The Silence of the Lambs

Sweeping things under the rug can lead to only one thing, a heavy heart harboring unnecessary toxins that will weigh you down and potentially kill you. No wonder you can't sleep, tossing and turning all night and all day; having all kinds of attacks: asthma attacks, heart attacks, head attacks, mind attacks. Until you ask the LORD to shake the spiritual rug of your life, and until you are willing to confront what you fear, stand up to what's got you hiding in secret, and what's keeping you in bondage like a caged bird, you will continue to suffer from those evil and nasty dust bunnies that have made your heart and mind their home. 

The enemy wants to make you feel like you are all alone in whatever you are going through. You are not and neither do you have to bear it alone. There are many of us that have gone through that dark pit you're experiencing. We, too, have camped by its fires and slumbered in its tight evil grip; having near death experiences of slipping and drowning in the Lake of Despair. 

Yet, I don't blame you. No, I do not blame you for refusing to open up. We have used the pulpits as weapons and sat in pews to tell your stuff. We haven't been role models and examples of godly and virtuous women. In fact, we've been mean and ugly, and at times, more vicious than the world. We've been snobs, turned our eyes, and held back our hands from reaching out to you. Your disconnection is justified. We've given you every right to feel the way you do. 

We added to your hurt when we made you believe that we had everything in our lives in working order and in check. That we had "perfect" marriages, "perfect" relationships, "perfect" ministries, and that we faced no struggles. We only showed you the best manmade masks of pretense and you bought it. We graced our heads with wigs and tracks of pride, that now, if you take them off, you would never recognize us. We laced our ears, necks, arms, hands, and feet with the shackles of glitz and glam in order to deflect the oozing pain flowing from our pores. We painted our faces to help diminish the wrinkles and scars; one that would project an illusion other than the “real me”. But it never lasted long because twelve o’clock always came, and by the time we got home, it would all be washed away from the water that fell from our eyes. 

Some of us did not do it because we were trying to be mean and ugly like the others; it was our way of surviving, yet, we did it anyway. Like you, we were scared too, and like you, we did not find the spiritual mothers to help us, to dress us, to teach us. Just like you, we were left to fend for ourselves, trusting no one with what we deemed precious to our hearts because there was no one to be found that could relate to our struggle, our pain. We were taught to pray with one eye opened, and while everyone was shouting from the rooftop “Be honest!”, NO ONE around was being honest and transparent enough to keep it real

So, why should you be transparent with anyone, right? Nobody is telling you, that like Job, they were living right before the LORD when their husbands and wives decided to get up and abandoned them. No one is giving you the raw and uncut version so that you could truly see that if it had not been for GOD's power and grace that intervened at the right time, they would have committed homicide, double homicide, and yes, even triple homicide. They have not dared to share that even as a woman or man of GOD, they had to fight with themselves to oppose, seemingly, what would have ended up a tragedy. Remember David, a man that the LORD called after His own heart, had Uriah murdered.

Nobody is telling you to look out for Oppression, Depression, and Suppression, and that these three are capable of sneaking into your bedroom unnoticed to rape and molest you until you are numb. Nobody is taking the time to take you by the hand to walk "this thing" out and help cast “this thing out”. Is there anybody there?

I know you haven't felt hurt, disappointed, and betrayed like when you've been hurt, disappointed, and betrayed by your own "church folk", because those who knew better and where suppose to do better, didn't. Like Jesus, when He was feeling abandoned by the Father, you have come to know what it is to cry out with a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? That is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” (Matthew 27:46). 

The "Silence of the Lambs" syndrome ends when you get up and confront it with the resurrected power of Christ. You will not CONQUER what you are not willing to CONFRONT. Jesus wants to walk through the corridors of your brokenness. He wants to walk through the secret chambers of your wounded heart in order to give you the healing and deliverance you need. He wants to remove all those temporary dirty bandages you call your garment and pour out His healing balm all over you. The opportunity for you to be free from that which binds you has come. Will you let Him in? Will you allow the spiritual midwives He is sending to help?

Tilt your heart towards the SON!
Narda Goodson
Author, Will the REAL ME Please Stand Up!

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The Turntables of Religious Controversy

Jesus' teaching often found its way onto the turntables of religious controversy.  What He taught messed with their minds, convicted their conscious, and tapped danced around their doctrines of religiosity.  While His teachings enraged the religious sect, it revolutionized the generation of His day through the power of His love and grace.

