Thank you for your words here. I am greatly blessed and encouraged by them.

May I add a link to your blog – I feel so many sisters (me included) and brothers would be blessed by a visit to it.

Bless you
Steph

You have, I believe, visited my blog in the past. I have only just read this page in your blog and I am really inspired by the heart behind the words.

May the Lord continue to bless you and shine His face upon you.

Yes the Truth is a hard master indeed and it costs you everything eventually. You can tell the truth in His love and it will ‘hit home’, for want of a better expression, as it is meant to – that is the Lord’s business. We just need His leading and be prepared to obey Him regardless of the cost to ourselves. I guess the Truth does cost you everything, it has to as we can keep nothing of ourselves, for ourselves. The joy is that the Lord does equip us to face and deal with all we need to in our life, if we will but accept that we are to become nothing that He can become all. It really does as you have said so truthfully, simplify our life.

May the Lord bless you too dear sister
Stephanie

Pat

Too often folks are asked to leave a church because they can no longer tolerate the heresy that is being spouted from the pulpit and make it very clear, but God is so faithful and He will remove His children one way or another when the time is right. The sad thing is, those who are following the heresy with their eyes and hearts closed, see us who follow the Bible as the enemy who cause division by speaking out against what they are doing, instead them of going to the Lord and His word to check it out and understanding that it takes love to speak out the warning in the way that is needed and that it is not done as a judgement.

Bless you and thanks for coming back to set me right
Steph

I must have mis-phrased. I meant to say that we have been asked to leave or have left at the Lord’s leading not willing kow-tow. This sounds like what you are experiencing also. Currently I am not attending a physical church, but am blessed to be a child of God and am trusting in his leading for each day wherever that may be. Thank you for praying for my Dad, I will also pray for your parents. Thank you for your kind response dear sister, have a wonderful day. Tanja

I started with a Blogger (Blogspot) blog which was really easy to work with, almost 2 years ago and decided to move to WP to allow me to have individual pages for different topics (my tabs at the top of my blog) I have two very dear brothers in England whom the Lord has joined me together with on the Faith Defenders’ site (logo top left of my page) who have helped me more than words can ever say. I don’t know if I would have had the courage to go it alone on WP as it is far more technical than my basic knowledge (and it really is baaaasic – just ask them! )

Being a bit old is good – one thing is for definite – that we are all going to become a bit old then a bit older then…. you get the picture unless the Lord decides to take us home when we are just a bit old.. . Age is of no relevance in the Lord. It is where we are in our relationship with Him that counts far more. My closest sister in the Lord is almost 70 and there is no age difference spiritually between us. We are sisters. She just can’t jog as fast as I can

I am sure you are learning lots about blogging already and you will find that most folks are kind, but you get the odd one who is not. I was quite shattered when I go my first angry-letter and was at quite a loss initially as to how to respond. I eventually did reply – graciously – and amazingly got an apology on line from him. But this is not often the norm and sadly sometimes its the Christians who are the most ungracious!

One thing I have yet to master with the Lord is the way that I sometimes write things is not always the tone in my heart /voice – sometimes the writing comes out sharp when it is entirely the opposite. I am not an English Major or anything fancy just a daughter of the Lord sharing His life in her with everyday, simple, English words. You don’t have to be clever to do that. Just willing to be a vessel as He leads you.

I pray the Lord will guide you and lead you as you go and that you will learn to wait on Him for the writing you do. Be very encouraged!

Bless you too Charles,
Steph

This is the first time I have ever heard of a church asking people to leave – normally others are the one being asked to leave because they will not kow-tow to the ‘new revelation’ and movement or whatever, that is happening in a church. Praise God for Him having you in such an assembly and may He strengthen and embolden the leadership in His ways and His life in each brother and sister there!

I will pray for your father’s salvation. I have been praying for my parents for more than 27 years and although my dad has dabbled around the edges, still has not come to a saving knowledge of Jesus as Lord, my beloved mum ignores Him completely rather looking to the East to one small degree or another. Praise our Lord that He is mightier than all of this and knows the outcome of it all. That is a joy indeed!

Bless you too Tanja and you are welcome to drop by any time and say hi