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Don’t Lose Hope!

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“For I know the thoughts I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and hope!” Jeremiah 29:11

Recently I watched a video in which the woman was talking about a man she had ministered too. She said, “He walked away with renewed hope.”

I got to thinking about that. Beloved, I truly believe that when you lose hope it’s over. Hope is the thing that goes along with our gift of faith. We hope that things will get better or that something will happen to answer our prayer needs and then that hope stirs up our faith and we begin to feel so much better.

The Word says the following; “Hope deferred makes the heart sick,
    but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.” Proverbs 13:12

Years ago I would look at some situation and in the natural I would think, “Oh, dear Lord this situation is not good! What do I do Lord, what to I say to this person? I don’t want to lie, Father. What do I tell them?” God gently spoke to my Spirit, “Daughter, you are wrong. THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE! What you see as an impossibility is an opportunity to witness to large groups of people who will be astounded when I miraculously answer this prayer! Don’t ever say that again.”

So, I learned to speak hope into people. I learned to be a possibility thinker. When I counsel people they are desperate for just a glimmer of hope, just a Word letting them know that things can and will get better if they only keep the faith.

The problem with a lot of us is that we think in the natural. We look at something and our minds start to figure out what God needs to do to change the situation. Then we start to pray like this, “Dear God please let Sue talk to my boss and tell her that I need a raise.” Instead God works in mysterious ways and he doesn’t need anybody to tell him how to fix a situation. He has ways that our little human brains have not even thought of.

Now when we need answers, He stands ready to guide us. All we need do is ask and then wait for him to direct us.

I have had God tell me to go into car dealerships without a dime for a down payment and bad credit and as I obeyed him, as crazy as it sounds, I walked out with a very nice car. God had sent angels before me to prepare the way. Everything just simply fell into place. When I walked down the hall to see the sales manager I heard Christian music playing. I begin to get excited and I thought “What should I tell him Father?” God said, “Tell him the truth.” So I did. I laid my whole ugly story out in front of him, thinking he would say, “Well, I am so sorry but I can’t help you!” Instead he said, “I know what you are going through. The same thing happened to me.”

Instead of using your time calling all your Christian friends to pray, why waste your time? You are a child of God. You have the spirit dwelling inside you. Pray and seek an answer from God and then when you feel He is directing you in a certain way do what he tells you to do and DO NOT ask anyone else by saying something like this, “Do you think I heard from God when he told me, “this or that?” Because if your friend doesn’t have your level of faith they will say, “You are nuts, why would God tell you to walk into a car dealership without any money and bad credit and try to buy a car!” But we walk by faith not sight. God honors hope and faith. Don’t second guess him just do what he tells you.

Right now it’s Christmas and a whole lot of you are worried sick about how you are going to get gifts for your children and have a family dinner. I have been in that very place, beloved. The thing to do is to get into prayer and praise and wait on the Lord. He is going to direct you. You will go to a store and just what you need will be on sale, you might win something, something might just appear on your doorstep. Be open and be obedient and then wait on God. Do not lose hope. God inhabits(dwells within) our praises. He will either send us what we need or give us supernatural peace in the midst of our situation.

“But blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord,
    whose confidence is in him.
8 They will be like a tree planted by the water
    that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
    its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
    and never fails to bear fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8

Negative talk, and a lack of belief in God’s supernatural miracles, kills hope and squashes faith. You get your faith up by repeating faith scriptures. When God then answers your prayers it increases your faith.

Quit feeling anxious and sorry for yourself. Start praying and praising and believing for a miracle. Tell God to touch the heart of someone who can help you in whatever way God has for you to be helped. Help someone else in the midst of your need and God will help you.

Tell God, “I do not know how you can do this, but I know you will. I rest in your presence and put my worries here at the foot of your cross.”

Do not lose hope. It may be all you have right now but if you are still able to hope you will be helped by the God who owns the cattle on a thousand hills! Nothing is too much for the God who parted the Red Sea! Nothing.

In His Unconditional Love,
Cathie
Belovedhandmdn1@aol.com

2019 The Year Of Restoration

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Prior to last weekend God directed me to pray for folks in critical situations. He told me that it didn’t matter what the situation was, I didn’t need to know. He just wanted me to pray. I went in to prayer from Friday night until 8PM on Sunday. I have had a few other people call or write me for prayer this week. I have continued to pray for them all. I got a praise report yesterday that was so encouraging. I have a friend whose Son is getting married soon in another country. She wanted her cousins to be at the wedding and yet try as they might the Visa’s had not come through. After taking it to prayer I heard from her the next day that, miraculously, the Visa’s finally came through.

