How to Give OUT of Poverty

Prison Mommies …and You

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 I was sick and you visited Me;

I was in prison, and ye came unto Me.

Petite blonde, tight ponytail, sentenced for unintentional hit and run manslaughter of a man on a bicycle — her 12 year-old daughter and 2 smaller children angry with God for taking their mom away for 20 years…

Brunette pixie, covered in dark scars and tattoos: crying under praying hands while God speaks through our mouths –secrets of her toddler traumas…

Every prison-greyed  face in this program has children waiting at home… wanting their mommy.

These  are the convicts who we are discipling. They know they were wrong.  They want  to be good moms.  They want their kids back. They don’t want their children to grow up to be them. 

We are teaching them their authority. We are teaching them their power. And we are teaching them their Father’s love,  We are proving it. And for once, they are believing it

I am asking you to send me.

“How can they hear if a preacher is not sent?” Paul once asked.

God asked Isaiah, “Who will go?”

And I am saying –will you say it with me…  “Here I am. I will go. Send me.”

Together we can go through the power of partnership.  He sent them out two by two–me and you.

In Deuteronomy 8:18, God promises to give us power to get wealth,  to establish his covenant in the earth.  If you want the promise fulfilled, the power of getting wealth, it requires action.  Faith without action is dead. If you want God’s power for wealth –start establishing  his covenant in the earth. Prove you believe him.  To the faithful, consistent and generous, he will show himself faithful, consistent and generous.

This is a mission that God takes very personally. He takes it seriously –and when you invest till it hurts in what hurts him, he takes you seriously.

Some big heavy doors for us to come out from under the cover of prison chapel, and into the general population of inmates.  There are thousands of them. There is no funding for this. There are no love offerings from churches. 

I ask you to partner with me monthly.  Be generous with the least of these,  Make it a big financial step of faith and watch how God steps in. He likes that. 

When saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came unto thee? 

And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.                                                    

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Matthew 25:36,39,40

Don’t Be Surprised When Attacked!

Dearest Friends & Partners

We should never be surprised when the enemy attacks, but should instead be prepared to resist him and watch him flee. He craves the power you have, but don’t you give it to him! Talk like Israel did:

“Be broken in pieces, O (wicked) peoples, and be shattered! Listen, all you our enemies from the far countries. Prepare yourselves for war, and be shattered; Prepare yourselves for war, and be shattered.

“Take counsel together against Judah, but it will come to nothing; Speak the word, but it will not stand, For God is with us Immanuel.”  Is 8:9-10 AMP

Yes, the enemy comes to kill, steal and destroy, that’s what he does, but Jesus, God with us, comes to bring life.

Life saving life. We need to be convinced of it though. Believe it.

Thank you for your support of everything this ministry does to impact parents in prison. We are venturing out into the world –from our own families to the “least of these”.

If you become a partner in giving to this ministry, God swears by his own word that men shall give to you.

If you take care of his things, he will take care of yours.

I love you and am committed to your success, health and happiness.

Love you all!

Betsy

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Tiny Hot Dog, Big God

by Betsy Beers

When I was in elementary school, I asked my mom if God cares about the little things in my life. She said that no, he doesn’t care about little things.  I asked my grandpa that summer when I went to visit him in Seattle because I knew he knew more about God than we did. I was so relieved when he said that it wasn’t true, that God cares about the little things.

Many years later,  in my living room where several dozen gifts and several hundred pieces of toys and  things had been strewn, and where armfuls of wrapping paper had been stuffed into trash bags, and where Lucy’s shameless mountain of gifts was still towering these many days since Christmas –and where I had swept at least once a day because of my all-dirt backyard from the chickens –there went missing a tiny American Girl Doll hot hog.

It was just the hot dog, not the bun–1/2 an inch,  maybe 3/4, but that would ruin the whole barbecue set. Now she would only have one (nitrate free, organic) hot dog  for the two teeny buns.

For well over a week we had been cleaning and keeping after the cat and the kids who were constantly messing with Lucy’s stuff. God only knew where that little plastic piece was! Literally.  Probably long gone via the dust pan, balled up wrapping paper, animal bowels, furniture crevices…..according to Lucy’s transient fears.

