For Women Only.....Seat of Influence Christmas Blog

Embrace Your Mary

Good Morning All,

I hope that you are reading this on this Christmas Eve or Christmas Day.   I chose Mary as a woman of influence for us all to study and emulate because of her humble acceptance of God's calling on her life.  As a very young lady in a somewhat horrible situation, she ventured into the unknown with bold faith and humble submission.  

She was a virgin who had become pregnant before she was married to Joseph. I am sure that most of the people around them thought this young woman was lying.   This situation was literally unbelievable and punishable by stoning to death! 

In Luke 1:26 we read that the angel Gabriel came to Mary and told her that "she had found favor with God.  You will be with child and give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus.  He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The LORD God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever, his kingdom will never end".
v. 34  "How will this be",  Mary asked, "since I am a virgin?"  The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you.....For nothing is impossible with God" !!! 

and here is the 'embracing' of the plan of the most high!

Mary answered, "I am the LORD's servant.  May it be to me as you have said"

This is faith activated!    She said, Lord, I believe and I will trust you!  
If it means death, I will trust you!
If it means I will lose the trust of all my family, I will trust you!
If I am persecuted and alone in this world, I will trust you!
If I am homeless and living in a cave, I will trust you!

We need to be like Mary and say, "I am the LORD's servant, may it be to me as you have said, I will trust you"    Completely embrace this position of submission and complete faith.   No matter your situation, God knows and will provide a way.  He loves you so much that He gave his only son to live as son of man and son of God so that you might know Him and understand the knowledge of the Kingdom.   

Mary was a key to this plan. You are the key to the plan that God has working around you.  You see, Mary had the influence over her own "will" to fulfill prophesy.  All she said was "Yes"   The ultimate plan for humankind was influenced once again, only this time, it was for the good of all people who would follow.

Isaiah 9:6  "For unto is a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders.  He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, and Prince of Peace.  Of the increase of his government and peace, there will be no end."

Luke 2:8  "And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the LORD appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.  But the angel said to them 'Do Not be afraid. I bring o good news of great joy that will be for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you: he is Christ the LORD. This will be a sign to you:  You will find a baby wrapped in cloths and lying in a manger.' "
v13 Suddenly a great company of the heavenly host appeared with the angel, praising God and saying;

                                     "Glory to God in the highest,
                                            and on earth peace to men on whom his
                                                                   favor rests."

Dear LORD,

We praise you and thank you for sending your son to save us.   We adore you!  
Help us, as women, to embrace the same humble spirit that Mary had when you called her to the Seat of Influence.  Help us also to have the unshakable faith that she had to know that you were God and nothing is impossible with God!

We ask that your peace and your joy fill us this season and the world around us!

In Jesus name,
Amen
Carla

FOR WOMEN ONLY.......SEAT OF INFLUENCE

Dear Women, 

You are mighty and called of God to be an influence to the world around you!!   If you don't believe that, you need to walk with me through the study of some women in the bible that God used to show us how he created us to be influential and do His will.    This influence comes with a warning;  Influence can be used for good or evil.  The motive can come from a pure heart or a heart that has been turned and polluted by evil or lack of conviction and is easily swayed.

Let's take a look at the very first woman; Eve.  God created her out of man to be a helpmate because he knew man would be lonely.  They lived in the perfect world of the Garden of Eden.  Life was amazingly easy and free.  No bondage, no thoughts of selfishness and eyes that only saw good!  But what happened when she got out from under the covering and protection God set up for her; her helpmate Adam....She was led away and swayed by an influence without pure motive.  She allowed the voice of another to tempt her to believe there might be something better.  He tempted her to believe she had been tricked.    She obeyed that voice and went back to Adam, her helpmate, and influenced  him to disobey God and do the very thing He had told them not to do. This is powerful..... She had the influence to change the path of humanity and God's plan for all humankind!     God has given women the power of influence.  We all sit at a seat of authority through Christ but we, as women have a special gifting of influence.  What we do with that influence is up to our free will...we need to let God work through us and use it to accomplish HIS will!  

God put men and women together to compliment each other.  He made man with a set of gifts that will compliment the gifts of a woman.  This applies to a married couple or men and women that work together in business or ministry.  Women have a spirit of discernment that needs to be keen and sharp!!  It will help in all types of situations.  We just need to test the spirits around us in a situation and discern if what we are experiencing is of God or if there is a warning we need to heed and use wisdom to follow through!

This is just one woman we will look at briefly.  

