God is No Respecter of Persons
(What He has done for me, He will do for you too!)
In the midst of my preparations for
Christmas (for we submit our articles a month ahead of time), I was all of a sudden
reminded that I had an article to prepare for this magazine!
Oh my goodness! I hadn’t even given it a thought, let alone
sought God to find out what He’d have me share or teach this time. In desperation, I looked for my notes on the
rest of the teaching of Changing Our Image So We Can Exercise Our Authority,
only to find I had accidentally “copied” over them the last time I used them in
Part 2 of this teaching. Ouch!
So I queried the Lord about what
He’d have me bring forth and got absolutely nothing! So I continued with my delightful preparations for the holiday,
throwing the “whole of my care” (1 Peter 5:6-7) on Him, knowing when He was
ready, He’d reveal it to me!
1 Pet. 5:6-7
Therefore humble yourselves [demote,
lower yourselves in your own
estimation] under the mighty hand of
God, that in due time He may
exalt you, Casting the whole of your
care [all your anxieties, all your
worries, all your concerns,
once and for all] on Him, for He cares for
you affectionately and cares about
you watchfully. (Amp. Ver.)
For I told Him that I absolutely
refuse to try to do it in the flesh--in the natural! It will either come “out” of Him, or we just won’t have an
article this time! (He’s so, so good to
me!)
I know that in my flesh I can do
nothing of any sort of value, and that only when it is made alive by His
Spirit, will it be a blessing to you, my readers! My heart’s desire is that you would intimately know and be
acquainted with Him as much as I am or even more, so you too can be lifted up
into His mighty Presence and feel/experience His love, His tangible presence,
in your hearts the way He has allowed me to!
I have walked the walk of
bitterness, un-forgiveness, self-hate, extreme loneliness, fear and torment,
ugliness of thought, rejection of self and others, sorrow and grief, pain and
suffering, guilt and anxiety, condemnation and self-punishment, which gave me
an inability to receive or give love. I
experienced great turmoil, oppression and depression as well. I’ve referred to this time of my life as
“walking in a literal hell” on earth.
But My Master, my Savior, my Lord,
brought me into His Kingdom and into His Love.
He washed me with His Word, loved and comforted me with His Spirit,
taught me about who He is and who I had now become. He taught, trained, prepared, and healed me of all the emotional
bruises and wounds in my soul. He has
continually caused me to know Him intimately, bringing me into His tangible
presence so I could delight myself in and be filled to overflowing with His
precious love.
Very early in my walk with Him, I
was standing with the rest of the congregation as we praised and worshipped
Him. He had filled my heart so much
with His love that I wept brokenly because I knew that my voice was horrible
when I sang. I wanted to desperately
express back to Him all the love He had filled my heart with. But the sound of my singing was not lovely
to my ears and therefore, in my heart, did not fulfill my longing to love Him
back the same way He had loved me!
I told Him that my voice was so
awful sounding. That all my life I had
been compared to my sister who had a lovely singing voice, and I’d been told I
couldn’t even carry a tune. On top of
that, I’d smoked cigarettes for umpteen years which had made my voice hoarse
and gravelly. How could “that” kind of
sound express the love in my heart back to Him?
But, oh, how much I wanted that same
love He had poured into my heart to “sound” the same way His love in my heart
felt as I expressed it back to Him in praise and worship! I ached for it to be full of the loveliness
and preciousness like the Love He’d placed in me, so He too could be blessed
and loved back!
I started weeping over my inability
to do that. I ended up praying and
asking Him if He would please give me a beautiful-sounding voice to sing
beautifully to Him carrying back to Him all the love He’d poured into my heart.
And do you know what? He did!
He gave me a special gift, a special ability, to sing in the Spirit in
my spiritual language full of the Love He’d put into my heart back to Him!
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And I knew, and it’s been such a
great, great blessing to me--I knew that even as those precious, love-sounding
worshipful songs to Him came forth from my heart, that others around me were
being ministered to like I had been in the past.
For you see, I had been very, very,
what I call, demonized. I had been
tormented in my mind and in my emotions by demonic spirits. I didn’t know that was what it was at the time. It’s only been since I’ve been taught so very
much in the Word since then and delivered and set free, that I have come to
know this truth.
But when God graced others to
worship Him in the Spirit in their spiritual language in the congregation,
those spiritual songs would drive the enemy away from me. Those beautiful songs of worship, rich and
full of His anointing, would minister His love to my heart as those people sang
their love to Him!
It seemed like my spirit searched at
times of praise and worship to the Lord in the congregation for those that sang
that way so that my heart would be comforted and delivered, even for a moment,
from the torment that was going on inside me!
Ps. 22:3
But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest
the praises of
What the Lord has put inside me to
share with you is that He has such special, special gifts for all His
children. They are there waiting for
you to ask for them. The Lord also
knows that He only is the answer to all of our problems. He is the only answer to all our pain,
sorrow, emptiness, and heartaches. Each
of us was created with a hole inside of us that only He can fill! No one and nothing else can do it! Only Him!
And His Word is the doorway through which we all must go to find
Him.
John 1:14
And the Word was made flesh, and
dwelt among us, (and we beheld
his glory, the glory as of the only
begotten of the Father,) full of grace
and truth.
John 10:7
Then said Jesus unto them again,
Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am
the door of the sheep.
John 6:44
No man can come to me, except the
Father which hath sent me draw
him: and I will raise him up at the
last day.
(KJV)
What might bless one of us may not
be what the other person’s heart aches for, but He knows exactly what’s in our hearts
and what will bless each of us the most.
And best of all, He delights in giving us those blessings!
I thought at the beginning of my
walk with Him that I knew exactly what it was that I wanted and needed the
most. It wasn’t that God withheld them
from me after I asked Him, but He knew the really most important thing I needed
first was knowledge of His Word and intimacy with Him. It goes so far deeper than the intimacy a
husband has with his wife. The love
that is exchanged between the Lord and His own goes deeper and farther and is
more precious than words can describe!
And He has given that so abundantly
that all He imparts now keeps me safe from the enemy and his tactics and
strategies designed to destroy me.
And He continually works to not only
bless but to make me a blessing even as He has covenanted to do for all of
us. Now the Lord allows me to be one of
His many channels through which he may impart all He has given me to others.
In comparison, even though I know
they are mine now by faith, the others things I thought were first on my
wants just don’t occupy the place in my heart and mind they once did. Because you see, I have begun to know the
truth, and He (the Truth) has and is and will continue to make me free.
God told Abraham that He (God) was
Abraham’s exceedingly great reward. I
remember being a baby in the Lord and upon reading that, I tapped that
scripture with my finger and told God, “I want that too, God. You just have to be my exceedingly great
reward too! You’re no respecter of
persons, God!” And He is and He has and
I pray, always will be!!!
The Bible says in Revelation that
“The testimony of Jesus Christ is the Spirit of prophecy.” What I have shared here is just one
testimony to His glory in my life. I
live for the praise of His Glory!
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