Transient! When she came to me with this 12 year old girl problem I assured her,  “God knows where that hot dog is.”

Perceiving her objection I continued, “When it went missing he knew we would want and ask for it, so it’s here somewhere.  Ok so Lord! You know where that little hot dog is and we have an anointing from the Holy One and know all things, so you show me or Lucy where it is, in Jesus’ name. Put all your stuff in your room and we will find it.”

A couple days later after everything was put away and organized, Lucy came to me in the kitchen,  “Oh Mommy, I found the hot dog.”

It had been waiting in a corner, having apparently missed my broom several times.

Is our God big enough to care about a tiny plastic hot dog? Does he love us enough to care about the little things?

He cares about you so he cares about what you care about –even the little things.

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House Church vs Building Church

by Betsy Beers

Is house church better than cathedral, sanctuary, or public school rental church?

Everyone’s needs are different, and the big, more institutionalized churches can cater to family and community needs in great varieties of ways. But now, even big church is realizing it needs a little church.

It needs a little relationship.

The church planted by Jesus and the Apostles was relationship based in relationship settings –people’s living rooms and kitchens.

Relationship is gone. The praying together, the face to face, the laughing, the conversation, the eating, the sharing, the impartation and stirring up of gifts, the comfort, warmth and intimacy is going…. going….

When giving ministerial instructions to his disciples, Jesus talked about the activities, duties and responsibilities they would have in houses, not buildings. There was only one church, but in many houses.

“And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.” Luke 10:5

The original outpouring of the Holy Spirit came into a house where 120 were sitting.  It was in the houses where they worshipped, and when Paul made havoc of the church, it was in the houses that he did  it. He persecuted the church from house to house.

The Acts church met in houses (and for those who want to be religious about church attendance, then you won’t go on Saturday or Sunday –but daily). When the early church attenders met in the temple, it was to evangelize and display God’s power to the lost, as Peter and John did for the disabled man in Acts 3.

They also assembled outside of their homes for special conferences –like the one Paul called for all the Pastors of the Ephesus. He addressed the group of house church pastors, “I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have showed you, and have taught you publicly, and from house to house,” Acts 20:20

House to house, that is where the daily and routine growth of the church body occurred.…the house of Cornelius, the house of Mary, the house of Lydia, the house of Jason, house of Philip the Evangelist, house of Aquilla and Pricilla, the house of Cloe, Stephanas, Nympha, Philemon, John’s “Elect Lady” — even Paul had his own house church in Rome.

Corporate, temple church was not the natural outcome of a thriving house church system. Theater style church was imposed by Roman Emperor Constantine, who built the first institutional church for political power, and that not until the fourth century! It was all house church all the time before that. The church would now struggle, no longer as the oppressed, but as the oppressor. Religion feasted in this new atmosphere.

Today, big churches realize the secret power of house church. Under the guise of cell groups, small groups, life groups, and care groups, churches are back-peddling in an effort to get parishioners back into their houses.

The largest church in the world began in a house, but what’s so dynamic about that? Many churches began in houses. No, the difference is that Dr Yoggi Cho’s church, which started in a house –followed the biblical template.  When his house church got big, it did not move to a bigger facility, The church split and the assistant pastor took away half. When that half grew, it split again. This cell division continued as cells do when a healthy body is growing. So began the exponential growth of a church in Korea that is now over one million strong.  Pastor’s should be proud when they have a church split.

I love house church because guests can find friendship, conversation, transparency, personal prayer, food, snacks, coffee, and a safe place to bring friends who would never otherwise darken the door of a traditional church. I love no clicks, no loneliness, no isolation, no separation, and no religion. The seats don’t all face one direction.

I wish there were a house church on every street. You’re invited to the one on ours.

Love, Betsy

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Just One Thing…

by Betsy Beers

Every Christian is well acquainted with the Corinthian Church’s divisiveness, the members boasting that one was of Paul, one of Cephas, one of Apollos, and another of Christ.

