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A Prayer from The Watchman Wife

Nov29

I am praying, fasting, and meditating for marriages and relationships between A man and A woman. Relationships that are leading to marriages and marriages that are of the LORD; same sex marriages are not of the Most High Yah our LORD. And, I am not praying for boyfriend-girlfriend relationships, or this is my man or my woman relationships where you are fornicating and one or the other have hurt your feelings. If you are courting under accountability of someone who is spiritually reputable in the Holy Ghost, this is for you. ALLELUIA!

Father Elohim, whenever we communicate with our spouse, help us to uphold the priority of our marriage; allowing no other relationship to weaken ours. LET the word “divorce” never be formed on our tongue and never pronounced with our lips. LET it never be considered as a viable option, knowing that it strikes terror in the heart, fear and anger in the mind, and anxiety to our souls. And, it grieves Your Holy heart.

LET US always, in all of our conversations, uphold the oneness of our marriage, understanding that what affects one always affects the other. LET US allow open and honest communication, encourage vulnerability and authenticity. LET US never be guilty of breaking each other’s spirit. ALLELUIA! Rather, may we affirm and strengthen one another so that TOGETHER we can endure any weakness, any failure and not lose hope.

Father Elohim, help us to sharpen our communication skills. Teach us to communicate with our eyes-to convey our delight in the each other’s presence, to say, “I love you,” to LET our loved one know even in a crowded room, “You’re special to me.” Remind us to give each other the gift of our full attention when we talk.

Teach us to respond to what is said so that our mate knows he or she is being heard. Help us to keep a confidence, to build a “wall of trust” so that we are free to share all that is in our hearts. And as we listen, LORD, help us to avoid giving quick or pat answers. Help us to listen patiently. Remind us that even though our loved one does not always want advice we are bound to impart wisdom from the Holy Spirit. Although sometimes we just want to be heard; to say it, and to get it off our chest, LET US be receptive to receiving what we need and not just getting what we want.

In the name Jesus, Son of God, name we pray. Amen.

Receiving God’s Favor

Sep30

For a few weeks now, the Holy Spirit has been teaching me about favor and I’ve been listening and hearing. Many people have latched on to the idiom that “favour ain’t fair”. Usually, they assert it as favour because they don’t deserve it or when they receive something they didn’t expect to receive, yet it was something that was due to them, but they didn’t know it was due to them. Or, it is favour when they get a measure of help to take care of an immediate, urgent, need or situation. All too often, this immediate urgent need comes and goes. Then, it comes around again to BE another immediate urgent need and they pray once more for favour or for a blessing. SELAH!

Whereas, the Holy Spirit is teaching me that FAVOUR IS FAIR BEcause the LORD Who gave (gives) favour is a fair, a just, God. Favour is given BEcause Love is with us and Love shows us mercy, and Love is well-grounded. Favour isn’t given BEcause of need and desire. What I have learned is that not only is favour fair, is from a fair, just, God, it is also right. There is nothing wrong about it; it is balanced. Do we all deserve what is just and right? Yes. Yes we do. SELAH!

Favour is not only just and right; it is a gift from the LORD God. This gift will always come through the hand and heart of people who are in harmony with the LORD; people who are walking in the spirit realm. And, you don’t have to prove anything to these people who are walking with the LORD. You owe them nothing for “the gift” from God. SELAH! They obeyed the LORD BEcause they love His way and His people. Truly, favour is categorically free and clear. It doesn’t place people in debt, and it borrows not from anyone to BE what it is to and for someone else.

Even so, Romans 11:29 declare that the favour (gifts) and calling of God is immutable. However, many will reject “the gifts of and from God” BEcause they are persuaded that through their own lust, greed, and selfishness they can pay for what they need and want. Favour from God, exceeding abundantly above all that you can ask or think of, does what your money cannot do.

As a matter of truth, we can’t even afford favour. It is irrevocably ‘gifted’ to us. That’s how influential, just, and right favour is.

