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Malachi 3:4

2012-01-15T06:52:00.000-08:00

Malachi 3:3 says: 'He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver.'

This verse puzzled some women in a Bible study and they wondered what this statement meant about the character and nature of God ...

One of the women offered to find out the process of refining silver and get back to the group at their next Bible Study.

That week, the woman called a silversmith and made an appointment to watch him at work. She didn't mention anything about the reason for her interest beyond her curiosity about the process of refining Silver.

As she watched the silversmith, he held a piece of silver over the fire and let it heat up. He explained that in refining silver, one needed to hold the silver in the middle of the fire where the flames were hottest as to burn away all the impurities.

The woman thought about God holding us in such a hot spot; then she thought again about the verse that says: ' He sits as a refiner and purifier of silver.'

She asked the silversmith if it was true that he had to sit there in front of the fire the whole time.

The man answered that yes, he not only had to sit there holding the silver, but he had to keep his eyes on the silver the entire time it was in the fire. If the silver was left a moment too long in the flames, it would be destroyed.

The woman was silent for a moment. Then she asked the silversmith, 'How do you know when the silver is fully refined?'

He smiled at her and answered, ' Oh, that's easy -- when I see my image in it.'
If today you are feeling the heat of the fire, remember that God has his eye on you and will keep watching you until He sees His image in you.

Pass this on right now. This very moment, someone needs to know that God is watching over them.

Life is a coin. You can spend it anyway you wish, but you can only spend it once.'

Rules for beloved young adults and teenagers

2010-04-15T16:38:00.000-07:00

I love this! The author talks about how feel-good, politically correct teachings created a generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world. Too bad we really don’t know who said it in the first place!
Rule 1 : Life is not fair – get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6 : If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7 : Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now… They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8 : Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9 : Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10 : Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11 : Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one

The Company You Keep

2010-02-10T17:57:00.000-08:00

The Company You Keep

It Is Better To Be Alone Than In The Wrong Company

Tell me who your best friends are, and I will tell you who you are. If you run with wolves, you will learn how to howl.... You show me your friends....I will show you your future.

But, if you associate with eagles, you will learn how to soar to great heights.

A mirror reflects a man's face, but what he is really like is shown by the kind of friends he chooses.

The simple but true fact of life is that you become like those with whom you closely associate for the good and the bad.

The less you associate with some people, the more your life will improve.

Any time you tolerate mediocrity in others, it increases your mediocrity.

An important attribute in successful people is their impatience with negative thinking and negative acting people...

As you grow, your associates will change....Some of your friends will not want you to go on.

They will want you to stay where they are...Friends that don't help you climb will want you to crawl.

Your friends will stretch your vision or choke your dream...Those that don't increase you will eventually decrease you.
Consider This:

· Never receive counsel from unproductive people.

· Never discuss your problems with someone incapable of contributing to the solution, because those who never succeed themselves are always first to tell you how.

· Not everyone has a right to speak into your life.

· Don't follow anyone who's not going anywhere.

· With some people you spend an evening: with others you invest it.

· Be careful where you stop to inquire for directions along the road of life.

· Wise is the person who fortifies his life with the right friendships.
And most of all....Pray and let God lead you in everything you do

Be the kind of Christian....

2010-01-07T16:11:00.000-08:00

Be the kind of Christian who fights the good fight in spite of all the obsticles and ends up sliding into the throne room tattered, scrapped, bruised and bloodied with a big smile exclaiming, "Whow, Lord now that was one heck of a ride!!"

Pastor Jack Valentino

My Prayer for YOU!

2009-05-31T07:00:00.000-07:00

My Friend In Christ,
I just wanted you to know that I pray for You. I pray that You will want what God wants for you. But I can’t dream for you. One thing I have learned as a Christian is “You can’t dream for people.” We have to want what God wants for us. We have to surrender and commit ourselves to Christ. We have to surrender our desires, dreams and goals to God. His desires, goals and dreams for our life are so much better than we could ever imagine. We have to be willing to live a Holy life before God. We have to be willing to seek His face and His ways for our life. Are You Willing?
Let Us Pray: God I thank You for Your thoughts that You think toward me, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give me a future and a hope. Make me want what You Lord Jesus’ want for me. Let every desire that I have line up to the purpose You created me for. You have great plans for my life. You have a great future for me. Teach me how to call upon You and seek You with my whole heart for that future. I surrender my heart to You. If you find anything that should not be in my heart please deliver me.
Lord Jesus please give me the strength to endure every test, temptation, and struggle that comes my way. I know that I am going to be tested. I know that Satan will send temptations my way. Help me to pass each and every test. Teach me how, help me, make me resist Satan’s temptations. His job is to kill, steal, and destroy the wonderful plans You have for my life. So teach me how to resist everything that Satan sends my way. Teach me how to pray without ceasing. Teach me how to acknowledge You first Lord Jesus and allow You to direct my footsteps. Teach me how to obey You and stand strong in Your Word. Teach me how to worship You in spirit and in truth. Let there be no other god in my life but You. Give me wisdom and knowledge to live a Holy life before You. And Lord Jesus please do the same for the person who wrote this prayer, the one who cared about my walk with You to send me this prayer, and all those I love and care about.

