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Praise the Lord! It is just an awesome day today! I am thankful to be home and thankful for the much needed and wonderful rest as I truly enjoyed myself. Mervyn and I had a wonderful time and sending the Lord before us makes it so all things work together.  

I did not get on line much though I did get some stuff done. I still am far behind in catching up and after looking at all the conversation on WL4J site – please I am not even going to attempt to catch up in one day– WOW so much going on – yet in time I will get to it all! LOL Hey I am nosy – I want to know what is going on with my sisters and what I missed! LOL  

I am telling you – the beauty of the Lord shined while we were on vacation. I did not get to shop like I wanted to but I got a new purse, got a gift for my niece, got a gift for my Aunt (who watched Jonathan) and got some things for Jonathan – so I am happy about that. I did get to see the movie I was waiting to see 2012 – it was not what I expected but yet it was still a decent movie – not enough action for me too much drama. LOL I was looking for a bunch of special effects that I did not get but that is okay! I was not in the mood to see Precious because that topic is too much like ‘work’ to me. LOL When you deal with all that kind of stuff regularly – I kind of have to be in the mood for that type of movie – though I heard it is really good – yet I might wait until DVD before I see it. 

You know there was no way we were going to go away for that long and go through all that wonderful time – praising the Lord and blessing His holy name – that the enemy was not going to try to steal that joy….mind you I said try! On our way home, I was thinking – good we will get home by 3:45 PM and get the car unpacked and I might even get a moment to rest before Jonathan gets home at 5:30 PM (he had tutoring). Yet of course, guess what – I get a call at 3:20 PM saying that Jonathan had a bad day and was talking about killing himself!!!  

Of course – the speedometer jumped from 65 mph to 95 mph and off to the school I was speeding. As I was trying not to get too upset – my heart aching for my son, I called on the Lord. I hear my husband say about we do not fight against flesh and blood – how it is the enemy trying to mess with us – and as I said to him. Yes I know this but I am his mother and I am going to react with my heart when it comes to him – period. Yes that is true too – I did and I will . . . we are built that way. It is why we nurture our children.  

Yet as I am speeding down the road – asking God to let me know prior to the police (He did too – God is so good) I started asking God to go to my son and to help us during this time. It was not that I was panicking as I do not panic in a crisis – it was I did not want the enemy to get anything out of this at all. God was to get the glory. The Lord calmed my spirit by reminding me of the vision that I saw of Jonathan when he was a teenager – so I know that we are blessed to have him with us! So that was a relief to me.  

I walk into the school – his social worker and head teacher are apologizing to me – which really makes me laugh because they did nothing wrong – actually they did the right thing and not played it like it was something trivial. So many times people do that to children not realizing that they have emotions and feelings too. As soon as he sees me – he starts crying and of course being mommy – all I could do is hug him and tell him that everything was all right.  

We head over to the psychiatric hospital for he has to be ‘checked’ by a doctor before being allowed to go back to school. We sat there from 4:30 PM to 10 PM – they were busy but as I sat there with Jonathan – looking around at all those people coming and going – it made me so thankful for our ‘issues’ that we have in our home. It made me appreciate the blessings that God has given us even more. I could have been sitting there waiting because he had tired to kill himself or I could have been sitting there for myself. 

It is in the goodness of Jesus that I was there for what I was there for. Of course he came home and it is believed that since he did not have his medicine that morning it could have caused some of the emotional reaction to his day. It was like the straw that broke the camels back when the little girl told him to be a more mature 3rd grader. Jonathan is very sensitive and hurt so easily. It amazes me to see the compassion in such a young child and I mean compassion that is not even really seen not only in a child but in people.  

A kid was trying to beat him up – he told that kid as he was hitting him – that he forgave him and it was okay because he was having a bad day…what kid do you know does that stuff? I pray for my son’s heart and his feelings – that God works with him in this area because he takes things to heart and he is such a good kid. His heart is so amazing and I pray constantly for him. Yet it was a huge blessing as I believe that we all learned something last night. Jonathan learned to be careful of what he says – to say what he really means and though it might be a bad moment – think things over first. He did not like that hospital and was so glad to leave.  