© September 28, 2013 Angela M. Smith

Petite Gestures of Love Are Mighty in Value

Sep10

“It’s amazing that so many of us miss out on the “good” that is within any given day because we zone in on the bad that goes on in our own minds.  Today, I CHOOSE not to make it a good day but to ENJOY the day because it is good.  SELAH.  On yesterday, I had to discipline my lad for slighting his brother.  He had to repent and ask for forgiveness, and the other had to forgive.  This was a requirement BEfore we laid down to sleep.  So, then last night, my Josh worked and this morning I told him he had to put gas in the car.  As it is, I am teaching him that he will never LET his family have to ask him to put gas in the car.  It is his responsibility as the head of his household to provide; to BE sure that his family has whatever they need; to not ever LET his wife travel on empty or half full.  SELAH.  Now, although he is not the head of this household the training is in order. 

Afterwards, I dropped them off to school and the rain begin to pour heavily.  Tempted to turn around and go home, I stayed with my course of action and headed to Frankfort as scheduled.  After my appointment, I went to “The Zachary Confections Candy Store.”  UMMM delish!  You can really get chunky (or chunkier) visiting that place.  They have all sorts of candy…EVERYWHERE!  The clerk told me to help myself and I did just that.  I bought two boxes of pecan perks, a box of thin mints, and a box of vanilla yogurt pretzels.  I was thinking, “Geezzz, Ang!  You don’t need all of this!”  However, Pure Divine Love said, “Show your sons that although you had to discipline them, you also have to love them.”  All too often, when we discipline our children it can lead them to “thinking” that love is not involved.  Quite the reverse, love is the foundation of chastening.

On my ride home, I was so excited about showing my lads that they are loved.  Instead of going straight home, I went to the school.   As I asked the secretary to call them to the office, I, very gaily, told her I was bringing my sons gifts.   She couldn’t stop blushing.  I heard her laugh for the very first time in the three years that I’ve known her.  It was…WOW…pleasant to see her happy heart on her face.  My Jordan came in first and I hugged him, patted him on his butt like I always do, and said, “I love you son.  Enjoy your chocolate, share it with your teacher and friends and HAVE a good day.”  To have means to possess, to own this day, a good day.  He said, “FOR ME?” And my answer was, “YEP!”  To see my young lad smiling and owning the hallway he walked knowing that his mother loves him made my heart leap with joy.

Then, my Josue’ came in and I hugged him, and patted his butt and he says, “Not the butt MOM!”  I chuckled and said, “I love you son!  Enjoy your chocolate and HAVE a good day.”  Then Josh points to his pocket and I say, “Call you?”  He says, “Text me!”  LOL!  Like dude, we are talking right now why I need to text you?  He wanted to talk more about my day so I texted him when I got in the car and he sends me a text back encouraging me and thanking me for his box of chocolates.  OMGOSH!  That warmed my soul.  Anyways, when I turned around the secretary was smiling so hard with glee.  As I exited the office, I greeted her again and blessed her day. 

It is not very often that parents come to the school to love on their children.  Majority of the time they come to the school because there is a snag in behavior, grades, or other actions.  And on another hand, many children won’t and don’t even see their parents at home.  SELAH!  But I, I will drive, and don’t mind driving, out there just to give them a hug or I will call the school to speak with them to simply say, “Mommy loves you today and I’m proud of you.  Continue to do well!” 

Parents, I endorse these petite gestures of love for they are mighty in value for the making of role model husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, employees and employers, students and teachers, friends and enemies.  SELAH!  I encourage you to teach your sons and daughters how to BE well rounded in their life by you being well rounded in yours, and by showing them all the elements of Pure Divine Love.  Today, I CHOOSE not to make it a good day but to ENJOY the day because it is good.  SELAH.

© September 10, 2014 Angela M. Smith

The Authority of The Father

Sep9

To the rebellious wife and the irresponsible husband, I know that something has happened to one of you to BEcome as you are and for the other to naturally respond to what you’ve BEcome. How do we get the family back to a healthy posture? How will our households ever BE a wholesome image of Who God is and how He established family if father or mother is absent?

Today, when I sought counsel on a matter, I learned a valuable lesson about my role as mother.  I was desperate for a father for my sons, and in that desperation I reached out to a couple of young men who, in the conclusion of the matter, could not offer one word of strength.  I was hurting and wanted the help of a father.  That help was not available!  It has not been alive for my household for over 17 years.  In my cry for peace and understanding, I discovered that when the husbandman fails in his leadership function as husband and father I have The Authority of The Father to do what a father should BE doing in my home.  I have been given the “designated power” to father my children.

