Dear Homemakers,
Well, here I go again, writing in the midst of children. But I love it. I love all of it. But, boy, my writing just drops off any place. Sorry about that. I do have some quiet time now as Baby is asleep. I just feel such an urgency to write on faith.
So many women around me are going through so much nervousness and fear. I guess I am especially burdened for one friend in particular. A dear friend, I will call her May. I have known May for many years . She called me from her bed last week. "I am so full of fear that I can't get out of bed." Now May has all this world could give her and a very wonderful, faithful husband. Not to mention godly, grown children who love God. But the fear about her is too much. Later she had to go to the hospital because of anxiety attacks. These are fear attacks. The only remedy is faith.
See, some of you can't do your housework or live a godly life because fear is binding you. Spiritual housewifery comes out of a heart that has a dream. If your husband is wayward, how can you clean his house or care for his children unless you are assured by God that your husband is about to be saved -- maybe today. Hope is in the future and faith is in the NOW. Each day, get up in the morning and say, "Lord, I plan on a miracle TODAY." See, if you aren't doing that, you are planning on not having a miracle and it will be business as usual. Every morning, get up and start a family meal for supper or whenever the family will eat the big meal of the day. Prepare for happy family times. And if they don't happen that day, then plan the next day for a miracle and each day plan on a miracle. If you aren't planning on a miracle then you are planning on defeat. Don't plan a failure by not planning for a miracle.
In my faith, I was good at getting miracles. But I couldn't hang onto them? But, hey, you are talking to a woman who has had a lot of miracles. As I have gotten older, I have learned how to maintain the miracles and keep them protected. But in the beginning, I couldn't keep them but could sure get one. By my faith, I would call Jim from all parts of the nation. But I didn't have the faith to keep my husband. I didn't give up, though, on my sorry self and kept on goin' and saw the glory of God.
But see, when you have a husband bound by Satan, he can't hear God. God depends on the intercessor to get the weaker spouse healed. In the Bible, God used many people who were strong to bring the sick and demon possessed to Jesus. We as Christian wives and mothers labor to bring our loved ones bound by Satan to the feet of the cross. Many are bound by Satan. Dear Mothers and Wives, have mercy on those who are unsaved. Be glad you are the victim and not the one causing all the hell in your family.
I have never committed adultery. "Oh, Lord God, I am so glad to say that." And I finished the course with Jim and my marriage was saved. I am so glad that I lived for the Lord. I am at peace with my life. Adultery is not fun! Early on in my married life, the Lord had me counsel a harlot who had been married to a Christian man. The tears that woman cried -- the hell she went through was unbearable. It is not fun to be an adulteress. Every man she became one with, she received into her spirit.
It's a looong time before you get your peace back after sex with someone outside your marriage. As a Christian woman who does this stuff, it isn't like you have sex and then get peace back until the next time? No, God's peace is a long time coming. This is where many of you women need to see the truth. If a husband is committing adultery, then he is bound in this sin. He is either possessed of the devil or at least oppressed. No man or woman who is practicing adultery is free and having it easy. It is a snare of the devil. See, they become one with a harlot. The Bible says adultery is like idolatry ... it is becoming one with a false god.
See, we must walk by faith in every situation of home. We must see our husbands as godly priests of our homes. And you have to get on your husband's side. He knows if he is bound in sin and he thinks you know that? And he hopes to God you are working on getting him out of it if you are a Christian wife. But Satan lies to you and says your husband is happy in his sin. I mean, I am writing about a man who is practicing adultery or some other sin. But love the sinner and hate the sin and see the sin as God sees it. A man bound in drugs or alcohol ain't havin' fun. It may be fun at first until that serpent turns around and bites back. You can play with a snake for a while but, trust me, he will bite you if you hang around long enough. Don't be deceived -- God is not mocked whatsoever you sow you will reap. And if you keep playing with sin, it will own you in the end. At all costs, wives and mothers, make strong homes. In this age, you ain't gonna live very long if you have a family and you are walking in fear. Learn to walk by faith. The Word says "Let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich." We must learn to call things that are not as though they were.
The load I have carried lately would pound me to the ground if I didn't walk by faith. But I ain't goin' under as I know how to stay on top. Hopefully?
Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. You can't make it alone, dear housewife. Forget it that you think you can make it with just positive confessions. I mean don't speak negative words. But just because you confess positive thoughts, that won't take you over. I mean it may for a while? But when you get into some real problems, then nothing will work. I mean when ya can't get that dog to hunt no matter what ya do? Then you had better have something else goin' on besides positive words. You gotta start diggin' for gold and I mean NOW! You have to have a special word from the Lord.
