Be Aware of the Devil's Schemes

There are so many rumors going around about the book of Esther. Esther is about a plot to completely wipe out the Jews and it almost happened because of one man's dislike for them BUT GOD called Esther to stand in the gap and his people were delivered from this slaughter by being given permission to fight to stay alive. 

Fast forward to today's times. All we, who are not Jews and who are Jews, who believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God, the Creator and one true God, and that he died for our sins and was raised from the dead is a member of the one true vine, Jesus Christ. We believers are, all over the world, family in Christ. We have one common enemy, Satan. And he has an army, demons, who are here to engage us in spiritual battle and destroy us in every way possible; our unity as one brotherhood, our identity in Christ, and steal the truth from our minds and hearts. 

How does the enemy steal the truth from our hearts? He takes a little bit of truth, puts his spin on it and influences us to believe lies. Read the creation story. See how Eve was tricked and influenced because she wasn't faithful, grateful nor believed what God told her. Even she added on to what God had said to she and Adam. Keep your hearts in check. Stay your mind on God and his ways. Daily make a mental list of what you're thankful for. Read and study the Bible for yourself. Do not take someone else's word for it. Pray throughout the day. Be sober and alert. This world is temporary but eternity... Well, that's forever. 

Written by: Lisa Clewis

Are You Under Spiritual Attack?

Has the Holy Spirit impressed upon you that you are under spiritual attack? Signs of spiritual attack are being hounded by negative thoughts about yourself, emotional instability, you feel off, disconnected from your family, you are suddenly or often sick, have some kind of physical ailments even though you take good care of yourself, you want to isolate yourself from family and Christian friends, people in general especially church and members of your church. After a prolonged spiritual attack you may revert back to your old ways and behaviors. How much do you know about using the armor of God spiritually, praying to God for release from the attack, praying against unclean and demonic spirits, and praying for God's protection? There are steps you can take to overcome spiritual attacks. 

First, prepare your mind and heart. Mentally thank God for everything you can think of to thank him for both big and small. Second, remind yourself that God loves you with a perfect and unconditional love and forgives you of all your sins. Third, ask God to help you forgive yourself for anything you're feeling guilt or shame over. God has given us the ability and the right to stand before him without any sense of sin, guilt or condemnation. Fourth, listen to or sing praise and worship music praising God in your mind and heart. Fifth, read the Bible. Do any or all of these things so you can pray and trust God to have your best interest at heart. Remember, if a child asks his father for a fish will his father give him a stone. God has great things in store for us. All we have to do is ask. Read the scripture and pray the prayer below.

In the Holy Bible we read in Matthew 7:9-11 NIV [9]  “Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will give him a stone? [10] Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? [11] If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! 

And in the Holy Bible we read in 1 Peter 5:6-10  [6] Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. [7] Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. [8] Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. [9] Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings. [10] And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.

After you have prepared your mind and heart and strengthened your faith, say this prayer: Father, thank you for your unconditional and perfect love for me. Thank you that by faith I am saved and not by my own works. Father, please remove from me all unclean and demonic spirits. Please do not allow unclean and demonic spirits to oppress me or influence me in any way. Thank you Father in Jesus name. 

In the name of Jesus I cast off from me and away from me all unclean and demonic spirits. I command you to leave me, to leave this place and to not return. 

Father, thank you for protecting me. I ask you, please fill this place with your presence. Thank you for placing a hedge of protection around me. Help me Father to submit to you in every way. I relinquish my will to you and pray that your desires become my heart's desires. I pray that your will be done in me and through me and that I serve you and your kingdom well. I ask you Father to move aside anything that prevents me from serving you and you working through me and loving others through me.

In Jesus name, AMEN

Written by: Lisa Clewis 

February 22, 2026

A Perfect, Neverending Love

I praise God for the day my Grandma Mazie taught me the gospel of Jesus Christ and that God loves me and will never leave me nor forsake me. That was 51 years ago and God has never failed me. He walks with me through every storm. He allows me to feel his presence and love when I am lonely. He gives me a perfect, awesome peace during my hardest trials. He comforts me and fills me with joy when I suffer loss. God has sustained me when I should have been paralyzed and my memories lost forever. Even though I turned to alcohol to self medicate and give me liquid courage to deal with things I should have given to him, he not only sustained me, gave me peace and carried me through, he completely healed me. I had surgery, yes, but he gave me the most awesome peace about it and never left me. And where there was spinal canal stenosis and spinal cord impingement, God completely healed me. Where a bone spur developed under the metal plate attached to my cervical spine, God healed me. It went completely away. It's like it just dissolved. I went from being a fall away from paralysis from the neck down and suffering great memory loss to graduating with a Bachelor's in Science degree with a GPA of 3.17 and working somewhere that I can serve God and serve others through Christ. Glory, hallelujah, to God be all the glory, honor and praise. 

