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Poetry about God and prayer 

Prayer poem

The echo of my soul

  Never slows the hum

For Gods love to surround 

When light dims my heart

Silence slips away into prayer

Our Heavenly Father in Jesus name 

I begin  

  Help me hear you 

Remain in your light 

Never to slow with evil 

In the darkness of fright 

Lift me now into forever calm

Cover me with peace 

Help me shine your love 

Impart to all 

     Thank you for loving me

I truly love and give thanks to you 

Amen

 

Timeline of Sinning to being forgiven / audio of writing at bottom 

 

He walked into the bar with his casual stride. Worn out jeans with discolored patches from stain for wooden crosses. He was a warrior for God, a healer they said. The bartender smiled as he walked in, knowing he would begin with jin. “Well hello Mike how is your day? Want the normal?” Mike smiled and lowered his head, “you know I don’t drink anymore I work for God.” Then he sat at the bar and put his wallet next to the bowl of nuts. “But tonight is special give me a double shot of  house tequila instead of jin!.” The bartender smiled an unusually large smile and poured the drink for this man at the bar. 

 

“Today doesn’t matter nor will I be judged!” He held the shot of tequila and raised it to the air, “To God!” then tilted the shot glass to empty into his mouth. The bartender smiled once more, an unusually large smile, “that’s the way to do it Mike.” He felt the old feeling of the alcohol moving through his veins. He smiled at the bartender, who still smiled an unusually large smile.

 

Mike had several more shots with a grin on his face that didn’t match his soul. A lady sat next to him, “buy me a drink stranger,” She spoke with a southern accent and leaned just right when she said ‘drink.’  Mike saw the easy of her skin near his touch. His thoughts were poetic with the easy and such being a poet and all. His imagination saw more and a few drinks later they walked to the door. The bartender smiled an unusually large smile then grinned as evil poured across the bar. Energy moving toward and against Mike just as he left.. the bar.

 

He followed her to her room near the bar, feeling the need to know every part, of   .. her. He felt God’s stared but did not care, he saw Jesus look at him but walked the other way. The Holy Spirit shot a warning with regret, but he walked behind watching every move she made. Her hips hypnotized him into the pleasure of flesh. The tequila amplified his fall into flesh. The door closed and he pushed guilt away. 

 

The day opened with filth in his mind. The dirt of sin was heavy as slime across and into his mouth and his soul. “God, I am sorry, help  ….” His words fell to the floor of the dirty carpeted room. Covered with stains from who knows what. Other souls falling to her desires. 

 

He dressed but felt his filth, his sin cover him across everything he saw. She slept and he left quickly. He fell to his knees to talk to God, to see if Jesus would hear and if the Holy Spirit was near.  He saw Jesus on the cross and blood began to fall. He was kneeling on the gravel of the parking lot and began to weep. He saw his drunkenness cut Jesus with the whip of sin. He saw the fornication slash the blood from His body that caused Jesus to sink in pain. He tried to speak to say all is ok. Then he saw Jesus in front of him with love in his eyes. The blood dripped and hit him on the arm. Just the touch of Jesus’s blood removed his guilt. Just looking into his eyes removed the stain of all his actions the night before.

 

He walked away with pain in his heart weeping with thanks to the Son of God. Jesus knew long before Mike was born that this sin would happen the timing the all. Mike wept as he saw the visions of pain but dropped to his knees then laying flat his face on the ground he cried. “I lifted filth into my body and against my soul, I was lazy and said just a little bit will hold. But YOU my Lord and savior for all. Your love said, “I knew this day would come.”

 

Mike walked the day into the night praying to God to forgive his way. But that first  moment he was shown Jesus’s love he was forgiven. 

 

We sin through this life and God knew we would, so he sent his Son to endure pure torture to remove that sin, we would do again and again.

 

Talk to Jesus today my friend, for he waits for conversation and to lead you to him. God is all knowing and our sins he knew from before our birth. Even millions of years ago, God knew we would fail, is why Jesus is with us forever to take us away from hell!

 

If any of this story sounds like you, you are running out of times to sin tis true. After too many your heart becomes hard and Jesus will not hear your cries.

 

God bless you all …. walk the path of love. Amen! Praise you God!            click link below to hear the audio 

 

https://youtu.be/C9U3Gzjvtrk        

 

 
an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
"he is prey to irrational fears"
Similar:

terror

 

fright

 
fearfulness

horror

 

alarm

 

panic

 

agitation

 

trepidation

 

dread

 

consternation

 

dismay

 

distress

 

anxiety

 

worry

 

angst

 

unease

 

uneasiness

 

apprehension

 
apprehensiveness

nervousness

 

nerves

 

timidity

 

disquiet

 

disquietude

 

discomposure

 

unrest

 

perturbation

 

foreboding

 

misgiving

 

doubt

 

suspicion

 
the creeps
the willies
the heebie-jeebies

the shakes

 
the collywobbles
jitteriness

twitchiness

 
butterflies (in the stomach)

funk

 

blue funk

 
the (screaming) abdabs
the Joe Blakes

worriment

 

inquietude

 

phobia

 

aversion

 

antipathy

 

bugbear

 

bogey

 

nightmare

 

neurosis

 

complex

 

mania

 
abnormal fear
irrational fear
obsessive fear

bête noire

 

hang-up

 
Opposite:

calmness

 

confidence

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Similar:
 
