God's Amazing and Extraordinary
(Grace)
Part lV of (Pressing Through The Concrete Walls In The Pits of Society)
Every covenant God made with mankind is a contract based on The Truth with The True and Living Word of God. A Breach on our behalf turns us into liars, and excuses cannot make it become true so the truth now is suppress within us we are drowning in the sea of lies, but it can be restored through true repentance unto The Lord, and then you will start aligning yourself back up with The Truth and The Life with the aid of The Holy Spirit. The Lord will throw you The Life line call Salvation base on The Truth and it will pull you out of that sea of lies only By His Amazing and Extraordinary Grace. The consequences of my sin for a while had me suffering from illnesses, and I been on my bed of afflictions which affected my daily walk with THE LORD. I would not pick up a Bible nor read The Word of God. I became unhealthy Physically and Spiritually, but The Holy Spirit I grieved was still in me, and brought me back during my illness. I came to the point that I would only listen to spiritual worship music, and radio sermons slowly but surely The Holy Spirit was drawing me back to The Lord bringing me through a passage that later leads to a deeper encounter with my Savior.
Do not knock Bedside Baptist, nor Mattress Methodist they become very useful for the sick and shut in. It was the ministries of these radio sermons as well as the worship music The Holy Spirit used to convicted me of my action while on my bed of affliction, just do not let it take the place of Sunday Corporate Worship not unless your going through an illness that prevents you. You have to be in fellowship with others in The Body of Christ we need each other as well as we need to be in The House of The Lord. Do not allow your judgment of a Pastor, or a Worship Leader, or Sunday School Teachers, or any one in the ministries cause you to not go into the House of The Lord. For Jesus is Head over The Body of Christ not you. Reevaluated yourself, The Lord always point out our errors to us before he has you to point at someone else flaws. Because we all have them. Get that Tree out of your eye. It got to be difficult to walk around with that tree in your eye. Then you can see how to remove the log out of someone else eye. Matt. 7:5 says beam but you know what I mean. Remember Satan is The Accuser of The Brethren and The Sisters in Christ as well. Rev. 12:10.
One night I was totally in pain rest was far from me, and I came to cry out unto the Lord, and I said Jesus, if you just take this pain from me for I have not the means to receive medical attention, I have not any medical insurance, and after going back and forth to the emergency room, sent home from the hospital because of the lack of medical insurance. Lord I need you. I cannot go on without you. I came to realizing while praying that the insurance I needed was the kind humanity cannot give me.
One night I was totally in pain rest was far from me, and I came to cry out unto the Lord, and I said Jesus, if you just take this pain from me for I have not the means to receive medical attention, I have not any medical insurance, and after going back and forth to the emergency room, sent home from the hospital because of the lack of medical insurance. Lord I need you. I cannot go on without you. I came to realizing while praying that the insurance I needed was the kind humanity cannot give me.
The insurance that I needed was the one policy that stands on The Truth, and is the only one you can Trust and Believe. This policy never lapses. It is Everlasting.
There are penalties called repercussion for your actions of sin, but the policy of Salvation stays in tact in spite of yourself. The next morning I felt better Spiritually, and became to desire the Word more and more for The Holy Spirit in me was strengthening me through His Word while He enhance in me a want to write and study every Word of God. The Holy Spirit shows me while opening my mind to His understanding, leaning not unto my own. About a few weeks later I receive in the mail Medicaid Insurance I did not applied for, and has received care since. I found that I was suffering from Diabetes and High Blood pressure my sugar was so High that the doctor stated it was good that I came in when I did because I could have been found in a diabetic coma.
Diabetic Coma Survivor
My grandson was very loyal to me. I later brought reading glass that gave me enough sight to see the words I was reading. The one thing about reading glass I come to realize they're made just for reading you cannot see anything far as focusing on where you are going. They were a temporary fix, which describes my mindset and my Spiritual Sight. I was off focus and using things that were only a temporary fix. (Danger seen and Unseen) God mercy kept me so I would not let go. When I was yet in sin He brought me out of these circumstances that brought on by my disobedience. Imagine me now, and the things he has and still continue to bring me through. As a Follower of The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I have come to know The True and Living God of all creation who said in His Word that He will never leave me nor forsake me.
