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My name is Barbara Frone and I welcome you to my blog. I pray that my walk with God will encourage your heart and that God will bless you for every step you take towards him. God has a plan for each and every one of us and if we will earnestly seek him every day, he will not only show us his plan for our lives, but he will live it through us. We serve an amazing God!































































Wednesday, September 22, 2010

HIDE GOD'S WORD IN YOUR HEART, SO IT WILL BE THERE WHEN YOU NEED IT

Me:  Father, last night I turned on the TV so I could watch my preaching shows, I have several now and I love them all.  You have some amazing godly preachers out there and I am so glad I can watch them in the evenings instead of what I used to watch.  Also, the messages seem to always be just what I needed for that day.  Like last night, Dr. Creflo Dollar preached on the world's system and God's kingdom and how we need to stop believing all the world is telling us like marriage is longer a good idea, etc, and we need to read God's Word and live by what he tells us.  He was preaching his heart out about Christians not reading the Bible.  He said things like, you come up to the altar and ask for prayer, but you won't read God's Word.  You come to me for counseling and want help, but you won't read God's Word for yourself.  I guess preachers get frustrated at times with people coming to them for help and prayer, but they don't take the preacher's advice. 

Thank you so much, Father, for teaching me how very important it is to read your Word everyday.  We need to read it for our own good.  We need to read it because it will change us into your likeness.  We need to read it because we need to have your Word hidden in our hearts, so when we need it, it will be there for us.  When we are hurting or in trouble or whatever, your words hidden in our hearts will come up to our minds at just the right time.  Your words are truth.  Your words are more powerful than a twoedged sword and worth more than all the fine gold in the whole world.  Your words are alive because Jesus Christ, your Son, is the Word.  Your words lead us, guide us, comfort us, teach us, and reprove us.  No wonder you want us to hide them in our hearts and to never depart from them.

Actually, Father, when I first turned on my TV, there were two men talking on KJNP, our Christian station in North Pole, and they were talking about your feasts in the Old Testament.  This intrigued me, so I listened for a few minutes.  I have always wondered about your feasts and if we should be observing them.  I was just thinking yesterday that the Old Testament is so much larger than the New Testament and you wanted us to have both for a reason.  But when one of the men said something about us still needing to observe the Passover because it reminds us how God delivered his people out of Egypt, and something about another feast being for us drawing closer to God so we are not separated.  As soon as he said this, because I know your words, I knew this was wrong.  The moment I accept Jesus Christ, your Son, as my Saviour, that very moment your Holy Spirit comes into my spirit, and we are no longer separated.  You are living inside of me and you said you would never leave me.  I don't know about the other feasts, but I know that Christians don't need to celebrate the Passover feast because we are already covered by the blood.  When the angel of death comes over our land, we will be passed over.  Amen!

Me:  Father, help me with balance in my life.  I had this problem soon after I got saved 21 years ago, and now I have it again.  I am spending a lot of time with you, talking to you, reading your Word, listening to preaching shows, taking notes, going to church, but I also have a job, a husband that needs me, a household that needs my attention, and all I want to do is spend time with you.  Help me, Father, to keep my priorities in order.  Help me to give the right amount of my time to everything in my life.  I have been so blessed by you, Father.  Wherever I look, I see your blessings.

Friday, September 17, 2010

KEEP PRESSING ON

Me:  As I was laying around today doing a lot of sleeping and thinking because I am not feeling well, I felt you gave me the answer of why I have been so discouraged the last few weeks or maybe it has been months.  Time just flies on by sometimes.  I know it is impossible for anyone to live the Christian life, because I've tried and failed over and over again.  I also know that you have been teaching me to let you live it through me and that is what is going on in me right now. 

God:  There is a war going on inside of you between your flesh and my Spirit.  Your spirit is willing, but your flesh is weak.  You have been so discouraged because it's hard for your flesh not to get it's own way.  It's hard when the devil attacks your mind even harder because you are working with me.  But that's why I tell you in my Word to keep your mind on me, to encourage yourself in me, to sing to me, to praise me, to talk to me, and to stay very close to me.  The battle with the devil is mine and I have already won, but you have to press on with me.  Don't ever give up.  It's going to be hard sometimes.  Your flesh is going to suffer, but keep working with me and I will comfort you along the way.  I will never leave you or forsake you.  The benefits are not only rewards and blessings along the way, but peace that passes all understanding when you surrender all and completely trust me.  You will have no more fear because you will know in your heart that I love you so much that I would never let anything happen to you that wasn't for your own good.  You will gain my fruit coming out of your spirit, love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness and temperance. 

