One of the hardest things to do as a servant of God, is to wait everything out for the completion of His plans in the coming of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
I’ve been told over and over again by the Holy Spirit, especially in these past few months to exercise restraint, patience, and to continue to trust in what the Lord needs to do before His return.
The reason why it has taken thousands of years for everything to play out according to God‘s will, and His Word, is because as humans we would not be able to handle it if it happened any quicker.
However, a few of us who are really spiritually paying attention, have discerned that the signs of the times not only are increasing, but we can sense the days now being shortened as we get closer to the Time of the End.
🙏❤️HOLD ON, dear one. The Lord knows how much we are struggling here. He knows every time we break down and cry. He knows that we are slowly losing our patience here with all the evil that is increasing around us. He does realize how frustrating it is! ✨Remember✨, the Lord Jesus went through similar situations while He lived here, especially in those last few years of His life here.
We just have to be patient and trust Him a little while longer before the Time of the End, then finally, His return. Everything will be played out according to what has been written.
No matter what evil schemes mankind and the demonic realm comes up with, the Lord is always thousands of steps ahead of them!!
Stay faithful, beloved! Let God‘s written ✡️📖✝️Word strengthen, comfort, and embolden you in these last days! Maranatha, Yeshua!😭🙏❤️✝️
It is amazing how when I had the talk with the Lord yesterday morning, and He stated to me (it was sometime after 4am at that point, I think) that “There will be more martyrs for the Faith”–pertaining to the coming Last Days and all that is yet to be fulfilled in His Word (Daniel, Revelation, Joel, etc.), I immediately just assumed He was mentioning sometime in the future. Ok, no big deal, I knew that from what was written in the Scriptures.
I just assumed as I was getting more sleepy and wanted to go back to sleep yesterday morning (after being up for the past hour or so), that what the LORD was telling me, was WAY in the future; it pretty much always has been, when He has told me things pertaining to futuristic events.
I got up, went to the bathroom, and stayed up thinking about what he said until almost 5am, and then finally went back to sleep. It IS common knowledge to a believer that has read the ✡️📖✝️WHOLE counsel of God, that IN the coming Days of the Tribulation–whenever that will be–there WILL be MANY souls who will give up their lives for Christ, and NOT partake in the Anti Christ’s demonic schemes.
MANY martyrs of the Faith will go Home to the Lord Jesus during that horrific Time here on Earth. I was well aware of that biblical FACT.
BUT–WHO KNEW less than 12 HOURS LATER, what the Lord said to me earlier that morning, was about to come to pass. THAT has NEVER happened to me before–something prophetic told to me and within 24 HOURS–it happened!!
The LORD God in all His mysterious wisdom, allowed the life of CHARLIE KIRK to be taken from us, assassinated because he was a faithful servant of God, someone who loved and cared enough about this nation to do all that he did in his short lifespan here, and spoke the Word of God in TRUTH and in LOVE, to those who either longed to hear what he said, while others hated him for it.
I’ve been crying and somewhat still in shock and numb since this all happened. I KNEW it was DEMONIC–I KNEW the Lord’s hand was all over this–it always is–NOTHING gets past Him, but HE DID ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN.
I knew Charlie’s assassination was not all for nought, that is was not done in vain; the LORD God my Father HAD a good REASON and PURPOSE for allowing such a horrific thing to happen.
I said to the LORD–“Abba, You NEED to allow us to have the resolve to do something about this–fight back with Your Word, and PLEASE EXPOSE the EVIL behind all of this!!” LET THE PEOPLE of this nation KNOW what DEMONIC entities are behind all the evil here! GIVE us the STRENGTH and DETERMINATION to fight back, but in the way YOU want us to!!”😭🙏
THEN, just before I was turning in last night, I saw this post from Trey Smith. I would look at it again this morning, to find out what Trey was talking about. See the link above from YouTube.
IT was about the DEMONIC entities that ARE over this nation, and how we need to pray spiritual warfare prayers to FIGHT BACK against them.
IT WAS about CHARLIE KIRK, and how a young man who loved the Lord Jesus and this nation, was targeted for his faith, and assassinated right before our eyes.
The demons think they’ve won. They took out a major servant of God “out”–so they think.
