9/1/19 "Understanding The Spirit of Offense"

9/1/19

5 Minutes of Focus

"Understanding The Spirit of Offense"

Perhaps, You're like David. You're just a person out to do a good deed, but every good thing you do gets attacked and completely taken the wrong way.

Here, David was in 1 Samuel 17 delivering lunch to his brothers who were apart of the Israelite Army and in battle. While he was there, delivering them food and checking on them... He overhears something that peaked his interest. So, he decided to hang around a bit and ask questions.What did he do that for? OUCH!.

Because the minute, David's brother Eliab saw him there, he got offended and verbally lashed out at David, accusing him of being conceited in his actions.

When Eliab, David's oldest brother heard him speaking with the men, he burned with anger at him and ask, "Why have you come down here? And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know how conceited you are and how wicked your heart is; you came down only to watch the battle."

1 Samuel 17:28 NIV

You see, Beloved when a person is truly offended...They can't stand even the sound of your voice. Eliab got offended when he heard David speaking; they accuse you of everything imaginable and try to down play your accomplishments. 

Is that the way someone is currently treating you? But Why? ONE WORD: REJECTION.

Every little thing offends the rejected.

If you read your bible, you will recall that in 1 Samuel 16 Eliab was one of David's brothers rejected for the Kingship, a position that David ended up getting anointed for right there at the house in front of his brothers. 

So, A lot of Eliab's offensive behavior, his verbal attack on David came from his being rejected and David then receiving the position he wanted.

SOMEBODY: That person doesn't like you and verbally attacks you because they don't know how to deal with the rejection that happened to them.

I'm asking you today to have compassion on them and consider that they're really in more pain than what they're trying to inflict. 

Somewhere, there is a root cause of all their anger that has yet to be pulled up. Maybe, It is a David & Eliab situation. Who knows?.

Still, this is your prayer for them:

Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots. In Jesus name. 🙏Amen 📖 Matt 15:13 NIV

Pull it up Father...Deliver them.

And just so you know...David turned away from his brother's foolishness and went on to talk to somebody making sense.

Until Next Sunday.

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

8/31/19 "The Importance of Unity and Setting A Time"

8/31/19

The Month's Topic: The Imprtance of Unity and Setting A Time

Foundational Text:

Nehemiah Chapter 1

Artaxertes Sends Nehemiah to Jerusalem

Nehemiah 2:1-6 NIV

1 In the month of Nisian in the twentieth year of King Artaxertes, when wine was brought to him, I took the wine and gave it to the king. I had not been sad in his presence before,

2 so the king asked me, "Why does your face look so sad when you are not ill? This can be nothing but sadness of heart."

I was very much afraid,

3 but I said to the king, "May the king live forever! Why should my face not look sad when the city where my ancestors are buried lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?"

4 The king said to me, "What is it you want?

Then I prayed to the God in heaven,

5 and I answered the king, "If it pleases the king and if your servant has found favor in his sight, let him send me to the city in Judah where my ancestors are buried so that I can rebuild it."

6 Then the king with the queen sitting beside him, asked me,

" How long will your journey take, and when will you get back?" It pleased the king to send me; so I set a time.

This month,  I really just want to focus on the last verse, verse 6. ..I just love how the queen was right there, sitting beside the king hearing EVERYTHING said between her husband and Nehemiah.

The bible says: How good and pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in UNITY.

Psalm 133:1

Meditation Points:

If you want things to be good and pleasant in your home, whether it's among brethren, siblings, or husband and wife...There must be UNITY. You can't have one person saying one thing behind the other person's back (especially if you are parenting or co-parenting kids) and expect there to be UNITY.

The king said nothing behind the  queen's back.....She was sitting right there, when the king made the decision to send Nehemiah to rebuild the wall.

No secrets. Anything that needs to be said let it be said openly....Let decisions be made in UNITY. Present yourself as a united front in your marriage, in your parenting, in your home life, in your business, in your ministry, in general against the enemy (against the devil, wherever he attempts to rear his ugly head).

The queen was right there....She was not at home being submissive. She was by his side being submissive. 

Because when you are really in UNITY, you can trust that other person to represent you and they can trust you to do the same equally as well for them.

The second thing, I love about verse 6 of Nehemiah 2 is how Nehemiah set a time in which he would be back and the assignment would be complete. 

Somebody: You need to set a time and work with everything in you to stick to it.

