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We may have heard at some point in our lives that if we truly believe in something, having faith that it will happen, then it really will happen. Some people don’t completely accept that, but the Bible is clear; what you believe is what you get. Jesus said, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them” (Mark 11:24).

But, He didn’t say we would see the manifestation of our prayers immediately. We need to give God time to work things out, continue in our faith, and not doubt, “For a man who wavers is like a wave of the sea, driven with the wind and tossed. Let not that man think that he shall receive anything of the Lord” (James 1:6-7).

Expectation is the key to receiving from Him. What good does it do to pray without expecting God to answer? You might as well be talking to a tree. The Bible says, “Without faith, it is impossible to please God, for he who comes to Him must believe that He is God, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him” (Hebrews 11:6).

Have you noticed that most people do not expect things to work out? In fact, most people have been taught to believe in negative outcomes. The reasoning is; “If things don’t work out, I won’t be disappointed.” There’s no logic in that! Even though one may not be expecting, one still at least hopes. The fact is, crushed hopes cause disappointment.

Having faith and expecting in the positive is vital to our success. If we could only believe that everything will work out and trust that what we want will happen, we’d have great results. Life would change dramatically. But, for some reason, most people just can’t believe that things will work out for them. They look at past results and judge their future based on that past.

It’s true that future results can best be predicted by past behavior. So, if your past behavior has been to not expect in positive outcomes, then change that behavior. It doesn’t take any more effort to believe in a positive outcome than it does in a negative one.

Faith is required to receive from God, and our expectation is proof of our faith. So, if we ask God for something, but then we don’t do anything on our part to bring it to pass, we must question our faith.

God will do His part for sure, but we are required to do our part as well. What is our part? Expect! Believe it, confess it, and anything else that could possibly be done on our part, for “Faith without works is dead” (James 2:20).

So truly believe in something! Have faith that it will happen. Again, the Bible is clear; what you believe is what you get. Jesus said, “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them and you shall have them” (Mark 11:24).

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I riffled through the draw and unexpectedly my eyes caught a glimpse of a worn and tattered envelope. Inside the folds of the letter lay a dried rose. At once I gathered the tiny rose into my hand and began to read.

Tears filled my eyes as the words poured forth in perfect harmony, thoughts of love. It seemed like a dream, yet the feelings surrounded my being and penetrated my thoughts. So many years had past and yet each word brought memories so clear of the love I felt for my soul mate.

I love you with all my heart. I long for the times that we spend together. Each day I think of you with so much love that I feel like I am overflowing with joy. I praise God all the time just thinking of how wonderful you are and how you are so perfect for me. You are my ultimate valentine!

I looked at these words of love I once felt and I remembered. It was as if a dove flew in with the most wonderful gift for a certain amount of time and then departed. It’s hard to understand how the love I felt for my valentine had so many feelings, but now they had lost their passion for love.

This is not what God intended for love. God’s desire is for us to hold tightly to love and fight to keep it alive. God tells us that He is love.

1John 4:7&8, “Dear Friends, let us love one another, because love comes from God. Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love.”

Too many people today think that sexual lust for another person is love. They don’t understand how important true love is to a couple. They don’t understand that they must have a secure foundation in God in order to maintain love.

In order to understand love we must have faith in God. God is the protector of love. We live in a world where people have been given the freewill to decide how they will believe and who they will believe in.

We are constantly being tested because we are evolving through the situations we face in life. Tests that open our eyes up to what kind of love is good and what kind of love is sin and an instrument of Satan.

Our feelings for each other make us determined to go forward in a relationship or stop us in our tracks. But the right kind of Love propels us towards life experiences that change the way we think about our world.

When we love deeply, then it gives us a determination to stay together no matter what. We are strong and we are not afraid of what others may think of our love. Love gives us the ability to be an unbreakable force, because the right kind of love represents God.

1 John 4:17&18, “Love is made perfect in us in order that we may have courage on the Judgment Day; and we will have it because our life in this world is the same as Christ’s. There is no fear in love; perfect love drives out all fear. So then, love has not been made perfect in anyone who is afraid, because fear has to do with punishment.”

Love makes God’s children perfect. Love takes away our fear of the “what ifs” of life. Love is not afraid of punishment or suffering because love drives away all kinds of fear.

