Be Still & Shut up

We see this in the Bible and that we need to do this but how? How do we get to that renewed mind of Christ? Here are some simple steps that I have used that I know are effective to help retain your brain.

1. Get in the Word of God and get to know Him as a person. He is real! We do not read the Bible knowing that those people were real and those were real experiences that occurred in their lives. We say we believe but do we really? Do we really accept all of Who God is? He is mind, body and spirit like we are. We were created in His likeness. We, too, are a three part being- mind, body and spirt (soul) and when we accept Jesus as our Lord we get the spirit of adoption and the Holy Spirit. We see all of these spirits in the Bible but we do not fully ask them to come be apart of our lives. We have the authority to loose things and to bind things. Whatever we loose is loosed over us OR others and when we bind things are removed. Faith is everything. Your faith will cause all of this to happen but your faith is really dependent on how much you know how to operate with it. Jesus operated in the whole 5 fold ministry so why cant we? Umm, we can! Jesus said we would do all of the things He did and greater works. Know you were created in His image. That you were born to be His brother or sister. Know that you have the spirit of adoption and that orphan spirit must flee. You are loved!

2. Meditate on the Word of God. Get it in your head and it will move to your heart. Just because you can quote a lot of scripture doesn’t mean it is in your heart. The Holy Spirit will guide you in this. If you need music, play some instrumental music and relax. Let God speak to you through the Spirit. His spirit now lives in you and you are free to have any and all conversations with Him. This morning I got aggravated and vented to God. I then apologized for venting. He said, “You need to vent to me because you better not be venting to anyone else. What can they do to help you solve any problems they are merely man.” I laughed but understood. Take it all to Him! He is the lover of your soul. The last thing God wants is for us to complain. It could always be worse. What is your worse? How bad have things gotten in your life where this could be the worst you’ve ever faced? In fact the Bible tells us not to so please take everything to God in a conversation. Prayer and meditation is a two way conversation that works. He will tell you everything you need to know about your day. Who will come by.. why they are there.. etc.

3. Relationship. When you are in an intimate relationship He will tell you absolutely everything you ask about almost anything. I have learned that there are times He is silent because He is checking me. Things come up and all hell can try and break loose in my life and it is a test. It is a test of the fruit He is producing through me and how well I allow Him to lead. He will do everyone this way. He is not a respecter of person. Get to know all three of them. They are a tri-part being just like we are. God the Father. God the Son. God the Holy Spirit.

4. Pray- pray a lot! Pray in the spirit. Ask for a fresh anointing to pray it through. Make a recording of your voice reading scripture that you need help in. I had lost so much of myself (not just my memories but me) due to brain injury but I got back the most precious parts of me through prayer. I can literally remember praying portions of my brain back into existence and then trusting Him to do a great work in me. He promised me healing and I stood on that word for 7 years. It took 7 years to work the Word in order to see my healing in the natural world we live in. I would wake up every day wondering what happened the day before and have to read about it. If you haven’t seen “50 First Dates” I highly recommend you watch it. This movie is all about brain injury. When I watched it I realized my life could have been so much worse because I could have been like 10 second Tom. I learned to journal my feelings and what occurred in my life. This helped guide me while I felt I was totally on my own. I was never alone and have learned to fully embrace everything I love about me- especially my TBI. With brain injury it is hard to hold a grudge because none of it really matters. I will not allow people to be mean to me anymore and accept it but I also forgive quickly and love hard.

5. Tell your heart to beat again. No matter what you are going through you are never alone and you are loved so much! His love is greater than anything I could ever attempt to compare it to. There is no comparison. Try some soaking prayers and allow Him to show you how much He loves you. I asked for Him to show me one day and He showed me His crucification. I went into an open vision and it was like I was standing next to Him. It was as if I was seeing with mine own eyes what He went through because of His love for us. We have not because we ask not. Take it all to Him and trust me these things work. They are not hard but can be time consuming. God is the ultimate teacher of patience. 7 years to receive healing and if that did not teach me patience nothing would. I was not a very patient person before TBI and I learned a ton of patience on this journey. Abraham did too waiting over half his life to finally have a son with Sarah when it should have never been physically possible in our world.