Be goal oriented...And don't ever take for granted the opportunity you have been given. "Because nobody has to do anything for you." Seems like I've been hearing that phrase a lot lately.

So, If it pleased the king (God) to send you there, to let you be hired there...Then you owe it to him to set a time or if your boss has given you a time that he or she expects the work to be done, you owe it to God to honor their request. 

Work willingly at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people. 

Remember that the Lord will give you an inheritance as your reward, and that the Master you are serving is Christ. 

Coloss 3:23-24 NLT

The Lord will give you an inheritance as a reward for the work similar to, but MUCH GREATER than the inheritance the Prodigal Son's Father had for him.

Luke 15:11-24 NIV

So, In closing it's important to set a time (a goal) and to push yourself to achieve greater than your current status or current ability.

It's important to set a time to show respect and honor for God (the king), to show respect for your boss. Because again, nobody has to do anything for you.

The king didn't have to let Nehemiah leave his current position (working for him as a cupbearer) to go build a wall, but he did.

It's also important to be in Unity because the devil would like nothing more than to rob you of your potential, sabotage the potential of your marriage, your home life, your business, your ministry.

It's important to be in Unity and to set a time (a goal) because your kids need to see you doing it. Children follow and learn from what they see you doing as a parent and not just from what you say.

Beloved, Read and see what revelations the Holy Spirit will give you on Nehemiah Chapter 2 especially verse 6.

Until Next Month. 

LPS~ LOve, Prophetess Stacy 

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8/25/19 "What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You."

8/25/19

5 Minutes of Focus 

"What You Don't Know Won't Hurt You"

The old saying, " What you don't know won't hurt you" is such a lie.

What you don't know can unfairly alter your whole life. ...For it's only when you know better that one can truly do better.

Think about the famous quote by Harriet Tubman. Now, just imagine how many slaves she could have freed, if only they knew they were slaves. It all comes back to what you know and what you don't know.

And if we're honest, not knowing is what landed most of us right in the midst of dysfunction, thinking it's normal behavior  because by now, we have gotten so use to the way things are, that we don't even think to question it. Surely, this is the way everybody is living, behaving. Surely, there are no real Huxtables or Brady Bunches out there or is there?

The bible says: The first to state his case seems right until another comes and cross-examined him. Proverbs 18:17 Berean Study Bible 

Beloved, I know it seems right the way you've been raised to live, because at an early age that's the first thing that was presented to you.... But it's time that theory was cross-examined by Jeremiah...Because in Jere 29:11 CEV

The prophet, Jeremiah says on behalf of God: I will  bless you with a future filled with hope --- a future of success, not of suffering.

But that's just it, many of us have come  from a background of suffering, a background laced with some form of abuse and/or dysfunction; making it hard to believe anything better even exist.

SOMEBODY: You've been living pay check to pay check, living in debt, being a slave to the lender. Proverbs 22:7.

Not even realizing you are indeed "A 21st Century Slave." A slave that God wants to set free, a slave he wants to bless with a successful future...But again, in the words of Harriet Tubman:

"If only they knew they were slaves." So, don't tell me, what you don't know won't hurt you. Oh, yes it will.

A little food for thought...Hmmm 🤔

Until Next Sunday. LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

8/18/19 "I Have No Husband"

8/18/19

5 Minutes of Focus

"I Have No Husband"

The woman said to Jesus, " Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water."

He told her, "Go call your husband and come back."

"I have no husband, she replied."

Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say you have no husband."

John 4:15-17 NIV

Let's face it, if you're a certain age and still unmarried in this country....Society tries to make you feel ashamed; as though there's something wrong with you. You're the reason you still don't have a husband.

God is not like that, though. Jesus was not trying to make the woman at the well feel ashamed.

He seeked only to make her "honestly" aware....Aware that she didn't have a husband, but what she had was a situation, a living situation that was costing her time and energy. He wanted her to open her eyes and see that legally she hadn't changed, her last name was still the same. Though over the years she probably had changed emotionally after living, voluntarily with a man who only gave her a complicated status and nothing more.

Beloved, There is living water available to you. That's what Jesus was offering the woman at the well...Water that will stop your thirst to be emotionally fulfilled. You see, most of the time for us, as women, it's not about the sex or even the wedding day, but deep down we just want to be emotionally fulfilled.

And the woman at the well was totally missing the revelation Jesus was trying to drop on her concerning this.

She wanted Jesus to give her the water he spoke of, so that she wouldn't get thirsty again and have to come there to draw water.

