Your Help Needed

There are opportunities to expand WHOLE Ministries and Living Above Hurt Ministries.

I am asking you to see the good that these ministries can offer to those that are hurting, dealing with addictive habits and hangups. These ministries operate as free services to those that come for help. However, we can not continue helping those in need without your help.

There is a need for $3,000 to pay for supplies, renting rooms for services, food, clothes and providing counseling for rape, domestic violence victims and other violent crimes. we also provide training to those seeking employment and resume services.

In this economy, we all need a helping hand and we do not want to turn anyone away. Please send your donations to Evangelist Linda Hillman via PayPal at evangelistlindahillman@hotmail.com or send your money orders/checks to 4719 Quail Lakes Drive Ste G-347, Stockton, CA 95207 make money orders/checks payable to Linda Hillman.

To reach our goal, it only takes 60 people to send $50.00, or 120 people to send $25.00, or 300 people to send $10.00. Any donation is helpful. Please pass along to your friends and family that are looking for a nonprofit to donate to.

All donations are tax - deductible and all monies will be used for ministry. Your help appreciated. I know that we all want to help those that are coming through these ministry and even if you cant help in person your donations will help get the job done. The opportunities being presented to these ministries are absolutely wonderful and in time will allow us to serve more and spend our services to different areas.

Thanks for taking the time to read this message. Please make a donation, even if you think someone else is doing it, make a donation to help.

Evangelist Linda Hillman

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I came across this and thought I would share this with my readers. I hope you all enjoy it, because this is something I would have said too. - Linda

I’m not one to know the latest pop or R&B songs, but I do know that a popular theme these days is independence. I overheard someone talking about a song entitled, “Independent” and thought I’d look up the lyrics out of curiosity. The only thing was that the lyrics were so profane that I couldn’t even read through them all. Still, it’s the in thing to be independent for those in the world. Many women tout that they don’t need men, and there are loads of men who admire women who don’t need them. We won’t even discuss how many men want to be independent of the responsibility of having wives and children. So, it’s no surprise that many children feel that they don’t need their parents. Finally, there are far too many people who feel like they don’t need God.

While independence does have attributes in the right context, for the most part, glamorizing it has many pitfalls. The Bible instructs us over and over again to depend on God. Yet, when life is going according to our plans and feels easy, we tend to lose our dependence on Him. We can slip into the attitude that says, “That’s okay, I got this one, God.”

However, we must depend on God for everything at all times. Making the decision to depend on Him isn’t a sign of weakness but true strength. As believers, we don’t live by life’s changing circumstances. In the face of possible death, Paul passes on comfort and advice to other believers. He explains in II Corinthians 1:8-9, “we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life. But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead.” Even in the midst of struggle and suffering, Paul reminds us not to trust in ourselves, but God.

Why should we depend on Him? We should depend on Him because He won’t fail us like people, plans, and things often do. Psalm 121:2 says, “My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth.” God created us out of His image, and He knows us. He knows our hurts and understands our burdens. In fact, Matthew 8:17 says that Jesus, “Himself took our infirmities and bare our sickness.” It doesn’t matter what the problem is, He can handle it. We just have to trust Him and cast our cares on Him.

We should depend on God because His love for us is constant and never changes. David says, “for all that is in heaven and earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest overall; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all” (II Chron. 29:11-12). He loves us. He created us, and we should acknowledge His power, might, and greatness.

Depending on God means that we need Him, not just when the going gets rough but just like the air we breathe, we need Him to survive. We must have faith in Him and trust Him with everything. Furthermore, when we depend on God, we submit our will and desires to His authority and His Word. We have to submit to Him and obey Him. We can’t just trust Him with things we feel comfortable letting Him have. He wants us to have total and complete dependence on Him, so we have to let Him have everything.

On a final note, I do want to add that we also need one another. God created Adam and said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him” (Gen. 2:18). As believers, we make up the body of Christ. In chapter twelve in I Corinthians, Paul says that just as the body has many members but is one, so is the body of Christ. We all need each other to complete the work that God has for us to do and to draw others to Him.

When I hear people say that they don’t need anyone, a red flag goes up. I wonder who has hurt or let that person down. We may avoid some hurt and rejection by being independent, but we morph those negatives into an abyss of selfishness, anger, depression, loneliness, and a host of other problems. God has shown me that when I completely depend on Him, my life is filled with peace and joy. I can then reach out freely to others, knowing that just as I am not perfect, no one else is either. I am not tossed to and fro by life’s ups and downs because my total dependence is on Him, the One who holds my future and the world in the palm of His hands.

