Kindness
   That Conquers!

   Jeanne Alcott

     We’re going to look at a very simple thing in our life.  Something so simple that we overlook it a lot of times.  We're talking about kindness.  Acting in kindness.

     You see, it takes strength to show kindness instead of slipping into our own desires, or reacting to something.  It's easy to let kindness go right out the window, especially during frazzled moments or in times of hurt.  Really it's not an easy thing to have.  Yet, if we groom ourselves and work with ourselves to have this attribute, we are going to see great things happen.

     There truly is a powerful force behind showing benevolence and courtesy to others, having goodness and warmth of heart, and goodwill towards others.  All those things make up kindness.

     Kindness can turn events around; it can change lives and have an impact on outcomes or situations or relationships.  Your kindness can make a strong impact.  It doesn't matter where you are at in life, you can affect the outcome of situations and relationships.

     So kindness needs to be in every part of our lives.  It doesn't matter if we are in some high-level meeting or we're talking to a family member in our home or on a cell phone or waiting in line somewhere.  Kindness has its place in every place.

     So how do we show these acts of kindness?  What are the ways we can live this out?

Just Simple Acts of Kindness Can Make an Impact.

     Think back to a time when one simple act made an impact on your life.  I would almost guarantee that most of us remember something from our childhood.  Either when we were scared or angry or hurt and someone showed us one simple act of courtesy or blessing or goodness.  I call that uncomplicated kindness.  Show uncomplicated kindness.  Not trying to come up with some big thing that will wow a person, but instead touch their inner heart.  Get deep where they really live and let that kindness go to the core of their need.

     I can remember a time when some people did that to me.  God had called me to leave a vice-president position in an organization and go into full-time ministry by myself.  So the acts of kindness, that probably seemed very simple to the person who did them, meant so much to me.  You know how it is when you are doing something new in life.  Even though you have the faith to step out, still it goes a long ways to have someone give us some kind treatment at such a critical time.  It touches our heart.

     Another time in my life and that I will never forget is something my mother did.  I couldn't have been more than four years old so you know it had to make an impression on me for me to be able to still remember it.  But she had loaded her three girls into the car to take us to get an ice cream cone.

     So we drove up at the local place where they just had a little window where you would go up and order your ice cream cone; and then go back to your car to eat it.  That was considered a real treat for us.  That good soft-serve ice cream.

     Well, that day we were sitting in the car eating our ice cream and Mother noticed a little boy sitting on the curb under the order window.  He was sort of whimpering there.  It didn't take long for her to realize that his mother didn't have the money to buy him any ice cream.

     So she got out of the car, bought a cone, and gave it to him.  One simple act of kindness.  But can you imagine the impact it had on that little boy.  Who knows it could have helped shape his entire viewpoint of humankind.  There really were people out there who cared.  And it wasn't like we had oodles of money to do it.  Far from that.  But mother allowed her heart of kindness to come out in that simple act to touch a little boy.  We must realize the power of kindness.

     Uncomplicated kindness.

     Simple acts.

     But a powerful impact.

Use Your Words for Kindness.

     One of the strongest ways to show kindness is by our words.  It’s good to ask ourselves every so often, What am I using my words for today?  Is it to gossip?  Have I told a story or joke that could offend?  Have I told somebody off today?  Have I argued with someone?

     We know the different ways that we can use our words for things other than kindness.  But when we feel tempted to use our words to be short with someone or say something unkind, here’s what we need to remember as we’re facing each individual.  Everyone we come in contact has their own set of problems.

Those Around You Have Needs Also.

     Nobody is without a need.  Oral Roberts used to say that he would look out over an audience and see the people so nicely dressed and looking as if they had no needs at all, but yet God showed him that every person has a need of some sort.  View everyone in that way!  Then let our words be soothing so that we can help them through those hard times.

     Job 6:14 tells us that we are to use our words like this:  To him who is about to faint and despair, kindness is due from his friend, lest he forsake the fear of the Almighty.  It's telling us that when someone is down—faint or in despair, as a friend we are to show kindness.  We're to give them encouraging words.

     For some people those very words might be the thing that keeps them from forsaking the fear of the Almighty as that scripture said, which means they basically give up.  But words from a friend can turn that around.

     Wisdom should be coming out of our mouth to bring kindness into a person’s life.  Proverbs 31 says, She opens her mouth in skillful and godly Wisdom, and on her tongue is the law of kindness [giving counsel and instruction].  On our tongue is the law of kindness, meaning we are using our words to give forth help and blessing.  We can give counsel and instruction because our words are coming out of a heart of kindness.  We are to operate by that law when we speak words.

     We need to make sure our will knows that we're going to use our words to show kindness and nothing else!  What I mean by that is that we have to make a choice to will to do that.  And we can do that when we remind ourselves of how powerful our kind words can be.

     Remember that kindness is powerful and it can literally change the outcome.

How Are Your Social Graces?