We've changed our look

2009-03-27T09:05:00.000-07:00

We have changed our website at http://elishasmantle.com/
got some new buttons and made it look stream lined,up with the times if you may. I do my own website design and built it all by myself. I taught myself years ago by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. God gave me the idea of putting my experience on the internet. and I've been learning new things all the time. For many years I did not spend a penny on the website. everything was free back then in 1999. I still have less than two hundred dollars in programs. and the site is parked at Freeyellow.com cost me 79.00 a year.
If you are interested in making a website, or have a question please contact me at
mailto:webmaster@elishasmantle.com

How Many Zero's In A Billion?

2009-02-16T18:38:00.000-08:00

How many zeros in a billion?
This is too true to be funny.
The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner,
think about whether you want the 'politicians' spending YOUR tax money.
A billion is a difficult number to comprehend
,but one advertising agency did a good job
of putting that figure into some perspective in one of it's releases.
A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.
B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive.
C.A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.
D.A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.
E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes,
at the rate our governmentis spending it.
While this thought is still fresh in our brain...
let's take a look at New Orleans ..
It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.
Louisiana Senator,Mary Landrieu (D) is presently
asking Congress for 250 BILLION DOLLARS
to rebuild New Orleans .
Interesting number...what does it mean?
A.Well... if you are one of the 484,674 residents of New Orleans (every man, woman, and child) you each get $516,528.
B.Or... if you have one of the 188,251 homes in New Orleans , your home gets $1,329,787.
C.Or... if you are a family of four...your family gets $2,066,012. Washington, D. C
HELLO! Are all your calculators broken??
Building Permit Tax
CDL License Tax Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
(Fed)Federal Unemployment Tax
(FU TA) Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel Permit Tax
Gasoline Tax
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax
Inventory Tax
IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Luxury Tax
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Service charge taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Tax (Truckers)
Sales Taxes Recreational Vehicle Tax
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax
(SUTA) Telephone Federal Excise Tax
Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax
Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax
Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax
Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax
Telephone State and Local Tax
Telephone Usage Charge Tax
Utility Tax
Vehicle License Registration T ax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft Registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax
(And to think, we left British Rule to avoid so many taxes)
STILL THINK THIS IS FUNNY?Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago...
and our nation was the most prosperous in the world.We had absolutely no national debt...
We had the largest middle class in the world... and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What happened?Can you spell 'politicians!' And I still have to press '1' for English. enough already........

Does this bother you?

2009-01-31T12:18:00.000-08:00

Letter by a Florida teacher............... A teacher speaks This is a subject close to my heart.

Do you know that we have adult students at the school where I teach who are not US citizens and who get the PELL grant, which is a federal grant (no pay back required) plus other federal grants to go to school?
One student from the Dominican Republic told me that she didn't want me to find a job for her after she finished my program, because she was getting housing from our housing department and she was getting a PELL grant which paid for her total tuition and books, plus money leftover.

She was looking into WAIT which gives students a CREDIT CARD for gas to come to school, and into CARIBE which is a special program (check it out - I did) for immigrants and it pays for child care and all sorts of needs while they go to school or training.
The one student I just mentioned told me she was not going to be a US Citizen because she plans to return to the Dominican Republic someday and that she 'loves HER country.'
I asked her if she felt guilty taking what the US is giving her and then not even bothering to become a citizen and she told me that it doesn't bother her, because that is what the money is there for!

I asked the CARIBE administration about their program and if you ARE a US Citizen, you don't qualify for their program. And all the while, I am working a full day, my son-in-law works more than 60 hours a week, and everyone in my family works and pays for our education. Something is wrong here.
I am sorry but after hearing they want to sing the National Anthem in Spanish - enough is enough.
Nowhere did they sing it in Italian, Polish, Irish (Celtic), German or any other language because of immig ration.
It was written by Francis Scott Key and should be sung word for word the way it was written. The news broadcasts even gave the translation -- not even close. Sorry if this offends anyone but this is MY COUNTRY.

