These scriptures have been a comfort to me lately.... to keep on fighting the good fight of faith!! To not be discouraged, to not be afraid!! But to keep pressing on daily to what is ahead!!
Matthew 25:14 - 30
14:For the kingdom of heaven is as a man travelling into a far country, who called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods.
15: And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one; to every man according to his several ability; and straightway took his journey.
16: Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
17: And likewise he that had received two, he also gained other two.
18: But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
19: After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
20: And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: behold, I have gained beside them five talents more.
21: His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of the lord.
22: He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside them.
23: His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of the lord.
24: Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
25: And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, there thou hast that is thine.
26: His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
27: Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
28: Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
29: For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away that which he hath.
30: And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Hebrews: 10 : 38 - 39
38: Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him.
39: But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition (destruction ); but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
Believe who is in you!! Jesus!! And if Jesus doesn't live in you, all you have to do is call upon his name, Jesus!! Believing he died, was buried, and rose again, and there he will be; Jesus living in you, your spirit joined to the Lord Jesus' spirit. And you will come to find, that no matter what the situation, because of Jesus who lives in you, you will always have HOPE!!
God Bless,
Misty
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Friday, October 9, 2015
Humble Yourself to Obey God
I Corinthians 1:18 ( NIV )
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.Jesus had to humble himself to obey God, and we will have to do the same. Join me as I share some of what God required of me so I could seek his will and not my own.
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Monday, October 5, 2015
I Saw the Lord and He Saw Me!
Years ago I was teaching at a school in southeastern Oklahoma. I drove 45 miles each day there and back. The Lord taught me to pray while driving that road daily. I remember six miles from our house there was a stop sign just after you passed my father-in-laws house; feeling the pressing to be praying I would say to the Lord, "Ok, I'll start at the stop sign." I didn't want to have to pray. I'd reach the stop sign and start praying until I reached the other point I had marked. But one day it came to the point where the starting and stopping points no longer mattered, I found myself talking to the Lord Jesus and praying on the way there, and on the way back.
We didn't turn out for bad weather since we seemed to rarely get any that far south, but one particular day in late January 2005 I received a phone call. On the other end a person was letting me know due to a water break, school was cancelled for that day. I was so excited! I thought maybe I could lay around, watch some T.V; relax for what I'm sure felt like a much needed day off! My husband who was also a teacher at the time, and taught just a block or so down the road was on his way out that morning. As he walked out the door he looked back at me and said, "You need to be reading today." I knew what he meant.... reading the word of God and praying.
After he left I got going with my day and was doing some reading. At some point I went to our work room where we had our computer and did office things. I was facing the west wall and I was on Water of Life Ministries pages reading through testimonies; in doing so, I began reading a friend's testimony. Just as I was finishing I physically felt something lifting and spinning up out through my chest and head area. It was incredible! Immediately I knew something had changed. Everything about the scriptures, God, the Lord Jesus became real and vivid to me. I've always said it was like in that moment I knew God was real!! And that, that day, the Lord Jesus showed up in that computer room!!
Knowing something had occurred and there was a presence in that room with me, I turned around as if the Lord Jesus was standing right behind me. I didn't see him physically, but the presence of the Lord was there in that room!! He was there!! My life forever began changing from that day on. Many of those things I have shared over the years, and now with some of you all here.
II Corinthians 3: 14 - 18
14: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail (cover ) untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away with in Christ.
15: But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16: Nevertheless when it ( the heart ) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17: Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
You want to be changed? You want to have hope? You want to know the Lord? Your spirit joined to the Lord's spirit.
You can! How?
By believing in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus! Say it, "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!" Call upon Jesus today!!
God Bless You!
Misty
We didn't turn out for bad weather since we seemed to rarely get any that far south, but one particular day in late January 2005 I received a phone call. On the other end a person was letting me know due to a water break, school was cancelled for that day. I was so excited! I thought maybe I could lay around, watch some T.V; relax for what I'm sure felt like a much needed day off! My husband who was also a teacher at the time, and taught just a block or so down the road was on his way out that morning. As he walked out the door he looked back at me and said, "You need to be reading today." I knew what he meant.... reading the word of God and praying.
