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    Esau was the firstborn, but God loved Jacob (Israel)!

    Ever wonder why Jacob (Israel) was born grasping Esau's heel? "Afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped Esau’s heel, so he was named Jacob (one who grabs by the heel, supplanter). Isaac was sixty years old when Rebekah gave birth to them." Genesis 25:26

    Or, ever wonder why Esau gave away his birthright for a bowl of red lentil stew?

    Genesis 25

    29 "Jacob had cooked [reddish-brown lentil] stew [one day], when Esau came from the field and was famished; 

    30 and Esau said to Jacob, 'Please, let me have a quick swallow of that red stuff there, because I am exhausted and famished.' For that reason Esau was [also] called Edom (Red). 

    31 Jacob answered, 'First sell me your birthright (the rights of a firstborn).' 

    32 Esau said, 'Look, I am about to die [if I do not eat soon]; so of what use is this birthright to me?' 

    33 Jacob said, 'Swear [an oath] to me today [that you are selling it to me for this food]'; so he swore [an oath] to him, and sold him his birthright. 

    34 Then Jacob gave Esau bread and lentil stew; and he ate and drank, and got up and went on his way. In this way Esau scorned his birthright.'"

    Or, even why Esau lost his inheritance, when Jacob and Rebecca tricked Isaac into giving Jacob the blessing of the firstborn?

    Genesis 27

    5 "But Rebekah overheard what Isaac said to Esau his son; and when Esau had gone to the open country to hunt for game that he might bring back,

    6 Rebekah said to Jacob her [younger and favorite] son, “Listen carefully: I heard your father saying to Esau your brother,

    7 ‘Bring me some game and make me a savory and delicious dish [of meat], so that I may eat it, and declare my blessing on you in the presence of the Lord before my death.’

    8 So now, my son, listen [carefully] to me [and do exactly] as I command you.

    9 Go now to the flock and bring me two good and suitable young goats, and I will make them into a savory dish [of meat] for your father, the kind he loves [to eat].

    10 Then you shall bring it to your father to eat, so that he may bless you before his death. 

    11 Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, 'Listen, Esau my brother is a hairy man and I am a smooth [skinned] man.

    12 Suppose my father touches me and feels my skin; then I will be seen by him as a cheat (imposter), and I will bring his curse on me and not a blessing.'”

    Why would God let these things happen?

    Well, because God loved Jacob! And, He knows our hearts!

    Jeremiah 17:10

    “I, the Lord, search and examine the mind,

    I test the heart,

    To give to each man according to his ways,

    According to the results of his deeds."

    Hebrews 12:16 "Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright."

    And, just as Cain was evil in the sight of God:

    Genesis 4

    3 And in the course of time Cain brought to the Lord an offering of the fruit of the ground. 

    4 But Abel brought [an offering of] the [finest] firstborn of his flock and the fat portions. And the Lord had respect (regard) for Abel and for his offering; 

    5 but for Cain and his offering He had no respect. So Cain became extremely angry (indignant), and he looked annoyed and hostile. 

    6 And the Lord said to Cain, “Why are you so angry? And why do you look annoyed? 

    7 If you do well [believing Me and doing what is acceptable and pleasing to Me], will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well [but ignore My instruction], sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you [to overpower you], but you must master it.”

    So, too, was Esau evil in the sight of God, and Jacob loved:

    Malachi 1

    God’s Love for Jacob

    1 "The oracle (burdensome message) of the word of the Lord to Israel through [My messenger] Malachi.

    2 'I have loved you,' says the Lord. But you say, 'How and in what way have You loved us?' 'Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?' declares the Lord. 'Yet I loved Jacob (Israel);

    3 but [in comparison with My love for Jacob] I have hated Esau (Edom), and I have made his mountains a wasteland, and have given his inheritance to the jackals of the wilderness.'

    4 Though [impoverished] Edom says, 'We have been beaten down, but we will return and build up the ruins.' Thus says the Lord of hosts, 'They may build, but I will tear down; and men will call them the Wicked Territory, the people against whom the Lord is indignant forever.'

    5 Your own eyes will see this and you will say, 'The Lord is great and shall be magnified beyond the border of Israel!'"
    ​
    What can we learn from all of this? I think God's reprimand to Cain, when Cain was sullen and angry because God did not accept his offering, says it all:

    Genesis 4:7 "If you do well [believing Me [God] and doing what is acceptable and pleasing to Me], will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well [but ignore My instruction], sin crouches at your door; its desire is for you [to overpower you], but you must master it.”  