(Heb.13:5) In (Psalm 125:1, 3) Says They that Trust In The Lord shall be as mount Zion which cannot be removed but abide forever. As the mountains are about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from henceforth even forever. He also says in Isaiah (55:11) - That His Word would not return to Him void it shall prosper in the things where to He sent it. During my Desperate search for Jesus I came to Know The Lord, and when coming to Know the Lord we as Christians become to Encounter an Spiritual Intimate Relation with our God The Father of all creation through our Lord, and Savior Jesus Christ who within himself is The Incarnation of God The Father who put on flesh to demonstrate to us how to defeat our sin nature as He defeated the Enemy Satan conquering death which is the wages of sin. Through His Death and Resurrection He raise Up With All Power In His Hand.
The word Know is not only defined as Knowledge, but also as Intimate Knowledge as in Adam knew Eve (Gen 4:1). To Know your wife or husband in the KJV Is another word for Intercourse – this is defined as an intimacy between two people of the opposite gender that sometimes result in conception. This requires the husband to plant his seed into the fertile womb of his wife through physical contact in which then connects with her egg inside of her that produces the growing of the unborn child. This is the intimacy of the flesh with flesh contact with man and woman. Now with the proper and right nutrients that's required, the seed within the woman's womb will grow for approximately nine months, and in Due Season it will bring forth a newborn child. This is a manifestation of fruit that comes forth through the intimacy of a man knowing his wife.
I detail this because I want you to understand that this is the same intimacy we encounter as True Christians when we come to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Spiritually - (John 4:24) For God is Spirit, and they that Worship Him must Worship Him in Spirit and in Truth. When a Christian Comes To Know The Lord Intimately it is a form of Spiritual Intercourse that takes place when we invite our Lord and Savior to take over our lives. This intimacy takes place when we receive from Jesus Our LORD, The Seed of the Holy Spirit known as The Comforter planted inside of us. Now that The Holy Spirit dwells inside of us we come to acknowledge and develop a profound and unique Intimate Spiritual relationship that grows inside. During this process a Transformation (Praise The Lord) takes place and you begin to become what God has call you to be slowly but surely.
Everyone has a divined purpose that God has call them to. You can’t know your calling without knowing The True and Living God. We will grow in knowledge as we feed on The Word which is the proper nutrient needed so we can remain fertile, and keep up the proper growth that's required to produce The Fruits of The Holy Spirit. In (Gal. 5:22) These fruits are - Love, Joy, Peace, Long Suffering, Gentleness, Goodness, Faith, Meekness, Temperance. These fruits manifested through endurance of the trials, and oppositions that befalls us as we face life challenges by, and through the help of The Holy Spirit that is within us that comes through getting to know The Lord intimately. Now while getting to know Our Lord we as Christians should know and learn not to put our trust in man or ourselves - (flesh nature).
Romans 7:18 - The Apostle Paul states that in him (that is in his flesh) dwells no good thing. Paul expresses this unto the Romans about our flesh so that we would come to understand that we should not put our trust in ourselves which is our fleshly desires, but Trust in The Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, for nothing good dwells in our flesh nature, only Christ within us shall we trust. 1 John says (4:4) Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. Paul says in 2 Corinthians (1:9) That we had the sentence of death in us and not to trust in ourselves but in God which raises the dead.
When I was very young my mom nicknamed me (Rookie) it was the only name I knew before I started school, so The Holy Spirit had me to look up all my names from when I was young until now. I look up the word Rookie in the dictionary and it has three definitions the first in line A. states - It is slang word for an untrained or inexperienced recruit, as in the army or police. In line B. states - it is a slang word for an inexperienced person: a novice. The second meaning pertains to Sports - A first-year player, especially in a Professional Sport. Another meaning states - similar to line a. (Military) An inexperienced person or newcomer, especially a raw recruit in The Army.