After he left I got going with my day and was doing some reading. At some point I went to our work room where we had our computer and did office things. I was facing the west wall and I was on Water of Life Ministries pages reading through testimonies; in doing so, I began reading a friend's testimony. Just as I was finishing I physically felt something lifting and spinning up out through my chest and head area. It was incredible! Immediately I knew something had changed. Everything about the scriptures, God, the Lord Jesus became real and vivid to me. I've always said it was like in that moment I knew God was real!! And that, that day, the Lord Jesus showed up in that computer room!!
Knowing something had occurred and there was a presence in that room with me, I turned around as if the Lord Jesus was standing right behind me. I didn't see him physically, but the presence of the Lord was there in that room!! He was there!! My life forever began changing from that day on. Many of those things I have shared over the years, and now with some of you all here.
II Corinthians 3: 14 - 18
14: But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail (cover ) untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away with in Christ.
15: But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart.
16: Nevertheless when it ( the heart ) shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
17: Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
18: But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
You want to be changed? You want to have hope? You want to know the Lord? Your spirit joined to the Lord's spirit.
You can! How?
By believing in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and confessing with your mouth the Lord Jesus! Say it, "Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!" Call upon Jesus today!!
God Bless You!
Misty
Thursday, October 1, 2015
The Perfect Room!
When I first began teaching Anthony and I use to spend a couple of weeks getting my classroom ready. Sometimes that was painting, building things, or whatever we thought it may need. We could sometimes put quite a bit of money into doing it all too. When we moved to Broken Arrow, there were things like this that I wasn’t able to do anymore because of what God was requiring of my life, and our life. This particular year was no different.
Every new year it was fun to get to redo your classroom with a new look, a new theme; kind of like a kid getting their new supplies for the new school year! People were going to be getting their rooms ready, and I knew for myself, I wasn't going to be making any large purchases like before, it would be something more of what God was requiring.
I went on up to the school to do what I could in unpacking and trying to come up with a "new" plan for the year. Oh, it was heart wrenching to walk by everyone's rooms. They looked so great! New teachers bustling around so excited with their new goodies of things, and seasoned teachers returning for another year doing the same. I went on to my room encouraging myself, "Misty, just believe God." I wasn’t going to try to believe God for this or that, it was just simply, believe, period to survive how I was feeling! I went on about my business in my room that day, still not knowing how or what to do to make my room look nice or new.
Ephesians 5:19
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord..
Well the Lord had put a song in my heart that morning as I was there. One I hadn't heard or considered in years. So as I spent my time preparing things I was singing,
"♫ God will take care of you. All you may need he will provide ♫". Never considering what I was singing just finding comfort that the Lord was with me. For a few days this song continued to just play over and over in my heart, and I continued to worship in my heart or out loud while I would be working on things.
One day upon arriving at school to work in my room I walked through our large media center. It was filled with flower arrangements, nice decorative items, nice pictures, pillow cushions, etc. I couldn’t believe all the stuff that was there! I asked someone about it and found that if it was out there and anyone could have it. Not unusual, but these were some really nice things! I began to look through it all and I found things that would look great in my room!! Things I loved! One of the teachers I work with was helping me carry things to my room and said, “All this stuff you are getting really matches the colors that are in your room”. I said, “I know!!” When I had begun the job I was also to get some of the new small bookcases, but was never able to. There were plenty of those out there now this day too. I now had flower arrangements, decorative items to hang on the wall, cushions for some chairs, and a few other items here and there; things that were somewhat tossed because of simply just a new year, or stored items needing to be gone. When I was growing up my mother and grandmother would often buy items for me to have for when I was grown one day with a home of my own. One of those things were these beautiful expensive baskets. A teacher friend of mine was cleaning her room this day and asked me to come down for a minute. I said, "Sure." When I got there she had one of those baskets and asked me if I would like it, how it came to her to ask me, and that I might like it. I said, "Sure!" Well, God did that for me!
My room did not look the same!! It looked great!! And I was thrilled with it all!! And not a soul knew what God was requiring of me, but God knew what he was, and he was going to take care of me. I laughed at the fact that this was the most I had ever gotten and only spent about 4 bucks. After it was all set up and ready, and I thought it was just perfect!
