Just as I'm about to SCREAM...I cannot explain it...I start Singing!

Subject: Re: Just as I'm about to SCREAM...I cannot explain it...I start
Singing!
From:    "Tonya Corl" Date:    Fri, July 8, 2011 19:39

Hey Stephanie

Stay safe in this storm .... thanks for your email ...

God Bless and keep you,
Tonya



To: "Tonya Corl"
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2011 5:00 PM
Subject: Just as I'm about to SCREAM...I cannot explain it...I start
Singing!


> Hello THere Tonya!!
>
> Just as I am about to SCREAM>................   with al the clutter and no
> time or place to file, to organize...
>
> Too busy "EMBRACING my Interuptions aas Divine apointments....."
>
> When I should be SCREAMING....I find myself SINGING among all
> things....NEW
> NEW NEW SONGS that I nor you nor anyone has ever heard before...
>
> And before I can cry....I am laughing hysterically....Can't tell you
> why???
>
> But I also forget that quick what the SCREAM, SHOUT and tears were to be
> about!
>
>
> Blessings Tonya!
>
> EstherStephanada!
>
>
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No One Gets a Break Through Without Going Through...and Sometimes Going Through Means Being Open to a New Direction...

God's Holy Word says that man makes his plans but GOD places his steps...
But only if men and women let HIM!

For HE has given us free will...HE gives us direction.
What HE has us doing today HE may not have us do tommorow...

What HE has us do for many years successfully...The evil one will always try to stop...but why expend energy when and where not needed.

Not simply that of coal, or oil...black gold it has been called before...
World wars have brewed and boiled over...

Why continue to push and wear ones self down...when GOD tries to open a vast door that not yet enough has followed HIM through...

Are you between a rock and a hard place seeking more work for your companies employees?

Have you asked GOD like Jabez to expand your territory?

GOD always answers such prayers of those who have others best interests in heart..

At times though we seek GOD's Face day and night we still fail to see what HE has and keeps offering.

Sometimes our focus on our work is so strong, and direct...
That while we do not let others distract our concentration on our problem...

We at the same time are blinded by our own minds.

GOD uses simple means to solve complex problems.  Paregeon Theorum is not one of them...

It is man who needs complexity...The wisdom of man is both foolishness and laughter to Almighty GOD who maybe trying to hand you your answer through a poor one you have ignored.

The blind at times can lead the blind...depending upon which knows HIM and who is driving!

http://theeyeseyeshaveit.blogspot.com/

Amen Amen Amen and Alleluia!

We All Born Here on Earth to Forge Through Trails of Challenges...With Our Mouth Open and HIS Heart and Our Joined and Spoken...

Never think that a person who appears calm and serene has never been in a situation that you would scream!

For the ones whose fear gets carried away and remains frazzeled when the battle is long past...

He or she cannot be one who knows the Lord intamately!

For perfect love casts out all fear and out loud calls on HIM above!

The Word of GOD promises that no weapon of any kind shall prosper!
But it does not say that HIS righteous, obedient little ones will not be attacked...
Only that they will not prosper!

Personally I have had some say "Your life is easy...if you had mine!!

Well it all depends on what perspective you choose to view from...which day... hour...
Looking for or over how much flour....

And depending on thy attitude whether you could or can see my promanade of flowers...

For even now we use $20.00 in gasoline to receive $30.00-$50.00 in groceries.

So GOD's Holy Word is Fullfilled in all that we do...Praise Our Lord Praise Our Lord!

For HIS Word says HE not only meets Our Daily needs but gives our seed...yes HE both meets our needs and gives us our seed ...

So that is why much of what we drove so far to get is full of salt for us to give...sow into others!

Let us sing thanks and praise that HIS Holy Word is fullfilled over and over each second of very day....
And so when we rejoice and sing HE carries us upon HIS Wings over the trails and trials...and wins all battles for us!

Amen Amen Amen....Keep pressing Keep laughing and speaking GOD's Word at the devil..and he will be no trouble...he not me and you....will be the one with the ingrown toenails!

Blessings!

EstherStephanada!