What they REALLY did (and this is why the LORD God allowed it happen)–is make the REST OF US who already have been in this VERY 👿SUPERNATURAL 🛡️SPIRITUAL ⚔️WARFARE–become even MORE resolved to 😡NEVER BACK DOWN, no MATTER what the evil ones throw at us–
And ALSO–I am VERY sure, that there are THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS–possibly even a million or two people–that just became more ARDENT FOLLOWERS of ✝️Christ, BECAUSE of what happened to Charlie Kirk yesterday.
⚔️WE MUST TAKE BACK OUR GOD-GIVEN RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES to speak out our ✡️📖✝️faith, SHOW IT any way we can, PREACH the WORD anytime, anywhere, and not let ANYONE shut us down for it!!
ALSO–those who HATE ✡️GOD, the Lord JESUS ✝️CHRIST, and HIS 📖WORD–and want to either silence us because they are atheists, humanists, satanists and/or worse yet, worship and serve another god/goddess (Allah/Ba’al/Baphomet/Apollyon/Chemosh/Molech, etc. Athena/Diana/Minerva/Ishtar/Innana/Venus, etc.)—I 😡have words for them-
YOU WILL NOT SILENCE US!! YOU WILL NOT STRIP US OF OUR RESOLVE! YOU WILL NOT BREAK US!! YOU WILL NOT TAKE FROM US, THE VERY SPIRIT OF THE LIVING MOST ✡️HIGH GOD AND HIS SON!! YOU WILL BOW DOWN YOUR KNEES TO THE LORD JESUS ✝️CHRIST; YOU WILL CALL📖 HIM “LORD”; YOU WILL END UP IN THE ETERNAL 🔥FIRES–EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU WHO TURNED HIS BACK ON THE MOST HIGH, AND SOUGHT TO DESTROY THE VERY HUMAN BEINGS HE MADE “IN HIS IMAGE”!!
YOU HAVE ALREADY LOST, DEMONIC 👿ENTITIES!! YOU ALREADY HAVE LOST, HA SATAN AND REBELLIOUS ANGELS!!! YOU ARE DESTINED FOR THE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥ETERNAL FIRES, FOREVER AND EVER!
Charlie Kirk was DESTINED to a certain 🙏PATH the LORD God laid out for him long ago. HE CHOSE to walk that Path, praise God. He became the man of God the Lord Jesus PRAYED for him to be (see John 17); Jesus prayed for ALL of us to walk a certain Path for Him, giving us certain callings and purpose to LIVE FOR ✡️📖✝️HIM and daily LIVE OUT His Word.
Charlie did that. EVEN Carlos Acutis did that, and at such a precious young age, and thank God that he did–many a Gen Z’er and Millennial have now TWO young men to look up to–although they were both sinners, and KNEW they needed a Savior; BUT–they followed the Path the LORD God set out for them IN FAITH and trusting Him, not knowing how it would end. They fought a good fight, they finished their individual race here on Earth.
They are NOW where I so long😭💔to be–at HOME with the LORD God, His Son, and all our Family of brothers and sisters in the Faith that have gone before us.
ALL we need to do, beloved, is to WALK the PATH the the LORD GOD destined for us. 🙏📖ASK, SEEK, and KNOCK–the LORD Jesus WILL direct you on that Path, to do whatever it is HE called you to do. Charlie and Carlos (just two examples)–two brave men who loved their Lord (both with essentially😃😄 the SAME NAME–I just realized that!) found out what THEIR individual PATHS were to be, and WALKED those Paths, until the Lord JESUS called them to their heavenly✨HOME.
YOU who are the Lord’s–GO OUT AND DO THE SAME!!! DO NOT ALLOW the evil in this world to put FEAR in you!!! DO NOT allow ANY human being to STOP you from answering the CALL of GOD in YOUR LIFE!!
MY individual CALLING has been a tough one–1)in the office of a Prophet, to “inform and warn” everyone of what is written in His ✡️📖✝️Word–preaching the WHOLE counsel of God, and 2)Dealing with Spiritual Warfare, the supernatural spiritual realm–both the angelic, demonic, and everything in between. NO ONE in their 😫right mind would choose such paths. I 🙁most certainly didn’t, but that’s why I “Jonahed” out of there 😞for a time, and then 🙏totally SURRENDERED to the Lord back in December of 2016, and it has been a WILD RIDE of on this Path of FAITH and TRUST in Him ever since.