♫ God will take care of you. All you may need He will provide
No matter what may be the test,
God will take care of you;
lean, weary one, upon his breast,
God will take care of you ♫
( Not all the words are sung, but I encourage you to look them up )
God bless!!
Misty
Every new year it was fun to get to redo your classroom with a new look, a new theme; kind of like a kid getting their new supplies for the new school year! People were going to be getting their rooms ready, and I knew for myself, I wasn't going to be making any large purchases like before, it would be something more of what God was requiring.
I went on up to the school to do what I could in unpacking and trying to come up with a "new" plan for the year. Oh, it was heart wrenching to walk by everyone's rooms. They looked so great! New teachers bustling around so excited with their new goodies of things, and seasoned teachers returning for another year doing the same. I went on to my room encouraging myself, "Misty, just believe God." I wasn’t going to try to believe God for this or that, it was just simply, believe, period to survive how I was feeling! I went on about my business in my room that day, still not knowing how or what to do to make my room look nice or new.
Ephesians 5:19
Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord..
Well the Lord had put a song in my heart that morning as I was there. One I hadn't heard or considered in years. So as I spent my time preparing things I was singing,
"♫ God will take care of you. All you may need he will provide ♫". Never considering what I was singing just finding comfort that the Lord was with me. For a few days this song continued to just play over and over in my heart, and I continued to worship in my heart or out loud while I would be working on things.
One day upon arriving at school to work in my room I walked through our large media center. It was filled with flower arrangements, nice decorative items, nice pictures, pillow cushions, etc. I couldn’t believe all the stuff that was there! I asked someone about it and found that if it was out there and anyone could have it. Not unusual, but these were some really nice things! I began to look through it all and I found things that would look great in my room!! Things I loved! One of the teachers I work with was helping me carry things to my room and said, “All this stuff you are getting really matches the colors that are in your room”. I said, “I know!!” When I had begun the job I was also to get some of the new small bookcases, but was never able to. There were plenty of those out there now this day too. I now had flower arrangements, decorative items to hang on the wall, cushions for some chairs, and a few other items here and there; things that were somewhat tossed because of simply just a new year, or stored items needing to be gone. When I was growing up my mother and grandmother would often buy items for me to have for when I was grown one day with a home of my own. One of those things were these beautiful expensive baskets. A teacher friend of mine was cleaning her room this day and asked me to come down for a minute. I said, "Sure." When I got there she had one of those baskets and asked me if I would like it, how it came to her to ask me, and that I might like it. I said, "Sure!" Well, God did that for me!
My room did not look the same!! It looked great!! And I was thrilled with it all!! And not a soul knew what God was requiring of me, but God knew what he was, and he was going to take care of me. I laughed at the fact that this was the most I had ever gotten and only spent about 4 bucks. After it was all set up and ready, and I thought it was just perfect!
♫ God will take care of you. All you may need He will provide
No matter what may be the test,
God will take care of you;
lean, weary one, upon his breast,
God will take care of you ♫
( Not all the words are sung, but I encourage you to look them up )
God bless!!
Misty
Friday, September 25, 2015
The Story of Jim Clark
I have heard about a man named Jim Clark for a few years now. Just recently Doyle, the president and minister here at Water of Life Ministries shared about him again. I remember once how when Doyle was questioned about Jim's too hard of playing on the piano, Doyle said, "I cared more about the man than I did the piano."
Exodus 34 describes the personality, the nature, of God.
.... The LORD GOD, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin....
Thank God for the love of God.....
The Jim Clark Story
"I walked into this sanctuary one night, I think it was a Friday night maybe in 1983. There was a young black man with Jane Whaley. Jane Whaley was from Tulsa, Sam Whaley's wife, 74 graduate of Rhema. And this young man could play the piano. And he played it hard. There was a man setting out in the congregation that I'd never seen before, the Lord said, "That man is not a pastor." I thought, "Well why you telling me?" In about three days, the place that he was calling his church fell apart. And a man named Jim Clark attended that church.