This is the reason why couples who rely on God can face the death of a child and remain together. This is the reason why when a natural disaster occurs and takes a families home, the couples who have love, remain strong and conquer the disaster with faith.

Because God is manifested in love, strong relationships grow stronger through the hardships they face in this world. While those who don’t have God, suffer and faint because of fear of being abandoned by their spouse when the times of testings come.

1John5:3-5, “For our love for God means that we obey his commands. And his commands are not too hard for us, because every child of God is able to defeat the world. And we win the victory over the world by means of our faith. Who can defeat the world? Only the person who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.”

I took this new found knowledge of love and began to look at how to rekindle the feelings I once felt for my spouse. Through prayer I sought God’s help to heal the distance that had developed from us not expressing the love we felt unconditionally for each other.

I prayed that God would forgive me for taking my marriage for granted. I asked the creator of love to reignite the passion once lost. I pleaded that God would give me the words to express my love.

The words had barely left my lips when a dove of love came floating in with God’s compassionate reply:

Dear Children, You are my Valentine. Your love for each other creates stars that shine forth in love igniting the Universe with light. Love between two people are like bright shiny rays of light reflecting my heart for man. Love fulfills your destiny and inspires those who are lost to seek the light of understanding given them by Me. My love for you is never ending and always available to all those who are destined to find Me. Seek love, long for love, and your journey in this world will be proven to be of the purest gold. Gold refined by the fire of life. Love inspired through never giving up or giving into evil. I Love You, God has spoken.

My heart jumped for joy and the love that had once grown dormant shone brightly for my love. Suddenly everything about our life made since again. My Valentine that once was lost, has now been found!

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

Two weeks ago my daughter, Christy, and I were having a conversation. She stated that most girls have the kind of mom who share a spa day with them, who invite them to go get their nails done together or try out a new hairstyle.

We both laughed at her words, because I was opposite from this kind of mom. In fact, my daughter ended the conversation with the statement, “Instead I get a mom who wants to save the world. And on top of it you dragged me into doing it too!”

I don’t know what I would do without my daughter, I trust her completely. She edited my book. She edits every article I write and of course made some of the article writing hers. Three of the titles were her ideas and she also is building my website

Christy has three children. Samuel is always reminding me that he is going to be four very soon. Paige just turned 2 and Sofia is 6 months. All are very energetic and Christy must give up sleep in order to work for me.

Her faith in God is great and she endeavors to teach her children the same principles. She is all about living a Christian life and being a faithful and loving wife to her husband and a loving and good mom to her children. I tell her all the time that she comes from a long line of great Christian mothers.

You would never believe that Christy had ever experienced anything but good in her lifetime. Most people believe that you can’t be so grounded and be such a good person if something bad has ever happened to you. You just had to have lived a charmed life!

The common phrase we always hear is ‘bad things always happen to bad people’. Yet what people think is truth is often a lie. The real truth is that bad things happen to good people because our world is under the rule of Satan.

John 5:19, “We know that we belong to God even though the whole world is under the rule of the Evil One.”

When Christy was five and attending kindergarten the worse possible thing happened in her life. Her parents divorced and she and her brothers became the ponds in a huge custody battle.

I suppose this custody fight wouldn’t have been so traumatic if it weren’t for the fact that our family was so religious. Her dad was an ordained deacon and his father was a Baptist minister. My own sister and her husband were in full time ministry and I our family came from a long line of ministers and missionaries.

Everything Christy was ever taught was about obeying God and serving in church. You see in 1986 divorce was a very big sin! Yet there is a sin that is bigger than divorce and that is the sin of being gay! I would go as far as to say that for the church it is even bigger than murder!

Churches preach that homosexuality is wrong! Using Sodom and Gomorrah as a story illustrating God’s hatred of gays. But they quietly leave out scripture that leaves out the real reason for the destruction of these cities.

2 Peter 2:6, “God condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, destroying them with fire, and made them an example of what will happen to the godless.”

The scripture specifically states that it was not about sexual sin, but about godlessness. Never the less churches, families, and society throw out their gay family members because the churches skip these scriptures.

Because Theologians and religious historians refuse to set the record straight, homosexuals are deprived of their children and denied justice in the courts. They are humiliated, persecuted, killed and despised all in the name of God.

