The Life Dr.

I wanted to thank my son Tad for all his hard work on setting up this blog for me …. making me look good and like I know what I am doing!! I thank God for all my sons and daughter’s … I am a blessed woman, a proud mom and of course ..nana !!
That’s all I have to say today! Plenty to read below….

It is  a Sunday and I thought I would talk to all of you who did not plan on going to church today because of religious people in your past.. sad but true… Ghandi said ..” After being introduced to  the Bible I would have become a Christian until I met one..”  Woe to the one he met that turned a man who changed a nation away from the living God…This is not how it should be and it is not true Christianity it is dead religion!!!

Religious people are mean and judgmental…they can’t be any other way.. religion is mean.  It is mans attempt to reach God their own way.  There is only one way and that is through Jesus Christ…plain and simple… but all the extra junk and rules these belief systems add is too heavy for anyone. Jesus made it easy for us to come to God, and He couldn’t stand religious people either… He went after the Pharisees and  Sadducees (religious people of His day)  They were trying to tell Him what the rules were to serve Him.. what a joke.  They made a life and career memorizing and theorizing about the Word of God but when it showed up in the flesh they didn’t know Him !! Unfortunately it is too often still like this today !!  The Word says ..they have a form of Godliness but lack the power there of !! Always adding rules that don’t exist in God or in His Word to look more spiritual and making life so hard no one can measure up !!! But that is exactly why Jesus came..Take my yolk upon you for my yolk is easy and my burdens are light…...Cast your cares on me for I care for you.!!

Jesus spoke in parables ( stories) all the time so people could understand Him.. take a lesson folks….people who speak Christianese all the time drive me up the wall.  Why can’t you just say something so people can understand you !!  I am a very educated person and I know a lot of really big words that I can impress you with… I can quote so many scriptures I can make your head spin and my theological terminology can blow you away…. SO WHAT if no one knows what you are talking about.

This is to all the religious people who feel the need to alienate most of the population to try to impress people… never realizing all people want to do is get away from you, this is no way to win the lost to Christ !!  You suck, that is not true Christianity it is a bunch of dead doctrine… Stop It  !!  ..The letter of the law kills but the spirit makes it alive !! If serving God is not exciting and causes your life to be better … you are not doing something right.. Your life should be an adventure !!! I encourage you find the True and Living God… Jesus !!!  Not everyone who says the name of Jesus knows Him !!  Find the ones who really do.  You will recognize them… they LIVE LIFE with JOY !!!

My point today is that there are some really good churches out there with really good pastors..  don’t let someone who apparently does not really know Him turn you away from the ones who really DO !!

Find A Good Church and Grow !!!!  If you are near us we are worth the drive and if you are not it is worth the time to find one !

Perspective.. your point of view matters how you see it.

“Mommy when you bend over your butt looks this big”…with his little arms stretched out as far as he could reach !!

Those words haunted me when I heard them over 25 years ago from my then very young son… so much so I still recall it like it was yesterday !!! I thought to myself… what… how big ??  I remember quickly standing up and going to look for myself !!  Trying my best to twist around in the mirror wondering how a size 6 butt (at the time) could possibly look so enormous to my son that his little arms just weren’t long enough for him to show me !!  If any of you have raised kids you know how brutally honest they are.  I also knew my butt was not near as big as he said, right?. But I have to admit it bothered me… after checking several more times myself, asking Dr. V to confirm my findings and whoever else would look…  I decided I was OK but wondered why in the world it looked so huge to him and made sure I did not bend down in front of him for quite some time.  (bend at the knees ladies so your butt will be at your feet.. always looks smaller)

I know it sounds petty now but no woman wants to hear that.. especially when you are very young and in shape..you thought !!

I began to realize with clarity the concept of perspective.  To that little boy who was only a few feet tall from his viewpoint  it seemed as big as he said.  Thank God not everyone had his perspective.

Our perspective..or the way in which we see a thing is decided by many factors in life.  Our culture, upbringing, education, experiences, position etc …everything we have been through and know will determine your perspective. These factors will determine how big or overwhelming things can be to us.

Let me give you a couple of examples….