    Choose God! Repent, confess your sins, accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior.

    ​Hallelujah to the Lamb of God! Praise God! Amen.
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    Choose God

    You know those people who say God is a myth, a fairy tale, sky daddy? First, if you know God, you know you know God. The more God plays out in my daily life, the more I want to shout it from the housetops!!

    Over the last couple of years, God has been very active in my life, to say the least. My journey has been from full-blown, active and willing sinner, to faithful servant of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and our heavenly Father.

    God gave my husband and I messages last year, however, of which I did not write about, because, as I have said before, sadly, I do not have the faith of a mustard seed.

    But, no matter how stiff-necked (stubborn) man is, if God has a Word to be said, He will insure it is said. Hallelujah! Praise God!

    This story begins in 2020.

    Last year, God gave my husband a vision of a silo, and he started talking about building a silo. We soon realized that was not feasible, primarily because we do not have room to grow enough of anything to fill a silo. But, God had planted the seed in our thoughts and hearts, and, almost simultaneously, God put a spirit of preparing (storing food and necessities) in me. I struggled with this concept at first, because Jesus said, “But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:” Matthew 6:20

    Then, God gave me a vision one night: I was washing dishes, and I began washing with a large, full bottle of dish detergent, and when I was through washing, the bottle was half empty. That would be a lot of dishes. So, I then knew that God was having us store food, because a time was coming when people would need it.

    All of this happened last year, and we have been prepping ever since then. I bought a dehydrator, and then two dehydrators. Recently, I bought a pressure canner. 

    In addition to storing food, I was drawn to learning about medicinal, delicious and nutritious weeds that grow in the backyard, and even cultivating some weeds, and collecting seeds from them for next year. And, we planted 13 fruit trees. 

    Now, everyone may not have room to grow all of that outside, but you do not need to have a lot of room. We also started learning to cultivate food inside the house. We actually started hydroponics a few years ago, to see how it would go, and, surprisingly, the plants got big over the winter, but then I planted them outside in the spring. But, I now know for sure that I can grow brassica (broccoli, cabbage, etc.) greens inside the house, in water.... and also in dirt (in the house). The leaves of the broccoli plant are just as delicious and nutritious as the actual broccoli itself.

    So, plant a tree . . . or, even a weed, grow something, inside or outside! 

    Now, what does the Bible say about famine in the land?

    Seven Years of Feast - Seven Years of Famine

    Genesis 41

    29 "Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt:

    30 And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

    31 And the plenty shall not be known in the land by reason of that famine following; for it shall be very grievous."

    This morning, God showed me the following Scripture from Jeremiah 14, which is in line with God's Word to me at the beginning of the year regarding Jeremiah 4. You can read about it by clicking here. The entire Book of Jeremiah describes God's wrath to come, but Jeremiah 4 and Jeremiah 14, is what He has shown me.

    Famine and the False Prophets

    Jeremiah 14

    False Prophets

    13 "But I said, Alas, Lord God! Behold, the [false] prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword nor will you have famine, but I [the Lord] will give you lasting peace in this place.’ 

    14 Then the Lord said to me, 'The [counterfeit] prophets are prophesying lies in My Name. I have neither sent them nor authorized them nor spoken to them. They are prophesying to you made-up visions [pretending to call forth responses from handmade gods], a worthless divination and the deceit of their own mind.

    15 Therefore, thus says the Lord concerning the [false] prophets who are prophesying in My Name, although I did not send them—yet they keep saying, 'Sword and famine shall not be in this land’: by sword and famine those prophets shall meet their end and be consumed.

    16 And the people to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of famine and sword; and they will have no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters. For I will pour out their [own] wickedness on them [and not only on the imposters posing as prophets, for the people could not have been deceived without their own consent].'"


    The Blameless Will be Satisfied

    Psalm 37

    16 "Better is the little of the righteous [who seek the will of God]

    Than the abundance (riches) of many wicked (godless).

    17 For the arms of the wicked will be broken,

    But the Lord upholds and sustains the righteous [who seek Him].

    18 The Lord knows the days of the blameless,

    And their inheritance will continue forever.