 
 
 

terror

 

fright

 
fearfulness

horror

 

alarm

 

panic

 

agitation

 

trepidation

 

dread

 

consternation

 

dismay

 

distress

 

anxiety

 

worry

 

angst

 

unease

 

uneasiness

 

apprehension

 
apprehensiveness

nervousness

 

nerves

 

timidity

 

disquiet

 

disquietude

 

discomposure

 

unrest

 

perturbation

 

foreboding

 

misgiving

 

doubt

 

suspicion

 
the creeps
the willies
the heebie-jeebies

the shakes

 
the collywobbles
jitteriness

twitchiness

 
butterflies (in the stomach)

funk

 

blue funk

 
the (screaming) abdabs
the Joe Blakes

worriment

 

inquietude

 

phobia

 

aversion

 

antipathy

 

bugbear

 

bogey

 

nightmare

 

neurosis

 

complex

 

mania

 
abnormal fear
irrational fear
obsessive fear

bête noire

 

hang-up

 
Opposite:

calmness

 

confidence

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

When The Holy Spirit.. speaks / audio of words at bottom click the link 

I worship God through my thoughts

  they banter with him in a holy way

with the Holy Spirit’s grammar

 one cannot go wrong 

 the speak in his language 

touch of soul clings to hope

savoring every moment of this pause in time

I wait to battle the old

for when his peace leaves

a wee but

   we begin again to be in this

mortal flesh with 

a 

time limit..

 

     he silences the worries

putting love into the blanks of me

   for I am nothing but all

I am all but nothing

 removing self from

the taste of time

   the Holy spirit

has my  rhyme

     what you say?

have you given away?

    all of me for God to use

to lift a soul from sadness

and its ugliest hue of

oh so much pain

 fear tries to claim

   easy is a second

with his glance as the brush

  upon me now is God

within me 

is God

I banter with

 God 

the three in ones I call them

   neither of any maters though

for God is God

and he carries the tow

 of our

souls

    flushed away is evil

with the rotted and decayed

lies   purged  .. thrown

 tossed   to make me clean

   

 I give today once more to thee my Lord

 use me to heal others

use me to soothe fear

use me to work your love

your light..that holy light

covers every pain and removes every sin

 with one

faint whisper

   that one of faith

 

  how do I tell them?

how can I say the magnificent of your love Lord!

  .. when easy is the walk with you by our side

with our stride

between our tides of doubt

and rise

 

        ..I will try Lord

but you will finish

 the way of me 

the way of free

 the way of forever   

me with thee

 

 we all walk our different paths

but you my Lord

 have the wya

the way

the way is Jesus

the way ..

 I bid thee good day for

a moment I rest

   the battles have

worn my body

to weaken my seed

with thee across and into

tomorrow will be again again

 my journey here

in mortal flesh 

 

to wipe the sadness off

the clay feet

cleaned with your word your love!

 

oh praise you God our savior indeed

for sacrifice relieves

relieved… gives freedom

to smle

at the whispers of the trees..

oh I begin to ramble and babble nonsense 

within your joy the way of s smile

is perfection across me  

.. slumber with me Lord

 rest your open wounds

of our sins across your Sons flesh

    still seen

in heavens bow

           until I awaken

to begin again

your walk through me

to remove their sin

my sin

our sins..

removed yet still oh my mind is tried

of the way of the devils

ways to ..

to

   I laugh    he can do nothing when I stand true

in your glory I will swim

forever until 

my end..

here in this world

 of learning life and love

again..

 

Mitch Bensel 

Linke to ‘hear’ the words 

https://youtu.be/st2PZdcJAaA


 

The blades of the blender....God's love mixing us to become new! /audio at bottom of article 

I love these new blenders, new to me, where you put your mix into a cup that you then screw the blade cap onto it. With one action of turning it upside down and placing the blade into the mix, voila! instant action. We all know what happens if we don't put enough liquid into the mix of fruits and powders we are mixing. It doesn't mix well. What is on the top as you hold it on the blender just stays still with its fruit and some of the liquid sitting there. Not being pulled down to the blades to be mixed well. We have to either shake it, which will do nothing or remove and add fluid or stir with a spoon to move the untouched fruit and powder toward the blades. 

I watched as the blueberries and fresh liquid were not moving down to the blades, yet the blades were still churning away taking what was near and mixing. This made me think of our whole life. We are to give all of ourselves for the Holy Spirit to use for God's glory and when we do not we are like the separated fruit from the liquid and the powder. Just sitting up there being what they are, fruit, liquid and powder.  

When we don't bring God into our life we are at the top, away from God's grace, His blades that are what will complete us in soul, mind and body. Without His touch changing us to be new we are incomplete . When we do not pray or think of Him, maybe on Sundays and thats it. The small amount of thoughts to God, is that is movement where the blades are mixing well, grabbing what is near and creating new.