Ezekiel 16:48-50, “As surely as I am the living God, the Sovereign Lord says, ‘your sister Sodom and her villages never did the evil that you and your villages have done. She and her daughters were proud because they had plenty to eat and lived in peace and quiet, but they did not take care of the poor and the underprivileged. They were proud stubborn and did the things that I hate, so I destroyed them, as you well know.’”

They say, love the sinner but hate the sin. But Christy can tell you that this is not true! You can not love what you hate. It is like telling Satan that he has to love God and we all know how impossible that would be!

Because people have been misled by the church, everything I did as a good Christian mother was counteracted by me falling in love with a woman. It didn’t matter how much I loved my children or how diligent I was in teaching them about God and doing service in my church.

Because of false teachings, a huge tug-of-war began not just between husband and wife, but with husband, church, family, friends and society all against me. A battle that was so tipped in favor of her dad that Christy struggled to love me regardless of what they said about me.

In fact, Christy and her brothers became so entangled in the fight for who had the right to be custodial parent that you would have thought that they would have never had anything to do with God ever! Because God was the reason they were not to love their mother.

They were told they couldn’t love me because I was living a life of sin. They were confused by strangers who told them how unlucky they were to have a mom who had fallen from God’s grace and chose to live an ungodly lifestyle. From church to school to the small town they lived in, they were constantly the center of unwanted attention because of their Satan possessed mother.

Christy didn’t want this kind of attention! She just wanted her mom. She didn’t care what the church had to say, she just wanted to live with her mom. She didn’t understand why everyone was in such an uproar, because she saw me as the same mom who loved her and had taken care of her since birth.

So you can see that her childhood was not peaceful. She was taken away from her mom and given to her dad. I was given no visitation and as a result I fled with my children and was arrested and put in jail while Christy endured being put in the hands of the SRS.

Christy saw her mother attacked by her father, while the pastor and a deacon watched. She saw her mother being stalked by church members in the name of God. She saw her grandparents turn their back on her mother and wish her dead.

She was forced into counseling as a small child. She was forced to go before a judge and tell him who she wanted to live with. Even after she stated she wanted to live with her mom, the judge ignored her words.

Time and again she was involved in one court proceeding after another while her testimony to live with her mother was disregarded. Whenever visitation resumed with her mother she was interrogated by her father, councilors, and family.

It is amazing today from the persecution my daughter endured from church, society and family members that she came through fifteen years of childhood holding onto her faith regardless of whether her prayers were answered or not.

It took until my daughter was an adult and able to make up her own mind that she began to see the mother that I really was. A mother who loved her and wanted the best for her and her family. Today our bond is strong because of our mission to tell the world the truth about God and love!

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to jump off a cliff and fly like a bird? Wouldn’t it be fun to breath under water and explore the ocean. No, I’m not talking about airplanes or submarines, I mean exploring the world with this kind of freedom in the our human bodies of flesh and blood.

If I could choose, I would be impenetrable so nothing could ever hurt me. I could walk through fire, stand barefoot on the Arctic ice, or stand in the middle of a gunfight. Unfortunately, these things are impossible, because this world has limits. But why?

I unexpectedly received the answer to this question. The night was calm and I peacefully slept undisturbed. My dreams were tranquil and in a moment a vision emerged from the Spirit of the Almighty God.

A massive rock stood prominently behind a tiny housing development built into a valley. Many smaller rocks were scattered uniformly throughout the landscape.

I was standing on a path looking and wondering what this scene was all about. Suddenly a kind eyed middle aged man appeared and asked me about what I was seeing.

I quietly said I did not understand and the man smiling at me stated that the rocks are limits.

Immediately my dream changed and a light of understanding flooded my thoughts. God was the prominent rock and from His throne in Heaven He oversees the world and all of it’s vastness.

God created the world and everything in it and He has given it limits. Limits written down before the beginning of time. Limits that require that we must believe in Jesus in order to win in the Great Game of Life.

1Peter 2:1&2, “Rid yourselves, then, of all evil; no more lying or hypocrisy or jealousy or insulting language. Be like newborn babies, always thirsty for the pure spiritual milk, so that by drinking it you may grow up and be saved.”