I remember years ago ( we were pastoring) when Dr. V and I were getting ready to buy a new car.  We starting getting inundated with people’s ideas on what their Pastor’s should be driving.  I find it very funny that people think they have a right to tell ministers these kinds of things !! You wouldn’t dare feel like you could tell anyone else what they can drive ??  ( if you are this kind of person… do yourself a favor and never visit our church)   Anyway we had people who had money tell us..” buy what you like, mercedes, Lexus whatever, you work hard and give your life away to others you deserve the best.” (can someone say AMEN!!)  We also had a few people rebuke us when they found out we were buying a Lexus. First of all what business is it of anyones what car I drive.  We absolutely believe the word of God about being blessed and we  live accordingly.   But I remember one particle lady (it is usually the women) who took it upon herself to take a pole on how expensive of a car and what type seemed proper for us to drive… she literally had come to a consensus with her crony friends that a middle of the road Toyota is the highest we should go !!!!  When I challenged her findings as to where she came up with the particular car, she informed me that it was the car she bought after working for years to get it and felt like that was just so expensive it should be good enough for everyone especially ministers…. WRONG!!!

Really good lesson here.. first of all your  perspective about things is limited to a culmination of your world.  Others are not limited or responsible to remain in the walls you have built for yourself or the boundaries that your lack of exposure has set for you in your mind. Can we agree that there is more for all of us to learn… and why would we try to limit others from running the mountain tops of life ..simply because we have never seen a mountain !!!  Get out of your limitations and learn to see again !!!

What she considered over the top expensive, others thought of as everyday good car.  What made the difference is the place the people were coming from, perspective.  Many times we think the way we see things is the only or right way.. when quite frankly it can be very inaccurate, but just like my son if you are smaller in your thinking and limited in your view and information to compare it to ….you cannot properly discern. To identify a thing without a vast arraying of information to compare it to is at best not good intel !! If you have small thinking, small vision , small dreams ..people like me will make you mad.  When I am talking to people and they use terms like… it was really big… my next response is …what does really big mean to you… it cost a lot of money…. what is a lot of money to you…  what seems big to you might be small to others.  Aren’t all these views depending on the person who is looking.  I have noticed through the years many people think in their limitations instead of the their capabilities… I can do all things through God who gives me the strength…,  I wish above all things that you prosper and be in health even as your soul prospers.. It is the people with a limited perspective that are always the haters of the ones who choose to ..stretch out their tent stakes and lengthen their borders.

So in life it is up to us… if something looks too big… change your view.

V and I were raised in a tiny Podunk town in the valley of Ca ..when we were first married we moved to our cottage (hahaha) that was 6 miles away.  We remember clearly people told us they would not be visiting much because it was so far away …. I remember clearly V and I having the conversation about how far away it was from everyone !!!  Can you believe that !!!  Unbelievable right !!!  God took us across country to go to college and we thought we would die our first year.  Then we moved to the Bay Area on and on…. Could we all agree that if we were called to travel the world …our perspective of the world had to change !!!! Just because you think a certain way now does not make it accurate… it makes it your truth…not necessarily TRUTH.  Now the whole world seems close to us.. simply and airplane ride away.. We have been to the Asia’s, the Latin’s, the Africa’s and the British Isle’s ..and the Caribbean … nothing is too far away !!

OK ,That was a natural point now let’s make a spiritual one !!!

… It was our first year in bible college in Oklahoma and it was a challenge to say the least.  We had been there for some time when.. I found a huge lump on the side of my right breast under my arm !! I remember the fear that hit me.. it would not matter how old you are that is terrifying.  But here I am V and I were all alone, far from everyone and I have this huge lump…OMG and yes I said OMG .. what am I going to do !! I didn’t tell V … I had to process this… I am a woman of faith and power..been in the ministry for 5 years.. have seen many healed of all kinds of things even at my own hand… am in a college known for FAITH… and all I could think was… Can I Get Some !!

I could not speak of it… I could not tell V (and I tell him everything)  I kept thinking if I say it then it will make it real and if I don’t it will go away !!!  Not true.. the word says….calling those things that are not yet as thought they are..not calling those things that are as though they are not. !!! ( will teach on that in another blog) Good lesson here.. ignoring a thing is not faith.  Look at it … call it what it is…and then overcome it with the Word.  The Word of God has instruction on everything that you will face in life.. It will give you a True Perspective. !!!

