PATIENT NOT OPPRESSED

HALLELUJAH!

I have just been singing this morning.
I sing everyday but I just got up singing and laughing this morning and just listening to the LORD.

I have been singing because I am not oppressed, I am blessed.
Guess what?

In Christ Jesus, you are blessed too.
You might not know it because someone may have tried to induce the darkness of fear into your life, but God is sending light to blast that out of here.
Amen

You know I just love the record of Job's life.

If you have read any of my writing in the past, I know that I have mentioned my admiration for Job.

I'm just going to talk to you all this morning from my heart because the Lord is directing me that what I will write is going to help someone somewhere.

He told me yesterday through some of my brothers In Christ that like Elijah, I am not the only one.

I was taught one way about Job and then the Father had to teach me the real deal with Job.

Job was the epitome of perseverance.

James "The Just" refers to Job in ,
James 5:11 (AMPLIFIED VERSION) saying:

You know how we call those blessed ( happy) who were steadfast [who endured].
You have heard of the endurance of Job, and you have seen the LORD's
[purpose and how He richly blessed him in the] end, inasmuch as the LORD is full of pity and compassion and tenderness and mercy.

The Lord is full of compassion and mercy.

Thank God that He is.
How much have you heard about God being this way?

You have probably heard more of what God won't do for you than what He has or will do, from people who want you to be patient when they are not willing to be.

We know that the spirit of Antichrist is in the world so why do we have Christians who help the work of that spirit along?
Why do we have those who profess Christ as Lord teaching in a way that turns men away from Christ?

Some folks self esteem is so in the basement through the lies of the devil, that they enjoy being yelled at because they have already been told by someone who has no clue, that they are nothing and that they won't ever be anything.

So you will find large groups of people who believe that they are lazy and not doing enough to be anything, and you will find someone who will hone in on their insecurities and lack of knowledge and believe that they are assigned to yell them out of their state of laziness or self pity.

There are people in the world who believe that everyone thinks the way that they do.

Some believe that because they have envied a woman for some possession that she has, that all women are like that.

All women are not like that.
Every woman does not make decisions based out of her emotions.
There are a huge number of men who act out of their emotions, they are ego driven, generalizations create partiality.

I know for some folks it may be hard to accept this because they flip out when they don't get their way, they then believe that everyone who won't do what they want them to do is against them.
This attitude really increases in people when they don't have anyone around them who will speak truth to them.

That is what the Father and His Word are for.

Enablers are usually family members who fear the wrath of these types of folks and therefore agree with them instead of disagreeing.

They fear that having an opinion of their own will be met with an attitude of audacity, and at the mere suggestion of an idea other than the one proposed they will put them in a place referred to as the "Dog House"

I learned this from a woman who was a prostitute.
A Rahab that the Lord put in my path.

Fear of retaliation, shame, embarrassment.
If this is you today, I'm not talking about going against authority, let's shut that lie at the gate.

The Lord blessed me to talk to this woman about the love of God and how He would never leave her nor forsake her.
She had done all types of things and she told me that she had received Jesus but because she was a prostitute and had been in jail and had chosen a homosexual lifestyle that God must not have been for her.

She had heard how no homosexual would be in heaven.

I asked her, Have you also heard that no liar will be there either?
She thought that I was talking about her.

I let her know that I wasn't talking about her but I was talking about whoever made her feel like she was so far from God that he could help her.

She talked about homophobia being what kept her from running boldly to God.

So I said, anyone who preaches more adamantly against the homosexual than they do their own lying is the one who is in fear.
But people of faith know that if The Blood of Christ has saved their lying, cheating, stealing behinds, that The blood of Christ is well able to wash the sins away of the homosexual man or woman.

I explained to her that when heterosexual men and women come and receive forgiveness of sins, they don't walk away and immediately stop lying, hating in their hearts, cussing, sleeping around, blaspheming, wanting to slap the hell out of folks.

For some after 70 years they are still lying to them selves and others.

All of us who come to Jesus must renew our minds daily by the Word of God.
We are being perfected.
Unless a man is administered the truth, he won't even have the opportunity to come or know of Christ's ability to help him stay by standing on faith in The Blood of Jesus.
The true believer doesn't place his faith in himself, it's In Christ.

