"SEEK THE GIVER NOT THE GIFT"

SEEK THE GIVER NOT THE GIFT"

When reading this, remember that I lived without the knowledge of the Bible for 35 years. I didn't go to church and I was told if you are good you will go to Heaven and if you are bad the Boogie man will get you. In 1967 I came face to face with death and The Lord Jesus Christ appeared to me. I recovered and started a journey I am still on. 
When I read the scripture in James 5:16 Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.” At that part about the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much I was lost for I knew that my righteousness was as filthy rags. Then one day the Spirit directed me to 1 COR 1;30 and my life was never the same again. 1 COR 1;30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption: What? MY RIGHTEOUSNESS IS NOT THRU WORKS BUT IS A PERSON? Jesus Christ was made unto us WISDOM, RIGHTEOUSNESS, SANCTIFICATION AND REDEMPTION. Then I realized my conduct is confused for righteousness. My conduct changes every day. Some days I don't pray enough; I don't read my bible enough; days I don't feel good I might speak in haste. It changes every day! But low and behold this scripture says that Jesus is my Righteous! My RIGHTEOUSNESS IS THE LORD JESUS CHRIST. Now if he is my righteousness and HE NEVER CHANGES, then MY RIGHTEOUSNESS NEVER CHANGES. I suddenly switched from working for my salvation to accepting what He did. HE BECAME ALL THINGS TO ME. When The Spirit of Christ took up residence in my body he brought all his virtues and gifts with him. Someone ask me one day. What gift do you have? To which I replied ALL OF THEM. I have the Giver of Gifts residing within me. When he took posssession of my body and moved in He brought all gifts with Him. I gave him permission and freedom to use the body which I so willing offered to Him in any way he chooses.

Just think,
our Salvation is a Person; our Salvation is a Person, our Righteousness is a Person He does not give us those things.....HE BECOMES THOSE THINGS.
We are simply a vessel in which he lives and carries out his ministry here on earth. Don't envy or be jealous of what HE is doing in another. I would not trade places with anyone here on earth. We that are Born Again have the SAME SPIRIT. Pray for each other and be happy in the place HE has you. Remember, the weaker you become, the stronger He becomes.
We go to Him in prayer asking for a list of things. Why not just ask HIM TO GIVE YOU HIMSELF.When He gives you Himself you will never want for more

METHUSELAH.  HOW God used him to hold back the flood .

For your information.::::: There was one man that held back the flood in the old testament. Methuselah , the oldest man to live. His name meant....WHEN HE IS DEAD IT SHALL BE SENT? When he died the flood came upon the entire earth. Sodom and Gomorah . The angels told LOT AND HIS FAMILY that the cities were going to be destroyed because of sin. As long as Lot was in the city, God held back judgement. NOW lets just suppose that PRESIDENT TRUMP'S Presence in the White House is holding back God's judgement on AMERICA. I don't care if you don't believe . Your disbelief does not change GOD'S MIND!!!!!! I believe TRUMP was placed in the seat of Presidency to SAVE AMERICA!

2 thess 2;7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, 7 For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed,

2 THESS 2;7 above says 'the one who holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way. AS you see above there was A MAN who held back God's judgement, Methuselah and LOT? Could Trump be the one holding back the judgement. ? The lawlessness we see today will be the ones to follow the antichrist and get his MARK. These happenings are just preparing the masses to be deceived by the LAWLESS ONE? If you don't believe this I don't care. You will be among those to receive the STRONG DELUSIONS which God sends to those who would not listen in order that they will believe a LIE.

The Beginning Of My New Life.

