04/27/09

5/7/09

weekly verse & Devotion

MORE FAITH!!! I LOVE TO TALK ON FAITH!!!
Hebrews 11:6 But without faith it is impossible to please and be satisfactory to Him. For whoever would come near to God must believe that God exists and that He is the rewarder of those who earnestly and diligently seek Him....John 6:28, 29 They then said, What are we to do, that we may (habitually) be working the works of God? (what are we to do, to carry out what God requires?) 29. Jesus replied, This is the work (service) that God asks of you: that you believe in the One Whom He has sent ( that you cleave to, trust, rely on, and have faith in His Messenger!)....John 11:40 Jesus said to her, Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would believe and rely on Me, you would see the glory of God? Romans 12:3 For by the grace (unmerited favor of God) given to me I warn everyone among you not to estimate and think of himself more highly than he ought (not to have an exaggerated opinion of his own importance), but to rate his ability with sober judgment, each according to the degree of faith apportioned by God to him.
1Timothy 6:11,12 But as for you, O man of God, flee from all these things; aim at and pursue righteousness (right standing with God and true goodness), Godliness, (which is the loving fear of God) faith, love, steadfastness (patience), and gentleness of heart. 12. Fight the good fight of faith; lay hold of the eternal life to which you were summoned and (for which) you confessed the good confession (of faith) before many witnesses. 1 John 5:3,4 For the true love of God is this; that we do His commands (keep His Ordinances and are mindful on His percepts and teachings), and these orders of His are not irksome ( burdensome, oppressive, and grievous) 4. For whatever is born of God is victorious over the world; and this is the victory that conquers the world, even our faith...........

Without faith it is impossible to please God. We talked about this a little yesterday, but I want to talk more about faith in God today. Yesterdays focus was why it was bad to have faith in man. Today I want to talk about how important it is to have faith, faith in the Lord! Without faith we can not walk in God's good plan for our lives, and He will never be pleased until we do. Another version of Romans 12:2 says unto every man is given the measure of faith. God gives us all faith, and the word apportioned means same amount, equal shares, so He even gave us all the same amount of faith. So, no one has any more faith than another. When fear comes and starts creeping in your mind, say "God I trust You!" We are all given enough faith from God to do whatever it is that God has destined for us to do. We need to trust Him, no matter what kind of thoughts are trying to creep in your mind, just call on Him, and He will give you a boost of faith! I have asked many times for Him to please just give me a boost of faith, kind of picture it like those boost drinks.....instead I am drinking my God given faith! To have a good comfortable, peaceful life we must walk in faith. Fear is the enemy of faith, it is the opposing force to faith. Everything has an opposition; otherwise there would be no choice or free will. I know first hand about opposition because so many times when I am so faithful and everything is going great, the complete opposite happens to try to turn it all around! That is why I say we live in a world of Good verses evil, Love verses hate, depression verses joy, harshness verses kindness, noise verses quiet, and positive verses negative. As soon as I started trying to study for this devotion, my dog started driving me crazy. I Get up let him out, and he would stand on the other side of the door staring at me like ummm let me in! I'm telling you satan can use your animals if he has too!
well, back to faith lol I was saying there is an opposition to everything or there would be no free will, or choices, God doesn't want us walking around like robots mechanically serving Him because that is all we can do. He wants people who choose Him. There is no such thing as a choice if there is only one way to decide. Stop saying "I can't do anything about it." You can do something. You have the power of the almighty God inside of you! Don't give into the opposing forces. Hey I had to just walk away from my dog and pray, and guess what, he is laying down asleep! He stopped annoying me! You have the power to do anything, especially when it is from God, then He is going to make the ways for you, you just need to walk the walk, do the footwork. Choice equals responsibility. We like to take responsibility for good things, and avoid responsibility for things that are not good. Keep walking in faith. A walk requires many steps, many decisions, so make sure you are taking the steps with God, and making the decisions with your spirit with in! Walking in faith is obviously very important to God and His plan for our life. Look how many verses there are about faith, I would say faith is very important in our walk with God! Romans 14:23 says whatever is not faith is sin!! That is a pretty harsh word, sin, so I guess faith is extremely important to God! Then Timothy says fight the good fight of faith, We must fight fear, negative emotions, procrastination, laziness, wanting to give up, etc...I fight all of them almost everyday because being chronically sick and in so much pain allows my mind to think it is OK for me to be a little different, like the rules are bent for me. They're NOT! God expects the same from me as He does anyone else. The Israelites had to fight enemies to take what God ordained them to have. This is how I look at things I am fighting right now, like my disability, my health care, they are things that I KNOW God wants me to have, so I am fighting for my rights, and keeping the faith, As long as I am doing the footwork that I am supposed to do, I believe God is going to supernaturally give me an approval this time. I am actually claiming it everyday, I say it out loud. I claim it, it is mine in the name of Jesus, I believe it, I receive it, it is done, it is finished! That is practicing faith. For me that is a complete 360*!! Faith is released in US through thoughts, in the ATMOSPHERE through words, and in the SUPERNATURAL REALM through words and prayer. Faith is force. This is the victory that conquers the world, and faith. So, we are victorious over the world just by belonging to God. Then belonging to God means that we are just as victorious over our faith! Pray, stay positive, keep away from negative as much as you can. If it is around you like at church or something, what I do is praise even louder! Keep the focus on God, not the people gossiping interrupting the service in the pew! Be victorious everyday in your walk in faith. Tell God every morning God here is my life I trust you with it. I'm handing it over to You today, and You take control, if You need me, I will do my part and I KNOW THAT YOU WILL DO YOURS GOD!! Like I pray, make the calls I need to, God is not going to dial the phone for me. I have to force myself many times to make these calls as I said yesterday, but every time I overcome my procrastination or fears, I get stronger and stronger every single time I stay on the right side of the opposition! Just keep practicing everyday until eventually you won't even have to think about it anymore, it will become a part of you, a natural thing, feeling, choice! Then after a little while God sees how good you are doing, and He puts you on a totally higher level in your walk with Him, and you go ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! No NO Noooooooooo lol I just thought I was going to get a  break for a bit lol!!
As my mentor Joyce Meyer says, it is a journey, It sure is a journey with God. You are going to have to take the journey anyways, so ya may as well enjoy it!!! For the most I do, and I am sure you do too.....We all are living life, and life is very hard, and seems to be getting harder and harder too, I thank Jesus everyday for coming here for me because I need Him, and I couldn't make it with out Him! That is another good thought to think when you are going through something rough and painful. Think about how much harder and more painful it would be with out the Lord? You KNOW He is helping you, maybe even carrying you at times!
Have a very blessed Friday TGIF


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Have a beautiful day
Jennifer Caccavale

Weekly Verse

Here is today's bible verses(s) and a devotion to get you thinking all through out the week! I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend, and will have a blessed week!
Today's Verses are out of Matthew24:36-44
36. No one knows about the day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. 37. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the coming of the Son of man. 38 For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. 39. and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the son of man. 40. two men will be in the field, one man will be taken, one man will be left. 41 two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken the other will be left. 42. Therefore keep watch because you do not know on what day your Lord will come. 43. But understand this: if the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into. 44. So you also must be ready, because the Son of man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him...............

I had a completely other devotion for the day typed out, and this kept coming into my mind. I felt it had to be God telling me to remind you of this. I personally feel that we are in the last days. I feel sad too. I think that we ought to be doing ALL that WE CAN to help bring MANY MORE to Jesus. That was what the other verse for the day was about bringing people to Jesus, but it was about it being our duty. It IS OUR DUTY, but these verses explain the end reason. I have members of my family I have been praying for. When I start to think about them, and the day of the rapture I pray so hard for God to save them. The way I look at the rapture too is God giving the ones that are left behind a second chance. If they have at least heard enough about the Lord, and the end coming, and how it will happen.......maybe if they are left behind they will become believers then. But I would rather spare anyone I can from having to be here then because this world is going to be hell on earth anyway. And then they may not even live the through the years ahead of them. There are already so may horrible things happening in this WORLD that show it is so close. Things are happening that are in the bible, but like Jesus says NO ONE KNOWS THE DAY AND HOUR!! Not even Jesus Himself KNOWS! Only God knows, and God will decide the day and hour, well God knows everything before it happens so he probably has this planned too. I can imagine Him saying to Jesus Ok lets do it, it is time!.... Are you ready? Are you truly in a committed relationship with Jesus Christ? Do you have the Holy Spirit dwelling with in you? Are you abiding in Christ? I just felt this gnawing at my heart, and deleted what I was writing and started all over again, I think God wanted me to put this on the internet, many people may read this page, but not join. You never know who's eyes this will catch! I pray that everyone on here is right with God, and that they are doing their part in helping others get saved! I know there are times where I am thinking " Oh I don't want to preach this persons ear off." I know I plant a lot of seeds because I just talk to them about this site, and they start asking questions. This is a good way to tell people what you are doing, tell them about this site, or other ones like it you are on, and explain to them what you do on here. They will start asking questions, even if they don't ask...You have planted a seed. I look back before I was saved, and I can already see when God started working on me. My son had a nanny that sang songs all day long and kept the Christian station on all day long. I thought she was NUTS! Now I sing songs on and off through out the day and I always have TBN on in the background, then whenever something comes on that catches my attention I turn to the tv and watch it! After that nanny a few years later we had what I called these Jesus freaks living next door to me. The Husband kept giving me ministry things from, Joyce Meyer, Kenneth Copeland, and such. I took them, and was polite, then I would walk in my house swearing my lil mouth off ( my big mouth) and wishing he would leave me alone! He kept inviting me to church also. After I got arrested, was in jail for sometime, guess what? Joyce Meyer was on TV in the jail. I got saved in Jail. When I got home, I went to my neighbors, and I said " Can I please come to church with you Sunday?" I went to that church, and my pastor was like me in his past before he got saved, and so were the *12* people in the front row that I ended up sitting with every week, and becoming friends with, and then someone pointed that out to me, the *12* new friends I had made that were all together in the front row! Since then I have had God-incidences happen almost daily, some real WOW ones, some just small enough for me to notice and say thank you Lord........How can we not want to bring others to Christ, so that they can experience all these real cool supernatural God-incidences? Those big WOW things were what kept me coming back to God, always no matter what wrong turn I may have made in my life. No matter what, I was saved, and once you are saved, at least for me....It doesn't matter how far back you may slide, I did often at the beginning.... God always finds a way to get you back, especially through a WOW incident! Something that you know could only have been from GOD! I also know there are a lot of attacks when you get saved, not usually at the beginning of your walk, God will keep you going on that pink cloud long enough, until you are strong enough to handle the enemy! So, why don't we start today, make a goal to reach out to so many people and bring them home where they belong, where they have been yearning for and didn't even know what it was they were so desperate to be filled with. Lets save some lives, so when the rapture happens, the ones that we love or even strangers that we meet in the grocery store, or who ever will be going up to heaven with US!
Have a blessed and beautiful day today!
Jennifer Caccavale