We are placed in this world to do service for God. In order to serve we must let go of this present age. We must gain wisdom from the suffering and persecution we face and allow these growing experiences to make us stronger.

No one has the ability to navigate this world separate from God. We must hold onto the rock of Jesus and allow Him to work in us.

1Peter 2:4-&5, “Come to the Lord, the living stone rejected by man as worthless but chosen by God as valuable. Come as living stones, and let yourselves be used in building the spiritual temple, where you will serve as holy priests to offer spiritual and acceptable sacrifices to God through Jesus Christ.”

The tiny houses are people. They have been given the message of salvation and have accepted their calls. They have taken their human temples and grown in knowledge from the limits God placed in their lives through the experiences they have faced.

Why did God give me this vision. Many people do not understand why God does not show Himself to the world. They want a God that is concrete and not spiritual.

They want God to walk beside them in human form and not a God that is invisible. They don’t understand that a human God has the same weaknesses as man.

God came as a man in Jesus Christ. He walked beside people loving and healing them of all the pain inflicted on them from Satan. But as a human being Jesus was limited!

When God is Spiritual He has no limits. He can talk anytime He wants to His children on the earth. He can walk within them giving them supernatural strength and the ability to fight against Satan and win this world for God.

When Jesus walked this world He realized that the only way that God’s children could win was through the teaching of the Holy Spirit. He called the Spirit the comforter, helper, and the counselor.

John 16:5-8 “But now I am going to him who sent me, yet none of you asks me where I am going. And now that I have told you, your hearts are full of sadness. But I am telling you the truth; it is better for you that I go away, because if I do not go, the Helper will not come to you. But if I do go away, then I will send him to you. And when he comes, he will prove to the people of the world that they are wrong about sin and about what is right and about God’s judgment.”

Because the church refuses to teach people more about the spiritual aspect of the world many people have given up on faith in the unseen God. They look at religion as a crutch for the weak because they don’t understand they we are in a world game.

A Spirit has the ability to strengthen and help people in their individual fight against Satan. If God were just a man He could only help a few people at a time, but as a Spirit, He has the ability to help billions at a time.

John 16:9-11, “They are wrong about sin, because they do not believe in me; they are wrong about what is right, because I am going to the Father and you will not see me anymore; and they are wrong about judgment, because the ruler of this world has already been judged.”

My vision started with God showing me how important it is for people to put their faith in Jesus. Jesus is a solid rock who loves people and directs a person’s life to the truth about this world.

That is the reason He is called the Light of the world. He parts the darkness of evil placed here by Satan and He teaches people the right path that leads to understanding the difference between good and bad.

Satan is a demon who goes throughout the world to devour people. He has taken the world that God created and destroyed it by using evil human beings who do his will. These are people who are so corrupted by the desires of this world that they will do whatever the devil demands.

Because Satan is king of this world, he hides the good and replaces it with bad. That is the reason why our world is full of injustices. Satan has multiple personalities and he will even back stab the very people who do his will. His ultimate goal is to destroy all people in order to defeat Jesus from saving the world.

He uses the earths resources to destroy human life. He does this though drought, floods, earthquakes and all forms of disasters. Drought produces poverty, floods breed diseases, earthquakes destroy families and displace cities.

When an evil god reigns, corruption builds evil governments and societies that place bad people in control. People who only care about money and not human life. The courts become corrupt and evil people are allowed to murder, commit incest and perpetrate all forms of injustices on good people.

Jesus, in human form, was limited in time and space according to the boundaries of the world, but Jesus in Spirit form has the ability to aid his followers and win the fight against the evil god of this world. Jesus has the ability to take on the Spiritual realm and crush the demon forces of Satan.

This is the reason why our world has a limited time. God will not lose the battle and He will not allow His servants to be defeated. God created all things including the devil and from the very beginning of time He has known the outcome of the battle of the great world game of life.

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

Sometimes, no matter how hard you try to keep things organized and running efficiently in your life, unexpected things happen that threaten to completely undermine your sense of well-being.

These upsets can be big or small, ranging from identity theft to losing your car keys. Yet they are enough to make you feel that they completely ruin everything for you. They hit you emotionally like a punch in your stomach, knocking the wind out of you.