Every man won't be saved the Word teaches us that it is not God's Will that any perish, but it is the precise reason that he devil exists according to John 10:10

So Lady Gaga is not the problem.
Noah ignored the voices of ignorance in his day and kept on building that Ark.
There were eight of them in that boat.

God's people perish for lack of knowledge, and from the pride exhibited in His own people.
He is not placing the responsibility on the lost to build and save the lost.
He is not speaking to those who don't know the truth when He says,
"They are refusing to (turn from their wicked ways) repent and pray."

The Lord talked about these days being as the days of Jonah.
Jonah was sent to tell the folks the truth and they listened and they turned.

You don't beat the enemy at his own game by playing like he does, you are the head and not the tail.
Politics won't shut down what has been prophesied will happen in these days.
If it has been written it will come to pass.

So if God has called you to stand up and do anything at all, He has called you to stand up and turn the sinner to the truth.

As I spent time talking with this prostitute and I didn't have to offer her a free video game or anything else in order to talk to her, mostly an ear that could hear her.
She understood that she was living in sin.
She was molested as a child by an adult woman who she and her family trusted.
That is the obvious work of the devil.

But Jesus has come into this woman's life in grace and in truth and set her free.
Because of being exposed to wrong teaching and the opinions of men she was initially afraid to leave her lifestyle.

She tried once or twice to leave the lifestyle of selling her self and she was persecuted by her pimp and even the other hookers.

They told her that no one would take care of her, she was beaten and hospitalized the second time because the pimp claimed that he had taken care of her and provided for her.

She was selling her body to take care of him but he said that he was taking care of her.

( I wish a ***** would!)

But as I talked to her and asked Holy Spirit to show me what to say, the light came on in a dark and fear filled place.

See this is why the tongue has to be tamed by the Holy Spirit to say what God would have you to say and not what you want to say.
This is His ministry.

Because you can put bits in the mouths of horses and guide them but pride is not lead of Holy Spirit.

The Lord took me to Matthew 5:10,11
I told her that I had something to show her that Jesus wrote to her.
I opened the Word of God to her and instead of me reading it, I asked her to read it out loud.

She read it out loud.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and say all kinds of evil against you because of Me.
Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

So I let her know this is how you know that leaving this life is God's will for you, because He confirms it by teaching you what will happen when you do.

Brothers and sisters it won't all be gravy.
You will have days when you stand and say LORD! I know You said to do this.

Stand fast like Job.
The Lord will bring you shade, water, manna and rest in the desert.

And in the end your latter will be greater.

Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord's coming.
See how the farmer waits for the land to yield it's valuable crop and how patient he is for the autumn and spring rains.

You too be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near.
Don't grumble against each other, brothers, or you will be judged.
The judge is standing at the door!
Brothers, as an example of patience in the face of (anything that comes against Christ)suffering, take the example of the prophets who spoke in the Name of the Lord.

As you know we consider blessed (happy) those who have persevered.
James 5:7-11a

The prostitute has left the oppressive life and is loosed from what had been programmed into her, her mind is being renewed daily, not weekly, but daily by the Word of God.

It's not being renewed by commentaries or opinions or psychology, but by the Word of God that is able to accomplish wherever it is sent.

The Word of Grace and Truth which came by Jesus is what is producing the faith and patience of Job in that woman.

Is any of you sick?
He should call on the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the Name of the Lord.
And the prayer offered up in faith will make the sick person well; The LORD will raise him up.

If he has sinned, he will be forgiven.
James 5:14,15

In that situation with the prostitute, I was the elder, I was the church.
My prayer was offered up to God on her behalf and The LORD raised her up.

Are you the elder?
Are you the church?

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you strays from the truth and falls into error and another person brings him back to God,
Let the latter one be sure that whoever turns a sinner from his evil course know that he has saved a soul from death and will cover a multitude of sins.

James 5:19,20

Elijah was just like me, and the LORD has shown me that I am not alone and neither are you.

LOVE Y'ALL
1Peter 3:10-20

I'm still doing what God told me to do. :)
Patiently and not oppressed.