     Another way we can show kindness is by showing social graces.  I'm not talking about knowing which fork to pick up when.  We need to understand that social graces are all about kindness in the important times of life.  We can show kindness by just showing good manners.  It’s been said, “Etiquette is a fancy word for simple kindness."  Do you know if you read the gospels carefully you will see that Jesus always had social graces in other people's homes and so showed kindness to others?

     I really think today that some people don't know what the word manners means.  It's kind of a dead art in some places.  Unfortunately, as wonderful tools as cell phones are they have definitely infringed on the social graces.  You know how we usually talk louder when we are on a cell phone and sometimes people will do it right in your face.  It doesn't matter if it's in a restaurant or movie or walking down the sidewalk or standing in a store.

     Sure, I understand there are times that there's an emergency, or business has to be conducted, but we should excuse ourselves and go elsewhere if possible.

     We're really talking about the daily things of life.  Showing kindness and consideration to others.  The types of things where you don't walk on another person's lawn.  You don't yawn in their face.  You make sure you use the proper social graces when you've been invited to someone's house.  You learn how to say thank you when you've been given a gift or a compliment or someone has helped you.  Those are all part of the Christian walk.

     It's an important way to show our kindness because even the small things can turn someone away from wanting to serve the Savior we serve.

     Remember as a Christian you are being watched and it's important to let them see Christ in you come forth.

Receive prayer for those tough times of life!

     We all need kindness at times.  Sometimes life gets pretty tough and it’s harder at those times.  So let us pray with you and be in a strong spiritual agreement that God will move in your life.  He has miracles for you, and we want to help you receive those.  So share how we can pray for you in a personal way.  After we do, we’re going to send you some words that will be written under the unction of the Holy Spirit to minister to you.  So click here now to share.  It will come directly to us.  Jeanne and John

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Are You Expecting It?

      Jeanne Alcott

      See if this sounds like something you’ve experienced.  You’ve done what you know to do, you’ve planted seed toward a desire, worked at it, watered and tended the seed and now you’re at the stage where you are waiting for the answer to come or something to happen.  You’re waiting for your harvest time!

So now what do you do?

      How can you activate your harvest time?  God has put principles in place so that we can experience great results in every area, whether it’s a harvest of joy or salvation, growing a crop of goodwill or repairing a relationship, or if we want to reap and improved financial position or a position in our work or community.  We may be working on some personal issues in our health or appearance or spiritual growth.  Perhaps you’ve been working toward a harvest of healing or forgiveness or love.

      All throughout our lives, we’re planting seeds and tending them, so we can see the harvest.  One of the things we have to do in order to receive it is we must WATCH WITH EXPECTATION FOR THE HARVEST! Just as a farmer watches with expectation for a crop to come up, that’s what we’re expected to do.  Not wait with dismay or discouragement.  When we look out over the field of circumstances, and we don’t see the seeds coming up and bearing fruit, we still have expectation in our hearts and, listen to this, we have words of expectation coming out of our mouth.  I think that’s the hardest part.

      The words we say must be ones of expectation.  We don’t say, “Oh, I think the weather of circumstances is going to destroy my harvest.”  Instead we say, “This crop looks good; it will make it.”

By faith you can taste your harvest before you ever see it.

​​​​​​​      First Corinthians 9:10 says, The plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher ought to thresh in expectation of partaking of the harvest.  You’re expecting that you’re going to partake of a harvest.  It’s yours and you have so much faith for it you can taste it.  You’re partaking of it by your faith long before you actually experience it.  Really hear that truth.

​​​​​​​      Just as a farmer, you can taste that corn before you ever see it grow.  You can taste it before you go over and take hold of the ears of corn, twist it so that it snaps off, and hold it in your hand.  You can taste it before you fill a pot with water, clean the corn and put it in the pot, then eat good tasting corn on the cob with butter melted on it.  Now, you can imagine that and taste it before you ever see that corn grow.

​​​​​​​      That’s how God wants you to be.  Have such faithful expectation that you can TASTE your harvest.  You already imagine yourself experiencing it.  It’s there.  That field may seem flat, but in your heart of faith and in your spiritual vision you see the crop growing and full.  That’s the kind of faith God expects of us.  The faith of a farmer.  Be watching.  Taste it before it ever is in your hands.

​​​​​​​      You can see that desire happening right before your eyes…before it ever happens before your eyes!  No matter how much time it takes, you keep your faith growing right alongside that seed that’s growing.  So when the harvest matures, you’re ready to gather it in.  Your expectation does not die so your harvest does not die.  When expectation lives, the harvest grows and matures.

When the answer seems frozen.

​​​​​​​      Here’s a principle about growing apples that will help you envision this.  A man visited an apple orchard once and couldn’t believe how large the harvest of apples was.  They were abundant.  What he did not realize was that in the previous year there had been a frost that happened in the spring which causes the buds that are to become apples to freeze.

