Prophetic Word: Expect Changes, Changes, Changes!

In 2013, my 48-year-old husband had a stroke that left him mentally handicapped and paralyzed, even though they say based on every test, this never should have happened. It was our 21st anniversary, and we were leaving town in a few hours to take our first-in-forever anniversary weekend. I had been a wife and mom for 22 years, doing what I felt God had called me to do with my life. There was no “plan B.”

While my husband lay possibly dying in the ICU, I had to move my kids and me out of our home and into a hotel, because he had been on his way that morning to complete our enrollment in a mortgage rescue program. Things had been hard for years, and we were finally starting to climb out. It was 6 days before his health insurance at work was to be available. The hospital bill was nearly $300,000. For the second time in life, we lost everything. (The first time was in 1998, due to a couple of really awful people my husband worked for. We had finally begun to see the light at the end of the tunnel regarding climbing out of the pit that created. Then this happened!)

It is now January of 2015. Every medical bill has been paid to date. The home is no longer ours, but we don’t owe a thing because of it. My husband can write music again, play the piano with both hands and communicate about 90% of normal (they expected him to die). He will make a full recovery, so they tell me. He is still crippled with left over aphasia, but he is himself cognitively, and continues to get better week by week. We have a lot of fallout to figure out, but God has provided for our needs. It was rough on the kids, and there are still some things we’re juggling through, but battle by battle, He is leading us through this.

God has provided a way for me to be free to work on his recovery with him, even though we had no savings, no insurance, a decrepit car … and no income whatsoever. My husband has had incredible therapists and care.

God gave each of our kids a place to call home. He paid every bill. We have not missed one meal, He allowed us to find a great new car that is totally paid off … when my husband worked 80-hour weeks, we couldn’t make ends meet. When he was lying mostly dead, everything worked seamlessly. Again, go figure.

And even if He hadn’t worked things out to this extent and they were even harder than they are now, He’s still God. He does not change. His primary goal is to form Christ in us.

God does not change based on you circumstances. What may feel to us to be like bondage and abandonment could be keeping us in a place of protection from where we’d choose to be otherwise.

Be still and quiet before Him. Maintain a life of repentance, holiness and seek His kingdom first. He will take care of you. Believe He hears you. Wait on HIm. Allow Him time and room to show you what He wants you to do. He has not abandoned you. No matter how low we are knocked down, there is always something we can give to God. It’s almost always about what God can do for us, but what can we do for Him? The time it counts for God is when our bull is soaked, the trench is full of water and Jezebel is gunning for us. It is easy to trust God when there’s no reason not to.

He often empties our hands of earthly things to allow us to focus on eternal things that can never be taken away. You do not need to treat the Bible like a spell book, chanting phrases and lines. You don’t have to “conjure God,” nor does another human have to tell you what to pray. So many things that have started to be taught as “truth” are just witchcraft with godly-sounding labels on them. Keep it simple. Pour out your heart, and keep it real. God wants a relationship with us that is unaffected by our circumstances. (Who wants a friend who only wants us for what we can give them? God promises to be faithful. Will we still serve and follow him when everything falls apart?) Just talk to Him. Pour your heart out to Him, and take one moment at a time.

He loves you, He has a plan for your life. Cling to Him, and He WILL carry you through this. It is lonely, it is hard and painful, but you will make it through this storm. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever quit.

My prayers are with you, believing God, you too. you will be praying for me and the ministry here

The Christian Jamaican woman named Bailey who locked me out of my house and told the court that I abandoned it, stole my clothes and gave my pictures and some of my furniture to her daughter.

She said it was all beautiful and I would not be coming back for it. She prayed to God who told her – do not let Kate have her things, give away her business suits, leather shoes and purses and briefcases, and I will give you good “karma” on your life. I don’t know who her God is.

She even stole my brand new lingerie with tags still on, and all my white towels & bed linens.
I had bought Christmas presents for my spouse and had them in gift pkgs. A beautiful royal blue housecoat & a white terry robe. Special expensive men’s support hose for his accident injured legs, and beautiful hand chosen silk ties and white business shirts and lots of sports shirts and sweaters, because he lost so much weight.
She “opened” all the pkgs & stole all but 2 white shirts and a black & navy plain tie.

I feel like she raped me. Assaulted me!!! Holy Spirit convict her. Make her bring back the gifts I personally chose for Christmas, after his black ice car crash and then they found cancer – chemo & radiation.Brings me to tears. I forgive her but I want back my things that have nothing to do with the mortgage issue. AMEN

Dear Michele,

I read your reply and would like to encourage you. You are not alone in a life of faith. We have been living by faith in God for about 15 years or longer. Living by faith isn’t having worldly security. It is knowing that each day, He will take care of whatever you need. It is a decision to believe Him for that provision or to have doubt as to whether He will provide or not. In His Word, He says, “Don’t worry about what you will eat, drink, wear, etc.” He also says to only think about today. Today is a gift. You can look at it two ways, to be discouraged because it isn’t going the way you think it should, or to look forward to what surprises He has in store for you. It’s all attitude.

I have learned that if we have a bad attitude or are disappointed about something, we emit bad signals that get picked up in the spirit by the devil and he comes and just adds bad stuff to them. Jesus said to think on good things and to rejoice in all situations, not for the bad situation, but that He is greater and will take you out of it. When we are praising Him and thinking good thoughts, we emit beautiful colors and signals that bring the ministering angels of God to help us. Again, it is a decision we need to make.