At the top where the liquid and fruit kind of move a wee bit. Is when we only think of God a ‘wee’ bit not bringing Him into our literal every moment. With a thank you when you wake, with a praise you God when we sleep.

But finally we feel God's reach, the liquid the blades are moving catch some of our disregard to God mixing it with understanding and love. We are new with God and new with our lives and actions. We changed up and prayed more. He answered more due to our faith and only by His Grace did we finally let go of being separate at the top of the mixing glass,and dove into His love being blended with a perfect and healthy spiritual life. Just like the drink, being made to help us be healthy. God never stops turning the blades of His love, showing us He loves us and how well he mixes us with His love. Once we feel His love we become the mix of His will and walk with and through love the rest of our lives.

 

Click on the link below to ‘hear’ mitch say these words

https://youtu.be/sPwkIUXFkkw

God bless you all and add more prayer and take His love to stir like a spoon that part of us we haven't given to God!

What I was shown as I prayed in the prayer room at a hospital/ audio of words at bottom click link 

I try to get to the local hospitals at lease once a week or more to go to their chapel and pray.  Usually there is a book with prayers written in it by patient's family members. I close my eyes and put my hands on the book and begin the prayer. Sometimes the prayers come out as praying in tongues, other times just in my mind. Recently I stopped in the prayer room after visiting a friend and praying for her. I was shown many families, groups of people with lines of light moving to and through them. I felt their sadness and their prayers. I was also allowed to feel God's love. He showed me His love going to each person. No matter their physical appearance, His love was beyond description. I began to cry some from the sadness felt by the family's prayers and the patient or family member that was ill.

I continued to pray, as long as light was being shown flying all over to different areas and through people, I would pray. I saw a mutilated person, that in the eyes of mankind would be shunned and disgusted with them just by the way they looked. Within the moment of being shown that person, God let me feel His gloriously beautiful love for them. He lifted my soul with the love He has for us! 

No matter what you look like, whether you are beautiful in the world way, or obscene in the world way of not perfect. Limbs missing, or teeth and even just being unclean. God's love poured over them as He showed me the intense and equal love for all of His children. I began to cry silently while praying as God let me feel His love move through me to all that were being prayed for. I feel all in that book, or most and it was a thick ledger, was touched by God that day through my prayers. The light slowed and the lines of light slowly just vanished. I thanked God for letting me pray and for letting me feel His presence and His love for us. I know it is a very small bit of His love for i feel our spirit could not handle if He showed all of His love for us.

 

Pray for people. God moves with prayer of faith. I pray for people on a constant. Usualy not planning on praying for people but as i walk by some i hear “pray for them," so i ask and they always say yes. His love is just beyond description. And every time we pray we get to feel His love moving with the prayer to the person being prayed for. Can't beat that!  God bless you and know this God truly is with us in every moment. After you talk to Him/ pray to Him, let it go and know now what happens is God's will. “But Mitch what if bad things happen,” “God's will.”    Faith… brothers and sisters moves the mountains  

The audio is below 

 

https://youtu.be/45UhMESfCLw

Is there a time when you will not be tempted? 

is there ever a time in life one does not give into temptations? Some say of course! I say, there is a time you are more aware it is wrong but rationalize it and sin.. then fall into the cycle of sin ask forgiveness try then fail. Is there ever a time you are not tempted? The time that occurs, is when you see and know it is a wrong action, and learned to pray and get busy with things, removing self from familiar temptations.
 
is there ever a time.. one is not tempted? Only when one truly reads the Bible daily, prays for discernment. Then, and only then, when the sin approaches with the whispering demons, you truly are aware of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. With God in front of the temptation you will not fail.
Is there ever a time in life one does not give into temptations? The time that is the most dangerous is this, Knowing the Holy Spirit, Jesus and God are looking right at you. Not a'faith' of knowing, a knowing knowing. As you give in, once more to a familiar sin and you literally are aware of their presence and you know it is a sin? That my friends is very very close to Blasphemy toward the Holy Spirit.
pray, talk, walk with, be with on a constant in thought process either asking or giving thanks to God. Reach out to someone if you are about to do it ..yet one more time.
God will help you know
God bless you

A Day in the Life of a Healer, at least with Mitch 

 

I hold the Holy Trinity close to my heart daily. God is in my every thought as is an awareness and desire to pray for all that I see as I go through the day. March 31,2024, was a day of different moments of the Holy Spirit's touch. 

A FATHER WAITING ON HIS SON

I had to drop something at the hospital, and as I walked past a man standing outside pediatric surgery center. I was shown his worry, his prayers and his child. I closed my eyes as I walked past him, he was waiting anxiously to get through the door to see his child. I always close my eyes for a moment when beginning to be shown the light from the Holy Spirit. I either see a child, or a person or silhouette of someone, then Holy Spirit light moves through and around them, where they need healing. The Holy Spirit showed me he had prayers going to God and then light from me the Holy Spirit going to his prayer, then into the surgery area away from him.  That light was to join his prayer for his son and fill it with healing heading to his son. I was shown son would be ok. 