I’m not sure why life throws these curves. Is it a product of our own thinking coming to attack us, some type of karmic rebound? Is it random misfortune? Or is it some weird cosmic “test” of our mettle. It is almost impossible to find the cause. Focusing on the cause is one way to become confused and unglued.

However, understanding the cause may not be necessary. Instead, dwell on the solution. This is the mature way to keep your sense of balance when the ground has been pulled from under your feet.

Here are some emergency steps to take:

1. Release the frustration and all the other emotions. Do this immediately. You can do this through deep breathing and imagining letting it go, talking with a friend to get some perspective, or simply taking a long walk until you calm down.

2. Assuming you are now calm, the next step is to regain your control. Here is where you regroup your resources. It may help just to start tidying and organizing things around you, thus restoring your faith that order can be regained. In other words, you will get a sense of order by doing some routine ordering in your environment.

3. Now that you are calm and in control, make a list. Start with a question that asks you what to do about the situation. Then answer that question by making a long list of possible answers. Do this quickly, without thinking too much about it. What you want is to push past your conscious ideas and dig up some original insights. This is why speed is important.

4. Refine that list. Hone in on your best possible choices.

5. Take action. Do what you can. Make things happen. This will make you feel a whole lot better. If it is a theft, file a police report. If it is a financial issue, find ways to get money flowing into your life again. And so on.

Sometimes the situation may be really bizarre, where you have no idea what to make of it. Yet you also find you need some insight before you can take any type of meaningful action. In this case, at step 3, ask your question then leave it blank and go do something else, including taking a long nap. You can even do step 3 just before bedtime. Your subconscious mind will now work on resolving it.

A farther way to deal with this upset is to imagine the opposite. If for example, someone stole your credit card, think about how the bank has restored your balance and sealed off the card from future use and how it is engaged in issuing you a new one.

Doubtlessly, fearful thoughts will start creeping in throughout the day. If you respond to them, they will force you to go on all sorts of nightmarish mental safaris. Do not go there.
Depression, helplessness, emotional outbursts, behavioral acting out is not the solution.

Bad stuff happens to all of us at some time or another. The trick is to grow stronger, not to fall apart. As Nietzsche said, “What does not kill me, makes me stronger.”

There is no point in futile analysis, “why me?” “why now?”

You have to keep reassuring yourself by thinking of a new scene, where you not only envision getting what you lost but even better things are showing up for you.

None of these steps are easy to take, because your natural inclination is just to rant and rave and progressively fall apart. You feel as if there is a huge hole in your chest. However by taking these common sense steps, you get your common sense back. By taking the best action you know how, you can either mitigate the problem or even resolve it in a meaningful way.

Even when really bad stuff happens, know that you are a powerful person and will not let it ruin your life. Focus on what you still have left. Focus on the new way that has opened up for you.

Sometimes out of the worst situation, miracles come out of nowhere. Who you are is greater than the misfortune life may sometimes throw at you. When you cleave to a mature view, you will come out of your upsetting situation and regain your sense of personal power.

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A sparkling white dove floated down leaving a trail of sunbeams in it’s flight. It’s wings were spread out and it’s eyes showed a determination to bring a urgent message of love from Jesus Christ.

The dove transcended the dimensions of the earthly realm and ignited into tiny lights. Lights of knowledge for all of God’s children. Understanding they would not have found without the whisper of God’s voice.

James 1:17&18, “Every good gift and every perfect present comes from heaven; it comes down from God, the Creator of the heavenly lights, who does not change or cause darkness by turning. By his own will he brought us into being through the word of truth, so that we should have first place among all his creatures.”

People wonder why our world is filled with so many people suffering from incurable diseases like cancer, aids or ALS. They believe that if there is a God why would He allow such evil to hurt people’s lives?

They don’t understand that our world is imperfect because Satan has been given dominion over the earth. Satan has the power to hurt people. He is the anti-Christ, whose only goal is to destroy faith from ever taking root in a person’s life.

That is the reason why Jesus came as a man of flesh and blood. He came to destroy the devils work by placing the Holy Spirit into His children’s lives. A Spirit that is a voice of good. A Spirit that directs people to understand that the troubles they are facing is Satan and not God.

1 John: 11&12, “The message you heard from the very beginning is this: we must love one another. We must not be like Cain; he belonged to the Evil One and murdered his own brother Abel. Why did Cain murder him? Because the things he himself did were wrong, and the things his brother did were right.”

