Sealed In The Spirit

Sealed With The Holy Spirit

What does it mean to be sealed with the Holy Spirit? Through God’s Mercy and Grace with the suffering, death, and Resurrection of His only Son, Jesus Christ, ALL of His Children are given the choice to fervently repent of their sins, ask for God’s Forgiveness, and request Jesus into their hearts to change them for His Good (i.e. Jesus IS patiently waiting outside their heart’s door just for this opportunity). His Helper, the Holy Spirit IS sent, they are Born Again in Spirit and Sealed with the Holy Spirit. God’s Word shares with you regarding being sealed with His Holy Spirit. “Now He who establishes us with you in Christ and has anointed us IS God, who also sealed us and given us the Spirit in our hearts as a guarantee.” (2 Corinthians 1:21) His Word also warns His Children do not grieve the Spirit. “And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away with you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.” (Ephesians 4:30-32) Does this mean that His Children no longer have troubles after this? No. “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (John 16:33)


Tribulation, suffering, and affliction belong to this world and there is no escaping them. This is a hard lesson to learn. We can, however, take heart, because God has overcome the world. Being sealed with the Holy Spirit through Him, we are Victors with Christ in us! We are blessed with God’s Joy and Peace even in the midst of this world’s worst. We have the opportunity to accept, use, or reject His Blessings. The Divine Spirit supplies us with the energy of His Determination. God urges us to build ourselves up in Holy faith and pray in the Holy Spirit. Even before we start to study God’s Inspired Word, we need to ask God to send His Holy Spirit to reveal to us what He needs us to know and understand in those exact moments. We also need to make this request to send His Holy Spirit, to help us before we pray to our Heavenly Father, to help and direct us. We should always end our prayers with “In Jesus’ Name. Thy Will be done. Amen.” We need to die daily and be Renewed and Refreshed in the Spirit daily, to grow in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit and He in you. Can the seal of the Holy Spirit be broken? Yes. By our choice of not being obedient and sliding away from God, this can definitely happen. The best part IS that God, through His Mercy and Grace, will take back His Child who fervently repents and asks for His Forgiveness.


My thoughts and prayers are that you are sealed with His Holy Spirit. That you die daily and are Renewed and Refreshed daily in the Spirit, growing in Him and He in you. That you do NOT grieve the Holy Spirit of God. That you seek God’s Face in every thought, word, and deed. That you ask Him for His Forgiveness when you don’t. That you share Him with others. In Jesus’ Name. Thy Will be done. Amen. Peace.

It’s Not Too Late…

The Old Testament is filled with stories of times when God was forced to discipline His people because of their bad behavior.  Although our Lord clearly loved them and provided for all of their needs, people often turned away from our Lord and towards evil.  Such is the story of our nation.

Our nation was once formed as a Christian nation.  We honored our Lord and we loved one another.  In God We Trust was our motto and we said it proudly.  One Nation Under God was a part of our Pledge of Allegiance, and we were proud and grateful to say it.  Now we have kicked God out of our schools, and school shootings have been the result.  We have murdered countless unborn babies, and hearts that ache endlessly has been our reward.  Some of our State Houses has actually honored those who follow Satan.

Although God has been clear in the Holy Bible that He does not favor gay marriage, we have allowed our country to embrace it as the new “normal”.  One has only to turn on the television or go to the movies to see just how far away our nation has turned from God, and the traditions and values that built this great country.

But there is good news as well.  God is still listening to our prayers.  Even now.  And there is one particular sentence in the Bible that matters so much today: 

If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”

There is still time for our nation to turn back to our Lord and the values and traditions that built this great country.  We don’t have to let our nation sink into the abyss, we can choose to follow Christ and do all that He has taught us.

Last Year Does Not Matter, This Year Does!

Everywhere you look, the news today is bad. And sadly, for Christians, it will get worse. Much worse. During a sermon I was listening to, it talked about how it doesn’t matter how much we earned last year, it matters what we earn this year. The same can be said of our relationship with our Lord.. We can’t rely on our relationship with our Lord from last year, we need to work on it every single day. As for the discouraging news, we need to take it as a reminder to walk closely with our Lord and enjoy today, the day God has given us. Be cozy at home, make a great dinner, enjoy our time with our husbands and children. And keep our eyes fixed on Jesus, and our hearts filled with the Holy Spirit. Our Father would never send us, where “His Grace would not sustain us”. So my friends, “Do not fear”. Jesus Lives, and so will we 

“The Lord is my defense; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

Psalm 94 can be a great comfort, for it assures us of two things.  The Lord will defend and protect us, and justice will prevail!

The Holy Bible:  King James Version, Pslam 94

94 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself.

Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.

Lord, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

They break in pieces thy people, O Lord, and afflict thine heritage.

They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.

Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?

10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

12 Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O Lord, and teachest him out of thy law;

13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

14 For the Lord will not cast off his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.

15 But judgment shall return unto righteousness: and all the upright in heart shall follow it.

16 Who will rise up for me against the evildoers? or who will stand up for me against the workers of iniquity?

17 Unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence.

18 When I said, My foot slippeth; thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?

21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my defence; and my God is the rock of my refuge.