BUT–the LORD JESUS has been walking right beside me, holding my hand as I am “Walking in the Dark with FAITH”–FAITH in HIM and HIS📖 WORD that 🙏upholds me, strengthens me, encourages ❤️me, emboldens ❤️🔥me, comforts ❤️🩹me, and makes me the 🛡️⚔️WARRIOR I AM IN ✡️📖✝️HIM, TODAY.
🛡️⚔️BE THE WARRIOR OF GOD THAT HE HAS CALLED YOU TO BE.
BE A CHARLIE. BE A CARLOS. BE a JOAN of ARC. BE a BENEDICT. BE a JOHN VIANNEY. BE a PADRE PIO. Be a GEMMA. BE A MARY. BE A PAUL. BE A STEPHEN. BE AN ANDREW and PETER and MATTHEW and ELIJAH, and JEREMIAH, and SAMUEL, and AMOS, and DAVID, and MOSES, etc.
❤️🔥🙏BE WHO THE LORD GOD CALLED YOU TO BE. And do not let ANYONE ever tell you otherwise, who or what you are. YOU are a CHILD of the LIVING GOD. YOU, beloved, have PURPOSE. YOU are ❤️LOVED by the MOST HIGH GOD. YOUR LIFE COUNTS!
NOW GO–be that man or woman of God that HE DESTINED for you to be, in JESUS’ MIGHTY NAME.
This is my store on Zazzle store—“Faith In The Dark”. I know I have shared this a few times in the past couple of weeks, but with more new items being in the store, and surprisingly, there are quite a few people out there that still don’t know I even have a store on Zazzle, I will continue to share this.
I’m still waiting for AMAZON to work out the kinks (for my URL) in trying to share my Author’s 📚Page, but until then you could just go on Amazon, and look my name up or the title of my 📚books (“Walking in the Dark With FAITH”), to see the four books I currently have on there for sale.
It’s amazing how different this link shares between the social media platforms… this time I’m sharing it from the ZAZZLE app on my phone.
PLEASE go and see all the newer items I have just added; there will be more to come! THANK ❤️YOU to the few people who have either visited my store, and have also FOLLOWED ME on Zazzle as well.
You can do the same at my Author’s page on Amazon—in fact, I would be most grateful if you would click on the follow button!! It would mean so much to me! And if you either have purchased a book from me in the past, or do purchase one now, I would also truly appreciate you leaving a written review.
The idea of being a “starving artist was never part of what I chose for myself. Who honestly would want to go through seven years of college and grad work in a seminary like I just have, write dozens and dozens of papers, work hard to get the grades I did and the degrees I was awarded, and then end up not even being able to get a job at places where I have almost the exact qualifications and experience the companies/ministries/schools are looking for?
I was told seven years ago by an HR manager that even though my resume showed, I had the qualifications to do the job I applied for at Rider College, unfortunately the associate degree wouldn’t be enough— these days, she said, I definitely would need to have at least a bachelor’s degree in order to get any good paying job. So September 2018 I started on this college journey again, and I haven’t stopped until this June, 2025. I have tried several times over the past few years in Pennsylvania and now the almost 2 years I’ve been back in New Jersey, to get at least a part-time job that has something to do with all the hard work I put into at school.
The LORD OPENS AND CLOSES (or KEEPS those doors closed) the “doors 🚪of opportunity” in our lives (see Revelation 3:7-8). For whatever reason that right now is not altogether humanly understood by me, this is the way the LORD wants it to be…and HE has the final “say so” on EVERYTHING.
But then again, I’m sure Paul the Apostle didn’t think his tent ⛺️ making (see Acts 18:1-4) would have to be a major part of his life-the part of the life the LORD God chose for him, not what he chose for himself. But, since Paul surrendered all to the Lord Jesus, and I have done that myself several years ago, we have had to walk on the Path HE chose for us, in FAITH, trusting that no matter how grim it may look sometimes, He IS in control, He knows what is best for us, and He WILL provide.
