What It's Like

       To Really

     Know God!

    Jeanne Alcott

 

 

     Have you ever been to a farm or perhaps to a zoo and seen a peacock?  They are beautiful when their feathers are fanned out.  But if you happen to go to see them when the wind is blowing hard, they won’t display their feathers.  That’s because they know the damage that can be done if they do.  They may not have any feathers at all after the high winds get finished with them.

     There was a minister by the name of Prater that once said, “An impersonal knowledge of God is as the tail feathers of a peacock—highly ornamental, but not much use in a high wind.”

     You don’t want to have peacock feathers when the high winds of life come.  In other words, you don’t want to have just a casual knowledge of God because when those high winds come, the casual knowledge is not going to be much use to you.  That knowledge may appear to be a nice ornament to others, but it isn’t much help in trials.  If we don’t seek to know God more, then we will not have the knowledge of Him we need to stay strong and endure and overcome. 

     Knowing God is not just for the purpose of being able to say that we have prayed X amount of time or did a certain Bible study.  No, the purpose of knowing God is very practical.  After we seek His face and we go out into the world, we have that experience to take with us.  It gives us what we need to withstand the high winds.  Our knowledge of Him is not just ornamental as the tail feathers of a peacock.  But it’s powerful and strong and keeps us stable in the high winds of adversity or confusion or need.

     That’s why He beckons you to Him.  It’s for your own good, because He knows what’s going to happen if you don’t have time with Him and desire to dig into the details of who He is and what He can do.  It’s important to know GOD in detail.  Not just an overriding knowledge of Him.  That’s why the Apostle Paul wrote in Philippians chapter 3 that his determined purpose was that he may know the Lord.

 

What does it mean to “know” Him?

     Is it just to know His name and who He is?  It’s much deeper than knowing who He is and thinking about Him every so often.  When we dig into the Greek of that word “know” it implies a personal relation between the knower and the known him in other words there’s intimate knowledge between the one who knows God and God.  It isn’t just knowledge between the two of you, but also must involve the influence of God upon you.  That’s what it means to know God.

     So Paul was saying, “I want to relate to God in a personal way and have Him influence everything about me.”  In verse 10 he wrote, For my determined purpose is that I may know Him [that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognizing and understanding the wonders of His Person more strongly and more clearly]. 

     That’s pretty strong!  I mean, how many of us can say that we have a determined purpose to know God.  That we want to progress in digging into the details about Him?  If we do, that will enable us to see the wonders of His person.  We can understand His words and His thoughts, feel His heartbeat for us.  That’s when we become strong.  We can weather what comes at us.  We’ve gone beyond an impersonal knowledge of God to a very personal one.  We understand the details of how He relates to us and what that means for our life.

     Now!  To do that, takes attention from us.  It takes caring enough to do it.  It becomes a priority.  As Paul said, it’s our purpose.  We’re determined about digging into the details of God and His character and actions and want to understand what’s important to Him.  It’s knowing those details of God that is going to fulfill us and satisfy our soul.  That’s what causes us to survive and be victorious.  We experience a greater sense of power because we know the One who IS power. 

Someone who is in tune with God.

     When you see a person who is in tune with God, you’re going to see a powerful person.  It radiates all over them.  They go through life not as a peacock that cannot withstand the winds but they soar on wings of eagles.  They can rise above the storm and conquer what comes against them because they have sought the face of God and understand what to do.  They are given strength and force that go beyond what they could have done without that knowledge.

     When I was making a study of this, I came across an article about the story of a baseball player who was very successful because of his attention to detail.  It shows what can happen if we do the same thing he did in a spiritual way.  If you follow baseball much then you may remember the name Ted Williams.  During his career, he became known as one of the best hitters the game has ever known.  He was the final baseball player to hit better than .400 in a season.  He was an amazing player and very successful.

     When you dig into the details of his abilities, you find out that’s why he was successful.  It was because he dug into the details.  He could hit a baseball well because he knew his bat well.  Williams studied every detail of each bat he used.  He would weigh a bat to make sure the humidity had not added an ounce to it.

     He could even pick up a group of bats and tell you which one was half an ounce heavier than the others without weighing them.  He knew if a handle was right on the bat or if it was off.  In other words, Ted Williams knew the details of his bats and it helped him to be successful.  Most of the time he didn’t strike out when he came up to bat.

     I wonder sometimes if that’s what we’re trying to do.  Come up to bat without knowing the details.  So we strike out.  We don’t have a deep enough knowledge of God so when the challenge is coming our way, we can’t hit it out of the ballpark.  If we come to know Him, we’re going to have the know-how we need to combat every conflict or challenge or need that comes our way.

     How can it be otherwise if we know the One who knows us better than anyone and can give us the  strength and ability to bat a thousand?  Don’t strike out!  Seek to know God more and become one of the best batters there are.

Enter into a very special space.

     You see, when you seek to know details about God, you’re entering into a very special space.  That means you’re coming into the holy of Holies and God is going to impart to you.  To impart means that He passes on to you.  And what is He passing on or imparting to you?  Everything He is.  Just think about being in the presence of God.  What are you going to absorb?  Power, love, insight, direction and guidance, health and healing, wholeness in your mind and emotions and throughout your entire being.  It isn’t that you are going to God to see what you can get.  You’re going to Him because of your desire and hunger to know Him more in detail.  But when you enter into His presence, you won’t walk away empty.  You walk away with an impartation.

     So how do you do that?  You just go sit down and say to Him, “I want to know You more.  I seek Your face.”  I’m serious.  It is that simple.

All He cares about is you.