We serve a mighty God who delights in answering the prayers of His children, just as you and I are happy when we can get something for one of our own children that they really want. First and foremost God is a Father. Never forget that. He has a father’s heart and yet He loved us so much he sacrificed His one and only son for our sins.

At the end of my first prayer time, Sunday evening, I felt a Word coming from God. The air was electric and there was a sense of urgency. You know that feeling when someone tells you that they have something to tell you that’s really great and how you can hardly wait to hear the news? That’s how I felt.

Finally the Lord started to download His theme for 2019 into my spirit. This current year, 2018, the theme he had given me was EXPOSURE. He told me that we would see things brought to light that had been hidden for a long time. I truly saw these things occur all year long. On Sunday, just before the end of my first prayer time, I got a message from my daughter. She directed me to an article regarding an ex-husband who had terribly abused me. This was not my daughters father. It was another man I had made a horrible mistake and married. The marriage was so emotionally and physically abusive that I almost lost my mind. I wondered for years if this man was ever going to have to pay for what he did to me. I left it, finally, in God’s hands. So many folks didn’t believe me. Abuse is like that. The abusers are often really nice in front of others, but horrific when you are alone. Now here, just as God had promised, all this mans horrific sins were being publicly exposed in his home town. It was hard to read. There were sexual sins I knew nothing about. People were discussing them and making comments about what a bad person he is. His horrible life of sexual addiction had finally caught up with him for all the world to see. We are not to feel joy when our enemies fall. It was not joy I felt. It was vindication. Finally everyone would know just how evil he was.

It was right after that revelation that God began to unfold his Word for 2019. Gods excitement over giving me this Word was electric. The atmosphere was alive with promise.

At first all He said was RESTORATION. I said, “What Lord,?” Again he repeated “RESTORATION”

He then said that every single hurt, every single loss, every single time one of His children was cheated out of love, health, money, was going to be recompensed to them. He began to express to me how hard it has been on his heart to see all of His Children in emotional pain and not be able to heal their broken hearts. He said, “There are things my children have had to endure in order to be fully mature and so they have not always understood that. They felt abandoned and as if they were walking through the valley of the shadow of death. I saw that, and it broke my heart. I was separating the wheat from the tares and by doing so I found who was so loyal, so in love with me that they stayed faithful through all. Not understanding what I was doing but still staying true to me. I needed ministry leaders who would be ready to minister in greater ways because they too had experienced a crucifixion of soul and now their compassion for others in much greater, it is only through crucifixion of soul and body that leaders are born. Christ was the sacrificial lamb that first went through horrible pain and rose again well and fully anointed. Many will not grasp that, or want to, but to whom receives much anointing, much is required. The anointing comes with a great cost.

Now even in this month many will start to see supernatural restoration of things that they thought were dead. Businesses that were looking dead will be restored. I am sending provision for Godly businesses. It will seem to come as if “out of the blue.” It comes from Me. Never doubt that. I am restoring finances that were lost because of life circumstances that were hard. Homes that were lost, things that had to go at that time will be restored to use for my glory. Anything not used for my glory will be taken back again. Everything you have is from me, by my grace. Health healing will be quick and miraculous. People will stand in awe of what I intend to do. Those who have given up on being healed will be wonderful witnesses to my healing touch. Money will appear for my givers. It should be used in giving more. The more you receive the more you must give. If you receive a gift, tithe from that also to another individual in need. That is how my heavenly finances are meant to work. Debts will be dissolved supernaturally this year. REMEMBER these things are for my glory, not to be used selfishly! In order for revival to start this RESTORATION is necessary. The people of this particular season are so hardened they will need signs and wonders to believe. I will be working these signs and wonders through those who have endured horrible sufferings. These are my beloved children and I am proud of them and secure in the knowledge they will not leave me or forsake me. They are standing on the brink of miracles. 2019, for believers, will be full of miracles. The minute you look at a situation and think, “It is over, nothing can be done here, I will miraculously bring it back to life in ways you were not expecting or anticipating.

Stand firm my daughter and watch my restoration come to pass for those who have suffered much. Other people who come against my beloved will be shocked to see the horrible things they planned for me children come back on them.

Restoration, Restoration, Restoration. Stand firm and see the start of many miracles. Continue in supernatural love. Don’t worry about finances, as you give into my people of your time, your gifts and your money it will come back to you in greater amounts.”

And then the atmosphere changed into one of reverence as I went into praise and worship.

Look, beloved for restoration of all you have lost. Look expectantly.

In His Unconditional Love,
Cathie

Belovedhandmdn1@aol.com

Dysfunctional Due To Divorce

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One of the things about being an elder is that we have seen things, both good and bad. We have done things, both good and bad, and so hopefully we have learned better and we mentor others to do better.