Fwd: What's the story

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Subject: What's the story
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From: Y Delacy/Stevens
Date: Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:56 AM
To: Stephie Gustavson

Are you homeless ? ! ?     I told a few gals in the women's guild - we have to do  something about this situation . Didn't you sell your house in Charlotte ?   Why aren't you at the Concord hotel ? What about that single-wide I  mentioned on Concord Farms rd  (it's blue & 4 rent) ? The same st as ' Affordable housing ' .  Let me know what's going on - - - - I have not been wking lately  .                                 Hope everything is O.K .       . . . . -  Y .

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From: Stephie Gustavson
Date: Dec
 

Hi Yvonne.... and Friends,

The house was not sold!  It had no resale value....  absolutely not salable.  It was next door to drug dealers....  not even black folk want homes in Hidden Valley unless they themselves are criminals....

House was on market for almost a year.

God asked us just as in the song the Summons ... Will you leave all behind if I but call your name?  Will you let the blinded see and kiss the leper clean.... do it al for me & never be the same??

We said yes Lord we will short sell the house... leave all behind... for you...

Remember, my husband has a call on his life to teach the prisoners.  He has a program he is going to bring state to state. 

Billy then realized to short sell your house you must have your own buyer.  He almost begun to cry... but I took his hand and I prayed for both of us.. "LORD wE ARE WILLING BUT NOT ABLE... But YOU LORD are Willing and Able to do all things... SO MAKE IT Happen!"

The next day we had an appointment already scheduled with an attorney for an unrelated matter.   We had someone trying to collect a debt from us that was not ours.

We wrote letters of compromise to try to pay them off amicably.  But instead of writing us back and trying to work with us, they filed law suit against us.

When we entered attorneys office the next day, when his eyes met mine an anointing of our Lord came over me and the attorney who was baby faced , looked as if he had never yet needed to shave!  And was an age that he could have been my son easily.

Bill & I did not play games.  Bill told him up front our house was for sale.  He asked "Where is this house?

Billy replied: "North Charlotte!"  But God had been dealing with me to about having been in past obeying Bill instead of GOD!  He also asked how much we had into it.

So I boldly said: "Tell the whole truth!  It is HIDDEN VALLEY!  I explained the story which you and most of the women know already.... DOUBLE Hurricane victims, Bill's tumor, We bought our own locks that he could get healthy!

The attorney a very compassionate and GOD fearing man...who had commented on my HolySpirit TShirt already as we entered....  said:  "Instead of having me go after these thugs the way I normally do why don't you let me file a bankruptcy for you place the debts that are yours and those that are fraudulent, your house into it also! 

And walk away!"

Praise GOD!  That was GOD!!!  But when GOD releases us from bondage.... our Egypt, HE always brings us through a desert!

So the $5-6,000. dollars that we had paid into it, was what it cost for my Billy to get physically healthy!

Had we been renting those two and a half years, we would have paid out far much more in rents, and no different than now in these hotels, and on Waterford lakes where maintenance men were illegally entering after me sexually

So we live on our van now for my Billy is the only one with a key...  I do not even have a key... I can't drive...  I have only a click click to get in and out...

Stephanada

Fwd: When things aren't going your way

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From: Micki OConnor
Date: Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Subject: FW: When things aren't going your way

Hi ladies, I hope you're all getting through this bleary, rainy day. 

I wanted to share this with all of you, I really loved this story. 

Hope you all have a great day.

Blessings,

Micki

 