Me:  Thank you, Father.  I will press on.  I will keeping running my race, as the Apostle Paul said.  I will keep working with you to crucify my flesh, so your Spirit can work through my spirit without my flesh getting in the way.

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

WHEN GOD'S SPIRIT FILLS YOUR SPIRIT, YOUR FLESH WILL BACK OFF

Me:  Father, I've only gotten up this early a few days now and I'm already feeling and seeing the benefits.  I know I still need to get up just a little earlier, but I will keep it at 4:30 a.m. for awhile.  This way my body and schedule can get used to the time change.  You just make me sweeter, Father.  That's probably the wrong way to word it, because it's your sweetness coming out of me.  When my spirit is filled with your Spirit, my flesh seems to back off easier and let you take over.  Like last night, Father, something happened that upset me.  My flesh was not happy and I just wanted to throw something.  I had already decided to take Angel for a walk, so I left and did just that.  On my walk, I told you why I was angry and exactly what I felt like doing.  I only walked for about 15 minutes and I already felt my flesh calm down.  By the time I got home, my flesh wasn't upset anymore and not only did I know what I had to do when I got home, I was okay with it.  I knew when I walked in the door, my husband was expecting an upset wife, but to his surprise, he saw me calm and not upset at all.  I could just feel his guard letting down and our evening wasn't ruined after all.  Thank you for this, Father, because without you, it would have just went from bad to worse, but with you it went from bad to all is well again. 

"And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.  And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.  And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.  And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire."  Revelation 20:12-15. 

I am so glad, Father, that as your child you will only judge the works that you did through me and those are the only works I will be rewarded for.  All the works that I did in my own flesh will be burned up as wood, hay, and stubble.  Help me put my flesh aside, Father, so you can do all the works you want to do through me, without me getting in the way. 

Me:   Father, it's already September 15 and the weather is still gorgeous.  I think it's about 70 degrees out there.  Thank you for this beautiful Indian summer.  Thank you, Father, for sending your Son, Jesus Christ, to come down to this earth to offer himself as the spotless sacrifice that was needed to save our souls from hell.  All we have to do is believe this and your Holy Spirit moves inside our spirit, and there you stay with us until we go to heaven.  Your Word says you will never leave us.  You provide all of our needs.  You love us, comfort us, guide us, teach us, and discipline us as any father would discipline his children.  No other so claimed god in this world can say that.

"O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth!  who has set thy glory above the heavens."  Psalm 8:1

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

MEET WITH GOD IN THE MORNING AND YOUR DAY WILL BE SO MUCH SWEETER

Me:  It felt so good to get up this morning to spend time with you, Father.  Yesterday was horrible.  I woke up at 1:00 a.m. and could not get back to sleep.  Finally, at 3:00 a.m. I took a sleeping pill, but then I couldn't get up in the morning, so I missed my time with you and I missed my exercise class.  My day only went downhill from there.  I felt so discouraged yesterday.  I got so fed up with how I felt that I wanted to tell my husband that I needed help.  I wanted him to give me some answers, but the moment I thought that, I felt you say to my heart:

God:  He can't help you.  Only I can help you and the only thing you should be thinking of and planning is spending time with me and my word, and I will take care of you and your problems.

Me:  Why do I always have to be reminded, Father, but I'm so thankful that you are so patient and keep reminding me.  You have been telling me this for some time now and I think I finally get it.  I'm finally realizing how important it is for me to meet with you every day, because it just makes the rest of the day so much sweeter.

Father, I want to thank you so much for last night.  I was so discouraged and upset with myself yesterday and after dinner when I turned on the TV to watch Joyce Meyer's program, everything I heard I knew was there for me.  First, I heard a preacher by the name of Bil Cornelius talking about ground and pound, which is an offensive move in ultimate fighting or wrestling.  Apparently, your attacker gets on top of you and starts pounding you, and all you can do is be on the defense.  He said we are in a spiritual warfare and we need to stop being on the defense all the time.  We need to stay in the offense.  We are in a cage fight with the devil and we need to get out from underneath and fight.  He said David was a warrior but he was also a worshipper.  Worshipping is a form of spiritual warfare.  When we worship God, we are making an offensive move, because while we are worshipping God, God fills us with his Spirit and fights through us.  I so needed this yesterday, Father, because all day I felt like I was being pounded on by the devil.  Every thought he put in my mind brought me down a little lower.  I can see why you want us to stay in the offense, because it's easier on us. 