IF IT IS YOUR COUNTRY SPEAK UP --

Is this where we are going?

2009-01-29T16:17:00.000-08:00

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom.

What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation.
You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
~~~~~ The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 - 2005

(new) 2009@ elishasmantle.com

2009-01-10T16:33:00.000-08:00

This year I updated elishasmantle.com. Gave it a face lift and added some new material to the lessons.
We also have made some new friends and have seen God move in the lives of several friends.

One of my friends sent me an article by Gary Smalley, So good in fact I posted it on elishasmantle.com. It can be found under what's new link.

The article is Six Biblical Steps To transform Your Mind and Ignite Your Fulfillment In Christ.
I find it practical, it really works if you work it!

You Be Blessed.
LWood

elishasmantle.com

2008-04-20T15:25:00.000-07:00

Elishasmantle.com is a website I started in 1999 after I was introduced to this disapline.
I spent two years building the site, it is huge! It has many neat links, flash animation, movies, chatroom, lessons in prayer deliverance and more.
Here is a link:
http://elishasmantle.com

my first internet movie

2008-04-20T15:19:00.000-07:00

I made a movie a couple years ago and it is simple and featured on koolmoves website a flash software developer. here is a link to it:
http://elishasmantle.com/suey7/newmovie

IF yuou like roses here is alink to a nice movie gallery of roses:
http://elishasmantle.com/rose2.htm

Why do we need prayer deliverance ministries?

2008-04-20T14:38:00.000-07:00

Christian healing does not come by making a broken thing good enough to work, but rather by delivering us from the power of that broken thing so that it can no longer rule us,and by teaching us to trust Gods' righteousness to shine in and through that very thing.The fundemental laws of God are written into the universe and affect all of our lives as surely as gravity. We are all subjec t to these laws whether or not we believe them.When we transgress them,we set in motion forces that must be reaped by simple, impersonal law (impersonal law is that which was created without bias.gravity is such a law, no matter who jumps off the roof they go down.) These laws are absolute and eternal. In our sinful responces to wounding, we began early to develope patterns of behavior that causes us to reap in adulthood and sometimes before, those things that we hate.
Four basic laws founded on the Word of God which have become the foundation of this entire discipline:1. Honoring/dishonoring parents Duet.5:162. Judging and becoming what you judge Matt.7:1,2, Rom.2:13. Sowing/reaping Gal.6:74. Unforgiveness Matt.6:12,14You may add to the principle of increase Hosea 8:7 and James 1:15 We plant seeds, but we reap a harvest.The most important thing to remember in this whole process is that God cannot do two things:1. He can not over-ride our will2. He can not forgive us in areas in which, we have not forgivenThe laws of God are both natural and spiritual:
NATURAL: In physics, "For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."In Algebra and Chemistry. "every equation/formula must balance."SPIRITUAL: " Do not judge, lest you be judged" Matt. 7:1,2..... whatever a man sows this he will also reap." Gal.6:7
CHRIST HAS ACCOMPLISHED OUR SALVATION AND PERFECTION:however, our carnal nature, slain at the cross, refuses to stay dead- it springs back to life: " See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitter root of bitterness SPRINGING UP causes trouble, and by it many be defiled." Heb.12:15
JESUS SPOKE TO HIS DISCIPLES IN LUKE 6:Take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brothers eye, 42.bad fruit comes from bad roots. 43What is in the heart comes out the mouth. 45Even from the womb the wicked go astray; from the womb they are wayward and speak lies. Psalms 58:3You have neither heard nor understood; from of old your ear has not been open. Well do I know how treacherous you are?; you were called a rebel from birth. Isaiah 48:8The habits, patterns,and structures are the fruit i.e., anger, rage, sabotage, fear, one bad relationship after another, always the victim, negative expectations, ect.
THE ROOT IS ULTIMATELY JUDGEMENTS AND UNFORGIVENESS.THE SEED THAT IS PLANTED GERMINATES FROM: PAIN, FEAR, AND OR ANGER,SINS, JUDGEMENTS, AND UNFORGIVENESS NEED TO BE CONFESSED, REPENTED OF AND WASHED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST.STRUCTURES,HABITS, AND PATTERNS MUST BE PUT TO DEATH ON THE CROSS..Bring Back to Life
Through love we help to establish and restore true Christian Identity, rather than strong self- image.
The Struggle for self-image:
I work on it .I build it. I am necessarily self-centered, even in good works. I suffer from the "Nebuchadnezzar syndrone" I am vunerable to the accuser.
The Glory of Christian identity:
God builds me. 1 Peter 2:5
I rest in Him. Heb.4:10
I am self-emptied. Phil.2:5-8
I am free to set others free. Gal.5:1,13
I am an overcomer. Phil.3:20,21
I am a sinner saved by Grace. Eph.2:8,9
I am loved ; I have treasure, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalms 139:14
In him I can do all things Phil. 4:13
2 Corithians Chapter 4
Speaks so clearly about our need to continue on a daily basis to bring our flesh to death on the cross. Pride of life takes so many different forms.When we have experienced some deliverance, and we recieve some training to help others recieve theirs, if we are not careful and ever mindful we ourselves slip into the mode that says,"I am all fixed! Now I am good enough to reach out and fix others."We won't be fixed until Jesus comes. Don't fall into this trap.When you reach out to minister and you see people set free and walk free; before you reach around to pat yourself on the back, take a moment to remember that there were a group of people in matthew 7:22 who were very pleased with them selves, and what they did for Christ.( What they did was ask their father for money, so that they could bring Jesus a gift, and then take credit for everything themselves.)It is not what we do for Jesus, it is what we allow Jesus to do through us.