  1. I have compassion for them (Psalm 103:13).
  2. I advocate for and carry my sons. Not only physically have I carried them, but I bear them up emotionally, financially, spiritually (Deuteronomy 1:31).
  3. When they sin, I rise up early to pray for them (Job 1:5).
  4. I don’t give my son a stone instead of a loaf; I give good gifts to my children (Matthew 7:9-11; Luke 11:11-13).
  5. I don’t provoke my children unto anger, as I don’t want them to lose heart.  So, I nurture them in the admonition of the LORD.  They might get mad at my chastising and diligently disciplining them, but I do this BEcause I love them.  It is for their good. I correct my sons BEcause I love them.   I’m quick to repent, to assure them I AM for them and not against them.  I tell them they can actually BE angry, just don’t sin by letting the sun go down on their wrath (Ephesians 6:4; Colossians 3:21; Proverbs 3:11-12; 13:24; Ephesians 4:26; Hebrews 12:7-11).
  6. I desire my sons to live a good life.  Thus, I’m constantly praying prayers of protection; I do not desire them dead.  I know that foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child, this is why the rod of discipline (the Word of God) is driving it far from them. I have the power to decree that they will not bring shame to me; my reproof gives them wisdom (Proverbs 19:18; 22:15; 29:15).
  7. I teach them to love the LORD our God and to BE the Word of God. We sit and talk of His Word in my house, in the car, at the park, and on the highway.  We go to sleep to His Word (Deuteronomy 6:6-7; 11:18-21).
  8. I exhort and comfort my children.  Not a day comes and a night goes that they don’t get warm hugs, pats on the butt, bedtime back rubs, I love you’s 50 million times a day, you did good son, I’m liking those grades keep up the good work, you got this, do your part and I’ll do mine, etc. (1 Thessalonians 2:11).

You see, God has enabled me (given me authority) to father my children.  There is no one else here to do it.  And, BEcause I have The Authority of The Father I, an unmarried virtuous woman and mother, vow to model a life of  gratefulness, appreciation, Pure Divine Love, forgiveness, humility and temperance with this designated power.

© 2015 Angela M. Smith

The Law of Giving

Aug5

Today, once again, I was considering the truth regarding The Law of Giving.  Admittedly, I can’t live without this principle as I fully love and enjoy giving.  Why?  Because I know the multiplied effects of unspeakable joy that it produces in the form of receiving.  And, tis receiving isn’t a one-way reception.  To mention, I fully love and enjoy receiving as well.  Second Corinthians 9, amongst many other holy directives, is an excellent teacher on the law of giving.  It directs us in a very methodical manner on how to give:

Verse 6:  Soweth sparingly reap also sparingly; soweth bountifully reap also bountifully

Verse 7:  Every man according as he purposeth in his heart; so LET him give; NOT grudgingly; Or of necessity; For God loveth a cheerful giver

A week ago, I reviewed the power of the Archaic suffix, and Greek tense word, ‘eth.  Here we see it again in soweth, purposeth, and loveth; this meaning continual action of sowing and continual action of purpose.  SELAH!  Now, if for any reason (doubt, fear, skepticism, etc.) you think, believe, and feel that through your giving you are losing or that you might not receive, you are losing indeed.  As it is true, according to this law, those reasons (and others like them) will not ever bring a positive increase.  You can, of the sorts, become similar to the expression of Haggai 1:6 in that your giving was put into a bag with holes.  There is no return.  You are losing and have lost your ability to receive because you didn’t properly give.

The condition of the heart is very important when giving.  This is why Paul said we are to LET every man give according as he purposeth in his heart.  That meaning, LET him do it.  We shouldn’t coerce man to give.  The scriptures calls of us to LET him do it (give) according to the intent of his heart.  I’ve witnessed many people give their time, their resources, their expertise, their financial support, etc. all so grudgingly.  Why to you supposed people give in such manner?  I offer a few reasons why:

1.)  They’ve been repeatedly forced to give.