While the religious folks were on the inside doing business as usual with the other "religious folks", attending to the rules of the "this and that" and tightening the protocols of the "do's and dont's", Jesus was found outside at the gates, the pools, and the wayside, breaking the powers of racism and segregation like at the well, healing on the Sabbath, and on the streets where the lame, the sick, the broken, wounded, hungry, and thirsty were to be found.

One day, Jesus called the religious leaders of His day a bunch of thieves and robbers (Mark 11:17-19), and as a result of being exposed for what they were, they sought to kill him. Verse 19 then tells us that He then departed out of that city.  To answer the call of GOD on your life means standing in the line of fire.  It means risking popularity and losing friendships and camaraderie because people rather keep religion, tradition, and culture than being set free by the power of His Word. 

When your teaching is influencing and effective, when it begins to EXPOSE the works of the devil and where darkness is abiding, the enemy will send a B.O.L.O. (Be On the Lookout Out) alert on your life.  He will use, hello ---> people to try and assassinate the work of GOD in you.  But be encouraged.  The work of GOD cannot be stopped.  If He's using you as a prophet, then prophesy! If He's using you as a teacher, then teach!  If He's using you as an evangelist, then evangelize!  If He's using you as a pastor, then feed the sheep.  If He's using you as an apostle, then go forth in your assignment.

Jesus already told us that we overcome by the Blood of the Lamb and by the Word of our testimony. Whatever GOD has called you to do, do it!  For as He called Jeremiah to a stiff-necked, hardheaded people, He's called you from before your mother's womb.  So now, gird up your loins and arise.  Speak to them all that He commands you to speak and do not be dismayed (appalled, horrified, shocked, shaken (up), disconcerted, take aback, alarmed, unnerved, unsettled, thrown off balance, discomposed; disturbed, upset, distressed; rattled, and fazed) AT THEIR FACES, lest the LORD confounds you before them. For it is the LORD that has made you THIS DAY a fortified city, and an iron pillar, and brasen walls against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes, against the priests, and against the people of the land. They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you. For the LORD Himself is with you, says the LORD, to deliver you. He that has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit is saying to the Church. 

Scriptures to Meditate on:
Mark 11:17-19 -  17And he taught, saying unto them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but ye have made it a den of thieves. 18And the scribes and chief priests heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, because all the people was astonished at his doctrine. 19And when even was come, he went out of the city.

Jeremiah 1

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Narda Goodson
Author, Will the REAL ME Please Stand Up!

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The Church is Playing the Field

So many "church buildings" but not many CHURCHES. The CHURCH is the true body of Christ, but she is out playing the field; playing in the fields of immorality. 

The Church and the World use to walk far apart. Now, you barely notice her. She calls unto Me with her lips but with her heart lies another lover. Her garments of pure are now crested and infested with Babylonian adoration. Idols sit on the altars of what was once pure and holy.

The Church has allowed Babylon to filter into my house that use to be called the house of prayer but now are a den of thieves. It has become a market place of pure entertainment, sensual, and worldly feasts of pleasures.

Spiritually undiscerning lax leaders are causing sheep to drink from the polluted fountains of idolatry. But I will require of those who have placed a stumbling block and caused others to fall. Woe unto the pastors!

Yet, I am still calling and still not desiring that any perish. Behold, I come quickly. He that has an ear let him hear what the Spirit is saying unto the Churches. 

Scriptures to Meditate on:
Jeremiah 23:1-2
Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the LORD. Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel against the pastors that feed my people; Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them: behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith the LORD.

Revelation 2:12-17
To the angel of the church in Pergamum write:
These are the words of him who has the sharp, double-edged sword. 13I know where you live—where Satan has his throne. Yet you remain true to my name. You did not renounce your faith in me, not even in the days of Antipas, my faithful witness, who was put to death in your city—where Satan lives.

14Nevertheless, I have a few things against you: There are some among you who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to entice the Israelites to sin so that they ate food sacrificed to idols and committed sexual immorality. 15Likewise, you also have those who hold to the teaching of the Nicolaitans. 16Repent therefore! Otherwise, I will soon come to you and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

17Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.

Tilt your heart towards the SON!
Narda Goodson
Author, Will the REAL ME Please Stand Up!

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