On April 16, 2020 I posted an article entitled Living In Certain Times. I recommend it highly! If you have no idea why the times we are living in are certain, you are really out of touch. Out of touch with God: and that is an alarming reality…
Over the years more than once a bitter, critical person has been enraged when I don’t know about some very current and horrific event. This kind of person (more than once) has literally scolded me: “Don’t you read the papers?!” I actually know of man who was reading the paper about some story and decidedly said to me: “It’s true! It’s right there in black and white.” Never mind that you know nothing about the writer; nothing about his ethics, nothing about his agenda; nothing about the purpose, the real purpose of that particular media venue. Gee, but it must be true because it’s printed with actual ink! NOT. Guess what they who never pick up a Bible, go to a real church don’t know: rather, Who they don’t know? They don’t know, love or even think about the Prince of Peace: Jesus Christ, Him born of a virgin, tempted in every way, hated, spit upon, His beard ripped out, beaten, bloodied, crucified, resurrected and now sitting at the Father’s right hand!
Selah.
No one living in terror is living in peace. There will be no peace on Earth until the Prince of Peace is worshipped and loved by all in His sight and those who reject Him are cast out of His sight. Period. Of course, I am speaking about peace throughout the world. That is how it was supposed to be…
AND THE JOY STORY IS…
Hell is broken loose. Satan is defeated and he knows it!
Does anyone remember or have ever even read: “It is finished.”?
Jesus said that and you should know and are required to know He is true and faithful. If you fail in declaring who Christ is, who Messiah is, you will never rule and reign with Him if you die in your sins. He is the Second Person of the Godhead. He is God and He never stumbles, stutters, second guesses or is right only sometimes. He is God, God eternal, everlasting, ever holy, holy, holy.
Selah.
Colossians 2:9
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form
Isaiah 6:3
…“Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory.”
Revelation 4:8
…“‘Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty,’ who was, and is, and is to come.”
Hell is broken loose because Jesus says so. Jesus took the keys to the Kingdom back!
SCRIPTURAL TRUTHS FOR THIS JOY STORY:
Isaiah 50:6
I offered my back to those who beat me, my cheeks to those who pulled out my beard;I did not hide my facefrom mocking and spitting.
John 19:28-30
Later, knowing that everything had now been finished, and so that Scripture would be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I am thirsty.” A jar of wine vinegar was there, so they soaked a sponge in it, put the sponge on a stalk of the hyssop plant, and lifted it to Jesus’ lips. When he had received the drink, Jesus said, “It is finished.” With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
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.