2.)  They’ve been told if they don’t sow a seed (monetary) they will not BE blessed.

3.)  They’ve been tricked and abused.

4.)  They’ve been giving to “takers” and not other givers (who are actually receivers), expecting a return from takers and that will never happen.

5.)  They’re selfish.

6.)  They’re hurting and often feel justified by not giving, willingly or forced

Although these are legitimate reasons for one reason or another, we should always BE compelled to give by compassion and courtesy, hugs and flowers, or prayers and considerations; by paying a bill for someone, filling up their gas tank, or buying their groceries.  If you see they need shoes, buy them.  If you see they need a place to live, help them get it; or a warm hug and encouragement, give it to them.  Although non-materialistic systems of giving are the most powerful, giving from a monetary perspective is also exceptionally helpful.

In some of our teachings of times past, it’s been implied that grudgingly only means reluctantly or unwilling.  However, in 2 Corinthians 9:7 this word means lupe loo’-pay ; sadness, grievous, heaviness, sorrow.  We are directed NOT to give under these conditions.  In that same verse, we are told not to give OF necessity.  This word (necessity) broke my attention because in the days not long ago, we were told to give out of our needs (something like that).  In my mind, I would think that they were saying to me, e.g., if you need your rent paid give out of that (take from that since you don’t have it all anyways).

Then, I thought they were saying if you want to get out of a situation, a bind, a ditch, unclean tendencies and propensities, we should give (sow) our way out because sowing has a law of reciprocity that will not fail.  And again, at times I don’t think people really understand what was meant.  Necessity, means anagke an-ang-kay’; constraint; implication, distress:–distress, must needs, (of) necessity(-sary), needeth, needful.  We are guided to NOT to give under these conditions or give out of your needs.

Nevertheless, by a measure of faith, faithful people would faithfully give a portion of their allocated food money, mortgage money, car maintenance money, or insurance money, etc.  They’d double up on tithes and give 20%, and above that with their offerings.  They wouldn’t hold back sowing bountifully into the lives of others, their households, their businesses, their product, their education, their gifts and their talents.  By faith, they gave BEcause they BElieved they’d reap in the same way.

Then there is a cheerful giver.  Cheerful, as used in the scripture, is the opposite of grudgingly and of necessity.  It means hilaros hil-ar-os’; propitious or merry (“hilarious”), i.e. prompt or willing:–cheerful.   Propitious is a very powerful word for a cheerful giver.  SELAH!  Cheerful givers are lively givers they are not sad, heavy, and full of sorrow.  Thy don’t give for any other reason, to any person, organization, foundation, charity, event, project, or school, etc. other than the reason that God loveth a cheerful giver.  They know that giving, in the right manner, produces increased results of God’s favour.  And, they don’t give to be seen, noticed, applauded.  Their liveliness is not about their outward display of hyperactivity and acceptance.  Again, it is the condition (liveliness) of their heart purpose.

So then, knowing this truth and seeing how it effectively works in my life, I decree that:  I and my household will continue to cuddle with giving day-in and day-out.  We will continue to soweth bountifully and reap also bountifully.  We will continue to give according as we have purposeth in our heart.  We will BE cheerful givers, and will not give grudgingly OR of necessity.  As I have decreed, so it is.

Now, while I was sitting here making my decree, a lady walks up to me and asks if I wanted to go to the baseball game tonight because she had extra tickets.  Before I said yes, I begin to tell her about my evening last night.  It was 8:35 p.m. (16 love) and I was on my way home from picking up the lads that we (my sons and I) watch over at night.  When we got near the baseball park, I slowed downed and asked them if they had been to a baseball game yet.  Gazing at the park through the window, they said no!  I told them, “Well, we will have to make sure you get to go to one soon.  You will love it!”  Soon came in less than 24 hours later.  At 11:24 a.m. (8 new beginning) this morning, I received 6 tickets to the game.

The Law of Giving works.  We gave; we received.  We soweth bountifully; we reap bountifully.  I encourage you all to discover and grasp this nonstop free flowing action and response.  It will change everything concerning the lack in your life.  SELAH!

© 2015 Angela M. Smith