    19 They will not be ashamed in the time of evil,

    And in the days of famine they will have plenty and be satisfied."

    20 But the wicked (ungodly) will perish,

    And the enemies of the Lord will be like the glory of the pastures and like the fat of lambs [that is consumed in smoke],

    They vanish—like smoke they vanish away.

    21 The wicked borrows and does not pay back,

    But the righteous is gracious and kind and gives.

    22 For those blessed by God will [at last] inherit the land,

    But those cursed by Him will be cut off."


    "The Lord knows the days of the blameless . . . And in the days of famine they will have plenty and be satisfied."


    Acts 3

    19 "So repent [change your inner self—your old way of thinking, regret past sins] and return [to God—seek His purpose for your life], so that your sins may be wiped away [blotted out, completely erased], so that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord [restoring you like a cool wind on a hot day];

    20 and that He may send [to you] Jesus, the Christ, who has been appointed for you,

    21 whom heaven must keep until the time for the [complete] restoration of all things about which God promised through the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time.

    22 Moses said, ‘The Lord God will raise up for you a Prophet like me from your countrymen; you shall listen to Him and obey everything He tells you.

    23 And it will be that every person that does not listen to and heed that Prophet will be utterly destroyed from among the people.’

    24 Indeed, all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and those who came after him, also announced these days.

    25 You are the sons (descendants) of the prophets and [heirs] of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed (descendant) all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

    26 It was for you first of all that God raised up His Servant and Son [Jesus], and sent Him to bless you by turning every one of you from your wicked ways.”


    Matthew 13:15

    "'For this nation’s heart has grown hard,

    And with their ears they hardly hear,

    And they have [tightly] closed their eyes,

    Otherwise they would see with their eyes,

    And hear with their ears,

    And understand with their heart, and turn [to Me]

    And I would heal them [spiritually].’"


    Isaiah 45:17 

    "Israel has been saved by the Lord

    With an everlasting salvation;

    You will not be put to shame or humiliated for all eternity."

    ​
    Isaiah 45:22 “Turn to Me and be saved, all the ends of the earth; For I am God, and there is no other."


    Choose God and His only begotten son, Jesus Christ, or Go To Hell. There is no other choice.
    ​

    Today's Prayer: www.blessedbeliever.com

    Oh, Heavenly Father, living God, most gracious, just and merciful, we pray that You continue to shine Your Light on the heavens and the earth, exposing all darkness, from east to west and north to south. Shine Your Light into the hearts of Your children, waking them out of their slumber in Jesus.

    Father, I thank you for waking me up, and for not giving up on me. You are a patient and loving Father, and we know that you want all of your sheep to find the way back to Your Flock. We pray for Your Great Awakening of the World, and the Great Harvest promised by You through Your Word and Prophets, thirty-, sixty- or an hundredfold. Hallelujah! 

    Father, we pray that Your children everywhere find you, come back to you, and are healed, before the fury of your recompense on the World.

    Father, we know we have broken your laws and our sins have separated us from you. We are truly sorry, and now we want to turn away from our past sinful life toward you.

    Please forgive us, and help us avoid sinning again. We believe that your son, Jesus Christ, died for our sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears our prayers. We invite Jesus to become the Lord of our lives, to rule and reign in our hearts, from this day forward.

    Please send your Holy Spirit to help us obey You, and to do Your Will for the rest of our lives.

    We pray for all of these things in Jesus' name.

    Hallelujah! Praise God, Most High, the Great I Am, the creator of the heavens and the earth, our heavenly Father. 

    Amen! Amen! Amen!
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    Throughout God's Holy Word (the Bible), He routinely blesses man for his obedience, and curses him for disobedience. "Our God is a consuming fire" Hebrews 12:29, and He will not tolerate disobedience. "It is a fearful and terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living God [incurring His judgment and wrath]." Hebrews 10:31

    After 40 years being led through the wilderness by the Lord, the Israelites were finally ready to take possession of the land promised by God to their fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob (Israel), a land flowing with milk and honey. God promises great blessings if they keep all His commandments, but, also, great punishment for disobedience.

    I mean, if we really think about it, no one should wonder why the world is in its current state of affairs. In Genesis 6:5-6, "The Lord saw that the wickedness (depravity) of man was great on the earth, and that every imagination or intent of the thoughts of his heart were only evil continually. The Lord regretted that He had made mankind on the earth, and He was [deeply] grieved in His heart."