Yet I believe Merv saw another side of Jonathan and hearing the doctor – seeing that this is more serious than he thought previously and I learned that ALL things work out even in this situation – the blessings that I have are not to be taken for granted. Even though I do not take them for granted – I learned even more how precious life is!  

It is great to be back and it is great to know that God is still moving in my life and showing me new things and teaching me so much – oh how wonderful it is. Well off to listening to the word of the Lord – need to get my word in today and my lesson in too! Oh how I love technology – get more of Jesus daily!!! AMEN!!  

Remember to keep the Lord first in all things and He will bring you to a place of peace even in the moments of trial, temptation, confusion, and uncertainty – Jesus is the only answer!
 
 
Praise the Lord – God is so good! I am just thankful to Him for all things! I praise Him for all things – not some but all things.

I praise Him for the things seen and unseen – I just praise the Lord! God is so good! I am determined to hold out for His answers and His way! Praise His name!  

Let me give you my testimony. . .  

If you read any of my blogs – you know that I have situations with my son that are just so hard to deal with and with his behavior in school. School started on September 3 and on September 4 – the trouble started.  

He has a tutor for math and reading, he has a social worker and a therapist at school (two separate women) and of course there is his teacher. I am on the phone with the school all the time; I still wince when I see the school phone number on my phone. We were getting told by all these wonderful people that our son needs to be on medication and I was beginning to believe them.  

We have tried everything and after talking to his math tutor who has been with him since kindergarten – she was just so negative ….sorry but she was. As if my son is NOT capable of being able to behave. I take all this to heart – our children are their environment so as his mother who do I blame more than him – ME!! I hear about other people and their children – never hearing anything negative about their kids – and thinking something is wrong with me – I am learning that most of them are just liars! LOL  

Well yesterday, I gave into it. I called the doctor’s office and made an appointment for Jonathan. Funny thing – when the appointment taker asked the reason for the appointment, she scheduled him for a yearly physical instead of a consultation because he was due for one – so that is good and should have told me there.  

After I got off the phone - I started talking to the Lord about my son and just showing me what to do because everyone was saying how he needs to be on meds. I started reading and hearing some positive stories about the meds and just wanting to feel better but my spirit just did not feel good about it. My sister went on in an email about not putting him on meds – making me feel bad about all that I was thinking about doing.  

I started replaying Tuesday night in my head - we (Merv and I) were talking to Jonathan about his behavior – once again. I was prompted to ask him – what did he want more than anything in the world…I was expecting a different answer than I got.  He said he wanted a PSP – hummmm…..really? I was actually expecting to hear – see my dad or go on vacation or something like that…but I guess 8 year old boys will be 8 year old boys.  

Well as he was sitting there – I pulled up the PSP (Play Station Portable game system – just in case u do not know what it was) and there was one that just came out that day – a newer version – I started talking about how ‘sweet’ it was and asked him what he thought – he was loving it.  

I asked him have I ever lied to him – and he said no – I told him if he would bring me good days – he could have it for his birthday. Now we have tried this before and it did not work – with other things – as he would say okay and then come home the next day with a bad behavior report – so in my mind I think this is just going to be the same old ways. 

I am driving home and just been speaking to the Lord about my son – just seeking God for direction – not once thinking things were going to change – thinking the answer was in the meds even though my spirit is just not confirming it – just ignoring that and trying to tell myself this is better. I even went as far as to say that he is adopted and I just do not know about his birth family. Telling me there is a lot of adoption families who find themselves in these shoes . . . BUT GOD!!  

I pick up my son – he is smiling but he is always smiling as he was just hanging out with his best friend. He gets in the car and does not immediately telling me how his day is. So I breathed deep and ask the dreaded question – “How was your day?” I was expecting to hear – Good as that is the answer I ALWAYS get even on the worse day. So when I hear good – I say oh really – you got a paper saying so – I hear YES – which I did not expect to hear – normally I hear – she did not write one for me. Well the next thing – I get a paper that says He had a good day except something happened at recess! This is what she wrote.  

Before I even ask about recess – I start telling him how proud I am – I make the biggest fuss over him and just start being so happy – praising God and him all in one breathe. He is in the back seat GRINNING from ear to ear. All evening, I was so excited – I jumped up and down – high fiving him – making a big fuss – asked him where he wanted to go to dinner and just all the time telling him how proud I was – because I am.  