23 And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity, and shall cut them off in their own wickedness; yea, the Lord our God shall cut them off.

End Times: Are they here?

Daniel: Chapter 12, Verse 1  “At that time Michael, the great prince who protects your people, will arise. There will be a time of distress such as has not happened from the beginning of nations until then. But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered. 

How Can We Live?

Ezekiel 33:9-11 New International Version (NIV)

But if you do warn the wicked person to turn from their ways and they do not do so, they will die for their sin, though you yourself will be saved.

10 “Son of man, say to the Israelites, ‘This is what you are saying: “Our offenses and sins weigh us down, and we are wasting away because of[a] them. How then can we live?”’

 11 Say to them, ‘As surely as I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but rather that they turn from their ways and live. Turn! Turn from your evil ways! Why will you die, people of Israel?’

God is as Merciful as He is Just.

When something bad or difficult is about to happen, often God tries to warn us, because He loves us and wants us to avoid the difficult times if we can.  God doesn’t want us to suffer.

In the story of Jeremiah in the Bible, it tells of such a story.  There was a King, and a people who just refused to follow God.  And so God told Jeremiah to write down all of the things that might happen if the King and his people kept rejecting our Lord.  And so, Jeremiah being obedient to the Lord, had his friend write all of these things down and bring it to the King and His people.  But instead of repenting, the King threw the list into the fire and refused to repent.  He refused to turn back to our Lord, no matter how much God loved him.

And so, sadly, all of the difficult times came to pass.  God tried to warn him, but he just wouldn’t listen and so sadly they suffered.

God is as Just as He is Merciful.  Too often we want to concentrate only on His mercy, but He is both Just and Merciful.  At some point, whether we want it to or not, justice will come…

Pray For Each Other :)

COMPASSION. It seems to be the word needed right now.  Compassion for all.  There are two sides rapidly conflicting in this virus fight.  One says the only way to protect everyone’s health is to stay at home.  The other says we need, as a country, to get back to work before the economy is destroyed.  What concerns me is the level of anger on both sides, when what we need is to have compassion for both sides!

It’s easy for me to say we should stay home.  I am working from home, my son works from home and my husband still goes to work.  We have a nice home, perhaps not huge or fancy, but very cozy.  My entire family is here and virus-free (at least for right now).  And we have enough to eat. 

But there are many families who are not nearly so fortunate.  They are suffering, out of work and worried about their house payment or rent.  They don’t have enough food to eat and they don’t have enough money to buy more food, or medical supplies.  Since that are out of work, they may not have health insurance.  Which means they may be unable to go to the doctor.

Unhealthy, or homeless and hungry.  Which is worse?  And who decides?

I don’t have the answer, but I do know that neither answer is good and we need to have compassion for one another. 

And most of all, we need to Pray for each other, because that is the only way we will get through this… In Jesus Name, Amen.

Unprecedented!

A Friend sent me this:

Seems like the word that is being used many times these days (i.e. other than “coronavirus”) is “unprecedented”. The dictionary definition of the adjective unprecedented is something that has not happened before or very rare. While it appears that this word is mostly being used associated with this current epidemic, it is interesting when God’s Word used something similar. “Now the boy Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli. And the word of the Lord was rare in those days; there was no widespread revelation.” (1 Samuel 3:1) The Scripture goes on to capture Samuel’s first prophecy, after the Lord said to Samuel that He will do something in Israel at which both ears of everyone who hears it will tingle. All Israel knew that Samuel had been established as a prophet of the Lord. First Samuel offers us a contrast between two very different national leaders: Saul, who relied on his own abilities and reason to make crucial decisions about God’s people; and David, who chose a path of humility and faith in God. As long as King David chose righteousness, God’s Blessing followed the nation of Judah. Does this sound familiar?


Similarly, as America entered the dark days of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln realized the need for the nation to turn its heart to God. After the Union Army’s defeat at the battle of Bull Run, President Lincoln called the American people to a time of repentance, prayer, and fasting, so that “the united prayer of the nation may ascend to the Throne of Grace and bring down plentiful blessings upon our country.” Truly, God’s Heart IS turned to such humility. President Lincoln received much harassment from the news media. One example was in his book “1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History”, author Charles Flood noted that The New York Herald once wrote that “his election was a rash experiment, his administration is a deplorable failure.” Does this sound familiar? Perhaps as America enters dark days again, it IS time to be “One in the Spirit, One in the Lord”! We are called to a time of repentance, prayer, and fasting, so that united we may stand with the Lord, fear Him, and receive His Blessings once again!


My thoughts and prayers are that you humble yourself before our Heavenly Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. That you chose a path of righteousness and faith in God. That you share our Lord with others to unite, trust, and depend upon The Rock on which we stand! In Jesus’ Name. Thy Will be done. Amen. Peace.