Sweethearts,

Now, I’ve finally understood it!
Now I know why that even some Christians look at me in that condescending way that says, “Can’t you get it? Everything is caving in. I have a right to go crazy.”

They think that I don’t understand. They believe their situation is the worst thing that could possibly happen and it is time to fear. They give me that, “If you want to pray a little, that’s OK but it is time to go ballistics and whoever wants to go with me…well, that makes it even better!” I understand, to them I am just not being realistic.
Surely I am acquainted with what hell is like when it hits. But when you are as hungry as I am for God, even the bad is nourishing for my voracious appetite to be like Him. As Frank Bartleman said, for the Christian, “Even the bitter things taste sweet.” Because of God’s promises and His wisdom, I know that even the bad things are going to feed me the God - stuff I need for growth and happiness.

When I was a child, whenever we were given a Hershey bar, we would make it last all day long. Back then it was scored into squares. We would break off one small square and let it melt very slowly in our mouth, savoring every little taste of that sweetness. We did not know when or if we would ever have that delicacy again. The crumbs tasted good to the Syrophoenician woman. There were times when I bought my grandchildren a candy bar and with a sneer they would turn it down. Why? It didn’t mean anything to them; they were always full of other delicious things.

Some of the largest ministries become huge because they feed the crowds with all the sweet things that the flesh man loves. The people are so full of themselves, only a message that appeals to or feeds their fleshly appetites will be welcomed. They want entertainment, big, earth shaking choirs, physical healings, some kind of signs and wonders. It has been said by one great man of God, that many come to a meeting with an attitude that says, “I dare you to try and bless me.”.

I have known truly great ministers of God who have given up on the church in America and gone to deprived, third world countries where the people are so spiritually underfed they will grab at the coat tail of Jesus' gospel and hang on for dear life. He is truly becomes their salvation and Loving Lord.

How many anointed ministers preach the truth right from the Throne of God by His Spirit but are disdained because the hearers fleshly souls are full of themselves, where once they were on fire and longed to hear Jesus say, “Well done My good and faithful servant.” Now His voice is so faint, so smothered, it is not even recognized because of the flesh that screams out for more sights, sounds and bigger than life, man-made stars.

Oh, how sad, that the once coveted and longed for crowns are tossed and lost in the trash pile of everyday life and covered over with things that will rust, rot and pass away. Their Spirit man is so malnourished that his cries to be fed more of Jesus becomes nothing more than a slightly hindering conscience of what used to be and could have been.

Oh, my darlings…Jesus needs the treasured gifts that He has put within you before the earth was ever formed. He is knocking at the door of the church and saying, “Please, let Me be the Lord of your life. Remember the joy, the hunger for Me, for real Life that you once had? You can have this sweetness in your soul again.”

Dearest One you can give the bad times as well as the good times the credit for bringing you into a greater love and understanding of God. When I came face to face with Jesus hanging on that cross where I deserved to be, I turned my back to the world and now it is all about Him. Sure I know there is a devil out there to get me and you, but that does not change my position or knowledge of Who My God is. He is the Lord over everything,

I know that you may be reading this and thinking, ‘What does she know?’ Hey, would you like to compare testimonies? Of course events happen that make me cry, but it is always because of others sorrow and pain. My sorrow is that they do not have the knowledge of the Prince of Peace. That is where I come in. There are times when I want the counsel of someone who has been where I am. That is where their gifting or expertise becomes a greater blessing for them. We are talking ‘family’ here, where every joint in the body supplies.

Sweethearts, The first Followers of Christ had power because of three things,
#1.They were Baptized into their ‘First Love’, and as a result,
#2.They were full of the Grace and Gifts of God. And,
#3.They possessed a craving, one hundred percent sold out, appetite for their God.
That is the formula for living the Divine, joy packed, peaceful and fruitful Life.
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That’s it for today. My heart is longing for this small Remnant to come on and join forces, having that same hunger for Jesus.

Knowing that the Best is yet to come,


Benji