Paul began his rebuke to them, “Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment.” 1 Corinthians 1:10

Stop right there.

Wow! That’s us! We do that. No further rebuke for My House Church.

• We speak the same thing.

• We have no divisions among us.

• We are in the same mind,

• We are in the same judgment.

Again and again, Paul’s perpetual pleading with the house churches: Unity.

“Fulfill ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.” Philippians 2:2-4

Yes, We are doing it!

• We are likeminded.

• We have the same love.

• We are of one accord.

• We are of one mind.

• We do nothing through strife.

• We do nothing through vainglory (pride)

• We are lowly in mind.

• We esteem each other better than ourselves.

• We don’t only look on our own things.

• We look on the things of each other.

This was the secret to the success of the first house churches in Acts that made up the One Body through which the One Spirit worked so powerfully.

Harmonizing with these checklists should be the hallmark of our lives!

Our prayers will be answered so fast, it will make the world’s fat head spin.

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He was dead.

Like “Raise the dead.”

They scoff and mock, call you radical and fanatical when you believe such things… until they are desperate, then they come looking for you.

Their beloved Tabitha was dead, so they sent for Peter.  “Please come at once!” Acts 9:38

I was in Washington DC, heavy with my first child, real heavy. My father ‘just so happened’ to be staying in Washington on business supposedly, at the Marriott where I normally took up a couch in the lobby before my morning art class. He had recently moved from DC to Palm Beach with his Hollywood diva wife, Mary Costa, an opera legend whose first gig was the voice of Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty.

My dad had called me the night before to tell me he would be there, and to ask if he could be in the delivery room when Courtney was born a couple months later. The call was so strange and flattering because he never called me for anything.

But no, he could not be in the room at her birth.

Hogging my usual lobby couch, I decided I would go up to his room and see if he wanted to get some breakfast. I knocked on the big wooden hotel door and stood there with my big stomach sticking out –almost touching it. And stood.

It was awkward because my dad is easily irritated and I didn’t want to bug him so early, so I went back down to read some more of my Bible.

Again, I went back up the elevator and knocked on his door. Nothing, so I went back down to read some more of my Bible.

Every few minutes I did this.

Finally, I called his room. He answered the phone. “Dad? …Dad?” He didn’t say anything. I called several more times, each time he answered but said nothing. I went back up to his room, knocked on the door and called him, “Dad? Dad!”

Nothing, and then faintly I heard from off to the left of the room in what I thought was the bathroom, a muffled, “Betsy.”

I called on the phone again and he answered with silence.  I called again and it was busy. It stayed off the receiver after that. Still not wanting to bother him but worried, I got a maintenance worker to let me in the room next door and get on the balcony where I could peek in. The drapes were closed.

I went back and kept banging on the door. Finally, I got the maintenance guy to open it and break the chain. Timidly, I opened the door. “Dad?”

It was deathly silent.

The bed was to my left where I thought the bathroom was. My father was on his stomach, face down in the mattress. I crept up to him, and poked his arm with my finger.

“Dad?” It was not warm. I picked up an empty prescription bottle from the nightstand where the phone receiver was lying. I didn’t see the note. I knew he was dead. Still, I ran to the room next door and frantically called 911, begging them to hurry. If I had known Peter was in the next town, I would have called him instead.

What did Jesus really mean when he said for us to raise the dead? Did he mean people who are spiritually dead but need the life of Christ?  Or when he said to raise the dead, did he actually mean for us to raise dead people?

Jesus raised Jairus’ little girl from the dead, called Lazarus after four days in a tomb and raised a widow’s only son during his funeral procession. Peter, raiser of Tabitha, was just a fisherman with no credentials, no formal training, no seminary and not a respected businessman in the community. A kid who fell asleep during Paul’s sermon and tumbled to the ground from a third story window, bored to literal death, was raised by the formerly violent apostle.

Jesus did it, the disciples did it, and he told us to do it.

So, I wish I would have called my dad’s spirit back, gone such a short time from his body, having just escaped while I was going up and down the elevator. That would have been easier to believe for than four days stinky from a tomb.