Three Trees Once there were three trees on a hill in the woods. They were discussing their hopes and dreams when The first tree said, 'Someday I hope to be a great Treasure  chest.  I could be filled with gold, silver And precious gems. I could be decorated with an Intricate carving and everyone would see the beauty.' Then the second tree said, 'Someday I will be a Mighty ship. I will take Kings and  Queens  across the Waters and sail to the corners of the world. People Will feel safe in me because of the strength of my Hull.' Finally the third tree said, 'I want to grow to be The tallest and straightest Tree in the forest. People will see me on top of the hill, look up to my branches, and think of the heavens and God and how close to them I am reaching. I will be the greatest tree of all time and people will always remember me.' After a few years of praying that their dreams would come true, a group of woodsmen came upon the trees. When one came to the first tree he said, 'This looks like a strong tree, I think I should be able to sell the wood to a carpenter, and he began cutting it down. The tree was happy, because he knew the carpenter would make him into a treasure chest. At the second tree the woodsman said, 'This looks like a strong tree.  I will be able to sell it to the shipyard.' The second tree was happy because he knew he was on his way to becoming a mighty ship. When the woodsmen came upon the third tree, the tree was frightened because he knew that if they cut him down his dreams would not come true.  One of the men said,'I don't need anything special from my tree, I'll take this one,' and he cut it down. When the first tree arrived at the carpenters, he was made into a feed box for animals. He was then placed in a barn and filled with hay. This was not at all what he had prayed for. The second tree was cut and made into a small fishing boat.  His dreams of being a mighty ship and carrying Kings had come to an end. The third tree was cut into large pieces, and left alone in the dark. The years went by, and the trees forgot about their dreams. Then one day, a man and woman came to the barn. She gave birth and they placed the baby in the hay in the feed box that was made from the first tree. The man wished that he could have made a crib for the baby, but this manger would have to do.  The tree could feel the importance of this event and knew that it had held the greatest treasure of all time. Years later, a group of men got in the fishing boat made from the second tree.  One of them was tired and went to sleep. While they were out on the water, a great storm arose and the tree didn't think it was strong enough to keep the men safe. The men woke the sleeping man, and he stood and said 'Peace' and the storm stopped.  At this time, the tree knew that it had carried the King of Kings in its boat. Finally, someone came and got the third tree.   It was carried through the streets as the people mocked the man who was carrying it. When they came to a stop, the man was nailed to the tree and raised in the air to die at the top of a hill. When Sunday came, the tree came to realize that it was strong  enough to stand at the top of the hill and be as close to God as was possible, because Jesus had been crucified on it. The moral of this story is that when things don't seem to be going your way, always know that God has a plan for you. If you place your trust in Him, God will give you great gifts. Each of the trees got what they wanted, just not in the way they had imagined. We don't always know what God's plans are for us. We just know that His Ways are not our ways, but His ways are always best. Please keep this moving....... Pass it on, so God may inspire more people on the way. May your day be blessed. And until we meet again, may God cradle you in the palm of His hand

 

Thanksgiving wishes and prayers 2009

Forwarded conversation
Subject: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
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From: Rosemary Ruiz
Date: Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:13 AM

            I pray that God will continue to bless you both.

            With love,

                        Rosemary

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From: Stephie Gustavson
Date: Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 5:13 PM
To: Rosemary Ruiz

Thank You Rosemary!

This was our...best Thanksgiving EVER!!  My best...VERY BEST in my entire Life!!

We slept in our van both WED night and last night!!!

We are So Blessed... to live as Jesus did!

HE had no place to lay HIS HOLY head...  and every where HE went healing the sick...preaching the GOSPEL...the GOOD NEWS..

HE was cast out of every town!

Who are we that we to have more than HE did...though we do!

We at least have our van to shield us from the cold!

Jesus must have laid HIS head against grass or stone...  HE had nothing to shelter HIM from storms...  HE Spoke to storms and stopped them!

And we are called to do the same!  Issaih 55 tells us "As rain falls from the heavens and returns there no more but waters the earth giving seed to the sower and bread to every eater...  SO SHALL HIS WORDS BE SPOKEN FROM OUR MOUTHS...They will NOT RETURN TO HIM or to YOU or I void...but THEY WILL ACCOMPLISH  THAT FOR WHICH YOU OR I SENT IT!

We have never done anything on our own... but by GOD's instruction!

HE summons us ... asked us to leave all behind if I but call your name...will you let the blinded see....doing it all because & for me...will you kiss the leper clean and never be the same...!

We were in Hotel Concord and had paid for a month...but once again GOD told us to get out "Hurridly...this is My Passover and Yours!"

GOD asked my Billy after Mass on Thanksgiving Morn...ST James...yesterday during Communion "Can you wait a few more days?"  and GOD has promised to open the Heavens in a few Days!

