Dear Mothers of Faith,
Ya know we can pray and pray and we get the victory? I have had so much victory lately. But ya know our Joy can get so full. I am like a balloon so full of JOY, I haven't known what to do with it all. The Bible speaks of a JOY you cant contain. I am there. But the Lord tells me that when you capture or take over spiritual land, then you have to learn to abide on this land. To set up housekeeping upon this Promised Land. It's hard as it is a new land acquired by faith. And it takes faith to live on it. You sorta plateau off.
In order to keep the victory you have won, you have to learn how to live on it. If you don't learn to live on it, you will lose it. Like when I got the miracle of a healed marriage. It was hard to kinda go into that land of Deliverance. It was a miracle that I kept that land and inhabited it. Little demons were behind every rock, it seemed, trying to scare me out of the land. Jim was healed and working every day. And every morning after Jim went to work, the devil would say, "He ran out with the checkbook" or "You better check your purse; he has taken all of your grocery money." And on and on went the accusing spirits. But one day I got up in the morning and before Jim went to work, I gave him all my money and the checkbook in case he wanted to run out. I had to call the devil on it. Of course, Jim was healed and for the next 26 years did nothing but bless me and make sure I had money in my purse and that all the bills were paid. My miracle had come, but could I live in the Promised Land? On the Land of "Healed Marriage" and a "Saved Husband."
See, like the old pioneers of the middle 1800s who were seeking freedom in a new land. They had to get the land and inhabit it. And the first pioneers settled the land for many others to come to a safe new land. But Mercy! The first families who came had to endure Indian massacres and many hardships. They who got there first had to build not only their own homes but schools and churches and stores and roads. They had to find a way to long term live on this land. And to make a place where their children could grow up and have a safe place to raise their children. Many of you who are first generation Christians face this. And some of your parents and grandparents had the faith to take the land but didn't have the faith to maintain it and bear fruits of righteousness on it. Some of your mothers got saved but never built a home for you to bounce off from. Their faith wavered and they limped along. This is where we as mothers now need to learn our lessons well. We need to make sure that we take the spiritual land from Satan and abide on it. But not only to abide but to build a testimony that will strengthen our own children when they fall and want to give up their Promised Land.
Often as John and Christine faced hard times, they would say, "Well, if Dad and Mom made it with practically nothing and they had six kids, I guess we can make it with one kid." And boy, it's hard goin' when you are a first generation believer that set up housekeeping in a wilderness. And ya know the aunt that mocked me as a young mom now mocks my own children and grandchildren. We will always have the unbelievers about us chiding us. "You can't make it. That's impossible. You are sure to fail."
When I bought this house seven months pregnant with two little kids already for 12,000 bucks? Mercy! My aunt walked in here and said horrid things. Jim was here long enough to get us moved in and he left us for his life of crime. Man, I could have given up. I went by myself to the hospital to have my baby and brought her home alone and took care of her alone. It was the coldest day of the year and the furnace went out. And the folks helpin' me kept cursing me and tellin' me they would never help me again. They had told me to give up on Jim and I wouldn't so they were tryin' to make me sorry. I wasn't!
So you acquire the Promised Land by faith. And by faith you live on the Promised Land.
Many times as we pray, we will feel the spark or the anointing fall. But sometimes we don't catch it. Or if we do catch it, we can't hold it or maintain it. And the anointing drops come like rain and can come again and again and fall like mercy drops on our heads. But we aren't good catchers ,,. or we aren't good land for good seeds. Our hearts are hard with unforgiveness and the drops of God's mercy can't touch us or seep deep on our souls. But we must have a vision of our Promised Land.
When God tells us that we are being blessed, we must enlarge our tents. We must begin to walk by faith and make spiritual roads and schools. We can't just take over the land and inhabit it but we must begin to build upon it and set down boundaries to keep the enemies out. We must become bulwarks and stalwarts to protect, like walls, our Promised Land. We have to stay focused upon our purpose and each day add another brick to the foundation of our dreams of our new land.
And we as Mothers must keep our focus first upon our own husbands and our own children. And as we stay focused, we will become a home built upon a hill for the world to see. We become examples and our children and our husbands are strong. And we build testimonies for the weaker family members to fall back on. And we build line upon line of God's Word into our families. And we teach how to teach our children in Home School. And we start a new land and a new revolution one family at a time. One day at a time. One slap in Satan's face at a time. And what stops us from entering the Promised Land and from maintaining it? Fear -- only fear. Only the lies of Satan. Only the deception. Only the unbelievers who say it can't be done. But we must build homes made of "All things are possible with God." As we focus upon home and family, we walk out what is going on in the heavenlies. Jesus the church is under God and God the Father is the Lord of all. We fall into place as we keep our eyes upon the blood covenant of Marriage. We are stabilized as we keep our eyes upon the work God has set before us as Keepers at Home.
Love,
Connie
