Hello, Everyone! Greetings and Blessing in the Lord be unto you!

Every Sunday, I purposely set aside some extra special time to spend with the Lord. I get the 3 translations of the Bible that I have (Amplified, NIV Scofield Reference Edition and the King James versions) and all the prayers that I have typed up and printed off. I also keep a printed copy of the visions given to me and the promises and scriptures that I have been guided to by the Holy Spirit. Part of my aggressive spiritual warfare, against the enemy of our soul, is to remind him and read out loud the promises, scriptures and visions from the One who has defeated him and won for us the victory! Glory!

Jeremiah 29:11-14

“ For I know the thoughts and plans that I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon Me, and you will come and pray to Me, and I will hear and listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all our heart. I will be found by you”, declares the Lord.

On Good Friday, April 10, 2009, I was once again directed to this scripture. I love it and it has been one of my favorite scriptures my whole life. I also know, whenever the Holy Spirit brings it to my mind, the Lord is getting ready to bring a mighty move in my life.

The following Sunday was Easter. During my special praise, prayer and worship with the Lord, I was reading in all four Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) the scriptures and events leading up to the crucifixion of our Lord. I was directed to Luke 21:34-36.

Here Christ is speaking to His followers about things to come.

“ Be careful and be on guard or your hearts will be weighted down, overburdened, depressed with headaches and nausea, of self-indulgence, drunkenness, the anxieties of life or the worldly worries and cares pertaining to the business of this life” (Does this sound like most of us at some time or another during or life? I have so been there.) Jesus goes on to say “that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.”

“Always be on watch (be discreet, attentive and ready) praying that you may have the full strength and ability to escape what is about to happen or take place and to stand before the Son of Man.”

The Lord has plans for us. The defeated enemy of our soul also has plans for us. Christ is telling us how to always listen for His voice and hear Him. He has all knowledge and knows what is about to happen to us. He also knows what we need to do to get through and sometimes totally avoid what is headed our way. The enemy of our soul is always trying to keep us in a position to where we cannot hear the voice of the Lord because we are so weighted down with the junk that he has for us. The result is always the same: things close in on us and we are caught in the enemy’s trap.

I asked the Lord what He means in this passage that we may be able “to stand before the Son of Man”. The answer that I heard is this: Jesus gives us the ability and the strength to overcome the power of the enemy. We receive it from Him by spending time with Him and being in His presence. (“Be strong in the Lord, be empowered through your union with Him; draw your strength from Him, that strength which His boundless might provides.” Ephesians 6:10 AMP.)

If we are abiding in the secret place of the Most High, we can always hear His voice. It is when we are letting the enemy get into our heads and letting the busyness of this life occupy our thoughts, actions and decisions that we get ourselves into trouble and miss what the Lord is trying to say and do for us. When we allow the enemy and what he has to offer a place in our lives, his noise is screaming louder in our ears than the Lord is in our hearts. Jesus let us know that we can get the enemy out and prohibit his entrance in the first place.

Jesus is letting us know that what He did on the cross was more than what we realize. He gave Satan the final blow that sealed his destiny. Christ is totally victorious and freely gives that same victory to all those that believe in Him.

“Behold! I (Christ) have given you authority and power…and the physical and mental strength and ability over all the power the enemy possesses, and nothing shall in any way harm you.” (Luke 10:19 AMP)

Easter…Glory to God!

In His Service,

Robbie Goodwin

Greetings in the Lord Most High! Glory to God in the Highest! Let everything that has breath Praise the Lord!

I have a favorite Christmas card that I have saved from years ago and always display it each Christmas among our decorations. My mother gave me one of her treasured Christmas decorations this year – three porcelain wise men presenting their gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh. This card is proudly displayed behind them to remind my family of God’s many gifts to us-especially the gift of His Son to redeem us back to Himself.

wisemen card

The cover and verses on this card are like this:

“Through Him we can become what we were meant to be…

What a Gift we’ve been given! God loves us much that He took on our humanity, walked with us for a while, spoke and ate with us, touched, laughed, cried, and shared our joy. When he died and lived again and was lifted up, he did not leave us alone.

His comfort wraps us up; His Spirit lives in us.” “…I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.” John 10:10

Hello Everyone. Greetings in the Lord!

In a previous writing, I wrote MY Purpose part 1. I am working on My Purpose part 2. In order for you to understand what I keep talking about, when I reference that my husband and I are in our wilderness place, I thought you probably should read the article that I wrote back in 2006.

