May I tell you something?

That is entirely a rhetorical question announced to let any readers know that I am about to drop some knowledge on you.  Not my "knowledge" mind you, GOD's knowledge, knowledge that I can assure you is Holy Ghost inspired.  I have a testimony.

What good is a testimony if you keep quiet? Keep it to yourself?  That's not a testimony, that's a secret.  I will not keep my life, my journey, my horrific experiences secret.  I am going to tell the world what you did to me.  Not to embarrass or hurt you or to extract revenge as you proclaim.  You have no ears to listen, no eyes to see, but there is a hungry mind in this world searching for an answer.

I wish there had been a Rachel Gwendolyn Doster in my childhood, in my youth.  But, that is not what GOD wanted for me, evidently.  Had I had a Rachel Gwendolyn Doster I would have freed myself from your long tentacles decades ago.  The Dear LORD needed me to experience a woman such as you.   I needed to be shaped, molded and purged.  I truly praise the LORD and I am humbled by His Goodness and Grace every day of my life.

A person that I love dearly said something the other day that disturbed me.  No, I have no anger for her but I did want to shake her.  I do want her to know better.  She is a young child, she has a right to "not know".  I did the same thing at her age.  I repeated ignorance I heard.  I believed a great deal of the ignorance that was instilled in me, taught to me by my "mother".

Be careful of ideas that you repeat, of philosophies that you accept as fact or true.  She is a pretty little girl, a young lady with a lot of promise if she will stop and listen to the right voice.  She said basically :"GOD don't put no more on you than you can bear."  There is a great deal of danger in holding that philosophy.

#1. What makes you think GOD is responsible for that burden?  Could it be your hard head and rebelliousness is the cause?

#2.  Make sure that you know that GOD only wants the best for you.  The cattle on a thousand hills is His.  He wants you to have life and to have it more abundantly.

#3. Every time you get out of His will, out of His Covenant you are going to suffer.  You will pay a price.  True it is hard to walk this road called life without bumping your head.   You are going to make some mistakes.  Some are going to make many.  Only a fool will keep making the same mistakes over and over.  Only a fool would lie and deny, suffer and then blame it on GOD.  We all do it.  I've done a lot of dumb things in my life.  I knew better but I was hoping for a better out come.   I asked GOD to send me a godly man.  I got tired of waiting and picked out one myself.  How did I know he was godly?  He ushered in the church.  Boy was that a mistake.  But GOD in His infinite wisdom blessed me with the most beautiful, brilliant daughter any mother could claim.

#4. Put on the whole armor of GOD!  Don't try to navigate this wicked world unprotected!  Say your prayers!  Every morning when you rise get on your knees and say the LORD"s Prayer.  That is not superstition.  That is reverence and honor.  That is respect and humility.  You claim ;"GOD is the head of my life!"  Do you mean it or are you just repeating something you heard?  Do you want to sound godly without being fully godly?  Do you think salvation is for old, square or lame people?

#5. There is a voice, a still small voice, it is in your ear, listen to it.  It is the voice of wisdom.  It is GOD trying to communicate to you.  Trying to guide you, trying to protect you.  Trust GOD.  Don't entertain demons.  Do not tolerate people that have a demonic spirit.  They only have one intention, to slay you.  Never overlook wrong doing.  Their evil manipulative nature is twenty-four/seven.  They have no good in them and they certainly don't want to see it in you.

Stay in His WORD children.  I want you to read Ephesians chapter one today.  It is important.  Remember; "Apart from Christ you are nothing."

May GOD's Grace, Mercy and Truth, engulf you, cloak you and keep you in Perfect Peace,
Rachel Gwendolyn Doster ( the exceedingly proud granddaughter of a great Patriarch, JEROME WALTERS)