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Katherines Kabitzing Newsletter for March 1004

Katherine’s Kabitzing Newsletter for March 2004 BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD There comes a time in every Christian’s life when we have to make up our minds as to whether or not we really are going to 1. BELIEVE that God is, and 2. BELIEVE that His Word IS REAL and 3. BELIEVE that it WILL work for US!!! In essence, that breaks it down to whose report are we going to BELIEVE. Well, about 6-8 years ago, I just got fed up with nothing! nothing! nothing! ever “appearing” to be happening on the surface for me in just about every area of my life! Oh sure, I knew that I knew that I knew who God is and who I am in Him and that He IS a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him, buuuuuuuuuut it just wasn’t happening for me! Well since it ain't God’s fault ever, period, duh! Obviously “I” was missing something it between the “I can have it” and the “there it is” facts of the Word of God. So I was going to God, “okay, where am I missing it here?” About that same time on TBN Jerry Savelle just so happened (yeah right!) to be teaching on these very same concerns of mine. He was sharing about when he started out in the ministry and just as eagerly “going for” being a servant and minister of the most High God just like all his favorite people around him were doing so powerfully as well. His mentors were Kenneth Copeland and by association Oral Roberts. He wanted to be used of God just as wonderfully as they were. So he said he watched and observed and paid strict attention to what “they” were doing to see out “they” were getting the fantastic results that they were. What did Kenneth Copeland do to get the Godly results he was getting? HE said he watched and observed and paid strict attention to how Oral Roberts did things who said HE watched and paid strict attention to what God and the great evangelists of the 50’s were doing to get the desire results they wanted from the Word of God who watched and paid strict attention to what God told them and their contemporaries ALL the way back to those who watched and observed and paid strict attention to what the disciples of Jesus did who watched and observed and paid strict attention to all that Jesus Himself had taught them during the time He spent on earth with the 12 disciples. In the Bible in the Book of Acts, it was at Antioch that the people started calling the followers of Jesus “CHRIST-ians” i.e. “little” ANOINTED ones, who acted, looked, behaved, even smelled like that teacher known as Jesus who'd been recently crucified and thought to be dead by the general world at large. BUT here He seemed to be again all over again in the actions and lives of His followers. YES! Which of course He was and IS. So I was going, “okay, just what is IT that all those who have gone before me have done to GET the promises of God to WORK for me in the same dynamic capacity it was soooo working for them and that they were claiming was SUPPOSED to working for me as well.” And since it wasn’t there was obviously something I was going to have to CHANGE about everything I was doing and not doing to GET the same results for myself, DUH! WHAT was it they all did? NUMBER 1! DROP everything else in the universe they were doing and PAY ATTENTION ONLY to GOD for as long as it took to get it through their mortal carnal minds everything they needed to know ABOUT GOD and His CALL on their lives. THIS BOOK OF THE LAW SHALL NOT DEPART OUT OF YOUR MOUTH, BUUUUTTTTTTT YOU SHALL, MUST, DECIDE TO MAKE A PRIORITY, CLING AND ADHERE TO LIKE YOUR LIFE DEPENDED UPON IT (since technically it does, either the rich abundance wisdom life promised by God or the same ole’ miserable getting no where one so many people of GOD are still stuck in without ever bothering to learn about how to get out of it) This Book of the law shall NOT depart, be removed from, be separated from, be set aside, paid no attention, be ignored or discarded, or just shrugged off (ya want the abundant life promised kiddo ya gotta PAY the price) out of your mouth, but you SHALL, be insistent upon, commit to and swear an unbreakable allegiance to, put NO other idea, activity, daily chore (except the necessity room), action or plan before, MEDITATE: study, observe, watch, look, pay devout heed to, listen with full attention to, shut out the rest of the universe until …………. What did all these other men and women of God do? Jerry Savelle said He watched and did what Kenneth Copeland did who watched and did what Oral Roberts did. WHAT DID THEY DO, LORD, TELL ME? THEY got on their knees or flat out on the floor in their offices, in their homes – sometimes on the floor or on their bed, in their various retreats and they STAYED hours upon hours upon hours BEFORE GOD day in and day out and night in and night out however LONG it took, they STAYED in with GOD until HE and HE alone released them: praying and studying and most importantly learning how to SHUT UP their own ideas, and ideals, and PLANS in life to LEARN how to LISTEN to GOD, Himself, from that still small inner QUIET little voice that TOLD THEM what to do and not “well GOD YOU HAVE to do this for ME like You promised,” deal that 99.99% of us scream at Him daily. WRONG! WE are the ones who “have to DO what HE says to DO” even when we think we know that we know that we know just what it is that we are supposed to be doing for HIM. ARE WE GETTING THE RESULTS PROMISED? If we aren't then we ain't LISTENING right to GOD somewheres along the way and its time to DROP everything (AGAIN, LORD? – YES again! Do you want HIS results in your life or not?!) and STAY THERE until HE releases us out of the prayer closet Luckily or rather just so coincidentally (yeah, right) I just so happened to have plenty of time on my hands since it seemed that no matter where I turned or what I tried, there was no job to be had or funds coming in from any other direction so it seemed I therefore was all freed up TO have to “wake up, girl