Receive

          a New

        Direction!

         

     Jeanne Alcott

 

 

 

   Something new is coming to you.  God has new answers, different things you are to experience.  In His hand are new things for you to receive and to do.  In order to receive those, He has a new direction for you to take.  Something may need to be done in a different way.

   He may be speaking to you to go to another place or seek out advice from a special person or organization.  Perhaps you have felt something has been stalemated and God’s way of getting victory over that is to take you the direction that bypasses the stalemate.

   God knows the best way for everything.  He knows what will cause us true happiness and fulfillment.  Sometimes this means there’s a new direction we must take in order to reach it.  As we are seeking God’s way, it will be revealed to us.  Not only that, He will also give us the strength and will to follow the new road.  This is really a good time for us to get before God in prayer and ask Him to show us the best course to take toward the answer we’re seeking or the desire we have.

Twins plus one more!

   This is what Elliott and his wife Angie did concerning the desire they had for children.  They were going through the pain of infertility having discovered that they would not be able to have children according to the doctors.  Elliott said they felt they were trying to balance grief and hope.  Grief that they had been told they could not have children but hope for God to make it possible.

   I was reading an article about infertility at the same time I heard this story and it talks about how painful it is for couples who are experiencing this.  That’s where Elliott and Angie were.  So they did what every believer should do.  They went to God’s Word about it.  That’s when God gave them new direction.  They began to see that their deepest desire was not to have biological children as much as it was to have the opportunity to parent.  They wanted to raise up a child in the ways of God and share who they are and their and dreams with the children.

   So God put it in their hearts to adopt.  They saw in the Word how we are all adopted in Christ.  So instead of going through doubt or despair because of infertility, they went a new direction and ended up adopting twin boys!  They felt so fulfilled and happy.  They had their family!  Then!  After they had adopted the twins, Angie became pregnant.  Now they’re being taken a direction they didn’t anticipate.

   That’s how God does sometimes.  We think we know where we’re headed and all of a sudden…swoosh, we’re going a different direction.  Of course they were thrilled and even though it was a very tough time in Angie’s health to go through this, they finally had their daughter, Alivia.  They were thankful to God for what He had taught them through this whole process about His direction for their lives.

   When we’re going through a painful process of any kind, we can’t allow the pain of it to prevent us from seeing God’s new direction.  That’s really an important word for us to hear.  When something hasn’t turned out right or you’re so eager to see new things come about, whatever phase you’re in, when the process of getting to where you want to go isn’t happening and is painful, don’t allow that pain to prevent you from seeing where God is pointing.

   Imagine Him always pointing toward the right way.  He knows how you need to do something or where you need to go or what needs to happen.  He’s always pointing you that direction.  As you allow Him to heal you of pain or despair, then you will be able to see where He’s pointing.  It’s when you are meditating on what is not happening or the bad that has happened that you can’t see the new direction God has for you.

God is doing a new thing.

   That’s why in Isaiah 43 the Lord says, Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old.  Behold, I am doing a new thing!  Now it springs forth; do you not perceive and know it and will you not give heed to it?  I will even make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.  He’s making a way!  He says, “Behold!  Watch, take a look at this…because I’m doing a new thing.  This is a new direction and I want you to see where I’m pointing.  Quit thinking about the old things.  Concentrate on the new thing I am doing in your life.”

   As you do that, that’s when you walk right into the answer you’ve been seeking.  When you have been wondering which way to take, it becomes evident.  Oh hallelujah.  There is no second-guessing or being disturbed because things are not going right.  You don’t have to be afraid of not getting an answer or taking the wrong way.  As you seek God, you will see this new direction He’s pointing out to you.

Are we taking the best route?

   I don’t mean to paint a picture that everything will always be perfect, that we won’t ever wonder if we’re taking the right path.  Sure, there may be times we wonder if we really are going the best route.  We feel that maybe we didn’t hear God right.  That’s what a man and his wife felt when they took a new direction in their lives.  They felt God had showed them that they were to move to Uganda.  In that country they were to set up a ministry for the Navigators.  The Navigators is a Christian organization which disciples Christians in many different countries.  So this couple felt that Uganda was to have this type of ministry come to their country.  You can imagine how it was for them to uproot their family and take them to that country and try to build a new life.  This was quite a new direction for them.  The first thing they did was stop in Kenya and then the husband went across the border and on to Uganda to get things set up for the rest of the family.  Sounds like a good plan.

   But one of the first events that happened was when he was driving through the streets he saw a group of kids in the street playing with automatic weapons.  Real ones.  They would shoot them straight up in the air and that was their play time.  As he drove by, they thought it was fun to stare and point their guns at him.  That was his introduction to Uganda.

   He spent all day trying to find the place for his family and ended up at a small hotel which was dirty and very uninviting.  The only room he could get was one that had two beds in it and this meant he had to share the room with someone else.  He had no idea who that other person was but he could tell they had already been there.  So, while he is in the room alone, he got serious with God.

   You know how that is…when you’re facing a situation, you can’t wait to get by yourself with God and ask Him what in the world is going on!  That’s what this man did.  He dropped to his knees and said, “Lord, show me that You are in this move!”  About that time, someone threw open the door to the hotel room.  It was his roommate.  A six-foot-five-inch man frowning at him.  Then he asked in English, “What are you doing in my room?”  The minister replied, “They gave me this bed, but I am only going to be here one night.”  Then the big guy said, “What are you doing in my country?”  That’s when he revealed that he was with the Navigators and he was setting up a Christian organization in Uganda.

   All of a sudden, the stranger threw his arms around his roommate, lifted him off the floor and danced around the room with him laughing and grinning from ear to ear.  While this minister was in shock, he explained.  For two years he had prayed for God to send someone from that organization to his country because he had been reading the Scripture memory book that was printed by the Navigators.  Now, here he was with the very one God had sent in answer to prayer.  God answered the minister’s prayer for direction.

