Women in The Pulpit

{From the Archives of Connie's letters, July 2012.}

Part 1 - Women in the Pulpit

OMG i guess i like to live dangerously!! The Ladies are on the grp
discussing whether it is right or not for women to preach and take
spiritual authority over men..Well to me it is like this.."Well yeah you
cud ride a cow to town to get groceries...But ya got a horse so why dont ya
just ride it ? The cow is busy with giving milk and quietly chewing her cud
and eating grass in the back 40..But still ..yes she is strong enuf to
carry our Harriett to town..The cow is as smart as a horse...well able to
do the deed.. But ladies it wud be alot easier to ride a horse????..The
Bible says a woman shud wear a covering to show she is under her husbands
authority.. i think this is one reason women have so much trouble with head
aches and nervous problems..and female problems.,,Wives and Mothers belong
at home ..They need a spiritual covering of peace,,They are not made to
bear the burdens of men..Our men are getting so stinkin lazy
spiritually..You Christian feminists feed your Baboons tons of bananas
..and they hardly have to go to work..Now ya wanna feed them spiritually
too? Why dont ya just put a big pacifier in his mouth and let him watch tv
all day while you go to work...Then he comes home from work ,,if he goes at
all..and he starts a fight with you so he can go play tv games at the
neighbors...How much more will you do for this baby before he runs out on
you? The wise woman wud see thru all of this...She wud see that she is the
weaker vessel..She will see that her place is in the home..Her gifts are
the hidden gifts ..the quiet meek spirit is her confidence..In quietness
and confidence you will find your peace..The works of righteousness is
peace and the effects of righteousness is is quietness and assurance
forever..Isaiah 32....

Part 2 - No Prayer ? No Power


There is Spirit of fear in our country right now that cud
stop a herd of buffalo on a dime..You women shud go HOME and get ready for
some Heavy interceding in the Holy Ghost..If ya dont know how to walk in
the Holy Ghost then Child of God .you better do some findin out... it isnt
money that is gonna keep you,,It isnt .your bright ideas that will save
you...There is Holy work to be done..Yes do your house work and care for
the children and submit to your husband...But we need to be spiritually
working too..We need to be spending at least an hour a day praying for our
families..We labor for gold..but no labor for the Holy Spirit..When you are
alone in the house, lay on the floor before Jesus and cry out to Him....Pray
Sister pray for your families..Except the Lord build your house they labor
in vain to build it..We dont know all of the secrets of the Holy
Spirit..But He is our counselor and our helper..our teacher..He will guide
us into all truth..We can trust in God ..He will care for us..No weapon
formed against us will prosper..its so important that you be able to depend
on God alone and His Word..If we get really upset we need to know how to
take our Bibles into the bedroom and read the Word until we feel better..I
am finally able to do this.,,Even if Jim had the tv on i cud pray in the
same room...and keep my mind on the Lord..Not always but most of the
time..i am still workin on it..But sometimes i have to pray for maybe 3 hrs
to get myself back to the Lords rest and peace..But do what you need to do
to keep yourself in the will of God..Great Christians who saw great
miracles were men and women who spent much time in prayer and fasting...No
prayer ? no Power..Much prayer..much Power..And send the nutty women who
are upsetting you back out the door..WHO CARES IF THEY DONT LIKE IT? Your
children and your husband need you at home ...to tend the home and to tend
to the business of the home..Your business at home is to sweep and vacuum
and bake and cook..Also it is to learn Wisdom and to learn how to work
Wisdom..If you get built up in God then no one can take you out..Be some
trouble for the Devil..Keep him on the run...Keep him scared of what you
will do next..{I am scared of what i might do next }soo i hope the devil is
too..