Jim Clark came to Water of Life. He knew I jogged, he knew I walked a lot on Meandering Way in Fairview, he'd heard me say that. He asked me one day if he could come and walk with me. He said, "I'd like to talk to you." I said, "Sure. When you want to do it?" We set up a time, instead of walking on Meandering Way, I walked around my neighborhood on asphalt. Jim started telling me the worst testimony I'd ever heard in my life.
I was a veterinarian. I was bold, fairly bold. I wasn't the most timid person in the world. I'd been a hospital corpsman in the Navy, served in emergency services in Yokosuka Naval Hospital for 27 months; and I'd never heard what Jim Clark told me.
He said he was with a church in California, a faith church. And they told him if he'd confess his sins, the Lord would forgive him and so would the church. So he got up and told it and they kicked him out. God wanted him in Plano, Water of Life Church. It was an incredible thing, what he was involved in. It was homosexuality. His lover was a Methodist preacher for two years. The more he talked the more I was startled what man could do; what mankind would do. I even think myself now, I've been very naïve about the wickedness of a heart of a human being. I thought mine was bad enough. I'm not a judge but I am spiritual, and 1Corinthianians 2 says he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he is judged of no man; so take your judgement and go south. Thank God.
I talked with Jim over the years following that night of two hours listening to him. And one morning after Water of Life Christian Training School Jim came to me. He said, "Doyle, I've got to talk to you." I said, "Alright." We went out on the northeast corner of this building, the sidewalk there is high enough there to sit down on, not have your legs under your knees. He said, "I've been to every church that I know of, Tulsa, California, Dallas. Not one of them could help me." He said, "You're the only person that I know that can help me. And if I don't get some help, I'm going back to San Francisco and continue my lifestyle and go to hell." I could not think, stand to think, of a man or woman going to hell. I can not bare the thought of any man or woman going to hell. Jesus describes hell. My friends you ought to read it and make a decision to never go there. It's not what you think it is. It is eternal. Torment. Torture. Torment, the fury of God upon the sins of mankind. The terror of God for eternity. You don't want to go there. There's a choice. Kathie D told you what the choice was. The gospel, believe on Jesus, his name where by no man, no name under heaven must be saved but Jesus. The name of Jesus. Call upon that name, call, that's all you have to do, call upon the name of Jesus. That's not my plan, or God's plan for me for the next few minutes, but the mercy, the love, the grace, the mercy, the compassion of Jehovah, my Father, and his Son, the man Jesus Christ.
I set on that sidewalk that Wednesday morning and I was stunned. I said, "Jim I'm going to pray." It's been 27 years ago. I said, "Father" something like this, "Intervene into Jim's life." I don't remember saying anything else.
Friday he went to the hospital; healthy looking, you couldn't tell he was sick. They diagnosed him as having Aids. He was in the hospital several days. I went there one, every day, but I went there one morning but he couldn't talk. He pointed at a piece of paper and a pen, I gave it to him he said, "I'm not afraid, I'm ready to go home." That night Jim Clark went to heaven.
I had to do his funeral. I said, "Lord what do I say?" He said, "Tell them where he's at." I said, "Well where is he?" [KD turn to Hebrews 12] The Lord said, "Turn to Hebrews 12, I'll show you where he's at." What mercy what grace. How beautiful the Lord is, and how beautiful are the feet of them that publish good news.
Hebrews 12:22
22: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23: To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. "
I encourage you to listen to the full story and testimony of Jim Clark in the video above.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
God Bless You,
Misty
Exodus 34 describes the personality, the nature, of God.
.... The LORD GOD, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth, Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin....
Thank God for the love of God.....
The Jim Clark Story
"I walked into this sanctuary one night, I think it was a Friday night maybe in 1983. There was a young black man with Jane Whaley. Jane Whaley was from Tulsa, Sam Whaley's wife, 74 graduate of Rhema. And this young man could play the piano. And he played it hard. There was a man setting out in the congregation that I'd never seen before, the Lord said, "That man is not a pastor." I thought, "Well why you telling me?" In about three days, the place that he was calling his church fell apart. And a man named Jim Clark attended that church.
Jim Clark came to Water of Life. He knew I jogged, he knew I walked a lot on Meandering Way in Fairview, he'd heard me say that. He asked me one day if he could come and walk with me. He said, "I'd like to talk to you." I said, "Sure. When you want to do it?" We set up a time, instead of walking on Meandering Way, I walked around my neighborhood on asphalt. Jim started telling me the worst testimony I'd ever heard in my life.