   I tell you, when you need to know God’s direction, He’ll make sure that you do know it.  You may not have a six-foot-five-inch Ugandan person pick you up and dance around the room with you, but you could have something just as big and obvious happen so that you know God’s new direction for you.

   He has something new for you, and He wants to make sure that you don’t miss what He can do.  So ask Him, “Lord, what is the new direction You have for this desire of my life, for this need, for the answer I must have?  What is the direction You have in order for me to fulfill You’re will?”  As His Word promises, when you seek, you will find…the new direction.  (Ref. Luke 11:10.)

 

A PRAYER FOR YOU.

     Father, I come to You today with my dear friend.  We are seeking You for the new direction You have for their life.  You know the answer they must have.  The need they’re facing.  Every desire and goal in their heart is before You.  You promised that if we keep on seeking, we will find.  So that’s what we’re doing right now.

    We believe You will show them the way to take.  They will see victory.  The answers will flow and come to them.  What has been hard to see, the way that has been foggy, it WILL NOW BE PLAIN.  They will be able to see Your finger pointing out the route that they are to take to receive.

     Oh yes, it’s a direction in which they will experience the new and wonderful blessing You have for them.  They’ll see the course they are to stay on to accomplish what You put in their heart.  As they do this, they will experience not only accomplishment, but healing, provision, and restoration.  Yes, this is the way of deliverance and You are taking them through it.  How we praise You for it in the name of Jesus.  Amen.
 

   This is the way for you.

   Isaiah 30 says, “This is the way, walk in it.”  I really believe God has a new direction for you to take!  As we continue to pray together and seek Him, I believe you will find it.  So share with us what you’re facing right now.  We will join my faith with yours and then send you a letter that’s filled with God’s Word for your life.   We can’t wait to hear from you.  Just click here now and it will come directly to us.

 

SPECIAL NOTE: Tremendous joy and blessing!

     John and I want you to see all the new things God has for you.  And we know one of the ways that is possible is through your giving.  The Lord is very strong in His Word about our giving to Him so that His work can be done on this earth.

     The joy and blessing that will result from that is tremendous.  Not only for the people you help through your prayers and finances, but He gives tremendous joy and blessing into your own life because you are faithful to Him.  So we encourage you to give to Alcott Ministries so this ministry can continue and God can do a work in your life.  John and I give of our personal finances also in a big way, because this ministry is solely supported by you and us.  So we thank you for your giving today.

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All scriptures are taken from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition unless otherwise indicated.

 

           

 
 

 

             No

          Longer

       Desperate!

         

     Jeanne Alcott

 

   Do you ever feel desperate?  If not, you’re doing better than most people.  Most of us experience times of distress and problems and those times where we have to really hunt to find the hope.

   Have things been so against you that you had to hunt to find hope in the situation?  That’s when you need to pull upon the might and mercy of God.  Call upon His might and mercy to heal you, redeem you, crown you with love and mercy, to forgive you, to wrap you in goodness, to renew you and make everything come out right.  He’s going to put you back on your feet as that Word promised.  (Ref. Psalm 103.)

   I was reading a letter that we received from one of our ministry Partners and I saw how God, in all of His might and mercy took him out of desperation.  If you heard his words of relief and hope, you couldn’t help but be moved.

   He had requested prayer because he was fighting cancer in his body.  Whenever we’re fighting something, when we don’t see any help coming, it can be easy to feel desperate.  That’s why going to God’s Word and speaking out what He says He’ll do for us is important.  That activates His might and mercy.  There isn’t anything that can defeat desperation as God’s might and mercy to you can.

   So that’s what we called out for Him to send into this suffering person.  Then we received the update of what was happening.  He described how he went for his follow-up scans to see if the disease had progressed.  But the physicians who were treating him said they could not find any more cancer in his body.  He was completely cured and preserved.

   That is the might and mercy of God being poured out.  That’s what He wants to send into your conditions.  You can be taken out of those desperate conditions which cause you so much distress.
 

Yelling for help.

   If you’re as I am, there are times you can identify with David and the desperation he felt as he faced hard conditions.  In Psalm chapter 30, he wrote a song because he was so relieved that God had come with His might and mercy and delivered him.

   In this song he wrote, I will extol You, O Lord, for You have lifted me up and have not let my foes rejoice over me.  O Lord my God, I cried to You and You have healed me.  (Ref. Psalm 30:1, 2.)

   You can just feel the desperation of how he cried out to God, and out of His mercy, the Lord answered and healed him by His might.  He delivered him out of desperation.  Another version of that scripture says it this way (and this is just the way we may feel at times).  It says, God, my God, I yelled for help and You put me together.  (Ref. Psalm 30:2 MSG.)

   “God, my God!”  We yell out to Him for help.  Meaning it comes from deep within our gut.  We feel it in us.  He is our hope and our help.  Out of that desperation as we call out to our God, He comes in with His might and His mercy and He puts us together.  He takes away what’s been tearing us apart, and He puts us together.  He heals us in every way that we need it.  Praise God, I can feel His might and mercy coming to you now.

   He knows your heart is crying out for Him to move in and make it right.  Make right what has gone wrong.  Make right what you want to happen.  Meet you right where you have a need and take you out of that desperate need and into healing in every way.  Every kind of healing you need.

   There was a woman who was desperate for a healing from a divorce.  She would write to us and describe how hard it was on her.  It caused a hardship in her finances, and she had to find a new home, and then she was dealing with emotional pain and the feeling of rejection and betrayal.  I mean this woman was hurting in a desperate way.

 

Having hope instead of hating waking up in the morning.

