Charlotte, The Southern Queen

Prayer journal entry regarding a dream of a riot in Charlotte North Carolina, and a fatal water crises in Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Revelation 3:16-20 (New International Version) So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, ‘I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.’ But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see. … be earnest, and repent. Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with him, and he with me.

    Isaiah 55:1 “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without moneyand without cost.Revelation 3:4 ‘But you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their garments; and they will walk with Me in white, for they are worthy. 

The scene changed and we were now in a restaurant around the corner. As we were getting seated we were sat down at two tables and were separated into two companies, I remained standing because the table was way to small (waitress, was not concerned for what this meant for others) my husband offered his seat to a young lady who didn’t want to sit either, until all was accommodated. A woman who was very critical of us for not sitting down at the table, who pushed herself in before the others, began to slander us at our table, when she got up to leave her high heal shoes became entangled in a garment, you could call it a mantle, lying on the floor, and she fell, she did this twice. Once coming in and once going out. I see a common theme that speaks to us about our garments, our mantles, and keeping our garments spotless. Those who clothe themselves with their own ornate and high end coverings will find themselves naked, with out, and their garments spoiled.

Matthew 10:34 “Do not think that I came to bring peace on the earth; I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.

  1 Peter 5:5 came to me … God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

 Church and City politics tangling with the mantle of prophetic warning. Wrecking its political self coming in and going out. Those sitting in offices of authority should be standing out until all are accommodated, rather than pushing themselves in, caring nothing for others. While the tables of opportunity are over loaded leaving no room for individual development. 

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    Isaiah 55:1 “Ho! Every one who thirsts, come to the waters; And you who have no money come, buy and eat. Come, buy wine and milk Without moneyand without cost.

These two crisis seemed to occur around the same time frame with each other. We did contact some churches and sent an e-mail off to the city water works and emergency preparedness advocates, along with a couple churches. Since then we have noticed a ministry incorporated a water outreach where water is given to people in financially strapped areas who are most likely not going to be able to respond as well to a crisis. So we hope the answer to prayer has already begun to reverse such a thing. Church- pray for the cities you dwell in that you might dwell there in and Prosper …

Nature of the Sand

10/29/2012

Psalm 62: 1-2 My soul finds rest in God alone; my salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will never be shaken, in Him.

The Nature of The Sand.

Hurricane Sandy

Yesterday, the Lord impressed me to look up the etymology of the name Sandy.  Besides being a common name derived from Alexander, the next description caught my attention, and it was simply this: SANDY as “SPEAKING OF THE NATURE OF SAND”. My thoughts went to the scripture in Matthew where Jesus is reminding his listeners of the importance to live their lives based on the principles of God’s word. Matt 7:24-27 ( the Message)

image“These words I speak to you are not incidental additions to your life, homeowner improvements to your standard of living. They are foundational words, words to build a life on. If you work these words into your life, you are like a smart carpenter who built his house on solid rock. Rain poured down, the river flooded, a tornado hit—but nothing moved that house. It was fixed to the rock.

“But if you just use my words in Bible studies and don’t work them into your life, you are like a [an unwise]  carpenter who built his house on the sandy beach. When a storm rolled in and the waves came up, it collapsed like a house of cards.”

This is the nature of building on the sand, on a temporal, shifting foundation that never lasts; but, rather, will let you down when storms come. As the world erodes around us, the solid Rock is our only stability. Not a man, not a president, not riches, or fame. God is our only source of stability that endures all storms, and is a light that shows us our way through the night.

It seems as though this storm is another reminder of the fragility of our lives as it interrupts our plans, and puts a nation on alert, as if Sandy herself is telling us to be wary on what we build our lives upon, surly the outer banks of the east coast know how quickly the sea can claim property built on the sand.

Our prayers are with friends and family that is in the path of this storm, and we have a few out there, being we are not that far from the Atlantic ocean ourselves.

Psalm 18:2  The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.