Monthly Archives: December 2020

Devotional Series, Holy Habitation

Flight #2021

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Good Morning, Travelers. May I have your attention, please. Welcome to flight 2021. We will soon leave Airport 2020 to heights unknown. Officer Umpire Peace is onboard to keep you safe as we navigate into and through 2021.

As we prepare to take off into the New Year, we want to instruct you for a secure flight, making the best of all that awaits us. Please make sure your Attitude and Spirit of Gratitude and Blessing is secured within and locked in an upright position of integrity.

All self-destructive devices should be turned off at this time. Consider these devices to be worthless. As we come by with trash bags, all fear, negativity, hurt, discouragement, worry, fretting, hate, discord, easy-offense and any other such destructive influences should be put in the waste-of-time bin for proper disposal. God will take your yoke and deal with your trash while you take His lighter yoke. If you need a yoke change, Steward, the stewardess, will help you unload your weary and heavy-ladened burden, and will give you the rest God has for you. Steward will help you take God’s yoke upon you so you can learn from Him. He is gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls, for His yoke is easy and His burden is light.

Should we lose Altitude under pressure during the flight, reach up and pull down a Prayer line. Prayer will automatically be activated by Faith’s Trust. If you don’t know how to pray as you should, the Spirit Himself will intercede for you with groanings too deep for words; and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. Once Faith activates Trust, you can then help assist other passengers to put on encouragement, strength, and hope.

No past-baggage is needed on this flight. All you need to let go of yesteryears and press to the future awaits you by God’s grace to you.

Please note that Captain Father GOD has cleared us for greater heights of BLESSing and Love. He would like you to know as we take off that no turbulence or side winds are too difficult for Him. He’s got this, and His Co-Pilot, Jesus, ever lives to intercede on your behalf. The plane is fully loaded and fueled: filled with Holy Spirit Power, flowing the anxious longing of all creation, which eagerly awaits the revealing of the sons of God in 2021.

Pilot Father God asks you to trust that He causes all things to work together for good to those who love Him, to those who are called according to His purpose. He has predestined each of you to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified. So you are adequately supplied for 2021. Nothing can stop this Aircraft from getting you to the destiny Pilot God has for you.

God is for you. So who can be against you? He did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all. Therefore, you can trust Him to freely give you all things, as He flies you to and through each day in this New Year.

He says for you to not fret your destiny. Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies; who is the one who condemns? Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for you.

When we land, do not worry about the future that comes to 2021 and beyond to all eternity. Know that, though you leave the plane, your Pilot and Co-Pilot will remain with each of you. Spirit Power Fuel will usher you into the secret place of God’s Presence in an instant, whenever and wherever your need arises. For who will separate you from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written: “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us.

As flight 2021 takes off, let us each smile at the future, being convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate you from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Now sit back and enjoy the flight to the habitations of Glory, Power, Peace, Joy, and Fulfillment. God is faithful, therefore, we are able to give thanks in all things life presents to us. Remember that if we hope for what we do not see, with perseverance we will successfully and eagerly wait for it.

The movie playing in flight is Roman Eight’s “Overcomer”. If you are a believer, come take Flight #2021 with me! Your ticket is waiting.

Devotional Series, Holy Habitation

Confess His Word

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“This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it; for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.” ~ Joshua‬ ‭1:8‬ ‭NASB‬‬

Believe, and confess The Word of God over your lives and situations today. It makes a difference in one’s ability to weather the storms, walk in victory, pray with hope’s faith, enter God’s Rest, and find contentment despite circumstance.

When our son graduated High School and decided to move off, not only to another house, nor even to another city, but to another state hundreds of miles away, God helped me to let go and trust Him through 2 Samuel 7:14-15. God’s faithfulness has walked with him and I still speak it over him today.

When my husband was diagnosed with the highest stage of prostate cancer in 2016, God gave me-us Acts 17:24-28. About a year and a half later, finding it in the bones, his doctor said he had not seen anyone in his condition live longer that 1.5 years. That was nearly 2.5 years ago. We stand on God’s Rhema Word to us every breath of the way, trusting he will not leave us one second before God’s plan for him is finished. It gives us strength to persevere in hope for each day.

God does give us life and breath and all things. He determines our appointed times and the boundaries of our habitation; and He does so in order that we may “seek God, if perhaps (we) might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; for in Him we live and move and exist, as even some of your own poets have said, ‘For we also are His children.’” (Acts‬ ‭17:27-28‬ ‭NASB)

God uses His word to lift our heads, strengthen our trust muscles, empower life in us, and make us stand. Let His Word be in you. Speak it. Believe the truths for life found there, and have BLESSed days.

Devotional Series, God's Faithfulness, Godly Principles, Holy Habitation

Celebrate the Unexpected

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By Kathy Beach

“This is a phrase that a friend shared with me recently, and it has stuck with me. When I think about the details that led up to the first Christmas, there were many unexpected events. There was the unexpected visit from the angel followed by an unexpected pregnancy which could bring shame and harm. A difficult trip to Bethlehem was unexpected. The delivery room in a stable was unexpected and less than desirable. The shepherds were not expecting the glorious angelic announcement that night. A visit from three kings was the last thing that Mary and Joseph expected. That the promised Messiah would come as a poor carpenter was very unexpected by the Jews. The signs and wonders that Jesus did were unexpected by scores of people. The disciples were not expecting Him to be arrested and crucified, but it was God’s perfect plan. The resurrection of Jesus was completely unexpected even though He told them it would happen. These unexpected events were complicated, terrifying, comforting, and glorious and yet we celebrate each one. The outcome was the gift of eternal life.