Part 3  -  Our Stability

The Bible in Isaiah 33;6 says "And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times and strength of salvation ; the fear of the Lord is His treasure.." The Book of Proverbs is a Book of Wisdom..Prov 1;20 says Wisdom crieth without ;She utters her voice in the streets..verse 21 she crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates ...Well we dont hear Wisdoms voice with our physical ears but with our spiritual ears..with our heart ears..we hear Wisdom speaking..And we hear Christian Feminism in the spirit also ..we hear it also with our heart ears ... But we also hear with our physical ears the voice of Feminism..It seems Feminism is everywhere ,,,being taught over the tv etc..Everywhere out in the world it is taught as if it was the Gospel Truth,,,The Bible calls the C.F. the strange woman..She isnt like the women of God..What are the traits ladies of the Bible based women..Can you find her traits in Proverbs? Can we discuss this in a quiet way ?  love connie

 

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Why Me Lord - Faith to Start Again

{From the archives of Connie's letters, October, 2014}

Part 1 (Start Again)

Dear Mothers, Ya know in my early days of walking by faith ...it was hard..ya know ?and a i cud never try to keep the old faith i already had....and add to it..No the Lord wud have me to start again..Ya know when Jim got more time in prison ..i got it too....It was hard to look at the fact that i had already waited 6 yrs and he still wasnt healed ..and now the judge adds another 10 yr sentence..Here i was pregnant ..sitting with Jill listening to the judge announce another 10 yrs..Jill was with me ..i bowed down as if i was to faint..and Jill says "connie ..no dont give up"..Thanks Jill...yes i wud have given up..I wud go home and cry out to God and my regular chant was..."Lord all of the real criminals never get caught" i wud try to announce to God that surely this was all so unfair.."why God why"...The heartache and pain nearly split me in half..and finally i wud pray and ask God to heal our family..God never said to me " Make something out of your old faith..No..He wud say "Connie start again.." It seems that when we are new believers we open our hearts completely to God..We ask for something and we wholly receive it..But as we go on as a believer we open up a smaller part of ourselves to Him..We some how dont trust Him ..We cry out to God.."Father it has been so long..How much longer Lord"..And folks tell us to trust in Him..We think that God has hurt us ..how can we trust in Him? How can we trust in God ... we have only seen heartache ?

Part 2  (Why Me, Lord?)

Of course Jim got a lesser sentence because of good behavior..But still it was extra time..I felt that yrs was taken off my life.. that my 20s were stolen from me...And the believers were out havin a good time...Not seemingly paying for their sins..prospering as they went..!!! And here i was praying and crying and winning souls for Christ..The Lord knew my heart..He knew i hadnt seen any blessings yet..Only heartache..He understood that..So when Jill drove me down to get Jim for the last time i was hysterical with fear that this was not going to work out..i never told Jill i was so fearful. And the Lord spoke to me..."Connie what if this is the time for your miracle to come... The Lord said "What if The Word of God is true "? What if the miracles are true and really available as I have told you? "..i think i just trusted in Him one more time.. Bells and whistles didnt go off when i told God i wud trust Him again and start over again,,,No...but God knew ..the beginning from the end..and God gave me 25 yrs of Joy with Jim ..i was only 32 when Jim got healed and i got to have 3 more children,,,Blessed are those who believe but have not seen,,,i was so blessed for not giving up ..He is a rewarder to those who trust in him......love connie

 

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The Wounded Heart and The Promised Land