When you live in a corrupt and evil world, naturally evil things will happen to good people. That is the reason we must get a grip on why there is suffering and death.

Cain illustrates how temptation can pull you in and make you an instrument of Satan’s will. When Satan is in control of a person’s life then that person becomes an opponent for everyone who does God’s will.

This is the reason why our world is filled with jails and prisons full to capacity. Evil people under the influence of Satan will commit mass murder, rape, steal, lie, and deceive people who are trying to live a godly life.

These people give themselves to Satan and love the world and everything it gives them. They are arrogant, selfish and full of lust. These are people who betray friends, brothers, and anyone who gets in the way of their pleasures.

This is also the very reason why sickness and all kinds of diseases are released into the world. For every sin that is committed a punishment comes down from the Spirit world to bring judgment for this sin.

Earthquakes and floods are direct repercussions of how evil can take a perfect world and demolish it. How we treat people to how we live our lives, spur on huge tidal waves, hurricanes, and tornadoes full of destruction. These are natural disasters that reflect the punishment that comes on all men, good and bad alike.

This is the very reason why Christians must be aware of why bad things happen to good people in this world. We live in an evil and corrupt world that preys on good in order to persuade all people to do evil.

1 John 3: 4-6, “Whoever sins is guilty of breaking God’s law, because sin is a breaking of the law. You know that Christ appeared in order to take away sins, and that there is no sin in him. So everyone who lives in union with Christ does not continue to sin: but whoever continues to sin has never seen him or known him.”

The only way that good people can walk away from the pain and suffering they face in life is by understanding that ignorance of God’s laws brings condemnation on all people. We must keep close to God so we will not be pulled into the sin that others commit so easily.

We must run to our Savior when we have been pulled into sin and Christ will forgive us if we have a humble heart towards Him. We must understand the purpose behind grace and rise above this world so we can become instruments of God and not Satan.

1 John 3:7&8, “Let no one deceive you, my children! Whoever does what is right is righteous just as Christ is righteous. Whoever continues to sin belongs to the Devil, because the Devil has sinned from the very beginning. The Son of God appeared for this very reason, to destroy what the Devil had done.”

Belief in Jesus Christ gives us the ability to stand up to temptation and say no! Just like Jesus came to destroy the Devils evil work, Christians everywhere have been sent out throughout the world to do the same.

Suffering for evil brings judgment and death. Suffering for good brings reward and success in all things of this life. Suffering because we are Christians defeats the evil plans of Satan.

To know the truth about our world is to walk freely into a new light of understanding. With knowledge of how the game of life works we are able to defeat the plans Satan has to overthrow our lives.

With wisdom we can overcome the pain of having cancer and all forms of diseases. With the knowledge that I am on the side of the Lord, I can rise above all forms of natural disasters no matter what Satan might do to bring me to my knees.

The beams of light opened my mind to revelations. Ideas and dreams that were meant to inspire me and give me strength to stand my ground no matter what I face.

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

The war between brother and sister began as the chess board was placed on the center of the table. Tension filled the air with every move. Mom worriedly looked at our faces hoping and praying that we would finish our game in peace and not in another fight.

Any game my brother and I played together was certain to lead to a continued standoff. A complex theatrical challenge that could put either of us over the edge throwing the game into the air and snorting as if we were two bulls in an arena daring the other to win the next game.

The Chess game has always been a great way to illustrate the battle that each of us face. A complex arrangement of opposing forces positioned to challenge the players to prove who is the best and who is the biggest loser.

Unfortunately, unlike chess, the world game is not so plain to see. It has been disguised to catch a person by surprise. It throws the way we think, off balance just enough to teach us a revelation that we would not have understood without the challenge.

Because our world game is so unexpected it can keep us on the edge of our seats wondering exactly what else can go wrong. I suppose that is the reason why my being gay caused such a stir in my very religious family.

You see I grew up loving God and being taught all the religious values a student of Christ could understand. I was taught to love and to be compassionate to all people.

I was faithful and committed and I loved to serve God from camp to choir to testifying before people how good God was. But then a game formed and pulled me into a valley that required more than what I was taught.

A challenge to love a person in a way that suddenly positioned me against the very church I loved. A game of life that stirred war between what kind of love was right and what kind of love was sin.

