Dear Mothers,
Ya know when I was a young Mom, I used to stay home and pray when friends wanted me to go here and there. My one neighbor used to say to me, "Well, all you do is stay in that house and read your Bible and pray." And ya know back then in the 70s, my life wasn't at all like everyone else's. I was alone raising my children. I went to church and most of the people there were in families. You didn't see a bunch of singles like you do now in church. The churches were made up of families. I used to sit in church and cry, wondering what I had done to deserve such a fate. But God had His hand on me. And now, 40 years later, I look at society and I see many Connie and Jims. Who would have ever thought society could have gotten that bad? The strong Christian families seem to have faded into the background and the hurting families have become the majority. Yes, Jill was raising her family alone, and a few others. But very few!
What I am trying to say is Jill and I didn't know of some woman who had gone through what we were going through and had came out on the other end. They weren't around. I think this is why it took me 12 years to get through it all. My pastor, bless his heart, would tell me, "Connie, take off your rose colored glasses. Jim will never straighten up." I mean the majority around me thought I was not playin' with a full deck. But what was going on is this. I heard a new song. I saw a new vision. My faith was not of this world. I ran to a different beat of a drum. God put a stronghold of faith in me that wanted to live and breathe and have its being in God.
Oh, Satan tried to kill my faith. He proved to me again and again, "This is not working. You are a fool to keep going with waiting for Jim to change." At one point just before Jim was saved, healed and delivered, I had almost given up. But a flicker of hope like a dying fire still remained in my heart. I thought, "Well, what if God's Word is true? What if I have come this far to give up just before the miracle?" And it so happened that my miracle did come right at the midnight hour. But, Wives and Mothers, I am tellin' you what. You can't keep bouncing off what your relatives or your neighbors tell ya. You can't bounce off how old you are or how young. You can't bounce off the world's system of things.
I am here to tell you this. "You have to see victory in your heart. Ya gotta see it to believe it!" You gotta get a vision. You gotta get a new walk and talk. Change your name if ya have to. This is why I started to call Luanne "Annie." I wanted to see her with an attitude. I wanted to see her like Annie Oakley lassoing her problems. We need to give that devil some problems. But we can't do it by listening to the voice of reason or common sense.
The Bible calls the preaching of the Word foolishness to those who don't believe. Anyone in the Word of God that had Vision didn't have anything to do with the give and take of this world. This world has a law called gravity, and it has the law of sin and death. Its cause and effect. But we as women of God are set free of the laws of sin and death. Nehemiah had a vision to build the walls back up for his fellow Jews. Oh, the world scoffed and laughed their heads off at him and his poor and miserable relatives. But he kept his mind upon building his house. He believed in the impossible. God had built a stronghold of faith in him and he followed the Lord. Nehemiah was a man of vision and purpose. He heard a bell ring that no one else heard. He saw something no one else saw. He felt a faith that no one else understood. And this made him a leader for God. He was a trailblazer, a dreamer, a seer, a visionary. And so were the others written in the Word of God. David wouldn't bow to an idol as he was not living in this present world. He was set apart unto God. He had never followed the world. He was a man after God's heart.
Ring Victory Bells
Do you want to be something for God and a headache for Satan? Then take your rotten circumstances and throw them in the garbage and walk out your faith. Call yourself a visionary, a dreamer that can dream her way out of the hell and into the land of Promise. Inventors who established our country were like this. They invented things like the light bulb and the telephone. Electricity was always here from the beginning of time. But it took Thomas Edison who had a dream to learn how to harness it.
Your miracle, like the electricity, is in the earth now. Our prayers are answered now. But we have to bring them to us. We bring them by a power called faith. We walk out the miracle as we plan for it to come. We clean out our cupboards to receive the food we need. We make a feast to feed a husband who has promised to never come home. We wear a maternity dress when we are called barren. We speak our miracle and plan our life around our miracle. We don't plan our life around the world and its ideas. We hear a distant voice of Victory calling us. We hear the chariots of fire in the heavenlies. We see warring angels fighting our battles for us. We dream dreams and we walk out visions. The world calls us crazy and we please the Lord as only He calls us to do. To walk by faith, as only faith pleases God.
Live out your visions and ring victory bells until Satan screeeeeeams, "Stop! I give up!" Don't listen to this world. Don't listen to the voice of the unbelievers. Anything we ask in Jesus' name we can receive. Loose heaven with your prayers and bind the satanic things of earth. Nothing is impossible to us as we walk in Him. Covenant keepers are precious to God and He wants to bless them. It's the time, too, for Covenant Keepers to be blessed. That is a word of prophesy.
I am very interrupted this morning. But one other thing I want to say is this. Edison was partly deaf and he said he was glad as he could stay focused better on his work. And we need to come away from the world and be deaf to it. Walk out your faith. Call things that are not as if they were. (Mark 11:23-24)
Love,
Connie