     There isn’t any special scripture you have to know and you don’t have to have done everything perfect that day and deserve to be near to Him.  Seeking the face of God does not require that your life is perfect.  Or that you have the perfect setting or place.  All He cares about is you.  He wants to see that your heart is reaching out to know Him more.  So when you come to Him in a simple and honest way—just simple and honest—He responds in a mighty and beautiful way.  That’s  when your greater experience with Him can happen.  So, hear God say, “Seek My face.”  Then dig in.  Tell Him you want everything that He wants to impart to you, because you want to know Him more than anything in your life.

OUR PRAYER FOR YOU.

      Okay God, we’re ready to dig in.  We want to know You, really know You, in a deeper way.  So I ask now that You respond to the heart of my friend as they are approaching You and calling out to You.  They’re reaching out with their spirit to touch Your Spirit.  They’re not satisfied anymore with how much they know about You.  They want MORE!  To understand the wonders of Your person.  And to receive the impartation You have for them.

      So as You see the needs and challenges and desires in their life, we believe those are being covered by You now.  As they enter Your presence, You cover them and impart the strength and power and victory they need.  Oh yes, they will come out of the winds of this trial not as a peacock that has its feathers blown to pieces, but they soar as an eagle.  They soar up to You and experience the power of Your presence.  How we praise You for this.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.

 

Seek God’s face in a deeper way.

You can enter a time when the yearning that’s been in your heart can be fulfilled.  You can have a greater knowledge and sense of God’s presence.  So I encourage you not to stop the journey.  Don’t stop seeking His face in a deeper way.

That’s why I want you to get in touch with us.  We want to feed you God.  That’s the best way I know how to put it.  We want to feed God to you—His anointing and presence.  Then we’ll pray for Him to impart into your life everything you need.

So get in touch with us right away.  Also, we will write to you and give you words from God’s Spirit to minister HIM to you.  So we can’t wait to hear from you.  Just click here now and it will come directly to us.  Jeanne Alcott

 

SPECIAL NOTE: You’re giving life to people!

       In Matthew 6 God tells you that He knows about every need you have.  But that isn’t what He wants you to seek.  Don’t seek the things you need but rather seek Him.  That scripture says, Seek…first of all His kingdom and His righteousness…then all these things [that you need] will be given you besides. (Ref. Matthew 6:33.)

     So we encourage you to seek His kingdom first by giving into God’s work today.  When you’re giving to Him, you’re showing that you trust Him for YOUR needs to be met.  As you cause His word of power to go out through this ministry, and so many people are transformed and helped and renewed and the knowledge of God permeates the airwaves, then God says because you have sought Him first, NOW everything you need will be given to you and even more than you need.

      So we’re excited to see His Word fulfilled as you and John and I give today.  Expect to see miracles that are amazing.

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

 

                                                                

 

 

 

     Hold Fast to

         Hope!

    Jeanne Alcott

 

 

 

     You know the saying, “They suffered a setback”?  We say it when we refer to someone who has had something bad happen to them.  They were working toward accomplishing something or trying to see a desire come to pass, but now they’re hindered.  An event has stopped the person from getting what they need.  That’s what it means to suffer a setback.

     But have you noticed how we say the word “suffer?”  I think that’s appropriate because a setback sure can cause suffering.  It can hurt us when something doesn’t happen; it goes wrong.  We’re in need or we’re humiliated or disappointed.  We can’t describe how it is.  Sometimes we can’t even think straight.  It’s hard to analyze our emotions.  We’re suffering!  The setback has been more than we feel we can handle.  So what can we do in those times?  What do we have to hold onto when we are losing what’s so important to us?

     God gives us the answer in His Word.  Hebrews 10:23: Let us hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess.  Why should we do that?  What’s the reason that we can hold onto hope?  Because the rest of that verse says, He Who promised is reliable and faithful to His word.  (Ref. Hebrews 10:23.)  So when we face a setback, know that it’s temporary.  That’s because God who has promised what you are to receive is reliable.  He’s faithful to fulfill His Word.

It's temporary.

     So the setback is TEMPORARY because God is coming in to fulfill His Word.  It won’t exist anymore, because what’s going to push it out of the way?  The promise of God.  The promise that God put in your heart will push that setback out of your way.  Remember it’s temporary!  It cannot continue to exist is what that means.  It cannot continue to exist because God comes in and moves it out of the way SO THAT what He promised you can happen.

     It doesn’t matter how dire the conditions appear.  Those conditions do not determine the limit of God.  Can you even imagine that?  That something on this earth could ever limit what God could do.  That it could put boundaries around Him and force Him not to move in your life?  No way.  Nothing is ever going to prevent God from moving the way He desires.  If you hold fast to hope!  You believe in what you have been promised, and that He will be faithful to fulfill it according to His Word.

From a handful of rice to great blessing.

     There’s a woman I’m going to tell you about who has done this in her life.  And when you hear her story, it really causes you to admire her.  She’s a person who had to believe her setback was temporary and hold fast to her hope.  Because she did, read what happened.  This woman is from Chicago.  One day a reporter was assigned to do a human-interest story on her.  It was Christmas time and his newspaper wanted to show the struggles of a family from inner-city Chicago.  But this reporter, who was an atheist, didn’t care about Christmas of course.  However, since his paper had made the assignment he had to go visit this woman.

     When he arrived at her house, here is a description of what he saw.  The woman was sixty years old at the time.  Her two granddaughters were living with her.  They had had a home in a tenement, but it burned down.  So the three of them were crowded in this tiny two-room apartment on the West side.  Not two-bedroom apartment, but two rooms total.

