Philippines Chronicles: When God Speaks! Part 7

So now it's is April 22, 2015 and I have to admit I was not excited to still be in the USA nor was I looking forward to making this call to Priceline. So I slept another hour. When I woke up I saw that I had messages from Rein on voxer, Rein's mom, and Stephanie. I did not have anything to report yet so I ignored them all and fixed me something to eat. I did not want to talk to anyone until I knew what God would say. 

I don't know about you, but I get weird wen people try to encourage me but all the while make me feel worse. I just did not want to hear the cliches. I just wanted to know what God would say. After breakfast, I checked a few emails, and then I said okay Linda... time to stop stalling. Call Priceline. The moment of truth was here.

I dialed the number and got another representative.I began to explain my situation and she saw all the notes that had been made the day before. She asked me a few questions, put me on hold and came back with the authorization from China Southern to get on the Thursday flight. I smiled. She hen figured out what it would cost me to get on the flight with all the change fees and would you know it. It was $10.00 cheaper than the originally quoted price. My mouth dropped. Did God just do it again? Yes, he did. She informed that I would get a confirmation email in 2-4 hours.

Stephanie had put a fleece before God the night before and God had answered. So now I got busy, cleaning, doing laundry and tidied my room. And because I knew that my luggage could only be 40 lbs and my carry on could only be 12lbs. I made sure that they were and put then at the front door. Along with my purse like carry on which had my PASSPORT in the purse like pouch. I would not forget it this time.

When I got the email, I called Priceline just to confirm everything was done right. I did not want to take any chances. When I got off the phone, I did a two-step to the Lord. It was done. Once again, I would be on my way to the Philippines. Pastor Cailing had been messaging me and asking where I was. I told him what happened but that I would be leaving the next day so I would see them when I got there. He said the intercessors would be praying for me and safe travels. 

After everything was done and confirmed. I got busy working again on my publishing projects. Now as I pondered on the events that led up to this. I know now that God was teaching me to trust him. As I stated before I would rather worry than trust, anyone including god. So I believe this was showing me that God was in control and he would work it for the good. 

I am so quick to jump to being the victim in a situation. I am quick to believe that God would do harm than good. that somehow I don't deserve good things to happen to me. That the miracles, I hear about God doing the impossible, somehow are not meant for me. I know that is the immediate lesson but why I had to go through the missing of the flight. the truth is at this point I don't care all I know is I'm one more step closer to completely trusting God, first. So the journey continues.

Stop by tomorrow to read what happened on April 23rd. 



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Residue

Residue, what is residue?

First let's look at how the dictionary defines it. Residue is a small amount of something that remains after the main part has gone or been taken or used. So what got me thinking about residue is the PAM cooking spray commercial. You know the one with the ghost of food past. He basically describes himself as the definition found in the dictionary but with a twist. He says that you combines with the new food being cooked. So the residue from the old is now affecting the new.  Yes, someone just got that.

So what does it mean to us in our journey to be free and delivered from our past.. We have to apply the word of god to use and be washed thoroughly. no residue can remain. if it does we will be tainted from the past in every new situation, choice, and relationship. 

Have you ever asked yourself after an argument or an outburst: "Why did I do that or why did i say that?" or maybe it was "where did that come from?" or "I thought I was over that." these statements alone gives us a clue that residue is there. the Bible says:

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

This weekend I learned from Evangelist Rein Johnson that to be IN Christ means to be encompassed (See clip below). In order for us to remove all residue we have to be transformed by the renewing of our mind. we have to allow the Word of God to change how we think. We have to forget the former things as Isaiah 43:18 says and move on the the newness that comes from being transformed. We have to press into the things of God and not allow what happened to us to hinder us. It's not pretending that it did not happened but it is sitting with a journal and allowing the truth of your situation and past to teach you the lessons you could not learn at the time.

It's freeing yourself, let liberty and redemption happen. It's forgiving yourself for thinking you could have done something different. For thinking you could have made a different choice or said something differently. It's understanding that you are who you are because of what you have gone through and that does not make you a bad person or less than. It's not getting over stuff and pretending it did not happen but it is understand that you went through it. In going through it you must let the word wash over over and cleanse you so when you step out one the other side you are a new creature.

Let me end with this. Getting rid of residue is a simple process. Let's take a look at a butterfly and the transformation that occurs when it is ready to covert from a caterpillar. 

First, the caterpillar digests itself, releasing enzymes to dissolve all of its tissues. If you were to cut open a cocoon or chrysalis at just the right time, caterpillar soup would ooze out. But the contents of the pupa are not entirely an amorphous mess. Certain highly organized groups of cells known as imaginal discs survive the digestive process. Before hatching, when a caterpillar is still developing inside its egg, it grows an imaginal disc for each of the adult body parts it will need as a mature butterfly —discs for its eyes, for its wings, its legs and so on. 
Once a caterpillar has disintegrated all of its tissues except for the imaginal discs, those discs use the protein-rich soup all around them to fuel the rapid cell division required to form the wings, antennae, legs, eyes, genitals and all the other features of an adult butterfly. 

This process is a natural look at what takes place supernaturally in 2 Corinthians 5:17. Everything that God needs for us to be whole and complete is already in us but we need to get wrapped in our cocoon called Christ and let him completely transform us to be NEW. He will then make sure that all residue is done away with. That you will become exactly what he intended you to be and all old ways are destroyed and done away with. No more Residue!

You are Bound No More.


Pastor Linda Hillman 
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