I will leave you with this for now; 

"Deny your Eve......Embrace your Mary.....Encourage your Rizpah!"

Be a Joyful influence as we celebrate the birth of our savior!

Dear LORD,

Let our ears hear and our hearts understand;  allowing us to use our seat of influence for your glory!  We submit to you and ask that you speak to us through your Holy Spirit.  Let us be mighty women of God that you will work through in an awesome way!

Break us open to your plan for our lives!!

In Jesus name,
Amen


Carla

BREAK US OPEN IN 2014 PRAYER

Dear Heavenly Father,

My heart is breaking to hear your voice and be in your presence!  
My heart is breaking for my family and friends to come to know you as I do!
My heart is longing for you to show us your glory!!

Your Kingdom come, Your will be done.  On earth as it is in heaven!
Show us what heaven is like.  Reveal to us your super, into our natural!

Open the hearts and minds of those around us!
Show them the secrets to the Kingdom!
Let your power be demonstrated among us!

We treasure your commands: you said if we keep your commands, we will live!
Bind your commands on our fingers and write your words on the tablets of our heart!
Let us call wisdom our sister and understanding our kin.
That we may live and have the nature of your Kingdom here on earth!

LORD, I decree that your spirit,  through the teaching of the gospel of the Kingdom, will demonstrate the mighty signs, wonders and miracles of God in our presence!   We will be witness to all your glory and all will come to know you and be delivered, healed, set free and seek your Kingdom by the power of the spirit that is at work within us!

This is our year of BREAKTHROUGH!   BREAKTHROUGH over all of us and over our territory!   

We agree and become one in the spirit that your will might be done according to your word that shall accomplish that which you sent it to do!!

You gave unto us the power to tear down strongholds and over all the power of the enemy!  The enemy is defeated; his plan is bound and cast back into the pits of hell where it came from.  All bondage's of sin are broken off us and our families!

I release joy unspeakable into your people!  Peace on earth and to all men!  
Provision for the vision!  

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.  And the government will be upon His shoulder.  And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God.  Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of the increase of his government and peace, there will be NO end.
Isaiah 9:6 

You are an increasing God with no end to your love for us!

We worship and adore you!

In Jesus name,
Amen

What Do You Do When Faith is Not Enough?

What do you do when the storm that you are in seems to overtake you and you don't know if you will make it? 

What do you do when you feel that your faith is not enough to get you through?

What do you do when panic rises up in your chest and you feel like you just can't go on?

Those are probably the million dollar questions when you are in the middle of a crisis and you don't know if this "God Thing" works!!!  We always ask, "God!  Where are you?" 
"God! Do you hear me?"  "God! What am I going to do?"

That's where I am right now and I am going to have to take some of my own medicine!  I always tell people who come to me with all of these same questions and panic that I am having right now......."Drive the stake in DEEPER!"  How do you do that? and What in the world does that mean? 

Right now, I can tell you that it means you get quiet.  You meditate on the Lord.  You tell him you know how good He is and that you trust Him.  You love on Him.  You cry to Him.  You remind yourself of all the times He has brought you out.  You remember the times when He healed your baby from a disease that was so aweful they wouldn't even tell you the symptoms because they were so horrible!  You remind yourself how the Lord kept you safe in your car when the brakes went out and the officer at the scene said there is "no way" you should have made it through.  You remind yourself how the doctors gave your mother 24hrs. to live but God said she had 8 more years!  You remind yourself how the doctors assured you that you had cancer and you REFUSED to receive that report and you had the elders of the church lay hands on you.....the biopsy came back completely clean!   on and on and on......

You dig up all these wonderful glorious miracles God has done for you and you praise and shout your way out of the darkness!  You thank Him for the breath He gave you this morning to wake you up!  You praise Him because He can never lie and He is the same yesterday, today and forever!!   You remind yourself how He parted the sea for the children of Israel and how He brought the three Heberew boys out of the fire!  And you encourage yourself that if He did it for them...He will do it for you!!

So you see, Faith is Enough!  You just have to cause it to RISE UP!  That's how you DIG in DEEPER! 

Here are the words from a song that won't leave my little head right now;
"If you believe in God only and put no confidence in man,
everything that doth concern you, you placed it in His hand
though a host rise up against thee, to try and spoil the day,
he will rush in one way to harm thee but he must flee seven ways!

We are blessed in the city, we are blessed in the field
We are blessed when we come and when we go.
We cast down every stronghold, sickness and poverty must cease.
For the devil is defeated, for WE ARE BLESSED!"