I am not thrilled to have to rely on such an unstable income, along with writing my 📚 books. But that’s what the LORD put in my Path to do, while concentrating on sharing His Word-and some of it is definitely not welcomed by human ears to hear—which makes all of this that much more difficult to do as His servant.
BUT—the message of the ENTIRE WORD ✡️📖✝️of God must be heard. We cannot “cut out” the parts we don’t like or agree with. I am like my brother in the Faith, Paul, who said, “Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all, for I did not shrink from declaring to you THE WHOLE COUNSEL OF GOD” (Acts 20:26-27). The Lord Jesus will deal with those who refused to heed His📖Word on the Day of ⚖️Judgment(see Revelation 20:11-15).
THOSE artistic skills and abilities that He has placed in me to use, are to the LORD more “doors 🚪of opportunity” to reach thousands, and hopefully millions more, with His Word and message of REPENTANCE, HOPE, SALVATION, and REDEMPTION.
Until He knows I am done with my service here to Him, I will continue to walk the Path in the Dark with the FAITH I have in Him, holding His hand, knowing that He will always be faithful “to complete that good work in me, until the Day of Jesus Christ” (Phil. 1:6)
🙄Well, you can only put off the inevitable for so long…🫤
Lord knows I’ve been up to my ears these last seven years with my undergrad and grad studies, reading more than a 📚📚few dozen books, journal articles, etc. along the way, researching and writing 📄several papers 📃to boot.
My 😑mind, even during the breaks in between classes, could not seem to relax 😓long enough, and before I knew it, another semester would begin, and the stress to finish each class with a decent grade would start all over again.
During what I initially thought would only be a five month break before school began again in August, I asked the Lord to help me decide whether or not I should continue in my PhD program. I had recently found out through Liberty Academic Advising that EACH of the last three courses (Stage 3) of the program were one whole semester long, AND— there was a very good chance that between the second and third classes, the student would have to REPEAT that entire semester because those are the semesters where they are working on the chapters of their dissertation. They wouldn’t be able to move forward until their mentor said that they were ready. Talk about added stress!!🙄🤦♀️ I shuddered at the thought of just how much longer this would take me to complete the whole program. I would be in my mid 60s by the time the program would be completed…
I was 😣already hanging on by a thread mentally and emotionally this last year and a half, especially since having to move back to New Jersey and helping out my family member, giving up my apartment in the area I loved, and my job in the process. But, this is where the Lord assigned me to be. I had to be the obedient servant and soldier, and go where the Captain of the Host sent me.
But, nevertheless, I left the decision up to the Lord God. I surrendered everything to the Lord at the beginning of this FAITH journey in 2016, and since HE was the one who insisted on me returning to college back in September 2018, I felt He should be the One to say when it all should end.
Well, finding out this past month that I reached the maximum amount of my Financial Aid, and suddenly having no way to pay for the rest of my PhD program OR the majority of my bills, sent my stress level rising to new heights (my blood 🩺pressure 🩸numbers were not good, and I never even had blood pressure issues!!). I was not in a good place.😣😞💔
But, the Lord DID answer my question, didn’t He? In His 🙄usual and sudden, abrupt way of doing things,😏the Lord placed me back on this continual journey of mine—walking in the DARK, not knowing how my FINANCIAL situation was going to improve. But that is where the 🙏FAITH part once again, comes in.
I loved going to school; I loved learning, especially about the Bible and the ancient languages on an academic level, in order to take all that I’ve learned and put that knowledge towards my book writing, and also the deliverance ministry counseling that I just began. I continue to pray that people will one day begin to reach out to me with whatever issues they are having, to find out if there is a spiritual “root” to their problems (there usually is!). My desire is to get the person the help they need, whether it’s through my specific skill set or helping them find a biblical counselor, deliverance minister, or even an exorcist, that can further aid them on their healing journey of particular darker spiritual issues.