I was watching the Bush family and their togetherness. It’s admirable.

I know that there are situations that were, and are, hard and sometimes people have no choice but to make a change.

I truly believe, having unfortunately been there, that divorce causes so much dysfunction and remarriages do too.

You have children who don’t like stepparents. It is painful on so many levels, women who are jealous of step mothers, fathers who are jealous of step fathers, children and even adult children, who play one set against the other.

Look around you and maybe in your own life, or some family member, you see constant chaos and dysfunction caused as a result of having to try to get along with people you never asked to have in your life to begin with.

Praying about this today I feel God directing me to encourage those I mentor to try and work things out in your marriages. If you have been through a divorce try your best to be kind to all involved. Don’t badmouth your ex or the new spouse. Try to show love and respect in order to put a stop to a lot of the dysfunction caused by divorce and remarriage.

Most importantly we can avoid all of this by having strong marriages. When we aren’t living for God there is no way we can stay happily married. First of all, if we are single, we should not even date unbelievers. Why? Because we walk into Satan’s territory.

Just my humble opinion, after learning the hard way. I pray none of you will have to suffer through the chaos of divorce!

In His Unconditional Love

Cathie

Belovedhandmdn1@aol.com

Being Faithful With What You Have

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Your level of blessing is all equal to your stewardship. What you do with what you have determines what more God will give you.

When I was a young mom with four kids I was praying for a bigger house as we had outgrown the little house we were living in.

One day as I was seeking the Lord, while my kids were napping, I cried out to the Lord as to why nothing was moving forward in regards to us being able to get a new house.

As clear as a bell, in my head, the Lord spoke to me, “ My dear daughter look around you. Your home is a mess. If you cannot take care of this house, you are not ready for a bigger one.” I looked around and it was true. I was a stay at home mom at that time. I had no excuse at the time. It was 2 o’clock in the afternoon and dirty dishes were still in my sink.

I got my act together and started taking better care of my house. A year later my husband got a huge raise and we moved to a beautiful, larger home.

Take care of what you have been given by God before you ask for more.

Jesus – “Unless you are faithful in small matters, you won’t be faithful in large ones. If you cheat even a little, you won’t be honest with greater responsibilities. And if you are untrustworthy about worldly wealth, who will trust you with the true riches of heaven. And if you are not faithful with other people’s money, why should you be trusted with money of your own? No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.” (Luke 16:10-13 )

In His Unconditional Love

Cathie Miller

Belovedhandmdn1@aol.com

The Truth About Counseling

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This may offend some so I apologize in advance. If your therapy is working for you by all means continue.

Ten years ago I began to question the Lord about why so many people would tell me they wanted Christian counseling who were already seeking counsel with a secular counselor and we’re not getting better.

God used the woman at the well to show me the counseling method he wanted me to use. He spoke to me about the woman at the well. He said, “In secular counsel you delve in a person’s childhood. Bringing up all the hurt does more harm then good. When I saw the woman at the well I didn’t do an intake. I didn’t tell her she was a relationship addict due to her childhood. Even if true it didn’t matter because she was in desperate need of something to satisfy the hole in her soul that was being filled with anything to make the loneliness go away for a time. No. I told her exactly what I discerned. I told her she had been with 5 men and wasn’t married to the man she was currently living with. I told her what was wrong and then I told her what she really needed was to drink from everlasting water.” Jesus continued, “I cut to the chase, told her what she needed and she got it. She then went and told people, “Come and meet a man who told me everything I ever did!” I want you to discern the problem through prayer, tell the person what the problem is and then what to do about it.”

So that’s what I do. Granted I could make more money by dragging things out and making clients dependent upon me. As a matter of fact very few people pay me at all. Jesus wants us healed and whole so that we can help others.

Dwelling on events from our past is depressing and at the end of the day we have to accept the past, because it cannot change, and come to peace with it. Blaming our parents, even if they deserve it, is a way of putting our pain on someone else that was probably messed up by their parents too.

Accept,forgive, move on in peace.

Do all Christian Counselor counsel the same? No. I used the model Christ gave me and I have had so many people set free that are now living depression free. Not because of who I am but because of who HE is.

The past cannot be changed but the future can be whatever we want it to be.

In His Unconditional Love

Cathie

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Even Jesus Was Rejected

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So often we suffer rejection of our message about Jesus from our own families.

Even Jesus was not listened to by his own people, yet we cannot understand, often, the rejection of our message by some of those in our own families.