MANY WAVES OF LIGHT TO ALL WAITING

As I walked toward the office where I needed to drop off paperwork, there were many people at registration signing in for tests to be done. An elderly lady who just signed in and turned to the seating area was slow in movement. I closed my eyes and was shown a small bit of light, then I ‘prayed,’ and ask God to help her not feel pain, to move easily and to be healed if His will. 

I turned to look at all waiting to have tests done. Was shown fear, pain and strength. I then was shown light moving to all sitting in the area, as I closed my eyes. The Holy Spirit showed me many thick waves of light going to all.The light came from beyond the ceiling. Other times the light moves from me, where the Holy Spirit, the great comforter and the blessing from our Father is indwelling.

Sometimes the light is just on the person and I am shown, this light was very thick which usually means good healing from God. This was like watching a breeze move to and through the waiting area into the people needing help.

I have to close my eyes and settle into my depth,  then He shows me. As a healer one has authority over the Holy Spirit. The closer to God with faith, more miracles can occur, for the Holy Spirit works through all healers. We, as humans do nothing but aim to be as clear of sin as possible and that only happens because of His grace.  I have to start the ‘prayer,’ then the Holy Spirit moves.

As I walked back to my car I closed my eyes and sent the Holy Spirit to all that needed help and have been prayed for. To all that were till suffering for them to not feel pain and to heal. prayed for all in the hospital that God was waiting for prayer. I will say I ‘pray,’ for this is a level where the Holy Spirit moves from me that I cannot explain.

If i see someone walking to a store and their gait is favored with obvious pain, I close my eyes for a moment, and light goes. Sometimes no light is shown, so I ‘pray.’ Help them not hurt, help them financially help them feel your presence and peace, Jesus to the Father I pray.

God was working that day, but He works everyday for us. He sees our every moment, He is watching me type this and you reading this. Not one moment is left unseen by our Father. That thought alone may help all not sin! We fail, Jesus takes care of that when we repent and denounce sin. Jesus gave us that gift, to be forgiven. 

Do I know if He helped them? I cannot put down a name and a this or a that, but I  KNOW He did. That my friends is the power of faith and God's love.

God bless you that read this and may God bless you with peace and an answer to your troubles. Worry about nothing, pray about everything

 

Mitch

 

Imagine the immense pain and horror Jesus had in that one moment..  

A thought came to me today while praying and thinking about Jesus. I think of Him often,His love for us His pain he endured for us. While i make the crosses, i see His suffering with each carving and shaping of the cross. OUR vile actions against the Father that Jesus knew he would take on. From the beginning, imagine doing nothing wrong but loving all, teaching words of love, showing the will of His Father. He said often He was doing the will of the Father. In a holy vision to me that is being finalized into song, the words “your desires are the Father's, only His way is the way.” Shows that Jesus, who is the Son of God, who is one of the Holy Trinity, was doing the Father's will.

He prayed three different times in the Garden on the night of Him being taken away. Three times for at least an hour each time. For He admonished them that they could not stay awake for ‘at least’ an hour. So, possibly a little less. Imagine the intensity of the prayers, Jesus talking to His Father, knowing the suffering He would endure. 

Mark 14:34 KJV  And saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death: tarry ye here, and watch 

The long tortured journey to the hill to be finally nailed to the cross. Suffering immeasurably. Now the moment comes. He knew He was almost done with His task of saving us. Our sins ripped through Him with every lash, torn into him with each nail. Every drop of blood a scream through the halls of His soul! Pain of which we will never experience. 

Then.. Separation from the Father. Forever was with the Father until that moment. Imagine the intensity of the pain our Lord felt then yelled out. Obviously the knowledge of that moment of separation  was kept from Him. He did not know He would not feel the presence of the Father. That is the horrendous amount of sins committed so bad and so many that Jesus had to feel separation from the Father for the first time, in time. In the existence of time. To take on pain we will never know, to be so tortured physically, then had to be separated from the Father. i cannot even imagine Jesus's sorrow  silence in His soul, His Father turned away

Father God will not look at sin, Jesus had taken all the sins to the point of being completely blotted out of the Father's vision. I believe there are two reasons for the separation. One, is because He will not look upon Sin, and I feel Jesus had to feel, experience the pain of the void life is without the Father, that is the horrendous amount of sins He took away.

Explaining the narrow gate and road to Heaven and the wide gate and road to hell 

“Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it” (Matthew 7:13-

 

One way to see this. Think of sin as gaining weight, with each pound gained we get larger, unable to fit through the narrow gate of heaven. God's word is healthy, keeps us thin enough to fit. When we ask forgiveness it is like a diet pill. Slowly there will be a change, as soon as repentance and denouncing the sin occurs, we are removed the weight, the sin.

Another way:

I recently stumbled, a nice way to put when one sins when trying to walk the path of holy and with God. “Mitch, just repent and renounce.”  Yes this is true God does forgive because of Jesus's sacrifice for us we can be forgiven. 