   So as we prayed for her, we called out to God for His might and mercy to come into her conditions and heal her in every way.  Not just her emotions but her mind and finances and her hope for the future.  You know you have to have hope for the future when you’re in a desperate situation.  You have to feel that there’s something for you to wake up to in the morning.

   Have you ever dreaded waking up in the morning?  You were facing such hard conditions, it didn’t feel as if you had anything good to wake up to!  This woman was aching so much that she said in one of her notes, “I want to wake up one day and it’s gone.  Complete healing.”  She wanted that aching and those needs to be gone, to be restored in her heart and in her life.

   So we continued praying with her and I tell you, what we saw happen was so enjoyable.  That’s the best way I know how to describe it.  It was enjoyable to see how God moved in His might and mercy.  Her conditions turned around.  She began to come out of that desperate feeling.  Good things were flowing to her.  She saw value in her life.  So, she could wake up in the morning and have something to look forward to.  She received healing.

   As that scripture said in Psalm 30, “I yelled for help to You, my God, and You put me together!”  Oh, the Lord wants to put you together today.  Whatever kind of condition you’re facing, in whatever way the enemy is trying to pull apart something in your life, we will call out for might and mercy to come in and put it together.  He can take you out of that desperate circumstance and put you in a better place.  He can send healing into your conditions.

   Jeremiah chapter 8 refers to Him as the Great Physician.  (Ref. Jeremiah 8:22.)  A physician isn’t just a medical doctor.  They are someone who cures whatever needs to be cured.  A healer.  That’s what your God is.  Your healer.  When you cry out to Him, He can heal the conditions, the hurts, pains, the needs.

   There isn’t anything that’s beyond the might and mercy of God to help you.  You must take hold of that truth and believe it with your heart, so that as you go to Him and yell for His deliverance as David did, you’ll have the faith to believe it will be yours.  It will come.

Be direct.

   Jesus tells us how we are to believe this way by giving us a story in the Book of Luke chapter 11.  Tells us about a person who went to a friend’s house at midnight out of desperation.  They had no bread in the house and they had someone who had just shown up at their house after they had journeyed a ways.

   They were so desperate for something to feed them that they rushed to their friend’s house that night and kept knocking on the door until they got up and answered.  Remember, it’s midnight.  So when the neighbor answered, they said, “Don’t bother me.  My door is shut and my kids are all in bed for the night.  I can’t get up and give you anything.”  (Ref. Luke 11:7 paraphrased.)

   Now, that desperate person could turn and walk away and give up, or they could persist and believe that their friend would give them what they need.  Jesus said, Let me tell you, even if he won’t get up because he’s a friend, if you stand your ground, knocking and waking all the neighbors, he’ll finally get up and get you whatever you need.

   Then He went on to explain this parable, Here’s what I’m saying: Ask and you’ll get; Seek and you’ll find; Knock and the door will open.  Don’t bargain with God.  Be direct.  Ask for what you need.  (Ref. Luke 11:8, 9 MSG.)

   He wants us to believe that in the midst of our desperation, when we come to Him and believe that He has what we need, we can receive it.  We can ask, seek, and knock, and that will open the might and mercy of God upon us.  He isn’t going to turn us away as that neighbor did.  He won’t shut the door to us and say that He can’t get up and give us what we need.

   No, when we yell out to God even at midnight and we tell Him we’ve run out of bread, we don’t have the strength to go on, we need the finances or healing or restoration or peace of mind, when we cry out to Him and tell Him our needs, He doesn’t turn us away.  But He takes us out of our desperation and uses His might to pour mercy upon us until every need is met!

   So believe that He stands ready to do that for you now.
 

A PRAYER FOR YOU.

     Father, we feel as that person did.  It’s midnight, and we’re out of bread.  We’re out of something that we need.  And we are yelling for our needs to be met.  We’re crying out to You.

     You promise that when we ask You, and we seek You, and we knock on Your door, You will open it.  So right now we believe the door of heaven is being opened up on my friend and their needs.  You’re opening that door and pouring out Your might and mercy.

     The Great Physician is sending just what they need.  Healing, provision, peace, the miracle answers.  The desperation is gone and it’s replaced with hope.  They can wake up in the morning and be filled with the hope of what You’re doing for them.  Help them to envision the might of Your hand moving, the might of Your voice speaking out for them, and the might of Your Spirit washing over their spirit to give them joy and assurance of what You’re doing.  How we praise You for the mighty mercies we feel coming to them.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.
 

Ask, seek, knock.

     I tell you, the way God describes what He’s doing for you is amazing.  In that prayer He talked about how the might of His hand is moving, His voice is speaking out for you, and His Spirit is washing over your life.

     So expect and receive all of that as we stay in a prayer of agreement.  A faith agreement.  That’s what God wants to hear coming from your mouth and your heart.  Faith.

     He’s called John and me to be here to stand by you and keep asking, seeking, and knocking.  That’s why we encourage you to share with us into what conditions you need to see the might and mercy of God come.  We’re going to pray and intercede.  Then send you some words that will be written by the anointing of the Holy Spirit for you.  So get in touch soon by clicking here.

 

SPECIAL NOTE: God watches you when you give!

     Now John and I want to thank those of you who are giving into this ministry.  We encourage everyone who is being helped by the messages, or helped in some way by what God is doing, to give to enable us to continue this work.

     Your giving is between you and God.  He watches when you give because what you do causes Him to release the promise of His Word upon your life.  That means your generosity is rewarded here on earth and in heaven.

     That’s why Psalm 112 says that generosity goes on and on and on.  The generous person has an honored life.  A beautiful life.  (Ref. Psalm 112:9 MSG.)  That’s what God wants you to have.  The beautiful life.  To be honored.

      So as you give today, expect the generosity of God to meet up with your generosity.  And you know which one is going to be bigger?  God’s!  He can outgive you any day of the week.  You see, you won’t just receive blessings because of your gifts, but you’ll receive great joy when you see how thousands of people are helped because of them.  Your generosity will do that.  So be excited as you give into Alcott Ministries today as John and I are.  God bless you.