6. Take the limits off of God. He is truly limitless and His ways and thoughts are so much higher than ours. If He tells you He is gonna do something believe Him. Most of us never get what He promised because we get tired of waiting. Patience are tested. Faith is tested. Love is tested. All of this leads to a mature relationship. I am not where I want to be but I am much better when it comes to all of this. I crave a deeper relationship with Him than I do anything of this world.

7. Love and love deeply. Love Him most and more than anything of this world. Stop with earthly desires but set your mind on Kingdom things. You are seated in heavenly places through Jesus. We are His body and you gotta have a full revelation that you are not from this world. That none of it matters. And, love yourself. I wrote a blog about loving yourself this morning. I do not remember what it is titled but it went up the same day this one is. Love you. Choose you. This loving myself was one of the most important phases of my process. I had truly forgotten who I was and WHO I belong to so I figure many of us do. Don’t let the messengers of satan come at you and make you dislike or hate yourself. You ARE WORTHY!!

8. Trust the process. All of this is a process and will not happen overnight, unfortunately. We live in an instant gratification society and want everything right now. Want to be out of pain – take a pill. Want demons to calm down so you dont have to deal with them – take a pill. Want your brain to heal— there is no pill, haha. It takes trust! Trust Him implicitly and judge Him faithful. Making the word manifest takes praying it through and trusting His process to finish the works in which He started in you.

If you’re looking for love please do not try and depend on another person to receive this from. God is love. Jesus is love. The Holy Spirit is love. These are the ones to seek love from. Take it from someone that has looked for love in all the wrong places and tried to fill my heart with love from others. Love comes from within first. God asked me last week how could I love someone else the way we are supposed to love if I didn’t love myself. This hit me pretty hard. I have been so beat up by others and the lies they spoke over me that I had fallen out of love with myself. I forgot who I was and Who I belonged to. I sought out love from others instead of loving the Lord and myself. When we do not love ourselves we will settle with others and forget about ourselves.

Self love starts with self care. When we do not take care of ourselves how could we ever take care of the needs of others? Taking care of ourselves is a form of worship. The living God lives on the inside of us and if we are not taking care of ourselves we are not taking care of Who lives in us. This can be as simple as brushing our teeth. If we do not take care of our teeth science tells us that we will get cavities and then the tooth will need work or need to be pulled. That really isn’t science but common sense. Making our beds is taking care of what God gave us. I did not have a bed for about eight months. I slept on an air mattress that I was extremely thankful to have. I now have a bed but only because of God. These seem like very simple things, and when it comes right down to it they are simple but they are steps to improve your love for yourself. Not only for yourself but for what God has already given you. God got me a few months back about taking care of what He has already given me so He could and would give me more. It is gratitude. Why would He ever give us more if we are not a good steward to what we already have?

Out of your heart flows everything. If we do not have a pure love for Jesus and yourself the love needed to expound onto others will not be made manifest in our lives. The hardest commandment that Jesus left us with is loving others as we love ourselves. If a person loves himself and shows true forgiveness then the world would not be in the chaos it is in. A person would not hurt his own flesh. If you ever want to hurt yourself please know that is a demon attacking you. The spirit world is real and there are demons trying to prevent you from loving yourself and others. If they can get you to not love yourself there will be no love in the biblical sense to show others. We can love with our minds but do we really love with our whole hearts? I hope this makes sense to everyone because I have been numb in my heart but knew in my head I had to love them so I faithed it until my heart opened up to others. I was one that was so beat up by messengers of satan that I believed I was not worthy of pure love because of my brain injury . I do not believe this anymore but it caused my heart to shut off. I loved my children and my grands but others was not so easy. I had to literally get it in my head and make it move to my heart, I did this through meditation. Meditate on the Word day and night. Write the Words on the tablet of your heart. In the Bible some of the times heart is used is meant for the subconscious mind and in other places it is meant for the literal heart. This one was a doozy for me because I did not want to love all of His children they are mean, ungrateful, obnoxious, hateful…etc. you get the point. People have faults and I had to see all of mine before I could stop seeing others. This is where we all have problems. Self-examination is one of the hardest things I have ever experienced. I saw where I was wrong when I asked God to search me. To show me what is in my heart that is not from Him. There was a lot of junk in there implanted by the enemy and I really didn’t feel worthy of love… that is a lie from the pit of hell! We are worthy of love, Jesus DIED for us. Who would you die for? Would you die for Him?