When in reality, she would get thirsty naturally again and have to come there and draw herself some water. But what Jesus and his living water would do for her soul (her mind, her will, and her emotions) is fill her up and stop her from coming there (to that man's door), thirsting for acceptance, thirsting for emotional fulfillment.

God says, Open wide your mouth and I will fill it. 

Why your mouth?  Because your mouth represents your hunger, your thirst, and your voice/identity all of which are areas where you need to be fulfilled. 

Psalm 81:10 NIV

Read: John 4:1-29 NIV

Until Next Sunday.

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

8/11/19 "The Mobility Of Thank You "

8/11/19

5 Minutes of Focus 

"The Mobility Of Thank You"

Beloved, Have you ever given somebody something and you expected them to at least say, "Thank You?" Instead, they just looked at you in that moment and said EVERYTHING, but thank you.

Instantly, something in you that was mobile (moved with generosity) is now stagnant, stopping you and them from going any further. They appear to be ungrateful and you don't know what to make of it; so you don't.  You don't say anything.

However, "Thank You" was meant to be mobile, a common courtesy that would work in the natural with man, you, and me and in the spirit realm with God as well. 

A simple thank you is often times all it takes for the person to be even more generous towards you the next time; just knowing that what they gave (contributed) the first time did matter.

That's from the natural realm of course, but in the spirit realm....

Did you know, "Thank You" is the key to unlocking more and moving you from the gates (entry level) to the courts (inner courts)  of God? In other words, a heart-felt thank you gets you in, takes you in...I dare you to praise him with a sincere  "Thank You" on your lips right now. 🙌 See what I mean.

Psalm 100:4 AMPC

Enter into His gates with thanksgiving. And a thank offering and into His courts with praise! BE THANKFUL AND SAY SO TO HIM.

SIDE NOTE: Thanks is something that's supposed to be given. Therefore give it, open your mouth and say so to him.

Yet, some of you wonder why things are not moving a long as rapidly as you had expected. TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT YOU'RE ACTIONS ARE PROTRAYING BY WHAT YOU'RE NOT SAYING. If you're thankful....The scripture says: You must say so to Him.

Why else would God have given us each other to practice the common courtesy of "Thank You" on? It's because thank you really is the key to so much more than we know. The message bible says it like this:

Psalm 100:4 MSGEnter with the password: "Thank You!"

It's the password, it's the key which makes me wonder, how many things, situations could you have bypassed, if you would've just had a thankful heart (towards God) and said so?

Food for thought.

Until Next Sunday.LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

8/4/19 "Wasted Time "

8/4/19 

5 Minutes Of Focus

"Wasted Time"

Then GOD assigned a huge fish to swallow Jonah. Jonah was in the fish's belly three days and nights.

Jonah 1:17 MSG

To us, three days and three nights generally means 72 hours, but we must understand the Bible historically and culturally. For the Jewish mind, this could mean any part of the first day, all of the second day and any part of the third day.Nevertheless, Jonah wasted time.He wasted time running...And just so you know, God by nature is not wasteful and he doesn't like it when we are either.

The scripture says: When they had all had enough to eat, he (Jesus) said to his disciples, "Gather the pieces that are left over. Let nothing be wasted.

John 6:12 NIV

Let nothing be wasted. Why? Because God is not wasteful. He's always gathering the left over pieces of our broken hearts and healing each heart that would dare come to him, turn to him, healing our broken hearts piece by piece.

BELOVED, I KNOW YOU DON'T THINK YOU GOT THROUGH THAT divorce, that breakup, that funeral, that illness, got through the loss of that job, and having no place to stay on your own?

No, that was God not wanting your emotions, not wanting your tears to be all for nothing, so he healed you. He heals the brokenhearted.  Psalm 147:3, He bottles your tears. Psalm 56:8 NLT, In Jere 30:17 He (God) promises to restore your health and heal your wounds.

Still, some of us haven't learned yet, because after God heals us...Some of us go back into the same relationship re-infecting the wound, the hurt, hanging with the same kind of people and find ourselves back in a situation yet again, wasting time like Jonah running in the wrong direction, when what God has for us is over here, not there.

And if it's not there....Then guess what? You shouldn't be either. God says, Stop wasting time, gather up what's left over and move on. Stop re-infecting the wound after I have healed you. Let nothing be wasted...Amen.

Until Next Sunday.

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy