Arise Like Esther

Category: Faith In Action

  • Effective Daily Prayer for the Homemaker / Watch Woman

    Effective Daily Prayer for the Homemaker / Watch Woman

    This is a good one.

    But first, a little history.

    Do you know who Chiang Kai Shek is?

    This warrior fight communism. It’s safe to say that communism is a spiritual war, before it is a physical one.

    So he was a man of light, fighting the darkness.

    Well his wife, gave this prayer to Ruth Peale.

    Ruth Peale was wife to Norman Vincent Peale. This man of God was used powerfully and also so happen to minister as a pastor at the church were President Trump would go to in his younger years.

    Prayer:

    A prayer for quiet time:

    O Holy Spirit of God,

    Come into my heart and fill me;

    I open the windows of my soul to let Thee in.

    I surrender my whole life to Thee;

    Come and possess me, fill me with light and truth.

    I offer to Thee the one thing I really possess, My capacity for being filled by Thee.

    Of myself I am an empty vessel.

    Fill me so that I may live the life of the Spirit,

    The life of Truth and Goodness,

    The life of Beauty and Love

    The Life of Wisdom and Strength.

    And guide me today in all things:

    Guide me to the people I should meet or help;

    To the circumstances in which I can best serve Thee,

    Whether by my actions or my sufferings.

    But above all, make Christ to be formed in me,

    That I May dethrone self in my heart, and make Him King;

    So that He is in me, and I in Him,

    Today and forever. Amen.

    Until next time faithful Mama

    As always, Stay close to Holy Spirit, Julianne 

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  • Has Pain Left You Searching for Answers? Discover What God SAW That Could Change Everything

    Has Pain Left You Searching for Answers? Discover What God SAW That Could Change Everything

    Pain is something every human will encounter on earth.

    What we do with it will determine what we get from life.

    It will determine how God responds to us & the depths of our relationship with Him.

    Will you run to God when your heart aches or will you run to numb it?

    I’ve been dealing with a certain heartache.

    I’ve been searching for answers. Naturally as a woman of God, we go to the Father for these answers, or we ought to.

    The findings:

    He takes me to the book of Genesis.

    He speaks > then it’s manifests.

    He speaks WHAT HE WANTS TO HAPPEN.

    “Let there be light”

    “And there was light”

    He doesn’t just leave it at that.

    He goes to check His work. The fruit of His lips.

    “God SAW that the light was good.”

    In the Hebrew, the word “saw” also means to inspect, to learn about, to consider it.

    So He didn’t just speak something and close the book.

    He goes back to inspect it, to consider it.

    And so when we speak, we too are to inspect the fruit of our words.

    Are they yielding the fruit that we want to see?

    Are they filled with life?

    Are we building up our house?

    Modern culture teach people to speak death & have made a norm of it.

    To curse your blessing. To criticize your temple (your body). To put others and tear yourself down. This is straight from the pit of hell. This is not kingdom talk.

    So if we are not seeing the promises of God, we must ask… what are we speaking & what has the fruit of our words brought? What is the state of our heart?

    And if we don’t like it, we can always prayerfully change it.

    -Make declarations using the scriptures.

    -Feel the pain & run to God with it instead of running from God with it.

    -Seek His will & yield to it no matter how uncomfortable it might feel.

    -Inspect our words, speech & heart & thoughts constantly.

    -Take our thoughts captive to the obedience of Christ.

    These are just a few ways.

    You’re life doesn’t have to be a living hell.

    As always, Stay close to Holy Spirit, Julianne 

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  • The Most Important thing as a Mama

    The Most Important thing as a Mama

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    I had just laid him down in his swaddle.

    Head over heels in love. He was perfect.

    I was getting ready for bed. I laid down and took that breath, you know that first good breath you take after you have poured out your heart that day. A sigh of relief. Ready for rest & relaxation.

    Almost immediately I heard the Lord say “his face is covered.”

    I was out of bed in a heart beat. I mean, which Mama bear is not, right?

    I go to him, and sure enough, somehow his swaddle was undone and the blanket was covering his face.

    Suffocation is a real thing. Of course, with the utmost speed possible I take it off his face.

    He was safe. God was watching over him.