GOD expects us to suffer everything Our Lord Jesus did...short of being crucified!  Before HE does some shaking up around!

Why do you think GOD said HE will use the poor to shame the rich...the weak to shame the strong & the stupid,retarded,foolish,dumb, demented...the lepers of the world....the mentally ill...to shake the mighty wise from their thrones??

The answer is very deep...most pastors would quickly speak the next line in scripture...

so no man can boast before GOD!

Though no man can boast before GOD,that is not the answer!

It is for this reason that both my Billy and me were born!

I know what GOD intends...to do...through me...but I have not been told or shown yet in visions all the details.

HE never gives us tomorrows bread today!  HE tells us what we need when we need it!

I feel  like Jesus felt in the picture of Our Lady of Prepeptual Help that hangs in our church!

HE was afraid...being HUMAN & GOD  HE knew HE would be nailed to a cross...and in HIS childhood humanness...  JESUS who was also GOD felt afraid!!

I knew since before kindergarten...  my GOD buddies...in visions...MY GOD MY GOD MY GOD...  and OHOOOOOOOO  MY GREAT BIG SUGAR DADDY THREE in ONE....

played with me....because no children wanted to even be known to like me or play with me....

During party time  My GOD buddies..Friends used to say:  "One day I will use you to bring "Prot stunts & Cat licks together"  I never understood the word "Protestant"  until I was 30 something years old!

GOD used to say at other times "Don't worry about them{Those who abused me} One day I will make them your foot stool"  ....

I am nervous though I know GOD goes before me always making safe my path before I begin to..or as I journey into where HE calls me and us!

We have asked both Fr Joe Dionne...  and today Billy asked Fr Vang...  the new one if we could sleep in the church.

It was All Souls Day...the same evening when I showed late at CHRP meeting GOD during Communion told me "ASK FR JOE TO SLEEP IN THE CHURCH...  HE WILL SAY NO!"   BUT YOU ARE TO SAY 'Well There Was No Room For ME in the INN!"

GOD has told me to ask things of many and to expect to hear "NO"   HE expects me/us to be obedient....  This is so that HE can test them!  So that HE can hold them accountable!

JESUS will be here quickly as a thief in the night! 
And all these who have said NO and lacked compassion and are giving only excuses....need to be on guard...  when HE comes and "takes one with HIM and leaves the one next to them behind....  they will be those left to grind their teeth.

Even the Holiest priests will miss the rapture says the scripture!

We will be sleeping in our van again tonight...  GOD placed an 18 wheeler in the WalMart parking lot to shield us.  Even hid us with fog....  and because both the night before Thanksgiving, and Thanksgiving night parents camp out in parking lots...  to be sure to get the exact toy...GPS, Ipod...or whatever...

Police and others thought nothing of us there!   GOD makes HIS way for us  because we are walking in both love & sacrifice and obedience to HIM!

You have my   We are using Diversity Den's Internet now!

A Baptist Church yesterday took wonderful care of us!

Yesterday at ST James there were many who saw us and gave excuses as to why they could not have us to their home for dinner!

GOD told me it will be colder tonight!

We are so blessed to live so close to Our Lord! But with this blessing comes greater responsibility...  GOD will require things of me Billy does not understand and will fight!   He has raised his back several times already!  Because he does not have the same spiritual gifts I do! 

I had a close call earlier...  Pray for me that I not buckle under my husbands pressure...  but OBEY GOD!

So much is at stake not just for us but for all!  HIS coming back will be postponed if I mess up again!  PRAY FOR ME!!!!

We have a PO BOX>

Gustavson

PO BOX 6235

CONCORD NC 28027

Blessings

EstherStephanada!

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From:
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 6:05 PM

unable to write all individual letters.. time running out on this library computer.. Time is running out for all of us  HIS PASSOVER HAS ALREADY BEGUN...  I have seen many befall tragedy just after turning a blind eye or deaf ear to us...  Even Our pastor has seen our bed in the back of our van... and after preaching about loving the unlovable... 