The narrow gate and road to heaven is truly very simply put and done by our God. When we stay the path with His word, His commandments we are immediately on the narrow road. When we sin, which truly we are walking sinners but when we ‘stumble’ we know to ask forgiveness and renounce it and not do it again. 

The tempters are tenacious and never stopping their whispering temptations into your ear. Have you ever noticed you are going about your normal day, then out of the blue in the literal middle of a conversation or sitting with friends you feel you need a drink. Everyone of us has their weaknesses, mine was a bit of drink which lead to other easy to fall into sins. Something about sinning, it is always easy to do. Something about walking the path God wants, it is always difficult to do. Because we have not gotten close enough into His word to strengthen our ‘spiritual muscle,’ if you will and the tempter is the Prince of this world he makes the pleasures more pleasurable.

Out of the literal blue you want a drink or someone who has been pushing you and pushing you but you have relaxed and forgiven them. You snap, then in anger curse at them! Two sins right there, anger and foul language. 

 “No, Mitch that is just life and being a human.” That thought of it being a human having anger and cursing at someone is natural is also from the enemy. God hates anger and foul language. 

Colossians 3:8 - 3:10

8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

10 And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:

We carry on with our day and some time goes by, “oh, i can have just one shot of tequila.” After half a bottle and another sin added to it, we stumbled again. We ask forgiveness and beg to have help not to fail anymore. 

With each stumble it is like driving down our Lord's narrow road to Heaven and we swerve a little. We hit those warning ridges that cause us to pull back onto the road. Those warning ridges are the Holy Spirit convicting us, letting us know we are doing wrong. Now, back on the easy narrow road, it is easy if you stay in His word and obey His commandments, which is very obvious it is not easy for humans. 

The next stumble, which is the 5th in as many months, guess what happens. The warning ridges begin to wear away. They are being run over too often and start to smooth. We stop feeling any conviction of wrong doing, rationalizing it as just life and we are good people God knows our hearts. 

With every continuing sin, a side road is formed, so we have room to keep living a sinful life and feel, “I love God, I love all..” Then sin against God with anger, cursing, gossip, laziness

We all have our weaknesses that have been noticed by the enemy. And they are always whispering, waiting to see what we type, see if we are driving to the booze store. See if we are texting something sexual, gossiping, lying.

 Then they add pleasure to it, they pounce and celebrate the soon stumble once more away from God. They laugh at God showing Him how easily His supposed sons and daughters fall away from Him. They get to rest, when we stumble. Two reasons they are tenacious and always whispering and tempting us, 1) they hate God, and we are in the image of God. 2) they get to rest with each fall from us. 

 

 

Proverbs 4:16 kjv

“For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.”

 

With each time we give up trying to walk / drive/ the narrow road with God, it becomes a very wide road. That has been expanded by all of our sins that we did not repent nor renounce. Now justified in our minds eye, we speak the way of God “I love God I love all!” then we stab them in the back with gossip, which is murder. 

 

The easy way to Heaven is the easy narrow Gate and Road God teaches us how to walk or drive down.

The enemy can do nothing unless we listen to their temptations and sin. The enemy has no power except to make all earthly things very pleasurable, then drop you in the dirt yelling in your ear how pitiful and dirty you are. They bring the temptation of yay, then degrade you with disgust and tell you God hates you and you will never be forgiven.

That which is inside you is greater than anything in the world.  God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit have us.

Truly, easy is it to walk the narrow road and walk through the narrow gate when we stay in God's word, obey His commandments and love.  Easy peasy!

 

May God bless all that read this with clear knowledge and knowing He loves us still until we turn so far away and fill with sin. He cannot even see us. Then we are walking the wide road and will fit through the wide gate to hell. God doesn't hear us when we go past the point of conviction and no return.  He had to even let Jesus feel a complete separation from the Father to the Son, due to sin. God sees all the good and evil, but He will not hear our cries for help. Is on the wrong frequency, is in the vile of evil choice and evil has an energy that cant co exist with God. 

 

 

Another way to see this. Think of sin as gaining weight, with each pound gained we get larger. God's word is healthy. When we ask forgiveness it is like a diet pill. Slowly there will be a change, as soon as repentance and denouncing the sin occurs, we are removed the weight, the sin.

 

 

 

Being The Church 

BE THE CHURCH

Mitch Bensel

Everyone can be the church.

 

Proverbs 3:27-28 KJV

Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it. Say not unto thy neighbour, Go, and come again, and to morrow I will give; when thou hast it by thee.

The other day my neighbor  was shaking and weak and was headed downstairs to get his laundry. I said, You want me to go get it for you and bring it back up?” He said, No it's broken again. It's gonnabe a week.”

I just put my hand on his shoulder. I didn’t plan on it .. was a feeling to just place my hand on his shoulder. No words were said. Just by doing that brought a thought of comfort. You don't realize it when you do it. So, in that moment he looked back at me and calmed. 

For That moment of compassion was from God and he felt calmed, not by my hand but by God moving to him from my compassion. You don't have to give everybody all you own, you don’t have to walk the streets and be homeless you just have to have kindness. Which is very rare now .. or fake and just a ‘work’ being done.