We need to build our faith for the expectations God has for us, for walking like Jesus walked —instead of finding ways to water down what he meant. I didn’t even try to bring him back. I missed it.

I am not condemned, but encouraged to do better.  So have I raised a dead person yet? No, but I’m practicing my faith for it!  by healing sick, infirmed and disabled bodies!

“Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead; freely you’ve received, freely give…” -Jesus

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Excerpt from Betsy’s book,  Dude I Think Your Mom Healed Me

Hope It’s Not My Butt

Or 2 Steps to a Happy New Year

If you hope this year will be a good one -good luck to you ’cause you’re gonna need it.

If you hope God will make it a good one -good luck to you ’cause you’re gonna need it.

When my kids were little, they played Hope It’s Not My Butt with their uncles. They would line up and stick their little derrieres in the air. My brothers would throw pillows at the targets randomly. Yes wing them —hard, while they were yelling, “I hope it’s not my butt!” And they loved it.

But now that they are grown ups, they shouldn’t play Hope It’s Not My Butt.

We may say, “I hope this will be a good year.” Or, when someone says, “You’re gonna have a great year,” we may respond, “I hope so!” That is not Biblical hope. That is casino hope. I hope you’re feeling lucky. A hope is a vision, a dream a goal. It’s the reason we need faith –so we can attain that hope, dream, vision, goal.

It would be like saying, “My goal is to have a good year or I dream of having a good year –with no plan or power to that end.

Romans 5:5 tells us that God’s hope does not disappoint. People are often disappointed when they hope, because they put their hope in things that do not always deliver. When you hope in God’s word, which cannot fail, then your hope is sure. God’s word is Jesus; hoping in Him is an anchor, a sure thing. You are doing something to attain the hope or goal, believing. You are working on your faith.

We need the hope first so we know what to have faith for.

“This hope we have as an anchor of the soul.” Hebrews 6:19

There is no maybe in God’s hope, but, there are requirements on your part. There are conditions to obtain this hope. They do not include sitting around a-wishin’ a-hopin’ and a-prayin’.

God does nothing for you -without you. He responds to faith and the initiative that is inherent in faith -because faith without accompanying works is dead. It doesn’t exist. Popping pills and begging all your Facebook friends to pray for you will not heal you. You have to do some things.

God parted the Red Sea only after Moses stopped standing and crying around about their certain doom. God had already warned Moses that the Pharaoh would pursue the people at the Red Sea to destroy them. But Moses incorrectly instructed the people, “Stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD.”

Moses had the right conclusion about the salvation of the Lord -because that is what God had promised, but he was wrong about the means by which that would happen.

He was wrong about standing still.

God in His Old Testament mercy corrected and instructed Moses with words. I hate to pop your religious bubble, but it is never God’s will to correct or instruct with disaster, death, poverty or sickness. If we learn that way, it is because we choose not to obey the word of God.

“All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” 2 Timothy 3:16

God’s word is all the instruction and discipline we need.

The LORD said to Moses, “Why do you cry to Me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. But lift up your rod, and stretch out your hand over the sea and divide it. And the children of Israel shall go on dry ground through the midst of the sea.” Exodus 14:14-16

The onus was on Moses and the people to do something, to engage their faith, to do their part in this two way relationship they had with God.

It was God who was waiting on Moses to make the next move. It was God’s power in Moses’ action that wrought the miracle.

If you stand still, you will not see the salvation of God –in your relationships, finances, health, business, mind or anything else that haunts you.

If you stand still, you will be disappointed.

For a Happy New Year these are your conditions:

#1 Make Jesus Lord of your life.

#2 Follow Him and do what He says, because He loves you and wants all your dreams to come true.

And do not say in this year, “I hope it’s not my butt” -because eventually, it will be.

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Homosexuality’s NOT a Sin?