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All scriptures are taken from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition unless otherwise indicated.

 

 

           
        How Your

        Character

       Affects Your

         Miracles!

     Jeanne Alcott
 

   You know how it is…!  We have so many needs in our lives that we want to hear messages about how to get those needs met.  So when someone says they have a word about developing character, our tendency is to tune them out.  Yet!  Our character is the very thing that can keep us from having our challenges met.  We can miss the way God wants to take us for the answers we need therefore miss our miracles.

   Think of the times when you feel like losing it in your emotions and thoughts.  But we don’t have to give in to that.  In fact, if we don’t give in to it, and we keep our emotions and thoughts together, that’s when it’s amazing what God can do.  The results are good.  Think of it this way: if you don’t fall apart when bad things are happening, your miracle won’t fall apart.  If you keep it together, you keep your miracle together.  You keep it coming into your life.

   That’s why Satan tries so hard to get us to fall apart inside and not keep what we know is right and best.  One of those areas where he hits Christians so hard is to try to get us to the point we don’t keep our character.  In other words, the problems or temptations or challenges come to try to shake apart our spirit, our moral fiber, our spiritual nature—the very character of God in us.  The devil wants to see that weakened.

When we don’t feel like acting or talking like a saint.

   So if you’re going to keep it together to experience miracles, you have to keep your character.  God’s Word addresses our character and how we walk it out every day.  When things go wrong and they aren’t the way we want them, that’s when the character of Christ should rise to the top.  Instead of going to the bottom.  I know when bad things happen, we don’t feel like acting out of patience or peace.  We don’t feel like saying, “Praise God.”  There are other kinds of words that we’re tempted to say.  We don’t want to act or talk as a saint.

   There was a young boy who decided to watch to see if a minister would do this.  This minister was outside doing some repairs on his home.  So the boy walked over and began watching him very carefully.  Finally the minister wanted to know why he was watching him.  He asked, “Are you getting some pointers on how to repair things?”  But the boy said, “No sir.  I’m just waiting to see what a preacher says when he smashes his thumb with a hammer.”

   People are watching, aren’t they?  Will we as a Christian keep our character even when we “smash our finger with a hammer” so to speak?  When the bad things happen?  When we’re upset or concerned or worried?  When we feel as if our finger has been smashed with a hammer will our character come out the way we desire?  Or will we say things and do things that we really don’t want to be in our character.

Keep your character; win a tremendous victory.

   When we’ve been hurt, or the pressure is, or we want out of the conditions we’re facing, will good character rise to the top?  You know, when we keep our character, we are winning a tremendous victory.  Even if it’s in minor circumstances.  Because when we do it in those minor times, those come together in a major way to create who we are in Christ.

   Here’s something good to do.

   Just for today for instance, observe your actions and your words.  Does what you see and hear reflect the character that you want to reflect?  Are you being everything that you really desire to be for God?  Watching yourself for a day can really help you catch what you’re doing.  Then you can align some attitudes or motives that may not be what you want in your character.

   You know, you sort of have to “catch yourself.”  People say, “I caught myself doing that and I didn’t even realize it.”  That happens!  Years ago, when I was teaching on the fruit of the Spirit, this happened to me.  I had just taught on the fruit of love.  That scripture talks about how love is patient.  Well, about the same time I had been teaching the series, John and I were in the ministry office working under some tight time limits.  Which for the most part that’s how it is.  We have to meet the dates when the broadcast goes out to the networks, the videos are posted, the mailings are printed, the letters are written to the Partners, we pray, we intercede, and then all the other general office work that piles up.  So I was “feeling it” that day.  As we were working, I realized my voice was getting impatient and hurried.  Not pleasant.

   Then I noticed that—which that’s what I’m suggesting you do—start noticing what you’re doing and saying.  So when I noticed that, I just stopped everything right there.  I remembered my teaching and stopped and said, “Love is patient.”  Then John and I just busted out laughing.  From that moment on, in spite of the hard conditions, I began to change my tone of voice.  I was calm and confident.  In other words, I was working to keep my character the way it should be and do what would please God at that moment.

   Now the fact that I changed myself inside didn’t change the reality that what we were doing still had to be done right away.  But you know what it did?  It changed the atmosphere in the office.  So we could be at peace and think well and work even faster.

   I tell you, God blesses that.  When we keep our character, He blesses it.  So we are rewarded.  We can get our work done faster.  Or we can see our family be at more peace.  We can see our coworkers have greater favor on us.  We make better judgments in our relationships and in our finances and our choices.  So many good things start coming when we keep our character.

Don’t let your character be eaten away.

   If we allow Satan to eat away our character bit by bit, one day we wake up and realize it isn’t what we want it to be.  Isn’t that what happened to the man, Samson?  One day he woke up, and conditions had changed around him.  Samson had been going to Delilah’s place, having the wrong type of relationship with her.  That’s when Satan entered in and began eating away at his character.  He knew Samson was doing a great work for God in judging the Israelites.

   So he wanted to put a stop to it.  He didn’t care about Samson; he just cared about stopping God’s work.  That’s why he comes after us.  He doesn’t want us to show people how good our God is and how we can trust Him.  And he doesn’t want us to experience blessings and rewards.

   He knew he had to get Samson to reveal the secret of his great strength to Delilah.  If he did that, he could strip him of his strength and everything God could do by him and for him.  So one day Samson didn’t keep it together.  He gave his secret to this woman and she gave it to the enemy.  All she had to do was cut his hair, which was a symbol of his strength from God to defeat the enemy of the Israelites.