04/17/09

Weekly Verse

Jeremiah 29:11 For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. Thoughts and plans for welfare and peace and not for evil, to give you hope in your final outcome............. The Lord sees not only what you are now, but what you can become. He KNOWS the plans He has for you, and according to the verse they are GOOD plans for PROGRESS and SUCCESS, nor for failure. Here is an encouraging thought............If you give everything to Him about yourself, He will be patient with you as He works His good wonders.
God has a plan for each and every one of His children. This should give you a stronger sense of hope for your future. If someone prophesies over you or I such wonderful thongs in the name of the Lord, what they say may express the heart, will, and desire of God for us, but that does not mean it is a going to happen just as it is prophesied! This is because it can not and will not come to pass if we choose to refuse to cooperate with God, and stay on His path, or if we stray from His will for us. God does have a plan for our lives, but we have to participate in that plan for it to come true. God is not likely to do anything in our lives without cooperation. He may do somethings, which I belive He did for me...To get me to notice He WAS WORKING IN MY LIFE, but if I did not respond to Him, I do not believe He would continue doing miracles and making ways, doors open for me. We need to cooperate with God every single day of our lives in order for our potential to be developed. Everyday we should learn something in God. Every day we should be growing a little more in God. We should be a bit further along than we were the day before. We need to be LIFETIME LEARNERS! No one other person in this world can develop what Gods potential for us is, our own potential just for us. God gives us all our own individual God-Given gifts and talents, what we are capable of and then make sure that we develop these gifts, capabilities, and talents to their fullest!
God has a plan for each of us. IT IS A GOOD PLAN, an uncommon plan, a GREAT PLAN, it is not average and mediocre. I encourage you to seek that plan and cooperate with God so that it your plan, that He has for you will be so wonderfully fulfilled in your life!
I absolutely LOVE this verse, this is like one of my top 10 favorite promises out of the bible. But as I was praying on it...God showed me so much more then what the words mean. He gave me more detail of how much He really has plans for us, and that we must cooperate with Him in order to fulfill His plans. He is not going to do them for us without our cooperating and walking in His will everyday! We have to be involved. It is like if you pray and ask God for something, He will answer your prayer, but depending on what it is....You may have a lot of your own foot work to do to get it! I KNOW this personalty myself. I learned the hard way. I would pray and pray and ask God why aren't you answering my prayers God??? And I heard Him say because you aren't doing anything to help make them come to pass. You are just sitting around asking me to do all the work. When you show Me you are ready to do what it is you have to do in order for what you are asking of to come to pass, it will come to pass! God doesn't want a lazy servant, He wants one that is willing ti do their part, and He will do His!

Jennifer Caccavale

04/10/09

weekly verse

1John 15-17 Do Not love or cherish the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, love fr the Father is not in him. 16. For all that is in the world---the lust of the flesh ( craving fr sensual gratification ) and the lust of the eyes (greedy longings of the mind ) and the pride of life (assurance in one's own resources or in the stability of earthly things )-- these do not come from the Father but are from the world. 17 And the world passes away and disappears, and with it the forbidden cravings (passionate desires, lusts) of it; carries out His purposes in his life abides, remains forever.........amplified version


Loving the world is not the same as enjoying the natural beauty of creation. But pursuing what the world offers---things that distract you from God and His purposes for your life. Are pursuits rooted in your life? Ask God to deepen your love for Him and the things of His Kingdom. Jesus told us to be in the world, not OF the world. There is a difference from enjoying the world, and the things it offers, but we must maintain balance! We should be living in the world as strangers and aliens, and remember that we are just passing through! God is our home, and we are on our way to live in His Kingdom. One way we can determine if things mean more to us than rhey should is to watch how we behave when one of our possessions are lot or damaged, or even ho w we may act if we don't get what we want. Maybe it will disappoint us, but it should NOT devastate us! When my Son broke my camera I was upset, it was brand new, but my Son is more important to me then a camera! A camera can be replaced, my Son can not be. I think that God tests us in this area sometimes to help us maintain right attitudes, to see that we KNOW the difference between what is more important, Him or things. If we have a tizzy fit over a thing, then God is NOT our priority! We are not putting His Kingdom first. When everything else is gone someday and it will be, there will still be God, God will always BE! Our goal should be to be with Him in eternity! Not what we can or can't get while here on earth. If God thinks you need something, He will find a way to make it work that you will get it! This has happened to me many times! If I didn't get it, obsessing on it is a waste of time, it is not of God, it is not in His plans for you. The focus should be on above, not on the things of this world........Everything we do should be for god, not for humans, not for ourselves. We should be living for Christ and being obedient to Him, no the world. Maybe it is time to check what your motives are? Are your motives to love one another as Jesus said too? Are your motives to follow Gods will in your life and focus on Him all of the time until you get to heaven with Him? Or are your motives what is the next thing you can do to get your instant self gratification taken care of? If the latter is your motives, it is time to ask God to help you turn back to Him, and follow the way of God, and not the way of the WORLD!

May You all have a very blessed day filed with God, and walking on His will for you today! Do not conform to this world, keep your eyes above on the prize.........
Have a beautiful and blessed weekend.........
Jennifer Caccavale

Weekly Verses

04/03/09

Psalm 143:8

Cause name to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for on You I do lean and in You do I trust. Cause me to know the way wherein I should walk, for I lift up my inner self to You!........... Every morning is a new day in the Lord for us. That is one of the greatest reasons to be saved. If things didn't go so well, yesterday...we have the ability to try it all over again the next morning. I like the way this is worded though. It is not saying I messed up yesterday, so help me to follow you today! It says Let me hear you, your lovingkindness. This makes me think it is let me hear you O Lord, and feel all of Your lovingkindness at the same time when I awake! Once I hear you and feel your lovingkindness, I know I am not alone the minute I put my feet on the ground in the morning. I trust that You will take care of me, lead me, guide me, and give me the wisdom I need for the day. It also says As I awake I will always feel you there, and because of this I KNOW I can always trust you to lean on! I give my inner self to you, I lift it up to you. This is an action, an action I have to be willing to partake in, but why would I NOT? It is saying that I know if I do call upon your lovingkindness in the morning, my day will go so much better then it would have if I decided to awake and walk in my own will. Isn't it awesome to know that as soon as I/we open our eyes, the Lord is right there waiting for us to call on Him for the day! That is the best insurance anyone can have, and it is free! Not only is it free, it is priceless because there is no price tag to the LOVE it takes to be there for all of us, day after day after day millions and millions of people! And I know that God wants MORE! More people, more relationships with more people! This right here shows what an awesome, mighty, ALMIGHTY God we serve, there is NOTHING THAT HE CAN NOT HANDLE FROM DAY TO DAY! As a matter of fact, He wants us to ask for His guidance, lovingkindness, and lean on Him everyday, every minute of the day! This is what makes Him Happy after all He is ourt Father isn't He? Father's love to take care of their children, good Fathers that is! Thank You Father in Jesus name I pray AMEN!!!

Jennifer Caccavale

WEEKLY VERSE FOR 04/10/09

Today's verse is from Galatians 1:10......10 Am I now trying to win the approval of men, or of God? Or am I trying to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ........

I know that sometimes with me I am trying to please man, and I may not even realize it. Man will always let us down. Christ never will! If I am a true servant of Christ, my thoughts would always be on what Christ wants from me. I would not be worrying about what so and so thinks of me, or trying to do things that are to please man! When I worry about what other say about me, and I get myself all upset in a tizzy....I need to remind myself the only one that I should care about what they think is Christ! if I am right with God, then everything else will work itself out the way it is supposed too. Being a servant of Christ is not always easy, but it still beats all the chaos and insanity of constantly trying to please man! The only approval I need today is from Jesus Christ, everyone else that starts controversy and chaos seems to me to be sent by the enemy to make us upset, have self doubt, and have uneasy feelings with in......

Remember this is a very Holy and Important week. Remember what Jesus did for you and I this week, and how much that means. How important we are that He went through all that He did to free us from the law, and be our one and only Lamb! He was slaughtered for us so that we didn't have to repent and slaughter lambs every year for our sins!! Be GRATEFUL, and make sure that the Lord knows just how precious He is to you, and I and just how blessed we truly are to have been chosen by Him to be His servant!

I pray that you have a very blessed day filled with much of God's Peace, and may your prayers be answered according to God's will! You are all in my thoughts and prayers daily!!!
Jennifer Caccavale

Weekly Devotion

04/27/09

Inner Man to Him be the Glory

This weeks devotion is going to be quiet a few verses, and I am using the amplified bible because I LOVE the way it helps explain just what these verses are saying without any confusion.......And I am starting it with a prayer a small one.....

Thank You Father God, for strengthening me with mighty power in my inner man by Your Holy Spirit. I pray that Christ makes His permanent home in my heart, and everyone's heart that reads this through faith that we all will stay rooted DEEP in HIS LOVE! Amen & Amen.......
Ephesians 14-21
14. For this reason ( seeing the greatness of this plan by which you are built together in Christ ) I bow my knees before the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 15. For whom every family in heaven and on earth is named ( that Father from all Fatherhood takes its title and derives its name ) 16. May He grant you out of the rich treasury of His glory to be strengthened and reinforced with might power in the inner man by the Holy Spirit ( Himself indwelling your inner being and personality ) 17. May Christ through your faith (actually) dwell ( settle down, abide, make His permanent home ) In your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on LOVE. 18. That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints ( God's devoted people, the experience of that love ) what is the breadth and the length and the height and the depth ( of it ) 19. (That you may really come) to know (practically, through experience for yourselves) the love of Christ which far surpasses mere knowledge,(without experience) that you may be filled (through all of your being) unto all the fullness of God (may have the richest measure if the divine Presence, and becoming a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself!) 20. Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the (action of His) Power that is at work within us, is able to (carry out His purpose and) do super-abundantly, far over and above all that we (dare)ask or think (infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, hopes, and dreams) 21. To Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever.........Amen!