    God loves us, though. We are His peculiar people, created by Him and for Him, in His likeness and image, and paid for with a hefty ransom, the blood of His only begotten son, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

    His Peculiar People: 1 Peter 2:9 "But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;"

    Created By Him and For Him: Colossians 1:16 "For by Him all things were created in heaven and on earth, [things] visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities; all things were created and exist through Him and for Him."

    In His Likeness and Image: Genesis 1:27 "So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them."

    Paid for With a Hefty Ransom: 1 Corinthians 6:20 "You were bought with a price [you were actually purchased with the precious blood of Jesus and made His own]. So then, honor and glorify God with your body."

    He is our heavenly Father, and His blessings for obedience are great, but He will not tolerate disobedience, for which His curses are also abundant.

    God's Treasured Possession

    Deuteronomy 26

    18 "Today the Lord has declared that you are His people, His treasured possession, just as He promised you, and that you are to keep all His commandments;

    19 and that He will set you high above all the nations which He has made, for praise, fame, and honor: and that you shall be a holy people [set apart and consecrated] to the Lord your God, just as He has spoken.”


    God Provides . . .
    Blessings for Obedience and
    Curses for Disobedience

    Deuteronomy 27

    11 "Moses also commanded the people that day, saying,

    12 These [tribes] shall stand on Mount Gerizim to bless the people when you have crossed the Jordan: Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin.

    13 These [tribes] shall stand on Mount Ebal to pronounce the curse [for disobedience]: Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

    14 The Levites shall answer with a loud voice to all the men of Israel:

    15 ‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved or cast image (idol), a repulsive thing to the Lord, the work of the hands of the artisan, and sets it up in secret.’ All the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

    16 ‘Cursed is he who dishonors (treats with contempt) his father or his mother.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    17 ‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary mark.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    18 ‘Cursed is he who misleads a blind person on the road.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    19 ‘Cursed is he who distorts (perverts) the justice due to a stranger, an orphan, and a widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    20 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his father’s [former] wife, because he has violated what belongs to his father.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    21 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with any animal.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    22 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his [half] sister, whether his father’s or his mother’s daughter.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    23 ‘Cursed is he who is intimate with his mother-in-law.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    24 ‘Cursed is he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    25 ‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to strike down an innocent person.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

    26 ‘Cursed is he who does not confirm the words of this law by doing them [keeping them, taking them to heart as the rule of his life].’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’"


    God Provides . . .
    Blessings and Curses

    Deuteronomy 28

    1 “Now it shall be, if you diligently listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all of His commandments which I am commanding you today, the Lord your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth.

    2 All these blessings will come upon you and overtake you if you pay attention to the voice of the Lord your God.

    3 You will be blessed in the city, and you will be blessed in the field.

    4 The offspring of your body and the produce of your ground and the offspring of your animals, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be blessed.

    5 Your basket and your kneading bowl will be blessed.

    6 You will be blessed when you come in and you will be blessed when you go out.

    7 The Lord will cause the enemies who rise up against you to be defeated before you; they will come out against you one way, but flee before you seven ways.

    8 The Lord will command the blessing upon you in your storehouses and in all that you undertake, and He will bless you in the land which the Lord your God gives you.

    9 The Lord will establish you as a people holy [and set apart] to Himself, just as He has sworn to you, if you keep the commandments of the Lord your God and walk [that is, live your life each and every day] in His ways.

    10 So all the peoples of the earth will see that you are called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of you.

    11 The Lord will give you great prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your livestock and the produce of your ground, in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

    12 The Lord will open for you His good treasure house, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and you will lend to many nations, but you will not borrow.

    13 The Lord will make you the head (leader) and not the tail (follower); and you will be above only, and you will not be beneath, if you listen and pay attention to the commandments of the Lord your God, which I am commanding you today, to observe them carefully.

    14 Do not turn aside from any of the words which I am commanding you today, to the right or to the left, to follow and serve other gods.

    Consequences of Disobedience

    15 But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

    16 You will be cursed in the city and cursed in the field.

    17 Your basket and your kneading bowl will be cursed.

    18 The offspring of your body and the produce of your land, the offspring of your herd and the young of your flock will be cursed.

