I HAVE FOUND MYSELF
saying this a lot recently about some people who are so mean-spirited, so evil, that I know I could never be friends with them! I don’t say this to them; I say it to my soul… Why? Because I need to continually crucify my flesh. I need to separate myself from people who could infect me with sin…
Selah.
Hang on! This is a Joy Story!
Of course, those of us who love God and man soon learn that Satan hates us and only wants our destruction. He isn’t getting that from me!
Selah again!
The evil one is our enemy; he is the father of lies. Please see the Scriptures below – for in everything I proclaim I annunciate through Scriptures: I state this as My Claim on this cite.
For those of you who don’t know: it is God, Himself, who put enmity between the two kingdoms…
Genesis 3:15
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel
It is God, Himself, who does not want His children ( and not all people are!) to play with sinners and wallow in their mud. Want more proof?
2 Corinthians 6:14-18
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? Or what does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said:
“I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.” Therefore, “Come out from them and be separate, says the Lord.Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
And, “I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,says the Lord Almighty.”
More proof:
Haggai 2:10-14
On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai: “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Ask the priests what the law says: If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?’”
The priests answered, “No.”
Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”
“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.”
Then Haggai said, “‘So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,’ declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.
Why am I, Ann Marie Turner, thankful to mark and avoid people who are ungodly? Why, in this present age, is it so easy for me to say: “We are not all in this together!”? Why do I take extreme delight in not hanging around with people who, like Satan, only want to steal from others, murder anyone, and destroy God’s people, of which I am one? Because of the two kingdoms: and because of the kingdom I have chosen to be in; I separate myself just like my Father tells me to. I thankfully, truthfully and very, very joyfully proclaim my rights.
Here is the crux of this matter of why “We will never be friends!”
I can’t be friends with an ungodly person. I am told by God not to fellowship with unbelievers. Too many people these days (and in days past) are phonies, hypocrites, liars and thieves and doing horrendous things… I will not be like them; I will not tolerate Satan’s agenda!
BUT: if they, whom I willing stay away from, choose to become honest, they will come to repentance. They will come to hunger for God, thirsting to please Him if they choose the narrow road.
Selah!
And if they become honest, they will become my brother or sister. They will be a new creation and complete in Christ. They will love God’s chosen people, Israel, and bless them; thanking them for the Bible, for Messiah and also declare God is not and never will be through with Israel nor them if they abide. These former sinners will not be the same person they will become a new creation, a child of God, the old has gone; the new has come: and that is when I can be delighted to engage them in my life!
SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:
John 10:7-10
Therefore Jesus said again, “Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
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.
Galatians 2:19-21
“For through the law I died to the law so that I might live for God. I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me. I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing!
Growing up in a home without the love for God, an invalid father, heavy financial hardships, and tremendous (sometimes dangerous) discord is always difficult. Add on to that extreme shyness, a feeling of inferiority, and some may think this girl was rejected. But God’s hand was on her and His heart was for her. Today, Ann Marie Turner has performed many great services in Jesus’ name for the love of God and man; and for herself! She has ministered in the male correctional for over ten years. Along with this website, Ann is the author of Joy Stories, Volume One and The Free Incarcerated Man. Writing about the joy of the Lord and the victory that is available for a willing soul is one of Ann’s now greatest joys! Ann’s prayer for you is to overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. Celebrate the God of the Bible and your personal victories in Christ unceasingly! Revelation 12:11 They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.