I was not prepared for the battle that began to stir. I was thirty-one years old and up until this time I had lived a perfect life. I married as a virgin, had three children and attended church faithfully.

The spirit within me changed making me feel things I had never felt before. My eyes saw a face and the heart of another woman and I wanted her more than the blissfully peaceful life I had once been a part.

I didn’t know that when I followed my feelings of love, that I would open a door to a war that would turn my entire family away from me. I had no idea how everyone could change from praising my every move to wanting me to suffer for ever thinking I should give into this kind of love.

I had been raised that God was love, but now according to everyone I ever knew, the love I was experiencing supposedly was wrong. I didn’t understand because this love was better than anything I had ever felt before.

A fight of epic proportions raged around me. People who had loved and knew me since I was a child looked at me and despised me. Church people who were to show compassion and care, stalked my every move to prove to the court system that I was gay and thus unfit to be a mother to my children.

My ex-husband in a fury of emotions slammed a car door into my leg over and over again while our pastor and a deacon watched him vent his rage. I couldn’t believe what was happening to me. Just a few months before they had loved me and sought my help in educating others in the love of Jesus Christ.

I thought that love equals God and hate is Satan. Here I was loving for the first time and people who were to be the example of God’s love could do anything they wanted to me and not feel ashamed.

I wasn’t prepared for the fight I would face or the challenge I had to just stay alive! The court stripped me of my children. In protest I ran with my kids and was thrust into jail.

God came to me in a real way by sending me an Angel from heaven to encourage me to not give up. He said, “My Ways Are Not Human Ways Trust In Me, God Has Spoken!” He sent me messages of encouragement telling me that it was man and Satan that was hurting me, not God. “For God Is Love”!

John 15:18-20, “If the world hates you, just remember that it has hated me first. If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you. Remember what I told you; ‘No salve is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will persecute you too; if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too.”

This kind of war was not like any chess game I had ever experienced. It was an unseen war between spiritual forces of good versus evil. It was a war that gives revelation to some people and brings the worse out of others.

Because of the harshness of my reality God educated me in understanding the differences between love and hate. God opened my mind up to the concept of seeing our world as a game. A game pitting people against each other so they would come to a truth that would lead them to choose to do right.

God showed me scripture verse after verse proving to me that our world is under the rule of Satan. Satan was given control in order to test men through the evil experiences found in this world.

However, not all tests result in a person doing right. Many tests reveal the hearts of men who choose evil. When a person chooses evil, darkness comes into their lives and prevents them from understanding the truth.

It is a tool used by Satan to lead people into using the world for what they can get from it. That is the reason that people during the time of Lot perverted themselves in sexual ritual.

It was like a sex party. Crowds of people would take part in the excitement of this pagan ritual. Taking a sacrifice of a human life to use for this ritual had two fold benefits. One, they appeased the requirements of the temple god and second, they received the pleasure of the sexual act.

The men of Sodom went to Lots home in order to use the angels in their perverted rituals of fertility. These two men were beautiful beings and offering them in this ritual was considered to bring great blessings upon their community.

Worshiping and practicing rituals to gods that are not gods is leading people away from God. It allows Satan to win the game of life for evil and prevents people from understanding the difference between good and bad.

Our world must have clear differences! What happened to Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing to do with homosexuality. It have everything to do with Satan leading people down paths that would keep them from understanding. Evil paths of sin that lead to godlessness!

Sin equals darkness. Sin makes people hate. Sin prevents people from knowing God. If sin is allowed to grow it can destroy good peoples lives and prevent God’s children from winning their game of life.

God had no choice but to take action against theses cities in order to destroy the blindness from reaching out and capturing more and more towns. God sent fire from heaven to destroy this evil pagan ritual.

Exodus 20:3-6, “Worship no god but me.
Do not take for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol or worship it, because I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation. But I show my love to thousands of generations of those who love me and obey my laws.”

Sodom and Gomorrah were destroy as a result of godlessness. It had nothing to do with God not creating homosexuals!

The Chess game took on a form of war that led to a truth. A truth that was disguised so that the evil found in the hearts of men would be revealed.

Good men recognize love and do what is right, but if you are not careful a good man can be used as an instrument of hate.

Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com