     As bad as that was, he then saw there was no furniture in the apartment.  It was empty.  No rugs.  No pictures.  Nothing except a small kitchen table.  On it was one handful of rice.  The two young girls were the ages of 11 and 13.  They each owned one dress and there was one thin grey sweater that they shared between the two of them.  They would trade it back and forth as they walked to school in the cold Chicago weather.  The woman had arthritis so she couldn’t work.  They were suffering a setback.

     But in everything he saw, the thing that got to this reporter the most was her attitude.  As he interviewed her, she didn’t have a sense of self-pity or blame the government.  Instead she was full of faith and dignity because she believed God would take care of them.  She was holding fast to hope.  So she told this reporter all about Jesus and her hope in Him.

     Well, the man finished the interview and turned it in to the paper.  But over the next few days he couldn’t get this family out of his mind.  So on Christmas Eve, he decided to make a visit again to their house.  This atheist was searching.  He couldn’t figure out how they could have so much faith and seem to have nothing in this world, yet he had everything and had no faith.

     So as the grandmother opened the door and invited him into the apartment, here’s the change that he noticed.  Now the apartment was filled with furniture, appliances, and rugs.  There was a nice Christmas tree.  Wrapped presents.  Bags of food, and winter garments.  They even had cash gifts given to them.  Where did this all come from?  Since the reporter’s article had been published, the people who read it had responded to the needs of the family.

Here’s what happened next.

     Now this sounds as if it’s a great ending to a wonderful story.  But if we see this as the ending, then we will miss the complete picture of how God works.  Because here’s what happened next.  This family, who had been in need and now had so much given to them, were not hoarding it and holding onto it as if these things were their hope.  No, they were continuing to hold fast to the hope they had in God and His faithfulness.  So instead of keeping everything for themselves, they were getting ready to walk out the door to give away many of the items.

     The reporter was shocked.  He asked the grandmother why they were doing this.  Her answer?  “Our neighbors are still in need.  We cannot have plenty while they have nothing.  This is what Jesus would want us to do.”  He was taken aback.  That rocked everything that he believed.  But then came the next big wonderful truth that changed him.  She said, “All this is wonderful; it’s a gift from God, but it’s not His greatest gift.  No, we celebrate that tomorrow at Christmas.  That is Jesus.”  That did it!  This atheist could no more hold fast to his belief that there was no God and there was no hope.  He now put his hope in Jesus and became a Christian.

When defeat is staring you in the face.

     Oh what God can do when we hold fast to our hope in Him.  That grandmother knew what she was experiencing was a temporary setback.  So she was able to hold fast to her hope.  She knew God would come through and help them.  Because she understood this principle, when she did receive His promise, she was able to share with others.

     You see, when we trust God, we won’t hold onto material things or relationships or position or money.  When we’re holding fast to Him, we have the faith to let those things go and use them as God desires.  It was her hope in Jesus that transformed her life and the life of an atheist.

     When defeat seems to be staring you in the face, hold fast to hope!  Somehow, God will change the setback and help you.  He is reliable and faithful to His Word.  Remember that scripture in Hebrews said to hold fast to the hope that you cherish and confess.  That’s what that grandmother was doing.  She cherished the Word of God and His promises to her.  She cherished the hope she had in Him.  Because of that she was confessing to that reporter what she believed God would do.

     It’s time for you to reach out to embrace and cherish the hope that God has for what you desire.  And don’t just cherish it, but confess it.  Confess the promises of God and what He will do for you.  Express those from a heart of faith and believe you will see a great spiritual move just as that family did and as the atheist did in his conversion.

     God can do great things for you and for your family and those around you who need Him.  So today hold fast to hope.  Cherish it.  Confess it.  Then you can experience it.

 

OUR PRAYER FOR YOU.

      Oh Lord, my dear friend has suffered a setback.  It feels as if the desire in their heart will never come to pass.  The devil has inserted his hand into the process and stopped what should have been theirs.

     But instead of losing our hope, we’re going to laugh.  Because even in the midst of suffering, we know the devil cannot prevail.  He’s tried to change the scene to one of no hope.  Ugly.  Not what they desire.  But that’s just temporary.  He can’t determine what You are about to do, because You see us at this moment and how we are holding fast to our hope. We cherish it.  We confess it.

     Now, I believe for my friend to experience it.  Experience everything You have designed for them to have.  So we praise You for what is to come.  It can be mighty and good and fulfill their dream.  We believe it.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.

 

We want to help you enter into what God has for you!

     So together we must take hold of the hope of what God has for you.  It’s a united front against what the devil is doing.  That’s why it’s good for you to share with us the kind of setback you’ve experienced.  What are your needs?  What are your dreams?  We are both sent here to help you enter into what God has promised.

     But we must hear from you so I can then lay hands on what you share and intercede.  Also, it’s important for us to write to you.  That’s because God drops in our spirit words of encouragement and power for your life.  So we can’t wait to hear from you.  Just click here now and it will come directly to us.  Jeanne Alcott

 

SPECIAL NOTE: You’re giving life to people!

       Now, I encourage you to believe God’s Word about giving and receiving.  It’s right there.  In the Scriptures.

       God promises when you give into His work so that His Word can give life to people, that’s what you’ll receive in return.

       Life.
       Blessing.
       Provision.
       Favor and promotion.
       Well-being and wholeness.

       He’ll give so much to you that it will run over and you’ll be able to give to others.  (Ref. Luke 6:38.)  That’s His plan for your life.  Now, enter into it today as you give into Alcott Ministries.