I was a veterinarian. I was bold, fairly bold. I wasn't the most timid person in the world. I'd been a hospital corpsman in the Navy, served in emergency services in Yokosuka Naval Hospital for 27 months; and I'd never heard what Jim Clark told me.
He said he was with a church in California, a faith church. And they told him if he'd confess his sins, the Lord would forgive him and so would the church. So he got up and told it and they kicked him out. God wanted him in Plano, Water of Life Church. It was an incredible thing, what he was involved in. It was homosexuality. His lover was a Methodist preacher for two years. The more he talked the more I was startled what man could do; what mankind would do. I even think myself now, I've been very naïve about the wickedness of a heart of a human being. I thought mine was bad enough. I'm not a judge but I am spiritual, and 1Corinthianians 2 says he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he is judged of no man; so take your judgement and go south. Thank God.
I talked with Jim over the years following that night of two hours listening to him. And one morning after Water of Life Christian Training School Jim came to me. He said, "Doyle, I've got to talk to you." I said, "Alright." We went out on the northeast corner of this building, the sidewalk there is high enough there to sit down on, not have your legs under your knees. He said, "I've been to every church that I know of, Tulsa, California, Dallas. Not one of them could help me." He said, "You're the only person that I know that can help me. And if I don't get some help, I'm going back to San Francisco and continue my lifestyle and go to hell." I could not think, stand to think, of a man or woman going to hell. I can not bare the thought of any man or woman going to hell. Jesus describes hell. My friends you ought to read it and make a decision to never go there. It's not what you think it is. It is eternal. Torment. Torture. Torment, the fury of God upon the sins of mankind. The terror of God for eternity. You don't want to go there. There's a choice. Kathie D told you what the choice was. The gospel, believe on Jesus, his name where by no man, no name under heaven must be saved but Jesus. The name of Jesus. Call upon that name, call, that's all you have to do, call upon the name of Jesus. That's not my plan, or God's plan for me for the next few minutes, but the mercy, the love, the grace, the mercy, the compassion of Jehovah, my Father, and his Son, the man Jesus Christ.
I set on that sidewalk that Wednesday morning and I was stunned. I said, "Jim I'm going to pray." It's been 27 years ago. I said, "Father" something like this, "Intervene into Jim's life." I don't remember saying anything else.
Friday he went to the hospital; healthy looking, you couldn't tell he was sick. They diagnosed him as having Aids. He was in the hospital several days. I went there one, every day, but I went there one morning but he couldn't talk. He pointed at a piece of paper and a pen, I gave it to him he said, "I'm not afraid, I'm ready to go home." That night Jim Clark went to heaven.
I had to do his funeral. I said, "Lord what do I say?" He said, "Tell them where he's at." I said, "Well where is he?" [KD turn to Hebrews 12] The Lord said, "Turn to Hebrews 12, I'll show you where he's at." What mercy what grace. How beautiful the Lord is, and how beautiful are the feet of them that publish good news.
Hebrews 12:22
22: But ye are come unto mount Sion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels,
23: To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect. "
I encourage you to listen to the full story and testimony of Jim Clark in the video above.
Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
God Bless You,
Misty
Wednesday, September 2, 2015
If Possible Believe For Your Sake
This morning as I was getting ready I was talking to the Lord about one of my school kids. I was a school teacher for 14 years, and left that profession in May 2014 at the direction of God; my kids however, from all those years, have not left my heart. I remember years ago setting in a Braums Ice Cream Store, and God ministering to me how he had given me each one of those kids, put them in my life. I saw God remove and place who he wanted in my room every year, and those that would tell me all these problems I would have with this one or that one, only to be wrong. What people didn't know was I was believing God all I knew how for my kids.
I never had the desire to have children of my own, but I absolutely loved the children I taught as if they were. If they were in trouble or whatever the case I would often remind them that I treated them, disciplined them, loved them, as if they were my own. I read once in Lydia Prince's book "Appointment in Jerusalem" how she, a woman who had no children of her own, came to see one day it was simply the love of God in her for the children she taught and those she later adopted.
