Overcoming... from a somewhat guest blogger

My boss/coworker/friend/surrogate dad in NC Mike received a word from God the night before last for me. I will not write everything that he had told me but I will put some excerpts...



You name came to my mind along with the word "Overcoming". You have had many trials in the 29 years that you have lived. For many years you tried to overcome these trials under your own power, strength , and wisdom. In recent years you have realized the futility of human wisdom in these circumstances and have started to trust God with your trials. By trusting God, you are seeing that His wisdom and particularly his timing is always best. The name God has given you is Overcoming... not Overcomer because you are still a work in progress. There are wounds that you carry that still need to be healed and not covered over. Forgiveness is especially important for you to both understand and to show. Because of the faith you are demonstrating in your life through your tirals and as a witness for Christ to others, God will continue to help you to overcome. God has given you the type of personality to draw people to you and to enjoy to be around you. God wants to use that gift for you to show Him to others. He wants you to be his mirror whereever you are, at home, at work and even on the soccer field. God's words found in the scriptures will be the anchor that will stabilize you when things get rough.



I am always excited to hear what God says to others about me. It is a nice verification of what God tells me. I know that I still have alot of stuff still to overcome. But to look back at the person I was before I was saved.... and the person I am now....There is no resemblence. That Susie is gone. When I was baptized... I rose again and have never wanted to be the person I was. I am a Christian first, a wife, a mother, a sister, a daughter and a friend.... these are my life titles. And I constantly try to strive to live up to all of them. Do I fail at times?... yes of course, but that will never stop me from trying to be the best at everything I am.

I was read the book of The Revelation last night and Apostle John was told to write a letter to each church... and this is in the end of each letter..

To Ephesus
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
To Smyrna
He who overcomes will not be hurt at all by the second death.
To Pergamum
To him who overcomes, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give him a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to him who receives it.
To Thyatira
To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations— He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery - just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star.
To Sardis
Yet you have a few people in Sardis who have not soiled their clothes. He who overcomes will, like them, be dressed in white. I will never blot out his name from the book of life, but will acknowledge his name before my Father and his angels.
To Philadelphia
Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will he leave it. I will write on him the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on him my new name.
To Laodicea
To him who overcomes, I will give the right to sit with me on my throne, just as I overcame and sat down with my Father on his throne.

I shall overcome... even if I only get one of these blessings to these churches! To all who I have sinned against I am truely repentant, those who have sinned against me... you are totally forgiven. And for those who I sin against often I would like for God to assist me in the release of the pain and anger I feel against you. My main sin is to love my enemies as I love myself. I pray for their salvation often and hope one day we will walk side by side in heaven by our Lord.