    19 You will be cursed when you come in and you will be cursed when you go out.

    20 The Lord will send upon you curses, confusion, and rebuke in everything that you undertake to do, until you are destroyed, perishing quickly because of the evil of your deeds, because you have turned away from Me.

    21 The Lord will make the pestilence and plague cling to you until He has consumed and eliminated you from the land which you are entering to possess.

    22 The Lord will strike you with consumption [causing you to waste away] and with fever and with inflammation and with fiery heat and with the sword and with blight and with mildew [on your crops]; and they will pursue you until you perish.

    23 The heaven which is over your head shall be bronze [giving no rain and blocking all prayers], and the earth which is under you, iron [hard to plow and yielding no produce].

    24 The Lord will make the rain of your land powder and dust; from heaven it will come down on you until you are destroyed.

    25 The Lord will cause you to be defeated before your enemies; you will go out against them one way, but flee before them seven ways, and you will be an example of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth [when they see your destruction].

    26 Your carcasses will be food for all the birds of the sky and the beasts of the earth, and there will be no one to frighten them away.

    27 The Lord will strike you with the boils of Egypt and with tumors and with the scab and the itch that you cannot heal.

    28 The Lord will strike you with madness and with blindness and with bewilderment of heart and mind;

    29 and you will be groping at noon [in broad daylight], just as the blind grope in the darkness, and nothing you do will prosper; but you will only be oppressed and exploited and robbed continually, with no one to save you.

    30 You will be pledged to marry a wife, but another man will be intimate with her [before you]; you will build a house, but you will not live in it; you will plant a vineyard, but you will not use its fruit.

    31 Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it; your donkey will be torn away from you, and it will not be returned to you; your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to save you.

    32 Your sons and daughters will be given to another people, while your eyes look on and long for them continually; but there will be nothing you can do.

    33 A people whom you do not know will eat the produce of your land and all the products of your labors, and you will never be anything but oppressed and exploited and crushed continually.

    34 You shall be driven mad by the sight of the things you see.

    35 The Lord will strike you on the knees and on the legs with sore boils that you cannot heal, from the sole of your foot to the crown of your head.

    36 The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you appoint over you, to a nation which you and your fathers have never known; there you will [be forced to] serve other gods, [lifeless gods of] wood and stone.

    37 And you will become a horror, a proverb [a mere object lesson], and a taunt [a derisive joke] among all the people to which the Lord drives you.

    38 You will bring out a great quantity of seed to the field, but you will gather in little, because the locusts will consume it.

    39 You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink the wine or gather the grapes, because the worm will eat them.

    40 You will have olive trees throughout your territory but you will not anoint yourselves with the oil, because your olives will drop off.

    41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours [for long], because they will go into captivity.

    42 The cricket will take possession of all your trees and the produce of your ground.

    43 The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.

    44 He will lend to you [out of his affluence], but you will not lend to him [because of your poverty]; he will be the head, and you the tail.

    45 So all these curses will come on you and pursue you and overtake you until you are destroyed, because you would not obey the voice of the Lord your God by keeping His commandments and His statutes which He has commanded you.

    46 They will be a sign and a wonder to you and your descendants forever." Amen.

    And, what is important to know is that our God, our heavenly Father, is just and forgiving, if we repent [turn away from sin].

    "If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." 1 John 1:9

    "I tell you, no; but unless you repent [change your old way of thinking, turn from your sinful ways and live changed lives], you will all likewise perish.” Luke 13:5

    "Change your hearts! And show by the way you live that you have changed." [Repent] Matthew 3:8

    "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

    ​There is only one way to God, through His son, the Christ Jesus. 

    1 Timothy 2

    5 "    For there is [only] one God, and [only] one Mediator between God and mankind, the Man Christ Jesus, 

    6 who gave Himself as a ransom for all, the testimony given at the right and proper time."

    John 8:24 "I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins."

    Ephesians 6

    10 "In conclusion, be strong in the Lord [draw your strength from Him and be empowered through your union with Him] and in the power of His [boundless] might.

    11 Put on the full armor of God [for His precepts (commandments) are like the splendid armor of a heavily-armed soldier], so that you may be able to [successfully] stand up against all the schemes and the strategies and the deceits of the devil.