And announcing that our parish will take part staffing homeless shelters...

After Mass he runs past us with his back to us..

Even theologians will miss the rap5ture...

Turning blind eye and deaf ear to any of HIS little ones in need...

Billy & I ask you to join us in earnestly praying for these who are too busy to feed a hungry one, shelter an abandon one...  give cool ..not hot or tepid water to the thirsty or dying..

but most of all COVER EACH ONE WITH THE LOVE THAT ENDURES FOREVER & BRINGS the PEACE Which Surpasses all understanding!

It is the will of Almighty GOD my Sugar Daddy.. that not one be lost!!  Not one...  but there wiil be....  some will be left to wail and grind...  ..  The Swine Flu Hummmm

http://TheSwineHasNoMind.blogspot.com/

EstherStephanada!

Fwd: photos of candy dishes and art gallery crawl meeting

Forwarded conversation
Subject: photos of candy dishes and art gallery crawl meeting
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Date: Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 11:06 PM

Is was wonderful meeting you and your husband at the antiques shop approximately two weeks ago!   I am so sorry  that  am just getting back to you.  I just found your e-mail today.  You are an angel.  THANK YOU for taking the time out to do me such a grand favor.  You are a blessing and will be blessed forever.  The photos came out wonderfully.  I will keep the pics although my designer did not prefer them in the area we discussed.  Who knows maybe one day they will end up in a different area of my house.  It was also wonderful seeing you and your husband at the Christmas tree lighting and the art walk last week. We had a wonderful time.  Please keep in touch!

 

God Bless You,

Anita

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From: Stephie Gustavson
Date: Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:38 PM

HI Anita,

Do not have much time left on this computer.

We are living in our van.. GOD has done so many miracles of protection and provision!

Praise HIM!!!

Our Po Box is all we have

Gustavson

PO BOX 6235

Concord NC 28027

http://MeetandGreetAlongEveryStreet.blogspot.com/

 

http://NeedingtoSetCaptivesFree.blogspot.com/

 

http://DoTheBluesGotYou.blogspot.com/

 

Believe it our not my camera has been stolen!  So I am no longer able to include photos with my stories for a while!

 

The Passover of our LORD has begun!  HE Blesses those who Blesses us and curses those who curse us...  it is almost frightening!  But when one is walking both in Love & obedience of the LORD GOD and others...always forgiving and loving.... THEY ARE FEARLESS!  Because Perfect Love Casts Out ALL FEAR!!!

 

My time is running out... AS the TIME for all is short... One will be washing and anther pruning a vine without reverence for the sap which is within, that IS HIM ...

 

One HE WILL TAKE as HE Comes quickly like a thief in the night...

The other will be left behind....

Be Watchful ANITA!!!   Even Theologians will be left to grind their teeth...  because just as our own church pastor turned a blind eye and deaf ear when we asked to sleep in the church...

He said no...  but GOD told me HIMSELF that he would say no... but we were to still be obedient to GOD...  and ask..

I was then to say as I did "That's alright... There was no room for Joesph Mary & Jesus neither in the INN

 

Since then, our priest has seen our bed in the bed of our van, seen us clean up in powder room, but runs the other way...

 

Even after preaching about being sensitive to the poor, and boasting about participating in staffing homeless shelters!

 

GOD told me before I met you at the antique shop....  "YOU WILL EXPERIENCE & SUFFER ALL THAT MY SON DID SHORT OF CRUCIFIXION< BEFORE I OPEN THE HEAVENS UPON YOU< THROUGH YOU & FOR YOU!!"

This was the best Thanksgiving of my life... better than any fancy feasts...  false friends sisters or brothers...

Soon and very soon...

See we are Blessed to have the BETTER PART that is HIM... 

This makes us not better than anyone...  but MUCH MORE RESPONSIBLE!!

GOD BLESS YOU!!!!!  I HOPE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!

704-493-3956   we only answer calls we know... and return those who leave a voice message...  Sometimes the battery is dead...  we do not always have a place to charge them!!!

GOD Loves you & so do I   http://TheEyesEyesHaveIt.blogspot.com/

EstherStephanada!