Do you really understand the depths of God's love for you? Paul prayed that the Ephesians would understand the width and length and depths and height of God's love for them. and that they would be rooted and grounded in boundless love.........I would suggest meditating on Eph 3:14-21 while asking God to reveal more and more of His love and help you to learn how to receive this awesome love of God, and all of His fullness!
Just imagine having your personality filled with the Holy Spirit of the living God and being a body filled with God Himself! The Apostle Paul was a person filled with the Holy Spirit, he was also a person who forsook all to follow Jesus, He gave up his life! Any area of our lives that we hold back from God is an area we can not be filled with the Holy Spirit. I had to learn to open every room of my heart to God. I was actually told this from God at a healing service, that I was keeping certain places closed down, and not letting Jesus in and in order for me to have the full benefits and blessings of what God had for me, I had to let Him in ALL the rooms of my heart! Everything about us belongs to God, our time, our money, our thoughts, our attitudes, our families , and our gifts and talents. He wants to be involved in every area of our lives.
After to we commit our lives to Jesus, He becomes our Savior, but do you allow Him to be your Lord? He has to be your Lord and Savior. Being your Lord, means he is in charge of everything you do in your life, He is in ALL OF IT! Any area we claim as our own is one area that we have not yet surrendered to the Lordship of Jesus Christ!
I lived a defeated life for many many years simply because I was not fully surrendered, I accepted Jesus as my Savior, I had enough Jesus to stay out of hell, but I had not accepted Him as my Lord in every area of my life. I had not accepted Him enough to walk in victory! It is a process, and many people do it very easily, they just give Him their all, and then their are people like me, that hold back and fight it with everything they have! This makes it all so painful. God will continue to do things in your life to show you YOU NEED HIM, ALL OF HIM! After enough frustration, and pain, I gave in...But you do not need to go through this, you can just surrender ALL to Him the first time!
The blessedness of being filled with the Spirit is a very visible change. People will notice. They will see that something major has changed in you. I know I am still being asked questions about what is going on with me, I have even been asked what drugs I am on? lol I tell them I am on Jesus!! then, I tell people because Jesus lives in me, and He is changing me! I am learning new ways to think, to speak, and to act....In biblical days Peter was afraid to admit he was an apostle of Jesus, and then turned into a bold apostle who stood in the streets preaching the gospel and thousands of souls were added to the church in one day! (acts 2:40-41)
Complete surrender to God brings good changes into our lives! Surrendering to Him actually opens the doors to the things that we desire. We waste much of our own energy trying to obtain our desires our own way, but God will just give them to us, just send them right into our life sometimes. He knows what we want, He knows our desires, our dreams, our wants, needs, there is NOTHING God doesn't know about us! If you surrender EVERY AREA of your life to God, you can be overflowing with His Spirit in EVERY WAY! God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above and beyond all we could dare to hope, ask, or think, according to His great power that is at work in US. It is God's power, but it is done through US. So we MUST cooperate with Him. This means we need to be daring in our strength and our prayers. Stretch your faith into new realms beyond your "highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, dreams (eph 3:20)
Remember God wants His children to be happy and fruitful. But we can't exoect to have what God is offering if we do not give Him our ALL!'
Have a blessed week, and God bless you always with much peace and love!
Jennifer Caccavale

Weekly Devotion

04/19/09

Arise, Get up...Beauty For ashes Isaiah 60 & 61

Isaiah 60:1, Isaiah 61:1-3
60:1 "Arise, shine for the light has come, and the glory of the Lord rises upon you.
61:1The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach the good news ( the gospel ) to the poor, He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim the captives and release from the darkness prisoners 61:2 to proclaim the year of the Lords favor and the day of vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn. 61:3 and provide for those who grieve in Zion----- to bestow them a crown of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, and a garment of praise, instead of a spirit of despair. They will be called oaks of righteousness, a planting of the Lord for the display of His splendor.

Isaiah 60:1 the very first word Arise! Arise if you go through all the books of Jesus ministry, His miracles Arise is a word He used often. He told the man at the pool to ARISE! and make up your bed. He was telling people to get up, get out of what ever it is you are in. Self pity, depression, illness. He was saying if you want to get well GET UP! Do something about it, stop nursing the wounds, don't let them become who you are. Even like with me having chronic illnesses that I am not healed of, for whatever the Lords reasons are, I had to stop being Pain, disease, RA, fibromyalgia, the liver failure kid! I was in such a depression. I allowed my sickness and pain to become who I am. I am not saying that illnesses are not real, they are very real! I live it everyday! I am saying Jesus said Get up, arise, get out of it, don't let it control you! When Jesus told the man at the pool to Arise, get up....He had been sitting there for 38 years. That man had an excuse for every reason why he could never get in that pool. Jesus said get up, and while your at it pick up your bed, He was telling Him to not only pick himself up, He said clean yourself up too! I know there are so many days when I don't even have the energy to shower. I am in too much pain to stand in the shower. I get up and make myself do it anyway because I feel worse being yucky and sticky, then I do when I get out of the shower. Even if that shower was all I could tackle for the day. I got up! I Arose! I did not let my sickness control me, be who I am, take over my life! Arise the Glory of the Lord HAS risen upon you, not will rise, HAS RISEN! Everybody in God's economy gets equal opportunity, whosoever will, can have whatsoever God has promised! As long as you get up, and follow the will of God in your life, this will always apply to you, and me, and everyone else that does follow Gods will, because God is no respecter of persons....He will not treat me better than He treats you! God is on my side, I am not going to waste one more day feeling sorry for myself, being depressed, feeling down, and I am NOT going to let my diseases, and pain control my life. I may have illnesses, but that is not who I am, I am the daughter of the one and only God almighty Himself! tHe creator of this world, universe, and planet, the creator of ALL THINGS!
Isaiah 61:1 The Lord has anointed me...... The word anointed means to rub all over with, so rub yourself all over with the Holy Spirit. Completely drench your whole being in the anointing of the Lord. He will show you what you are anointed to do for Him, His will for you. Then you can go out and preach the good news, help people out of their darkness, their prisons. You can not help people until you help yourself. This does not mean that you have to be completely whole. We may never be completely whole in God until we get to Heaven! It does mean though as long as you are not working on your own issues with God, you are not able to help anyone else in God either. You are not completely anointed, you haven't drenched yourself in His anointing! When you do little by little, that is how God seemed to work for me, and still is little by little you will be transformed in the Lord. God delivers us little by little. Accepting Jesus Christ was the first stepping stone into the journey. Enjoy the journey, even in the rough times. The rough times are the most important times, this is when you are growing the most! I think about the potter, and I heard from my pastor a story once at church, the potter never takes his hand off the clay, he is very detailed, and intricate in every little tiny thing he does to that clay, and even then when the clay is in the fire....The Holy Ghost, which is the *fire* of the Lord, is in there right along with YOU, the clay! verse 2 says it all God wants to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, He wants to be glorified to be the one that has comforted you, and taken away all of your mourning. then my favorite verse...3 He wants to give us beauty instead of ashes, a garment of praise instead of a spirit of despair, and the oil of joy instead of the mourning....There is a key word here *instead of* you can not have both. Many times people try to keep their mourning, their ashes, their despair? I do not know why, but I have done it too. God wants to give it to us INSTEAD OF! Why would we want to keep the old ones, I do not know? For self pity, to hold onto our past? But we wrestle with this everyday. It is time to ARISE out of the self pity, the depression, the mourning, the gloom, the pain, the abuse, the poor me's everything I have been threw all my life...Well, the Lord is offering you many many instead of's! He wants us to be happy, He wants us to let go of the past, and walk the the path of righteousness with him into a future of BEAUTY *instead of* our old ashes, JOY *instead of our old mourning, depression, and gloom, and PRAISE *instead of* our old smelly spirit of despair! If we don't see these things, and ask for them, work with God to get them, why did we become Christians? Just to go to heaven? Of course that is a beautiful promise. The best promise I have ever been promised, but God also doesn't want us living a miserable life while we are here on earth either. He wants us to no longer be brokenhearted, in prisons of despair, darkness, depression, and self pity.......God says Arise, Get up....I am here for you because I love you! I will walk through all of that pain with you, but you have to chose....You cant have BOTH!

I pray that this has helped you, as it did me when I reread it!! I was reading these verses last night, and I knew what I was going to write this devotion on today! I am posting this early because I will in and out a lot this weekend. I am doing a huge bike run for a friend of mine that had a very bad accident, so please keep me in your prayers. We don't want anymore accidents to happen lol It is a great way to raise money for people when in need, and this is how we take care of our family in the biker community! I pray that everyone has a very blessed weekend, and I will check in on an doff this weekend!
May God Bless you always with His Love and Peace today, and always
Jennifer Caccavale

Weekly Devotion
04/12/09

I wish you all a very Happy Easter, although I feel sad as I am am studying to right this devotion, I am also very happy to have a Lord that Loves me THAT MUCH!

John 19:30 When Jesus tasted it, He said "It is finished!" Then He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. John 20:11-17,20-22, 25, 27,29,31 Mary was standing outside the tomb crying, and as she wept, she stooped and looked in. 12. Ans she saw two angels in white robes sitting there, one at the head and one at the feet., where the body of Jesus had lain. 13. and they said to her "woman, why are you sobbing?" She told them " because they have taken away my Lord," "and I don't know where they have laid Him" 14. On saying this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there. but she did not know (recognize) that it was Jesus 15. Jesus said to her, "Woman, why are you crying (so)? For whom are you looking?" she replied, "sir, if you carried Him away from here tell me where you have put Him, and I will take Him away. 16. Jesus said to her "Mary!" Turning around she said to Him in Hebrew, "Rabboni!"---which means Teacher or Master 17. Jesus said "do not cling to me ( do not hold me), for I have not yet ascended to the Father." "But go to my Brethren and tell them, I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God. 20 So saying, He showed them His hands and His side, and when the disciples saw the Lord, they were filled with Joy (delight, exultation, ecstasy, rapture) 21 Then Jesus said to them again "peace to you!" (Just) as the Father has sent me forth I am sending you. 21. And having said that He breathed on them and said to them "Receive the Holy Spirit!" 22 (Now having received the Holy Spirit, and being led and directed by Him) if you forgive the sins of anyone. they are forgiven, if you retain the sons of anyone, they are retained! 25So the other disciples kept telling him, We have seen the Lord! But he said to them, Unless I see in His hands the marks made by nails, and put my hand in His side, I will never believe it! 27 Then He said to Thomas, Reach out your finger here, and see My Hands; and put out your hand and place it in My side. Do not be faithless and incredulous, but stop your unbelief and believe! 29 Jesus said to him, because you have seen Me, Thomas , do you now believe (trust, have faith)? Blessed and happy, to be envied are those who have never seen Me and yet have believed and adhered to and trusted and relied on Me. 31 But these are written (recorded) in order that you nay believe that Jesus is the Christ (the Anointed One, The Messiah), the Son of God, and through believing and cleaving to and trusting and relying upon Him you may have life through (in) His name (through who He is)! AMEN!