​​​​​​​      But just because they’re frozen, that’s not the end of them.  And just because a harvest gets frozen in your life, don’t think that is the end.  Keep watching with expectation, because this is what’s happening.  It’s the same as what’s going on inside those apple buds.  Even though they are freezing, they begin to store up energy in thousands of small bumps you might say.

​​​​​​​      While that bud is waiting for its time of harvest, it keeps storing up energy.  Then the time comes.  It’s the season.  All that energy is released into growth.  Something is happening!  They grow until the farmer begins to see small apples, then bigger apples, then an amazing harvest.  They’re so heavy they’re hanging off the trees.  It’s abundant.  The harvest has come, and it’s remarkable.

​​​​​​​      Is the farmer surprised?  No.  They’ve been watching with expectation.  If they had stopped watching and tending the trees and doing all that they should, the energy within those frozen buds would have died.  Don’t allow the energy that’s in the bud of your desire freeze up and die.  Continue to believe.  Say the right words.  Have faith.

​​​​​​​      Know that something is going on when the answer seems frozen, the harvest seems impossible, there’s no way you will receive what you need.  Holy Spirit energy is working on your harvest.  Let God see your faith and hear your words of expectation.  You’re ready to partake of the harvest.  You can taste the apples before they are ever seen.  That’s to what God responds.

Let the time pass.

​​​​​​​      Because you allow time to pass so the work can be done, you reap an abundant harvest.  If you went over to those apple buds and tried to pull them off, you would destroy the work that was being done inside them.

​​​​​​​      That’s how it is with our answers and desires.  If we try to pull them into our life before they mature, we will not see the crop.  The energy of God, His force, that was working within the buds of our desires would be prematurely plucked.  Then it would die.

​​​​​​​      Psalm 1:3 says that when we’re planted and tended by streams of water, our fruit will come forth in its season and everything we do will prosper and come to maturity.  We’re planted.  We’re waiting and watching.  We are taking care of what we should be doing.  Our leaf doesn’t fade or wither.  But things are happening.  They’re growing.  Just about to burst forth.  They’re going to prosper and yield a mature crop.

They’re still living.

​​​​​​​      You see, those things we thought were dead are still living.

​​​​​​​      Continue to take care of them.

​​​​​​​      Water that dream.

​​​​​​​      Watch with expectation.

​​​​​​​      Listen, you’re firmly planted.  You’re by the streams of the water of the Word.  It’s your harvest time and you’re going to bring forth fruit in its season.  This is true for every type of situation we face.  God is aware of what we experience each day and what our needs are.  So we watch with expectation from Him every day!

​​​​​​​      This is what we do when friends and Partners contact us to agree with them in prayer, which is one of the major purposes of this ministry.  To stand in faith and pray for God’s will to be done and the enemy to be defeated.  So we were doing this with a dear Partner of ours whose family needed a harvest of a job and finances.  He wrote and shared this, so we began to pray together and stand in faith.

​​​​​​​      His plan was to take a test that would qualify him for a position with a major company.  That was his desire.  So we put it before God and knew that the seed we were planting and tending would produce a harvest in its season.  In a couple of months, He wrote back through our Web site and told me,

​​​​​​​      “I wrote to you asking you to pray for God’s help to be with me on taking the company test.  Well I’m so glad to let you know that I passed my test.  I didn’t have any experience but the Lord made it possible.  Thank you for your words of encouragement.  They have really helped me to get through every day.  There are times when I feel so much fear, but once I hear your message I feel protected.  I feel encouraged to keep going.”

​​​​​​​      Then he went on to say he received the job position and he and his wife are pledging a monthly gift into the ministry.

​​​​​​​      You see, he planted the seed for that job and we watered it and tended it with the prayer of faith, and we watched with expectation.  Once the crop was ready to come up and it was the right season, all the energy that had been stored into those prayers and faith and the positive words we spoke—all that energy burst forth.  And it produced his harvest of the job.  Abundance.  Now, have he and his wife stopped planting seeds?  No, they know the source of that harvest.  God!  So they are continuing to give to the God of their harvest.

​​​​​​​      You see, you have to keep putting the seeds in the ground if you want to continue having a harvest.  You don’t stop once you get one crop.  What would happen if the farmer stopped planting after the first time they yielded a crop?  There would be no more.

​​​​​​​      So keep those seeds going in—those acts of doing what God directs you, those prayers, and saying the right words.  Nurture them and watch with expectation.  You are a farmer and you’re expecting a crop.  Again and again.  You’re going to allow it to mature and produce the abundant harvest God has for you.  Expect that this is your harvest time!

Let’s believe together for your harvest.

     Just as that man wrote to us about praying with him concerning his work, you can write to us or call or go to our Website and share anything personal that you want to share.  We are here to go into a prayer of agreement with you for your harvest.  Then we’ll drop you a note that I believe will greatly speak to your heart from God’s Word.  Contact us soon by clicking here.   Jeanne and John

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    Good Is Coming.