Today, my time is spent reading, fasting, praying, obeying God. Those children, some who are now adults with their own families, remain in my prayers, and are still "my kids". So this morning I was talking to the Lord about one of them, about their life, and so on; and I was reminded of another one in the process.
One that wasn't in trouble, or what you would call a "troubled" person, but one who in fact was successful. They were involved with another individual, in a situation that I believed was not God. They seemed thrilled of where things were, but when it came to my attention, I was praying. I never said a word to them, I just prayed. I prayed what I had been taught about believing the gospel, I prayed what God would put in my heart regarding the situation, I prayed, "If this is not you, not your will Lord, stop it!" Within a short period of time, maybe 3 to 4 weeks, something bizarre happened and the whole situation changed. God had intervened! You see, I only want the will of God in their lives.
This morning Doyle Davidson the minister and president here at Water of Life Ministries had some encouraging words to us all and the world. I pray they encourage you as they have me this day.
God Bless You,
Misty
Back in the 1970s a preacher sent a Baptist man to me because the preacher heard I cast out devils. This man had a daughter that had moved in with a man and I was asked what I would do about it. My reply was that I would go get her and bring her home. Being politically correct he said that would be kidnapping! I answered, “Well, I obey God, and that would not be kidnapping”. Some months later the man came back to me and said, “My daughter is pregnant”. My response was, “Well what would you expect?” (What I would say today is “…with your unbelief.”)
Now God taught me over forty years ago the gospel and gave me a revelation of it. The gospel is POWER! It is God’s power. Do you hear what I am saying? It is the power that raised Jesus from the dead. It’s the power that will resurrect those that are dead in Christ. It is the power that will resurrect those that are dead but not in Christ. Are you getting some idea of this power that I preach, that I minister, and that I walk in? Then if you are going to preach this power and believe it, it will rest upon the person you preach it to.
Now that man whose daughter was pregnant said he believed the gospel, but frankly he believed nothing or the daughter would not have been pregnant. Do you think that the gospel that I preach and believe and demonstrate could not keep a man or a woman’s daughter from getting pregnant? Well I’m telling you it can if you can believe that your daughters will not get pregnant because of the gospel that you preach to them.
I had a young man that told me that Kathy Mai was his wife and he came through my door like some Judo-nut (All of your martial arts cannot stand in the power I walk in). So after he left to go back to Denton, Texas, I prayed the power of God upon him. That power came into his nice little baby blue Grand Prix Pontiac and shook it and shook him. He was scared of that power. Needless to say he didn’t marry Kathy Mai.
Now you can continue to say you believe the gospel and talk doubt, fear, and flesh, and you will most certainly end up with a pregnant daughter if God does not have mercy on you.
Let me give you an example that might help all of you worldwide.
II Corinthians 8:9 states God made me rich. Well, I believe that and have for more than 35 years. If I do not have money in my bank account I shout, “Where is my money?” And if I were in your shoes and the devil was telling me that my daughter was committing fornication I would break the power of the devil over her and speak (maybe not to her) “Flee fornication!” Now those things will work if you can believe the gospel and not believe flesh.
My friends you have to be mean to the devil. You have to speak with boldness to the devil. You have to speak boldness to the devil that’s got your kids or your wife or your husband. If you will listen to what I teach you, you will learn how to rule your house.
My first wife (she is in heaven today and went in 2003) yielded her members to the devil and when I started to speak to the devil that had her bound, that devil in her said to me, “Doyle you used to love me, now you scare me”. I was not scaring anybody but the devil.
Believe the gospel!
Doyle Davidson
Servant and Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ
I never had the desire to have children of my own, but I absolutely loved the children I taught as if they were. If they were in trouble or whatever the case I would often remind them that I treated them, disciplined them, loved them, as if they were my own. I read once in Lydia Prince's book "Appointment in Jerusalem" how she, a woman who had no children of her own, came to see one day it was simply the love of God in her for the children she taught and those she later adopted.
Today, my time is spent reading, fasting, praying, obeying God. Those children, some who are now adults with their own families, remain in my prayers, and are still "my kids". So this morning I was talking to the Lord about one of them, about their life, and so on; and I was reminded of another one in the process.