July 3rd 1967 was to be the beginning of the rest of my life and what a journey it has been.My younger sister Lucille ask me if I would give her a permanent and I was getting ready to do just that. She and her family had always  lived either next door, upstairs or across the street from me and my family. I had 6 children  and my life was filled with taking care of  the six children, my husband and myself. It was  very  hot and I attempted to open a window. I attempted to lower the screen and it would not budge.  With a burst of strength and a few choice words the screen came down and I struck my left eyebrow on a metal latch  causing some pain but he skin was not broken and no bleeding. I uttered some choice words and went about what I was doing.
 During the night I awoke vomiting in convulsions.  I went to the bathroom and saw that the right side of my face was swollen and blood red. Next day was July 4th.  I awoke and ask my husband to call the medical Dispensary at the Naval Base and see if I could go in.  Being a holiday a Doctor was not on duty.  I called my family doctor and that night when he came back to town he made a house call.  By this time the swelling and discoloration had spread to the ear and down the neck. He said"BESSIE WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO YOURSELF "  He said I had a cellulitus of the face which was very serious.He said if the swelling reached the brain I would probably not make it.  I knew I was going to die each time I caught a glimpse of my self in the mirror.  My face had swollen so big the skin was bursting and fluid running from the eye.  The lashes had fallen out and there was no way to pry the eye open to see if the eye ball had ruptured.
I was put on strong antibiotics and the doctor came each day to check the progress.  I was very weak and could hardly stand alone.  The third day as I lay very weak in the bed A BEING, which was JESUS CHRIST, came to my bed, took me by my hands and pulled me up close to his face, eye to eye and said as he looked deep into my eyes, I DIED FOR YOU.  He laid me back on my bed and walked away and disappeared.  The next visit from the Doctor he said ,Bessie this thing has stopped and I think we are going to beat it.  It regressed back to the point it started and within 6 weeks the swelling and redness was gone and all I had left were scabs from the healing of the broken skin from the swelling.  The eye was still shut and when I asked the Doctor if I was going to see when the eye opened and he replied; I can't open the lid to see if the eye is still there or ruptured.  I automatically said, When the eye opens, I WILL SEE.  Several days later at home I could see through a slit opening.  I HAD SIGHT.  The Doctor said;  BESSIE YOU ARE A MIRACLE .  It is a miracle you are alive and a bigger miracle that you still have sight.  Then the miracle started to expand.    CONTINUED LATER DATE...........

POEM ....MY BIRD FEEDER

MY BIRD FEEDER.
They come from far and wide each day
to visit our bird feeder.
A crow, blue jay, a robin or two
but the Dove is my favorite eater.

He doesn't fly up to eat from the cup
But dines on what falls to the ground.
He will bill and coo,
gobble up and when through
Mount up and is homeward bound.

BY BESSIE PELLO

RESURRECTION

THE RESURRECTION

I have seen paintings and drawings of the empty tomb of Jesus and they always show an empty slab with something that looks like a sheet draped over the slab. I always thought that doesn't prove that he rose from the dead. Someone could have stolen the body and left the grave cloth. And then I wondered why didn't his family get his body for burial. In my studies, I found that the Romans did not allow criminal burial but threw the bodies on the trash heap or left them
hanging for the birds and animals to eat them. REMEMBER THIS IT IS IMPORTANT LATER.
JOHN 19;38 "And after these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus,but secretly for fear of the Jews, asked of Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came therefore, and took away His body .
"And there came also Nicodemus, he who at the first came to him by night, bringing a mixture of myrrh and aloes, about a hundred pounds. So they took the body of Jesus, and bound it in linen cloths with the spices, as the custom of the Jews is to bury."
John 20:1-10, gives us a picture of His Resurrection. "Now on the first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, while it was yet dark, unto the tomb, and seeth the stone taken away from the tomb."She runneth therefore, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the tomb, and we know not where they have laid him. In her mind she feared they had removed the body and cast it on the garbage pile where all criminal crucified persons were thrown

John outran Peter and arrived there first.Stooping down, he looked into the tomb and was staggered at what he saw. Peter came., He just bowed his head and stepped into the sepulchre and John followed him. Notice the language: "And lie beholdeth the linen cloths lying, and the napkin that was upon his head not lying with the linen cloths, but laid in a place by itself."

You understand, Jesus' body had been embalmed as the custom of the Jews was to bury.Nearly every rich family had a slave who understood embalming. They had one hundred pounds of a mixture composed of myrrh and aloes and a bundle of linen cloths.They cut the linen up into strips, smeared it with this mixture as you would a bandage towrap around a wounded finger, and then wrapped the body of Jesus. Every finger was wrapped separately and then the hands; and arms, until the whole body was wrapped as an Egyptian mummy. When it was finished, they took the embalmed body and put it into the sepulchre, and it was sealed by Roman authority.Notice, the body of Jesus likely weighed 180 to 200 pounds in his health. He would shrink about twenty pounds in the crucifixion. There was a hundred pound weight of myrrh and aloes, besides the linen cloths they used in embalming. Then the body would weigh about 280 pounds. When they had finished the embalming, His body was completely encased except for His face.