           Really!

      Jeanne Alcott

     Sometimes because of what we are experiencing, it can be hard to believe good things are waiting for us.  Perhaps a disappointing thing has happened and you’ve accepted you're not going to be a content person again.  You can’t enjoy life.  Or your heart continues to nag at you about the desire that still hasn't come to pass.

     We can get into a mode of expectation that makes us wonder what next bad thing is going to happen.  It can get to the point that when someone says to us, "I've got something to tell you," our first thought is, "I wonder what bad thing they’re going to tell me has happened."  That's what our expectation is.  We don't immediately think that it's going to be good news.

     John used to say to me every once in a while when we were about to go somewhere, "Remind me later, I have something to tell you."  Well that just drives me crazy.  I'm not the type you can say that to and then not tell me.  I begin to think about what in the world it is you have to tell me.  So I always stop and say, "No, you have to tell me what it is right now."  I know there are some of you out there who do the same thing.  It's hard not to either wonder what they're going to say or worry about it.

Is there any happiness for me tomorrow?

     Sometimes we can come to that place in our everyday life.  Each day seems to hold bad news.  Is there any happiness tomorrow for me or the next day or the next?  The answer is yes.  God is saying that there is happiness ahead for you.
     You won't always feel the way you do now.
     You can experience gladness again.
     Joy can be in your soul.
     You can look forward to what's up ahead.

     God really wants to minister that to you.  In spite of what happened…or maybe what you've done…or maybe what's been done wrong to you, you still have goodness waiting for you.  So we're going to get you to that place.  The place of knowing happiness is ahead.  But it's going to take some work on our belief system.  We have to check how are we believing?

     You see, this is not a simple teaching about how we can go around and just be happy people.  We’re talking about more than smiley faces.  It's a deeper understanding of how your believing can help you reach a place of contentment, enjoyment, and delight.  In other words, you have hope for happiness.  God wants to restore that hope in you.  You don't have to live feeling as though there's not much to cheer you.

     You may be thinking and feeling the same way I was at one time.  I came to the place I would wake up and think, "I wonder what bad is planned for me today?"  I mean, so many hard things were happening that I wondered what new bad thing would happen that day.  It's a temptation to get to that point.  How can you imagine good when every day brings a little more trouble.  But in my spirit I knew better.  That was a lie the devil was feeding me.  God didn't have bad planned for me.  So when I realized I was having those thoughts, I would stop it and say, "Get a grip on yourself.  Look for something good today."  Then I would go around saying, "I look for good things today."

     You know, we have to have some of that self-talk.  Have a conversation with our heart and mind.  Don’t allow those to dictate our expectation in life, but it should be our spirit.  We want our spirit to lead the way because we are filled with the Holy Spirit.  So He's going to give us the truth.  And the truth is this.  GOOD THINGS ARE WAITING FOR YOU!

     The Holy Spirit is the One who helps us think correctly and have the right emotions and feelings.  He's bringing truth to us continually from the Lord.

Push the bad away and pull the good toward you.

     Don’t let the experiences of life drown out what God's Spirit is trying to show you is waiting for you.

     The Lord has many good things waiting for you, but are they being covered?  Are they being drowned out?  Are you struggling so much that it's hard to see happiness waiting for you?  Where's all this goodness that is ahead of me when I am lonely or in pain?  Do I just have more years of disappointment or problems to look forward to? Sometimes it can get downright discouraging to think about how other people are experiencing wonderful and fun and fulfilling things, but why not me?  If we're not careful, we can start embracing the belief that is a part of our life and we will be living with it.  We have to fight against it.  Get into a belief that good things are waiting for us.  When we do that, we push the bad from us and pull good towards us.  We don't meditate on or believe, Okay, things just keep coming my way, I wonder what's going to be the next bad thing?  When we're doing that, we're actually pulling bad towards us.  We keep looking for it with our mind and our heart.  It’s as though we’re looking for those bad things so they keep coming our way.

     We've got to push that away from us.  And start pulling something else toward us.  If it looks as if we don't have anything waiting for us but bad or sadness or struggle, push it out of the way.  Refuse to let that shape our future.  Instead, decide we will be happy again.  We are going to be happy again, because we are changing our believing.  We believe good is out there waiting so we're pulling it toward us.

     Here's how you do this.  It's always good to try to act out what you believe.  The way you do this is you push your hand out as if you're pushing something away from you.  Spiritually you're pushing all those undesirable things away from you.  After you've pushed it away, you then grab hold of the good out there waiting for you and pull it towards you.  Pull the good things God has for you right into your life.  It's a real simple thing but it's a powerful faith exercise.  With your arm and hand extended you push away those things that you don't want to be a part of your life and you pull into your existence what will bring you happiness.