When I first started writing online, I was doing a Daily Inspiration writing. This is what I shared with everyone as the Daily Inspiration for Friday, August 18, 2006. Maybe it will explain our Wilderness Place. Many of you may be in your wilderness place, back in “Egypt” or even in your “Promised Land”. Well, it is now October 2008 and we are still in our wilderness place. There has been a lot that God has had to deal with us about. More things than I could ever imagine in the farthest stretch of my human imagination.

It is beyond words, how much more free I feel because of all the baggage that has been taken away from our lives. Soaring with eagles’ wings is a good feeling. I desire this for you as well. Please be encouraged when you are being refined like silver in the Refiners fire. It is hurtful for the moment but when we come through we can be like those in Isaiah 40:31: “But those who wait for the Lord [who expect, look for, and hope in Him] shall change and renew their strength and power; they shall lift their wings and mount up [close to God] as eagles [mount up to the sun]; they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint or become tired.”

Hope you enjoy this writing and may you soar and fly!:

Daily Inspiration for Friday, Aug. 18, 2006 by Robbie Goodwin

The Wilderness Place

Deuteronomy 28-31.

The Lord is doing some amazing things in my husband’s and my life. I compare our lives to the children of the children Israel when God led them out of Egypt, in the wilderness and then into the Promised Land. Alabama was our Egypt. There is nothing wrong with Alabama. I was born and raised there. My husband Terry was raised there as well. We met and married in 1976, lived there for several years after we married and 2 of our 3 children were born there. We spent over 20 years there and it was a place that God never intended for us to be. He took us out once and we came back to “Egypt” when He wanted us to stay in North Carolina. We didn’t realize that at that time but we know it now. He had a plan for our lives then. He still does. Phil. 1:6 says,” Be confident of this very thing, that He which has begun a good work in you will complete it.” God is so faithful. The work that He started all those years ago, He is now in the process of completing in our lives. He patiently waited on us to get to the place in our lives that we were ready to listen.

He has brought us here to our “wilderness” place to do His work in us. The wilderness place in a person’s life is where God cleanses a person, removes all traces of Egypt. Everything and everyone that is familiar isn’t there anymore. What used to work and has always worked in the past won’t work anymore. The same old bag of tricks that you can pull stuff out of a hat and still make it through won’t work anymore. God brings you to the point that all you have to rely on is Him. He wants to remove anything and everything in our lives that would possibly hinder us from totally 100% relying on and depending on Him.

We have come so far. Neither Terry nor myself realized how much we depended on other things and not on God until He brought us here and started working on us. Let me tell you, it has not been an easy ride either! But, Glory to God, Christ be Praised!!! It is a life that I can’t even begin to describe when you get to the point that you realize that God is all that you need. Christ is the Truth, He tells the Truth so we can believe everything without question that is said in His Word because He is the Word!

Now you know why God has led me to start the Daily Inspiration ministry to others. We definitely have a story to tell from our personal experiences with Him. If you belong to Him you have a story to tell, too. After all, that is what it is all about- accepting Christ, living totally for God, following the Holy Spirit’s guidance and telling others about Him.

We are not quite ready yet to go to the “Promised Land” that God has prepared for us. Remember the “Promised Land” is the place that God wants you to be in His perfect plan for your life; whether it be an actual move to another place, as it is with us, a job change, a change in what you are doing, another church home, some form of ministry or work that He wants you to do for Him or something that He wants to teach or reveal to you. This is so that He can refine you, teach you what He wants you to know, get every bit of Egypt out of you, get you out of your comfort zone and stop depending on the familiar and totally depend on Him.

Like He did with the children of Israel, when we are ready, God takes us to that Promised Land place to Bless Us!! When Egypt is gone from us and all we need is Him, then God takes us to our Promised Land. There is more to it though…we have to possess it. If God didn’t prepare us like this, we wouldn’t be able to possess the blessings and handle them. It would be too overwhelming and we would fall again. We also have to continue to look to Him totally or we will fall again right back to the Egypt place and loose our blessings and be in bondage again.

Terry and I are not quite ready for our Promised Land but God has let us know enough about it that we are anxiously looking forward to possessing it! I have spend the last 6 days in prayer and fasting, being taught in His Word and hearing from Him. I know and declare with all that is within me that He does what He says and having unquenchable faith in Him is all that we need because He is all that we need.

