Exhortation/This Is Not Of Me

I was talking on the phone with a friend this morning and a testimony came up that I had shared with them a while back.

I believe I was about 6 years of age and I was in a girl scout troop. The women over our troop decided that it would be great for us young girls to visit a nursing home and try to cheer up the people who were living there.

They took us to a facility that was in the neighborhood, and as we entered the main hallway, I observed elderly people shuffling around; some could barely walk. We continued down a main corridor which was the women’s ward. Some of the women were asleep, but the ones that were awake looked very oppressed.

I began to feel very uneasy being in that place as we began to walk to another part of the building, which was where the men stayed. As we got further down that corridor, the stench of urine was so overpowering I thought I was going to pass out. The sadness, the oppression and just the over all horror of that place was so alarming.

Fear gripped me and I thought to myself, I DON’T WANT THIS TO HAPPEN TO ME!

Immediately the Lord Jesus spoke to me and said, “This won’t happen to you..this is not of me.”

After Jesus spoke those words to me, the fear immediately left and those words have encouraged me throughout my whole adult life. As I became older, people would speak things to me about aging and how we are supposed to just fall apart and for our bodies not to function like they use too; that is all a lie.

Our bodies were not created to just break down after so many years. In Deuteronomy chapter 34:7, it says that Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died, yet his eyes were not weak nor his strength gone. (NIV)

I also want to encourage you with Isaiah 53:4-5. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 says,

1 Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.

3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:

Believe those words, meditate on them day and night and watch the power of God heal you, deliver you from every sickness and disease. Romans 3:4 says, God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

The word of God is true.

Oh, and by the way, after that little visit to that nursing home, I left the girl scouts that week.

I also encourage you all to watch this video, it will feed your faith. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4j2ipUA3wI&t=2957s

God bless,

Pamela

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