(know that;) "Late in the midnight hour, God's gonna turn it around!!!"
He's gonna work in YOUR favor!!!"

Lord, break open our weakness and fill it with your strength!!!!
Lift the broken hearted!  Heal the broken bodies!
Heal the tormented mind!  Restore the broken families!
Bring peace that surpaseth all understanding!!
You are working in our favor!
We trust in you!! 

In Jesus name,
Amen and Amen and Amen!!!!!
Carla

For Women Only...

I feel led to start a series For Women Only!  I will title each blog as such so you will know it is part of the series or just for you.

I feel very excited in my spirit about this and can't wait to hear what God has to say to women..who are "for such a time as this"!

From Eve to Mary, God used women in mighty ways.  I feel that women sit at a seat of influence for the Kingdom!!!

Stay tuned and let's go on an awesome ride with God and let him take us into a new reality here in His Kingdom on earth!! 



LORD,  show us your power!  As women, we want you to make us into a mighty woman of God that can move mountains when we get on our knees or even our face.  We want to be full of joy that runs over!  Come LORD come!!   We wait on you!!

In Jesus name,
Amen
Carla

Give Me a Break!

As I sit drinking my morning cup of java and listen to the morning news, I can't help but think about where this country is and how far we have moved from the country I knew as a little girl in the 70"s.  As I remember, we could proudly say the pledge of allegiance,  say the name of God without fear, girls dated boys, schools didn't have camera's and locked doors, and the news was not a horror show I was not allowed to watch. 

 I know you are asking, as I am;  How did this happen?  What is going to happen?  How are we going to make it?  

I may not have the best answers to those questions but the state of this world reminds me of the world Jeremiah lived.  Jeremiah felt frightened and insecure-but he burned with a message!  The LORD told J. not to be afraid, go where I tell you to go and say what I tell you to say.  I feel like a J. of today.  I may not be saying anything to the nations and only a few people may ever read this blog but I have to go and say what I hear the LORD saying in my spirit.

I opened to Jeremiah 9:2 and I couldn't believe what I read....J. was actually wishing that he had a B & B in the dessert that he could run and hide in because of the stupid people around him. "Oh that I had in the desert a lodging place for travelers, so that I might leave my people and go away from them; for they are all adulterers, a crowd of unfaithful people"
Does that not sound like what many of us wish for when life gets too hard?  That's how I felt this morning thinking about the world around me.  Christian's being killed, mass murders every where, children held captive, mother's crying for their lost sons and daughters, people dying of illnesses that we didn't even know existed 50 years ago.  What in the world!

 Instruction comes from Jeremiah 12:16-17
"And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name. The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.   BUT if they will not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation, saith the LORD" 

Basically, Know the One and Only True Living God, Jehovah and you will be saved.  We must pray for our nation,  and God's people to lay down other idols and come back to knowing Him.  He will protect and preserve His own!!!!!

So, we may want to take a break and run away sometimes but there is peace in knowing that God is a faithful God and He will never leave us nor forsake us. 

 "Be strong and of good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them; for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; He will not fail thee, nor forsade thee."  Deut. 31:6


LORD, help us be strong in you and leave all fear and doubt behind us!  Break off all that binds!

In Jesus name,
Amen
Carla

Breaking Through The Brain Barrier

Breaking Through The Brain Barrier

Romans 12:2

Do not conform any longer to the systems of this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind

Today, I challenge you to lose your ever lovin mind!  I challenge you to move beyond the systems and pattern of this world and move into the supernatural!  The Supernatural could be where we live everyday if we press into the secret place and bring the Anointing back with us when we step out of our prayer closet!  Breaking through to the secret wisdom of God.      (  1 Cor. 2) to bring heaven on earth through the power of the Holy Spirit is the charge Jesus gave us in John 14.  He said, these things I do, you will do and even greater.  What did Jesus do?  Brought salvation to all, healing to the sick, set the captive minds free, and even raised the dead!  If you believe the book of Acts, you need to lose your ever lovin mind and allow the LORD to break you open and pour out His spirit through you to all the world!

Be the influence to bring breakthrough!

LORD. Break us open, empty us out,  and fill us with the power of your Holy Spirit!

In Jesus name,

Amen

Carla

Your pain + HIS power = A New You!!  ....Destiny fulfilled

Ps 37.5  Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust in Him and He will bring it to pass......