In His Service,

Robbie Goodwin

One of my duties here at work is to be a Benefits Plan Representative for our company. We have all kinds of wonderful benefits that are here for us – Health Insurance, Dental and Vision Insurance, Short term and Long term disability Insurance, Stock purchase options, 401K and other retirement plans. All of these things will only be of a benefit to those that choose to take advantage of them. God Himself has a benefit package for His children. Just like the benefit package that employers offer, we need to choose to take advantage of what He is offering us for God’s Benefit Package to be of benefit to us. Some of the benefits are listed in

Psalm 103. Let’s go over those listed here:

Psalm 103:
V. 1-He forgives all our sins.
V. 2-He heals all our diseases.
V. 3-He redeems our lives from destruction.
V. 4-He crowns us with loving-kindness and tender mercies.
V. 5-He satisfies our mouths with good things so that our youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
V. 6-He executes righteousness and judgment for us against oppression. He sets us free.
V. 7-He makes known His ways to us.
V. 8-He gives us His grace and mercy in times of need.
V.10 & 11–He hasn’t dealt with us according to our sins but as high as the heaven is above the earth, that’s how great His mercy is toward those that fear Him.
V. 12- As far as the east is from the west, that ‘s how far He has removed our transgressions from us.
V.13 & 14- As a father takes pity on his children, so the Lord does to those that love Him. For he knows and remembers that we are just made of dust.
V.17-18- But the mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting and His righteousness extends even unto our children’s children, to those that keep His covenant and remembers to do His commandments.
V. 19-The Lord has prepared His throne in heaven and His kingdom rules over all (We are part of His kingdom).
V. 20- His angels, mighty in strength, do His commandments, listening to the voice of His word. “He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways. They shall bear you up in their hands, so that you don’t even dash your foot against a stone.” Ps. 91:11-12  Also,
Ps. 34:7. says “ The Angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear Him, who revere and worship Him with awe, and each one of them He delivers.”  This is no small thing. Having an angel protect us is a great blessing and benefit.

There are so many benefits in God’s Benefit package that I could literally write chapters on them. Here are but just a few of the many items in God’s Benefit Package:

• He cares about us and wants to exalt us if we will humble ourselves under His mighty hand.I Pet.5:6&7: ‘Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time. Casting all your care upon Him, for He cares for you.”
• He gives us good things to think about. Phil.4:8With Him we can do all things. Phil.4:13 “I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.”
• He supplies all of our needs. Phil.4:19 “But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”

How did God say that our needs would be supplied? Through Christ Jesus. Jesus said in John 14: 13&14 “You can ask for anything in my name, and I will do it, because the work of the Son brings glory to the Father…” (More on asking and receiving, faith and believing at a later time. God is giving me a whole chapter to write on this subject.)

Luke 6:38 “Give and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down and shaken together and running over shall men give unto your bosom. For with the same measure that you mete (or give), it shall be measured to you again.”All things are possible with God. Matt. 19:26 ” with men this is impossible but with God all things are possible.”
In Deuteronomy 28, the whole chapter is about what God will do if we “harken diligently unto the voice of the Lord God to observe and do His commandments”.
v. 1 God will set ups high above all the nations of the earth.
v. 2 All these blessings will actually chase us down and overtake us!
v. 3 We will be blessed wherever we go- in the city or in the country.
v. 4 Our children, our bodies and all that we have that is alive will be blessed.
v. 5 We will have plenty of food.
v. 6 Blessed we will be when we come in and when we go out.
v. 7 The Lord will cause our enemies (anyone that is against us) to be defeated before our face; they will come out against us one way and flee before us seven ways. If you are living for the Lord, there will be those that are against you.
v. 8 The Lord will actually command His blessings upon us in our storage places (such as bank accounts, savings accounts, etc.) and in all (not some but all) that we undertake.
v. 9 God will establish us as a Holy people-set apart to Himself! (Can you imagine this? I’m excited!)
v. 10 All people that know us will see that we are called by the name and in the presence of the Lord and will be afraid to mess with us! (In our evil world system today, this is a big deal.)
v. 11 Not only will we have prosperity but this verse says that we will have a surplus of prosperity.
v. 12 The Lord not only will open to us His treasury, but this verse says He will give us His good
treasury!  We will have rain when we need it, and all the work of our hands will be blessed! We will lend and not borrow! Read that one again-lend and not borrow!
v. 13 We will be the head and not the tail; we will be above only and not beneath, if we heed the Lord’s commandments.