Getting love in my head was not so easy either. I hated people that had hurt me and wanted revenge. That was not from God. That was implanted by the enemy and I would go after them to hurt them before they could ever hurt me. Vengeance is the Lords and He will and does vindicate. I have learned to shut my mouth and allow God to work it all out which to be honest was hard! It was extremely hard work to not go off on others coming at me. During my recovery from traumatic brain injury I could not remember my past and much of it I still do not. Which I fully embrace and am so thankful for. This makes it easy to forgive and forget and love them anyway. I was made to feel ashamed, worthless, and nonexistent because of me not being able to remember. I would have flashbacks of the past but when God woke me up I remembered everything people had said and done to make me feel unworthy. Truth is we are all worthy and there is not one single person we will ever look at that God does not love. I get it. I get that people are mean and desperate to find some sort of love that they look for it in all the wrong places. We seek approval and some sort of self satisfaction from other people which is the wrong place to ever venture for love. Jesus is the ultimate portrait of love. I have asked thousands of times for His heart for His people because without Him there is no way I could forgive and forget the way He does. I had to pray a whole lot and learn to trust again. I do not put my trust in me or in people but in the Lord. I know now when people are lying. When they are hurt. When they are plagued by their past. When their pain is causing them to hurt others. I get it now. God will keep you around the most difficult people of your life to teach you how to forgive and love them anyway. Love is everything and faith. Faith operates by love. These are also spirits so if you’re having a hard time loving people remember that God gave us a spirit of love. (2 Tim 1:7) loose this spirit onto yourself and others that you see having issues in this department. Separate what you see from the person and know that either they have an evil heart or they are being oppressed by the enemy. When you get this and can separate peoples actions from them you can learn to love even the most atrocious person. Loving them and forgiving them does not mean you must reconnect with these people in the same fashion you held on to them in the past. Some things must fade into the background of your life. The past is in the past and that is where it needs to stay. When we hang on to things that a person did to use as ammunition against them we haven’t really forgiven. Do not forget we are forgiven on the same measure we forgive others.

Love is the most difficult of human emotions. Is it just an emotion or is it an action? Love is a verb! Verbs are action words… how are you showing love? Self examination is hard work but it is so worth it in the end. The process of spiritual growth is no easy task but I promise you can and will make it through. The Bible says that God will finish the works in which He started in you. Faith without works is dead and love without faith is nothing. Your love must start with Jesus. It must end in Jesus. It starts with you. Everything starts with you. Love is in you and it can abound onto others. It will too once you get the Word in you. We gotta show love and this is no easy task. I can remember thinking that everyone that was nice to me had an ulterior motive and I needed to find out what that was. If it were a man being nice was that him or did he just want sex? If it was a woman were they being real or what did they want from me? Why were people wanting to love me? This is how badly messengers of satan can beat you down and try and kick your ass. Do not let them! You have the authority to stop demons in their tracks. I have learned that until I came into full submission to the Lord it was impossible for me to cast a demon away and make it stay away from me. (James 4:7) Once I submitted the devil left and so did all his goons. Everything starts within. Get it in your head and it will ultimately move to your heart. Seek ye first the Kingdom of God.. (Matt 6:33) and find His love for you then you will learn to love all of yourself, even your biggest imperfections that the enemy has tried to make you hate about yourself. Trust me on this! Seek God and His love! Then God will give you the desires of your heart. Seek within to find out what these are. Write them down! What are the desires of your heart? I have been searching my own heart for a year to find out what is in there and what I needed to remove from it. There are lies that the enemy will try and implant inside of you and one lie can change your entire belief system about yourself and about God. (Gal 5:9) Do not grow weary in doing good and you will reap a harvest. ( Gal 6:9) What we put out we will get back. If you’re sowing seeds of love you will reap a harvest of love. God means His Word. Learn it, know it, meditate on it and find the scriptures that you need in an area of growth. If it is love find all of the scriptures on love. Google makes this extremely easy for us all. Get it in your head (your subconscious mind where there is power) and it will move to your heart.

