Encouragement for Today (8/22/24)

Greetings sister saints of the most High!

Psalm 7:17 
I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.

I'm hoping you are all striving on in His ways and truth.  To do that you must repent and be born again, obey and endure... see the biblical gospel HERE.) 

The other day we were standing outside of a worldly church, see that post HERE, and a woman walked up to talk.  Like most churchianity people, she had a false, incomplete gospel that would not lead anyone to eternal life and I told her that, then helped her with the truth.  You can listen to the audio HERE if you want. It didn't last long because I then went through some sins they (and she) practice and she wasn't hearing and began defending sin so I told her to email me.  We do our best to not allow people, who defend sin, to argue on the street with us because if they are serious about truth, they can email.  99% of the time, we never get an email (and when we do most often they are simply continuing their mocking) so we've stood for the glory of God and redeemed the time.

I've been keeping busy doing all sorts of things that the Lord has in front of us from all my godly woman duties to witnessing to quite a few women lately, all to His glory! 

Saw that at a thrift store and wanted to tell you that we've been seeing a lot of professing Christians wearing that saying on their shirts, and saying that we shouldn't fear God. 

Ecclesiastes 12:13 
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

Philippians 2:12 
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

That's proof that they aren't of the Spirit of God because how can they look at those verse (and others) and not see the fear of God?  Maybe because it's like one woman tried to tell me that 'fear' of God is simply having 'awe' and 'reverence'. 

James 2:19 
Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.

She couldn't give an answer to James 2:19.  Seems like a lot of unity going more and more lately, of course, as we go closer to the end times.  It used to be there was a bit of a division between denominations and it was recognized, although people still were hanging out with each other, regardless of what they believed but today, everyone makes excuses for the other false doctrines, basically so they can excuse their own.  Faith over Fear....faith in what?  Not the truth.

How about being biblical and being the best version of this...

​2 Corinthians 5:17
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Psalm 25:4-5 
Shew me thy ways, O Lord ; teach me thy paths. Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

He has shown us His way and given us teachings in them, through the Word...but you must be spiritually discerning to understand and walk in them.  American churchianity doesn't do that, but we can show them the way and help them see what they lack as we live godly obedient lives!

Some refreshing beauty we see through our days.  

Saints of God learn how to look past or through the world's ways, not allowing it to stumble, impede, hinder or slow us down, instead, we focus on things above and giving God glory in all things.  

John 3:31 
He that cometh from above is above all: he that is of the earth is earthly, and speaketh of the earth: he that cometh from heaven is above all.

He's above ALL!  We can rest in that and He can help us overcome ALL!

No gospel cards went out in that wayside but a different day we stopped at one and after I taped a gospel card to the picnic table, I saw raspberry bushes.

,I really had to kill my flesh and get back to the van because we had more important things to do than wandering around in nature picking berries:-) (No it's not sinful to pick berries, we just had to get going.) Those of you who know me, know I love gardening and foraging in God's creation, just like in the garden in the beginning so it's not sinful, but one of those things I gladly gave up for the Lord. 

Brother Tupos and I are country people, having spent much of our lives in peace and quiet yet we both have lived in super busy cities so we knew how to deal with them when we left the countryside and went into the world to preach the gospel.  Neither of us were looking forward to it in our flesh, having to deal with the world, 24/7 with very little escape from it but the Lord certainly does wonders in a person, if they lay down their will for Him to change and mold them.  I share that video of the garbage truck because it made me laugh as I pondered all this a couple weeks ago.  We were backed into a parking spot and the back of the van (where we sleep) was about 5 feet from the back alleyway of a gas station where the garbage was.  Early, every morning, that garbage truck would drive right up behind us, empty the dumpsters (sometimes banging the up and down a few times to make sure it all came out) and then go on his way.  We think nothing of such things because loud noises are common out here through the nights, like street sweepers and blower guys in the middle of the night, racing highways that have bumps in the road so it sounds like everyone has a flat tire as they race along, sirens going off, youth racing around in their vehicles with their music blasting etc.  All that could wear a person down but to us, it just reminds us why we are out here, the world is doing what it does, without the Lord, and we want to stand for His glory and potentially help someone who might be seeking to come out from it all.   

Matthew 5:14 
Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.

The flesh would love to go back to a homestead and do all the things pertaining to it but the power of the Holy Spirit presses us on and we remember....

1 Corinthians 6:20 
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

We're not our own and if we endure, we shall obtain eternal life.  I've been pondering 'enduring' lately and making some notes on it, maybe to do an audio soon but let's see what our days bring.  We have a travel day tomorrow, getting to the town of or preaches this weekend so let's see what really happens. 

Look close and you'll see the words 'home cooking'.  I told brother Tupos that in this day of fast food and convenience, it's crazy that people have to go out to eat to get home cooking.  This world surely has changed a lot just in my lifetime of half a century, if I live through the second half, it's certainly going to be even more interesting what man can come up with, not in a good way of course.  Speaking of cooking, I haven't been doing a lot of that because we've been having a lot of simple finger foods because that's what I'm finding at great deals and it works well for being on the go. 

As we go into cooler weather there will most likely be more soups and things but we'll see then, if we get those days:-)

I think I saw something like that once before but I thought I'd post it again because I have no clue what a bumble berry is....but it makes me think of ALL the DIFFERENT kinds of berries the Lord has made.  How awesome!

We see a lot of signs and billboards as we travel so it's refreshing to see something simple like veggies.  Lol, my favorite food. 

I was super thankful the Lord gave us a cool, breezy day and a place to hang out my clothes to dry. What an awesome blessing to have clean clothes, let us never take that for granted.  Which by the way, we stopped at a Laundromat to wash them and I didn't feel bad about it because I look at all the time we don't have to spend finding water, hours to hand wash and then places to try to dry them.  I do keep up hand washing in between, light weight things that don't take much time or water but the inexpensive washers we find are awesome for all the rest.  MORE AWESOME than that is we usually get to witness and today was no exception! Go HERE to see a post where brother Tupos witnessed to 3 monks who were washing their clothes in the same place:-)  One got aggressive can you believe that?  Well, what do you expect when someone is in the flesh and not the Spirit.

I did some sewing and finished a tunic for brother Akouo. I found a shirt for .99 cents and added the bottom of another shirt on to it.  

Brother Tupos is holding it up so I could take a picture of it before we gave it to him. It's so easy to do, you just need patience, time and putting down any perfection you have lol.  I never get them measured right, I'm within an inch or two longer or shorter and they are what they are:-)  It's just clothing and saints of God don't worry about such matters and are just thankful.  

Brother Tupos found a water spigot at the gas station and it worked:-) !
Better than that is when he went inside, he got to witness to a young man and while I was getting water, I got to witness to a man and then brother Tupos came out and shared more with him.

Revelation 21:6 
And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

We need earthly water to physically survive but more important is the spiritual water for eternal life.  What an awesome God we serve to do what He did.  

Matthew 26:28 
For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Let us sisters be mindful that we don't trample the blood of Christ, living or walking in the flesh.  All it takes is a little here and there and next thing you know, you're in a fog or darkness until you surrender it all and the Lord allows you to see where you've strayed.  

Hebrews 12:5-6 
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Oftentimes that happens when we look back, or look at things we ought not or wonder about things that have no purpose in our lives.  Our flesh is led away by what's inside already (go find the scripture in James 1), we're not victims because we can be victorious over it all through Christ who strengthens us.  

Ephesians 5:26-27 
That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

I have to go for now sisters, I hope you strive on to the glory of God, looking to Him, praising Him, obeying Him and following Him. 
Love in Christ,
​Sister Aman.