Are you excited yet? We can enjoy these benefits everyday starting right now! Regardless of what the world’s economy looks like, God has His own economic package. Wow! I understand His retirement plan is out of this world, too!
In His Service,
Robbie Goodwin

Humility is total dependence on God; a total submission to God so that he can have His way and do His will.  Our pride must go for the power of God to be released in us.  Humility is seeing ourselves as God sees us. God wants His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. This can only be accomplished with humility. It is my prayer to get myself out of God’s way so that He can have His. Below are some thoughts from The Word about being Humble:

Humilty

IPet. 5:5-6 …be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time.  The next verse goes on to say “Cast all your care upon Him for He cares for you.”

• Isaiah 57:15 God dwells with the humble.
• Phil. 2:8 Jesus humbled Himself.
• John 15:5 Without Him we can do nothing
  
• Phil. 4:14 With Him we can do all things.
• James 4:10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
• Luke 14:11 For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
• Matt. 11:29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
• Psalm 25:9 He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
• Psalm 147:6 The LORD sustains the humble but casts the wicked to the ground
• Psalm 149:4 For the LORD takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with salvation.
• Isaiah 2:17 The arrogance of man will be brought low and the pride of men humbled; the LORD alone will be exalted in that day
• Num. 12:3 Now Moses was a very humble man, more humble than anyone else on the face of the earth.
• Deut. 8:2 Remember how the LORD your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands.
• 2 Chr. 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
• Job 8:7 Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be

Lord, I want to be the humble one that you talk about in Isaiah 66:1-2:

“Thus says the Lord: Heaven is My throne, and the earth is My footstool. For all these things My hand has made, and so all these things have come into being by and for Me, says the Lord. BUT this is the man to whom I will look and have regard: he who is humble and of a broken or wounded spirit, and who trembles at My Word and reveres My commands.”

In His Service,

Robbie Goodwin

On September 03, 2008, my husband Terry and I will celebrate 32 years of marriage together. I would like to share with all of you a prayer that I wrote for him on July 7, 2006. Marriage is something that many people do not take seriously in  our present society today. However, God changes not and He has always held marriage to be a blessed and sacred union.

Marraige

As I have shared with you, we are in our wilderness place. We have really, really experienced first hand just how fierce the enemy can come against God’s people. Remember that our warfare is “not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers against rulers of darkness in this present world”. My husband and I know this because of all the things that have happened to us and have come against us. I have gotten to the point that I can see with Spirit eyes and discern just what is at work behind every conversation and thing that happens in mine and my husband’s life. I pray that you will seek His will and His ways to be able to do the same thing in your own lives and marriages. What He does for us, He will do for you. Only ask and believe. “…According to your faith and trust and reliance on the power invested in Me, be it done to you.” Matt. 9:29

God has always had a plan. That plan has not changed. The enemy of our soul has been so successful in diverting our attention down through time that most of us don’t realize just what that plan really is. If we can just “get it” and get a hold on His plan for unity between a husband and a wife, there is no stopping God’s plan through them. The enemy of our soul knows this; he just doesn’t want people to realize and know this. I get it. It is my heart’s desire for everyone else to get it, too. God is working on me to write a book in the future about His plan for unity and oneness between a husband and a wife. There is power in this union and oneness. Please pray for me that this book will be completed in God’s timing. Please pray for Terry and me that our marriage will be strong and God’s hand of protection remain around us.

I encourage you to print this prayer and substitute your spouse’s name in place of my husband’s name. If you will truly give God your mate and pray for them and for yourself the way He intended for us to do, incredible results will happen.

For My Husband Terry

Terry, I pray for God’s protection upon your heart- the one that beats and the one that feels, your life, health, finances, your soul and your mind. That He will shield you from the lies of the enemy or our soul and that you can clearly discern between God’s voice and any other voice.

Sweetheart, it is my heart’s desire that you will be able to see yourself as I see you and as God sees you. You have been given so many unique qualities and gifts that make up your personality. I appreciate them so much and pray that you will appreciate them the way that I do. Know that I trust you and I have trusted God completely with you and only hope that you will come to have as much confidence in yourself as I have in you.