OLD TESTAMENT
Psalm 23 -- The Lord is my shepherd, I shall lack nothing. He makes me to lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he restores my soul. He guides me in paths of righteousness for his names sake. Even though I walk through the shadow of the valley of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and love (mercy] will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.
NEW TESTAMENT
Matthew 9:16 -- 'No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, for the patch will pull away from the garment, making the tear worse.Matthew 12:4345 -- "When an evil spirit comes out of a man, it goes through arid places seeking rest and does not find it. Then it says, 'I will return to the house I left. When it arrives, it finds the house unoccupied, swept clean and put in order. Then it goes and takes with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there. And the final condition of that man is worse than the first. That is how it will be with this wicked genera-fion."Matthew 13:24-30 -- Jesus told them another parable:"The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while everyone was sleeping, his enemy came and sowed weeds among the wheat, and went away. When the wheat sprouted, and formed heads, then the weeds also appeared. The owner's servants came to him and said, Sir, didn't you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?''An enemy did this, he replied."The servants asked him, 'Do you want us to go and pull them up?''No,' he answered, because while you are pulling the weeds, you may root up the wheat with them. Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned, then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn."'
Matthew 16:19-- "1 will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."Luke 6:42 (NAS) --' ... take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye."Luke 6:4348 -- "No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thombushes, or grapes from briers. The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of his heart his mouth speaks."Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say? I will show you what he is like who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice. He is like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the foundation on rock. When a flood came, the torrent struck that house but could not shake it, because it was well built."John 15:1-2 -- '1 am the true vine and my Father is the gardener. He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he trims clean so that it will be even more fruitful."John 19:30-- When he had received the drink, Jesus said, "It is finished." With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.John 20:23 -- "If you forgive anyone his sins, they are for-given; if you do not forgive them, they are not forgiven.'Romans 6:6 (NAS) -- . . . our old self was crucified with Him, that our body of sin might be done away withRomans 6:11-14 (NAS) --. . . consider (reckon) your-selves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. . do not let sin reign . . . do not go on presenting the members of your body to sin.., but present yourselves to God as those alive from the dead.
Hebrews 3:12--See to it, brothers, that none of you has:sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.Hebrews 4:10-- . .for anyone who enters God's rest also rests from his own work, just as God did from his.Hebrews 10: 10-14 -- . . . we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.James 5:16-- Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.I Peter 1:5 -- ... [you] through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.I Peter 2:5 -- .. . you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.I John 1:7-9-- ...if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin, If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.I John 3:2 -- Dear friends, now we are children of God. and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall he like him, for we shall see him as he is.I John 3:6,9-- No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him. ... No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because Gods seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.
I Corinthians 15:31 (NAS) -- I die daily.Galatians 2:20 -- I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.Galatiam -- chapters 3 and 4Galatians 5:1 --It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand finn, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.Galatians 5:24 --Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires.Ephesians 2:6 -- And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ JesusEphesians 4:12 --. . . to prepare Gods people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.Phiippians 2:5-8-- Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: who, being in very nature Clod, did not consider equality with God something to be gasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death--even death on a cross!Philippians 4:10-13 -- I rejoice greatly in the Lord that at last you have renewed your concern for me. Indeed, you have been concerned, but you had no opportunity to showit. I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.Colossians 3:3, 9-10-- For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God ... Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator.