Born To Study

Born to Study (for a purpose)

I think it is so dumb that I have had a battle with God concerning my greatest gift from Him.

As much as He has taught and blessed me, you'd think that I'd learn to trust Him more, and also to trust Him within me.  

For years, (and I means YEARS) I have been a student and studier.  I started young, at about 8 years old, when I stole my first bible from the basement of the First Presbyterian Church.  The pastor found out and bought me my own.  (It was an old congregation bible that had been replaced and did not even have a front cover.  🤭 )

Then, since my mother was a librarian, I began reading all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mysteries.  After finishing them, my mother gave me "In His Steps" by Charles Sheldon.  That did it... I was finished with secular books (except mandatory school books).  Over the next 50 years I stayed a good student... spending hours in the Word and in related books.  Sometimes I would back up and tell myself that I was becoming a profession student and the Lord wants to see more 'action' rather than study.  But, my happiness and contentment always came from the Word and the books I was led to read.  I did not realize that all this was prepping for my call.  Well, I did.. but not as much as I was doing.  I thought I was becoming unbalanced.  I tried to get into other things, but my heart became unhappy.  Still, even though I cut back my studies ... I never really stopped.  Thanks the Lord for that.

But recently, I've noticed something.  I've noticed that I sort of know what I am talking about.  It's sort of a good feeling to have a bit of confidence.  I normally alway publish works from others with larger and trusted names because no one really has to guess whether or not they trust Rick Renner, or Kenneth Hagin, Copeland, Joyner, ect... So, if I can share with you what the 'trusted experts' are saying, then the quicker you can put the info into action in your life.  Make sense?

But still, I have been blessed of late to have a greater confidence in the path the Lord has been leading through all these years.  I often doubted myself and stumbled around missing a lot of opportunities to glorify the Lord.  But lately, Praise the Lord, it is beginning to "click" in my heart just how much He has had His hand on my life.  I have no doubt His hand is on your life also.  Let yourself relax and enjoy His call and preperation time in your life (even if it seems you are not being productive).💕

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My Call Came Early in My Life

 My name is Stacie Jaye.  

I am one of the founders of Eagle Way Ministries (online).  

I was called by the Lord at a very young age, and of course, I had no idea of what it meant, just that I wanted to preach or teach.  The Lord put it on my heart at a very young age to care for the down and outs, but of course, like any 'light' in the world of darkness, the enemy wanted to stop my call.  His attacks began early, but the Lord is much bigger than the enemy and there were lots of small things being done by the Lord that quietly and almost secretly invaded my life.  One of the early events was when I was about 4 or 5 years old.  I was playing outside when the Lord's presence filled the small area where I was playing outside, and the whole atmosphere changed.  It was enough of a change that a small little girl stood up and looked around for an explanation of what was going on.  It was a surreal feeling surrounding me.  I still experience that feeling once in a while as an adult.  And, of course, as the Lord was interacting with me, the enemy recognized the activity and set me up for an event.

As I was playing in the pasture down the road with some friends, my friends left me in the one single tree in the middle of the pasture.  Home was a long ways away.  As they ran to their home, they yelled back at me that the devil was in the tree limbs above my head.  What??  I remember freezing, not moving, (as if that would stop the enemy?) and then with a sudden burst of courage (courage is defined as running home to momma at the fastest speed my little legs could run) I jumped down and ran.  

I got home and the next several days were filled with fearful events.  I saw monsters and was quite often overwhelmed with fear.  You know, I think that these events played a huge role in my belief that our God is a BIG GOD and nothing is bigger nor stronger than He... and He is our Father.  What more could anyone want? 

One of my favorite Bible verses came from II Kings 6 where Elijah was surrounded by the enemy with an army that was sent to find him.  Elijah's servant saw the army on the hill and panic set in, but Elijah asked the Lord to open the servant's eyes and then the servant was able to see that they were surrounded by the army of the Lord.  That is where the verse comes from that says, 'greater are those with us are more than those with them.'

My life has called for me to have faith in a Big God.  The Word of God shows us a Big God.  It's important that we allow ourselves to need and depend on our Father God being Big.  

Know what I mean?

Stay With In Your Anointing

Written by Charles Capps

God anoints His people for specific purposes and different ministries. (1 Corinthians 12:14-25) I have seen ministries and some laymen become frustrated in life because they leave their anointing and try to be like someone who was called to and anointed for different purpose.

If you don't wait on the anointing to give you direction in life, you will be frustrated and misdirected by your own desires.

Paul put it this way:

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another. Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophesy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of faith; Or ministry, let us wait on our ministering: or he that teacheth , on teaching." (Romans 12:3-7)

Paul told us not to think more highly of ourselves then we ought to think. For instance, I am an ordained minister, but I mostly operate in the office of a teacher. Over the years, I've stayed with what I know God has called and anointed me to do. I always caution people to be careful that they shouldn't allow someone to prophesy over them and get them out of their anointing and God's timing.

F. B. Meyer: The Call of Jeremiah

It is not to be expected that a superficial gaze will discern the special qualifications that attracted the Divine choice to Jeremiah. But that is no wonder. The instruments of the Divine purpose in all ages have not been such as man would have selected. There were several reasons why Jeremiah might have been passed over.

1. He was young. How young we do not know; but young enough for him to start back at the Divine proposal with the cry, "Ah! Lord God! behold, I cannot speak; for I am a child." Without doubt, as a boy he had enjoyed peculiar advantages. God has often selected the young for posts of eminent service: Samuel and Timothy; Joseph and David; Daniel and John the Baptist.

2. He was naturally timid and sensitive. By nature he seemed cast in too delicate a mould to be able to combat the dangers and difficulties of his time. He reminds us of a denizen of the sea, accustomed to live within its shell, but suddenly deprived of its strong encasement, and thrown without covering on the sharp edges of the rocks. The bitter complaint of his afterlife was that his mother had brought him into a world of strife and contention. Many are moulded upon this type. They have the sensitiveness of a girl, and the nervous organism of a gazelle. They love the shallows, with their carpet of silver sand, rather than the strong billows that test a man's endurance. For them it is enough to run with footmen; they have no desire to contend with horses. Yet such, like Jeremiah, may play an heroic part on the world's stage, if only they will let God lay down the iron of His might along the lines of their natural weakness. His strength is only made perfect in weakness. It is to those who have no might that He increaseth strength.

3. He specially shrank from the burden he was summoned to bear. His chosen theme would have been God's mercy — the boundlessness of His compassion, the tenderness of His pity. But to be charged with a message of judgment; to announce the woeful day; to oppose every suggestion of heroic resistance; to charge home on the prophetic and the priestly orders, to each of which he belonged, and the anger of each of which he incurred, the crimes by which they were disgraced — this was the commission that was furthest from his choice (Jeremiah 17:16).

4. He was conscious of his deficiency in speech. Like Moses, he could say, "O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue." The best speakers for God are frequently they who are least gifted with human eloquence; for if that be richly present — the mighty power of moving men — there is an imminent peril of relying on it, and attributing the results to its magnetic spell. God cannot give His glory to another. He may not share His praise with man. He dare not expose His servants to the temptation of sacrificing to their own net or trusting their own ability. Do not, then, despair because of these apparent disqualifications. Notwithstanding all, the Word of the Lord shall come to thee; not for thy sake alone, but for those to whom thou shalt be sent. The one thing that God demands of thee is absolute consecration to His purpose, and willingness to go on any errand on which He may send thee.

(F. B. Meyer, B. A.)