It is homophobia that is now sin, not homosexuality. Get with the times Christian people. But, you know something? The progressive, new moral bar-raisers are right. Cheers. Homophobia is a sin. I actually don’t know anyone who is guilty of fearing homosexuals or homosexuality, but if I did, I would definitely agree that’s sin, because we are only to fear God. Fear Him who, after He has killed, has power to cast into hell; yes, I say to you, fear Him! Luke 12:5 As for the homosexuality… sin? Since it is God who decides what is and is not sin, then obviously, yes, homosexuality is sin. “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites,nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. and such were some of you.”  1 Corinthians 6:9 There are many scriptures condemning homosexuality, right there along with all the other deviant behaviors. Only Jesus can set us free from these death-trap bodies we all are born with.  I turned mine into a temple of the Holy Spirit and gay people can too! I am sorry that homosexuals do not get a free pass to heaven. Would it be fair that all the fornicators, gossips, drunkards and thieves go Hell –while LGBT’s get a free, get-out-of-damnation card? I am sorry that this culture is exploiting gay people by lying to them that the punishment for their sin is not the same as everyone else’s. We all need Jesus to save us from sin. Teach your children the truth. youvisitedme.tv

To My Friends With Vaccine Damaged Children,

by Betsy Beers

You detox, buy organic, cope, cry, blog, shake the shoulders of any who will listen –and you agonize because of what has been ruthlessly and worse, needlessly stolen from your child.

The work you do helps. But I am constrained to show you the unbelievable truth. As a person who buys 95% organic food, edible cleaning products and raw milk, I have to tell you that your child can be completely restored and healed with not another essential oil or holistic remedy.

Poof. Proof of God’s love for you. According to your faith it will be done for you. Start building your healing faith. Faith comes by hearing the word of God.  Romans 10:17

You are the parents who have the tenacity, perseverance, stamina, resolve and warrior hearts to get it done.  Jesus came to save and heal that which was destroyed and broken. It takes a miracle. But who are miracles for? Do you have to be special? Do you have to be religious? Do you have to be a Christian?

No. You just have to believe Jesus wants to do it –and that he will. It doesn’t matter how extensive the damage, or long it has been.

Under some columned porticos by a pool in Jerusalem, among a great multitude of sick, blind, lame and paralyzed people, a man was lying on a mat, who had an infirmity 38 years. Jesus walked up to him.

When Jesus heals people, he does not subject them to a religious questionnaire. The qualifications for sudden healing miracles are strictly need –not credential based. Jesus healed those who had need of healing. Luke 9:11

When Jesus saw him lying there, and knew that he already had been in that condition a long time, He said to him, “Do you want to be made well?”

Yes the qualifications for your healing are need based and, of course, desire. Do you want to be made well? It sounds like a silly question, but if you’re in this business then you know there are many people who do not want to be made well, or they would have nothing to moan around about.

The man explained to Jesus that he had no one to help him. There are some things we cannot do ourselves. With every resource we can conjure up, we still need the help we seem unable to find. Help is here.

Jesus said to him, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk.” And immediately the man was made well, took up his bed, and walked.

After 38 years.

Later, Jesus found him in the temple, and said to him, “See, you have been made well. Sin no more, lest a worse thing come upon you.”                                            

Sin no more? Is Jesus implying that the man had been in that condition because of sin? How offensive!

Daring to infer that I sinned!

Is it because of your sin that your children suffer? I don’t know, maybe…maybe not. I don’t really care, because if there is one thing we have all done, it is sin. Who cares?! Jesus didn’t. Did he withhold healing until the man swore off whatever misdeed for which he was guilty?

Sin is not only drunkenness, fornication, soda and GMOs. Sin is just missing the mark, not being your best –because that’s what God wants for us, the best. He heals us so we can be our best.

Then we stop sinning and go spread the health!

Maybe you missed the mark by exposing your child to something dangerous. I have certainly done that, and repented.  And I’m surely not going to do it again. I will sin that no more! I’m sure you probably say you would NEVER do that again either.

So take heart, that Jesus heals us even if we have had a screw up. I bring this  to you in case you are one of those parents plagued by guilt because you missed it. Join the club! and I want you to know there is forgiveness, yes —AND HEALING!!

You get a do-over.

By his wounds you have been healed. 1 Peter 2:24

Take it!

Love, Betsy

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