I am famous for running out of road on a daily basis. I just can't make it without a Word from the Lord. I don't get up in the morning and start cleaning the house. I am better now. But even last week, I would wake up shaking in my boots. I try to take some of my friends' nerve pills and they ain't strong enough to get me to settle down. If I didn't have Jesus, then nothing would put me out but a sledge hammer. I wish I was a Martha but I am a Mary who MUST sit as His feet, no matter what. If I don't get a Word from the Lord each day, then you can all kiss my sweet cheeks "Good-Bye." I have to have a fresh word from Him daily. My mentor Mary L lays prostate before the Lord in her living room and prays on her face for hours. If you want the power of God in your home, you have to pay a price. Oh, I got up this morning and top cleaned and did some laundry before Baby came. But mainly, I pray and watch before the Lord for hours before I come to this e-machine.
And I am tellin' ya, Dear Heart, we are living in hard times. The earth seems to shake with fear right now. But the wise woman has built her house upon the rock. And the winds come and the rains fall but her house will not fall as she has built her house upon the rock. She is wise. She doesn't fear this world. She fears God, and the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. She walks by faith and not by sight. God is first place in her heart. And she has a Word from the Lord that says "All is well -- all is well. No weapon formed against you will prosper. Your enemies may attack one way but they will flee seven ways. Greater is He who is in us than he who is in the world." The word says that He will contend with those who contend with us and our families. (Isaiah 49:25)
My 2 Cents
Ya know last week or whenever it was, I was watching Fox News. And they said the stock market went up higher then ever in history. They said this meant the economy was good. For who I don't know. But anyway, ya know what? Just before the Depression era of October of 1929, the stock market hit some all time highs. In the 1890s and on, our country was flyin' high. But our country began making more produce than what folks could buy and this caused the Stock Market to crash. But that's not our only problem as we have a war goin' on. I wonder if it will go into a World War.
I believe God has been merciful to me to let me go through such horrid trials as lately. He is sharpening my faith and warning me to stay with Him. He wants for me to be crisp and clear and on the move when the really hard times come. He wants my children to be warriors and leaders in these days ahead. I am being tested and tried and He wants my visions in Him to be crisp and cutting edge. For these trials, I thank Him. "All things work together for Good to those who love Him and are called according to His purpose."
For some of you who are seemingly suffering unbelievably, "Look up for your redemption draweth nigh." God is getting ready to judge the unbelievers. But for those who are ready in Him, He will show them miracles, grace and sufficiency in Him. Plead for those in your families who don't know the Lord. Have mercy on them. Walk with them through their darkness. Because a day will come when the way is closed and no man will enter heaven after this day. But don't mistake the happenings on the earth as judgment to you if you are Gods daughters and He is your Husband. Yes, judgment is coming but it is for those who are rebellious in God. The Lord God is a just God and no one will get away with sin. But see, we as wives and mothers are sinners, too. And we can pick up our loved ones in prayer. God can't touch sin but He can touch us, as we are born again, and yet still sinners. We are the intercessors -- we are the go between heaven and earth. And we must go between God and our prodigals and plead with the Lord in prayer for their lives. If they are in sin and bound, they can't find their own way. They need an intercessor. A prayer warrior that talks to God on their behalf.
And Mothers of prayer, once we get up off our knees we must talk to the king in our husbands and our sons. We must talk to the queen in our daughters. We raised them for such a time as this. Our handmaidens were raised at our knee. And even though they may act like they were raised by a mother who was an adulteress, they still have a memory of the true Mother who touched her daughter's heart with the power of God.
With tears and weeping and wailing to the Lord, many of us mothers have paid the price and will win the prize of the high calling of Jesus Christ. We as housewives will someday hear, "Well done thou good and faithful servant." If you don't give up, dear wife and Mother, you will see His glory. Run the race and be swift and anointed of God. Stand before your enemies and laugh with your hair and face anointed with the oil of gladness. "Oh well of Joy, come up in the heart of your anointed daughters and let them hear your voice like thunder speaking. Touch not mine anointed and do her no harm."
Many of us daughters of Zion must live from one anointing to the next. Like riding on the night skies on flashes of lightening. We crave the next anointing -- after the last one is barely cooled off. But we live from the pure and living Word spoken fresh from His mouth. We see not or hear not. We are blind to the world around us. We live out of the anointing, the Word spoken in the night as Jesus woke us. Our heart and spiritual eyes are riveted to His eyes and we watch Him and the world to us becomes strangely dim. We are filled with the Holy Spirit.
Love,
Connie