    You see, you could be the best mom in the world and still miss it. So don’t strive to be the best, aim at being the most yielded (to God.)

    The serpent was the most cunning. Sneaky. Patient.

    But he can NEVER outwit the Holy Spirit.

    As much as we watch our children like the eagles, our strength & help comes from the Lord.

    The most important thing as mother, it is not your sons and daughters. It’s not your husband. Not your paycheck.

    It’s God. God alone is always to be #1.

    Period.

    So don’t compromise your relationship with Him for anything.

    I am not perfect. I am a very imperfect woman who loves God. A lot of times idols are not the golden calf’s that seem so obvious, they are often the things people don’t even pick up on, except God would show us.

    Like the fear of hurting someone. Or not stepping out in faith because of unbelief and doubt. Or maybe sometimes we have made comfort our king…refusing to be uncomfortable.

    It wasn’t the first time God saved his life and I am sure it will not be the last.

    Our sons and daughters will grown up and learn of God what they see at home. More is caught than taught. Which is why it is SO IMPORTANT, now more than ever to learn how to constantly walk and stay in the presence of the Lord.

    Not just when the YouTube worship song is on, not just at Bible study, not just when we have the electronics.

    But every “nanosecond,” as my kingly husband says. This will save their lives. It will save your life. And it will be greatly needed for the times ahead.

    So call out to God while you can. And seek His face while He may be found. For training them up in the way they should go will only happen once.

    Savor the moments. But always keep the Savior at the center.

    I am so convinced that apart from Him, I can do absolutely nothing.

    Stay in great confidence in the Lord & know that He will ALWAYS warn you, but it’s you job to guard your own heart & keep it soft enough so that you hear Him.

    Quick prayer: God I pray that every-time you warn me & speak, that I, my sons & daughters, my husband & bloodline (name whoever you feel led to) would always heed your warnings & obey Your voice, expose every plot against us & cancel it, may we respond accordingly as You will, that no weapon formed against us will ever prosper, and we are kept safe & healthy, always in Your presence, no matter that price or pain, in Jesus name.

    As always, stay yielded to God,

    Julianne

    2 Chronicles 30:8 (NKJV)
    “yield yourselves to the LORD; and enter His sanctuary, which He has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of His wrath may turn away from you.

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  • 7 tips – How to hear God’s voice

    7 tips – How to hear God’s voice

    These tips have changed everything for me.

    Have you ever found yourself asking… what is God’s will for me?

    What does He want?

    I’m not really sure or maybe, I don’t hear anything? I don’t know what His will Is?

    Then this is for you. 

    1. Know that you can hear Him because that’s what the word of God says. Here’s how. Believe you are hearing Him. As a Man thinketh, so is he. GO TO HIM WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART. A half hearted search will get you halfhearted results at best. “And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13
    2. Repent. Repent for doubt & all things known & unknown while you are at it. Remember, in the Greek, repent = metanoeō = to change one’s mind, i.e. to repent, to change one’s mind for better, heartily to amend with abhorrence of one’s past sins. You are repenting – changing your mind to walk in faith instead of double mindedness & doubt. For without faith it’s impossible to please Him.
    3. Use the right scriptures during times of spiritual warfare. One of the most powerful ones to use when you need to hear Gods voice but think you are not is “My sheep hear My voice, I know them, and they follow Me. “ John 10:27 You are hearing God. Don’t doubt it. Sure there are times where He might remove His hand, but that’s the exception rather than His norm. And yes there are times I believe He makes Himself hidden to see what’s in our heart or for testing- but it’s ALWAYS rooted in love. Know that God is speaking to you all throughout your day & EXPECT it.
    4. Make sure your heart is always soft before Him. Most of the time when people can’t hear Him, it’s usually not because He is quiet. It’s because their heart is too hard to hear Him. The softer your heart is towards God, the more you will hear His voice. Ask Him to remove the hardness. It’s a process. It takes lots of healing & lot of His intentional, constant pursuit. “18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.” Ephesians 4:18
    5. Be willing to pay the price. Sometimes He answers instantly & other times it requires you to push into Him. Sometimes it may take fasting & not just prayer, asking your prayer partners, sowing seeds, anointing with oil, the laying on of hands, more deliverance. I was watching a video by Dr. Mike Murdock a long while ago & remember he said if Queen Esther were to give a message today, she’d say. “PAY THE PRICE.” (Paraphrased). It’s not cheap to carry His presence constantly. But it is sure worth it. One of my favorite verses. So good! “8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ.” Philippians 3:8
    6. Read the word throughout the day. Not just starting off every-time you wake up. But stay in it at least 3 times a day. What you put before your eyes matter. Fill them with Jesus. Spend time in the word. Use your audio Bible too, keep it playing always if you can. It really helps. 1st Tim. 4:13 “Till I come, give attention to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.”
    7. Prayer & fasting. This one is one of my favorites! I’m not writing about how to start fasting here but this has been the fuel to my fire. It cuts through the noise and is a phenomenal way to put the flesh on check & make time for Him. Do your research well before fasting, people have died from doing it wrong. Don’t be fearful either. Isaiah 58:6 – “Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?” #strongholdsbroken 