   That day after he woke up from a nap at her place, his hair had been cut and the enemy rushed in to overcome him.  As we said, if we allow Satan to eat away at our character, one day we wake up and he’s overcome us.  So the enemy took Samson as their captive.  (Ref. Judges 13-16.)  The good news is his character began to rise to the top again.  Hebrews chapter 11 mentions him as a man of faith.  He was able to avenge himself and the nation of Israel before he died.  He defeated the enemy.  God is merciful and He is good, and that’s why He works with us to help us keep it together and enter into what He has for us.

   No matter how Satan comes in and tries to take your character, God will override him when you reach out for help.  Don’t try to do it on your own.  Recognize that God is your strength.  Reach out for HIM.  He is the One that can help you pull life together when Satan is trying to pull it apart.

   Ephesians 4:24 tells us to have a life renewed from the inside and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces His character in you.  So there is the secret right there.  Character has to start on the inside.  We have to be renewed by God’s Spirit and His Word.  Then that starts working on the inside of us and works itself into our conduct, how we act.  That’s when God can reproduce His character in us.  We keep our life together by allowing God’s Spirit to work inside us and develop our character.

It isn’t any big mystery.

   We just call out to Him and say, “Lord, help me today.  I’m facing some tough challenges.  Some temptations are coming my way.  Work inside me now.  Produce Your character in me.  And help me keep that character so I can keep my life together.  I want Your blessing today.”  Do you think God will ignore that kind of prayer?  No, His Spirit will be jumping up and down because you prayed that.  He will send every resource you need to help you.

   So when things are going wrong, God will make them right.  He’ll work in you so His character comes out of you.  It will rise to the top.  That’s when you can keep your character and therefore keep your life together in a good way.

 

A PRAYER FOR YOU.

    Thank You, God, that You sent Your Son to us, not to condemn us, but to help us.  To save us.  As Your children, it’s Your desire to develop Your character in us.  That’s our desire also, Lord.  We want to see come out of us everything that reflects who You are in us.

    But sometimes it’s tough.  The pressure is on.  Bad events are happening.  People come against us to harm us.  That’s when fear and anger and sadness try to rise up in us.

     So today in whatever way my friend is affected, I pray that You minister to them at this moment.  Give them confidence that their spirit has been made by You.  And they are filled with everything good they need to make it.

    Yes, they will come out of this even better than they were.  The devil will not be able to shake out of them what You’ve put in them.  So Your gift of peace, Your gift of blessing and mercy and goodness—those gifts are being poured into them at this time.  They will be able to operate in those.  My friend is going to walk straight into what their heart desires.  By Your help, everything good will come together.  We praise You for this.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.

 

Tell us how we can intercede for you!

    I pray you can feel God’s heart being poured out to you at this moment.  He knows about everything that has come to pull you apart inside, and He’s putting it all back together.  His gifts will enable you to walk in His goodness.

 

     Now, we’re going to continue to fight against what Satan is sending to harm you or just to bother you.  We’ll get rid of those because we’re keeping our character.  Our character of trust and faith.  That’s why John and I are here.  We’re called by God to pray for you.  So get in touch with us right away.

      Tell us how we can intercede for you.  Then expect to receive a letter from us.  That’s because God gives us revelation from His Spirit to impart to you.  So we can wait to hear from you.  Just click here now to share with us and it will come directly to us.  Jeanne and John           

 

SPECIAL NOTE: How to produce a harvest!

     Now, God wants you to know that as you put seed in the ground of His Word, He will rain on that seed and cause it to grow.  Isaiah chapter 30 says this: He will send rain for the seed you sow in the ground and the food that comes from the harvest will be rich and plentiful.  (Ref. Isaiah 30:23 NIV.)  That’s His promise.

      When you put financial seed in the ground of God’s work, it doesn’t just stay there dormant.  He rains on it with His power and blessing.  And that produces a harvest that’s rich and plentiful.  There’s more than enough for everyone.  That means the people who receive His Word from this ministry are helped and restored and taken out of rough hard conditions.  God is able to defeat the enemy out of their lives.

     Then He keeps raining on that seed so you also receive the rich and plentiful response from Him.  As you give now, as John and I are doing, believe for the rain to fall.  Expect there to be a rich response from God and experience plenty in every area of your life.  Amen.

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All scriptures are taken from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition unless otherwise indicated.

 

 

           

 
 

          Wholly

        Occupied

        With God!


     Jeanne Alcott

 

   When you fill every part of you with God, you’ll make the best choices, have great relationships, be prepared for every challenge in your life, and get to see miracles come to pass.

   So how does all this exciting stuff start happening?  We occupy ourselves with God.  What does it mean to be occupied by something?  It means you’re engaged with it, you’re full of something, you’re taken by it.  That’s how you have to be with God.  You’re engaged in talking with Him, reflecting, sharing.  You’re so full of Him that you’re taken.

   You know what it means when two people are talking about someone they see and one of them says, “I want to ask her on a date.”  Then the other one says, “Nope, you can’t, she’s taken.”

   Nothing else can take you from God because you’re already occupied.  Wrong thinking and feelings cannot come into your mind and heart and take over because you’re already full of Him.  He occupies you.  You’ve got Him in you so much that all the fears and intimidations and needs of life can’t take over.
 

With what are you occupied?

   One day Senator Robert Kennedy made a visit to the Amazon.  This is where most of the Brazilian Indians have their tribes.  As he was talking with various people there, he had with him someone who knew how to speak the language.  So he had them ask one of the natives, “What do you most like to do?”

   He figured probably the man would say something about hunting or canoeing.  But he had a big surprise when the man answered, “What I most want to do is be occupied with God.”  When Robert Kennedy heard the answer, he told his friend to ask the question again because something must have been misunderstood.  But the man gave the same answer.  To be occupied with God.

   You see, he had accepted Christ and now his attention was on allowing God to manage him and guide him and to be in His presence.