      We have some wonderful people helping support the radio airtime and the materials that we produce and many things we’re doing for God.  But we need more people to be a part of this ministry.  So if you have been hearing the teachings and have been encouraged or helped in some way, be sure to respond to what God has done for you and give back to Him.  And John and I are doing the same thing today.  We’re giving of our finances to God.  So now expect miracles.

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

 

                                                                

 

 

 

    Thankful for

    the Harvest!

    Jeanne Alcott

 

 

     Thanksgiving season makes us think of the harvests the early settlers in America had and how thankful they were for them.  They understood the importance of seedtime and harvest.  It was life or death for them.  When the seed went in the ground, there must come up some crops so they could exist.  That’s how they received their provision.

     This is how we receive our provision also, but not just food crops from the ground.  Seedtime and harvest are throughout our entire life.  Through our seeds that we sow in our life, we activate the harvest of what God can do for us.  Seeds of time and love, ones of finances and funds, prayers and sharing, hard work and sacrifice.

     Seedtime and harvest is a very simple principle.  We plant a seed, it grows, and we reap a harvest.  We can see it happen in the earth all the time with the farmer.  But for some reason it’s harder to see it happen when it comes to giving and receiving in a spiritual sense.

     The farmer wouldn’t be afraid to put seed into the ground so the crops could grow.  He or she wouldn’t say, “Oh, this seed is all I have.  I’m afraid to put it in the ground because then I’ll have nothing.  I won’t have any seed.”  The farmer wouldn’t say that because they know there is something much greater waiting for them if they plant the seed.  It’s going to grow into something good and bountiful that will be a blessing.  That’s why they don’t grip those seeds as though their life will be hurt if they release them.  Their life will be made better because of the seeds they plant.

 

God’s shovel is bigger than yours.

     In His Word, God gives the analogy of the farmer planting seed and seeing abundant harvest.  He does not want us to fear giving, thinking that when we do we will be losing it.  We’re actually just allowing it to produce.  When we sow seed, we’re giving it the go ahead to produce!  That’s what activates the supernatural.  That giving activates the supernatural receiving.

     This is what a certain farmer realized spiritually because of what he saw happen in the ground.  So he became very generous in giving to others.  In fact, he gave away so much, his friends couldn’t understand how he could do it and yet he continued to become so prosperous.  So one day one of the friends came to him and said, “We can’t understand you.  You give far more than the rest of us and yet you always seem to have more to give.”

     So the farmer explained to him the reason this is.  He said, “I just keep shoveling into God’s bin and He keeps shoveling into mine, but God has the bigger shovel!”

     God’s shovel is bigger than yours.  You could give a shovel full of money, love, sacrifice, time—you name it, whatever you give Him, His shovel is bigger when He gives back to you.  He just keeps putting it in your storage bin and therefore you have that much more to pull out and continue to give to Him.

     That’s the key to increasing your storage bin.  You have to activate the supernatural provision.  You do that by going through the seedtime.  The seedtime precedes the harvest.  The planting of it has to be done in the ground, then once that seed is in the good soil, it can produce a harvest not just in the work God does with it, but in your life as well.

Sow generously then reap generously.

     When the Apostle Paul was trying to teach this principle to the Corinthians, he said to them, Remember this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly, and he who sows generously [that blessings may come to someone] will also reap generously and with blessings.  (Ref. II Corinthians 9:6.)  Just as the farmer—if you sow in a generous way, you’re going to receive in a generous way and with blessings coming to you.

     Then he went on to say in that same chapter in II Corinthians 9, You will be enriched in all things and in every way, so that you can be generous.  (Ref. II Corinthians 9:11.)  Now, that’s describing the activation of supernatural provision.  Being enriched in all things and in every way—the supernatural.  It can’t just happen on your own.  But because you put that seed in the ground and believe that blessings will come to other people, God says, “All right, I have their seed now.  Therefore, I’m sending their harvest and it will be generous, full of blessings.  I will enrich them.  Their needs will be met.  I will make all grace, every favor come to them in abundance so that they may always and under all circumstances and whatever their need is be self-sufficient.”  If we could just see what’s happening in heaven each time we give!

     Get this picture: if you’re hands are full of seeds just as the farmer, and you go to the good soil and you drop the seeds in there, they are not in your hands anymore.  So what does it mean?  Your hands are empty.  Oh but not for long.  Because now that your hands are empty, God can fill them!

     Then as your hands get full of more, you release more and then God gives more.  That is supernatural provision!  Each time you must release what’s in your hand before God can release what’s in His hand.  Remember He has bigger to give to you than what you can give to Him.

God can’t pour into hands that are full.

     I love a poem that I read.  It’s about a person who came to the understanding of why God gave seedtime and harvest and what it could mean to them.  In this poem, they describe how they gave to God and afterwards they stood there feeling as though they were empty-handed.  It scared them, until they heard His voice.  Here’s what He said,

    “Lift your empty hands to Me.”
     Empty hands I lifted to Him,
     And He filled them with a store
     Of His own transcendent riches
     Till my hands could hold no more.
     And at last I comprehended,
     With my mind so slow and dull,
     That God could not poor His riches
     Into hands already full.

     That’s what God wants us to realize.  As we empty our hands before Him with total trust in what He will do with what we give to Him, then and only then can He pour His riches into our hands.  We have shown Him that we believe in His supernatural provision for seedtime and harvest.  We will receive the harvest He has for us in His timing and His way.  It’s a trust factor that He is watching for to come from our heart.  Do we have the trust to release that seed so He can grow it or will we hold onto it?  The supernatural cannot be activated without the seedtime and harvest.  The trust in Him.

 

What happened to my parents.

     I’ll never forget how my parents came into the truth of this principle from God and how it changed all of our lives.  My mother tells what happened when I and my sisters were just kids, and we were growing up in Seminole, Oklahoma.  Mother and Dad were working in the laundry and they had to work hard every day.  Long hours.

     Although our basic needs were met, it was a struggle.  We were not living in the spiritual provision that God could provide.  The place of blessing that goes beyond what you can do by your own hands and cause to happen by your own efforts.  That’s why it’s called supernatural.

     So the day came that Dad said to Mother that he felt the reason God’s presence wasn’t more real to them and they weren’t experiencing all He had for them was because they were not giving to the Lord.  They had not given back to Him a portion of what He had provided.

     As the Apostle Paul told the Corinthians, God gives seed to the sower and bread for eating.  The same God who does that will provide and multiply your resources for sowing, and He will increase your fruits.   (Ref. II Corinthians 9:10.)

     Mother and Dad knew they had fallen short on their giving to God’s work because they felt they didn’t have it to give.  They couldn’t afford it.  You can imagine the bills they had to pay and the expenses they had with raising all their children.  But God’s Word does not lie.  It doesn’t paint a false picture.  God means what He says when He promises He will provide and multiply your resources when you sow them.  That’s when you become enriched in all things.

     So my parents determined right then and there that they wanted to please God and so they were going to give to Him FIRST out of their income, even if it meant they had nothing to eat but beans every day.  They had to trust Him with their giving and therefore show Him they trusted Him with their lives.  When they began to do this, God’s presence filled them with joy and peace.  He was so pleased with their obedience.

     As His Word says, He wants a cheerful giver.  That means someone who trusts Him, and they give out of themselves without holding back.  (Ref. II Corinthians 9:7.)  Their heart is in their giving.  That’s what God wants.  Our heart.  If we’re holding onto our seed out of fear or indifference, then God doesn’t have our whole heart.  He wants to see that we trust Him so much that we can release what we’re hanging onto as our source.  We make HIM our source.  We believe that He is the One who gives seed to the sower and bread to eat.

Here come the blessings!

     When my parents showed God their faith by giving, and they proved they wanted Him more than they wanted to hold onto their seed, that was the big turning point.  God began to bless our family in so many different ways.  Spiritually, financially, and in the plans He had for our future.

     The first thing that happened was my dad received a good job in Tulsa and so we moved there.  Once there, my mother received a very good job also.  This affected the lives of all of my sisters in so many ways I cannot even name them all.

     We were able to get an education, have our needs met, and see God be faithful to help us through each difficult situation.  Mother and Dad were able to earn a retirement.  Oh yes, God has a bigger shovel and He can put more into our hands than we could possibly put into His hands.

     All my sisters have been givers to God and to others.  We understand seedtime and harvest, but just as important, we understand God wants to see our trust in Him.  We want to please Him above all.  When you do, He will release your supernatural provision!

 

OUR PRAYER FOR YOU.

       Father, how we thank You for Your Word on seedtime and harvest.  I believe as my friend opens their hands and gives, their stubborn needs will be met.  You’re going to cause a flood of miracles to come.  Blessings are being released.  That’s because they’re showing obedience and trust in You.

      Oh yes, we trust You, Lord, we trust You.  You’re going to refashion their life.  Change those circumstances to the harvest.  It’s harvest time!  They’re planting their seeds and believing that You will take care of their life.

      So we believe for You to stop what the enemy has done against them and watch over their family and friends.  What a mighty God we serve.  We’re expecting to see mighty things in the life of my friend.  In the name of Jesus.  Amen.

 

Your harvest!

Yes, we are expecting to see mighty things happen for you.  You’ll be enriched in every area.  That means some important needs are going to be met.  We must believe for that.

So let’s come together according to His Word.  Share with us where you need to see a harvest.  How do you need to receive supernatural provision?  As soon as we hear from you, we will pray, and then we will send you some words that God wants to speak into your life from His Word.  So contact us soon by clicking here now.  Jeanne Alcott

 

SPECIAL NOTE: Activate God supernatural provision!

       Now, we encourage you to activate God’s supernatural provision for you.  You do that by giving to Him and then believing that He will multiply it back to you.  That’s what He has promised.  There are many ways that God multiplies this to you.

       #1: The most important way is in eternity.  Once you plant a seed into God’s work by your prayers and finances, that seed does not die, but it grows for eternity because of what it accomplished in the lives of people.

       #2: Another way God gives to you is the joy you experience here on earth knowing that you obeyed Him and pleased Him through your giving and now you get to see the beauty of what happens through His work on this earth.

       #3: The third way God multiplies your seed is by blessing your life and supernaturally providing for you according to what He promised in His Word.

       So as you give today, you can rejoice!  And John and I rejoice with you as we give of our prayers and finances into Alcott Ministries.  God is about to do some great things.  And now you’re a part of it.  Praise God.

 

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    Not Too Good

     To Be True!

    Jeanne Alcott

 

     Sometimes God can give us a thought or knowing in our spirit that concerns something about our life or those whom we love.  And it's so wonderful it's almost too good to be real.  We wonder if it was just the fact that we wanted to hear those kinds of words so much, and so they weren't really from God's Spirit.

     We read in His Word what He says He will do but the frustration we feel at not seeing it happen for us hurts too much.  We can have so many tears in our eyes that we can't see the answer which has come to us.

     Sometimes the reason we haven't seen God fulfill His Word to us is simply because we haven't believed the good word yet.  I'm not talking about having faith in God's Word.  As believers, we have that.  We know His Word is true.  But what about when it starts getting real personal?

     Can we apply those good words have to be applied to our broken body or the disease or pain we have?  When we see a person or a project going a wrong direction, can our faith apply the words God has for us.  These things just seem too good to be real.

     My spouse can love me that much?  I can receive how much more money?  I can see my dream accomplished?  Those types of questions are easy to have in the back of our mind when something seems so hard in coming.  We think, Tell me again now how this is all going to work out!

Slow of Heart.

     Jesus refers to this as being slow of heart to believe.  Even if our mind cannot accept what God is saying He will do, our hearts should be quick to receive it and therefore see it come to pass.  We don't have to be slow of heart to believe and therefore prolong God's answer for us.

     When our mind says, "This is too good to be true," our heart can say, "But it is!  It is real and I receive it now into my life."

     We don't have to be like the disciples who simply could not accept what they felt was too good to be real.  Jesus, their powerful and precious Lord, had been crucified.  So they just couldn't accept it when others came to them and told them He was alive now.

     Mark chapter 16 describes the story of how Jesus first appeared to Mary Magdalena from whom He had driven out seven demons.  So like a good disciple, she ran to report it to the other disciples.  They were in a room together and the Bible says they were grieving and weeping.  When they heard what she had seen, they wouldn't believe it.  No way.  They felt that she and some other women who had seen the Lord didn't know what they were talking about.

     After this happened, Jesus appeared and began walking with two men who were on the road to Emmaus.  (Ref. Luke 24.)  He heard their discussion of this man named Jesus.  So He began asking questions about what they were talking about.  They acted like He had been living under a rock.  Where have you been?  Haven’t you heard?  Then they began to talk about the works of Jesus and how He had been crucified.

     They told this man walking with them how some women had come to them and said that the Lord was now alive.  They said that when they heard this news from the women it astounded us and drove us out of our senses.  (Ref. Luke 24:22.)  In modern day language, those disciples probably said to those women, “You’re driving us crazy.  You know how badly we want to believe this but it’s too fantastic!”

     Here they are with amazing news that the Lord is alive.  It's been proven but these two men walking along the road to Emmaus are still discussing it.

 

It’s Time for Discussion To Stop and Believing To Start.

     There comes a time when the discussion has to stop and the believing needs to start.  It seems sometimes we have way too much discussion concerning the possibility of how our need will be met.  How is this all going to come together?

     We need to make sure that we don't over-discuss what God will do and instead reach out with faith and take it.  Jesus got tired of hearing these guys talk about the miracle that had already happened and hearing them discuss if it was possible for Him to be alive.  So He finally said to them, O foolish ones [sluggish in mind, dull of perception] and slow of heart to believe everything that the prophets have spoken!  Was it not necessary and essentially fitting that the Christ the Messiah should suffer all these things before entering into His glory (His majesty and splendor)?  Then beginning with Moses and [throughout] all the Prophets, He went on explaining and interpreting to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning and referring to Himself.

 

The Answer Is in Front of Us.

     These men eventually they recognized they were talking to the Lord Himself.  They were staring their answer in the face.  They had been so busy wondering if it could be possible, that when the answer was in front of them, they were missing Him.  Oh, let's not miss the Lord when He is moving toward us.  When He is standing in front of us with the good word of our answer, let's not be discussing if it could be so, or how it's going to happen.  Be quick of heart and see God move.  Don't miss what's in front of us.

     After Jesus left them, these two men immediately went to the disciples who were still in the room crying their eyes out.  They told them they had seen the Lord alive.  Mark 16:13 says that when they told the other disciples, they wouldn't believe them either.  Not only would they not believe the women who had seen Jesus, but now they wouldn't believe these two men!

     Finally, the Lord appeared directly to them.  He reproved them for their lack of faith, because they refused to believe those who had seen Him.  You see, the news was too good to be true…for them.  It was everything they wanted and hoped for.  Their desire fulfilled.

     But it took quite a while for Jesus to get them to accept that they were receiving what they longed for.  He actually had to prove it to them.  That's because they were responding to what they had physically seen instead of what the faith of their heart could have helped them believe.

Hear With Your Heart.

     That's what faith means—to hear with the heart.  There was an American missionary in Africa who had to come up with a definition of a word when he was translating.  He was trying to translate the English word faith into a local dialect in Africa.  But he couldn't find its equivalent.  So he went to an older man who was from that area and was a good Christian.

     Finally after studying it, the old man said, "Does it mean to hear with the heart?"  And he knew he had his definition.  What is the good word that fulfills what you have hoped for?  What have you been waiting to hear?  Hear with your heart.  Be quick to accept and believe the good word the Lord has for you.  God is speaking sweet and powerful words.

     Don't think it's too good to be real that you will be well and feel better.
     Your business will grow.
     Your personal situation will be solved.
     Resources and finances and help will come in.
     You can have greater anointing when you minister to others and witness.
     God is saying you can make it through every test you are encountering—believe it.
     Believe that His prosperity is molding the work your hands are doing.
     You're going to experience love, peace, and justice.

     Is that too good to be real?  God is exhorting us not to be slow of heart to accept it.

 

A Crying Heart.

     You see, we have to think about what made the disciples question their miracle.  It wasn't because they were unbelievers or against God or not walking in His ways.  They were good people and wanted the will of God in their life, just as we do.  So why couldn't they accept that the Lord was alive and that was the answer to their prayer?

     You remember what the scripture said that they were doing after His crucifixion?  Mark 16 said they were weeping and grieving.  In other words, they had a disappointed heart.  That's why they couldn't see Him.  It was too good to be real because they were looking at it through their tears.  Through a crying heart.

     We've all experienced that I'm sure.  We’ve had a disappointed heart because what we wanted so much is not shaping up.  We don't see the answer being formed.  Our hope seems to have walked away.  Our faith isn't producing what we feel it should have produced for us.

     We may be physically weeping or weeping in our heart, but   when we're doing that, it's going to be awfully hard to see God's answer in front of us.  That's why they couldn't see the truth.  GOD WANTS TO HEAL YOU OF THAT DISAPPOINTED HEART TODAY.  He wants to CLEAR YOUR SPIRITUAL VISION so you will reach out with your faith and take the good words He has for you.  Believe the good words!
 

OUR PRAYER FOR YOU.

     Father, in the name of Jesus, we ask You to clear our spiritual vision.  Take the disappointment out of this dear person’s heart.  Relieve them of the frustration that has tried to weigh them down.

     Let them know that they can look past what seems obvious and receive what is truly happening.  Because what's happening for them is goodness and power and answers.  Oh yes, they can brush aside that hurt which has come because of the delay of what they desire.

     You are standing before them.  You are there in all of Your glory and love.  Embrace them now, Father.  Let them feel that You are there for them.  Let them be quick of heart to receive the answers in Your hands.  We know You'll apply those answers in just the right way and just the right time. Give them the joy and the hope of their expectations being met.  Hallelujah!   

GOD’S WORD FOR YOU.
     Great is the God who is before you.  His presence surrounds you.  He is looking upon you saying, "I have a good word for you, My child.  I have seen your desire and I have watched your struggle.  I have also felt your heart and I am responding to you today.  Reach out with your faith and receive."

     Lord!  We do that now.  As we reach out to take what You have for us, see our heart and hands filled with our faith.  We know You're doing great and mighty things.  And we praise You for it, and we love You for it, in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

Believe the good word!
     Let's reach out with our faith to receive all God has for you.  As you share with us from your heart, we will pray and write you back a good word from God's Word.  Then as you believe that good word, the Lord promises fulfillment of it by His power.  So be sure you contact us today.  Let’s go into prayer together.  Click here now.  Jeanne Alcott

 

SPECIAL NOTE: Great is God’s reward!

       Now we offer up a special praise to God for sending precious people to us to help in this work.  Transformation is taking place in the spiritual realm.  It's touching many people.  And you're the one who is helping make that happen through your prayers and gifts.

       As you continue to work for God, you can enter into the joy of seeing Him change people's lives, and seeing your own life changed also.  Great is God's reward for you according to His Word.  And John and I thank you so much for joining us as we give now, in the name of the Lord.

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      Strength For

        the Day!

    Jeanne Alcott

     You know how sometimes by the end of the week we can feel just a bit weary.  That’s how trials can be also.  When we’re getting towards the end of the trial, we’re weary and tired.

     We need strength to keep going until we see what we desire.  But where’s the strength going to come from?  From the One who is with us through it all.  So when you feel the weakest or the most put-out or despondent or absolutely completely frustrated, remember this—God strengthens you!  That’s how you can make it through until you see what was in your heart be completed.  It’s because God strengthens you.

     It doesn’t matter how basic or simple the thing is that you’re dealing with or how serious and hard.  God has the strength on which you can rely inside you, and therefore make it through every day, and every day see progress.

     I know there are times when it seems as though we’re standing alone and the only thing we have to stand on are our own two feet.  The only problem is those two feet feel a little shaky at times.  Maybe we’re at a decision point and we’re not sure which is the best way to go.  Or we can’t figure out what we need to start doing in order to make this thing happen towards which we’ve been working.  We may be facing some hurtful situations or fearful possibilities.  Just going through our everyday responsibilities can make us tired.

     So the Lord is there to make sure that we don’t become weary to the point we lose heart.  He wants to infuse us with His force to see this thing through.  That’s because He knows what’s at the end.  It’s what will satisfy and fulfill the need and bring delight to our hearts and accomplish His work.  So He is there with us through it all.

Jesus interceding for you, weeping with you.

     A woman named Jan experienced this so completely as she was facing sickness.  She came to the point that she could fight no more.  It was almost as if she didn’t even have any emotions left.  She had been sick for such a long time.  All the people who tried to help—doctors, nurses, parents, her husband, her children—were gone now.  It was night time and she was in the hospital because she had back pain so severe that at times it made her drop to her knees.

     It had started with minor symptoms, then they progressed into severe pain and nausea.  She went through many tests.  Eventually she went through surgery, yet her symptoms still did not go away.  So there she was in the wee hours of the morning, in the hospital, feeling as though she had no strength.              She just sat there and stared at the four walls around her and listened to the monotonous bleep of her IV operating.

     Have you ever been to the point you felt that way?  As though there was no one and no hope and no strength?  You’re going through it!  Yet remember God is there with you through it all.  That’s what He demonstrated to this woman and here’s how she describes it.

     As she was sitting there, Jan heard in her spirit someone weeping.  Right away she knew who it was.  It was Jesus weeping.  He was touched by her infirmity and she knew He was interceding to the Father for her.  That’s when she truly realized she was not in this adversity alone.  He cared more than she could ever imagine.

     Although the circumstances around her remained the same at that moment, there was no big huge change, yet she knew the Lord was standing beside her.  He gave her the strength to continue to believe.  As she said, “I did recover.  Thank You, Jesus.”