     If you hear yourself talk about the bad planned for you, say the same thing to yourself that I did to myself, "Stop it.  Get a grip on yourself."  That's what I would say.  "Stop thinking and talking like that."  Remember we have to have that self-talk.  When we're talking to ourselves like that we're communicating to our spirit.  And our spirit is picking up on what we desire.  We desire for those good things waiting for us to come into our life.  So we're not going to allow the bad to keep happening.  Get it out of the way and make room for the wonderful experiences the Lord has lined up for us.

Make this important change in your believing.

     This is what the man Jairus did when he was a ruler in the synagogue.  Mark 5 tells the story about how he had rushed to find Jesus because his daughter was at home very ill.  When he had heard that Jesus could heal, he had decided he would go after him and bring him home to heal his daughter.  When Jairus approached Jesus, the Lord agreed to come home with him.  But as they were on their way to the house, some people who had been with his daughter all this time, rushed up and told Jairus that she had passed away.  It was too late.  He didn't need to bother Jesus anymore.

     Now, what was the Lord's reaction to this?  Overhearing but ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear; only keep on believing.  (Ref. Mark 5:36.)  He was saying, "Keep on believing that good is waiting for you.  Don't give up having faith for your daughter's healing.  Have hope for happiness."  At that moment, Jairus had to push away the bad and pull good to him, right?  Instead, He could have pushed the Lord away and run to his house expecting to see a dead child.  That's what we do when we push the good away and believe bad.  We're actually pushing the Lord away.  We believe more bad is coming our way.  So we end up pushing away the very One who can help us see happier times.

     Jairus decided to pull goodness, healing, happiness toward himself.  He had hope for healing.  So he and Jesus entered into the daughter's room, and the Lord told all the people who were in sorrow around her that He had good news.  She was not dead but would live.  However, the people couldn't change their believing.  They laughed at Him—not out of joy but out of disbelief and criticism.  They rejected His message of hope and happiness.

     I'm sure that time was hard for Jairus.  It was another moment in which his believing was tested.  The first time was when the people came and announced his daughter had died.  And now all the people are laughing at the Lord.  It can be hard for us when people around us are sad, weeping.  Or they have a critical attitude.  They run the happiness right out of us.  That's why it has to be a firm belief that good things are waiting for us.

     So Jairus' believing was rewarded.  The Lord gripped the girl by the hand and said, "Arise!"  Instantly she got up and began walking around.  Totally healed.  Happiness was restored to their household.

     Just as the Lord got a grip on that girl, we can let Him get a grip on our life.  Let the Lord restore happiness to your household, your finances, and your work.  You can have contentment and peace in your mind and spirit.  You can delight in what you're doing and experience fulfillment and healing.  You can make it through the struggles and the disappointment with hope for happiness.  Simply believe good things are waiting for you!

Push away the bad and pull in the good.

     Let's keep pushing away the bad and pulling the good into your circumstances.  God has called us to join our believing with yours.  So share with us personally from your life.  We want to pray with you and then write you a letter from God's Word about the happiness that is ahead of you.  Share with us soon now by clicking here.  Jeanne and John

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        So, we pray that you will consider this ministry good ground in which to plant your seeds.  We see God give tremendous harvests to those who sow their seed here.  We believe the same for you as you obey God and hold the Word of Life out to others.
                                                                           

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    Get Your Fresh

       Anointing.

    Jeanne Alcott

     I would like you to think about the times when you have felt you needed something new to happen in your life.  You might describe it as though you felt stale or dry; you simply needed something fresh in your life.

     Don’t we all have that feeling at some point in time.  It's as though we've lost our enthusiasm and vibrancy.  The vision for our future seems to be clouded and we feel sluggish in what we are able to do and see happen in our lives.  We may even feel a little sluggish in our minds and bodies.

     That is when we need a fresh anointing from God.  A fresh anointing!  We need Him to touch us with a newness inside.  Inspire and motivate us to live a life that believes in and sees miracles happen.  We produce good things for ourselves and for those around us.

     It's terrible when we feel as if we don't want to keep doing what we're doing.  We don't want to keep having faith, keep believing.  We don’t want to go to the job or raise those kids.  We don't want to handle finances or do our everyday responsibilities.  We grow tired of ministering to those around us and giving out of ourselves.  We begin to feel drained and stale.

     If you are human, you will have those kinds of times.  However, we can overcome those valleys by getting a fresh anointing from the Lord.  Now what do I mean exactly when I say fresh anointing?

Can we lose our anointing?

     Is it that we can lose the anointing we received when we became a Christian?  Well, to answer that, let’s first start by establishing that every believer in Jesus Christ does in fact have an anointing.

     First John 2 and many other scriptures establish that.  But we’re also told in verse 27 of 1 John 2 that our anointing is permanent in us as a Christian.  Listen to that verse. The anointing (the sacred appointment, the unction) which you received from Him abides permanently in you.  Anointing means we possess all the capacity, the power and ability that we need.  The Holy Spirit has given us an endowment for our gifts, talents, and abilities to be expressed.  We have everything we need in order to use those for God's glory.

