Come Away My Beloved, Make Your Statement!!: Principles to Grow By!

By Annette Bacon

Realized!

The fact that I could not get into Heaven on just being good and doing good works alone came into fruition when I totally surrendered my life to God. I was being a good girl, but not a Christian. It was May of 1985 when I committed my life to God (at least what I thought was a commitment). I was still smoking, drinking, and having sex. I was working, was engaged to be married, and was, what I thought, living my best life. However, sometime in August, I realized that I was not living a Godly kind of life. I was on the fence. I was trying to please family and God.

Then there was Pastor Gloria Geneva Moses and Bishop Henry Samuel Moses that taught us by example how to live a Godly kind of life in this sinful world. They introduced us to the theater, wholesome movies, bowling, traveling, and different eateries. But Gospel music and Christian concerts were the most exciting event of our lives. Getting to see your favorite Gospel artist, whether music or the preached word, was always a life-changing event. Having them point the finger at you and declaring the will of God be done shapes you into the person God was calling you to be.

Had I stayed on the fence, I truly believe that I would have been lost. I realized that I was happiest when giving God the glory. I thank Him for saving me and delivering me from myself.

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer; my God, my strength in whom I will trust; my buckler and the horn of my salvation and my high tower. (Psalm 18:1-2)

So, I begin to write little statements on how I view the scriptures just as God had revealed them to me. For example, Rahab, to me, was a hustling harlot. She was a wheeler and dealer, but she made it into the Kingdom. No one's perfect, but righteousness is in the sight of God.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
• Release date: Dec 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781638442011

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Creepers

They are like us in almost every way. They look like us. They dress like us. They go to church like us. They shout like us. They speak in unknown tongues like us. They praise and worship like us, preach like us, and teach like us, but they are not us.

Creepers only have one purpose—that is to get you to subvert from the tentacles of the faith (2 Tim. 2:18 KJV). They want you to believe the lie and walk away from the truth. That’s to destroy the power and the anointing of God in you, your hope, your glory. Will you too, believe the lie?

Creepers, you cannot think for me. You cannot persuade me, you cannot encourage me, you cannot manipulate me, you cannot discourage me, and you cannot think for me.

Subvert means to undermine the power and the authority of an established system or institution and to pervert or corrupt by undermining your morals, your alliances, or your faith. (You shall not surely die, Gen. 3:4.) Will you too, believe the lie?

Tentacles of the faith, believing in the death, the burial, and the resurrection of Christ who is our soon-coming king. Faith believing, he is soon to come again.

You know about the wheat and the tare. The good farmer sows good seed in his field, but while he was sleeping, the Creeper sowed bad seeds in the good farmer’s field. They looked identical! Will you too, believe the lie?

But while he was sleeping in an unconscious state, chillaxing in his subconscious mind, taking a breather, taking a break, in his superpower strength, he thought he could straddle the fence. I’ve got my ground tilled. I have my seeds planted and watered. I believe I can lay low. No one will know.

So now we, the saints, begin to reach the lost at any cost. We play music like them, we dance like them, we sing like them, and we even begin to look like them, walk like them, talk like them, and shout like them. Will you too, believe the lie?

¹¹ Put on the whole amour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.¹³ Wherefore take unto you the whole amour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.¹⁴ Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;¹⁵ And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;¹⁶ Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.¹⁷ And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:¹⁸ Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;¹⁹ And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,²⁰a For which I am an ambassador in bonds:

People of God we need discernment. We need to know the Truth for ourselves. We need to be acquainted with the Truth. We need to be intimate with the Truth. We need to have a relationship with the Truth. We need to love the Truth and allow the Truth to love us back. (Eph. 6:11–20a KJV)

We need to seek the Truth while it can be found (Isa. 55:6) for the Bible states that you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you, compel you, to be free (John 8:32).

As citizens of the kingdom, we need to silence the noise and the crowd so that our spiritual antennas can detect the Creepers that are around us—to avoid the influence before it can overwhelm us.

Remember your adversary the devil still walks the Earth seeking whom he may devour. (1 Pet. 5:8)

Father God, in the name of Jesus, I pray that you would cover your people today. My prayer, God, is that they see the truth, and that they become acquainted with it. And that they can recognize it from far off; that their lives may change because of it in Jesus’s name. Amen.

Come Away My Beloved, Make Your Statement.

Drink from This Cup

Give a prophet a cup of water, and you’ll get a prophet’s reward. (Matt. 10:42)

To lead, you must first learn to follow. Drink from this cup.

Here’s the thing. There is an unspoken contractual agreement. An agreement of loyalty, respect, and servitude. Drink from this cup!

In my years of servitude, it wasn’t what was said as much as it was the principle behind what needed to be done. See, to follow means to build character and loyalty, to have humility, and to serve. Once you grasp the principle, you will find that there’s light at the end of the tunnel. Drink from this cup.

You know the account of Elijah and Elisha (2 Kings 2). Elisha did whatever it took to receive the double portion of Elijah’s anointing.

No one ever really sees the adjutant, but God sees the adjutant. Give a prophet a cup of water (Matt. 10:42). This means to quench one’s thirst as a common courtesy because he is the prophet from the Lord. It’s your reasonable service.

It was said that Elisha traveled with Elijah for ten years until the day he saw him taken up in a whirlwind on a chariot of white horses (2 Kings 2:11). Elisha traveling with Elijah over the years received great scorn and ridicule. From Gilgal to Bethel, from Bethel to Jericho, from Jericho to Jordan, they taunted him. They kept reminding him that his leader was soon to leave. They wanted to remind him that he’s no Elijah. The onlookers only