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters, March, 2012.}


Part 1    To Live is Christ and to Die is Gain


Dear Mothers,,it seems so many are going thru such emotional trauma...
Rarely does God use a person who has not gone thru something..We dont learn much in the days of prosperity,,We learn to follow God in the days of darkness and despair..As we cry out to
God we pull on the hem of His garmet..He hears us as virtue goes out of
Him...The Broken Heart seems to need Him all the time..The wounded heart
crys out to God.. and He is touched by the feelings of our infirmities..We
finally see that the world has no answers for us..and we learn to turn only
unto God...No matter how many people are around us we feel alone..And the
Lord in all of this is teaching us that there is only one God..In this way
He shows us that He alone is the only one who has the power to mend our
hearts..He kept trying to talk to us but we cudnt hear Him..And now with
everything so dark about us we Hear the Lord..He calls us to His table and
tells us He will supply all of our needs according to His riches in
Glory..The lesson is from the Lord is "Follow Me and only Me"..He has come
to bind up the broken heart and to set the captive free..He is our
emotional healer..He uses our broken hearts to show us great and mighty
things ...He says "Call on Me and i will answer you and show you great and
mighty things that you not of.." As we begin to see only Him..As we gaze
upon Him and only see the world out the corner of our eyes then He has our
attention,,He pulls us into Place..He calls us to the Secret Place of the
Most High God..He begins to share His life with us..The Bible says "For me
to live is Christ and to die is gain.." Our flesh has to die so that Christ
can live in us..MaryL used to tell me,,"Connie we go through cycles or
seasons all the time,,The Lord shows us our sinful flesh and we deal with
it thru a death experience,,And then after we die to ourselves then He
raises us up to walk in a newness of life.." We died upon the cross with
Christ and then we were raised up ..The Bible says "For i am crucified with
Christ,,Never the less i live..And the life i now live i live by the
faith of the Son of God who loved me and gave His life for me..But the
death experience doesnt last forever,,It is one of the steps to the
abundant life,,The Lord calls us thru our brokeness to a banquet table
where all of our needs are met according to His riches in Glory.

Part 2   The Promised Land

Once we have lived in such heartache and confusion ? Its hard to realize
that we are going THROUGH a problem ..The heart ache is not the answer God
has given us..But it is a step to the abundant life..Oh how we wrestle with
God ..We are as little birds with broken wings..We hop on a branch and
wait for the wind to blow so that we can take flight to fly like an
eagle.We refuse to REST..or TRUST in the Lord...We cry and fight the Lord
and confess our wing is not broken but it is broken.. We think there has to
be an answer to this and yet there is not..And the little broken wing 
hurts..And in the night we cry and cry to God and show Him our
brokeness,,We wake up the next morning and all is the same,,we think,,But
it is not all the same,..We are dying to self..its the death experience
like what Jesus went thru on the Cross..We cry and pray as Christ did in
the Garden,"Lord i cant drink from this cup"...And at Our Cross we cry out
"Lord ,,Lord why have you forsaken me"?..This is our death,,If you can
understand your trials then it isnt a death experience,,If you have no
control it is the death experience..If all you have to show to God is empty
hands,,its the death experience,..And the Lord then raises us up to walk in
newness of life..Old things will pass away,,And behold all things become
new,,We now enter a land of Milk and Honey..the Promised Land.. The Giants
are Big..But we have been thru the fire and thru the flood..And we learned
in the Valleys of Depression that God is our Provider..We have been
purified with many trials and afflictions,,We are no longer afraid of
Giants..We are now afraid of not doing His will..He has shared with us His
secrets..He who dwells in the Secret Place of the Most High will abide
under the shadow of the Almighty..In the Secret Place where we came to
cry,,the Lord has healed us...And now..we mount up on wings as an EAGLE.We
run and are not weary..we walk and do not faint...

Part 3  The Promised Land

But ya know it seems the trial was so long and the way so dark.We think
the darkness will never go away,,Even tho we have been delivered and placed
into the Promised Land,,But it does go away,,The Lord will give you new
armor..and you will walk in a newness of life..God will show you all of the
Promised Land..It is the Secret Place...Psalm 90;15 Make us glad according
to the days wherein thou has afflicted us..and the years wherein we have
seen evil....Love connie

 

 

 

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Crying out for the Older Titus 2 Mother

Part 1  My Life

This morning i walked slowly out to my garden. . .my cornfield...i feel so tired inside.  i feel like an old woman now. When i was a young woman. . i cried continually for the older woman to teach me . . to help me ..i was a young stay at home mom on welfare. . My husband was gone most of the time. . i cried out to the older woman to comfort me . . i had no one. . And i finally at 50 yrs old stopped crying out to the older woman and i became her ...i became the older Titus 2 mother. . i am 67 yrs old now. . So i have been writing now to the younger stay at home mom for 27 yrs..