     However, sometimes we need that anointing to be refreshed.  I'm not talking about that the anointing has left us or that God needs to give us a brand-new anointing.  But rather, our power and abilities may have grown dormant.  The expression of those have grown dormant.  It’s as though we are dry and need some fresh water.

     Well, we can get that living water from the Spirit who is within us.  He can bring back to us enthusiasm and vibrancy.  He can give us back the edge in life.  A fresh anointing can cause our mental capabilities to be sharper; it can give us a heightened spiritual awareness; it causes our body and our emotions to be in sync.  It really accelerates us in life!

     Oh, thank God for that fresh anointing that can come to us.  Without it, instead of life being interesting, it's dull.  Instead of being energized, we are weary.  Instead of being stimulated with new ideas, we are unimaginative.  There's no inspiration.  Things seem tedious and monotonous.

     We come to the point where we desire so much to have things be fresh and new and original.  Well, you don't get more original than God, the Creator.  If you want your life to change and to have freshness, you're going to have to go to the Original Originator!  He is the One who can cause an anointing to absolutely explode with greater capacity for your life.  He's someone who can keep us from going stale, if we allow Him.

      He wants to bring alive within us that Spirit that dwells within us.  We have tremendous power built in us.  It's built into our spirit.  When God created our spirit, He built in tremendous power.  And that power is activated through the anointing of the Holy Spirit.  So if we don't feel enough "life" in us, in other words, if we feel stale and need something to get us going again, it's got to come from the anointing in us.  That's how the power is activated

     The Spirit dwells in us.  It's through Him that we're able to express all God has given us and use it for His glory.  But if we are not continually refreshed, then we lose the ability to do that.  Ephesians 4:23 tells us to be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind [having a fresh mental and spiritual attitude].

     Through God's Word, we have to constantly renew the spirit of our mind.  That means that we keep our mind and attitude filled with the things of God.  They're continually being refreshed.  So we go around with a fresh mental and spiritual attitude.  We don't get rusty in our ability to have God's love and joy and wisdom and goodness flow out of us.  If we are not continually renewing the spirit of our mind, then we definitely will get rusty.

The machine breaks down without oil.

     The minister, D. L. Moody, once said, "I don't believe that a person breaks down...with hard work, so much as with using the machinery without oil, without lubrication.  It is not the hard work that breaks down people, but it is the toil of working without power."  A person breaks down because they're using their machinery without oil.  The lubrication is not there.  We're going and going and going, and pretty soon we'll be gone!  We must allow ourselves to be refreshed by the oil of the Spirit.

     The anointing oil was always a symbol of the Holy Spirit in the Bible.  We need that spiritual oil on the inside of us to make sure that we don't get rusty.  Allow the Holy Spirit to oil us with His precious anointing oil flowing down through us.  We allow Him to move within our lives, and to guide and govern us.  Then as He pours that oil down through the inside of us, it will take care of all of the rust that has set in.  It stops the creaking and causes us to be able to have fluid motions.

     I mean, can you just imagine yourself being very fluid in being able to express yourself and to move out in the new areas that God is moving on you to do?  How exciting that is!  How can we possibly go stale and rusty, if we allow the supernatural oil of the Holy Spirit to wake us up?  Sometimes we need that wake-up call.

     You know that's what God had to do to the prophet Samuel one time.  (Ref. I Samuel 15, 16.)  Samuel was grieving because the man he had anointed to be king over Israel had failed.  Saul had turned from the Lord in disobedience.  So, Samuel had gone home and was grieving over the whole situation.  He was so unhappy about it.

     There are times we can have a problem happen or have a bad encounter with someone and sometimes we feel like emotionally sitting over in the corner being sad about it.  We just can't get it out of our system.

     Well, God was ready for Samuel to go on.  He didn't want him to allow his anointing to become stale or dormant.  He knew that Samuel had to get up and get going again or that's what would happen.  He had to shake him out of that attitude and refresh him so he could go on with the anointing that was on his life.

     Therefore the Lord came to Samuel and said, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel?  Fill your horn with oil; I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite.  For I have provided for Myself a king among his sons.  (Ref. I Samuel 16:1).

     "How long will you sit over in the corner, Samuel, being sorry about what happened with Saul?  You get out from there and fill your horn with oil."  In other words, He was telling him to get his anointing going.  Get out and do what He had been called to do.  There were greater works for Samuel to perform; God had new experiences for him to have.  It wasn't time for Samuel to sit down in his anointing and not get up.  His next job was that he was going to anoint a new king and it would be David, the greatest king Israel would ever have.

God has a job for us to do with our anointing.

     You see, sometimes we may feel as though we want to back away because we're so sorry about something that's happened in our life.  But God is saying that the greatest work that He has for us to do is still to be done.  We can't afford to let our anointing go dormant.  He has blessings and promises and experiences for us.  Yes, He has a job for us to do with our anointing.