To quote from the Bible, ‘Now Jesus himself had pointed out that a prophet has no honour in his own country’ (John 4:44). Christ also said ‘no prophet is accepted in his home town’ (Luke 4:16-30), and ‘Only in his home town and in his own house is a prophet without honor”

Philip found Nathanael and said to him, “We have found him of whom Moses in the Torah and also the prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.” Nathanael said to him, “Can anything good come out of Nazareth?”

Mark 6:11

And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Cheer up believers. Even Jesus suffered rejection by those closest to Him.

In God’s Unconditional Love,

Cathie

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Our Greed

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A lady from one of my craft groups just put a picture up of her living room. She had 4 Christmas trees decorating her living room and asked people if they thought it was too much.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t know the woman and she seems very nice, I am sure she was just showing her decorating skills.

However, I looked at that and immediately the thought came to my mind, “It definitely is too much! Have you seen the pictures online and on television of the people that have lost everything in Paradise California?”

We are basically greedy people. Self-centered and uncaring. This might not be the year to brag about your decorations and four Christmas trees.

Jeremiah 10:1-5 says the following, “Hear the word which the LORD speaks to you, O house of Israel. Thus says the LORD: Do not learn the way of the Gentiles; do not be dismayed at the signs of heaven, for the Gentiles are dismayed at them. For the customs of the peoples are futile; for one cuts a tree from the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the ax. They decorate it with silver and gold; they fasten it with nails and hammers so that it will not topple. They are upright, like a palm tree, and they cannot speak; they must be carried, because they cannot go by themselves. Do not be afraid of them, for they cannot do evil, nor can they do any good.”

The first time I read this I assumed it was about Christmas trees. Further reading and study revealed that it was about carving idols to worship. Still, as beautiful as they are, they really aren’t what Christmas is all about.

Losing everything is very traumatic. The mind cannot deal with it and people often feel numb. We must learn compassion because any of us could be next.

Father, wake us up to our greed and lack of compassion. Give us a heart of love and a way to help others. Amen.

In His Unconditional Love,

Cathie

A Warning Dream?

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My absolute favorite worship song is “Way Maker” I had the most wonderful encounter with the Holy Spirit last night in a way I had not experienced before. I kept waking up off and on last night, tossing and turning, as I would wake, each time, I heard the sound of angels singing Way Maker. That is one of the most anointed worship songs I have ever heard and God was literally soaking me in it all night long!

God is up to something! I feel a great revival is coming but prior to that something is going to happen that will literally rock our world. Stay close to God and never fear because he surrounds His children with angels!

Last week I dreamed that I was hearing hail falling on the roof. It started to get louder and louder. I opened the door and saw huge rocks, even boulders, falling everywhere. In the dream I heard God say, “Close the door and stay inside!” I closed the door and as I did I felt the earth tremble and shake back and forth. I awoke in a cold sweat! It was one of those dreams where you are so glad when you awake and realize it was only a dream.

I have not received, to date, an interpretation of the dream. I do know it may not have been an actual earthquake but perhaps a warning that something is coming that will literally rock our foundation. I will wait on the Lord. As I said the other day…Stay alert.

In His Unconditional Love,

Cathie

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Stay Alert

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God is still, as of this morning, surrounding me with the following scripture, “The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away. Blessed be the name of the Lord!” Job 1:21.

We see things going in one way on the world scene but we serve a sovereign God whose ways we cannot always discern before He reveals them.

Stay alert and watch. Read the following scriptures with discernment. I will not make any prophetic announcement because that’s not my strong gifting but I will say that things on the National scene could become shocking before this year is over.

New International Version

“Do not put your trust in princes, in human beings, who cannot save.” Psalm 146:3

Psalm 118:8-9 New International Version (NIV)

8 It is better to take refuge in the Lord

than to trust in humans.

9 It is better to take refuge in the Lord

than to trust in princes.

In His Unconditional Love,

Cathie

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Living Through Unimaginable Sorrow

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Turning against God, when something hurtful happens, is for some understandable. We have all had times when we suffered pain and felt as if God let us down. It was during one of those times in my life where I reached a crossroad with God. I knew I could go down a road without Him or I could decide to trust Him and go on down the road with Him. I fell to my knees and told Him, “I don’t know why you have allowed this but nevertheless you are the only one who truly loves me, unconditionally, and whether you never answer another prayer I pray again, I am going on with you!”

I remember this quote from the movie, “The Shack,” when I need to, I take it out of my bible and read it. It puts everything in perspective for me. God spoke the following…

“Just because I work incredible good out of unspeakable tragedies doesn’t mean I orchestrate the tragedies. Don’t ever assume that my using something means I caused it or that I need it to accomplish my purposes. That will only lead you to false notions about me. Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors.”

― William P. Young, The Shack

In His Unconditional Love,

Cathie

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