I am just so excited as the school’s therapist and social worker almost had me believing he needs medication…that he really can not help not being focused in class….BUT GOD!! I just said to the Lord – I need to see some sign that we are on the right path – something to direct me in what to do with him as I was getting frustrated and to be honest did not believe he would come home with an excellent day yesterday. Just really acting like this was a defeat but all along praying to God to bless this entire situation because I was just so ‘lost’ in what to do. I know I was not alone as Merv kept saying – I do not understand this. 

Well God answered – not only did Jonathan behave – but when his ‘cut-up’ buddy saw he was not going to cut up and tried to get him to cut up by threatening him with bodily damage – Jonathan stood his ground and behaved – walking away from the boy – which caused the boy to try and hit Jonathan – but because the teacher’s aide saw what happened – Jonathan did not get in trouble but the young boy did. (Keep Romeo in prayer - this little boy has a lot of things going on inside as he acts just as Jonathan does in school) I am so proud of Jonathan and so thankful to the Lord for blessing me with such an awesome witness to His answering of prayer.  

Of course we are all on go in our house and just so excited…God is answering prayers and He is showing us to keep holding onto His words and not our own thoughts. One more thing before I go….LOL  

Merv went to the doctor’s!!! PRAISE THE LORD! I have been trying to get Merv to go to the doctor’s for his legs, snoring and breathing since I have met him – all along he refused to go…so I stopped asking and started praying….yet again God answered prayer – I made the appointment and just prayed he went – HE DID!!! Of course it was not news he wanted to hear BUT it was a motivation to him and for that I am thankful to the Lord! Please keep him in prayer as he is moving forward to a healthier living lifestyle - We have the victory!! 

I am just so thankful to the Lord for blessing my family and for giving me such a wonderful week in Him….I thank God for it and I am so grateful that I can not even begin to explain the joy in my heart except that it is what I would call – unspeakable joy – Hallelujah just does not even come close to what I feel and this is the highest praise!  

God is so good and so mindful of us and I am so thankful that He just does what He does by being God – and so eternally grateful for the scales falling away from my eyes so that I can see Him and His beauty in my life!  

God bless and please keep my family in prayer as I will do the same for you! God is so good to us!!
 
 
Praise the Lord! When God speaks – He really speaks. I am thankful to the Lord for the blessings that He has given unto me. As I was hearing the Lord speak to me on the Daily Bible Reading – I was at first floored because I am thinking – Lord no one wants that…yet He started showing me sisters who need to come together and read the word together. So I hear in my mind the need of coming together…many of us have lives where we are not able to attend bible study at our church because of the day or the hour that it is done – yet many of us are not reading the word at all, and some are but not getting an understanding of it as they would like. 

I am sitting here smiling remembering when I used to sit there saying to God what shall I do, where shall I go – what is my call? Oh my goodness, look at the Lord and how He is moving. I am amazed at what He does – sure things are on a small scale with the group, with the number of sisters participating but you know what I see that is so strong – the growth in sisters. Praise the Lord. He keeps reminding me of the motto He gave to us…We are here for ALL women – one woman at a time. I am thankful to the Lord for His mighty blessings and how He moves things according to His will. 

Last night my husband said something that is just so profound…the Lord’s work will go forth – He will make sure His vision will comes to pass, the bottom line is do you want to be the vessel that He is using…as I thought about that, no matter what comes my way, it is time to step up and move according to His will in my life. It is time to move forward in Him and hold onto the way that He directs us to go. I am amazed at the path that God has given me in my life…

I used to question why me – and then I stopped doing that and started saying Yes Lord. As I was talking to a sister about the Bible Reading and talking to her about her and I doing some things together – she said she did not want to be an bother to me and I started thinking about that statement. How many times have we been a ‘bother’ to the Lord? We have never been and never will be a bother to the Lord and we must get in our minds that we will not be a bother to each other either. It is in the Lord that we get our strength.

