There are two important keys
to open the doors of supernatural communion with God.
The first key you have is the
key of PRAISE. God inhabits the praises of His people. When you lift your hands
and praise HIM, He comes to you in a way that is so precious you never want to
leave the peace and serenity you feel in just communing with Him in a way that
is pleasing to Him.
The second key is WORSHIP.
Telling Him how much you love Him and thanking Him for all He has done for you
and all that He is.
Does it sound simple? It is.
But it takes that desire to want to have more of Him. It takes a desire to see His face.
The Song of Songs in the Old
Testament of the Bible, is an analogy of the Love between God and His Church
(the body of believers) who are called “The Bride of Christ”
The Bridegroom longs to see
the face of the Bride. He does this when we praise Him and Worship Him. During
this time He looks into the face of His Beloved and we look into the face of
our Precious One. He looks into the face of “The apple of His Eyes” We look
into the Face of the “Apple of Our Eyes”
When we are with God in this
special place He comes and
“tabernacles” (lives) with us. We are then allowed to enter into His Home and
tabernacle with Him.
In order to do this we must
die to self. We must die to all unclean motives of our hearts.
This is our one and only true
purpose. We were made to praise and worship God and nothing else is important
to Him.
Liken it to a man who finds a
lovely bride. In his eyes she is beautiful, she is pure and belongs only to
him. He longs to look into her face at the end of the day. He longs for her to
say wonderful things to him. He longs to know that she appreciates all he has
done for her and his “children” At the end of the day the most important thing
to him is to spend time with her.
This is how the relationship
between God and man/woman should be.
I have begun to check myself
often. What are my motives for serving God? Do I want to be a mega-minister so
that I can have Mega “money?” Do I want to serve Him only so He will “give” me
financial blessing? Do I love Him enough to serve Him and Him alone even while
dwelling in need?
I want to serve Him, folks,
for WHO He is. “He is my Beloved and I AM His.”
I have to remember that when
God called me and sent me forth it was only because He saw that I loved HIM.
God is starting
housecleaning, folks.
God doesn’t allow any
“unclean” thing to fellowship with Him. A man doesn’t want a bride who uses him
just for what he can give her. God doesn’t want that either, beloved.
I like to use the following
analogy. I have two dogs. Max, a Basset Hound and Maggie May, my little
9-month-old Cocker Spaniel.
I love them both. When they
“Mess” in my house, though, I put them outside. I do this to let them know that
I don’t put up with messes inside my house. I don’t stop loving them; I just
make it clear to them that I want to keep my house clean.
Folks, God doesn’t want
messes in His Tabernacle and God is not a Man that will be mocked. We need to
learn that we have to be clean and stay clean to tabernacle with God.
If I am making “messes” or
allowing someone else to make messes in my house, then who am I to tell you not
to do it in yours?
We have some Mega Preachers
that have been living in messes while telling us not to. We have been paying
for their books and seminars so they can take our money to teach us something
they need to learn first.
None of us is so special to
God that He will allow us to hide things from Him or His people. God doesn’t
need us for conviction or teaching. He has given us the Holy Spirit.
We all sin, and we all fall
short of the Glory of God. When we do so however, we need to step away from
ministering until we are again living righteously as to not bring shame to the
Body of Christ.
God can and will restore us
when He is ready.
We need to get back to just
serving God because we LOVE HIM, no matter if He never gives us a stinkin’cent.
I want to make it clear that
God can and does meet all our needs. A need is shelter, a need is
transportation, a need is clothing, and a need is food to eat, water and
utilities.
A need is not a multi-carat
diamond ring. A need is not a Rolls Royce. A need is not a multi-million dollar
home.
I promise you that if God
ever decides to bless me with any one of those things I will sell them
immediately and put the money to use to make sure your needs are being met.
We have been doing that
despite the fact that we have never been wealthy. We have been reaching into
our own pockets to do that.
I don’t know how we have done
it except through the supernatural hand of God.
We will continue, as we
always have, to send you these messages for free, to pay for our own web site
hosting, to pay to send out e-mails, to financially help those in need from our
own paychecks. Why? Because we believe that we are to help those in NEED. We
don’t want to just say, “We will pray for you”. Love needs action.
I remember several years ago
I felt led to sow unto a certain TV evangelists’ ministry. I sowed seed because
I needed my needs met. I then realized I was on the ministers’ mailing list. I
constantly received mail asking for money. What really hurt me was a few months
later I got a “telemarketing” call from them asking if I could send them money
for starving people in another country.
The day they called I was lying in what could have been, but for the
Healing Grace of God, my deathbed. I had been on sick leave from my job for two
months. I am an only child and both of my parents died when I was a young
girl. I am an adult orphan. I had
no help, no one even offered to come and serve me a drink of water. My help, as
usual, came only from GOD. Therefore, I was hurt with this call and said to the
ministers’ Telemarketing Rep, “Sister, forgive me for saying this but we have
starving and sick people in this country. I am one of them; I went on to share
my story and ended by asking her if they could help ME a bit. She said “I will
pass it on to Pastor “so and so”.” I never heard from them again.
Right then and there I decided
to minister in “action” when and if God blessed me to do so.
In saying that Beloved, let
me assure you that we don’t send to everyone who asks of us. We have learned to
discern the Voice of God in giving, and we will continue to only give to those
He tells us to.
In return if God ever lays it
on your heart to help this ministry we sure would be blessed by it and so would
those we serve. In the past two years the saints of God have sent us a total of
150.00. Our outgo in the past two years from our own money has been in the
thousands of dollars. I don’t how we did it in the natural, but God provided it
when we needed it to help His people. We did that and He sent us more. It was
things like a rebate check from someone or a check stating we had “overpaid” a
bill. God is GOOD.
God has had it with some of
the money grabbers. God is bringing them to judgment.
God is getting ready to
promote some of you who have served Him out of love, and not for what you could
get for yourself.
God is not an ATM, folks.
God wants us to go and make
disciples, not millionaires. He is only going to bless you to be a blessing to
others.
How dare these arrogant men
and women of God make “messes” in his house.
A lot of folks lift up and
exalt these ministers. When satan
causes them to fall they take others with them.
I believe people begin to
think along the lines of the following, “Why should I stay Holy to God when
these pastors are committing immoral sins, and divorcing.”
When they divorce they break
the COVENANT they entered into with the Father. Unless there are situations in
their marriages regarding “adultery” He expects them to work things out.
I don’t tell women in abusive
situations to leave, just separate until this person is restored. Some don’t
want to be restored and in that case we must move on and stay HOLY unto God.
I am going to tell you this,
you need to take your eyes off people and put them only on God.
People are not perfect, they
are souls encased in flesh.
I am nothing special; I am
just a willing vessel. God used a donkey to talk to Balaam. I guess He can then
use this simple woman to talk to you.
To think that I am so
important to God that if I am not there His Kingdom will fall apart is
PRIDEFUL.
God can and will use anyone
He pleases.
I can be replaced in
Ministry. If I start “messing” in His House I need not think that He will need
my services anymore.
The most important thing you
need to know is that you were made to Praise and Worship the Lord. He died a
painful death nailed to a cross for you and me, because He loves us and he
wants us to live eternally in His Holy Place.
The most important thing I
can ever tell you are that I was a wretched mess and God lifted me up and made
something beautiful out of my life. He wants to do that for you too.
IN HIS SERICE and LOVE,
Pastor Cathie Miller