WOW!! I chose the book of John for a reason. I read all four books the last couple chapters to see which I wanted to use. I chose John because I think there is more detail in it to grasp the story. Even though the story is told more in depth in John in some areas, it is more in depth in other chapters in other areas. I believe that none of the books are really enough to truly give us the picture of what Christ really went through! I wrote that blog the other day about His Crucifixion. The pictures I found, I posted because I wanted to give a picture to think on along with my blog. I even believe that those pictures are clean compared to what it really looked like. I was praying tonight and I started to imagine what it must have been like. I live in chronic serious pain every single day of my life. I still don't believe for a minute I have EVER felt the pain that Jesus did that day going to the cross. He was tormented and beat for hours and hours on end! They were spitting at Him, laughing at Him, humiliating Him. I mean they even took His clothes! Then to be so brutalized that you are unrecognizable! This went on for hours, and then on top of how beat, bloody, in pain, and agonized he felt, He still had to walk that cross all the way up the road to the Hill. Then He endured more torment, and finally He left, when He said it is finished. Funny thing that He said it is finished. I guess that meant the scripture was fulfilled, well that is what many of the different verses and versions I read say, to fulfill scripture He said "It is FINISHED!" It really only just began. He had to go to hell. That is why he told Mary to not touch Him, He hadn't seen the Father yet Then when He appeared to them again, they all hugged on Him, and were so full of joy to see Him. Even though they didn't believe Mary, when she told them. Then Thomas didn't believe eleven of them. I think that is where I am going with the verses I chose tonight. Miracle after miracle after miracle was preformed back then and people still doubted Him, who He was? Even today so many miracles are talked about all over the world, and people just do not believe. But what I really wanted to say was after all I just wrote and the verse I chose....How can we be just like Thomas, we have to see something? Why are we as humans so spoiled, so negative, so it's all about me? We need to look around. Look at how bad so many people have it all over the world, in our own back yards! Jesus came for people like that. Whatever it be starving, disease, sickness, pain, addiction, mentally unstable, emotionally abused, sexually abused, physically abused, lack of money to pay the bills, money for food, or anything that we NEED. Jesus wants more than anything to fulfill our needs. Look at all He went through for us! I know as a Mother I say I would die for my son, and I probably would, but a one shot in the head would be preferred, if it had to happen! I do not know honestly if I can say I would endure hours upon hours and hours of torment, torture, and more torture for who knows really how long, and then be nailed to a piece of wood or whatever it would be these days, and stuck there until I died? That is a real scary thought, even though I know it will never happen, just ask yourself...Really, would you do it? I know I love my son more than my own life itself. There is no greater love than a parent. I was a wreck without him all week while he was on vacation. So just imagine how God feels! He sent His Son to do the ultimate sacrifice, and Jesus did it. He came to this world always knowing what His calling was, why He was here. He knew it was going to happen. He knew scripture already. If that is not unconditional love, I really do not know what is! So, when we need something and ask God for His help and it doesn't happen over night, or better yet it doesn't happen the way you wanted it to happen don't start whining to God, or even worse lose your faith and say well, I tried that God thing for a couple of months, but it didn't work for me! I did that so many times, I left God because He wasn't answering me fast enough. Tell ya what though God never left me! Because every time I left God, I ended up getting myself into some real serious messes, and God seemed to be there then! Like on the respirator for the 3rd time in a year. I was DOA the 3rd time, and was not going to live according to the Dr's, and I woke up, and I didn't have all that brain damage they said I would have if I lived They were trying to get my mom to unplug me! God didn't give up on me. So, when God doesn't answer me immediately or when things are just so so so very rough, and I'm in so much pain I can't walk, I can't take another minute of it. I see the visions I have in my head now of Jesus up on that cross, dying for me! He was being tormented for me and you. He came back to bring us the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit is Jesus. So we have Jesus living in us. So what was it again that we can not do? I know now I can do ANYTHING because of what Jesus did for me, and because I have that same spirit He breathed into His disciples back then, in me now. There was a reason that Jesus had to go to the cross, but I bet ya He could have backed out. He could have done something else, He is God after all. He could have just opened up the heavens and gone right back where He came from, the throne! That is PURE LOVE, UNCONDITIONAL LOVE TO DO THAT for anybody, just anybody........God wanted His children back, That's how that works. We no longer have to slaughter things and burn them in our backyards anymore. All we have to do is pray, be obedient, and love the Lord with all our heart and soul. Giving up my life was not so hard, now that I look back because before I had Jesus in my life....I was a mess, and no matter how hard I tried to change, I couldn't! It took the Almighty. It took years and years and years of me being reprimanded by my Holy Father to get to where I am now, and it was not an easy road. It was well worth it, and I do not regret a thing. So please everyone this weekend, today for Easter, but everyday of your life....Love the Lord with all you have, look at all He had to do so you can have life. Tell Him how much you love Him and Praise Him. Don't just turn your back on Him because times are tough, and He isn't working for you right now! You never know what He really may be doing right now, and if you fall back and backslide away, you may never know until you get to heaven. He may say Oh yea I had all this worked out for you, all your dreams were starting to come true and you gave up a day too early! Not only just for having things, but all the joy, peace, and serenity I have in my heart now that I gave it Jesus. My worse days now are no where compared to what they were 5 years ago. Jesus really really will work in your life more than you can ever imagine, if you just look at what He did for you and thank Him, love Him, Praise Him, and just be His friend. That;s not asking for much. Read His word, get to know Him like you are getting to know a friend. I prayed and prayed real hard before I write this, I asked Jesus to have me type exactly what He wanted me to tell the world. I was going for more of an Easter devotion, like just all about Easter. This is about Easter, but I also feel the Lord is really trying to say something to us here......I promise you these are NOT my words. I am as confused as you may be lol reading them! I wanted to do a complete devotion on what Easter was all about, but I believe the Lord wanted me to write this..........I love you all and I do wish you a very happy Easter. Remember Him today and everyday.
In Jesus precious name I pray for everyone that reads this, that whatever they were meant to get from it, from the Lord....They did. Amen!

04/02/09

A Passive Mind in CHRIST can be a very DANGEROUS STATE OF MIND!

Hosea 4:6 My People are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil 2Timothy 1:6 This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. 1Peter 5:8 Be Careful! Watch out for attacks from the devil, your great enemy. He prowls around like a roaring lion, looking for some victim to devour Romans 12:2 Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect His will really is! NLT version Here is the amplified version of this verse which I really like..........Do not be conformed to this world (this age) (fashioned after and adapted to its external, superficial customs), but be transformed (changed) by its entire renewal of your mind (by its new ideals and its new attitude!) Matthew 5:27-28 You have heard that it was said, you shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that everyone who so much as looks at a woman with evil desire for her has already commited adultry with her in his heart

You may be thinking wow she really jumped around the bible to get these verses for this devotion, but I assure you they all have to do with what I want to tell you....First I want to tell you what  the definition of passivity is, I was really blown away when I read them because if you are passive, more than likely you do not even know it! Passivity Lack of feeling, lack of desire, general apathy, lukewarmness, and laziness

Evil spirits are behind all of this, and the devil *LOVES* passivity in Christian people. It is basically being inactive in your Christian walk. Not doing anything wrong, but not doing anything at all! You might pray if you feel like it, praise if you feel like it, read your bible if you feel like it, worship if you feel like it, go to church if you feel like it, and if you do not feel like it you just don't do any of it, and the devil loves it when you don't feel like it! Then when you are just sitting around, leaving all of that empty space, time, and energy open evil spirits come and fill all of that space up. If you realize this, and you cast them out in Jesus name, and then go back to behaving passive again...they come back and bring 7 times more with them to that empty space! This is such a dangerous thing for Christians because we really aren't doing anything wrong, not sinning, not behaving badly, but we are not continually filling up our mind, spirit, and heart with the Lord, the Word! I can not stress this enough because I do this very often with my health issues and pain I have days or even weeks where I get in a funk, and do not want to do anything. Well, when I read the book which gave me the idea to do this devotion it was like a light bulb went off. I was wondering why I am ALWAYS ALWAYS GETTING ATTACKS FROM EVERY END? I would be so spiritual for a few days and then I would stop it, and the next thing I noticed was I was being attacked so horribley! I would get even sicker, or my pain would be so great I couldn't even get out of bed. These are my weaknesses and satan knows this, so he bombards me with illness and pain one time after the other. This is where the verse My people are destroyed from lack or knowledge and Neither give place to the devil come in. Do to lack of knowledge I was giving place to the devil. Why because I didn't even know I was doing it! I was not sinning, but I also was not praying and reading the word, I wasn't doing anything at all! I had empty space, and empty space is a place! A place that many evil spritis can come live in. If we are not filling ourselves up to the top and overflowing in God, then we are putting ourself in major danger, and it is harder to come out of everytime you get to that place! Why? Because there is more devils everytime. They bring friends when they return. Being passive is a sin, it is a sin of omission meaning there are wrong things that we do, and there are right things that we dont do! Being inactive in our walk is one of the wrong things we may be doing. When a believer is inactive in any area of his or her walk the God given talent you have will become weak, atrophied, immobolized. The longer he or she does nothing, the less he or she is going to want to do anything. I am a prime example of this...I have not written a weekely devotion on here in 2 months! And writing is a gift I have from God. This is one of the ways He uses me, through my writing to share Him with others! Make a decison today to stop being passive in any area of your spiritual walk with God!  This is where Roams 12:2 comes in Taking action, taking right action! renewing your mind to God's thoughts by reading His words is a very important step. The battle of passivity starts in the brain, it begins with what we are thinking. If we are thinking negative thoughts, then our words and actions will be negative! First is right thinking, then right action follows it, and you will be right back up on your feet rebuking the evil that may have made a temporary home in your mind, and fill all that empty space with God ALL OF HIM! Fill it up!!! This is also where the verse from Matthew 5:27,28 comes in I didn't necassarily mean adultry, I meant anything that you are thinking of that is a sin, it is just as bad as acting on it, or eventually you will act on it if you keep thinking on it long enough. This too can come out of being passive. You mean no harm. The next thing you know if you are not being aggressive in your walk with God, you are thinking unGodly thoughts. Then you may start to act on them. Most of what is happening in our lives comes out of what is going on in our thinking, in our minds. One more verse is Colossians 3:1, 2 If then you have been raised with Christ (to a new life, thus sharing ressurection from the dead) aim at and seek the (rich, eternal treasures) that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. And set your mind and keep them set on what is above (the higher things) not on the things that are on earth.......   If we want the good life that we were promised we must continually keep our minds set on the higher things, not on earthly things! So, knowing this verse also makes you and I realize that we have no room for a passive mind in our walk with Christ. We can't just be a believer and passively be sitting around waiting for the promises to come. We have to be doing the things that we were called by God to do. We have to be working for the Lord. Walking in His word. Focusing on above, and not on the world. If we desire victory over our problems, pain, sicknesses, and so on we need to be following the directions of God, and those are all in His Word! Do not be passive in your mind anymore now that you read this, and maybe had a light bulb go off like I did.....Get up, get started NOW! Read the Word, Pray everyday, ask God for forgiveness of your passivity, and start to practice your walk everyday, not just when you feel like it!

