What Have You Learned

By: Linda C. Dipman

The news arrived. The judge was giving full custody to my ex, I was given no visitation unless it was approved by my ex-husband. I sat in stunned silence. I would never see my children again. My mind began to race. The words quietly, but clearly exploded inside my head: RUN! I took my children and left the state. When I thought we were safe, we changed our names and set up house. Three weeks later, I found myself sitting in jail, while my children became wards of the SRS! I was in shock, I wondered how my life could have taken such a turn for the worse. I was just a mother and I didn’t deserve to be treated like a criminal.

I looked in my Bible and found a typed message from the Almighty God. My hands shook as I read the message! “Look Back and see what you have learned? God has Spoken!!”

I had been a wife, mother, and daughter that was admired and loved. Little did I know that my life was going to take such a dramatic turn that God would give me supernatural typed messages in order to help me survive. Everyone, including my parents, church, friends and society turned away from me because I fell in love with a woman. I couldn’t believe what was happening! I was attacked by my ex-husband in front of my former pastor, and followed by the entire Southern Baptist church, who were on a mission to prove that I was gay. Now I was in jail because I was a mother who loved her children and fought for equal visitation rights.

The supernatural messages gave me hope that I wasn’t alone fighting against the world. They were messages of encouragement. They were letters that directed my fight against the injustices a person faces when they are gay. They were words of love that gave me strength that I was never alone because the Holy Spirit was guarding my weak human nature with strength that was greater than any human’s ability to endure.

It was a paranormal experience that gave beyond this world’s ability to comprehend, because my fight was not just against man but against the evil forces in the spiritual world. I read the messages again and again applying everything I learned to the experiences I went through. I was astonished as I began to understand why I needed to look back and see what I learned. I realized that it wasn’t God’s punishment for my sins that did this to me, it was people! People being guided by an unseen evil force.

My understanding made me look at what happened to me differently. I began to see truth unfold and my world changing from me being in charge to God navigating me through an intricate maze that would open my mind to a new way of viewing the world. A world corrupted by evil spirits.

I began to see injustice in child custody, divorce court and even in what kind of people were in jail. God opened up my mind and let me see how our society oppresses people in the courts, because they are no longer following God, but Satan. I found that the injustice was being waged against the homeless, poor and abused of our society.

Millions of questions rose in my mind as the Holy Spirit interpreted each of the conflicts I went through. It was as if God was exposing our world and revealing to me that I was in a life game. A destiny that was geared to bring me to the light of a new understanding about my world. A path in life where I would learn the difference between good and bad.

Ever since the beginning of time people have been going through tragedy that led them through hard life experiences. This answers the most difficult question of all: Why was I born? What is my purpose?

These messages made me see why bad things happen to people, from child custody fights to why wars occur. It opened my eyes to why we suffer with diseases, poverty and natural disasters. It parted the darkness of deception and let me see my real enemy, Satan. More importantly it let me see into the invisible world that surrounds our world. A Spirit world of good and evil spirits. Evil spirits that entice men into committing sin. Sin that corrupts the ‘thought life’ of good men into doing evil. Men who have denied faith in God and given into Satan.

The Old Testament describes in detail how people’s sin corrupted the world and made it evil. Cain killed Abel over jealousy. Joseph’s brothers sold him to pharaoh because of jealousy. Good kings turned against God because of pride. The Bible reveals what happens when you murder and you give into sin for selfish reasons.

We must play the great game of life wisely. We need to understand the purpose of this world and discern the difference between God and Satan. This is the reason why I needed the messages, because up until now I had been taught in the church that being gay was wrong. I needed God to give me the power to fight back against those who used the Bible as a means to control people for their own will. I needed God to tell me that He made me this way!

Isaiah 59: 4-8, “You go to court, but you do not have justice on your side. You depend on lies to win your case. You carry out your plans to hurt others. The evil plots you make are as deadly as the eggs of a poisonous snake. Crush an egg, out comes a snake! But your plots will do you no good-they are as useless as clothing made of cobwebs! You are always planning something evil, and you can hardly wait to do it. You never hesitate to murder innocent people. You leave ruin and destruction wherever you go, and no one is safe when you are around. Everything you do is unjust. You follow a crooked path, and no one who walks that path will ever be safe.”

God’s truth is revealed when people are separated from the thinking of men and they see for themselves what is right and what is wrong through life changing experiences. This can only happen when we understand that our world is corrupted by evil.

Today we live in a society that has forgotten God. We don’t understand the difference between right and wrong. We don’t seek the spiritual part of life and as a result our world is self-destructing, because evil has been given the power to flourish and grow. From global warming that can put our world into an ice-age, to wars, natural disasters and evil people who hurt others in order to get ahead, people have lost the ability to know right from wrong. When we are blind to how our world teaches us, then we become defenseless to Satan’s weapons of deceit.

Isaiah 59:14&15a, “Justice is driven away, and right cannot come near. Truth stumbles in the public square, and honesty finds no place there. There is so little honesty that anyone who stops doing evil finds himself the victim of crime.”

We need to gain understanding over why bad things happen to people by looking back and seeing what we have learned. We must hold onto God and love and listen to the voice of good.

I suffered injustice through the court system because people were not listening to the voice of God. God took me and opened my eyes to injustice so I would not be deceived into following the crowd and doing wrong. God taught me the difference between right and wrong. Most of all He gave me the strength to stand and fight even when people did me wrong.

