Thursday, May 10, 2007
Awesome Runner for God!
Hey precious ones!This is a response from someone who has written in responding to our most recent entry, "Come Up Higher" and "See"!
Tillie writes: Thank you for sharing that beautiful message. Anna, I am finally beginning to get the picture that Jesus really does love me and is my constant aid in this life. It's about time... I am turning 60 onMother's Day. And I know that you will get a kick out of this, so heregoes:
I am going to Nova Scotia to run my 30th. Marathon to celebrate my 60th. birthday. Only with Jesus could I be doing such a thing.
All my love,Tillie
I got one of my doctor friends to write out in French, "I run for the Lord", It is, "Je cours peu le Bon Dieu" I will wear it in Nova Scotia.Take care,Til

Way to go Tillie! I hope you will be able to hear us cheering you on all the way from New Orleans! Anna
Posted by Anna at 11:20 AM
Wednesday, May 9, 2007

"Come Up Higher" and See!
In preparing for some upcoming messages, I came across this quote that I had saved in my files….Boy does this bring back some warm warm memories of when God encouraged me through some rough times! May it comfort you today!This quote is in reference to John, the writer of the ‘Gospel of John’ as well as the writer of the three epistles in the New Testament. He is nearing 80 years old, and is shipped to an Isle called Patmos as a result of persecution and punishment for his defense of the Word of God and its truths. The people tried to boil him in oil and that didn’t work, so they thought that they would just get rid of him. I guess they figured that if they shipped him to ‘nowhere land’, that he would be out of sight, and would no longer be a threat. He was shipped to the Isle with the command to do hard labor, chipping the stones from the stone quarry in which he sat. Brothers and sisters, it was on this very Isle, away from all of humanity, left alone to die, that the Lord Jesus Himself appears to John!

In Revelation 1:10, it says, “I was in the Spirit on the Lord’s Day, and I heard behind me a loud voice….” This reference, “I was in the Spirit”, means “I came to be in the Spirit”….he didn’t start out that way! Remember, he was bound by earth’s borders. But God would not be limited by earth’s borders and He bypassed everything just to get to John! Then, one of my favorite Scriptures is in Revelation 4:1, where God says to John, “Come up here, and I will show you….” It was at this very place (Patmos) that the Book of Revelation was given.

Here is the quote: John was limited by borders, but, “It was fitting that when forbidden to go beyond certain bounds of the earth’s lands, he was permitted to penetrate the secrets of heaven.” “Your life is hidden with Christ in God!”

Wow! Brothers and sisters! ‘Come up higher’ and SEE your life and its situations through God’s perspectives…Just when you think you have exhausted all of your resources, (no more money in the bank…he said, she said, and I have said, and it still isn’t working!.....the doctors have said this and that and they stare at me as if I have four heads…..nobody really understands what I am going through….does God really care?....does God really listen to me?...am I really forgiven?...you get the picture….)….climb up into the realm of the Spirit, where God is, and go beyond this earth’s borders…you too, can penetrate the secrets of heaven and SEE things you never thought possible!
How? Just ask God to show you your situation from His perspective. It won’t look quite so huge when being viewed from heaven’s realm.
Love,Anna
http://www.annadonahueministries.com/
Posted by Anna at 3:20 PM
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Oops! Still learning!
Hey precious ones!Well, we have had our blog up and running for one week...in an attempt to edit a comment that I didn't want on there, and an effort to save the several with whom I did want on there, I ended up editing the entire thing!Ugh!
Well, if you know me well, you know that I am not a quitter! We will try this again! I am so sorry if you have taken the time to log on and leave a comment, only to find that it has been deleted!Please, please leave a comment again. The past comments were so very very encouraging! And that is what this blog site is all about!
Love to all,Anna
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