11/29/20 "Don't Be Left Holding The Bag "

11/29/20

5 Minutes of Focus 

"Don't  Be Left Holding The Bag"

Hear Me: You can't afford to be the one left holding the bag, and that's exactly what's going to happen. They're not going to pay the loan and the creditors are going to start calling you for the money.

Beloved, it's biblical for you NOT to be the one left holding the bag.

DON'T LET THEM USE YOU LIKE THAT pandemic or no pandemic. 

You're not a cash register; especially in this season. They can't just be ringing up debt on you like that.

God says,

Don’t promise to pay what someone else owes, and don’t guarantee anyone’s loan. If you cannot pay the loan, your own bed may be taken right out from under you. 

Proverbs 22:26‭-‬27 NCV 

That's what happened to the woman, the wife (turned widow), the mother of 2 in  2 Kings 4:1-7 NLT

She was left holding the bag after her husband died. The creditors were not sampthathic to her situation, but showed up looking for repayment and threaten to take her 2 sons (all she had left of her husband biologically) and make them slaves, if she didn't pay. 

So, she sought the help of Elisha, a fellow prophet who knew her husband and knew what he stood for....And what I love is that her financial troubles FORCED her into a little family owned business. She & her sons bottled and sold oil out of their house.

Still, I say to SOMEBODY: Unless you're ready for you financial troubles to INCREASE and FORCE you to go into business selling whatever you got (a little oil is what the woman had)....Then, don't co-sign for nobody.

You might not have a lot of money, but you have excellent credit. Don't let people mess up your credit. You don't have to buy friendships or family relationships and be the one left holding the bag when it gets too expensive. 

Go into business for yourself because you want to, NOT because you were trying to please them and got FORCED into it.

There's a HUGE difference between being a lender (blessing people) vs actually co-signing for someone, agreeing to pay their debt.

Deut 15:6, Deut 28:12

Lenders can afford to lend.

Co-signers are FORCED to pay, if that person doesn't, FORCED to borrow oil from neighbors etc.

Until Next Sunday.

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

11/22/20 "Relationships"

11/22/20

5 Minutes of Focus 

"Relationships"

The bible says:  Do not be envious of evil men, Nor desire to be with them; 

Proverbs 24:1 NKJV 

The NLT says: Don’t desire their company. 

But still you desire to be with them, you know they're not good for you, but still you desire to be with them, you desire their company.

You're still finding creative ways to reach out to them, just to have them be apart of your life, really it makes no sense to your educated mind. You're smarter than that, but still you're doing just  that.

I don't understand... What's the attraction?  Is there a need inside of you so great that keeps causing you to fall for the same type of evil?

What is it? Help me understand.

Help me understand how Eve in Genesis 3 could spend all that time talking to the serpent and feel  comfortable doing so. Even though, she had a husband.

Is your need for companionship so great that you would lower your standards, just to be heard and feel like you matter to somebody? 

Because maybe the somebody you're with has started taking you for granted.

Help me understand. What's the attraction? Maybe, like Eve you're blind to the fact that they're subtly playing with your mind and pulling you away from God. 

God, who promised (as long as you remain) in Christ, he would withhold NO GOOD THING from you. So it's not God. It's what you're willingly, unknowingly are doing to yourself. 

God, who promised in Christ to give you the secret petitions of your heart.

Psalm 37:4 AMPC, Psalm 84:11 NKJ

Relationships‼ 👀

Let me pray for you.

Father God,

Break soul ties, starve out bad connections & ungodly situations during this pandemic, shutdown season. Cause their emotions to supernaturally reset, feelings to shift. Not by their might, nor their power, but by YOUR SPIRIT. 

Zech 4:6 

In Jesus name,

Amen

Until Next Sunday.

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy

11/15/20 "Chasing After The Wind"

11/15/20

5 Minutes of Focus 

" Chasing After The Wind"

If still at your age, something in you feels unfulfilled. You're chasing money, chasing things, chasing what you think is the American dream and still for all your hard work, something is missing.

Society even has you thinking that you will be fulfilled when you get that husband or that wife....and you believe the hype. So, lately you've been coming across as "thirsty." which tells me, You need more than what you have been taught to think you need.

As did the woman in John 4 who had already been through 5 failed marriages and was currently living with a man who was not her husband...None of those relationships fulfilled her.  She was still thirsty, she was still at the well, looking to quench her thirst, when she met Jesus. 

After she met Jesus, things changed. He fulfilled her. She didn't go home to that man that didn't fulfill her, but IMMEDIATELY she went back into town to tell the people about Jesus.

She had found her calling as an Evangelist.

John 4:1-29 NIV

SOMEBODY: Invest MORE time and effort into your relationship with Jesus. When he truly fulfills you, you will find your calling.

Even if you had more money....Then what? Boaz was wealthy, but he still needed to step into his role as a type of Christ, as a kinsman redeemer. In order to be fulfilled and really be of help to Ruth, Boaz had to connect with that part of him that was most like Jesus. 

Ruth 3:1-13 NIV, • Kinsman (Redeemer) in the KJV.

Simply Put: Find Jesus, get fulfilled, and from a full cup find your calling.

You've been searching  EMPTY, searching THIRSTY.  Beloved, It don't work like that.

Don't end up like Solomon at end of your days saying:

I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.  Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. 

Ecclesiastes 2:10‭-‬11 NIV 

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~ Love, Prophetess Stacy

11/8/20 "A Place Called Bethesda "

11/8/20

5 Minutes of Focus

"A Place Called Bethesda"

Afterward Jesus returned to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish holy days. Inside the city, near the Sheep Gate, was the pool of Bethesda, with five covered porches.

Crowds of sick people—blind, lame, or paralyzed—lay on the porches.

John 5:1‭-‬3 NLT

What I love about the text is the people...All the different people represented; people with all kinds of physical conditions, but yet they were all together in ONE PLACE, a place called Bethesda (at the pool) with ONE AGENDA. They were all trying to get healed.

How I wish, we here in America would realize the need for us all to be together, that we can all be together whatever the color of our skin, whatever our political views are, whatever condition we're currently in without fighting, without bickering...

Because at the end of the day, we're all just here on earth, trying to heal from some type of condition, some type of circumstance or situation...We're all just trying to heal from something.

Mentally, we're all at a place, at a pool called Bethesda trying to heal, trying to get some things right.

So, really we don't have room to talk about each other, to make fun of each other...When we all are imperfect and flawed in some way. Like the people that qualified to be at Bethseda, there is blindness in the land, lameness in the land, we have been a paralyzed people for too long.

The bible says: Do not give the devil an opportunity.

Ephesians 4:27 NET

Therefore, It's time to stop making room for the devil with all the fighting and bickering and realize we are one and the same in so many ways.

This a clarion call for peace, for healing....

Stop being bitter and angry and mad at others. Don't yell at one another or curse each other or ever be rude.

Ephesians 4:31 CEV

Beloved, Simply put: Behave better than that, especially if you're a Christian and allow the real healing to begin.

Selah (Pause & Think about that!)

Until Next Sunday.

LPS~Love , Prophetess Stacy

11/1/20 "He Worked A Miracle "

11/1/20

5 Minutes of Focus 

"He Worked A Miracle"

BELOVED, Stop looking at what  you're lacking or all the places you keep coming up short, because even in that....If you would just do whatever Jesus tells you to do without hesitation, what you get back will be better than what you had at first.

In Cana, they ran out of wine at a wedding Jesus just happened to be attending.  Coincidence? I think not!  Now Jesus could have just let the wine shortage be, and ruin the celebration for all who were in attendance, but he didn't. 

John 2:1-11 NIV

Instead, He worked a miracle right there in their midst....Even though, he had said to his mother (who was also there). “Woman, why do you involve me?”  “My hour has not yet come.”

Still, he worked a miracle....It wasn't his time yet to be OPENLY manifested as The Messiah. But still, he used the water they had to create the wine they needed.

John 2:4 NIV

He provided what they needed...

Even though, it could have possibly exposed him as The Messiah because only The Messiah could work a miracle like that...He took a chance and did it anyways.

Not to please his mother, or to prove anything to anybody...But Jesus turned water into wine, because THE GOD in him couldn't deny the need of the people, people whom He was sitting among at the wedding.

Simply Put: If you invite Jesus in, the way that he was Invited to that wedding in Cana...If you keep yourself in His Presence, THE GOD in him will not be able to deny your needs.

The Apostle Paul put it like this: I am convinced that my God will fully satisfy every need you have, for I have seen the abundant riches of glory revealed to me through the Anointed One, Jesus Christ!

Philippians 4:19 TPT

Selah- Pause & Think About That!

Until Next Sunday. 

LPS~Love, Prophetess Stacy