     He's telling us to get up and fill our horn with anointing oil.  Get our spirit full of the Holy Spirit and get going.  Let the oil of the Holy Spirit keep flowing!  Believe that we will see our desires fulfilled and God's will done.

     We must allow Him to take what's been dormant and make it active again.  Every part of our mind and our attitude that's been sluggish, discouraged, or bored now becomes fresh and alive.  As I said earlier, that's when our mental capabilities become sharper and our spiritual awareness is heightened.  Everything gets in sync so that we can flow in the spiritual energy that God has provided for us.

     Oh my, don't you want a fresh anointing to come into your life today?  God wants to pour His oil over your life and bring you a fresh anointing that will invigorate you to be victorious in everything you do.  Move out in a greater anointing and realize all that He has for you.  Get a fresh anointing!

We want to pray about the anointing on your life and your needs.

     Let’s come into a prayer of agreement and see God do great things in your life.  You may be to a point that you want to throw your hands up in exasperation.  It feels as if it's more than you can handle...or at least want to handle.  But thank God He sees your plight, and He has called us to come together with our faith to change the outcome of the circumstances.  So I want you to believe you will see a difference as we pray.

     Contact us by clicking here.  After we pray, we will write to you and fill the letter full of encouraging words from God.  Great things can come as you do this—we believe it!  We’re ready to minister to you now!  Jeanne and John

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 Leave Fear
   Behind.
Move Ahead!

Jeanne Alcott

     Is fear holding you back?  Holding you back from experiencing the tremendous help and blessings God has for you?  Fear can take control of your emotions and cause you to back away from what you can do.

     A journalist once said that “fear of risk is killing the American spirit.”  He writes about how people overreact to bad things that happen in the nation and that causes them not to step out to do what is right and good.  He makes the point that the Mayflower was not seaworthy yet those pilgrims were willing to make the journey in it to help form this nation.

     When you think about our personal lives, we can see how fear tries to cause us to refuse to explore what God can do.  But when you are free of fear, imagine how you can discover the possibilities.

     Think of what can happen if we don’t fear to pray for a bigger miracle.

     We don’t fear giving to God when it stretches our finances and believe He will multiply it.

     We aren’t intimidated to witness to someone and see them accept Christ.

     We defend truth, stand up for what we believe.

     We do something we’ve wanted to do for years in our life.

     I would hate to see what fear has kept us from doing in the past.  But that doesn’t have to be our future.  The days ahead can be filled with accomplishment and reward and seeing conditions turn around.  Without fear we can have greater happiness and fulfillment and see the kingdom of God advanced in a way such as we have never seen it.

     All of that is taken from us when we’re apprehensive.  But our security is in God.  We know that He will be there for us when we decide we’re ready to discover the possibilities of what He can do.

Get to the point where you say yes.

     God tries to get us to the point that we will say, “Yes, I am leaving fear behind and I’m moving head.”  That’s when we have to decide if we will answer His call to discover or if fear will hold us back.  Will we get the thrill of seeing God move in a wonderful way, or are we going to shrivel up and not see what He can do?  This is to where a woman came when she was caught in a challenge.  She was challenged to see if she would discover the possibilities of what God could do.  It all came to a head when she was a volunteer in an Army hospital.  She would go in and do whatever was needed but she would also pray with some of the soldiers.

     One day she saw a young man in bed and noticed his skin was yellow.  She knew of course that he was suffering from something but she wasn’t sure what.  She didn’t see any wounds on him right away but she offered to pray with him.

     He just looked at her and drew back the sheets that were covering him.  That’s when she saw that his abdomen was a pool of dark blood.  He said, “Guts torn out.”  This was not some small wound that he was going to recuperate from and be fine in a few days.  This appeared hopeless.  She thought to herself if she had just known, she would not have offered to pray but now she couldn’t take it back.  So!  She pushed fear aside and moved ahead.

     You know that’s what you have to do.  Push fear aside and move ahead.  Picture yourself putting your hand out and pushing fear aside.  You’re pushing it out of your way.  That’s because you’re coming through.  You’re moving ahead.  You’re ready to discover the possibilities of what God can do.  And no fear is going to keep you from doing that.

     That’s where she was.  She had to make that decision.  You will be there many times in your life.  Where you have to make a decision if you’re going to allow fear to block your path and keep you from moving ahead or if you will push it to the side and be free of it.

     After this woman got free of fear, she put her hands on the two sides of that pool of blood and she began to speak health into his body.  She envisioned a stomach with all the organs perfect.  She called upon God to make this possible.

     After she prayed, she went home and got on the phone and called other people to pray.  Sometimes you just have to go after it.

Take the hand of God and allow Him to lead you into what is possible.

