TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY
and I am sixty-six! God gave me this fun thought: “I’m 66 today – not 666!”
(What’s special about your birthday?)

I am grateful for every year I’ve lived. Of course, I’m not grateful for some of the things I’ve been through or have done (Note: because I am a Christian, God has forgiven me and forgotten my sins and I want all to have the peace I have, found only in Christ!). Everyone, beloved and crabbies, have challenges and failures. But this is my ministry: www.joyeternalministries.com – and – without the logo it is: Joy! Eternal! Ministries! dot: Come!

Come with me into the arms of the Father, the Son, and the Spirit, and you can do His will; repent when necessary; and live in victorious peace and joy forever and ever amen like me!

Selah.

HERE IS MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT from me and my birthday gift to you: come to Heaven with me! Or: before me. Or: after me! Fight the good fight now until then! And help others (your family, your friends, your acquaintances, and yes – your enemies) turn from sin and live eternally for Christ!

I love warning people about the mark of the beast; so today, becoming 66, not 666, is very exciting to me! That mark is real and it is also eternal! And I will never take it! Don’t you dare either!!!

Selah!

Taking the mark of the beast is a guaranteed ride to Hell with no way back! I have instances of warning others about the mark and I love to remember these victories I’ve gotten for God’s Kingdom! Alleluia!

One was when I was pouring coffee at a part-time job years and years ago. A couple I was serving was talking about 666 because that was the tab that came up on the register. I loved when that happened! It always had been an opening for me to stand up and speak out for God! This was the one and only time I specifically replied: “I’m never going to take that mark!” The next thing, the very next thing, that happened was one cup tipped over, spilling coffee on the counter. No reason, no natural reason, for it to tip! The counter was flat. No earthly reason for the cup to tip… What happened? I know very well what happened! A demonic force was pouting and tipped the cup over, trying to scare me! Do you know what I did? I laughed! Still do to this day when I remember it!

 

NOTE: you can read about this instance in my first book, Joy Stories, Volume One. The story is entitled: satan’s A Pout Baby!

 

Another instance was when a group of guys (five or six) were talking about the money exchange; changes they think we will be seeing… Walking over to them uninvited, I relayed to them the one world money that is coming and so is the mark of the beast, warning them not to take the mark! They giggled. Friends: that’s what people do when they’re embarrassed, scared, or intimated. And I will never forget my exact words to them: “You can laugh at me now, but just remember I told you this.” I then walked away. When I think about this I thank God for my boldness and pray for these guys every time!

And of course, I’ve told my family about the mark of the beast!

YES: it’s going to be a great year being 66! I will tell people at every opportunity: “I’m 66 – not 666!”

 

THIS LESSON?
Work God’s power and truths into your everyday, ordinary conversations.
AND: ask Him for openings like “I’m 66 – not 666!”

 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!

BETTER YET…
HAPPY NEW BIRTH TO ME!

 

1 Peter 1:23
For you have been born again, not of perishable seed, but of imperishable, through the living and enduring word of God.

 

NOW I AM:

 

A CHILD OF GOD:
John 1:12
Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God—

 

Romans 8:14-15
For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God.  The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

 

FORGIVEN AND HEALED:
Isaiah 43:25
“I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions, for my own sake, and remembers your sins no more.

 

Isaiah 53:4-5
Surely he took up our pain and bore our suffering, yet we considered him punished by God, stricken by him, and afflicted. But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.

 

A CO-HEIR WITH CHRIST:
Romans 8:17
Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

 

GOD’S TEMPLE:
1 Corinthians 3:16
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst?

 

CLOTHED WITH CHRIST:
Galatians 3:26-28
 So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ.  There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

 

A CITIZEN IN HEAVEN:
Philippians 3:20
But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

 

 

MORE SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY SINCE IT IS MY BIRTHDAY!:

 

 

DO NOT TAKE THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!!
Revelation 13:16-17
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

 

BE LIKE THESE:
Revelation 20:4-6
I saw thrones on which were seated those who had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony about Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ a thousand years.  (The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended.) This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection. The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ and will reign with him for a thousand years.