There’s so much that I’ve learned about the spiritual realm and how the dark forces keep people in bondage in so many ways, but the good part is that there are biblical solutions to those issues, and I pray that I can be part of someone being delivered, set free and healed in the power and authority of the Lord Jesus Christ through this deliverance ministry. WITDWF Deliverance Ministry is a NON-licensed, Biblically -based, Holy Spirit-led counseling service. I cannot “charge” people for my services; I can only accept financial donations. Please see the attached pics of my brochure to learn more about it.
But in the meantime — although I am honestly a bit reluctant to do this— I will be working on the third and final installment of my book series, “Walking In the Dark With FAITH”, and a couple other devotional book projects as well. The one thing that the 👿enemy keeps beating 😖down on me to this day, is that I’m a self-published author that nobody cares about, and that no one is interested in reading what I’ve written or shared about my life, etc. Those evil 😈spirits are relentless in their attacks!
BUT— then I am reminded by the Holy🕊️ Spirit that it was the ✡️Lord ✝️Himself Who placed me on this path to writing, first with the blog page back in March 2017, and then some months later telling me He wanted me to do this book series on my life. So it IS and always has been, part of His plan and purpose for my life. Besides, how many prophets in the Bible were well off financially, and didn’t have a care in the world about what the Lord was going to assign them to do next??🙄 Exactly. 😏
Like the Lord recently reminded me in the midst of my current financial situation—the book writing was never supposed to be a huge 💲💲💲money maker( though it would be a blessing to my financial situation if people bought my books to just support me in my journey!🙄🙏). YET He knew that if I did this through faith and obedience and all the hard work that comes along with it, the few that do read my books will come to realize that it truly was a Holy Spirit-inspired faith journey that was helping to make me into the spiritually mature servant of God, that the Lord destined for me to be all along. And, HE Himself would send more people my way to discover the book series and the help I would like to provide to them in my deliverance ministry. ☺️❤️In the meantime, as it is written, HE would (as He has always been!) be Jehovah Jireh—my Provider. 🙏❤️✡️📖✝️
So, in the midst of having to read approximately another 16 or so books that are sitting on my desk right now, to assist me in both my writing and deliverance ministry endeavors, I will pick up where I left off a few years ago, and complete the third 📗book in my series.
I am already jotting down notes for what would have been my 📓dissertation book about the Most High God, the Triune Godhead, the Divine Council Worldview, and how humanity was divinely made in the image of God; how we were always meant to be eternally part of His heavenly kingdom and council, through the sacrifice and shed blood on the Cross by our Lord Jesus Christ. It’ll be a while before this one is finished, but I have a feeling that the books I’ve worked on already and all the schooling I had, were just “putting my feet in the water” and preparing me as they say, to work on this massive 📝writing project. 
Finally, I’m leaning towards having a Facebook page primarily for my book writing, spiritual warfare and deliverance ministry. Other authors, writers, and people who are truly interested in learning more about the topics I speak and write on, especially when it comes to spiritual warfare, deliverance, and my faith journey, can find me on that page as well as visit my WITDWF (“Walking in the Dark With FAITH”) blog page which is listed in my bio.
Thank 🥰you all for taking out the time to read all of this; and for those of you who have supported me in the past, especially when purchasing my books, I pray that you will continue to do so in the future, as well as be a regular visitor and subscriber to my blog page. I seriously do need all the support I can get. 🙏❤️✡️📖✝️
From Today’s Liturgy of the Hours-“Lauds” (Morning)—Ps. 143:9 reminds us how the LORD God is WHO can and WILL be our Deliverer of our enemies, IF we put our trust in Him.
For those who believe, He IS our Refuge and Who saves us from our enemies.
Even though we may go through terrible tribulations here while living out our daily lives, the LORD God One Day through His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, will make His enemies—both human and spiritual—His “footstool” (Ps. 110:1).
He will triumph over all evil (Col. 2:15) at the End of Days (Rev. 17:14).
We may not see it happen as quickly as we would like, BUT the LORD WILL AVENGE (Deut. 32:35; Rom. 12:19) at the appointed Time.
So do not be discouraged, beloved; the LORD God Most High sees and hears and knows ALL that is going on. He does not shut His eyes for one SECOND.
Isaiah 1:24 states, “Therefore the LORD declares, the LORD of Hosts (Adonai Tseva’ot), the Mighty One of ISRAEL: “Ah, I will get relief from My enemies and AVENGE Myself on My foes.”