     Can you envision doing that?  When you pursue what God has put on your heart, you’re putting your hand in His hand and you’re allowing Him to lead you.  He’s going to take you into possibilities that you have not seen.  But fear is going to try to keep you from pursuing those possibilities.  Fear will take you by the hand and instead of leading you into the good things ahead of you, it will take you back.  You won’t be able to move into tremendous possibilities waiting.

     So!  You have to decide in whose hand are you going to put your hand?  In the hand of God so you can move forward in the possibilities, or in the hand of fear so you’re going to be taken back and not experience what is waiting.  Oh so much is waiting for us to see God do.

     That’s what this woman was going after.  The possibilities of what God could do for this young man.  She called upon God to make his healing possible.  It didn’t matter that his guts had been torn out, God is the One who created and can restore organs.  He can do anything we need Him to do.  Allow that to set in your spirit.  God can do anything I need Him to do.  Say it.  God can do anything I need Him to do!

     Because this woman decided to step away from fear and step into the possibilities of what could happen, something wonderful did happen.  When she went back to the hospital two weeks after she prayed, she went straight to the room of this young man.  But he was not in it.  When she found him, he was in a common area where the soldiers would get together.  She said, “There he sat, young, handsome, and ruddy faced.  Not yellow and sick and unable to sit up.  He was whole and well.

Be the one who isn’t afraid to discover.

     See what fear could have caused her to miss.  Oh the possibilities!  What we can miss if we are not free of fear.  That’s why I John 4:18 describes fear as being crippling.  The one who is bound by it has a fearful life.  Is that how you want your life to be described?  A fearful one?  Or do you want to be one who discovers.

     You are not afraid to get on the Mayflower and discover the better place.  You are willing to put your hand in God’s hand and not be afraid of where He will take you.  Because hear this: when God takes you somewhere HE will always be there also.  He isn’t going to give you the opportunity to do something and then step away from you.  He is right there with you.  His Word is true and fast.  So when you’re standing on His Word and His promises, you cannot fail in your obedience.

     In God’s Word, He tells us about a great victory that happened for an entire nation because one man set aside fear.  He decided to discover the possibility of what the Lord could do.  His name was Jonathan, and he was the son of the King of Israel, who was Saul.  This was at a time when the Philistines had set up camp against the Israeli Army.  They outnumbered them and it seemed certain the Israelites would be defeated.  That’s when fear is created in us.

     When it seems certain we can’t have victory.

     There’s nothing that can be done.

     Our resources are outnumbered.

     The report is too bad against us.  The problem is too great.  Those are the hardest times to be free of fear.  But those are also the most important times we must use God’s Spirit within us to push fear aside and move on.  We become determined to see what He will do.

     That’s what Jonathan decided to do.  The entire Army was hiding and afraid.  But he said to his armor bearer to come with him and go over to the other side of the pass where the Philistine patrol was.  They were going up to the pass and confront the guards there.

No one can stop God from saving.

     He said to his armor bearer, Maybe God will work for us.  There’s no rule that says God can only deliver by using a big army.  No one can stop God from saving when He sets His mind to it.  (Ref. I Samuel 14:6 MSG.)  Now, that is not fear talking!  That’s faith.  Jonathan knows God can save them by two people or by an entire army.  The possibilities are tremendous here.  And he’s ready to discover them.  Because he is willing to step out in obedience, God can work for them now.

     So they decided when they got to the pass, if the Philistines told them to stop and not come over, they would stay put.  However, if they invited them to come over, they would know God had given them into their hands for victory.  That was their sign.

     Of course, the enemy fell right into God’s plan.  That’s something we have to remember.  When God tells us to step out and away from fear, He has a plan.  As we obey Him, the enemy will fall right into that plan.  That gives us a sense of security and confidence.

     So as Jonathan and his buddy were showing the Philistines they were there, the enemy said, Look at that!  The Hebrews are crawling out of their holes!  Come on up here!  We’ve got a thing or two to show you!  (Ref. I Samuel 14:11, 12 MSG.)  That’s what they think.  God had a thing or two to show them.  So without fear, Jonathan and his armor bearer approached the Philistine guards and overcame them.  They were able to defeat twenty men.  That in turn caused the rest of the Israelites to rise up without fear and pursue the enemy.

     That day God gave the nation a great victory.  Why?  Because someone was willing to put their hand in God’s hand and discover His possibilities for victory.  But the real victory was they defeated fear first.  Defeat fear then you can see your victory happen.  Leave fear behind and move ahead!

We believe answers and victory are on the way.

     We are not going to allow fear to keep you back from those.  Are you ready to discover?  Discover the possibilities of what God can do?  Then be sure you get in touch with us so we can pray with you.  Just as that armor bearer was by the side of Jonathan when he decided to step out and see what God would do, we are beside you.

     So as soon as we hear from you, we’ll stand in faith and pray.  Then we want to write to you.  That’s because God gives us words from His Spirit to impart into your life.  So contact us soon by clicking here.  Jeanne and John

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