     My Friend, Someone is interceding for you to the Father.  That Someone is there to help you pull through.  He is there with you through it all.  You can rely on His strength because He is in you.  You have what it takes to walk this thing out until you see the turnaround.  The completion.  The achievement.  That problem gone.  You’re not standing alone.

Where was everyone when I needed them?

     That’s what the apostle Paul discovered.  After almost everything was stripped away from him he figured out what the bottom line was.  He wrote a letter to his protégé, Timothy, sort of as we would write a letter to a friend explaining to them the terrible things happening to us.  So he started a list!  “Demas has deserted me because he preferred the things of the world.  Crescens has gone to Galatia; Titus had to go to Dalmatia.  I had to send Tychicus to Ephesus.  Alexander the coppersmith did me great wrongs.  And when I was being tried because I was preaching the Gospel, no one acted in my defense as my advocate.  No one stood with me, but all forsook me.”  He’s saying, “All these guys split on me.  I mean they are nowhere to be found.”

     But here comes the most important thing he said, But!  The Lord stood by me and strengthened me so that through me the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it.  So I was delivered out of the jaws of the lion. (Ref. II Timothy 4:9-18.)  Through it all, the Lord stood by Paul and strengthened him.  When the jaws of the lion, the devil, were just about to close down, God drew him out.  And that’s what He’s there to do for you.

     Paul felt that he stood alone.  Jan felt that she was standing alone and weary.  But they both recognized the Lord was with them and because of that they recovered and were delivered from the jaws of the lion.

     Paul ended it with, And indeed the Lord will certainly deliver and draw me to Himself from every assault of evil.  He will preserve and bring me safe unto His heavenly kingdom.  To Him be the glory forever and ever.  Amen (so be it).  (Ref. II Timothy 4:18.)

     God draws you to Himself.  He pulls you in so that you are preserved in faith.  And as you open yourself up, He will pour His strength into you so that you can walk it out and see relief and help and success.

The list goes on.  You know how that feels.

     John and I know how that feels, just as you do.  We all have those everyday times and super hard times.  John and I were in the midst of one of those super hard times two years ago.  I had an accident on my bicycle.  When I fell, I broke one of my shoulders in three places.  I mean, I did it up right!  The surgeon said that it was one of the worst he had ever seen.

     So off we went to the hospital and I had major surgery on that shoulder.  Then I started a year’s worth of therapy.  I was in terrible pain.  Of course, the medical bills were coming in.  Such fun!  John was trying to take care of me and work.  The responsibilities of his job were increasing at the same time but he had to take vacation time so he could take me to doctors’ appointments.  And I’m not finished yet.

     Things just kept happening.  It just so happened that we were low on financial help for the ministry yet it was growing.  So, I was trying to do the ministry work with one arm and keep the radio broadcast messages going also.  We ended up having to cancel some planned Partner Meetings.  While all of this is going on, a neighbor decides to do some major projects that were extremely loud.  Not their fault it just didn’t happen at a good time for us.  We needed peace, especially when I needed rest because of the pain.  I would have flashbacks of the accident.  Then we had a few problems develop with our own house that we needed to take care of.

     Oh, my goodness I cannot even tell you all of it.  The list goes on.  But we did it!  We got through it!  Yes, the emotional, mental, and physical anguish of those months were horrible.  You begin to think, “Wow, my life was changed in just one moment.”  But let me tell you Who is greater than that one moment.  The One who is standing with you through it all.  If we had not had the strength of God and knew that He was giving that to us and standing with us through it all, it would’ve been much worse.  We just stood in faith that we would recover just as Jan did and Paul did.  And just as you can do.

     Receive the strength God has for you today.  Psalm 138: 7, 8 says that when you walk in the midst of trouble, God will revive you.  He will stretch forth His hand against your enemy, the devil.  His right hand will save you.  The Lord will perfect that which concerns you.  God will revive you.

     In the midst of what you’re facing, remember that God strengthens you.  He’s there with you through it all.

 

OUR PRAYER FOR YOU.

       Oh, Lord, I pray right now for Your strength to come into this dear friend.  You are equipping them to face the day.  The condition.  The disappointment.  You’re walking them through it all.

     They feel strong.  They’re empowered.  Even though weariness has tried to take over, they will continue on because You revive them.  Right in the face of what’s going on, You strengthen them.  You stretch forth Your hand against the enemy coming against them.  Oh how good it feels to know that You are beside them.

     When nothing else seems to be changing, they know that You are making a difference.  How we praise You now for what gooood will come to them in the name of Jesus.  Amen.

 

We are here to stand by your side!

     The Lord is with you.  Keep that in your heart all day and throughout the entire situation you’re going through.  Then just soak in the strength that He is pouring into you now.

     We want to stand with you in prayer, to be with you during this time in a personal way.  That’s what God has asked us to do and so when we ask you to share with us what’s happening in your life we are obeying Him.  We join our faith with yours in a prayer of agreement.  Then we want to send you a letter filled with what’s in His heart for you.  So share with us soon and let’s go into prayer together.  Click here now.  Jeanne Alcott

 

SPECIAL NOTE: Create the open door for God’s power!

As we join our prayers and the giving of our finances to God’s work, my, what He is doing.  He does miracles not only for thousands of people as He ministers to them and helps them, but He fulfills His promise to touch your life and bless you because of your obedience.

So John and I are thankful as you give into Alcott Ministries alongside us.  This is not only our ministry but it’s yours also.  It’s the work of God that we're all giving into.  I know His heart is pleased as He sees the open doors it creates for His power to do such great miracles.  So we praise God and thank you for your giving.

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