For now, until That Day comes, let us pray and act out in faith, hope, and trust in what vv. 10-12 says- “Teach me to do Your will, for YOU are my God! Let Your good SPIRIT lead me (Jn. 16:13; 14:26; 15:26) on level ground! For Your Name’s sake, O LORD, preserve my life! In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble! And in Your steadfast love You will CUT OFF my enemies, and You will DESTROY all the adversaries of my soul, for I am Your servant.”
For all of you who hate certain human beings for no reason whatsoever, just because they are who they are—
If you think for one second that the Lord Jesus is going to forgive you of your sins on the Day of Judgment, THINK AGAIN.
I am sending out a loving warning via the Holy 🕊️Spirit once again, because there are billions of human beings that hold onto bitterness, anger, unforgiveness, resentment, and hatred so much, it is eating them up and destroying their souls.
If you do NOT hand all of this viral demonic poison over to the Lord God and ask Him to change your stone cold, hardened hearts NOW, tomorrow may be too late.
Though we can see, hear, and know a person’s “fruit”, LET GOD ALONE be the ultimate JUDGE of them.
PRAY to the Most High for forgiveness and deliverance of all that demonic poison you carry around in you, and allow HIM TODAY to teach you how to LOVE ONE ANOTHER, in spite of all our faults and failures, while you still have breath in you. 🙏❤️✡️📖✝️🕊️
Miriam/Mary—a young Jewish woman who was betrothed to Yussef/Joseph, technically married but had not yet consummated the marriage at this point, had every right to ask the angel Gabriel HOW this was to be done to her (Lk 1:34). After all, Mary KNEW what would be done to those women who had children out of wedlock…
BUT putting that fear aside, and TRUSTING in the MOST HIGH GOD El Elyon, who SHE ALREADY RECOGNIZED AS HER SAVIOR, Mary said, “YES” to her CALLING. “Let it be done to me ACCORDING TO THY WILL.”
Can WE act out in the same strength of FAITH and TRUST in God in whatever the Lord has called us to do in this life, that mother Mary that day showed(and later on, Joseph as well to go ahead and trust the Lord in all of this!)?
Can we that proclaim Christ as our Savior and Lord, put our very LIVES on the line, even if it meant certain DEATH?
Mary did. So did Joseph.
Let’s be like MARY, and say, “YES” when the LORD asks us in the VERY near future, to do very hard things—much harder than this world has ever seen.
🙏🏼❤️May we endure to the end as Mary and Joseph did, and who received the honor due them down the millennia of being CHOSEN as the parents of the Most High God’s Son—the Savior of the World, Who WILL RETURN…SOON.✡️📖✝️🕊️
I was in my late teens–around 17-19 years old, when I thought having an experience of LITERALLY hearing the Voice of the LORD God like the Prophet Samuel did, would be an awesome experience. I prayed to the LORD to allow it to happen for quite some time, and one night, it happened…
I was dead asleep, and I awoke to a man’s voice calling my name out–“JEANNETTE MARCELLI”; JEANNETTE MARCELLI”–😯I suddenly woke up, and what I thought I was hearing in my dream, was LOUD and CLEAR in my bedroom!🫢I was stunned, to say the least!
But immediately, I remembered Samuel’s experience, and realized that the LORD was answering MY prayer!😀 I called out, repeating the same words that Samuel spoke–“Speak; for your servant hears you.” Once that happened, I thanked the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, for allowing me to hear His Voice. That was the only time (so far) in my life, that I audibly heard His Voice. But boy, was that some wake up call!😐😊✡️📖✝️🕊️💖
When I turned 19 years old, I was “officially” called into the ministry, in the office of a Prophet, and I reluctantly accepted the “position”. I knew what opposition there was going to be with family, friends, and whatever else the evil ones could throw at me, especially at such a young age, when you are trying to establish yourself in this world. I wanted to obey the LORD’s Voice, and do what was called of me to do…
But by the time I neared the end of my 20th year, I started turning down a road that was NOT where the Lord wanted me to go; I worried more about what relationships I was going to have, and foolishly spending my hard earned money, instead of saving and tithing it as I should have. Within the next 5 years, my life changed dramatically–I became an unwed mother, losing both of my parents to their diseases, stopped going to school because of poor life choices, and was stuck on a crooked road, nowhere near where the LORD wanted me to go, or to serve Him in the capacity I was supposed to.