I do hope this helps when it comes to the very essence of Who God is and helping you love. Not only yourself but others. Remember that we are not our pasts but what God says we are. We are His! He is love. We love because He loves us. Not sure why God had me write on love today or who needs it but please know that you are loved. Jesus loves you and so do I. We can love again, not only others but ourselves. Reprogram your mind through meditating on the Word of God. YouTube makes this easy for us as well. There are all kinds of scriptural meditations that you can sleep with hearing. The subconscious mind never sleeps and that is where the renewing the mind starts. Once it is there it will move into conscious thinking and into the heart. Have a great day and never forget YOU ARE LOVED!! YOU ARE LOVE!!

There is a new group of people that the Lord is raising from their own form of a spiritual coma. I can see this and I pray you can to. Our best gift to God is to help others receive their freedom from oppression as we have freely received. It is time to give back my friends. It is time to teach them on how you got free from all oppression.

Once we beat all forms of oppression we need to help others obtain freedom from the hold the enemy has on their lives. It is time to share the knowledge the Lord has so graciously extended to us over the last few years during our own spiritual awakening.

Whatever your hardest area of freedom was is the point of access to your power. You will know what you had to fight the hardest to obtain. For me this was healing and now I want everyone healed. I want everyone to understand the power that resides in them and how much this has to do with how we think. Your brain is power! Your thoughts are power! Your feelings are power! You have so much power that lives on the inside of you and this revelation is such a huge key to releasing that power. You have done the work within and now it is time to manifest the promises God has established in the Spirit. It is time to give back more than you already have. This will stretch you but you gotta know Who lives on the inside of you. The ENTIRE Kingdom is so close you can touch it. Can you touch your nose? Then you can touch the Kingdom of God.

You have learned how to shut thoughts down. You know who you are through Christ and that your dual citizenship extends everything upon you. You know when you are under attack and when it is merely your old self wanting to rise back into existence. This dying to self is a daily task even after this stage of your process is over. Dying to the flesh and desires of this world are a daily occurrence so remember this. Do not allow the pleasures trick you and trap you. When and if we cave we will be worse than we ever were before and falling from grace is not something anyone wants.

You know how to use your authority. You’ve learned how to cast down vain imagination that is not from God and to think on good things. CONGRATULATIONS it is graduation season. A new anointing is coming upon you for DOUBLE!!! Rejoice for it is all yours and will come into existence IF you do not waver in your faith.

Use the spirits of God. Use them all and learn them. (Isaiah 11) Learn to operate with them and move at the speed of the Holy Spirit. Do not say one thing without Him telling you how to say it. There is a way to tell anyone anything and with His help you can and will teach the world how to do these things! Stand firm in the spirit of faith. God has surely shown you enough already that your faith has grown to off the chart levels. Remain steadfast and in the secret place. Rest there! Your season of rest is coming to an end just like He told us it would so I pray we are all prepared for this HUGE move from our God. Our Lord Jesus is about to His body (all of us) to accomplish great and exponential feats we would never believed before He woke us up from our spiritual comas.

