I’ve often wondered what happens to the innocent when they are killed accidently or deliberately, like for example the people at the Charleston shooting. The images that pops into mind is horrific. But this passage in the Bible about the stoning of Stephen gives me a much consolation of what each and everyone of us as Christians shouldn’t be afraid of when dying, especially if we are on a pilgrim journey for God like the old timers used to say, ”Heaven is your home.”

Acts 7:55,56,59 and 60. But he [Stephen] being full of the Holy Ghost, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God. Stephen said, ”behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God. And they stoned Stephen as he called upon God, and said, ”Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” He knelt down and cried with a loud voice, ”Lord lay not this sin to their charge.” And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

This has given me so much peace’ peace in my dreams and in my mind. God never leaves us, he shows up; in life and in death.

Jesus came down from Heaven and stepped into Earth with all His glory and maintained it. I don’t know if I could say it was easy for Him, but after all, He is God in the flesh. For us human beings to step into God’s Glory with all its mysteries it is very difficult, because God is never changing and we are. We cannot sustain the glory of God because of its power and the weakness of the flesh. Through the power of the almighty it can be sustained for a short period of time; with prayer, fasting and true faith we can we can try to win the battle and maintain it but even Jesus admits that He in the flesh is not  good, except God; Luke 18:19 ” Why callest thou me good? none is good, save one, that is God.”

There are always battles to overcome as a human being trying to sustain the Glory of God when we are called. This battle had begun in Genesis 3:15, I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.”

Mankind has been preaching the Bible for centuries because, for many, that’s the only reference or proof to the true existence of God. Today, without the Bible I believe many religions cannot or would not exist. Notwithstanding, for people like myself, and I know that I can’t be the only one, it was the power of the Holy Ghost that allowed me to step into God’s Glory, which granted me his  wisdom, knowledge and understanding. This is not something that can be taught by reading the Bible or going to church alone. The Bible declares, ”God is a spirit and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:24 Jesus said, ”But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.” John 14:26 Jesus said again, ”But when the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the spirit of truth, which proceedeth from the Father, he shall testify of me.”

My Comforter came as the one thing that I could identify myself with: being a mother; something that I hold dear to my heart and always knew from a child that I wanted to be. This is the reason I believe Mother Mary came to me. I love all children even those that aren’t mine and I would take care of them as though are. To step into the Glory of God, understand that we have to love and  care for all God’s children ( human beings) as our own, no matter race, religion, atheist or culture.  John 21:15-17 If you love me feed my lamb, fed my sheep. Matthew 28:19 ”Go ye therefore, and teach all nations.” Mark 16:15 ”Go ye into the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.” John 3:16′ ”For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. ”

What I’ve also learned from stepping into God’s Glory is, Isaiah 55:8-9 ”For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.” God is love, compassion, humility, forgiveness, discipline, understanding, He is everything, both good and even bad. For instance, when one has to correct or discipline it is never considered being good, think of it especially from a child’s point of view. But even in being bad God is good, because although His way is not our way, he must show us what is right. Another example would be to ponder why he would let so many bad things happen; especially to good people. But this is not because God allows it but because Genesis 2:16-17 “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shall surely die.” God didn’t want us to eat from the tree of Good and Evil because he can handle the bad and we cannot. Yet still today, metaphorically speaking, we continue to indulge in the forbidden fruit and continue to wonder why we experience the consequences. Yet out of every tragedy and every bad thing that has ever happened, there is always an outcome of change. This is not God doing this, this is us doing this because we are refusing to accept and have Faith in God’s bidding until all else fails though he has never and will never leave us neither forsaken us.

The devil is a busy adversary seeking whom he may devour. Tragedy like the Charleston shooting is to put enmity between race. People we’ve come to far to turn back now. Don’t allow this tragedy to lead us in the valley of despair. We are overcomers because we know to pray. Psalm 121: I will lift mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help… This happened to destroy any hope of reconciling racial tension, it is like pouring gasoline on a fire that is already burning, …but the devil is a liar. For all who is wondering if this young man acted alone or not, especially you Christian people, can you not see the legions in his eyes? Luke 8:30: I looked at his picture and I could only imagine the voices going on in his head. Ephesian 6:12: For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the ruler of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. My prayers goes out to the families for comfort, healing, peace and love, but most of all stay strong in faith.