A sister said to me that God has granted me supernatural strength and I thought about that…man He has…because when I am really tired – I sleep – but pretty much going all the time and not getting sick. I only got sick when I did not do what He said – so I am learning that. I have learned that money is not the object of things in my life any more. I was working overtime to get money for WL4J and the Back to School help for sisters – ended up getting sick because I was trying to do that and WL4J – the Lord showed me to follow Him not my own mindset. He did this not just by my getting sick, but I ended up paying $365.00 over what I anticipated paying and that was the money to help sisters – so I know that God is going to move things according to what He wants done. I am thankful to the Lord for all that He is doing and I am going to trust Him even more. 

I am thankful – so thankful for being a vessel to glorify the Lord. I am a blessed woman – man am I a blessed woman and I have decided to stop worrying about how things are going to go and I am going to let things go as God says they will. It is something how when we remove ourselves – He will step in and take care of it all. 

My sisters – keep WL4J in prayer and keep me in prayer – we have some things to do and right now – all hands on deck…are ya bored and want something to do in the Lord – and really want to get busy in the Lord – WL4J is a ministry to do so…we need to come on and get things done…let us help our sisters in their time of need, being there in all aspects of the word! Let us move forward in the Lord as much as He brings us to…

My sisters do not take a second for granted for you are a blessed woman – despite your current circumstances – God is with you and you shall stand in Him….just call on Him this day and every day. It is time to move together my sister – move together in Jesus! 

I love ya all – God bless and enjoy your day!
 
 

Praise the Lord! He is worthy of all praise and truly moving in my life and bringing me where He wants me to be. I had to laugh as I am used to doing Honesty Today first thing in the morning, but on Saturdays and Sundays, I end up doing it in the evenings. Yet that is fine with me too. LOL

I have been running around today with Minister Merv in the morning and it was something as we did what we had to do today. We ended up witnessing to other people about the Lord and it amazes me how it is getting easier. I think if I just do not think about the fact that most people are ignoring you and look at it as an opportunity to spread the love to those that you meet.

The truth of today is WOW!!! Okay I was sitting here writing this Honesty Today and my cell phone rang with the WL4J number showing on the phone so that means someone is calling the WL4J line. It was Prophet Mohr…well he was calling of course because God told him to do so. I just love how the Lord works because I needed a word from the Lord…I needed to know the next step; I needed to know that what I was doing was what was needed. Well like I always say…just ask the Lord and it will be yours.

We were talking about him coming to Pittsburgh because he saw it in a vision and so did Merv. So we know he is to come here and we are praying for him to come and when he does those that are in the Pittsburgh area or able to come down to visit with us, better come or you will miss out on a special word and a mighty blessing from the Lord. Every single time I talk to this man, it is just a blessing! He had a word just for me!

I do not know how some view this but as we are talking he started prophesying on my walk with the Lord, with the walk of my husband and us as a couple. It was such a blessing…I started praising and shouting unto the Lord. He called it a Praise of Revelation…and that is what it is.

My hubby has visions, dreams, and speaks words of prophesy on other people and I have always wanted to be blessed in this gift…well I have been praying about it and just not telling anyone that I was. Yet the Prophet tells me that God has called me to this. This is when I started really praising God for the revelation. It is a blessing to be in the service of the Lord and I want my life to be in Him!

I was thinking about this in the fullness of the Lord and how much He moves in my life and how much He has changed my life. It is amazing to know that no matter what comes to us, God is right there. I am thankful today for my call with the Prophet Mohr. He is the first man of God in this position that I actually believe. I am thanking God for sending people such as himself into my life. We are blessed and we need to know how blessed we truly are…we are a chosen generation and have the grace and mercy of the Lord in our lives…we need to understand that the Lord is moving and we need to move with Him so that we are not left behind.

Some of us are not walking with the Lord in the area that we know we should and this is the time to make that change. It is time to give it all over to the Lord and trust in the Lord for what He has for us. Do not be left behind to face the enemy’s destruction with so many others. God has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light…do not let the light go out of you, it is time to move according to His will for your life and keep you in the manner that He wants you to be. Move closer to the lord by reading His words and building your relationship with Him…it is not too late…call on Him and move in Him! AMEN!

Well until tomorrow…

Have a blessed evening!

Love your sister in Christ,

Sister Alissa Lynne