Father, as I'm typing this I felt you put this thought in my heart:

God:  If you stay on the offense, meaning you worship me, praise me, thank me, spend time with me, sing to me, and read my words, and when the devil attacks you in your mind, your spirit will be so filled with my Spirit that I am do the fighting, but if you don't do those things, then your spirit will not be filled with my spirit and when the devil attacks your mind, you will be in the flesh, and you will be in the defense trying to fight the devil and when you fight the devil in the flesh, you will always lose. 

Me:  I'm seeing things so much clearer, Father.  Thank you.  I understand what you are trying to teach me.  I need to think about and plan my time with you and I need to guard that time religiously, so I can be filled with your Spirit for the day, and when the devil attacks my mind, I will not have to fight him in the flesh, you will fight him through me.  Even though it will be me mentally doing the fighting, it will be you Spiritually because it will be your power and your strength.  I'm beginning to understand a whole lot more than I used to. 

And finally I turn on Joyce Meyer's program and it's about power thoughts, which is exactly what I needed today.  She said we need to confront our stinking thinking and refuse to let our mind be a garbage dump for the devil.  She said we need to think about what we are going to do before we are tempted, so we don't have to think about what we should do when we are tempted.  We will already have a plan.  Sounds like offense instead of defense to me. 

God:  Protect your morning time with me and you will be on the offense instead of the defense all day. 

Me:  Awesome, Father.  I will protect my mornings with you from today on.  I won't even let sleep get in the way.  Father, there's another thing I wanted to mention to you.  I still feel guilty all the time.  I have these types of thoughts all the time:  I could have done it better.  I could have been earlier.  I didn't get up early enough.  I over ate again.  I should have done more.  I shouldn't have said that.  I shouldn't have drank that.  I shouldn't have eaten that.  I should have done this.  I should have done that.  My mind never leaves me alone. 

God:  That's why I'm telling you to protect your time with me every day and don't let anything get between us, because I will fill your spirit with my Spirit and those thoughts are not in my Spirit.

Me:  Thank you, Father, for another full day of teaching me.  It sure is a full time job.  There's so much to do and I seem to be a slow learner who needs to be reminded an awful lot.  I love you, Father.  Thank you for loving me.

Wednesday, September 8, 2010

GOD LOVES US ALL EQUALLY

Me reading the Bible:  Today I read Psalm 36-37, Proverbs 8, and Revelation 7.  I sang Psalm 37:23-24.

"Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.  Delight thyself also in the LORD; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.  Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass."  Psalm 37:3-5.  What an amazing promise from you for us to stand on!  What an amazing promise for us to hide in our hearts!

The twelve tribes of Israel as listed in Revelation 7:  Juda, Reuben, Gad, Aser, Nepthalim, Manasses, Simeon, Levi, Issacher, Zabulon, Joseph, and Benjamim.  Father, I recently read the names of the twelve Israelite tribes Old Testament and it seems to me that some were spelled differently.  I think Juda was spelled Judah, and Zabulon was spelled Zebulun, but that doesn't matter, I suppose.  The reason I wrote them down is because I believe I need to memorize them.  I do not know them by heart and I think I should, since they are very important to you.  As a matter of fact, I also need to memorize the twelve disciples' names for the very same reason. 

"And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God, saying, Amen:  Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and  honour, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever.  Amen."  Revelation 7:11-12.  Yes, that's where I'm sure I will be when I see you on your throne - right on my face. 

Me:  Father, as I was thinking about a song that was playing during my jazzercise class this morning, I started thinking that the only reason this particular song was familiar to me is because I heard it on a
TV commercial and then I started thinking about how I don't listen to those songs anymore, because they don't make me think about you or bring me closer to you.  And then a thought crept in that said something to the effect that I was a better person because I listened to Christian songs (a fiery dart for sure) and then I felt you saying to my heart:

God:  You know that I love all people the same.  It doesn't matter who they are or how earnestly they seek me, or what type of music they listen to.  It's my power and my strength that helps my will be accomplished in their lives and not anything they do.  The choices they make do affect how I deal with them and how close they draw to me, but the choices they make don't make me love them any more or less than anyone else.   

Me:  I know, Father.  I'm glad that you reminded me, though, because last night on Joyce Meyer's program she said that pride is crammed into every fiber of our being and I believe she is right.  It's almost a natural response sometimes, but I'm also sure that the devil has plenty of input into our minds.  Those fiery darts are thrown at us daily and they will never stop until we die, or you come to get us at the rapture, or you choose to take us up like you did Enoch.  I think of Enoch often and wonder what he did to get you to just take him up like that.

Me:  It's been a dreary day, Father, but it's another day you have made and I am thankful for it.