As True Christians Disciples we come to know that we are Soldiers in the Army of The Lord ready for battle Chosen by The Lord our God. My real name is Gertrude Louise Cooper. Given to me at birth. Prophetically these names were proclaimed before the foundation of the earth. Jeremiah 1:5 - The Lord said He knew us before we were yet form and shape in our mother’s womb. Now The Holy Spirit had led me to look up my name Gertrude and Louise my family and friends have mark my name since I can remember especially my brother Ed. Teased at school and home even today my brother references me as Gert in humor, but also in honor of my Dad for that is the nickname my father called me.
ADORED WARRIOR
STRENGTH OF THE SPEAR
A friend of my mother in the past would call me Trudy for short when she was intoxicated, but not knowing it was what God intended. I began to use the name Trudy when I was in my mid 20’s and I had been call this name ever since. So I look up Gertrude first and It has two meaning one being - Adored Warrior the other meaning Strength of the Spear. Now I go to look up the meaning for Louise and it has three meanings one meaning Famous Warrior the other says - Famous in battle and finally Renowned Fighter. Now I go about looking up the name Trudy and found it has the same meaning as Gertrude. My name has warrior, battles even the weapons spear, and fight in it - I reference this because of all my testimonies and all of my life has been adversities, and battles when I was on my bed of afflictions I said in my despair to the Lord that I am tired of fighting.
I been fighting all my life and it seem like a never- ending battle, and in the quietness of the night I heard The Holy Spirit say to me - The reason why you're tired because you have been fighting this battle with the wrong weapons, and without me. 2 Corinthians 10:4 For our Weapons of Warfare are not Carnal, But Mighty Through God To The Pulling Down of Strong Holds. If you abide in My Word you would come to know that the battle is not yours It’s His says The Lord, and with My Armor protecting you, you will be able to stand. The Whole Armor of God
So I prayed for the Lord to strengthen me continually while he Circumcise My Heart and Transforms and Open Up My Mind and Captivate My Soul. He gave me a prayer to pray during that time. I pray this prayer everyday upon rising in the morning and before I lay down at night along with the prayers for my family and the members at PABC – Pennsylvania Ave Baptist Church where The Lord lead me to fellowship at. I am now, and has been a member for years and have Grown Spiritually. I found that our God is not slack in His Word so this is one of the Prayer's The Lord gave me to Pray
Dear Father - I pray that everything I do lines up with your will for me according to your Word, Strengthen me Dear Lord while you transform my mind so my thoughts are continually on you so that my walk, and my talk, and my actions reflects you, Dear Father Let my desire to seek your face enhance until all that is seen in me is you and that your light shine through me. In the Awesome Matchless Marvelous name of our LORD AND SAVIOR JESUS THE CHRIST. YOU HAVE TO BE OPEN TO ALL THE LORD HAS CALL YOU TO BE. AND ALL HE HAS CALL YOU TO
SEE
THE LORD SUPPLIES ALL THE HEALING
YOU NEED
Spiritual Hurt Is Real, your Physical Pain is somewhere
tied Into your Spiritual Hurt. No matter what your going
through whether it is an illness, or the passing of a
love one who was very dear to you. A estranged
relation with someone, or with a daughter, son,
mother, sister, brother or father. Conflict of any
kind brings Hurt, and is an affect that causes
an effect on your Spiritual Walk with
God. For with Hurt comes Pain.
No matter what ails you, there
is Healing for The Mind,
There is
Healing
for The Body, and
There is Healing for The Soul.
God will show up in the middle of your
circumstances. Hasting to His Throne of Grace you
will find it to be so Amazing and Extraordinary. Weeping may
endure for a night, but Joy comes in The Mourning. Do not
stay in that pit Let God Bring You Out and Heal
all of your hurt as He ease your pain.
RICHARD SMALLWOOD HEALING