I wish I could say I've never sinned but I would be lying. I wish I could say I never left God but shame and guilt came between us. But not on his part, he never left me. He was still there. While I was agonizing over sin and shame God miraculously healed me. I learned a valuable lesson. I had thought at one point that I was good. I felt pride. But through that trial I learned that I've never been 'good' and that there is only one who is good and that's Jesus. During that time I developed severe mitral valve prolapse and one side of my heart was enlarged. God miraculously healed me from that. My heart is completely normal. Praise God. Even when I felt so far away because I had let sin creep in God showed me he was there, loving me, watching over me the way a loving, devoted father watches over his daughter. I can tell you about other miracles but it will take a book to share them all.

Never stop believing in God because he's not going to leave you no matter how terribly you've sinned. God loves you unconditionally. He knows everything about you and wants to bless you. God will never leave you nor forsake you. Don't let guilt and shame keep you from having the close relationship that he desires to have with you. Never stop praying. Never give up. Ask God for forgiveness and accept it. Then ask him to help you forgive yourself because God has got you. And if you don't know God, message me and I'll tell you all about him. 

Written by: Lisa Clewis 

February 21, 2026

Who are You?

     Who are you? Who do you see yourself as? Do you see yourself as broken, used, hurt, cheated, unlovable, untrustworthy, and destitute? You have hope. You're here. You know there is a God who created this world, a god you may be angry with or blame for everything you've been through, everything he allowed other people to do to you. But you know you feel God. 

     You feel his presence. You feel his love for you. You feel him calling to you to come closer so that he can give you the good portion, the good things in life your heart desires; unconditional love, forgiveness, another chance to be who you know you are underneath all the abuse and pain. You know you want peace. You want to be happy. You want to feel like everything is ok. 

     Hope is why you're here. That tug at your heart, that feeling you have in your gut that God's got you and has always had you. That feeling when people are treating you like less than enough but you feel deep down there's more and you are lovable and there is more out there. You're promised more. That's God. He's the more you're looking for. 1 John 4:16.  And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 

     God is love. Does God allow people to have freedom of choice? Yes. Does God allow us to make our own choices and live life the way we want to? Yes. Does God allow us to choose who or what we believe in and choose to put first in our life? Yes. What are the benefits of choosing God and putting him first in our life? Matthew 6:33 NIV But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 

     God is our provider, a loving father, and the great physician. There's nothing that you need or will ever need that he hasn't already thought about. God will provide you with everything you need; guidance, success, protection, peace, healing, joy from within, and freedom from anxiety. God will also strengthen you with strength and might in your inner man so that you can do everything you need to do. Psalms 37:4 NIV Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. END

Written by: Lisa C

God is Perfect,You Don't Need to Be

I don't put any stock in mankind (we're all flawed) but I know God does amazing things through us and he used many prophets in the Old Testament and New Testament times to bring the good news of Jesus Christ and to warn mankind about ultimate destruction. Almost all of the prophecies written in the Holy Bible have come true. And I can see a culmination of present events fulfilling those few prophecies that haven't been fulfilled yet. There is one prophecy in particular that I'm looking forward to and that's the return of my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, to gather believers and take us home. 

Jesus Christ from Nazareth is the only man that I know was perfect. He brought perfect love and salvation to us all. Jehovah and my faith in him as my heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit are who have brought me through the worst of times. And I know who healed my body numerous times and allowed me to function in their strength while I healed. There is no one like my God.

Even though I believed in and loved God since before I can remember and I tried so hard to always live right and honor God I still sinned and made so many mistakes. Praise God for his mercy and his grace and his unconditional love. Once you realize how perfect his love for you is, there is no living without him. I praise God for teaching me resilience and giving me the tools he's given me to overcome whatever I face in life. 

