Word for Today – August 29, 2001
Publicly Speaking
Number 16:28-34
(KJV)
Then Moses
said, "This is how you will know that the LORD has sent me to do all these
things and that it was not my idea: If these
men die a natural death and experience only what usually happens to men, then
the LORD has not sent me. But if the
LORD brings about something totally new, and the earth opens its mouth and
swallows them, with everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive
into the grave, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with
contempt." As soon as he finished
saying all this, the ground under them split apart and the earth opened its
mouth and swallowed them, with their households and all Korah's men and all
their possessions. They went down alive into the
grave, with everything they owned; the earth closed over them, and they
perished and were gone from the community. At their cries, all the Israelites around them fled, shouting,
"The earth is going to swallow us too!"
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Comments:
(All views expressed are those of Teresa
Christian alone, and not the views of any other business entity or church
affiliation)
I am a teacher and writing happens to be my
teaching tool of present, since I am unable to speak to you face to face. The beautiful thing about writing is that
there is so much more written in between the lines, amen. Also, when I write these pages, I am not
always the author or the one in full authority. God is actually the real Holy Ghostwriter, I'm just the piano
player. Before you write, you must
establish who your reader will be. My first
reader is myself, so often I am just writing to me and you get to look in on my
conversations with myself and God.
Other times, I open my eyes for a brief moment and realize that you are
out there and that happens when I began writing and the writing doesn't make
sense to me personally. This morining,
I am writing to all of us. Listen
closely as my spirit urges me to pray publicly. A lot is still heavy on my mind and heart Lord. You blessed me with the big kitchen and Blue
Heaven, but all of a sudden I realized why you did all of that. You did it to prepare me for greater work in
the ministry. You did it to prepare me
and make me more available to do your will.
There is something greater on the horizon Lord and my spirit has
detected it. Even my husband is coming
to terms with making amends with himself, me and his children. You didn't even allow me to find another,
why not!? I would cry before sleep. No,
you are setting me up for greater task ahead, I know you God, I know you are up
to something. Lord, the people in the
scripture, they took your presence for granted, they held your presence in
contempt. Nothing happens, absolutely
nothing happens around us or in our individual lives without your hand of
orchestration designing the scene in order to bring about your will. We can work with you or we can work against
ourselves. Oh Master, I am broken by
your presence, you are too great for me Lord and I know it. How awesome and ever-present you are, like
an eternal flame, your light never goes out, you will not go away. Your wisdom, your plan, your kingdom comes
and your will be done Lord, both in my and in the world. Without fail, you are on the scene. Clone that they will, but they cannot create
life as only you have. Engineer that
they will, but they can only repair the mutated flaws, they cannot surpass the
perfection you first created. Lord,
show us mercy, we are made in your image remember, we have knowledge of both
good and evil even as you do, yet we are mere infants when it comes to the
application of that knowledge. Even
now, such knowledge, it is still too great for us and we stumble with
application. Like a small child trying
to exchange buttons for gold medallions we are so finite. But your ways dear Lord, they are higher than
the mere standards of mankind, no court in the land can come to the fair
judgements that you relegate (Isaiah 55:7-11). For you know everything about Teresa,
Vada, Tonja, Teja, Ann, Brenda, Peggy, Eric, Myte, Debbie, Jeff, Randy, Ginny, Craig,
Linda, Jerry, Stacey, Sandra, Theresa, Leon, Cindy, Kevin, Torry, Monna,
Frances, Alecia, Alex, Corry, Devin, Joe, Donald, Cynthia, Katherine, Kate,
Belinda, Maxine, Marie, Elijah, Enoch, Aericka, Erica, Laura, Steve, Reza,
Andy, Keith, Thomas, Colin, Bruce, Karen, Ron, Georgia, Anthony, Howard,
Bethany, Cherry, Brenda, Ira, Willie, Penny, Betty, Sharon, Hattie, Michael,
Janet, Casey, Patrick, Jordan, Jalisa, Elizabeth, Phyllis, Carmen, Fred, Diane,
Robert, Bill, Dennis, Nancy, Tammy, Lisa, Wauneta, Florence, Kurt, Larry,
Jesse, Dwight, Senta, Alice, Al, Gwen, Pamela, Mark, Irene, Judy, Mary, Helen,
Broox, Walt, Gary, John, Patricia, Brent, Glenn, Lee, David, Marshal, Cathy,
Charisma, Joel, Lynette, Pan, Pat, Sandy, Tiffany, Gabe, Brandon, Ruth, Bobbie,
Dee, Bee, Jim, Tim, Dan, Peter, Kelsea, Kalah, Martin, Samantha, Ben, Van,
Lydia, Connie, Butch, Billie, Nelson, Nick, Sharon, Ernest, Trevon, Percy,
Jodi, Johnathan, Angie Zoe and Xavier; you know us all. We all have sin and/or sickness in our lives
and we seek your mercy. You are up to
something Lord and my spirit tells me it is time to set our lives in
order. My dreams bear witness and
history culminates, cultures defy good sense and our children breed premature
death. We are sick Lord and we are dying,
therefore I cry out to you again for mercy.
We have not lived in faith, had we done so the shaky ground beneath our
feet would not move us, for in you we are not moved. For only faith can please you Lord and we lack it (Hebrews
11:6 & John 4:24). In times
past great prophets and priest would cry out to you in behalf of the whole, but
today in Christ Jesus, we are the Royal Priesthood (Hebrews
1:1 & 1 Peter 2:9). Today Lord
we look to you in faith, knowing full well you are our source and resource. Together Lord we offer up the praises from
our lips and from our hearts, let everything that hath breath, praise the Lord (Psalms
150:6). You are the
only one from whence our help cometh, there is no need to look elsewhere, no
one else cares and no one else can rescue (Psalms 14:1-3). Come to us quickly Lord
before we perish Lord, we thirst for a word from you Lord each and everyday (Matthew
5:6). We pray without ceasing Lord.
Teresa
Christian
Psalms 150:6
Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
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Isaiah 55:7-11
Let the wicked forsake his way and the evil man
his thoughts. Let him turn to the LORD, and he will have mercy on him, and to
our God, for he will freely pardon. "For my thoughts are not your
thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the LORD. "As the
heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my
thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and
flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is
my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will
accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.
Hebrews 11:6
And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
John 4:24
God is spirit, and
his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
Hebrews 1:1-2
In the past God
spoke to our forefathers through the prophets at many times and in various
ways, but in these last days he has spoken to us by his Son, whom he appointed
heir of all things, and through whom he made the universe.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a
chosen people, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him
who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Psalms 14:1-3
Return, O Israel,
to the LORD your God. Your sins have been your downfall! Take words with you and return to the LORD.
Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may
offer the fruit of our lips. Assyria cannot save us; we will not mount war-horses. We will
never again say `Our gods' to what our own hands have made, for in you the
fatherless find compassion."
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they
which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
2 Timothy 2:24-26
And the Lord's
servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach,
not resentful. Those who oppose him he
must gently instruct, in the hope that God will grant them repentance leading
them to a knowledge of the truth, and that they will come to their senses and
escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.