Minister Connie's Blog (91)

From Devastation To Restoration

Job 42: 12} And the Lord blessed the latter days of Job more than his beginning; for he had 14,000 sheep, 6,000 camels, 1,000 yoke of oxen, and 1,000 female donkeys.

God wanted me to share The Message Bible version of this: After Job interceded for his friends. God restored his fortune--and then doubled it! All his brothers and sisters and friends came to his house and celebrated. they told him how sorry they were and consoled him for all the trouble God had brought… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on April 19, 2010 at 11:13am — No Comments

Being A Strong Man Fully Armed

Luke 11: 21-22} When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe. But when someone stronger attacks and overpowers him, he takes away the armor n which the man trusted and divides up the spoils.

Are you fully armed today? Are you fully armed every day? God has given us some weapons to destroy the enemy at every turn. Why aren't we using them? Why aren't we becoming more and more anointed and effective in destroying Satan's plans? Why aren't… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on April 12, 2010 at 8:44am — No Comments

The Overpowering Favor Of God

Ephesians 1:7} In Him we have redemption (deliverance and salvation) through His blood, the remission (forgiveness) of our offenses (shortcomings and trespasses), in accordance with the riches and the generosity of His gracious favor. Which He lavished upon us in every kind of wisdom and understanding (practical insight and prudence.)

Everything God does He does overwhelmingly over and above what we even expect, hope for, ask for and believe. We are a blessed generation to have Jesus… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on April 6, 2010 at 3:31pm — No Comments

Do You Know Who You Really Are?

Psalm 139:13-14} For you created my inmost being, you knit me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.

Ephesians 1:3-5} Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on March 29, 2010 at 8:50am — No Comments

Steppping Out Of Self Mode Into Servant Mode

Proverbs 19:7} All the brothers of a poor man detest him.....how much more do his friends go far from him! He pursues them with words, but they are gone.

God has so been speaking to my heart about how His children are becoming more selfish and self-centered. We are allowing the enemy to get our eyes so much on our problems that we are not stepping up to the next level God wants to take us to. What is that you might ask? Becoming great in His Kingdom by being the servant of all. Many… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on March 22, 2010 at 7:53am — No Comments

Healed From The Disease Of Self

Amos 8: 11-12} Behold, the days are coming, says the Lord God, when I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but (a famine) for hearing the words of the Lord. And the people shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord (inquiring for and requiring it as one requires food) but shall not find it.

We don't think about it much today that some day we might be without the… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on March 15, 2010 at 8:23am — No Comments

Staying Ahead Of The Storm

Psalm 107:27-29} They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and are at their wits end (all their wisdom has come to nothing). Then they cry to the Lord in their trouble, and He brings them out of their distresses. He hushes the storm to a calm and to a gentle whisper, so that the waves of the sea are still.

I don't know if you sense this or not, but lately I sense a change in the atmosphere. God is doing something new and something wonderful. More and more He has tugged on… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on March 8, 2010 at 11:40am — No Comments

Are You Left Or Are You Right?

Matthew 7:21-23)Not everyone who says to Me, Lord, Lord, will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Then I will declare to them solemnly, I never knew you. Depart from me you evildoers.

Too many Christians today think that being saved is the only thing to it. That is where their walk stops! Many figure as long as they make it by the tip of their teeth… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on March 1, 2010 at 6:57am — No Comments

Are We Compromising Christians?

Psalm 119:1-3} Blessed are the undefiled in the way, Who walk in the law of the Lord! Blessed are those who keep His testimonies, who seek Him with the whole heart! They also do no iniquity; They walk in His ways.

Do we compromise our walk in any way? It's interesting the way the Lord led me to today's sharing. I think all of us should go down… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on February 22, 2010 at 3:57pm — No Comments

Blessed In The Land Of The Living

Psalm 27:13-14} (What, what would have become of me) had I not believed that I would see the Lord's goodness in the land of the living! Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord.

Have we ever done like David and asked ourselves where would we be if we didn't have trust and believe that God's promises…

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Added by Minister Connie on February 15, 2010 at 7:49am — No Comments

Waiting On The Lord

Psalm 27:14} Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, and He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord.