Isaiah 59:15b-17, “The Lord has seen this, and he is displeased that there is no justice. He is astonished to see that there is no one to help the oppressed. So he will use his own power to rescue them and to win the victory. He will wear justice like a coat of armor and saving power like a helmet. He will clothe himself with the strong desire to set things right and to punish and avenge the wrongs that people suffer.”

God has a way of working things out. The judge who heard my children’s custody case, cut the phone lines in the court house. Apparently he couldn’t remember his combination for dialing out when making long distance calls. He wasn’t charged for the vandalism, but he was removed from office. This opened the door to a new judge who heard my case and quickly gave me a fair custody arrangement.

“God has spoken my ways are not human ways, trust in Me!” The typed words gave meaning to the purpose behind my suffering. It gave me the strength to see my world in two dimensions, I was in a fight against evil. A revelation that would give my life purpose and give me a voice to tell others that our world is more than what you can see.

Author Resource:-> Linda C Dipman author of THE GAME OF LIFE IT’S ALMOST OVER http://outskirtspress.com/gameoflife presents AND HIS LOVE SHONE DOWN my true life story! It describes all the persecutions I endured. It will put you on the edge of your seat as you read each vivid detail. You will feel terror and experience love like nothing you have ever read before. lovinghandsministry.com

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Liposuction Surgery Stories You’ll Want To Read

By: Mike Pedersen
When you are considering getting a liposuction surgery or otherwise called as liposculpture, listening to real life experiences may help you make a decision. Below you will find several stories of Manhattan residents who had liposculpture surgery with the local plastic surgery clinics.

Caribbean, here I come!

Kristy is 38 years old, a mother to a little boy and the wife of an up and coming Broadway producer. It was a couple of months before the December holidays that she and her husband decided that they wanted to spend the holidays lying in the warm sandy shores of the Caribbean.

Kristy has long wanted to go to the beaches, but she was always shy of her enormous backside. After consulting with her husband on the matter, her husband was more apprehensive than she was and he was not wholly convinced for her to have the fat trimming surgery. He later gave in and they both decided that Kristy should have liposuction to trim down her thighs and buttocks in time for her to get into that
Caribbean trip.

Kristy approached a local surgeon she heard about and inquired about UAL (Ultrasound Assisted Liposculpture), which promised better results and a shorter recovery time. She had the procedure done 2 months before they were scheduled to leave for their vacation. After the surgery, she was much more mobile than other women who had the traditional type of liposculpture. Her recovery time was also shorter. This meant that she was looking at her best when they hit the Caribbean beaches.

No, Never Again!

That is what 43 year old Angela kept saying to herself after she woke up in immeasurable amount of pain following her liposuction surgery procedure on her thighs, abdomen and buttocks. She was feeling all swollen and her appearance did not look any better than it did before. In fact it seemed that she looked worse. She started crying inconsolably blaming herself for doing this to her body. She was pained all over.
She remained in that state of mind for at least another two days. It was on the third day that she started to feel a little better. Still depressed and pink all over, she eventually noticed the marked improvement on her physique.

Now, after 1 month, Angela is happier about the way she looks and is now thinking of getting more surgery done - a tummy tuck this time! Now she say’s that she has never regretted getting a liposculpture procedure done.

So many surgeries for body enhancement has been done that resulted to changed lives. If you are not sure on having one, why not listen to some more success stories from patients who made that leap of faith.

Author Resource:-> For more information on Manhattan liposuction surgery, visit the Manhattan Liposuction Guide site.

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It Is Possible To Succeed In Marriage

By: Kenneth Scott

A healthy and constructive attitude toward love can go a long way toward bringing you a successful marriage. An attitude like this is difficult for Americans, however, mainly because of what they have been taught since they were children and the influence of romantic movies. Americans tend to base marriage on a combination of factors, including the appeal and adventure of romance, a response to someone who reminds them of a person they once loved, a desire to escape an unhappy circumstance, to console themselves for a failure or disappointment, social pressures, sexual desire, and some small point of attraction.

Love based on factors like these is real and intense, and several of the factors have a place in a good marriage as well. The danger is that these factors are really superficial. None of them is strong enough to provide the basis for a successful marriage. Even all of them put together do not do so. And yet, these factors are real enough to convince people that love is enough to create a successful marital relationship, and they end up selecting inappropriate mates.

Parents and relatives are always interested in whom you will choose to marry, and it is right that they introduce you to potential mates and even promote them to you, within limits. Since they will do these things anyway, you should be prepared, but you should not let family opinions influence you to such a degree that you will enter a marriage even if you are not ready. You should be very careful of a girlfriend who say that you have led her on and that, because of your behavior, you now have a duty to marry her.

While it is not a good idea to get married just because all of your friends are tying the knot, it is true that timing is important. Some people get married because they believe they will be left out, and other people are so particular about potential mates that they do not marry someone who is right for them because they are waiting for the perfect person. Remember, there is no perfect person. Do not wait so long that you miss your chance for happiness.

The kind of love that adds richness and value to a marriage must be much deeper than the superficial factors listed above. This kind of love must be based on common interests, values, and goals. One of the strongest and more critical of the common goals is a desire to have children. The deep love required for a successful marriage is something that two partners build together during their lives. Those who have found a deep basis for love can expect the thrill and romance of their connection to increase over time. The deepest joy of marriage results from a relationship that is constantly developing and maturing. A love that lasts is a love that is an expression of life experiences and meanings for both partners.

Author Resource:-> To find more information and advise about relationships and success in marriage visit http://marriage-directory.com

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