Part 2   Partakers of Christ

A few days ago i got an email from a missionary in some country i never heard of..i accidentally deleted it. .{Nice goin connie}...This man really encouraged me. . He said .."Connie please dont ever give up your writings". . He said "Keep writing across your nation and in my country"..It must have been from someone who gets Nancy's magazine "Above Rubies"...i feel as i write this.... a very grave feeling..Like its a time to really get right with God..Our dear America...Oh i feel such a mourning in my heart for our great Nation. . i cry out to God for courage. . For supernatural courage...i for one feel empty and lost after losing David...Johnnys family then came back for the 4th. . John made me laugh. . The grandchildren made me laugh too..But John is very sorrowful about David..we all are..We miss him now but will miss him more as time goes on. . i ask the Lord "How will i go on?".i guess i will find out hu? Jesus is real in every situation. . and he is our answer to every heartache..All is well and all is good and things are moving as they shud..The Lord is still on His throne. . and by faith it is well with my soul..love connie

 

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Vengeance is the Lords (Judging Others)

{From the Archives of Connie's Letters, June, 2014.}


Dear Wives and Mothers , Thank you for all the prayers and cards .Oh My mercy ! Ya know so often we want to lash back at people who hurt us ..But we have to wait on the Lord for Him and His judgement..Lately i had a person judge me for being seen with a known prostitute...Well when this man judged me i didnt try to stand up for myself..This was about a yr ago..But on the day of Davids memorial this man said to me.."i really misjudged you..So many have told me today that you are a wonderful person.. .They said that you have touched their lives in some way"..I am learning so much lately about how we need to let God fight our battles..and that He is the true judge..love connie

 

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Good Morning Mothers

Part 1  Good Morning Mothers

Its a bright sunny day here in Iowa today..Its a new day ..This morning i will be going to my friend Pams house to teach she and her husband to play chess..I have been up early this morning praying and writing..i think it is time to rebuild the walls at the Hultquist Homestead..Weeping lasts for the nite but JOY comes in the morning...i am thankful today to be a homemaker and mother..i know that "All of my children are taught of the Lord and great is their peace"..i spent alot of time with David in homeschool..i know that he knew the Lord..Each school day we started the day with Bible reading ....When i ask questions about what the Bible meant about what we had read he always knew the answers..At the time he was the most spiritual of all of my children..I know now that he is with Jesus in Heaven..I know he is safe with God and His angels..He will never be in another accident as he is with the Lord ..Safe in the arms of our Shepard..Safe in the arms of God..I can rejoice ..All is well..

Part 2   Sewing


When Danny was here he broke his sunglasses..He tried to fix them and couldn't.."Whats a Rock Star without his shades?...Well anyway i was thinking about the children when they were young and how we were always fixing sunglasses in the summer time.This is how i did it..i wud get out my needle and thread and sew the ear pieces back onto the glasses..You just thread the needle thru where the screw is supposed to be..and thread it thru.Do this over and over until the tread is strong enough to hold the ear pieces on.Then at the end tie a knot around it and cut off the stray threads..The children and i sewed alot..We had my Sewing Basket out where it was handy each day..Love Connie

 

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It is Well with My Soul

Part 1  He is the Truth

Good Morning Ladies,Well i guess the name of the game is to never give up..It doesnt matter who wins the most but who is still standing when the smoke has cleared away..Because it is Jesus who is to be glorified and not us.And as long as we hold our banners high we are not losers...We have glorified and magnified the Truth...Jesus is the Way the Truth and the Life..No man or woman comes to God except through Jesus and His finished work at the cross..God doesnt use perfect people to do His work..let me tell ya !!! i am an accident going some place ,,i even scare myself..And some how the Lord uses me...and He will use you too if you let Him.Ask Him to forgive your sins and to come into your heart to be the Lord of your life..