At the end of your comment above, I saw so much doubt and unbelief in God because you perceived He disappointed you. You should be asking Him what He wants for you, not to bless what you want. At least you have had unemployment checks. Are you thankful for them? I should also ask the question, do you tithe on your income? That is your insurance policy. If you want to prosper, you give your way out of debt. Ask the Lord how much and where to give. He will give you seed to sow, but when He gives it, don’t spend it on something else.

God took us to a foreign country over 10 years ago with no income and no savings, no unemployment, zip. On top of that, we knew hardly anyone and He wouldn’t let us work for money for 3 years. You may think that would be an impossible situation. In the natural, it should have been. But, we were obedient each day and trusted Him completely. Do you know, during that time, we lacked nothing? Our life was supernatural and it still is. Our income is still below our rent and probably poverty level in the natural, but all of our needs get met every month. We still lack nothing. It amazes our friends and family. But during this time, we have always been happy and not worried about how we will make it. He is faithful, even when we are not. I asked Him one time why He wouldn’t let us work for money. His reply was that He was teaching us to trust Him more. As we move closer to the tribulation time, it will be imperative for us to trust Him if we are going to make it. He is our only hope, actually, even now, every day. The good news about not having much is you don’t really experience the financial crashes around you because you live in the Kingdom economy and not worldly economy. But we still have money to give and we always tithe what we receive.

I hope this has encouraged you. I will be praying for you to make a turn around in your decisions each day to be happy, no matter what the situation looks like. Believe me, He will turn around what was meant for evil to His glory, if we are obedient to what He says to do in His Word. Be blessed.

Doug, two weeks ago God pressed on me “15”… Then you posting the 15 months from Nov ’13 to Feb ’15…Wow! There’s so much here my friend I only chose to discuss the 15! Also, I really hate missing you in Akron, but we had our annual ” Heaven on Earth, week long conference #Quantum2014! I knw God touched many, bcuz many was touched in Toledo! Doug, my gift has been growing more and more; prophecy, word of knowledge, miracles, healing, and clear dreams (strong moving of the Holy Spirit). Plz keep me in your prayers.

Blessings
Carter

Confirmation!!!! This entire time I’ve been looking back at these last seven years of my life and asking God to please repay me for the years the locusts have eaten. I receive this word in His mighty name. If God is for us then who can ever be against us? Brothers and sisters hold on to His every promise, for he is faithful to carry them out for us. Michelle, don’t give up, you are on your way. Thank you, Doug, for sharing His word.

Thanks so much. You really give me a hope!
Recently I lost little bit, however, I try to go deep into God again now. Thank you so much!

Hi Michelle, I can understand your thoughts. I have been there some years ago. I lived in the book of Psalms. So full of God’s promises and blessings. It took years until live turned around but it did. Don’t give up but place all of your circumstances into his hands. Praise him for the answers yet to come into your live. Will to praise him despit of your circumstances. Meditate on PS. 112, 91 and 37:4 .once in God’s hands always in his hand. May God’s blessings be richly upon you. Blessings, Maria

Thank you, spot on!!!!

Praying for you Michele ..

Precious Michele! Thank you for sharing your struggle. I hear the fight is still alive in you, or you would not have reached out in your pain. May I speak to who you are? You are Michele, and your life has been one of looking up at God, asking, seeking, calling out to Him and pondering on what He is like, what does He think and feel about me, and this situation? Your life has been full of many questions because your name is a question! But like most of us, we look at our circumstances and not to “The With – us God” Emmanuel, and so we ask the questions, with perhaps the wrong focus. He is with you and sometimes when eagles go through hard times we need other eagles to bring fresh meat to strengthen us as we molt (change in appearance) knock the crust off our beaks, so we can recover and hunt for ourselves. This is true because God is faithful and full of evidence of the things hoped for and the substance of things not yet seen. I was one month from being homeless with a large family and was SO full of despair! It took time and patience was so necessary, as I began to affirm to God what He is like to me for me and in me and appreciate His names. I need to see you as Provider TODAY Abba! He had to ignite the fight back into my heart by digging deep into His heart in prayer, through His word, and through His people, prophetic ministry. When I began to decree and declare who God was, wait on Him, and hold fast to the truth I knew of Him through experience, past present and a hope filled future, He changed me from a man bitter from missing His graciousness each day and healing the bitter waters of my heart to sweetness. Oh how you miss Him! Your heart aches for Him to show Himself mighty and it is a small token of how His Great Holy Heart…misses you. You are so loved and so well cared for, and I pray you see the breakthrough now in Jesus. Blessings to you!

Thank you! This word spoke volumes to me … talk about clear vision! I won’t elaborate on the events of 2001 2008 dreams music but it is as though you’ve been watching my life unfold. A dream this week…a car I was driving rolled backwards down a cliff, flipped over upside down and I easily climbed out back up the ravine to watch a pine tree go into the road…a truck blasted over it as though it wasn’t there and out bounced a musical stringed instrument into my hands I have never seen or played…the music that came from this instrument was beautiful and the surface of the instrument well cared for. The change of course…this too….I am currently teaching as an adjunct…no space for all this word has shown me… I look forward to greater insight in the coming days. Thank you for the gift of this message.

Michele, I pray for you that you would not give up hope. God, put your arms around my sister in Christ and let her know that You see her situation and she is never forsaken. Although some days the fight does seem beyond brutal, please may she know the truth (even if she can’t feel it) that Your mercies are new every morning. God I cry out to you to make a way for Michele where there seems to be none. Put encouragers in her path. Provide for her every need. Miraculous provision, Lord. Help her to shed despair and hopelessness and fill her with the joy, hope and peace that only you can give. God bless you, Michele. Take heart, He is for you.

Doug, thank you for the powerful encouragement. God bless you your family and your ministry.