Have a great week and know that the Lord is walking with you. He has your front your back and your sides. Nothing can or will hurt you (unless you allow it). Learning how to separate someone’s actions from them as a child of God has been some work but you did it now go love the hell out of these folks. Teach them to love themselves and the Lord more than they want anything of this world. Help them. Help them be restored to former joy of their own salvation!

First, I’d like to start with an apology because I have not written here in about three months. God started telling me things He was about to do and it, well, it freaked me out a bit. He started talking about lifting the dead through me. This went deeper than lifting the ones we call dead in Christ- those that do not know Him. This went to the heights of lifting the embalmed dead. Why would He ever want to use someone like me for this astounding feat? That was my only real question but then He asked me some questions that put this into a different perspective. He literally asked me, “ would you go to your brother and help him with a dead body?” Well, my answer was absolutely. If my little brother ever needed help covering a dead body I would help him. So, then I got the question, “if you would help hide a dead body why won’t you help Me raise one?” I fell to my knees with that.. and I will do anything Jesus tells me to do, He is also my brother.

Then, He started talking to me about marriage. This, this took me aback because I have been married five times. Getting married again freaked me out more than lifting the dead. Who would want such a failure? Why would I ever want to try that again? The woman at the well ring a bell? Jesus loved her anyway and He loves me anyway too!! Then He told me who it was and I had no idea how He was going to pull this off. I still dont to be completely honest, I cannot see any of this in natural but impossible is God’s specialty. Do I love this person? That was what I had to search myself on. I have searched and yes, I do love them. I am not in love with them, yet, but I have full faith that God will pull this all together. I am not sure how or when but He has shown me enough over the past year that I trust Him. Another question was does this person love me? I do not know. I do not know so much. Not knowing is one of the hardest parts of everything that is happening around me. God surely has to reassure me a whole lot, I will be honest. And, He does! He tells me He has got this and it will all come together. I had to search myself to see if I even wanted any of this but I have learned that I do. I do believe in family and all the love that surrounds it. I loved being married but I do not like being treated less than what I deserve, being lied to, manipulated, etc.. all those things that come with a bad marriage that should have never been. I compared every relationship to one that I did have that was simply amazing. Why? I think because I was happy even though it was bad timing.

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) made me feel like everyone hated me. How badly I was treated is something I hope and pray nobody ever goes through. I am not sure if it was all TBI or from the enemy but either way God has delivered me. He surely delivered me from thinking negatively about myself and has taught me to love myself again. A portion of me that I hated has now become one of the best parts of me. I do not need the past. I do not need to dwell on the fact that I dont remember much of my life. I dont need it! I need the present and the future and to live in it. It took me eight years to realize this, none of us need our pasts.. why do we even want to live there when so much of who we used to be is not who we are today?

He has made me strong! I can take anything thrown at me and I know this because of things I endured over the timeline of my healing. I am so very thankful for everything. Being strong is one thing, learning to love again is another. Betrayal, offense, hatred… these are things I had to overcome and Jesus did that because I was a grudge holder that would just cut folks off instead of communicating. There are still some I find that I cannot help. God quickly tells me that they are not my battle to let it go and to shake the dust off of my feet. I have learned that some people do not want me but want what I bring to the table. They do not care about anyone but themselves and I have learned I do not want to be around those that manipulate. I dont need that negativity in my life and neither do you. We deserve to be loved like Jesus loves us. We all do and if there is a selfish person around you please know you cannot fix them. This is something only Jesus can do.

God has taught me to love again. This was probably the hardest things I have learned over the last few years. Why would I ever want to purposely give my heart to anyone? It has been broken so many times and I have learned where I went wrong, because I am far from perfect, I am far from having it all together. Having a heart that was numb was easier than opening it up to others but without love we are nothing. I knew in my head I loved people, however in my heart there was nothing. God supernaturally performed a heart transplant and gave me a new heart. (Ezekiel 36) There have been several trips that God has sent me on this year to show me things, to heal me and to replace what I had lost. He isn’t done yet because there is so much the enemy stole. Just know that God can and will replace everything. (Joel 2) How? I do not know and I am not sure we are supposed to have every how or why. We are human and our natural minds cannot wrap around so many things- me getting married again is one of those 🙂 but He has assured me He will never leave me and He has got it. Trust in Him and His process of healing your heart. I am proof it can and will happen because if God was ever going to give up on anyone it would have been me but His love endures forever.

This has been a tough season for sure but it has come to an end ! New beginnings are on their way. Keep your faith no matter what you see in our world because God is doing so much in what we cannot see.

I have been pretty dormant but at the same time extremely busy. I have been posting some updates on facebook but nothing to the extremes of what submission is like. This has literally been my toughest battle, accepting what all God has for me. There are so many things I am unsure of but I am going with God. Whatever His will is over my own. I have submitted, but it has taken me like a month. During this time He was pulling all fear out of me and breaking its hold on my life at the root. When you find out how and when these demonic spirits get in you can cut them at the root from your life. Repent, pray, and seek His face. Once you know the Word of God most demons wont try you. I will be honest and tell you that I have been studying the ones I know and I have played with them with the Word of God to see how well it works. Let me just tell ya- The Word Works but you gotta work it! I can get them to manifest in a few seconds and then see how they think and how they work. I am a firm believer in know who your enemy is and you’ll kick his ass all over the place. I am coming for satan and these damned demonic spirits he has released from hell. That is your enemy! Them damn devils and the devil himself. It took God a while to get this into my head, too. I know how insane it sounds. This is like a whole movie playing out in front of my eyes. There is action, drama, mystery, love and suspense … we do know Who wins but there is a bit of intrigue attached to seeking the truth. I will warn you … once you know you cannot un-know and it’ll change you, one way or the other you will change.

Ok, so, God has really been on me about praying the prayers of His prophets. He has been on me about repentance and how it means change. We gotta change some things when we vote this year. I really dislike talking politics almost as much as I dislike teaching on devils. We have to stand strong on the Word of God and His beliefs. I watched a sermon the other day and a guy was sick until he repented for his vote. WOW! We have been so mislead and that must change. We know what is right and wrong. We know! If you dont know as and I will be happy to help you see what I have seen.

Here is a great prayer over my family. My family of Christ because we are all Israel now. Nehemiah fasted and prayed with this.. so did Daniel and they got answers. We need to do the same. They are to be examples when we have need of things. They are our instruction manual, history repeats itself. It may not be the same exact situation but these people were in captivity. Many of us are being held captive by something.. and it is time for all of this to get started. I am ready to see a huge move of God and I am believing Him to walk everything out that He has promised me. God is a God of covenant and everything He has told you will happen. 1 day is a 1000 years to God and 1000 years as one day… man can He teach patience.

Lord, we seek Your ear. You O Lord God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who preserves the covenant and lovingkindness for those who love Him and keep His commandments. Let Your ear now be attentive and Your eyes open to hear the prayer of Your servant which we are praying now, day and night on behalf of the sons of Israel, confessing sins which we have sinned against You Lord. We have acted very currently against You have not kept the commandments, nor the statues, not the ordinances which You did command. Remember the Word and your covenant with us Lord. You told Moses “if you are unfaithful I will scatter you among the peoples but if you return to Me and keep My commandments and do them, though those of you have been scattered were in the most remote part of the heavens, I will father them from there and will bring them to the place where I have chosen to cause My name to dwell. We are Your servants and people, who You redeemed by Your great power and by Your strong hand. O Lord, we beseech You, may Your ear be attentive to Your servants. Forgive us Lord. We plead the blood of Jesus over every inch of us and our nation, sweep us and heal us Father. In Jesus name, amen.