, I receive a scripture from K-Love Christian station. This morning, my scripture was from Exodus 14:14 (NLT) "The Lord Himself will fight for you. Just stay calm."
God is Almighty....all powerful.....all knowing....He never changes...Nothing is too big, Nothing is too small for Him.....He knows how to work it out, when to work it out, and what it takes to work it out.....I TRUST YOU LORD! I BELONG TO YOU LORD!
.......Don't know what you're facing out there today, but God does......Don't face it alone....You know who you are...God told me to tell you......You don't have to face it alone.......
................I covet your prayers....... ~ReneeSee More