The Lord woke me up this morning with a word, "Wait on the Lord!" The more I walk this walk, the more I have learned to take a step back, take a deep breath, put things in God's hands and wait on His timing. I've learned not to be so quick to react because that causes things in…

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Added by Minister Connie on February 8, 2010 at 7:30am — No Comments

Love...The Greatest Gift We Can Give To Others

Love...The Greatest Gift We Can Give To Others.......

1 Corinthians 13:4-7} Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

God's love is the greatest gift we can give to one another. Love is spoken of often in… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on February 1, 2010 at 7:23am — No Comments

Are You Dead Yet?

Isaiah 50: 4-7} The Lord God has given Me the tongue of a disciple and of one who is taught, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him who is weary. He wakens Me morning by morning, He wakens My ear as a disciple (as one who is taught). The Lord God has opened My ear, and I have not been rebellious or turned backward. I gave My back to the smiters and My cheeks to those who plucked off the hair; I hid not My face from shame and spitting. For the Lord God helps Me; therefore I have… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on January 25, 2010 at 8:20am — No Comments

Are We Backsliding In Any Way?

Hosea 11:7} My people are bent on backsliding from Me; though (the prophets) call them to Him Who is on high, none at all will exalt Him or lift himself up (to come to Him).

Proverbs 14:14} The backslider in heart ( from fearing God) shall be filled with the fruit of his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied with the fruit of his ways with the holy thoughts and actions which his heart prompts and in which he delights.

Do we really understand what the term… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on January 18, 2010 at 7:43am — No Comments

Word From The Lord for 2010

For I say to you that enough is enough! I have raised a banner against your enemy! This is My time of power and I shall reveal it in a way for the whole world to see. I shall prove My Word. I am about to bless My people over and exceedingly above anything they can even ask for or imagine. I will bless them in their fields, in their flocks, in the health, in their finances, in the cities, in the countries. Everywhere they set their feet to I shall cause them to inherit. I will bless them in such… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on January 11, 2010 at 8:34am — No Comments

Being Accountable To God & One Another

Romans 13: 10-11} Love does no wrong to one's neighbor (it never hurts anybody). Therefore love meets all the requirements and is the fulfilling of the Law. Besides this you know what (a critical) hour this is, how it is high time now for you to wake up out of your sleep (rouse to reality). For salvation (final deliverance) is nearer to us now than when we first believed (adhered to, trusted in, and relied on Christ, the Messiah).

I asked the Lord, as I usually do, what He wanted to… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on January 11, 2010 at 8:28am — No Comments

TGIF...TODAY GOD IS FIRST

Matthew 6:33} But seek (aim at and strive after) first of all His kingdom and His righteousness (His way of doing and being right) and then all these things taken together will be given you besides.

What is our first thought when we wake up in the morning? Do we even think of beginning our day communicating with the Father? Do we even think of thanking Him for His faithfulness? Do we even thank Him for us being here one more day? Let's face it, we take so much for granted. Since… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on January 4, 2010 at 8:12am — No Comments

The Year Of Accountability

Proverbs 23:12} Apply your mind to instruction and correction and your ears to words of knowledge.

One of the greatest dangers going on in the hearts of Christians today is obstinacy. What is that? It is the state of being uncompromising, unyielding, stubborn, not open to correction or rebuke, unwilling to forgive and ask forgiveness, complacent, and let's face it just plain rebellious. This is a very dangerous place to be in. I go to bible studies at my church in the morning and… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on December 28, 2009 at 8:22am — No Comments

If Jesus Would Appear, What Would Be Our Reaction

2 John 2:28} And now, little children, abide (live, remain permanently) in Him, so that when He is made visible, we may have and enjoy perfect confidence (boldness, assurance) and not be ashamed and shrink from Him at His coming.

If Jesus would appear today would He be pleased with how we lived our lives? What would He find us doing at that moment? Would He be pleased with how our attitudes have been with other people? Would He find us to be doers of the word? Would He see that we… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on December 21, 2009 at 6:57am — No Comments

It's Time To Step It Up

Psalm 41:1-3} Blessed (happy, fortunate to be envied) is he who considers the weak and the poor; the Lord will deliver him in the time of evil and trouble. The Lord will protect him and keep him alive; he shall be called blessed in the land; You will not deliver him to the will of his enemies. The Lord will sustain, refresh and strengthen him on his bed of languishing; all his bed You O Lord will turn, change and transform in his illness.

What awesome promises God gives us in His… Continue

Added by Minister Connie on December 14, 2009 at 7:16am — No Comments