“We’ve all had unexpected twists and turns in our lives this past year. Some were complicated and terrifying, while others were comforting and glorious. We can rest in knowing that God is with us in the unexpected. In fact, He often does His best work through the unexpected.

“May your Christmas celebration be filled with unexpected joys and blessings.”

Devotional Series, Holy Habitation

Power in Suffering

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“Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord or of me His prisoner, but join with me in suffering for the gospel according to the power of God” — 2 Timothy 1:8

People in China are reported to pray for the US to experience persecution. They believe we don’t know it, and, indeed, we do not know it as overtly as they know it. But I believe persecution is from Satan, and he is sly and cunning in his attacks.

We experience it every day as he assaults us through a society that denies Jesus in us; through worldly philosophy set to destabilize our faith and the practice of it; and through the battle waged in our own minds.

The overt persecution is, to me, easier to recognize the challenge of our need to stand against it, because it is “in your face” visible. You know it’s persecution requiring a determined response. The tactics used in America are covert. We don’t often realize it until we fall to it. Thus we pray for power to suffer for the gospel according to the Power of God.

Devotional Series, Holy Habitation, Salvation

The True Gift

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As I prayed this morning over people I love, our crazed earth, and our need of our Father, the song, “Oh How He Loves You and Me” came to heart. I haven’t thought of or heard that song in years. Since the devil doesn’t want our minds and hearts to know the love of God, I can trust that remembrance to be God, speaking peace and comfort to my aching heart.

From The Christ Child’s cradle-manger to the cross; from the cross to the right hand of the throne of Mercy’s Grace; from ever interceding on our behalf to meeting us in the soon parting clouds, Jesus came and will come again because God loves you and me.

Remembrance of the song sent me searching YouTube, where I found this beautiful rendition coupled with my mother’s favorite gospel hymn, The Old Rugged Cross. By this grace of God’s message to me, I am comforted by my Hope.

“Jesus to Calvary did go, His love for sinners to show. What He did there brought hope from despair. Oh, how He loves you; Oh, how He loves me; Oh, how He loves you and me.”

Isn’t God faithful to minister such love to our aching hearts. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John‬ ‭3:16‬).‬ ‬

Jesus came to set us free from sin and shame, delivering us from the death of separation from The God who so greatly and faithfully loves us. How awesome that is to my heart. And how sad, when the first renditions of this beautiful song listened to were found with wording changed to a more politically correct message, taking “sinner” out of the equation and replacing it with the word “mankind”.

God requires us to recognize that we are sinners in desperate need of our Savior. We can’t fully realize how destitute we are without Him by failing to recognize our sin nature. The politically correct movement of this world refuses to acknowledge fault, flaw, or fact. As scripture warns will come, the politically correct practices of a fallen world have infiltrated the church to bring about a watered down, often false-narrative gospel.

As Paul said, “It is a trustworthy statement, DESERVING FULL ACCEPTANCE, that Christ Jesus came into the world to SAVE SINNERS, among whom I am foremost of all” (1 Timothy‬ ‭1:15‬ ‭NASB). There cannot be “full acceptance” when the truth is watered down to make us feel better, more worthy in our own right.

The Gospel of Jesus, the gift He gave is for all mankind. Yes. But it is only possessed by those who can admit their sin nature and destitute need of this blessed gift of a Savior: our Kinsman Redeemer who accepted the penalty of our debt so we can be set free indeed. And what does being “set free indeed” require?

“… “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH, and the truth will make you free.” … “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son does remain forever. So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed….”” (John‬ ‭8:31-38‬ ‭NASB)

We are worthy: worthy of eternal separation from our Holy God, which is the eternal death scripture says Adam delivered us into, because we are sinners made so in the flesh by our relation to that one man. Until we realize that truth, we cannot fully discern the greatness of the sacrifice God’s gift of mercy in Christ has produced on our behalf, freeing us from the sin that separates through the One Man, Christ Jesus, our Lord. Until we understand this truth, we cannot receive God’s gift and be saved. Thus, we must refuse the false hope of the politically correct narrative and come to full acceptance that Jesus came to save sinners, of whom I am foremost of all.

Devotional Series, Holy Habitation

In the Wait

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I see the signs signaling the nearing of Christ’s return, but still all I see clearly, He called “birthing pains.” In history, we see that, to each generation, there have come times that made them sure the clouds would part “any day now.” And yet, we wait.

This is what I know. Until we see Him in the clouds and make that joyful flight, we must live lives made ready for Him, and we must be a voice warning against paths that lead away from Him. We must be His witnesses, His ambassadors, His light on the earth. We must speak the truth, the way, and the life; bear the fruit of His essence; stand firm fully clothed in Christ; and keep our lamps alight, seeking to walk and live in the fullness of His Spirit. We must BE as He is, doing the work of His Kingdom on earth until He calls us home.

Take courage. Jesus is near and will be right on time. Are we ready?