Anna VanDuyn is out of the hospital as of last night! Her blood pressure came right down to normal.
I was blessed with money to add to my wardrobe and accessories! …(you ladies will appreciate this!) After sowing some money into someone else for some clothing and accessories, immediately the day after, I was blessed with money specifically to go towards wardrobe and accessories! God is so good …ALL THE TIME! – Pastor Diana
Arthur Salga is in Heaven, healed and whole! On Tuesday night, May 4th, Pastor and I went back into the hospital to visit Joyce and Arthur as the family was gathering. We had prayed earlier that day that there would be assurance of Salvation for Arthur. Ten minutes before we got to his room, he woke up, alert and clear minded. He spoke and even joked with his sons. He had not been that way for a couple of days. They had sedated him quite heavily with morphine earlier…so we know this was a miracle for him to be so alert and awake! We were able to take that window of opportunity and pray the Salvation Prayer with Arthur. He is now Born Again and living with His Heavenly Father in Heaven!
On Friday night, Sophia Kassay come over and helped Joyce with calling family members in Hungary. Sophia speaks fluent Hungarian. Both of Arthurs’ sister’s in Hungary said the Salvation Prayer. On Saturday morning at the Ladies Tea, Joyce Salga’s son’s girlfriend, Mandy, also received the Lord. Praise God for family salvations!
‘But thanks be to God, Who in Christ always leads us in triumph [as trophies of Christ's victory] and through us spreads and makes evident the fragrance of the knowledge of God everywhere…’ 2 Corinthians 2:14 AMP
In Safeway the other day, I ran into someone that I had worked with at Teen Challenge many months before. It was a short conversation and this gentleman told me things were going well with him etc… We exchanged a few words, and there was a phrase I reminded him of, just in passing as we were talking. It was just a couple of words, nothing that I thought was really that significant. A month later, he called me and left a message. He had been reading a devotion that day that made him think of me and the words I had spoken to him that day in Safeway almost a month ago. He admitted that he had lied that day at Safeway…that things weren’t going well at all. On the message he left, he wanted me to know that he had readmitted himself into Freedom’s Door (Short Term Recovery House)… and that he was now in fact doing well…” I praise God for those random meetings, those divine appointments. One Word surely can make a difference! How important is it to take the time to ‘chat’ with people? – Diana Tripke
“I will call upon the LORD, who is worthy to be praised; So shall I be saved from my enemies.” – Psalm 18:3
“I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works.” – Psalm 9:1
Are you in POSITION? …Are you READY? …ASSEMBLE! …It’s WAR! We are NOT WHIMPS! We ARE MIGHTY WARRIORS! – Chip Brim
Chip’s powerful messages encouraged, challenged and empowered each of us to take our rightful place in the army of the Lord!
Thank you Chip! We praise God for the divine connections we have!
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” -Marianne Williamson
Greetings VLF Family, this quote goes well with the verse, Isaiah 60:1
‘ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you--rise to a new life]!
Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!’
Confession: VLF is a strong church, with strong members, spiritually, mentally and physically. VLF is made up of mighty men and woman, children and youth! The enemy can touch us NOT! We take our place as joint heirs with Christ. IN Christ we can do ALL things! We have HIS mind, HIS wisdom and HIS ability!
‘Acknowledge’ the Holy Spirit in You. ‘Accept’ His indwelling & input, ‘Adjust’/Act Out’ what He says to us!
That was the message we heard last Sunday. We ARE that Glorious Church! Let’s SHINE for Him!
Dear VLF Family, this verse keeps rolling over and over in my spirit…So, I share it with you!
‘Be still, and know that I am God…’ Psalm 46:10 (KJV)
“Step out of the traffic! Take a long, loving look at me, your High God,
above politics, above everything.” (AMP)
Confession:
VLF is a strong body of believers that know WHO their God is! They know HOW to take their place IN Christ. They RULE and REIGN with Him. ALL and EVERYTHING is UNDER that NAME of Jesus. VLF knows how to use that NAME. There is POWER in that NAME! VLF is that glorious church in THIS DAY, for THIS TIME, for THIS YEAR. VLF says, ‘THIS IS THE YEAR’ for me!