Two things I've faced and miraculously overcome are addiction to nicotine and alcohol. September 11, 2001 I stopped smoking cold turkey without any side effects and after years of trying several things to quit. Somehow the attack on the world trade center shook me into finally getting my mind and heart in alignment and deciding I didn't want to smoke instead of having the attitude 'I want to quit but I love smoking'. A year later on September 11, 2002 I stopped drinking cold turkey after a few years of drinking daily. My addiction to alcohol got so bad that if there was alcohol in the house I had to drink it before I went to bed. It didn't matter if it was beer, liquor, wine or moonshine I drank it all. I believe the stronghold at that time was stronger with alcohol because of the horrific, constant pain and lack of sleep due to pain that I dealt with on a daily basis. But, praise God, after I stopped drinking I functioned in his strength and survived and healed from the condition of my cervical spine and nerves and fibromyalgia among other things. God has healed me from so much mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. 

There is nothing God can't do including forgive us of all the sins and mistakes we've made. We can't work our way into heaven. We only need to accept God's love, believe in his gift of salvation, our Lord Jesus Christ, and work out our own salvation by allowing him to change us, change our ways to his ways, transition us little by little into someone who looks and acts more like Jesus. Jesus was perfect, we don't have to be. We just need to let him in our heart and he will do the rest.

If you're not saved I hope by reading this you realize that God is perfect and we don't need to be. We don't have to work at or change to be lovable. We are already loveable and are loved by God who created us to have a relationship with him. If you'd like to pray together message me and I'd be happy to do that with you. If not, I hope you'll get a Holy Bible and read it while asking and believing God for wisdom and understanding and talk to God daily. 

Written by: Lisa Collier Clewis 

God is Enough

When we're not careful to keep God first in every part of our life, the enemy will find a way to use circumstances, pain, suffering, loss, sickness, and depression to lure us into sinning against God and against our own bodies. There is no justification for sin. Sin is never ok because of what someone else did or because of how you feel about something. Sin is sin.

Sin is forgiven when we go to God with a contrite heart and ask him for forgiveness. But our hearts and deeds are tried with fire. There is no excuse for sinning willingly. God is everything that we need. Is the sin that you feel justified to do any less sin? Is the sin you feel justified to do an excuse to give into darkness that was already in your heart? Have you given every part of your heart to God or is there still something, something that is not from God, still imbedded in your heart and mind?

Search your heart and thoughts, thought patterns, and beliefs for anything that is contrary to God's word. Jesus is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow and so is God's word. T do not change to allow you to indulge yourself in sin.

When you've found those things that will lead to sin, confess them to God. Ask God to root out anything that is not of him. By that I mean get to the very root of it and remove it all so that no trace of it is left. Then fill that part which is empty with God's word so that darkness cannot return.

Jesus will bring to light anything that is done or said in darkness. He searches us and finds even those things we don't know are still there. Ask God to search your heart and reveal to you anything that is not from him and remove it from you and heal you.

God is a God of life and healing and forgiveness and mercy. Let him help you change wrong thought patterns, wrong believing into right believing, and hidden pleasures into new ground in your heart for God.

There are no circumstances, sufferings, losses, pain, mental illnesses, sicknesses or diseases that are more powerful than God and what he can and will do for us. Often those things we do out of weakness 'because' of our present sufferings are due to lack of faith in God and cause us much more pain and suffering in body, mind and spirit. Turn everything over to God. He is our strength, and our anchor in turbulent times. Allow God to show you his strength, mercy, and healing. Allow God to show you how he works everything to your good. Allow God to show you your worth to him. Praise God, he is no respector is person's and salvation is a gift.

Praise God at all times, through everything, and during everything no matter how broken you feel. Because our God is both willing and able to turn things around for us. To God be the glory, honor, and praise for everything and in everything.

Written by: Lisa Lisa Collier Clewis

📖Hebrews 13:8 KJV
[8] Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever.

Faith Exercise

1. Write down 3 things that God has done for you. 

2. Take time to meditate and feel thankful for each one.

3. Write down 1 need that you have. 

4. Look up 3 scripture references that pertain to this particular kind of need and write it down. Ex. Scripture on healing, forgiveness, peace for the anxious, comfort for the broken-hearted. 

5. Write down your scripture references. This can include the complete verses, passage the verse is in, or just book, chapter and verse. 

6. Read the chapter these verses are in. 

7. For help with particular words or phrases look them up online at Blue Letter Bible.

8. Write down a prayer for this need including words and phrases from all three scripture references.

9. Keep your prayer nearby so you can pray on it throughout the day. 

10. If you don't already, invest in a prayer journal so you can check off the prayers that God has answered as he answers them.

Written by: Lisa C