DUST ON THE BIBLE

Today was a very eventful day for me.

For you see today I once more stared DEATH in the face--- and won , once again.

We are in a situation with fema trying to get another mobile on our proprty for the one they gave us was defective and they intend to take it away.....

After the hurricanes we had ALOT of downed trees, and tree limbs......we counted 38 trees on the ground.....(we have 5 acres) and several just "gone" roots and all........

Noone has come to help us. Hubby broke his spine, hip and knee right after hurricane Charlie, so he hasnt been able to do anything, and I couldnt exactly lift big Oak trees, or their limbs......so they laid where they were.......and had grass grow 6 feet high over them.....making it impossible to clear or cut the grass........

So since they have been on the ground for a year now, they have rotted and dont weigh as much......I was trying to pray for the strength of Samson , and actually was dragging some of them off , to clear a path for the riding mower to get some ground clear........hopefully so fema would put another mobile there.......

When I tried to cut the weeds out around my flowers however......the wasps didnt care much for that.......

I was absolutely amazed to find one of my beloved rose bushes was actually still thriving in the midst of all that underbrush !!! God showed me HE had answered every prayer........even protecting my favorite rose bush !

I couldnt even see it for the weeds and underbrush that had grown around it--but HE knew it was there all along........

HE told me that was like alot of "Christians"

When "we" look.......all we SEE is the WEEDS and underbrush covering them, hiding their true virtue.....but HE sees it beyond the weeds, trying to choke them out........and sees their true spirit.......that they ARE a flower.......and not a weed.

Anyways after cutting the weeds out around my rose bush I went lovingly to do the same for the ONE gardenia bush my daughter had bought me before she moved away so I would always KNOW she loved me and thought of me (she said) Although she gave me over 40 gardenia plants.......only ONE has survived. I have prayed over it, and pampered it , but the hurricane had done its job on it also......or so I thought.......

When I got cut down enough to see it, I realized probaly 50 or more small little gardenia sprouts had come out of that one plant and spread out.......choking out the weeds all around it--and was THRIVING inspite of the hurricane.....or maybe on account of it......

I was elated !

And God spoke to me......how in the natural it looked as if my children were dying spiritually cause of lifes circumstances and the weeds of life choking them out......but the storms were actually drawing them to Him, and would cause them to grow and multiply around them, and they would take off like wild flowers, and spread like wild fire.......GLORY !!!

I began to weed those gardenias, with a song in my heart and my feet doing a two step....heat and all......and suddenly I was surrounded by wasps !

everywhere........

I began to rebuke those things and tell them "I" had authority over them and in Jesus name for them to leave.........

Normally, that works for me......

But in my spirit I had felt led to move back.......and didnt.......and just about the time I started to :
OUCH !!!!!

I got stung.......and stung........and stung again.

Me, like a dummy , first thing out of my mouth :

"God why did you let that thing sting me ?"

Then I high tailed it to the house as quick as I could go, praying all the way :

NO deadly thing SHALL harm me......NO deadly thing.........

About 20 feet into my run, I fell to the ground, unable to breathe.......

You see , I am HIGHLY allergic to wasps !!
Almost died twice before on account of them.

As I stumbled and fell, I fell back on what ALWAYS works for me.......

"God be merciful to me, and help me.......get to the house.......dont let me die. "

And somehow I got to the house, and woke up my son Andrew (my one remaining gardenia--child)

And he hurried to get me to the hospital. It took a whole 15-20 minutes.

By the time we got there , I was having extreme difficulty breathing, and my heart was racing.

They ushered me right in......without asking any information.......straight to intensive care unit.

Within seconds I had the Doctor and three nurses working on me. AS SOON as I hit that hospital cot, I began to go unconcious.

The Doctor urged me to "stay with him, or he would loose me" as they franctically worked to get medication into me to counter the wasp sting.

They stayed with me and did ALOT of stuff for the next few hours, and later told me they "almost" didnt get me back , this time.......

My heart rate when I went in they said was around 210 , when it should of been 87, and my blood pressure went to 210 over 90.

I dont exactly know what that means, except the Dr and nurses were very upset over it.

I know in the car, I prayed to live to get to the hospital.

Didnt want Andrew to experience my dying on him, in the car...........

At the hospital I prayed to make it till my hubby got there from 50 miles away at work....... (we called him on the way to the hospital)

Finally, I just got concious enough with the medication , to pray to just not die, yet.......

I KNOW how close I came today to dying........

And in it all, there NEVER was a hesitation to die, and face Judgement , except for leaving my loved ones.and not finishing my course.........NOT ONCE.

IT was a great feeling to KNOW, once is ready, to meet God, if that is your time.

However, later in the evening when I called my Mother, to tell her.......she began to tell me how she probaly wouldnt be here (alive) next winter.......

So being bold, after facing death for real this afternoon........I told her from my heart :

Mom, if you think that in any way shape or form........you HAD BETTER make things right between you and God, before it is too late...........

She responded by telling me very huffy to "not preach at her again, she didnt want to hear it"

I told her:

"Mom , I love you and I will NOT have you stand before God and tell him "I" didnt warn you if you dont get things right between you and God, that you WILL go to hell for ETERNITY and once there you can NOT say , God it was a mistake, let me change my mind.....once you are dead, it is too late, and it is forever, in eternity unlost and in torment.........and I would rather have you mad at me than think you went to hell, and something I may have said, and didnt might have changed that........

Sadly, she still would not make a committment but that she "wanted to someday"

But NONE of us know when we may have some silly thing like a wasp bite take us out in a heartbeat..........

We need to make our election and calling SURE.......

KNOW where YOU will spend eternity for sure, if some freak accident may occur to YOU today.......tonight...........

Dont precrastinate like my poor Mother.....

This next second could be your very last..........

No one KNOWS the day or the hour that they may breathe thier last breathe........and face the Judgement.......

Will YOUR name be written in the Lambs book of life.....?

Make sure.

Make sure everything is right between you and God, this very second..........

Pray with me :

"Father , I know I am a sinner,and I ask you to forgive me and I ask Jesus to wash my sins clean as newly fallen snow, and to write my name in the Lambs book of life. Dont let me be lost , dont let me be decieved, Help me Lord , to KNOW beyond any shadow of a doubt that I am saved, sanctified, and delivered in the mighty name of Jesus. amen."

or whatever the spirit of God would lead YOU to pray and ask God for...........

But do it NOW..........a few seconds may be too late.

Praise God , Hallejuhia,

I am so happy to be alive, and healthy !!!!!!!!!

They took a battery of tests once the meds were in me and only one thing came back negative.....my blood sugars still need to go down some, but EVERYTHING was normal...........even my liver profile !!!!!!!! HALLEJUHIA !!!!

GOD IS GOOD to me.......HALLEJUHIA, Praise His holy name !!!!!!

The Doctor offered to admit me........or to let me go home if I felt I could.........so home I went.......

( I did decline to jump back on the riding mower till tomorrow though........AFTER someone else kills the wasps........we are to be wise as serpents.......I think it is definately WISE to have someone spray for the wasps, first.....amen !)

PRAISE GOD........

HE is awesome and worthy of our Praises !!!!!!!!!

Thank you Jesus, for the rose and the gardenias, also..........that is also a miracle........for them to survive a whole year of being overgrown by 6 foot tall weeds........and no tending,......well......no "human tending, that is........"

In Jesus name,

Jackie

copywritten Aug2, 2005
Light of the World Ministrys
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