Part 2   John's Firecrackers


i feel so glad to get back to my writings..For you who dont know our dear son David died in a car accident a few weeks ago..i told my friend Jill that i didnt think i wud ever come out of this ..i will never be the same..And she said, "Well you probably never will"..i think i will learn to live with the loss ..but no i will never feel complete without David..John called from Missouri yesterday..he was so sad..as he and David were best friends..i had been laying on the couch ..i didnt ever want to get back up..But as i talked to John i felt a spark of life come back in me...The Lord spoke to my heart.."Connie how do you expect the kids to get back up if you dont"?My brother is having us all to dinner at his acerage Friday..for the 4th ."Fire Cracker Day.."i had said i cudnt go..But then i thot "yes i need to go" Johns family will be there and Davids wife and children...My children and grand children cud make me laugh in the middle of a dark  cave...even if we were lost..John especially! ...and i hear he is bringing loads of fire crackers...


Part 3   It is Well with My Soul

Ya know in times like these i think of the man who wrote the old song "It is well with my Soul"..His wife and daughters had gone on a ship for a vacation ..but he cudnt go as he was a business man and had some things he had to do..But the ship ran into trouble and all of this mans children were drowned.. Except for his wife..he had lost his whole family..He was so broken hearted and later he wrote the old Christian song that many of us have sung in church "it is well, it is well with my soul"..He had taken a ship to the area in the ocean where his 5 daughters had died..and he sang "it is well with my soul"..The Lord doesnt give us more then we can handle..i can say with this old song writer.."it is well with my soul".i think too of the missionary who was standing in line to be burned at the stake..He said to his friend "Hold up one finger when you are burning to tell me that Gods grace is sufficient" ..And the missionary held up 2 fingers to say that  Gods grace is more then sufficient ..last evening i was able to tell my children on facebook..All is well..all is good..things are moving as they shud..and my children responded ..Sleep well Mother..and i did..Yes His grace is sufficient for me. . . .Love Connie Hultquist.

 

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Revolutionary Mothers

Part 1   Daughters of a New Revolution

Dear Sisters of Liberty...Wow i got about half of this written and it escaped and ran away..i didnt think i wud have the heart to rewrite the whole thing ..but i guess i will.The first part went like this.."Are we fighters or victims of this age?" I think often of what the Christian young people will ask us in the years ahead ? Things like "Where were you when abortion was legalized..? ' or "What did you do when prayer was taken out of school?" and "Why did you put we children in public school when you knew we cud be killed any day..at any minute?" Shud we tell our children the truth? We were dumbed down to think we were out-laws if we home-schooled ?it was better to be shot then to be different?or "My church told us to be a light in the darkness for the kids who didnt know the Lord.." Well your child is waiting on you and trusting you to protect them..and God gave your children to you to make sure they grow up..Just like Mary raised Jesus in secret..You are Gods children..God has a plan for their lives ...Dont throw them in the Lions Den until they are equipped to handle it in a Godly way....David in the Bible had been trained as a shepard to fight lions and bears.God didnt set him in the open to be slaughtered without knowledge of how to fight wild animals..What hurts me so much is this..You Christian parents wudnt work in a place where it was as dangerous as a public school..You wud refuse openly..