   The word occupation means that a person or thing is the principal business of your life.  Is God the principal business for you?  Meaning is He the primary focus of your time and attention and affection?  You’re occupied with Him and He occupies you.

   I know you have family and friends, some kind of work you do, groups in which you’re involved, problems you have to solve and new ways in which you want to grow and accomplish more.  But in the center of all of it must be God.  His ability to govern you in all of it must be there if you’re going to experience the satisfaction and fulfillment you need.

   You cannot be governed by other things or people.  Psalm 63:8 gives a great description of how we can be governed by God.  That scripture simply says, My whole being follows hard after You.  Another version says, I hold onto You for dear life.  (Ref. Psalm 63:8 AMPC and MSG.)

   That says it right there.  Everything in your life must revolve around the fact that you want God.  You want to be governed by Him.  Hold onto Him as if your very existence depends on it.  That’s when you can really experience everything He can be to you and for you.

Just a few dollars’ worth of God.

   To do that, you can’t say that you want just a portion of God.  You want it to be super easy to have a relationship with Him.  No following hard after Him.

   In other words, we can’t be as the person who decided how much of God they wanted and so they put in their order.  They described it this way.  “I want a few dollars’ worth of God, please.  Not enough to have Him burst in my spirit and not enough to disturb the activities I like to do.  Just enough of God to feel as if I have a cup of warm milk or I’m taking a nap in the sunshine.  The feel-good kind.  I don’t want enough of Him that it transforms me.  Just a few dollars’ worth of God, please.”

   That would never be our desire.  We go far beyond that.  We want God to burst into our spirit.  We want transformation.  We want Him to disturb activities that aren’t good for us.  We’re following hard after Him and holding onto Him because we want to be governed by Him.  We want to be occupied with God.  Instead of a few dollars’ worth, we want a priceless amount of Him in our lives.

   God feels you receiving these words right now.  Your spirit is taking an extra leap toward Him as you have been reading these words.  And He is responding to you.

   Isn’t it amazing how He fills a void in us?  We need Him and want Him so much and as we reach out to Him, He comes to us even in times when we feel empty or distracted or hurt.  When we feel there isn’t much hope, we can follow hard after Him and hold onto Him for dear life and He will start to govern our conditions.

Have you given permission to God?

   We have to give Him the go-ahead.  Permission.  I know it sounds funny to say that we have to give permission to God.  He is sovereign.  He can do whatever He wants.  True, but when it comes to us as an individual, God wants us to want Him.  He wants us to desire Him.  That’s why He comes into our world and presents Himself as the One who can fill our lives, He can do it as we allow Him to direct us and preside over every part of us.

   Many times I think about the story a young man shared about how God made this so real to him.  He was in a very difficult time and so he didn’t feel God in a strong way.  I don’t know if you’ve ever had that happen in your life.

   But there can be times when it seems conditions are so against you and the disappointment goes so deep that it’s hard to feel that His Spirit is right there and He is doing something for you.  That’s where this young man was.  Life was sweeping him along and now he felt as if something was missing.  It wasn’t quite right.

   So one night he was tossing and turning trying to rest.  He was kind of in between being awake and unconscious.  But he had a sense that something was turning around inside him.  He kept hearing some words, but he couldn’t quite make them out.  He was awake enough that he knew if he could just grab something and write down the words, maybe that would get them out of him and he could relax and finish the night’s rest.

   So in the dark of the room, beside his bed he found a box of tissues and then he found a pen and real fast wrote down the words.  He was so out of it that he wasn’t sure what he wrote.  But because he got it out of him, he was able then to rest.

   The next morning when he woke up, he remembered that something had been rolling around inside him but he couldn’t remember what the words were.  Then he recalled grabbing a box of tissues and writing some words on it.  So he searched for the box and when he found it, here are words that were on it.  It said, “Fill the void with God.”   

   No doubt the Holy Spirit helped him write down that message so he could know what God was speaking to him.  The void he was feeling had to be occupied with God.  As he began to allow Him to do that over the weeks and months that followed, he felt a greater occupation of God inside him.  It transformed him.  It helped him past the hard times and took him into a fulfilling position.  In other words, he didn’t just get a few dollars’ worth of God, he was wholly occupied with Him.

   This is your day to become more wholly occupied with God.  Get to the place that you know He governs more of your life in a deeper way.

   I’m not saying that you’re doing things wrong — but every believer, no matter where they are in their relationship with the Spirit, should desire to be governed by God more and more.  That’s from where true satisfaction and fulfillment and deliverance come.

 

A PRAYER FOR YOU.

   Oh Lord, it’s our heart’s desire for You to occupy every part of our life.  We want to be so occupied with You that we know Your heartbeat for us.  We know Your thinking.  So the devil will not be able to convince us of the wrong ideas he tries to give us about You.

   We know that You care for us.  Because of it, we can be fulfilled and satisfied by You.  We can enter into miracles and see things go well in our life.

   So that’s what I pray for my dear friend at this time.  In spite of what they may feel in their emotions or what conditions have presented themselves to them, that doesn’t change the fact that You are in control.  You govern every aspect of their every day as they give it over to You.

   So Father, as You see their need and know what they’re expressing to You from their heart, I pray that You show them how You are receiving it.  You’re dealing with it.  And You will make it come out right.

   The enemy seems to be controlling so much, but he has no control as we believe You and put this in Your hands.  Which we do now.  We put it in Your hands and allow You to govern everything that’s happening.  So we are watching for the good outcome and the transformation and the beauty of what’s waiting for them.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.

God can direct you into the path of a good outcome!

   When we hand over everything to God and allow Him to govern it, He will direct us into His path of a good outcome.  You can see transformation and the beauty of what’s waiting for you.  We’re believing this TOGETHER.  That’s why God has called us to be here for you.  So we could fulfill His Word and be in a faith agreement.  There’s so much power in doing that.