If Jesus had not died of a ruptured heart and the spear thrust, He certainly would have died in the three days and three nights of embalming. No one could have lived thru that.The embalming cloth had grown hard and stiff in that dry cell in the seventy-two hours He was there. The cloth had not been rent or torn. He had come out of the grave clothes through the narrow aperture where His face had been.

What they saw was not cloth laying on the slab but an empty shell composed of the strips of cloth and the mixture of herbs and embalming spices hardened . There was no way he could have got out of this hardened cocoon unless he had been resurrected. This is a fast sketch of what I have found to be what they saw. .In fact in the scriptures it tells of John going to the to the tomb and it says.

..Finally the other disciple, who had reached the tomb first, also went inside. He saw and believed.

IF I SAW SOMETHING LIKE THIS THAT WOULD BE PROOF ENOUGH FOR ME!!!!!!!!!

The face was the last to be wrapped and it was separate from the body until the final coating was applied. You notice that the head wrapping came off separate from the body. I did a demonstration of this with a balloon for the children I used to teach in Sunday School.

GOSPEL ECHOES

When I first started to church and listening to sermons, I used to think is this all there is about religion. I heard more about condemnation that anything else. I heard the stories from the Old Testament and about the birth and death of Jesus and his resurrection. So now he is gone and I am awaiting his return. I knew there was a yearning inside me for something else. In mid 1980 I would pick my grandson Cole up from school each day. One particular day I went to get into my car and I looked down on the ground and I was standing on a piece of paper half covered with sand. I reached down, dusted the sand off threw it into the front seat with the idea of throwing it in the trash when I returned home. I always got to school early and as I sat there waiting for the bell to ring I looked over at the piece of paper and started to examine it. It was a newsletter of some sort stapled together addressed to a man on Blythe Island. I live near the end of Townsend Street near the college. Eight or nine miles away. I opened it and began to read. The Holy Spirit was not really talked about that much in church and I always knew that Jesus lived in my heart but so did my grandmother and she was dead and gone. So the confusion began. She was just a thought maybe that's what he is.. Anyway as I read this wonderful teaching I really got excited. No condemnation just what we were in Christ after we are saved. Mostly what I had heard was from the Old Testament and while Jesus was alive on this earth. Nothing after his death and resurrection. I wrote to the place this wonderful paper had come from and ask them who they were and they put me on their mailing list. They also informed me that the Newsletter that had landed in my driveway at the drivers side door of my car was the LAST Newsletter that gentleman had received from them. He never wrote to renew his newsletter. I started reading these newsletters and I began to grow in the knowledge and Grace of the Lord. They never asked for money , not even one time. They trusted the Holy Spirit to move on the hearts of those who received the teachings. Ray and Doris Prinzing in Boise Idaho were the ones behind the ministry. Ray passed away a few years ago but I did get the opportunity to meet them in Jacksonville, Fla. They included the unusual way in which I had come across their newsletter in their yearly summation newsletter. The Spirit had already singled me out to start reading their literature. From that time forward I trusted the Lord to orchestrate my life and my comings and going. I came face to face with the spirit of Christ. He is a real being who lives inside this vessel or house of clay and He promised HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE ME.

BEING AN INTERCESSOR

When I first became aware that something different was happening to me, I didn't really understand what was happening.  A local Catholic Priest came by the place where I worked and he and I got into a conversation and that word INTERCESSOR came up.  I had prayed for a Father Logsdon who had been diagnosed with terminal cancer.  I ask him where and he said brain.I told him that I was going to pray for him.  WE are now 7 or 8 months later.  I asked Father Leo about him and was informed that Father Logsdon had gone away for a new experimental surgery and was back and the cancer was gone. I had just found out that a young lady I was praying for had been told that she did not have cancer. Then I began to see a pattern.  These people had been sent to where I work.  I did not pick them.  One day I said God why are you sending these  people to me and I heard it in my brain "I AM NOT SENDING them to you, I am drawing them to myself IN YOU!