Part 2   Revolutionary Mothers

So what am i saying..? Go out and carry signs all day when you see an injustice in the world? No you have too much to do at home..the children are waiting for you to train them ..and to protect them and watch out for them...Stay home and care for them...this is how we will change your world..By being REVOLUTIONARY Mothers..By walking out Gods Word....By being examples ...You train your children as you go about your home duties..as you eat and sleep and pray..As you teach the children to respect their Daddy you are teaching them about a higher Authority..Submit to your husbands..Study submission to your husbands...It is Gods People who are called by His name that will turn our country around,...It isnt the President...Its Gods people with Gods Hand that will turn our country around..Our job is to live for Him and to humble ourselves and pray....Then He will heal our land...He will heal our land through our prayers of humility,,,

Part 3   Mothers of Courage and Hope

"HOT Fire" i do most of what i do half scared to death..As a widow at times i wonder "How on earth will i ever make it from one day to the next.."?A few days ago my brakes went out in the car right when i had stopped at an inter section..i nearly hit a car..i say "nearly"..God always rescues me..!! We must always trust in the Lord..especially in the tight spots.. God is with us... we can have confidence in Him..We can draw from His strength..It is normal to be afraid..we live in troubled times..Trouble seems to be all around us...most of the time....But the scriptures in Psalms says "I had fainted lest i had believed to see the goodness of the Lord HERE in the land of the living"..We have HOPE in Him..He is our great and high King of Kings and Lord of Lords..When our problems are too high and over our heads we can trust in God who died for every problem we have..He has an answer...the solution is in Him..When i am afraid i trust in the Lord... 

Part 4   The Wailing Wall

i dont watch the world news much anymore..if i do i begin to cry..But i guess thats good too..The Bible tells us to TEACH OUR DAUGHTERS TO WAIL..The Jewish people use the wailing wall to pray..and to cry out to God...In this age the Lord says to mark the ones who do not cry and sigh..In other words if you arent crying something is wrong ..If we can just watch the NEWS and walk away with no feelings about it...then we are in trouble...Wailing means to cry out to God in sorrow for the many in the world who need to know God...Let us pray for those who need to be set free and for those who are broken hearted..He has come to bind up the broken heart and to set the captive free..love connie

Come out From Among Them (We Need Strong Marriages)

Part 1 (Come out from Among Them)

Dear Wives and Mothers, The Lord has been laying things on my heart lately..Its simple things..things you all probably know...the Lord is calling us out from among them..He is calling the broken hearted who have been living in suffering for years..He is calling you from your Wilderness and into His LIGHT..He calls you out alone..He is speaking to you alone..As i have said many times on here.."The virtuous women in Christiandom dont run in flocks..The true women of God always stand alone."Who can find a virtuous woman for her price is far above RUBIES" Yes maybe she goes to church...But she draws her strength from God alone..When Mary the Mother of Jesus got the message from the angel she didnt ask the deacons if they thot this was really God speaking..Mary knew it was the time for Jesus to come and that He wud come through a Virgin..Mary was a Mother of prayer and she was a visionary..she was expecting to hear news about Jesus..When the angel said that Mary was pregnant with the son of God ..she believed him..It sounded right to her..And Mary hid away and went to see her cousin Elisabeth..This world is so full of sin.The Lord can do miracles...but not in an atmosphere of sin and unbelief...And yes we love our Christian friends..But our spiritual strength comes only from the Lord..

Part 2  (Spiritual Wilderness)

Many of you wives and mothers live in the Spiritual Wilderness that i write about. You get a message from the Lord asking you to do something that you dont see anyone else doing at church..!!! But the Lord is asking you to come out from among them..and walk by faith and not by sight..You may be the only one in the world who wud listen and understand what God is saying to you..If you dont listen and do His will..who will..?? When i was 23 yrs old and deserted by my husband..the Lord told me to believe God for a miracle...The church i was going to said to me.."Connie take off your rose colored glasses and look at reality..Jim will never change..Dont you understand Connie..."Jim will never change..Well i heard from the Lord..sorry folks..I told my friends this...i said that the Lord had spoken to me...i know it was God who spoke to me..i said it was as if i heard it on the radio..it was plain to me..But it wasnt plain to anyone else..Then i met an older woman in the neighborhood..Her name was Clara..She was in her 50s and she had a husband who was also wayward..She said to me.."Connie you just keep doin what you are doin..and Jim will see he has a good woman..and he will come home some day and he will never leave again..And Clara and i were good friends for life...She died a few months ago..in her 90s...i miss her now..But yes she went to church..and loved it but she had a place in God that was just between her and the Lord..She hid away unto Him..And her husband came to the Lord thru her prayers....She was a witness for Christ all of her life..when she died her family saw that in her papers she had copied the whole Bible ..She wrote it all out in her own hand writing..This was how she studied it.