I'm trying to get your attention here” GET IN THAT PRAYER CLOSET WITH ME AND LISTEN TO WHAT I'M HAVE TO SAY TO YOU RIGHT THIS VERY INSTANT” subtle quiet whisper in my spirit that I only recognized at the time as an unsatisfied, frustrated, angry, craving and hunger for more than was going for me at the moment. Sometimes us intellectuals miss those little uncomfortableness pinches and barely felt little nudges we keep getting in the Spirit and in our consciousness’s and keep dismissing them as nothing when all else like worry and frustration and ranting at those who've done us wrong keeps our minds from that still quiet perfect peace “hey kiddo, I’ve GOT the answers to those needs of yours if you'll just shut up, shut down, and LISTEN to ME, son, daughter, child of mine!!!!!” little itty bitty merest touch of a whisper on our minds. Soooooooooo here comes a time in every Christian’s life when we have to make up our minds as to whether or not WE ourselves are going to DO WHATEVER it takes in and for ourselves to be the vessels that GOD has CALLED us to be in HIM. Ya want the results ya have to do the time, the study, the prayer, the “shut up and listen” hours upon hours upon hours of TIME ALONE with HIM to then begin to KNOW what it is you yourself CAN and SHOULD be “saying” to knock these attacks and lousy circumstances flat on their back BEFORE they even can “think” of drawing their fists back to whop you one. DUH! Psalms 91, NO weapon will EVEN be FORMED against me in the first place. But that takes a calm, serene confidence that no longer flinches or even reacts whatsoever to ANYTHING that comes against us, no matter how earth shattering or terrifying (oh, oh, horrors me, I may have to go to jail because of what some other stupid idiot did, or whatever the enemy is trying to attack us with) we HAVE to get in that prayer closet and STAY there until our attitude now becomes: Oh really, you think you gonna attack me/HIM like that? I don’t think so!! Calm, not arrogant but SUPREMELY CONFIDENT, ah, you ain't no bother to me whatsoever, my DADDY will take care of you for me, for MY MIND is zeroed in and focused upon HIM and upon HIM only therefore HE keeps me in perfect peace and serenity and assuredness whose mind is STAYED, stopped, stuck, glued, adhered permanently too, upon HIM and we just go about HIS business NOT ours in joy and love and peace and healed calm STILLNESS of SPIRIT. Cause honey, if your spirit and mind ain't STILL “OVER” situations not IN them like so many of us “feel” like we are “in and going under” in, then you are NOT going to win that battle that day, you can count on that for sure. STILL, NOT moving, NOT hurried, or worried or frustrated, or angry or ranting and raving or full of turmoil and strife. STILL: without sound; quiet; silent, hushed, soft, or low in sound, not moving; stationary; at rest; motionless: following stand, sit, lie, etc., sometimes regarded as an adverb characterized by little or NO commotion or agitation; tranquil; calm; serene “the still water of the lake" -- silence; quiet “in the still of the night" archaic - ever; constantly calm and serene. WITHOUT worry or frustration, Untroubled, NOT fretful, fearful, or anxious, calm, quiet, STILL -- vt. to make still; quiet; specif., a) to make silent b) to make motionless c) to calm; relieve -- vi. to become still -- still - modif. Silent — Syn. calm, tranquil, noiseless; quiet, motionless, quiescent, restful, serene, silent, smooth, soothe, soundless, unheard. Can you literally drop a pin in your own natural mind and let it be heard? Or is your mind constantly jabbering at you “well so and so did this to you today, and that so called minister is doing that wrong and this other person is supposed to be doing this for me and this didn’t go right for me today like the Word promised it would, and look how so and so is dressed and look how tom is acting and dick certainly is no man of God with what he is doing and harry is supposed to be helping me out with this and that just like the good Book says he should” Is your own mind yadda, yadda, yadda-ing at you and haranguing and harassing and tormenting at you constantly 24/7? Something’s not right in Kansas City then, and needs OUR strict and desperate attention, that’s for sure. Just why do you think that satan stole the proper CHRISTIAN, CHRIST CENTERED meditation and becoming STILL in GOD quietness of mind and turned it into the abhorred, oh horrors don’t even consider any evil “meditation” of any sort at all – transcendental mediation, hindu and buddhist eastern mind controlling garbage, so that CHRISTIANS would stay as far away as possible from learning to JESUS center and “control and take AUTHORITY” OVER all those (actually satan based “darts” – little foxes that spoil the vine) thoughts and even learn to destroy and deny future access TO our own minds thought “patterns” and habits of thinking certain ways will just be so and can’t ever be changed at all, garbage – hmmm? Cause he KNEW that the calm, in CONTROL, CHRIST mind centered BELIEVER in CHRIST child of GOD was going to be able to soooo whooooop his butt (pardon my French) without even giving it a single mortal thought whatsoever anymore. Na! Na! ARE YOU at this point yet where YOU can say without even flexing a single emotional muscle “oh that’s just a satan thought, I'm not even going to waste my time getting all bent out of shape just because some mere human so and so said or did that towards me today at all. – Okay NEXT ……. assignment of God, I'm so outta here!” If we AREN'T then its BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD for us until we DO get it right in HIM! May the Lord Bless you and keep you. May He cause the sun to shine upon you and keep you in all your ways May He richly bless you in all things. Ephesians 4:29 ~ Isaiah 61 ~ Psalms 91 Simply Sure in Christ http://groups.yahoo.com/groups/simply_sure Thank you for visiting my page at Angelfire. Please come back and visit again!

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