It was weeks later and I finally told V..but when I opened my mouth to talk, I felt like I couldn’t breath… I felt like FEAR was kicking my butt… I can’t describe it to you.. you know what I mean if you have felt it !!  I had not been able to sleep, eat…nothing !!  Something had to be done it was not getting better simply because I was not facing it !!  It was too big for me !!  When I told V he said all the right things but there was no relief!! Now both of us were trying to deal with that information.  There was a prayer and healing school at the college we went to and it was 2 afternoons a week.  The problem was I had to miss work to go and we were already living on fumes.  We agreed I would go and off I went… to find information to change my perspective !!!!  I got there and a lady named Patsy was teaching and boy was she amazing… but all I heard was blah..blah…blah.. all I wanted was for her to get in agreement with me and lay hands on me, pray and this lump to disappear !!!  Right !!! This is prayer and healing school that is the point Right !!!  So I went up a the end of class and when I went to ask her for prayer (which is what would happen at the end of class for anyone who needed it) it felt like my heart fell out on the floor !!  I cried so hard …it was embarrassing..well, she let me gather myself and declared a thing that would change my life… I WILL NOT PRAY FOR YOU !!! WHAT !!! She repeated herself… I will not pray for you, you would not receive it if I did. I thought in my mind …I beg to differ it is what I took off work and came for !! I immediately got mad as she continued… right now all you can see is your problem and God looks very small compared to it.. it is like this lump is a huge cloud right in front of your eyes and God is somewhere behind it and not the focus of your view.  You will not receive while you see things that way.. (wait for it…….and then the instruction) go home and begin to spend time with God..spend time in his Word and study how He heals, how faithful He is ..on and on.. Praise Him until the cloud that is your problem is positioned well behind the awesomeness of your God !!!  I knew she was right but I literally thought… What the hell kind of prayer school is this !!! Couldn’t you just pray with me so I feel better !!  I love that woman for that now.. I am very much the same way.. making someone feel better about a thing that requires them to change it is often not the right way to deal with it.  Sometimes it only gives them a false sense of relief and might hinder their press for their answer !!!  I had known the Lord as Healer for others but now I was going to pay for the revelation of Healer for ME!!

Well months went by and I was dealing with my mind.. keeping it in order…reading..praying and praising my butt off.. until one Sunday morning I was in church praising God and I went to lift my hands and they both went up the whole way !!! Before, my right arm couldn’t and that lump was getting bigger !!! So there I was in Church with my hands in the air singing my heart out and …. wait…my hand is all the way up.. I even looked up to check and yep there it was !!! The first thing I did was reach my left hand over and start feeling for the lump !!  I checked everywhere…I felt around everywhere… just in case it fell ??  I know but I wasn’t thinking straight.  Now please go with me here…. I am in church and like a crazy woman I am publicly grabbing my everything on the right side … get a picture of that !!! I looked crazy but after what felt like forever I realized…. THAT LUMP WAS GONE !!!! OMG and yes I said OMG it was really gone !!!! Somewhere in my journey God had gotten bigger in my heart and mind than that dumb lump. The revelation of my perspective of God changed for me forever that day… Thank God for a woman who made me responsible to change my own perspective.  And because of it I have taught many to change theirs.  Don’t get me wrong we absolutely pray for people for healing.  But when they need instruction to change their viewpoint so they can succeed we give them that also!!!

If it is a natural or spiritual perspective I want to challenge you.. if it seems to big, to hard, not possible… change your perspective !!  Get around those who know it can be done and willing to show you how !!

In either realm God is the answer... He cares about it all… He can do all things..but you need to know He can…He will cause you to run the mountain tops with joy !!!  I know this to be TRUE !!

Hope this helped someone..

DH

“Wow.. I never knew a new bible smelled as good as a new surf board !!! ”
I absolutely love our people !!!
DH

Of course you must be a born again, washed in the blood of Jesus Christ Christian !!! If you are not and would like to be contact me…I can introduce you to Him. If you need a church that walks in the fullness of who we are in Him and would like to learn to be SAVED TO THE BONE… Have I got a church for you !!! No players here.. just real people serving a real God !! Our church is not just another service..it is an experience !! He shows up every time.. Lives are changed and we all leave so much stronger then when we came. You are officially invited www.dominionlifechurch.com Dr. Helene