I pray that God will open doors for you that no man can shut; that the work of your hands will be blessed and bring prosperity and great fulfillment as God has promised. “Be confident of this very thing, that He which has begun a good work in you will complete it” Phil. 1:6.

Honey, please remember the scripture that the Lord personally gave you on April 13, 2006: “Behold, I (Christ) have given you authority and power…and physical and mental strength and ability over all the power that the enemy possesses, and nothing shall in any way harm you” Luke 10:19.

By that power and authority, I command that all thoughts from the enemy be removed from my husband’s mind because Terry Goodwin has the mind of Christ. May Terry constantly live in clarity with absolutely no confusion in his mind, because God is not the author of confusion but of power, love and a sound mind. Lord, help Terry to see the power that you offer him access to and help him to learn how to use it just like you are showing me how to use it.

Lord, make Terry strong where the enemy perceives weakness and help him to rise above and conquer anything that erects itself as a stronghold in his life. Establish a wall of protection around, above and below him. Continue to set Your angels charge over his care as You have promised in Your Word (Ps. 91). Fill Terry up so full of Your Spirit that there is no room for anything that is not of you.

You have said to call upon You in our trouble and You will deliver us (Ps. 50:15). I call upon You now to work deliverance in my husband’s life. Deliver Terry from anything that binds him. Deliver him from depression, anxiety, fear, the enemy of his soul, temptation, financial problems, hurts from the past, stress, health problems and anything else that may ever try to bind him in any way.

Lord, I pray that You would protect our marriage from anything that would harm or destroy it. Shield our marriage from the evil plans and desires of others, from dangerous situations, from financial ruin, or anything else that poses a threat to our marriage. May there never be any thoughts of divorce or separation in either of our hearts. Give us a passion and an unquenchable desire for each other that is stronger than it has ever been. Please set us free from anything from the past-whether it be hurts, bad memories, financial mistakes, or anything else that would dampen or hinder our future.

God, let absolutely nothing be allowed to come into our hearts or our lives that would threaten our marriage in any way. I pray that we will be so committed to Your ways, Lord, that our commitment to each other will not waver, no matter what comes against us; that we will only cling tighter to one another. I pray that our love for each other will only grow stronger with each passing day. Continue to help me, Lord, to be the wife that Terry needs. Show me how to communicate love to him in ways that he needs it. Please keep teaching me when to speak, what to say and when to just shut up and leave it with You, Lord. Bring more and more unity between us, making us one in everything we do; not separate or independent in any way. This prevents the enemy of our souls from ever driving a wedge between us again.

I claim Deuteronomy 28 over our lives: that we will be will be blessed when we come in and when we go out, everything that we set our hands to do will prosper, our enemies (anyone that is against us) will be defeated before us and will flee before us 7 different ways, that we will be a holy people set apart for You, we will be the head and not the tail, we will always have a bounty of food and things to eat, your blessings will chase us down and overtake us, our barns (our bank accounts and other storage places) will be filled, we will lend and not borrow all the rest of the days of our lives, that our children and grandchildren will be blessed.

I claim Psalm 91, Your words of protection, over Terry and his household. Raise Terry Goodwin up to take his rightful place as the mighty man that you have planned for him to be and as the wise head of his household. Restore seven fold the years the locusts have eaten. Let him know that he is, has been and will continue to be a wonderful Dad that is very loved by his children.

Dear Lord, I am so thankful and know that I am the most blessed woman alive because You have loved me enough to have given me the privilege of being Terry Goodwin’s wife and his mate. I thank you, God, for giving me this opportunity and giving me this as my reward and my portion in this life.

This is my prayer, in Jesus’ Name,

AMEN.

Terry, I am your loving wife for all eternity, Love, Robbie

In His Service,

Robbie Goodwin

“Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Absolute Guarantee

Now we have this hope as a sure and stedfast anchor of the soul-it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it- a hope that reaches farther and enters into the very certainty of the Presence within the veil (which is God Himself).” Heb. 6:11 and 19

Wow! In our crazy world today, there are very few things with an absolute guarantee. I do not know of anything that is guaranteed like this. Hope is an anchor that will not break down, it’s free of defects and comes with a warranty that is backed up by God Himself!
Are you ready for something that is real and will not disappoint you and can take anything that we can throw at it? Hope comes with a guarantee that is out of this world!  After all, He is the God of all hope. (Romans 15:13)

In His Service,
Robbie Goodwin