God Bless you and May all who find this and read it be blessed in everything they do, and may all of their prayers be answered in Gods will! In Jesus name always, Your Sister in Christ

Jennifer Caccavale

10/08

I wrote this last year, but this has so much to do with the previous posted devotion, I wanted to repost it here. It was in my archicived devotions. I think this is so very close to the one above. This is more about going out of Gods will, but then again being a passive Christian can cause us to go out of the will of God without even knowing we did. So, like I said very similiar, and this is a personal experience I can share to make a point too. Hope that you enjoy this one too..........

John 3:16-21

For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.

There is no judgment awaiting those who trust Him, But those who do not trust Him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God. Their judgment is based on this fact; the light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more then the light, for their actions were evil. They hate the light because they want to sin in the darkness. They stay away from the light for the fear their sins will be exposed, and they will be punished.

But those who do what is right, come to the light gladly, so everyone can see that they are doing what God wants………………

We as human beings sin, our flesh is very tricky and manipulative. We may think that we are doing exactly what God desires of us to do. It is human nature to think, analyze, and intellectualize. I have recently had a horrible experience, and was so outraged that I lost complete control of my emotions. I knew there was a reason this all happened. I knew that it was a lesson. I couldn’t tell whether or not it came from God, or I was attacked by satan. I came to the conclusion within my spirit, it was BOTH! I was being attacked by evil in every way possible. That evil, manipulative, and deceiving devil had me believing I deserved what happened because of my past. I now feel deep within where my Holy Spirit dwells inside of me, that God allowed this attack for me to learn a few important things. I learned that if I am asking for Gods help, and expecting God to make things happen for me, I have to be playing for Gods team!!!! I cannot be living a double life. I have noticed how easily I can fall back into the flesh and not even be aware that I have fallen so deep in a pit! I also learned today that I have NOT forgiven people that I really convinced myself I have. I would not have reacted the way I did in this horrible unfair situation I was put in. It took so much rage, a serious amount of confusion, hopelessness, crying, and digging deep within for the answer. That is when these scriptures appeared in front of my eyes! I can honestly say for myself that I am able to slip into fleshly behaviors, turn away from God, and make decisions on my own while all along thinking and believing that I am completely in Gods will! The reason why I am in this denial is because as much as I love the Lord, I still want to pick and chose what is ok, and what is not. It does not work this way! I feel like my Father reprimanded me. My Heavenly Father! At the same time the man that was treating me unfairly, judgmentally, degradingly, and belittling me………reminded me of my earthly Father figure. So, I now realize the Lord was allowing this attack to open my eyes. I have been ddoing deceitful things that I just rationalized was ok to do because it was taking care of needs I had that were not met! I rationalized that it is ok because these were things I had to do, for I was pushed in a corner and had no choice. I did not rely on the Lord to care for me. I also have been convincing myself that I had no more anger, hurt, or rage left toward my earthy Dad. Whish I really truly do not want. I want a relationship with my Father. I so desperately have tried to convince myself I can. I cannot until I completely let go and forgive! I will always feel like that little child lost, hurt, and confused until I let God take it away and forgive my Dad! Although this has nothing to do what happened at my Drs office, how they treated me there, and the horrible insensitive pain this man caused me. He is a complete stranger, but yet had so much power over me. It is amazing how God will use this awful situation to show me all of this. I have been living secretly in the dark because I know secrets get exposed in the light. I know better! And God knows that I know better! So, I needed a reality check. I needed to be pulled out of the dark, and God allowed satans attack on me to awaken me, and the Holy Spirit guided me to the answer……..It was an absolute horrific day. I am so very very sick. I am in so much pain, yet God still brightened my day buy saying “I am still here, I will never leave you, and yes you need to be reminded sometimes by pain to put you back on the right path, MY PATH!!” I now know what to do to handle the horrible treatment I received in a medical surrounding today, yet I will approach with God holding my hand. After all I have to stick up for myself and let someone know that I am a decent woman, and I deserve respect! I am going to follow through with this Drs office. I am going to stay on that path because God brought me to it. I was off in my own sin and did not even know it. How easy it is for us in our flesh to rationalize and justify things that we know is not right, is not Christian, is not from God! Today’s pain was a kind of insecure rage and anger I have not felt in many years. It scared me to know that was still inside of me. I was not even aware that it existed with in? So, I learned from a very bad experience that satan tried to use to discourage me, and push me back into that hopeless corner so that I would stay in the dark sinning! You lost, The Lord PREVAILED ONCE AGAIN SUCKER!!

Much peace and blessings to all that comes across this update of my life…………

Jennifer Caccavale

Devotions from end of 2008- early 2009

02/04/09

Today I want to share what God has brought to me this past week in Romans 2 & 3

Romans 2:1-4

THEREFORE YOU have no excuse or defense or justification, O man, whoever you are who judges and condemns another. For in posing as a passing sentence on another , you condemn yourself. because you who are habitually practicing the very same things ( that you censure and denounce )2 (BUT ) we know that the judgement ( adverse verdict or sentence ) of God falls justly and in accordance with truth upon those who practice such things. 3 And do you think or imagine O man, when you judge and condemn those who practice such things and yet do then yourself, that you will escape God's judgement and elude His sentence and adverse verdict? 4 Or are you  ( so blind as to ) trifle with and presume upon and despise  and underestimate the wealth of His kindness and forbearance and long-suffering and patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant (of the fact ) that God's kindness is intended  to lead you to repent (to change your mind and inner man to accept God's will )?

Romans 3:23-26

23. Since ALL have sinned and fallen short of the honor and glory which God bestows and receives. 24. ( ALL ) are justified and made upright and in right standing with God. freely and gratuitously by His grace ( His unmerited favor and mercy ) through the redemption which is ( provided ) in Christ Jesus. 25. Whom God put forward ( before the eyes of all as a mercy seat and propitiation by His blood ( the cleansing and live giving sacrifice of atonement and reconciliation, to be received ) through the faith, this was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance He had passed over and ignored former sins without punishment. 26. It was to demonstrate ad prove at he present time ( in the now season ) that he Himself  is righteous and that He justifies and accepts as righteous him who has  (true) faith in Jesus Christ!

I have learned a great lesson this week. I have been going to these healing prayer services on Mondays. Each time I have gone there is a group of different people. Well, the Holy Spirit working within sent me many great messages. God used these people to talk to me right from Him.It was amazing. But each week I was told the same thing. I was told I haven't forgiven myself for my past yet! Then I was thinking about it and I asked God to lead me to scriptures that I needed to read. I was lead to these scriptures, and I realized a few things. One is I am constantly being condemned and reminded of my past by people. That really makes it  hard to forget it, and forgive myself. Because every time I am reminded of it the guilt comes flying back in. I believe that satan uses my family to do this so I will keep not forgiving myself for my past! Then I was lead to Romans 3 and I went right the verses that ALL have fallen short and have sinned, and God has even overlooked some of our sins for whatever His reasons were, He just does! That no one has the right to condemn me, and make me feel guilty of my past. God has already forgiven me. he forgave me years and years ago. Actually I was forgiven even before I committed the sins. That is what Jesus died for! God wants me to forgive myself. No one, not your family not anyone has the right to judge you! Only God has the right to judge. He sent Christ to save us. He sent His only Son for me and for you! He would have sent Him if we were the only person alive on this earth! Through my faith in Jesus and through His blood, I am set free from all sins. I am forgiven, you are forgiven, and anyone who has the Holy Spirit with in them, and has been saved and accepted Christ as their savior only has to answer to ONE authority and that is God Himself, nobody else. So when someone starts to bring up your transgressions and condemn you........You stand firm and rebuke satan! It is not the person that is condemning you. It is satan trying to make you feel as though God doesn't love you and hasn't forgiven you. He uses the people that we are the closest to also. If you have repented, and you believe in the blood of Christ, then you are forgiven! God has even forgiven you for sins that you did not repent of. It says it in Romans 3:25 God loves you and has forgiven you of your sins, so how can you not forgive yourself? That would be saying that God is wrong, that God is not merciful and that we do not live in His grace! His mercy is new everyday! So, I figured it was time to let it all go. No matter what one may say to me, I KNOW the only one I have to look to is my Heavenly Father, and He loves me. He sees no more sin in me. All He sees is His beautiful daughter or Son whom He loves and adores more than anything! Next time you are feeling guilty, condemned or ashamed, rebuke it in the name of Jesus. Condemnation is NOT from God, it is from humans and satan........When humans condemn it is also because of something that they are doing themselves and don't like themselves very much,, so they need to condemn another to make themselves feel righteous! In Jesus name you and I are and have been forgiven. That was the sacrifice of our Lord on the cross.......May this bring you peace and comfort in His name.

01/10/09

A friend brought to attention these verses I am going to share with you this week. I have been going thru a lot of pain and suffering due to multiple different illnesses. I thank God that I have people in my life willing to take the time out to write down verses to me in an email, to remind me of Hiss word, and to help me remember verses I just may not have thought to read thru out these last few months. The last few months of my life have been one bad diagnosis after another, and it just keeps getting worse. I have no choice, but to focus all of my energy on God, if I don't I give into to the evil ones plan! So, please read these verses and meditate on them for yourself. These are just reassurances that God NEVER leaves us, NEVER!! No matter what bad news you have heard, bad diagnosis you have gotten, or any hard times that you are facing. He begin His work in you and He WILL FINISH it! Faith and Hope are very important in hard times more then any other time. If we lose hope, or start to lose our faith in God, we are giving into all that the enemy wants for us to cave, and fall right into his traps! I have had more bad news about my health in the last few months then I think most people can  handle in a lifetime. But I can NOT let go of my faith, of what I don't see. I MUST believe that it is in the works with the Lord. God has me covered. He will deliver me in the end, and I will come out of this along side of Jesus. We will conquer all that the devil is trying to do to destroy me right now. In the end it will be the enemy that will be sick and in pain, for yet LOSING AGAIN!!!

"We are pressed on every side by troubles, but we are not crushed and broken. We are perplexed, but we don't give up and quit. We are hunted down, but God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going. Through suffering, these bodies of ours constantly share in the death of Jesus so that the life of Jesus may also be seen in our bodies." 2Corinthians 4:8-10 

"Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you, I have called you by name: you are mine. When you go through deep waters and great trouble, I will be with you. When you go through rivers of difficulty, you will not drown! When you walk through the fire of oppression, you will not be burned up: the flames will not consume you." Isaiah 43:1-2 

"My gracious favor is all you need. My power works best in your weakness (words of Christ). So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may work through me. Since I know it is all for Christs good, I am quite content with my weaknesses and with insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamaties. For when I am weak, then I am strong." 2Corinthians 9-10

"Praise the Lord, I tell myself, and never forget the good things he does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases. He ransoms me from death and surrounds me with love and tender mercies." Psalm 103:2-4

So in the middle of all kinds of turmoil, sickness, and any other kind of warfare against you, remember to stand on these verses. God is there, and He KNOWS what you are going thru. You will prevail and overcome life's triumphs if you stick to your faith, and stand on these promises. In jesus name I pray and receive these promises!

01/01/09

HAPPY NEW YEARS!

Do not remember the former things; neither consider the things of old. Behold I am doing a new thing! Isaiah 43:18-19

God wants you to be happy and successful too! So hold onto to your dreams for a New Year............

Jeremiah 29:11 I know the plans I have for you announces the Lord. I want you to enjoy success, I do not plan to harm you. I will give you hope for years to come. James 1:6 But when you ask you must believe, people who doubt are like waves of the sea, the wind blows and tosses them around. psalm 118:23, 24 The Lord has done it, it is wonderful in our eyes 24 The Lord has done it on this day, let us be joyful and glad in it. psalm 126:3 The Lord has done great things for us, and we are filled with joy! psalm 23:6 I am sure that Your goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life, and I will live in the house of the Lord forever. psalm 5:12 Lord, You bless those who do what is right, like a shield, Your loving care keeps them safe. Acts 10"34 Then Peter said " I now realize how true it is that God treats everyone the same" He said Romans 2:11 God treats everyone the same Galations 3:29 You who belong to Christ are the seed of Abraham, you will receive what God has promised!

Above are many verses that say the Lord wants us to be happy, successful and have everything we dream of and ask for. It also says that you must believe, have enough faith that when you ask of it, you will receive what you asked for. When you pray and ask God for something, expect it. Do not doubt. Be patient. Just because it hasn't happened yet, does not mean it will not! God KNOWS everything that has happened, and is yet to happen in our lives. He has known since way before we were born! God fulfilled His promises to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We are the seeds of Abraham, we deserve His favor too. Just as they did. They received what was promised to them, and so will we. God is no respecter of persons, He does not treat anyone more special than another. He does not have favorites. He doesn't say well Joe can have it, but you can't! Do not look at others and envy or covet. If you see something that you want, ask for it. God will provide. He always does. The thing is like myself, many people ask for something and expect it immediately. I have done that, and then I think "well it just is not for me, God doesn't think I deserve it." It is not that I do not deserve what I am asking for, it is that God wants me to be satisfied with what I have first. I have noticed that since I have become more patient, and having more faith in the things I have asked for...Now new doors are starting to open.  In the past if I did not receive what I had asked of right away, I would take my will back and get it for myself. Well something always happened, and it would not work out, or it would be taken right away from me! That is because I took my will back, and did not wait on God. I was jealous of others. I thought maybe they deserved the things I wanted, and I just didn't. I do, and I will get them. In Gods time. It is amazing that some of the needs I have had for quite some time, now have just started falling right into place, and these were serious important needs. Needs for my health, for my life. Well, when I got tired enough to just throw my hands in the air and say "God I give up!!"  " Will you please take over now?" " I obviously can't do this alone." As soon as I did that, it was like everything I needed just fell into my lap. One thing right after the other. It was so obvious that it was God. There was no denying it because before I gave Him total control, it just was not working for me in my own will! I am not saying things are not hard. They are very hard! And they are very hard on me right now too, I am very ill. I need a lot of medical care and attention. I am living on a lot of medications day to day, but two years ago I couldn't even get to a DR., better yet get my medications! Now I get all of my care for free, and all of my medications for free. Another thing that is good to do is look back on all of the times that God did come through when you thought nothing was going to work out. Look at how many times He made things happen for you, right when you were ready to just give up all hope, and suddenly it all worked out. If He did that then, He will do it now, and He will continue to do it forever! God Loves His children. He wants us to be happy. He wants us to have the things we dream of having. He is always there. When things seem so gloom and so impossible, the first thing that you should do is say, "Lord help me, I need you!" He wants us to need Him. He loves for us to ask Him for help. He is after all our Father, and most earthly Fathers want their children to be happy. So imagine how much more your Heavenly Father wants you to be happy. When you are smiling , He is smiling! And I truly believe when you are crying and hurting, so is He! I do NOT believe that our God likes to see us suffer. I know that there are just things that happen, and God even allows them to happen. For whatever God's reasons are for allowing them, He has too. I have suffered greatly in my life. From sexual abuse, to drug addiction, to mental and emotional pain to physically abusive pain, and now to being in physical pain, and sick everyday of my life. I am also happier now then I ever remember being in my life. I used to be so hopeless, I just hated life, I was suicidal. Now I have seen so many miracles in my life. I am waiting to see the next one God is going to show me! And it is not just illnesses and healing or emotional healing. I also have dreams of having a nice car, a home of my own, a motorcycle, and you know what I don't even work! I am disabled and am still fighting disability. BUT The Lord has shown me so many times how much He loves me and adores me. I know I will get the disability, and I will get my car, and my dream bike. And God will be up in heaven smiling at me while I am riding around enjoying all of the beautiful nature that He created! You know how I know this. Besides the miracles that have already happened in my life over and over again... Read all of the verses I wrote above. He said so in His word. Those words are for you, me, and everyone else that reads them, eats them, drinks them, believes them, and lives by them! That is why we have this thing called the Holy Bible, The Word of God! Believe for your healing, your new job, new house, financial security, and well if your like me a brand new Harley! There is a lot of evil in this world, and it is a battle for us everyday, but everyday that we fight that battle and do not let satan win is another day God is smiling on us. Don't let all of these evil horrific things that seem to be happening all around us these days get you down. You are not of the world, YOU are of God! The Holy Spirit dwells in you, and through Him you can do anything. That is the way I am choosing to start my new year for 2009 and I hope that you will too........

In Jesus Name

Ask Him, He is waiting to hear from you!

HAPPY NEW YEARS!!!

12/24/08

A Christmas devotion to worship Him, the reason we even have a Christmas to celebrate

Merry Christmas to all who are reading this, and thank you Lord for giving us this day to celebrate! Christmas is about Sacrifice, Love, and the Freedom that Christ died for all of us to have! The Santa thing is cute, and the presents and family time is beautiful, but never forget what Christmas REALLY MEANS! So here are some verses to remind you. I am writing a few of the prophecy verses that were from prophets many many hundreds of years before Christ was born and then writing the fulfillment of those prophecies from the New Testament!

So, today on this Christmas day open your gifts in joy of receiving presents from family and loved ones, BUT REMEMBER Jesus is your ULTIMATE GIFT! If not for Him, you would not have this day to celebrate with all of your loved ones and have all those pretty packages to open!

Prophecies of the Messiah, The Christ, Our Lord..........

Psalm 22:7-8 All those who see me laugh at me. They shout at me and make fun of me. They shake their heads at me. They say He trusts in the Lord, let the Lord help him. If the Lord is pleased with Him let Him save Him. As we well know while Christ was on the cross being crucified they made fun of Him, and they said if He was the Son of God save Himself. They laughed and insulted Him, and they did not believe because He did not get Himself down. He could have, BUT that was NOT the way it was supposed to be.........He knew what His Father in Heaven was asking of Him. He accepted that He had to sacrifice Himself for US the world, bring US humans back to our Heavenly Father God! As said in the fulfillment of this prophecy in Luke 23:35-38 The people stood there watching. The rulers made fun of Jesus. they said " He saved others, let Him save Himself if He is the Christ of God, the Chosen one."  The soldiers also came up and poked fun at Him. They offered Him wine vinegar. They said "If you are the King of the jews save yourself." A written sign had been placed above Him. It read, This is The King Of The Jews. How humiliating that had to have been to just be up there in agony after being tortured, taunted, laughed at, spit on, whipped, beaten to a bloody pulp, and then nailed to a cross. He knew He had to do this. For this is why God sent Him here on earth, He was with God from the beginning, and came down from paradise to live as a human for 33 years! Psalm 69:21 They put bitter spices in My food, they gave Me vinegar when I was thirsty.......Fulfillment of this verse is in Matthew 27:34 There they mixed wine and bitter spices and gave it to Jesus to drink. After tasting it He refused to drink it.  As you see here yet another prophecy that was fulfilled of how much they hated Him and just loved to torture and humiliate Him any way they could. But He NEVER gave up and said forget this, I am not going through this for these ungrateful, faithless, unbelievers. He knew what He had to do, what He was sent here for, and He filled His Calling for His Father in Heaven. Isaiah 50:6 I let my enemies beat me on my bare back. I let them pull the hair out of my beard. I didn't turn my face away when they made fun of me and spit on me. Matthew 26:67 Then they spit in His face, They hit Him with their fists, others slapped Him. They said " Prophesy to us Christ!" Who hit you? Yet another prophesy of the abuse he endured. He knew what His call was. He knew what kinds of things that were going to be done to Him when He became man. He knew it had to be done, a lamb had to be slaughtered in order for US, man to be right with God again. Yet He still came, and fulfilled His Call. Isaiah 53:10-12 The Lord says, "it is my plan to crush him, and cause him to suffer." I made his life a guilt offering to pay for sin. But he will see all of his after him. In fact he will continue to live. My plan will be brought about through him. After he suffers he will see the light that leads to life. And he will be satisfied. My Godly servant will make many many people Godly because of what he will accomplish. He will be punished for their sins. So I will give him a place of honor among those who are great. He will be rewarded just like others that win the battle. That is because he was willing to give his life as a sacrifice. He was counted among those who had committed crimes. He took the sins of many people on himself. And he gave his life for those who had done what is wrong..........as in John 19;16, Luke 23:24, and Matthew 26:26-29 fulfills the rest of these prophesies I have written on here. Jesus was crucified between two criminals. Jesus was NOT  a criminal, nor did Pilate even see where He was a criminal. Pilate said his hands were clean of the blood because he saw no reason to crucify Jesus, but aloud the people to chose. They let a murderer get away from being crucified and replaced him with our Lord Jesus Christ. I am writing about the end of His life, even though today is His birthday because this is the ONLY reason Jesus was even born. It was prophetic, and it was fulfilled. There are over 300 prophecies of Jesus Christ in the old testament. Sixty are about His first life, the rest are all about the second coming. Today is a very loved holiday, but so many people have made it out to be a big woopy doo about money, trees, gifts and such. I do believe the ultimate gift was Jesus coming to save me and you. He took all of our infirmities, transgressions, and sin away.....of the WORLD! But when He was born the wise men did bring Him their new King treasures, presents, gifts, which ever way you want to say it.........So today enjoy the love of your family and friends. Be grateful for any gifts you do receive, and have a lovely peaceful day. Jesus is love, He wouldn't want us ti grieve every Christmas. REJOICE REJOICE REJOICE!!! Jump for joy and be thankful for the spirit that left paradise to become man, come down to earth and get tortured and humiliated all because He loves you and I so much, He wanted to wipe away all of our sins, clean us with His Blood, and make us as white as snow.........Brand  new creatures in Gods eyes. Now thanks to Him we are forgiven for all sins, and God remembers not one of them. Our slate is wiped clean! And when we do fall back, after all we still are human/flesh all it takes is to go to our Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ with a pure heart and ask for forgiveness, and once again you and I are forgiven and God remembers no more the sin we/I committed! He does not say " Oh, I just remembered  three years ago you did this that and this so therefore I do not love you anymore!" So, today when you wake up the first thing you should do before you go to your Christmas tree and tear that paper off as fast as you can because you been up all night wondering what you got for Christmas, FIRST SAY THANK YOU JESUS FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME. I am so GRATEFUL THANKFUL, AND I LOVE YOU AND PRAISE YOU SO VERY MUCH MY LORD..........Jesus gave us UNCONDITIONAL LOVE, GRACE,MERCY, AND RIGHT STANDING WITH GOD, PEACE AND FREEDOM. And with that I say MERRY CHRISTMAS!!! God Bless you all and Thank you Lord for saving my life! AMEN

Devotions from last year

12/16/08

Todays Devotion is taken from 2Timothy 2:11-26

A Worker Who Pleases God

(11.) If we died with Him, we will also live with Him (12) If we don't give up, we will also rule with Him, if we say we don't knwo Him, He will always say He doesn't know us. (13) Even if we are not faithful, He will always remain faithful. He must be true to Himself. (145) Keep reminding the believers of those things. While God is watching, warn them not to argue about words. That doesn't have any value, it only destroys the one who is listening. 915) Do your best to please God. Be a worker who doesn't need to be ashamed. Teac the message of truth correctly. (16) Stay away from Godless chatter. Those who take part in it will become more and more ungodly. (17) Their teachings will spread liek a dealy sickness. Hymenaeous and Philetus are two of those teachers. (18) They have wondered away from the truth. They say taht the tiem when peope will rise from the dead has already come. They destroy theh faith of some people. (19)But Gods solid foundation stands firm. Here is the message written on it. " The Lord knows who His own people are" (numbers 6:5) Aslo all that say they believe in the lOrd must turn away from all evil. (20) In a large house there are things made out of gold and silver. But there are also things made out of wood and clay. Some have honorable purposes, others do not. (21) SDuppose someone stays away from what is not honorable. Then his Master will be able to use him for honorable purposes. He will be made holy. He will be ready to do any good work. (22) Run away from evil things that young peopel long for. Try hard to do what is right. Have faith, love, and peace. Do these things togetehr with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. (23) Do not have anything to do with arguing. It is dumb and foolish. You knwo it only leads to fights. (24) Anyone who serves theh Lord muct not fight. Instead he must be kind to everyone. He must be able to teach. He must not hold anything against you. That willlead them to knwo the truth.  (26) Maybe they will come to their senses?! Maybe they will escape the devils trap?! He (devil ) has taken them prisoner to do what he wants them t do. 

First of all I copied these verses out of my sons bible. It can't get any clearer then a children's NIV. I wanted it to be this clear, and easy to say yes!!, I understand exactly what these verses say. I recently was battling between living as a double minded man/woman. I loved the Lord, but I also wanted some of the benefits of the world too. It was alright at first. Then little by little I found myself getting into arguements, wich turned into hateful, violent hurtful words! I came to the realization that I can not have both. I have to chose. I know how much I love the Lord. I also have friends that are not where I am spiritually. I *know* I was being attacked by satan on a regular basis, everytime I went out it got one hundred times worse. When we are living for Christ, the world does not accept us. The more I hung around places and certain people, it was as if I was under multiple demonic attacks! It just got so horrible I locked my self up in my house for sometime. I did not allow myself to stay there. I started going to church services, worshiping the Lord, and reading hrs on end everyday of some kind of Christian book, or the bible. You think it got better and just went away? NO way!!! It became worse. I was getting hate email, nasty phone calls, even threats! The people I was around were not of Christ, they were of the world. I believe if you live your life for the world, you are living your life for satan and may not even know it or realize it! There was gossip, there was slander, there was hate, and it just would not stop. It still hasn't completely, but it is slowing down. I had to be strong. I am the type of person that does not like controversy. I like to believe that there is good in everyone. I learned that is not always so. It is a painful reality. I would try to be me, who I all of the time around worldly people and Christian people. I felt maybe I could even help lead others to the Lord. Well, the world became to much for me to handle all alone, by myself. The anger, hate, and untrusting feelings that were surrounding me were to evil, to much for me to bare alone. I mean I now I had the Lord with me, but I think because I was with the Lord, and He was in me...I was attacked even more! It was very painful for me to take the abuse wondering what I had ever done to deserve it? I was recently diagnosed with a very serious illness and I have avery long road ahead of me I can not be surrounded by negativity and hate. Anyways these verses just reiterated that is very harmful for us as Christains to put ourself out there in a vulnerable position without putting our armor of God on first. It is as if I would walk into a place of 95 % unbelievers and they all have demonic oppression or possesion of some kind. The demons see me, see the Holy Spirit that lives in me, and freak out because I am the light shining in the darkness they want to keep dark!!! Well I fell back, I lost my temper many of times and had a few heated arguements that led no where...........Look who I am and who I was delaing with. I was out numbered by evil, but I was never hurt, although feared it sometimes. I knew with all of my heart that the Lord would not allow it to go that far. He did allow it to go far enough for me to get the message. Some of us are more stubborn then others. I hung on until the pain was too great! Then when my illnesses kicked in real bad , I decided not one person that does not live for the Lord can understand what I am saying here, or what I am going thru. I always try to  show my the love of the Holy Spirit, and offer guidance to people that want what I have in Him. They do not have Him yet, but they can! I do also try to hang in crowds like that because I feel I have a calling to help lead others to Christ, as we all should.........I been a part of that life, and much more, so I have the street smarts to know how to handle situations and talk to them on their level . What it is, is these peole are hurting and so lost. Every door, window, and crack is an opening for satan to attack me by hanging around these places. I have to be sure I am covered by the blood every time I go out my door. So, I learned from these verses it is time to let go of the anger and resentment. And love them, as Christ did. I have to see people thru His eyes. I need to focus On why they are being the way they are. I doubt they even know especially the ones with no belief at all! All of these people, from the ones I know and all over the country and world..........Are all screaming out for help, freedom, and serenity. So next time you feel like knocking someomes clock out, think back, were you one of them in the past? Take a breath, rememebr these verses. God gave us a job. To love the absolute most unloveable! It may seem impossible, but usually if they come across your path, they were lead too you for a reason. God may feel you can touch them better then I, or soemone else. We all are going to be facing this and it is going to get worse as time goes on. I believe we ARE in the very ends of time. Also being that this is an addiction, depression, suicide ministry, many found it looking for help for one or all of the three.........We KNOW what it is like to feel that anger, hate, and to push everyone away as soon as possble. That way we can say to ourselves see no one cares!! Do not allow satan to convince you or anyone that you love of that. He is a lair, thief and desroyer Help get all the people you possilby can away from his spell, his lies.........You will be saving lives in the name of the Lord!!!

I hope that you found this hellpful and please feel free to contact me with any orayer request or your 2 cents of how I can make ts site better and bring more people I knwo hat need to read it, here.........It is private, you have an option for your psosts to be published. If you do not want to share openly you can leae me our email adress and I can contyact you...........

as a matter of fact I just decided to put my email address onmy home page........

God Bless all That found my site, and I pray taht so far I am fulfilling Gods calling for me by the way I am buildig this site...........

Jennifer Caccavale

10/07/08

John 3:16-21

For God so loved the world that he gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. God did not send His Son into the world to condemn it, but to save it.

There is no judgment awaiting those who trust Him, But those who do not trust Him have already been judged for not believing in the only Son of God. Their judgment is based on this fact; the light from heaven came into the world, but they loved the darkness more then the light, for their actions were evil. They hate the light because they want to sin in the darkness. They stay away from the light for the fear their sins will be exposed, and they will be punished.

But those who do what is right, come to the light gladly, so everyone can see that they are doing what God wants………………

We as human beings sin, our flesh is very tricky and manipulative. We may think that we are doing exactly what God desires of us to do. It is human nature to think, analyze, and intellectualize. I have recently had a horrible experience, and was so outraged that I lost complete control of my emotions. I knew there was a reason this all happened. I knew that it was a lesson. I couldn’t tell whether or not it came from God, or I was attacked by satan. I came to the conclusion within my spirit, it was BOTH! I was being attacked by evil in every way possible. That evil, manipulative, and deceiving devil had me believing I deserved what happened because of my past. I now feel deep within where my Holy Spirit dwells inside of me, that God allowed this attack for me to learn a few important things. I learned that if I am asking for Gods help, and expecting God to make things happen for me, I have to be playing for Gods team!!!! I cannot be living a double life. I have noticed how easily I can fall back into the flesh and not even be aware that I have fallen so deep in a pit! I also learned today that I have NOT forgiven people that I really convinced myself I have. I would not have reacted the way I did in this horrible unfair situation I was put in. It took so much rage, a serious amount of confusion, hopelessness, crying, and digging deep within for the answer. That is when these scriptures appeared in front of my eyes! I can honestly say for myself that I am able to slip into fleshly behaviors, turn away from God, and make decisions on my own while all along thinking and believing that I am completely in Gods will! The reason why I am in this denial is because as much as I love the Lord, I still want to pick and chose what is ok, and what is not. It does not work this way! I feel like my Father reprimanded me. My Heavenly Father! At the same time the man that was treating me unfairly, judgmentally, degradingly, and belittling me………reminded me of my earthly Father figure. So, I now realize the Lord was allowing this attack to open my eyes. I have been ddoing deceitful things that I just rationalized was ok to do because it was taking care of needs I had that were not met! I rationalized that it is ok because these were things I had to do, for I was pushed in a corner and had no choice. I did not rely on the Lord to care for me. I also have been convincing myself that I had no more anger, hurt, or rage left toward my earthy Dad. Whish I really truly do not want. I want a relationship with my Father. I so desperately have tried to convince myself I can. I cannot until I completely let go and forgive! I will always feel like that little child lost, hurt, and confused until I let God take it away and forgive my Dad! Although this has nothing to do what happened at my Drs office, how they treated me there, and the horrible insensitive pain this man caused me. He is a complete stranger, but yet had so much power over me. It is amazing how God will use this awful situation to show me all of this. I have been living secretly in the dark because I know secrets get exposed in the light. I know better! And God knows that I know better! So, I needed a reality check. I needed to be pulled out of the dark, and God allowed satans attack on me to awaken me, and the Holy Spirit guided me to the answer……..It was an absolute horrific day. I am so very very sick. I am in so much pain, yet God still brightened my day buy saying “I am still here, I will never leave you, and yes you need to be reminded sometimes by pain to put you back on the right path, MY PATH!!” I now know what to do to handle the horrible treatment I received in a medical surrounding today, yet I will approach with God holding my hand. After all I have to stick up for myself and let someone know that I am a decent woman, and I deserve respect! I am going to follow through with this Drs office. I am going to stay on that path because God brought me to it. I was off in my own sin and did not even know it. How easy it is for us in our flesh to rationalize and justify things that we know is not right, is not Christian, is not from God! Today’s pain was a kind of insecure rage and anger I have not felt in many years. It scared me to know that was still inside of me. I was not even aware that it existed with in? So, I learned from a very bad experience that satan tried to use to discourage me, and push me back into that hopeless corner so that I would stay in the dark sinning! You lost, The Lord PREVAILED ONCE AGAIN SUCKER!!

