God Has Spoken to Me...

By Susan Darling

This book is divided into two parts. The first part is about womens rights, particularly in the church. I believe some men are still trying to keep women down by using the Bible in the wrong way. God did say to me, Women have a case. Something women need to hear. The second part is a mixture of lessons God has communicated to me about, like he wants women in the priesthood. And he asked me to pray for priests right to be married. There are also other lessons in the book that I feel people might be interested in.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Nov 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781499028911

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Copyright © 2014 by Susan Darling.

Library of Congress Control Number:   2014919511

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Contents

Introduction

PART 1

Chapter 1 As a Sunday School Teacher

Chapter 2 Many Years Later

Chapter 3 Another Time

Chapter 4 Who Wants to Lose

Chapter 5 We Are All Members of the Body of Christ

Chapter 6 I Was Thinking about Role Models

Chapter 7 Satan Is the Enemy, Not Each Other

Chapter 8 The King Who Serves

Chapter 9 Do We Want to Give God Joy

Chapter 10 There Are Two Kinds of Love

Chapter 11 Two Masters

Chapter 12 Going around in Circles

Chapter 13 The Church

Chapter 14 The Blaming Game

Chapter 15 Women Are Born to Fight Too

PART 2

Chapter 1 While Saying My Prayers

Chapter 2 I Have a Secret

Chapter 3 My Version of the Mass

Chapter 4 Purgatory

Chapter 5 Expiating Sin

Chapter 6 My Father Died of Cancer

Chapter 7 What Happened Next

Chapter 8 I Pray for all the Job’s in the world as the person Job in the Bible.

Chapter 9 God Has a Sense of Humour

Chapter 10 Sometimes God Comes to You in Dreams

Chapter 11 When I Was Young

Chapter 12 Being Put to the Test

Chapter 13 My Greatest Visitation of God

Chapter 14 The Worst Sinner in the World

Chapter 15 Now That’s the End

I would like to

dedicate this book to

Jesus Christ Our Redeemer.

Introduction

God has spoken to me personally about …

This book is divided into two parts. The first part is about women’s rights, particularly in the Church. I believe some men are still trying to keep women down, by using the Bible the wrong way. God did say to me, ‘Women have a case’. Something women need to hear. The second part is a mixture of lessons God has communicated to me about, like He wants women in the priesthood. And He asked me to pray for priests’ right to be married. There are also other lessons in the book that I feel people might be interested in.

Part 1

Chapter 1

As a Sunday School Teacher

When I was in my teens, I used to teach in Sunday school. Ages between five to eight years old. It was fun teaching young children. I found that when I prepared for the class carefully, the lesson didn’t go so well. But when I just read through the material that I had to teach and did nothing more, the lesson went perfectly. I believe it was so because I was more open to the Holy Spirit if I didn’t over prepare. It helped me in dealing with things spontaneously. I love the innocence of children: no hang-ups about what to believe. They just simply believe in God. Jesus tells us to come to Him as children. Matter of fact, we can’t go to heaven without being childlike, which brings me to the point of what I witness in these children. There was a custom in the Sunday school that the children would show off their much younger sister or brother. This is what I noticed time after time. If a girl showed off her younger sister, she was indeed very proud of her, and similarly with the boy. But if the girl had a younger brother, she was even more proud. It was the same with the boys. This is at an age before the battle of the sexes begin. A young boy and girl are much more prouder of their younger siblings if they were of the opposite sex. I can remember being sad about it because the hatred between the sexes will come upon them as they grow older. Now we may not think there is much hatred between men and women, but have a closer look. Even look at the Bible. I have not long read Judges, Chapter 11, verse 52-55. Abimelech was attacking a place called Thebez, and when he reached the tower of this place, a woman threw down a millstone on his head and crushed his skull. He then called out his armour-bearer to kill him so that nobody would say he was killed by a woman.

Matter of fact, I can see a lot of arrogance towards women in the Bible. I remember I was reading Lot many, many years ago, where he was prepared to hand over his daughters to the men of the village to do what they liked with them because he wanted to have a conversation with an angel. He actually thought he was a very pious man in doing this. Luckily for his daughters, the men didn’t want them. I remember reading it and was horrified that he could do this to his own daughters. I was so angry with him and hurt that I started swearing at him, something I don’t do normally. I said, ‘I know you are in heaven, but you are a bastard’. It was night-time, and I was still so angry with him; then something amazing happened. All of a sudden, the anger and hurt went away. I knew it was God’s doing because I hadn’t finished with Lot. I felt completely at peace and was given the knowledge that I would have a beautiful, deep, and refreshing sleep, which I did. God took the pain and anger away and healed me.

Chapter 2

Many Years Later

One day, about eight years after I had read about Lot and what he was prepared to do