It took the next 30+ years and two divorces plus moving here and there, for me to realize that the LORD God’s voice was the ONE voice I should have listened to, and OBEYED; He knew where He was leading me, but I didn’t trust Him enough to do what He called me to do. Even though I did end up serving Him in other capacities like in a church praise and worship team, or going on a few global outreaches, because of the crooked path I was on, and the relationships I got myself into, I was not able to be used of Him the way HE destined for me.
December of 2016, was the time He chose to give me yet another opportunity to serve Him, but THIS time, He made sure I realized it had to be ALL or NOTHING. I CHOSE to serve Him WHOLEHEARTEDLY (Deut. 10:12; 1 Chron. 28:9; Ps. 119:2; Jer. 24:7; Mark 12:30), because serving Him half-heartedly, while doing what I WANTED to do in this world, only got me into major trouble! So I surrendered ALL to Him that night during that very emotional, tearful, and heart-wrenching time of prayer and reflection…
That night, the LORD put me back on the RIGHT PATH He initially chose for me. It’s been 7 YEARS since then, and those who know me (esp during those “before” years), can see and hear the difference NOW, compared to who I used to be.
I am grateful that the LORD God gave me another chance at being His lowly servant. It has NOT been easy at all, and many things have been “lost”, especially some very beloved people in my life, because I CHOSE to serve the LORD God with all my HEART, SOUL, MIND and STRENGTH (Deut. 6:4-9), and obey the Shema–HEARING the Voice of the LORD, and answering the CALL (finally!) in my life that HE destined for me. No regrets here! I cannot wait for That Day to thank Him in Person!!🙏💖✡️📖✝️🕊️
IF YOU HEAR HIS VOICE CALLING YOUR NAME–ANSWER HIM!!🙏💖✡️📖✝️🕊️
During one of my courses this past year while obtaining my Master’s degree, I had to choose a passage to write a paper on, and I was led by the Spirit to choose Ephesians 4:1-6.
I had to take it apart, line by line, and exegete it, explaining what Paul was truly saying in the original Greek language.
The first three verses seem to tell a message of how we are to grow in Christ, within the calling that the Lord placed on us (myself, it is in the office of a Prophet and to fight against the demonic in Spiritual Warfare), letting those virtues take hold of us, as we “let go” of ourselves more and more, to be conformed to the image of His Son (Rom. 8:29-30).
The next three verses, 4-6, is the KEY to allowing the Lord to do is work within each of us—Paul reminding us that there is ONE (εις) Spirit, that is, the HOLY SPIRIT of God, which enters into each “born again” believer of Christ (Jn. 3:3,5,7), once they truly become His child through faith in Him (Jn. 1:12).
We have that ONE HOPE that keeps us moving forward in our faith (vs. 4),
Along with knowing there is ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, and ONE BAPTISM—not several thousand splinters of beliefs that they enemy of our souls managed to deceive us to do within the Church Body;
Because there is only ONE GOD and FATHER of us ALL (vs. 6), who is the Father of Spirits (Heb. 12:9), to Whom One Day, we ALL must appear before and give an account of ourselves (2 Cor. 5:10) at the Judgment, and how we used the gifts, talents, skills and abilities that He gave unto each of us.
If we choose to HONOR the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in this short time here on Earth, He faithfully promises to reward us at the End of Days, as long as we serve Him with the right heart and mindset (Col. 3:23-34), and by not losing heart and growing weary (Gal. 6:9), while striving to be a good soldier of Jesus Christ (2 Tim. 2:3).
Remember, the Lord CALLED us to be HIS servants. Servants OBEY the Master.
The LORD is the Captain of the Host—we are part of His Holy Army, as are the angels that serve Him.
He IS the ONE God and Father of us ALL—both the angelic and the human spirits—Who is OVER all and THROUGH all and-don’t forget this child of God-IN all (vs. 6).
Walking in the Dark with Faith 