   That’s why we encourage you to tell us what you need to see God do in your life.  We will pray in a serious way.  Then we’ll also write to you because His Spirit gives us words to impart to you.  So get in touch with us soon by clicking here, and it will come directly to us.  Jeanne and John           

 

SPECIAL NOTE: We want to tell you about something wonderful!

     Every time a person is helped by this ministry, you are a part of that miracle. 
     Every time a person is raised up from discouragement, it is your hand reaching out to raise them up. 
     Every time someone gives their heart to Christ, you’re the one who helped to take them to Him. 
     Yes, you are the one who sends miracles into the lives of so many people and you cause them to grow in the ways of God.  How do you do that?  You do it every time you give into Alcott Ministries.

     You see, you’re a part of the success of this ministry.  Your giving makes you a part of everything we do to fulfill God’s desires for people.  Don’t think your giving will go unnoticed by the Lord.  He promises in His Word to multiply it, expand it and so that it doesn’t just help others but your gift causes blessings to come into your life. 
     So John and I encourage you to join us now and become a part of everything we’re doing for God by your giving.  God bless you.  (Ref. Luke 6:38.)

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All scriptures are taken from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition unless otherwise indicated.

 

 

 

           
            Gather

             Your

           Crops!


     Jeanne Alcott
 

 

   We know how there are different seasons that farmers gather in their crops.  Some years they may experience a tough season and the crops don’t do as well.  But just because that happens, they do not give up their farm.  They recognize that’s how life is.  There are some tough seasons but there are also good ones.

   So if they don’t stay with the farm and walk away during the hard season, then they will not be there to experience the season of blessing.

   That’s where you may be right now.  You’re in a tough season and your crops are not doing well.  You don’t see the results of your work and effort and faith and prayers.  But if you walk away now during the hard season and give up the farm, you won’t be there during the season of blessing.  Believe that’s what is coming to you.  Your season of blessing!  Your crops are going to come up.  You will see the fruit that’s been growing.

   It’s been growing because you stayed with it.  When things were difficult and it didn’t seem possible you would ever have a time of blessing again, you stayed with the farm.  So now God is saying it’s time to gather your crop!  Hallelujah, it’s time to go out there and get what your faith has produced.  Believe the season has come.  It’s ripe, ready for the picking. 

Have a Festival.

   Sometimes in the fall season, towns have what they call a festival.  It’s a harvest festival.  They celebrate the crops that are coming in and the provision they will have now.  It’s time for you to have a festival.  A celebration.  The crops are coming in and it’s going to be time for you to gather the provision God has made.  It’s the provision of blessing for where you’ve had need or hard work or pain or disappointment.

   When you’ve worked hard to accomplish something, there comes a time when you see it produce the final product.  You can have a spiritual festival to celebrate what God is doing.  It’s your season of blessing.  But oh, you sure had to stay with the hard work on the farm until you saw the good season come about and your crops produce.

   I was just reading how some of the first people in America did this in the 1600s.  One of the members of the Plymouth colony wrote and described how they were having a harvest festival.  He had traveled on the Mayflower and helped establish the colony.  They had endured the hard winter months and so experienced a tough season of life.

   I’m sure there were times they wished they were someplace else instead of facing the hard ground, trying to raise enough crops to feed their families.  But when the ground seems hard and what you’re doing doesn’t seem to be producing, remember you’re in a season.

   Yes, it is a hard season, but think about this:  Every season passes and a new one comes.  So what you’re experiencing now will pass in time and you will go into a new season, and it will be a blessed one.  Even though these pilgrims were in the wilderness, God sustained them.  When you stay with the difficult season you will come into the time of blessing.  God will sustain you.

   Just think of what the people would have missed out on if they had given up that new territory.  There would be no America!  But because these farmers stayed with it and continued planting in the hard seasons they began this country.

   So the day came when the Governor of the colony established a day to have a Harvest Festival.  One member wrote about the harvest of corn that had come in and said, “God be praised.”  He described how they had a good increase and how their barley crop was good.

   Once the crops came in, they gathered them and then the Governor sent out some people to hunt for birds to provide the meat.  They rejoiced together over the fruit of their labors.  That’s what you need to do.  Know that you’ll come to a time when you will rejoice over the fruit of your labors.  It’s not in vain.  Your labor is not in vain.  The season of blessing is coming.  Get ready to gather in your crop.

   That’s what these pilgrims did.  Gather in their crops.  And the Indians on the land saw their celebration and decided to join in.  The Indian King of the area sent out some men to hunt, and they brought in five deer for the celebration.  So there were three days of entertainment and feasting as the pilgrims and the American Indians came together.  The man who wrote about this said it was by the goodness of God that they were “far from want.”  Oh yes, they had come into their season of blessing.

   Far from want!  That’s where the goodness of God is going to take you.  Wherever you have needs, whatever kind they are, it’s time for you to gather in the crops.  Don’t allow opposition to keep you from getting what belongs to you.  When the weather and the ground opposed the pilgrims, they stood up to it all until they got that for which they came.

Speak Up.

   This is what some sisters in the Bible decided to do.  In Numbers chapter 26, the story unfolds of how the Israelites were now coming into the land of promise from God.  It had been divided by inheritance for each tribe according to the number of people in those families.  Back then, the law said that when the father had died, the inheritance went to the sons.  If there were no sons, it went to other families.

   There was a man who was in the tribe of Manasseh who had passed away.  However, he had just five daughters, no son, so when the property was being divided up, they were passed up!  But they had waited for this time when they would receive what belonged to them so they refused to be quiet about it.

   The five women came together and stood before Moses and the priest and before all the congregation and said, Our father died in the wilderness…and he had no sons.  Why should the name of our father be removed from his family because he had no son?  Give to us a possession among our father’s brethren. (Ref. Numbers 27:3, 4.)