Most of us feel we have to do a magnificent thing to ‘be the church.’ God doesn't need magnificence from us. He is the magnificence. 

The smallest little light is all He needs from us, kindness to others. Kindness imparts love. kindness imparts God, God is love. Kindness literally imparts the Holy Spirit.

Love all, we are truly brothers and sisters here. When you do good things, it gives God’s  light to the person and you are representing Him. You can just smile at someone or you open the door for them.  God trickles into that person as you open the door because it's a kindness. When your kindness is done, God is present. That's when you would be the church. 

Being the church is being aware of others from a place of love, compassion and kindness. Is very easy to see if someone needs  help or even to engage in casual conversation at the checkout. Show kindness with a gentle tone and a thank you. The service industry is massively verbally abused. BE that one calm soul they saw that day. Let them take that moment of ‘kindness’ which will impart the Holy Spirit right into them. Bring that smile to them. Follow the nudges of even what to say. “thank you for being here today or I couldn’t buy my barbecue chips.”

Being the church is doing what Jesus would do. Being the church is all about love and our actions  Whatever you are drawn to do, do that, then that is what God wants you to do. He never forces. It's never a forced action of kindness. That's fake. That's a ‘work’ that's not from the soul. Thats a look at what I'm doing.” That is YOU getting something out of it not them.

Generally,  doing something very small, usually something very simple  impacts that person more than all the money in the world would because God is involved, compassion and kindness that flows literally from our words and actions covered with God’s love. They feel it. They begin to think of God. The more they think, they begin to reach. The more they reach, God says I'm right here. They begin to hear God. 

I was in a busy bakery once. They make you take a number for they are always very busy. I hadn’t taken one yet then they said, “don’t forget to take a number. A lady that was in front of me, that was there before I walked in, she reached at the same time I did, but I was closer and got it first. I immediately handed it to her “you are next.” She stood for several seconds motionless  with her mouth open in total shock. She finally spoke, “This never happens, usually it would be ‘tough luck’.” I repeated, “you are next.” She stood motionless for a bit then slowly took the ticket from me, not looking at me looking away but still in obvious disbelief this happened. That moment of simple common sense, respect and kindness flew into her with God’s light. Think of how sad it is that this very small ‘right thing to do’ was so unbelievable to her every sense. BUT she felt kindness which obviously had not been present in her world.

That's why kindness is so important and so easy to do. Kindness that's simple really isn’t it?. It's beautiful.

Hes showing me as I'm telling you about the lights. I see them move from us to the ones we help. Just imagine Jesus looking at you in the crowd and just smiling, and waving, and walking on by. Jesus … God's Son but also a man of flesh. He's just smiling at you. Jesus never thought of himself was always for all around him, was for us. As we walk in His glory we walk with love and kindness. Jesus didn’t judge He simply smiled. With that moment, even from Jesus, it was a wee trickle of light that the one standing by the side of the road felt to their souls core. Love is carried by light to touch our spirit. God is spirit and spirit talks to spirit as we must talk with Him in spirit. When we do a kindness we are feeling compassion, which is caring, which is love which is from God. He's never forceful. He does everything gently and kindness my friends, is a gentle way to be the church. It is a magnificent way to be the church, it is a 

simple way, to be the church.

You know, truly, the kindness isn't for you. It is for that other person. 

If there is no connection to God, that is a forced action, its useless. What a HUGE lost opportunity to impart the Holy Spirit. What is a connection to God Mitch? The action is for the person not for what you can get out of it.

Please  do a simple kindness out of the blue when nudged. When a thought hits, “help them” “pray for them” “smile at them” “comfort them if they look distressed, not with fancy talk or loud movements but gentle and calm” that nudge will never be heard if not learning to love all as self.

 A neighbor fell and after she got home from the ER a thought came to me, “get her some flowers to help her smile and let go of the memory.” Kindness. It came to mind, it was an action of good fruit hence from God so I did it. Not wanting anything but to help her not feel anguish or sadness over the ordeal. Everytime she looks at those flowers she will feel peace and God’s love. Why Mitch? Because they were given with love and a wish of peace when she glanced upon their beauty. Light from God is a smile, God’s presence is a feeling of peace. Those flowers daily will give her peace and calmness with just a glance.

 

To be the church is when you're walking through your day, you just open the door for somebody, or pick up something somebody dropped, or look at them, and  say a prayer for them in your mind, if they're wobbly, The kindness creates, God's action,  To be the church is to always have God on your mind and in your heart. For that is when you will quickly and easily hear Him and do a small or large bit of kindness that you will know is from God. 

God. The forefront of my mind is always on God.  This is how it should be. Im  always thinking about God, and  He should be in front of your every thought. God. God. God is right there. It's like angels sing praise to God 24/7. I can feel and see it in my way. I see the name God. Or I see a light always there in my mind.  God. God. God. God.

If I walk, I'll say Thank you. Help me God. Keep me safe.”

I'll stop and go. When there are sirens, I stop and get into the prayer place and say the same prayers, help them be ok, help all around have compassion, help them know how to heal them, help them feel your peace Lord and know all will be ok. Sometimes there is an added, “if they need an attorney let it happen easily and let them not be afraid.”