Part 3 (It only takes a Spark to get a Fire Going)

Oh where wud we be had God not called Abraham out ALONE..? or Sarah our Mother of Faith...? These saints were followers of Christ alone...They were visionaries who saw with the EYES of their understanding..We have spiritual eyes and physical eyes..When we see the angels and we feel the supernatural then we feel it thru our spirits...We at times as we pray we hear into the Heavenlies ..it sounds like singing and praying..and music of all kinds..Sometimes in my sleep i hear Heaven,,its so close ....it touches me...i often feel the presence of the cloud of witnesses..i hear them cheering me on..Clapping and singing ...".Its not that far Connie you can make it..Yur doin good..Just a few hrs left to go"!!! But i just wanted to tell you ladies this..That the Lord will be calling you...and when He does He will call you out alone into a place where He is Lord and King of ALL..And thats where the MIRACLES are..i just wanted to let you know..this is where the miracles are...I hear from so many of you who have read my testimony in Above Rubies.. You say to me that i have helped you,,,,,,Or that my testimony meant so much to you....Well arnt you glad i didnt listen to the trash in the street but i listened to the true voice of the living Christ..? You cud be that someone who will walk alone on that path of faith to save someone elses family..

Part 4  (Where are The Helpers?)

i see you girls with the eyes of my Understanding...i see you as helpers to our men in this age..Tv acts like if a man makes a mistake he is as good as dead.......But God sent them helpers..where is she ? She has everything she needs to speak to her husband about Jesus...But the world tells her she dont need that husband of hers,,she needs a new one.It doesnt matter what the Bible says about the almighty Maker hating divorce.Nope her husband was worse then anyone elses..So sad that the wives dont realise that God almighty had a great plan for her family..You will never find a man who will love you as a man who you have forgivin,,,,i have always heard that an animal that you rescue is different then one who you get when they are a puppy..or kitten."Chance" my cat was like that..we rescued him..And he was so different..then any other animals we had....He who has been forgiven much loves much..Oh yes i will forever have to listen to the sad stories about " i did it all right but my husband didnt change"..well if he is a child molester or whatever then even i wud probably divorce him too..But the truth is most of these men are not molesters...They are men who simply made a few too many mistakes..and rubbed all the wives relatives wrong....

Part 5  (So this is What sticks in My Craw)

These men that women are tossing out are our soldiers of tomorrow..The white straight guy is the one with the least rights..The married white guy with kids is really black balled...And these men on tv are the biggest idiot babies i ever did see...i mean they are bad enuf without being rejected by the opposite sex..Talk about castrating our men? ..But the Bible says we are to honor our husbands and reverence and praise them..Why because they are dying without us..They need us..They need us more then anyone else..And these men are Americans.. How can these men be treated like this..? With no thot most of the time to the wife and how she is making a girl out of him..Its the yr of the woman let me tell you..And she gets all the help and then brags about it and holds it over her husbands head..Lord help us and please forgive our country..And please let the good men arise..and take their place as heads of households...i cant hack Dr Phil and all that philosophy...