    I pray this blesses you.

    As always, Stay close to Holy Spirit, Julianne 

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  • The Messy Home CRISIS: How One Biblical Detail About Jesus’s Resurrection Provides the Surprising Solution

    The Messy Home CRISIS: How One Biblical Detail About Jesus’s Resurrection Provides the Surprising Solution

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    Did you know Beloved,

    That even Jesus folded his linen clothes after his death and resurrection? 

    Before we get into that. 

    If you ever find yourself in a manner of the heart or state of the mind that is anything less that joyful, after saying the appropriate scripture, take a quick survey of your home and see if there is place where you feel God is telling you to take action and bring order.

    Sometimes things can feel off if God is wanting to cleanse a place or it may need order. 

    A messy home attracts a messy mind.

    We have the mind of Christ. 

    We serve a God of order. 

    When your home is tidy – you will feel better, your husband and sons and daughters will thrive. 

    This also sets the example of the type of spouse your sons and daughters will marry. 

    It teaches responsibility & accountability. 

    It helps train them up in the way they should go. 

    Super important.

    I don’t mean perfection either. Only God is perfect. 

    So today I was reading John 20:7

    “and the handkerchief that had been around His head, not lying with the linen cloths, but folded together in a place by itself.”

    God showed me something so cool. 

    So some people say this really helps to prove Jesus was resurrected because the linen was folded. 

    Sometimes robbers would break into tombs to steal what they could- and they didn’t care about the linen wrapped around peoples face- to say it would have been thrown for sure if it were a bunch of robbers was common. 

    Now what I found so cool was… back then, tradition had it that when a slave was serving his master, he knew when to start cleaning up when the master threw in the towel or napkin during meal time. That meant… “I AM finished”

    But let’s say the master would go to the restroom but was not done eating… then the master would fold the napkin neatly… that meant… “I AM coming back.”

    So here, Jesus knew that. It was common knowledge.

    So He folded his napkin saying… “I AM COMING BACK.”

    Quiet the statement! 

    Amen & hallelujah! 

    So… next time you find yourself folding clothes or linen… how easy is it now to remember that Jesus is coming back!

    Beautiful right?

    Takes cleaning and being a homemaker to a whole different level…

    I personally must always have this cleaning item in my home…

    It’s the best nontoxic one I’ve found. Smells so GOOD.

    And it’s not like one of those scents that instantly fades.

    It lingers! I’m obsessed.

    I used it on almost everything. Stovetop, countertops, doors, walls, the restroom, the floors. 

    I’m currently using the one called Abundance– I chose that one because I believe we’ve entered into that season.

     It’s all prayed over by the Kingdom owner. I love that.

    So when I spray it, I’m reminded of the promises of God. 

    I also highly recommend praying in the Spirit when you clean, even if it’s just for a few moments, I find it really helps. 

    You can see it here.

    I love how Jesus, being God, He could have done whatever He wanted with that linen. He could have left a trashy mess.

    But He didn’t.

    He’s the greatest leader. He set the example & took the time to fold it. It says a lot about His character.

    Until next time friend,

    Julianne

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    “But everything must be done decently and in order.” 1st Cor. 14:40