I have witnessed too many countless times the power of kindness, the power of prayer. YOUR one time kindness to a total stranger has the potential to literally change their entire life. With kind thoughts God is present, with kind actions, God is present. yes God is ever present but we ‘as the church’ must become the vessel that literally drops His light into all. Kindness does that. because, as I repeat and I have repeated myself quite a bit. We are a slow folk in the noggin and sometimes have to read or hear things several different ways and times.

That’s being the church.. That’s a love no matter who they are, or their lifestyles, all people not just those people that you agree with their decisions and way of life ALL people.  ALL

Being kind  to all is such a simple concept to be the church is to literally LOVE all. have to love/ be kind to / that nasty person over there. The dirty homeless person, the one in church that never truly looks dressed right.. Love them too. You know not to judge.  Romans 2:1 

At a healing celebration of God’s love in Zanesville I was shown by God His love for  all of us. The filthy, the clean, the vile, the righteous.  simply love all. When you cross paths with someone and you feel nudge, “help them open that door, wish them a blessed day, say a silent prayer for them” when you become kindness walking through your day, you become the light of God. You get out of the way of self and allow God to shine through you. 

God bless you all

When we pray in faith we are praying in Spirit I was shown wisps of light God is a Spirit John 4:24 

 Mitch Bensel  on 2022-09-25 04:35

I am going to explain a miracle shown me I  was shown by the Holy Spirit. I feel the reasoning is a way for us to see the importance to truly pray with faith. Not just lip service. If we pray casually asking for help here or there, even being specific God does not hear it. It doesn’t touch the ears of the Holy Spirit. Here is what I was shown when I visited Zanesville at a bible study.  John 4:24 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 

I attended a bible study in Zanesville Ohio on Wednesday,  September 21st, 2022 that was taught by Pastor Anthony Thomas. Before beginning the study, the pastor asked those present if they had any prayer requests. As a spiritual healer for the Lord, I am used to people giving me their prayer requests. I automatically lowered my head closed my eyes, and began to pray with each request. 

Normally, when I am asked for or pray for healing,  the Holy Spirit shows me with light where someone is hurt, or ill, or if they need other help. But, I wasn't being asked to pray for them. People were giving the pastor their prayer requests for all of us to pray for. 

As the first person spoke her needed prayer, instead of me being shown the 

Holy Spirit's light moving to the person they were praying for, I was shown small wisps of light moving from the person asking for the prayer. With each word she spoke became small wisps of light rose toward Pastor then up. They moved not in straight lines, but in short curving beautiful waves. So very light and beautiful. The lady was not only telling what her prayer need was, she was saying it from her heart, literally already saying the prayer. I was being shown how our prayer words move as light  to God. 

The next person told the prayer they needed for someone. I was not shown the wisps of light.  This person was not praying yet. They were just telling the Pastor the prayer needed for all of us to pray. She just 'said' what prayer was needed and wasn't in spirit gear, per say. So, The Holy Spirit showed me  the healing light was already moving to the person needing it. That person was in a hospital bed. The way healing works when He works through me. 

I was shown a couple more like that, where healing came from the Holy Spirit from and through me like He does. Which means they were just telling the Pastor the prayers needed and not in spirit yet to pray and I was sending healing the way I do.

Then, with the last person asking for prayer, I was shown the wavy lights again with each word they spoke rising toward the Pastor then upward over his head. I was excited and realized and literally said in my mind while being shown the lights, “wow, our words become light, our words are literally taken to God in the form of light!” 

I was shown that when we pray with faith each word is heard by God in the light of the Holy Spirit. Every word said with faith is heard and when heard because it came from our stillness and love and faith in God, literally by the Holy Spirit as the light the Holy Spirit is. 

 

John 4 : 24 KJV

 God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

Matthew 7:7-12 

King James Version 

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 

When Pastor Anthony led us in the group prayer for all the requests, I FELT  and was shown a liquid  presence of The Holy Spirit. A pressure covered the room. I was given a KNOWING that God was there. No lights or wisps, a knowing all the prayers that day God was present. Difficult to explain surrounded by the presence of God, a liquid presence.  When the group prayed  God showed me He was literally present in a tangible way of pressure, no other way to describe it. And oh, such a feeling of peace.  Matthew 18:20 - For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.

The final showing of His very presence is scripture based!.  So, different levels of action occur when we pray. One level are the words brought to God through the Holy Spirit. Since I was present at the Bible study He used the gift given to me to send healing to others to show me a different level of His answering prayers. The final level of prayer shows When a group prays God is truly IN THE MIDST OF THEM/ US :) It was so beautiful I have no words.  

Take from this at least one thing. God waits for us to ask in faith what we need. It is all through the Bible to ask with faith and I tell ya what His love surrounds when a group prayer is happening. No need for wisps, or being shown light. God, is present! Matthew 18:20 The tangible presence of God!