Brothers and sisters, God has promised us that He would never destroy the world by water or flood again (Genesis 9:11). What we are experiencing now is Mother Earth in labour. Her water has just broken. That’s why we are seeing so much hurricanes, rain and floods. Earthquakes, tornados and volcanos are her contractions. She is giving birth to change. We are just seeing and feeling what’s going on from the outside. But there is more in depth powers flowing from the Heaven (mind) and the core (womb) from the Almighty God. Transformation is occurring in everything. There’s going to be new species of creatures, animals, plants, life, weather changes, geographic changes, even to us; our mental and physical abilities. No matter what, we need to be still and know that God is God (Psalms46:10).

“And it shall come to pass afterward
That I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh;
Your sons and your daughters shall prophesy,
Your old men shall dream dreams,
Your young men shall see visions. (Joel 2:28).”

My name Empress Joanne is not some sort of connotation for royalty or my beauty. My name is my anointing not only to elevate me but to humble me for the road I am to walk. I received my name in a vision. I was given this name not only for spiritual elevation, but for humility, in a dream. I was warned I shouldn’t tell anyone about this dream when I had mentioned it innocently. So here is where fear set in me. “Why?” I asked; “because many people are killed for this knowledge,” I was told by a man and woman of God. I was given the Crown of Heaven, the Crown of Earth and the Crown of Crucifix altogether as one crown and then given the Infant Jesus.

Crown of Heaven: the glory of God

Crown of Earth: whatever is bound on Earth is bound in Heaven

Crown of Crucifix: suffering with Christ

Infant Jesus represents all of mankind to be responsible for. So in receiving the Infant Jesus, just as God found favour in Mary and she was chosen by Him, He found favour in me to take on the role of being a woman, a mother, a wife, a leader. Like Daniel in the last days, “And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great terror fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves. (Daniel 10:7).”  Many are called but few are chosen. But to whom much is given, much is required (Luke 12:48). I’ve been battling and it has been a fight but this is MY higher calling.

Praying for all friends, family, acquaintances, even to enemies who have wrongfully persecute me.
All heads of churches, government and members therein. Praying Lord that you would come at last to our aid and salvation and break the chains that bound us to sin and set all of us captives free. Remember those in the jail houses, those in the hospital beds, those who are hungry and thirsty, going through trials and tribulations; pain and sorrow. Those of us who feel as though there is no God. Those of us that shake our fists into thy face, those of us of little understanding, those of us that feel a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. Those of us by the highways and the byways of life. Send down the comforter to comfort us all and deliver us from the bondage of sins and set all of us sinner captive-free. Amen

Writing this blog has given me more than my share of obstacles. For months I keep telling myself I could do it; I am going too. But talk about blockages, wow!
Let me start with this,”there is a God” and I am not here to dispute with atheism or skepticism; “Because of my own ignorance, who am I to judge others?” One thing I’ve always hated as a child was ministers and Christian people selling God and going to Heaven like some bad insurance sales representative. There was so much restrictions back then, that I’d rather go to hell than their Heaven. And today, there are still believers refusing to change their traditional views.
From an early age I knew things, things that I wasn’t able to read about, like the existence of God and angels and things I didn’t have to read about to have an understanding of such as where did babies come from and doing a C-section on a mother to remove a baby from her belly. It all started when I was eighteen months and by the time I would tell my dad about things, that would freak him out because there was no way for me to know about it; I was still a baby. He would tell my stepmother that I was born with a veil over my eyes and then sometimes I’d say things, or speak about a dream I had and he would say, “you are nothing but an old soul.”
The veil means I was born with the gift of sight like a prophet.
An old soul means someone who has been reincarnated.

My lord, help me to express my thoughts and my feelings in writing on who I believe you to be in me and surrounding me.

My prayers:

Open my blind eyes that I may see, deaf ears that I may hear, dumb mouth that I may speak, lame legs that I may walk, my mind to embrace oneness with you and my heart to love unconditionally as you’ve loved me. Teach me that I may teach others. Heal me that I may heal others. Bless me that I may bless others. Be thou the driving force within me. Leave me not to myself alone. Let your will for me be done. Forgive me of my sins; past, present and future.

Thanksgiving:

Lord I thank you for the many blessings received and blessings still yet to come for when I think of all those who are less fortunate, I pray also that you would bless them as you’ve blessed me and continue to bless me so I also can bless them.

Embrace:

Lord be thou above me, beneath me, on the right side and on the left, in front of me and in the back. Hold onto me and when you feel my hand slipping away from you, hold onto me tighter. Grant me wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, faith and courage; trusting in you, the gift of truth and discerning.Hear me when I moan and hear me when I groan. Leave me not alone. Be thou my light in my darkness, my strength in my weakness, my comfort in my distress and my courage in my fears.