    12 For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.

    13 Therefore, put on the complete armor of God, so that you will be able to [successfully] resist and stand your ground in the evil day [of danger], and having done everything [that the crisis demands], to stand firm [in your place, fully prepared, immovable, victorious].

    14 So stand firm and hold your ground, having tightened the wide band of truth (personal integrity, moral courage) around your waist and having put on the breastplate of righteousness (an upright heart),

    15 and having strapped on your feet the gospel of peace in preparation [to face the enemy with firm-footed stability and the readiness produced by the good news].

    16 Above all, lift up the [protective] shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

    17 And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God."
    ​
    Amen.
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    THE DEAD SEA PROPHECY

    GOD IS REAL THE HOLY SPIRIT god-is-speaking-are-you-listening
    "THE DEAD SEA PROPHECY" AUDIO BLOG
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    THE DEAD SEA COMES TO LIFE!
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    Freshwater fish found in surrounding Dead Sea sinkholes:
    is Ezekiel's prophecy being fulfilled?
    Is the Dead Sea Biblical prophecy being fulfilled before our very eyes? Check out the article below from deadsea.com, titled "Is The Dead Sea Drying Up?" ​

    But, first, the Scripture (prophecy) to which it refers:

    Ezekiel 47

    8 "Then he said to me, 'These waters go out toward the eastern region and go down into the Arabah (the Jordan Valley); then they go toward the sea, being made to flow into the sea, and the waters of the Dead Sea shall be healed and become fresh.'

    9 It will come about that every living creature which swarms in every place where the river goes, will live. And there will be a very great number of fish, because these waters go there so that the waters of the sea are healed and become fresh; so everything will live wherever the river goes.

    10 And it will come about that fishermen will stand beside it [at the banks of the Dead Sea]; from Engedi to Eneglaim there will be dry places to spread nets. Their fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great [Mediterranean] Sea.

    ​    11 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh [and wholesome for animal life]; they will [as the river subsides] be left encrusted with salt. 

    ​    12 By the river on its bank, on one side and on the other, will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither and their fruit will not fail. They shall bear every month because their water flows from the sanctuary, and their fruit will be for food and their leaves for healing.”​

    ​www.deadsea.com/articles-tips/interesting-facts/dead-sea-drying-bring-dead-sea-back-life/

    Hallelujah! Praise God! Amen!

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    WHITE AS SNOW

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    First, it cannot be said enough that prayer is amazing. Both of the following Scriptures are just and true:

    "And all things, whatsoever you shall ask in prayer, believing, you shall receive." Matthew 21:22

    “And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight.” 1 John 3:22

    All Glory to God in the Highest. Hallelujah!

    So, on to "White as Snow." Last weekend, I got out of bed to pray during the evening, as I sometimes do, although not as often as I know that I should. I prayed for God to give me insight into what was going on at that moment in the world, in His Plan. I also prayed to see His face and have His loving arms wrapped around me. I prayed for many things, but those two are related to this story. Then, I went back to bed, and to sleep.

    At some point after that, God gave me a vision, where I looked out a window and saw snow. I did not even have to pull out my Bible and research Scripture to know that He had answered both of my questions or requests.

    In the Bible, snow represents the cleansing of sin: "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Isaiah 1:18

    So, first, God is cleansing sin in the world and in America.

    Snow also represents the image of God: "His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire." Revelation 1:14

    Honestly, God could not have picked a better image with which to show me Himself. The first snows of the year always make me smile, and make me feel warm and fuzzy. Thank you, Lord. 

    And, so second, we know that He answers prayers with amazing consideration and love.

    He truly is great all of the time! Hallelujah! Praise God.

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    WONDERS IN HEAVEN ABOVE

    THE HOLY SPIRIT god-is-speaking-are-you-listening
    “And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" Joel 2:28

    Many prophets have been stressing in the last year or two, and are still saying, that a Spiritual Revival is coming. God has put this on my heart as well. 

    The above picture is the Las Vegas strip, in Nevada. This "cloud" formed over the strip only. As you can see the rest of the sky is blue. This picture brought me joy and a into prayer of thanksgiving and rejoicing, because if that's not God pouring out His Spirt on the Vegas Strip, then my name isn't Melanie.

    "And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke: The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come:" Acts 2:17

    INCOMING!! Spiritual Revival to the Vegas Strip (and MANY other places across the World)!

    Hallelujah! Praise God! Amen