Much peace and blessings to all that comes across this update of my life…………

Jennifer Caccavale

4/15/08

Ephesians 4

UNITY IN THE BODY
1 Therefore I, a prisoner for serving the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of your calling, for you have been called by God.2 Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other's faults because of your love.3 Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.4 For there is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called to one glorious hope for the future.5 There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism,6 and one God and Father, who is over all and in all and living through all.
7 However, he has given each one of us a special gift* through the generosity of Christ.8 That is why the Scriptures say,

"When he ascended to the heights,
he led a crowd of captives
and gave gifts to his people."*

9 Notice that it says "he ascended." This clearly means that Christ also descended to our lowly world.*10 And the same one who descended is the one who ascended higher than all the heavens, so that he might fill the entire universe with himself.
11 Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers.12 Their responsibility is to equip God's people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ.13 This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God's Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ.
14 Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won't be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth.15 Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church.16 He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love.

LIVING AS CHILDREN OF LIGHT
17 With the Lord's authority I say this: Live no longer as the Gentiles do, for they are hopelessly confused.18 Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him.19 They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.
20 But that isn't what you learned about Christ.21 Since you have heard about Jesus and have learned the truth that comes from him,22 throw off your old sinful nature and your former way of life, which is corrupted by lust and deception.23 Instead, let the Spirit renew your thoughts and attitudes.24 Put on your new nature, created to be like God—truly righteous and holy.
25 So stop telling lies. Let us tell our neighbors the truth, for we are all parts of the same body.26 And "don't sin by letting anger control you."* Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry,27 for anger gives a foothold to the devil.
28 If you are a thief, quit stealing. Instead, use your hands for good hard work, and then give generously to others in need.29 Don't use foul or abusive language. Let everything you say be good and helpful, so that your words will be an encouragement to those who hear them.
30 And do not bring sorrow to God's Holy Spirit by the way you live. Remember, he has identified you as his own,* guaranteeing that you will be saved on the day of redemption.
31 Get rid of all bitterness, rage, anger, harsh words, and slander, as well as all types of evil behavior.32 Instead, be kind to each other, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

Ephesians 5

LIVING IN THE LIGHT
1 Imitate God, therefore, in everything you do, because you are his dear children.2 Live a life filled with love, following the example of Christ. He loved us* and offered himself as a sacrifice for us, a pleasing aroma to God.
3 Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people.4 Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes—these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.5 You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is an idolater, worshiping the things of this world.
6 Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse these sins, for the anger of God will fall on all who disobey him.7 Don't participate in the things these people do.8 For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!9 For this light within you produces only what is good and right and true.
10 Carefully determine what pleases the Lord.11 Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them.12 It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret.13 But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them,14 for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,

"Awake, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will give you light."

LIVING BY THE SPIRIT'S POWER
15 So be careful how you live. Don't live like fools, but like those who are wise.16 Make the most of every opportunity in these evil days.17 Don't act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.18 Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, be filled with the Holy Spirit,19 singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs among yourselves, and making music to the Lord in your hearts.20 And give thanks for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

I would like to share with you why I chose these verses today for my devotion...............

In Eph 4:1-7 it tells us how we should act to live in the light of Christ. It says to be humble, be gentle, be peaceful, and not to see ones faults, but to look at others through the eyes of love. Making a true effort to be united with the Spirit is very important because if you do not do this at all times, darkness can creep right in without you even noticing it. By time you notice it, it may too late!

In Ehp 4:17-32 it talks about being children of the light. It says to live in the Lords authority, not to live as gentiles do. This means that doing things that are not of the light will allow darkness back into your life, and the devil will look for any little crack to creep back into your life. That means watching our mouths. Speaking positive things, and Godly things. Our mouth is a very powerful tool. It can be used to lift people up, or hurt people greatly, including ourselves. I have learned the hard way that it is very important the things  that you let come out of your mouth, and we are the only ones that have control of our mouth. Our words are very powerful. We can bring on sickness to ourselves, we can cause serious turmoil in our own lives by speaking negative things. I know for me as a person with illnesses and chronic pain, I can make my days worse by what I say. If I complain all of the time I am giving into the devil. If I praise God and thank Him for what I do have I may still have pain, but it is less and I can handle it better! That also brings me to attitude. If we go around with a negative attitude and just are convinced that everything is wrong and what isn't wrong is just going to go wrong anyway, IT WILL! God, wants to hear us lifting Him up, and thanking Him in advance for all the good things He is going to bring to us. He knows what we need, and even what we want. As much as He wants to bring us happiness, health, and prosperity, He can't if we are always moaning, complaining, and being negative. When we are doing this we give satan control of our lives. Eph 4:17-32 are the basic rules of the way God wants us to live, and a list of the things He wants us to put behind us. Now we are human/flesh, and we do fall back sometimes. I know for me some of those things were a real battle. I thought that swearing sometimes, lusting after men and flirting, telling or reading dirty jokes, and even gambling for fun, not money online was still OK. I learned the hard way that those little things I thought were innocent weren't what God wanted me to be doing. I was getting so many attacks from satan, and I didn't understand why! I prayed and prayed, and little by little God started convicting me of some of my behaviors that I thought were OK, but in His eyes are not! Sin is sin, no matter how big or how small. Sin is all the same in God's eyes. I was not completely living in the light. I was still practicing some parts of darkness, therefore I still gave the devil a foothold of on me. Eph 5:1-13 Talks about how to live in the light. Imitate God in everything you do means to be LOVE. It means to love people no matter what they do, accept people, don't be judgemental, be patient with others, especially if they are new in Christ! They are going to make many mistakes, as I did, and many other Christians did in the beginning of their walk with God! It takes everyone different ways of learning about God. It depends on who they are and where they are in life. I know for me I was saved over 10 years ago. I loved the Lord, but I was still living a double life. I was still taking place in worldy things, which caused me great pain and suffering. I wanted more then anything to stay off of drugs, but I couldn't. The worse thing was I didn't know why I kept falling backwards! It took a lot of suffering to realize what I was doing wrong. I was living for God, just doing the parts of the Word that I thought was what i needed to do! The other parts I thought were for someone else. It doesn't work that way! It is all or nothing. You may be a saved, and know that you are going to heaven, but you will not experience the benefits of being Gods child while you are alive! Who wants to do all this work, and not have some kind of rewards? God does love His children, and He does reward us for being obedient. Recently I have seen so many little miracles in my life, I am like a little child on Christmas morning, I get so excited. Because I know that means I am doing what God asks of me to do, and I am living by His Word. That pleases Him, and He brings things to me that maybe I wouldn't have gotten so easily. Like for instance I am having to take care of a lot of medical problems. I do not have insurance, but every time I have a need, God fills that need. Whether it be money, medication, or even just a ride to the Dr's. God takes care of me every time. I stopped worrying. I started to turn EVERYTHING OVER TO GOD! That is what He wants. He wants us to follow His Word. Those are like directions or even a recipe for a better life walking in the light of Christ! It gets very frustrating sometimes becasue we as flesh are used to having control over everything, It is real difficult to follow these basic rules in these verses everyday. It is difficult to believe that He knows ALL that we need, and He will provide it. That is where patience comes in because I know for me I lose patience, and I take my will back and do things my way! well, I have learned from that too. I realized when I do that Everything is so chaotic! Nothing works out right, and I turn around and say "OK Lord, I am sorry. Please forgive me for trying to control everything. Will you please help me with such and such because obviously I can't do it without you!" Like I said we all will make mistakes as we are growing, but that is how we grow by learning from our mistakes. Then next time remember what happened and make sure that you are following God's lead the next time! This goes for everything. I truly do not believe I would be clean off of drugs as long as I have without the Lord. I tried for 21 yrs to stay clean and I always relapsed. Even when I was clean, I had the most lonely and empty void within my soul. I was missing something HUGE! I didn't have the Lord living inside of me! I can do anything through Christ that strengthens me! Phil4:13 That is one of my favorite verses. It is short, but man oh man it means so very much and it is so very true! I would not be alive if I didn't have Christ! One other thing I want to say that kept me very sick for a very long time, and I mean spiritually sick...........Let go of all anger, rage, resentments, and hate. That is the greatest poison anyone can digest! It will kill you. It almost killed me many times, but God decided He wanted me alive to use me as a vessel for Him. There is no scientific explanation why I am still alive, so it is only through the grace of God! Thank you for reading this, one more thing to add to let you know just how sneaky, angry, and mean satan is. I had spent over an hour typing a devotion. It causes me GREAT pain to type due to my back/neck injuries..........When I went to post it, it was deleted! ALL OF IT!!! I was in so much pain, I just started to cry, BUT I WAS NOT GOING TO LET SATAN WIN, AND I TOOK A DEEP BREATH AND STARTED OVER AGAIN! My way of looking at this, is maybe this one has something in it that I left out, that God wanted me to put in this? BUT I REFUSED TO LET SATAN FRUSTRATE ME AND KEEP ME FROM REACHING OUT TO YOU TODAY!

Have a beautiful day. May God bless you always, and may you always have the peace of God within!

Jennifer Caccavale