One that wasn't in trouble, or what you would call a "troubled" person, but one who in fact was successful. They were involved with another individual, in a situation that I believed was not God. They seemed thrilled of where things were, but when it came to my attention, I was praying. I never said a word to them, I just prayed. I prayed what I had been taught about believing the gospel, I prayed what God would put in my heart regarding the situation, I prayed, "If this is not you, not your will Lord, stop it!" Within a short period of time, maybe 3 to 4 weeks, something bizarre happened and the whole situation changed. God had intervened! You see, I only want the will of God in their lives.
This morning Doyle Davidson the minister and president here at Water of Life Ministries had some encouraging words to us all and the world. I pray they encourage you as they have me this day.
God Bless You,
Misty
If Possible Believe For Your Sake
Back in the 1970s a preacher sent a Baptist man to me because the preacher heard I cast out devils. This man had a daughter that had moved in with a man and I was asked what I would do about it. My reply was that I would go get her and bring her home. Being politically correct he said that would be kidnapping! I answered, “Well, I obey God, and that would not be kidnapping”. Some months later the man came back to me and said, “My daughter is pregnant”. My response was, “Well what would you expect?” (What I would say today is “…with your unbelief.”)
Now God taught me over forty years ago the gospel and gave me a revelation of it. The gospel is POWER! It is God’s power. Do you hear what I am saying? It is the power that raised Jesus from the dead. It’s the power that will resurrect those that are dead in Christ. It is the power that will resurrect those that are dead but not in Christ. Are you getting some idea of this power that I preach, that I minister, and that I walk in? Then if you are going to preach this power and believe it, it will rest upon the person you preach it to.
Now that man whose daughter was pregnant said he believed the gospel, but frankly he believed nothing or the daughter would not have been pregnant. Do you think that the gospel that I preach and believe and demonstrate could not keep a man or a woman’s daughter from getting pregnant? Well I’m telling you it can if you can believe that your daughters will not get pregnant because of the gospel that you preach to them.
I had a young man that told me that Kathy Mai was his wife and he came through my door like some Judo-nut (All of your martial arts cannot stand in the power I walk in). So after he left to go back to Denton, Texas, I prayed the power of God upon him. That power came into his nice little baby blue Grand Prix Pontiac and shook it and shook him. He was scared of that power. Needless to say he didn’t marry Kathy Mai.
Now you can continue to say you believe the gospel and talk doubt, fear, and flesh, and you will most certainly end up with a pregnant daughter if God does not have mercy on you.
Let me give you an example that might help all of you worldwide.
II Corinthians 8:9 states God made me rich. Well, I believe that and have for more than 35 years. If I do not have money in my bank account I shout, “Where is my money?” And if I were in your shoes and the devil was telling me that my daughter was committing fornication I would break the power of the devil over her and speak (maybe not to her) “Flee fornication!” Now those things will work if you can believe the gospel and not believe flesh.
My friends you have to be mean to the devil. You have to speak with boldness to the devil. You have to speak boldness to the devil that’s got your kids or your wife or your husband. If you will listen to what I teach you, you will learn how to rule your house.
My first wife (she is in heaven today and went in 2003) yielded her members to the devil and when I started to speak to the devil that had her bound, that devil in her said to me, “Doyle you used to love me, now you scare me”. I was not scaring anybody but the devil.
Believe the gospel!
Doyle Davidson
Servant and Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Can You Rebound?
I love that the Lord can take something so simple, and minister some wonderful things to one's heart!
I was a basketball player while in high school. At that time we played 6 on 6; the year I graduated was the last of 6 on 6 basketball in the state of Oklahoma. Over the years God has taken that, some thing I did in the natural, and has ministered to me things of the Spirit. One of those things has been regarding these scriptures.
Colossians 3:12-15
12: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
I was a basketball player while in high school. At that time we played 6 on 6; the year I graduated was the last of 6 on 6 basketball in the state of Oklahoma. Over the years God has taken that, some thing I did in the natural, and has ministered to me things of the Spirit. One of those things has been regarding these scriptures.
Colossians 3:12-15
12: Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
13: Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
14: And above all these things put on charity ( love ), which is the bond of perfectness.