   Now, something such as this has never been contested before.  So Moses brought their case before God, and we always find God to be just.  So He said to Moses in response that those women were justified and spoke right.  He said, You shall give them an inheritance among the father’s brethren, and you shall cause their father’s inheritance to pass to them.  (Ref. Numbers 27:7.)

   Then God went a step past that.  He went on to tell Moses that from now on if a man dies and has no son, his inheritance should pass to his daughter.  So those women were given what belonged to them by rights.

   Do you know God has given the same ordinance for your life?  Just as those women had a right to cultivate their property and gather in the crops from it, so do you.  May not be physical property, but you have the right to gather in your inheritance of health and promotion and favor.

   God’s Word says you have an inheritance of prosperity in every area of your life.

   You can inherit peace and joy, stability and the good place to live and work and worship.

   So gather in your crops.  Refuse to exist with addiction or chains of any kind on your mind or body or spirit.  Refuse to walk away from the blessing God has for you just as those women refused to do it.  Because they spoke up for what was theirs, they entered into a season of blessing.

Don’t Stay in the Hard Season.

   Psalm chapter 1 tells you that blessed, happy, fortunate, prosperous, and to be envied is the person who walks with God and follows His plans and purpose.  You don’t submit to the wrong kind of life but your delight is in God’s Word and His teachings.  When you do that, you’re as a tree planted by the streams, ready to bring forth fruit in its season and everything you do shall prosper and be complete.  (Ref. Psalm 1:1-3.)

   That’s God’s Word to you!  That’s why He’s encouraging you now to gather in your crops.  He has plenty for your life.  So much so that people will envy you.  So don’t give up anything that’s meant for you to have.

   In other words, don’t stay in the hard season and stay in need when God has everything ready for you.  You have to use your faith and gather it up.  That scripture said you’ll bring forth fruit in the right season.  And what you do shall prosper and be complete.  Whole.  Good.  Everything you need.  What God has put in your heart as your inheritance.  Don’t allow it to be taken from you.  Do according to the scripture and delight in God’s Word and have faith in what He promises.  That’s when you will see your fruit come in the right season.  You will gather it up and enjoy it.

 

Refuse To Let Go of What You Want.

   I’ve just been watching as one of our ministry Partners is doing this.  She wrote such a wonderful note to us about what God is doing for her sons.  After she had raised her two sons, when they became adults, they drifted apart.  So we began to come into prayer with her about this.  God’s Word does not say your inheritance is for your children to drift apart and not speak to one another or love one another.  But to have a peaceful, unified family filled with joy.

   So we knew that when you believe according to God’s Word for things to change, it can happen.  We continued to pray and believe with her.  Just a month ago, she shared how she was so grateful for our love and prayers because here’s what happened.  Her oldest son came home to spend his vacation there, and his brother joined him and they went camping and fishing for a week.  She says, “My sons have been their old selves together having fun and just enjoying each other.”

   She’s gathering in her crops!  She’s celebrating her harvest festival.  Her children are her crops and she’s not going to give them up to what the devil did by splitting them up.  By God’s power, she watched them return to the days when they cared for one another and spent time together.  So they have come out of that hard season and into the season of blessing.  It IS a blessing for a family to be unified and enjoy one another.  It’s our inheritance, and that’s what this woman refused to let go.

   Oh, refuse to let go of what you want to enjoy.  By rights, it’s yours.  So stay with it.  Stay until you get to have the harvest festival.  Remember that every hard season passes and a new one comes.  So stay in faith until it’s your time to celebrate

 

 

A PRAYER FOR YOU.

   Oh Lord, my friend can’t wait until this hard season passes.  They are looking forward to a better time.  That’s what You’re speaking to their heart now.  This will pass and a new season is on its way. One in which they can celebrate.  They can have their harvest festival.  That’s because You are putting together what will please their heart—because it pleases Your heart to bless them.  That’s why You created the season of blessing.  By their faith, they will walk into it.

   They will bring forth fruit in season and everything they do shall prosper.  Happiness will return and the joy of the Lord will be theirs.  So this day we do as those five women did who stood up for their inheritance.  We contest what the enemy is doing against my dear friend.  We believe You will make it right.  They will enter into the answers and miracles and accomplishment waiting for them.  We believe for it all in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

Believe you’re entering the good season!

   Believe now the bad season will pass.  You’re about to enter into a place where you’re going to go around and just pluck the fruit from the trees.  It’s going to be a festival!  A celebration!

   So let’s join our faith together to believe for it.  Faith is what yields the crops and makes them ready for picking.  So be sure to share with us the kind of season you’re experiencing right now.  Our prayers are going to believe for that to pass and for your season of blessing to begin.  We can’t wait to hear from you and begin to intercede and pray.

   Then when want to write to you.  We always do this because the Holy Spirit gives us words that can minister to you in a very personal way.  So we will do that as soon as we hear from you.

   Contact us soon by clicking here, and it will come directly to us.  Jeanne and John           

 

SPECIAL NOTE: The Season of Blessing!

God cares so much for us that He tells you about His season of blessing that’s been prepared.  Now as you give into His work as His Word tells us to do, you can enter into that new season.

Remember His Word says there is a time of sowing and a time of reaping what you sow.  (Ref. Ecclesiastes 3.)  So when you plant into God’s kingdom, you reap the season of blessing.

There are two ways you are blessed.  First you receive great joy and fulfillment in seeing God work in the lives of people because of your generosity.  Then on top of that you’re blessed because God ministers to YOU in a personal way and meets your needs.  That’s what He promises.

So join John and me as we give to God’s work and expect great blessing.

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All scriptures are taken from the Amplified Bible, Classic Edition unless otherwise indicated.