Part 6  (Marriage made for Heaven)

Ya know if all the wives who caught their husbands in adultery divorced them in our country ...then almost no one wud be married...God is calling some strong women front and center..Not the every day woman but some women who are real Ass Kickers..I mean these women are gonna hang on for dear life and not let go..It becomes no longer the worldly love that keeps them hangin on ..No..it becomes "Women with Gods own Heart"..Women out of the Spiritual Wilderness...You have been hangin on dear Heart..But your hanging onto your husband and not onto God...To be called to this place in God is such an honor..and its where you and your husband will both be set free...its a place of wilderness and fruitlessness...a Desert place...Its the Place you seek Gods heart ..Its a place to commit yourself to the truth of His Word...Its where the Word of God is exalted more then the Romantic Love ..In this desert place of your heart the Rose of Sharon will bloom..The pure white Rose with the crimson stain..A Place of suffering to let go of your dreams for the perfect family and marriage..You arise out of a place of poverty and into the supernatural where you are the queen dressed in gowns of Rubies and Gold.The Wisdom of God is your crown and Glory..and your dear husband will come to reign with you as King and Lord over you in this kingdom especially built for you and your family...love connie

 

 

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Holy Housewifery

Dear Sisters , Ya know we learn obedience to the Lord thru the things that we suffer..As we submit to our husbands - as we humble ourselves...Preachers arent teaching this in the church..its so sad..The big message of the day is "Woman you are loosed".. Loosed from what ? Loosed from what the Bible says about your place as keeper at home..The loosed woman is the one who CAN trust in the Lord and His Word.Some of these preachers from the pulpit seem to be trying to give the Christian wife and Mother an attitude ..A smarty pants personality...What are they doing to our country? Its like these preachers are either ignorant ..or they have an agenda to chase the home makers out to get a job..A two income family can sure give alot more money than a family with a stay at home mother..i mean i am not telling you all any more than what you know already..the problem is that we as Mothers dont want to stand alone..The social gospel will give us happiness for a while..But of all the times to be spiritually lazy ? i mean thats dangerous in this age..Truth ..Gird your loins with Truth ..its part of the whole armor of God,,Eph 6...Also 2 Tmothy 2;3 and 4 ..Thou therefore ENDURE hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Also `the 4th verse No Man {or woman}entangles himself or her self with the affairs of this life..that she may please Him who hath chosen her to be a soldier..love connie

 

 

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Come Back to the Old Ways

Dear Mothers,

a few days ago i went to the grocery store...i was tired and felt discouraged..i felt nervous and tight  - as a wad of tired, old, hard gum - that had lost its flavor.."Ya cant chew it, and you may as well spit it out.." As i walked along with my cart the Lord spoke to my heart.He said "Connie come back to the old ways." i thot of "Crowned with Silver"...Oh how we loved this magazine,...It was so old fashioned..And they wrote an article about Coming back to the ancients.i have been reading my concordance this morning about the Ancients ...They were the old men of wisdom.."Coming back to Wisdom? " That sounded good to me...Job 12;12 with the ancient is Wisdom ..and in length of days..understanding....As the Lord spoke to my heart i felt like a Spirit being covered with a shadow of holiness and protection..i felt like a boundary line was around me,,,a border of protection,,The Word speaks of the border of the widow..A heavy veil seemed to be
dropped upon me....The hard tightness left my being ...in my body i felt normal again,,,i felt free again,,..Oh the world trips us,,and strangles the Word right out of us sometimes..we fight or we run from it...But we can only run a while or escape it for a while....Some how this morning i know that God is the only one who can rescue us..We are as dead ducks any other way...He died for us...not because we deserved Him dying for us..He just saw how much we needed him..He has given us free GRACE and MERCY......We cant get this GRACE and Mercy for free..or on our own,,But He gives it to us..i think every now and again he sees me..so lost ..so utterly forsaken of the world...And His compassion gathers me up and He shadows me with His wings,...He is acquainted with grief...He is acquainted with your grief....it touches His heart..Let Him shadow you with His love and Grace and Mercy....and receive His veil of comfort and peace,,,He loves you  ,,,receive  Him now as Savior from Hell..and forgiver of our sins,,,love connie

 

 

* Order Connie's book, "Dear Kitchen Saints," available on Amazon. It is autobiographical and tells the beautiful story of her marriage testimony!*