Philippians 4:6-7 – Don't be anxious, Pray with Faith. Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 

Be specific, Each part of your need is being communicated in a language you know, English, French, German etc. The words complete a sentence and a prayer. When we pray with faith God hears and I feel what I was shown is WHY He hears because when said in faith His Holy Spirit grasps our words because they are from our soul, our hearts and that is where God is. And when a group prays, oh my! He truly is amidst all!

 

King James Version  

BE SPECIFIC

Matthew 20:30-34 

30 And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.  

31 And the multitude rebuked them, because they should hold their peace: but they cried the more, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou son of David.  

32 And Jesus stood still, and called them, and said, What will ye that I shall do unto you?  

33 They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.  

34 So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him. 

 

Matthew 7:7-12 

King James Version 

7 Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: 

8 For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 

5:15  

King James Version  

15 And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. 

Visited a nursing home while in Zanesville Ohio ..  

 

I was given the honor to walk through a nursing home while visiting Zanesville Ohio. What I was shown is that God already has all that are in nursing homes or assisted care living homes. I listen to see where His light will go but was told in a way of 'knowing' that God is already deeply with each in the facility. I was also shown He was with the staff. I guess helping them have compassion and to heal the way they can by showing said compassion.

I walked past rooms and was pulled, told, to go into one. I asked the lady letting us walk through if I could go into the room. She introduced me to the people in the room. I was already in the way of the Holy Spirit so memory is slight but for the wonderful feeling of love and liquid peace that literally lifts your own spirit.

There were four elderly ladies and one in bed. The one in bed had her eyes closed. I walked toward her and sat near here. I asked if I could pray for her. She moved her head lightly with a yes answer. I asked if I could put my hand on her shoulder, she again nodded slightly. I felt God so close and her love for God fell out of her so easily into the room. It is a feeling of being lifted and in a gentle place of, like. liquid? I prayed for her to feel His love and heal if that is what was needed. Other words were said but again, I do not remember all that is said for it is the Holy Spirit. I know it was also for the ladies in the room visiting her. The peace given by the Holy Spirit removes all worries and is so profoundly beautiful. 

Please do not worry about your loved ones in nursing homes or assisted living homes. God is fully involved with them with His amazing and beautiful love.

 

blessings to all that take time to read these moments with the Holy Spirit.

 

Mitch

What I felt on the other side of those miracle events of healing on May 22 at Coburn United Methodist Church  

On May 22, 2022, I was at Coburn United Methodist Church in Zanesville Ohio to do a celebration of God's love healing event. I am of course just the vessel or conduit for God's Holy Spirit to move through and do healing. I just have to get out of His way. On this night I felt so many things and as always a deep sincere love for all that are present. I know it is God's love for all of us I feel. When I asked all to send a prayer to anyone they wish during the 4th healing moment that God wanted to do. I saw light shoot out of the doors.. just fly from everyone back through and out of the doors! It was so beautiful. Because of all that attended, their faith by just walking in and being there, God was working through all! I.. felt His love for all  I always feel the beauty and wonderful liquid peace of the Holy Spirit! I know He has let me know that is, ALL that came to that healing will have a miracle or be blessed in a profound way. Which to me is a miracle of God's love. 

Hands on healings are interesting with profound depths shown. I am shown where The Holy Spirit is moving or what they need. I tend to start to sweat the more the Holy Spirit works through me. This event had many if not all come up for a hands on healing. Gosh, God's love is so strong. I cannot explain the love that I FEEL for total strangers! God's love is like thick air surrounding and holding all without judgement. The contrast of simple humans, plain just living through their day with their problems. He cares not the clothes we wear or the wealth in our pockets. Mix that with His love! Wow is all I can say. The love He showed me and let me feel was the most beautiful moment I have ever felt in my life. Is why I said in that moment "I love everyone here." That was the Holy Spirit! His love encompassed the room! Enveloped all there.  I tell you what, it is amazing! !

I get the best blessings out of doing these, with all faith I tell ya, I am not doing anything but getting out of God's way! But I get the blessings of feeling His presence, His love! His love is overwhelming for us! A liquid peace and sometimes severe goosebumps. I do not remember all of what I said, because I AM NOT saying it, the Holy Spirit is! I had to ask the videographer "How did I do? I can't remember much!" No matter how many times you plan on what you will say the Holy Spirit says, "nah, lets say this." and away the miracles fly.

 

I have no idea why I was picked to do this.. I am nothing but I do love God and have given my life to Him!

Thank you to all that came. YOU will be blessed beyond time.

A video was done of the event and when completed will be posted. Watch it! for all that do will be blessed in some way.

 

Blessings always! He is with us!

 

Mitch

GIVING THANKS.. have you given thanks to God lately? 

Giving thanks was recorded for my CD Walk With Me,Walk With Me CD which was produced in 2012. I have uploaded a few of the tracks to my you tube Mitch Bensel You Tube. I will add to this thought of giving thanks and being grateful for and to God, tell Him you love Him. He needs to hear it. Giving Thanks Audio

 

Thank you for visiting my site, I hope in some way it helps you with calm and feeling God near.

 

God bless you all..

 

Mitch Bensel