15: And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Philippians 2:1-3
1: If there be therefore any consolation ( comfort, exhortation, encouragement ) in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2: Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
3: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4: Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
While playing ball in high school, I was a forward. I was one of the three starting girls responsible for scoring the points. The forwards were always going to be recognized for how many points they scored. If you were making a game plan against another team, you always wondered about what forwards you had to look out for. If you won, that forward's name was going to be in the paper for making that final shot, or for racking up the most points. The forwards seemed to be front and center. The defense, the guards, didn't always seem to have that kind of "light" shown on their behalf.
When I got suited out for a game, or if I was shooting around before ball practice, there was a always a girl who would come and rebound for me, she in fact was my best friend, and a guard. Someone might begin rebounding, but when she got out there, got available, she'd be there to rebound for me. I usually had some sort of routine I worked through; working around the goal from right to left, back left to right, move out some to again do the same pattern. I'd make my way to the 3 point line, and do the same; adding in some numerous free throws, or random perimeter jump shots. But she was always there, always there to help me, there to rebound. Maybe it might have seemed boring. Maybe it might have seemed monotonous, I don't know, I don't recall ever hearing her complain, she just did it, and did it with diligence. When my points went up in the paper, she wasn't recognized as "my rebounder" no one knew the effort she put in to help me, no one knew the help she, or others, put in for what I was doing. But you know what? I had need of her. She was a help to me for what I was doing, and us as a team, were trying to achieve. We as forwards, had need of all those guards, and we as the starting 6, had need of all those who sat on the bench; they encouraged us or relieved us when necessary. We were one team, and we were to be of one heart.
The Lord has ministered to me many times about this particular ball team, and the other day was just another example. I was encouraged by what he was showing me, and ministering to me about those who rebounded.
Just as the scriptures said, the eye can't say to the hand, I have no need of thee. Every member has its function, and all members are required for the body to function. All members are to have the same care one for another, to be likeminded to be of one mind, working together as one body, and with the goal to see the power of God!
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
God Bless You,
Misty
14: And above all these things put on charity ( love ), which is the bond of perfectness.
15: And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body; and be ye thankful.
Philippians 2:1-3
1: If there be therefore any consolation ( comfort, exhortation, encouragement ) in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies,
2: Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
3: Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
4: Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.
1 Corinthians 12: 12-27
12: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.
13: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
14: For the body is not one member, but many.
15: If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
16: And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?
17: If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?
18: But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.
19: And if they were all one member, where were the body?
20: But now are they many members, yet but one body.
21: And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.
22: Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:
23: And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.
24: or our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:
25: That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.
26: And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.
27: Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.
When I got suited out for a game, or if I was shooting around before ball practice, there was a always a girl who would come and rebound for me, she in fact was my best friend, and a guard. Someone might begin rebounding, but when she got out there, got available, she'd be there to rebound for me. I usually had some sort of routine I worked through; working around the goal from right to left, back left to right, move out some to again do the same pattern. I'd make my way to the 3 point line, and do the same; adding in some numerous free throws, or random perimeter jump shots. But she was always there, always there to help me, there to rebound. Maybe it might have seemed boring. Maybe it might have seemed monotonous, I don't know, I don't recall ever hearing her complain, she just did it, and did it with diligence. When my points went up in the paper, she wasn't recognized as "my rebounder" no one knew the effort she put in to help me, no one knew the help she, or others, put in for what I was doing. But you know what? I had need of her. She was a help to me for what I was doing, and us as a team, were trying to achieve. We as forwards, had need of all those guards, and we as the starting 6, had need of all those who sat on the bench; they encouraged us or relieved us when necessary. We were one team, and we were to be of one heart.
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| The year we were with one heart! |
The Lord has ministered to me many times about this particular ball team, and the other day was just another example. I was encouraged by what he was showing me, and ministering to me about those who rebounded.
Just as the scriptures said, the eye can't say to the hand, I have no need of thee. Every member has its function, and all members are required for the body to function. All members are to have the same care one for another, to be likeminded to be of one mind, working together as one body, and with the goal to see the power of God!
Luke 17:10
So likewise ye, when ye shall have done all those things which are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants: we have done that which was our duty to do.
God Bless You,
Misty
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