Depend on Him for that very thing that you’ve been holding onto, refusing to give to Him. Trust Him with it, and watch Him perform a miracle. Your decision to trust Him will empower you with supernatural strength to overcome any obstacle Satan throws your way.

Drop me a line on the Abiding in the Vine FB group page or on www.MaRitaTeague.blogspot.com

Blessings,MaRita

Wicked Linda Is Dead, But Who Is That?

Okay three weeks ago...

I thought I really need to make money or else I have to get a real job. So, I got real determined to do...nothing! Well that is not true but it should be because in the end that is what I did. A big flat nothing. I allowed opportunities to pass me by. I did not ask for what I wanted and I allowed myself to think negatively. This is all contrary to who I say that I am. SO, why would I, Coach Linda Hillman, Empowerment Coach Guru slip back into self destructive habits. Why would I allow myself to give up on me? So many times I tell others "Don't give up on you because I wont" but yet I was not practicing what I preached.

Then it came to me, the struggle is not in the fight but my thoughts. I was willing to fight but had lost sight of what I was fighting for. I want to help people to be the best they can be but that does not come without obstacles on their part and MINE! The things I was facing was I was attracting the people who were interested but not ready to make the change. I was attracting those that said it sounds good, and wow I see why I need your services but were not tired of living in the current situations. I was attracting those similar to myself. WOW that hurts.

What I mean is that I was willing to look in the mirror of life and see the discomfort, I was even willing to acknowledge that change was  needed but I was not willing to make the necessary changes. I was not willing to step out of my comfort zone no matter how much that comfort zone was costing me. I was not willing to invest in me like I was telling my clients to do. So as long as things were free to me I would go full force but as soon as you ask for financial commitment, I was ready to back away stating all  kinds of excuses. Now listen, we find time to do what we want to do. IF we really want something we will do whatever it takes to get that. I understand there are some real issues in this world. I have been self employed for two years going on my third year. So, I know what it means to have NO MONEY. So what am I really willing to do at this point.

Here's the deal, I am willing at this point to stop the MADNESS!! no more games and especially no more lies to my clients or anyone else especially me. Well, I have not told a dishonest thing to anyone. I have just not told everything. Withholding truth is just like lying to me. I think well, they don't need to know this or they don't need to know that but in the course of what I am trying to accomplish, people, my clients need to see the real deal. So I made a pledge.. ONLY the Truth. No more holding back and making excuses.

I hope that you will join me on my journey of self transformation. Let's grow together and make our lives better. So, now a more honest Coach Linda and hopefully my clients will appreciate the transformation in my techniques to coach them to success and those of you that are okay with who you are not achieving your goals, sitting in the same comfort zone that has you standing still and not moving forward, waiting for your next big break that you will allow to pass you by because you are not committed to investing in your life, and those of you that say that sounds good but... I leave your world now...I am off to love me, care for me and accept all that is right for me. I am no longer willing to stand idly by and let my life run it's course with no direction. I am taking matters into my own hands, taking responsibility and hold myself accountable.

So I will see you at the top... or will I? Let me put it this way...I'll be at the top, will you? Time is running out what will you do with the time you have remaining?

Today I wonder

Today I wonder why there are so many people out there saying and doing things that are causing others to falter. I wonder why, when someone truly cares for an individual, they get slapped in the face with obstacles and hangups. On the other hand, when someone is only trying to make a fast buck, they get all the attention.Today, I struggle with my own heart. Should I continue to try to care for others when they clearly want me to only say in word I care but my deeds are far from it. I can not give up but my heart seems to be overwhlemed today with worry.

I want so badly to help those that can benefit from my knowledge but how do I get it to the ones that really need and not just the ones coming to toss it aside. Who am I trying to reach? Who even cares? Well, of course I do but how do I tell them I do?

That's all. That's my hear for today. But who cares?

Why Are You Copying Me, Weren't You Uniquely Made

Don't you just want to tell some people to get their own life. It's not that you are not honored that they want to be like you. However, you have had to fight, kick, scream and pull to get where you are, right? Most people don't realize what you have gone through to get where you are. They see the good times and think that is all there is.

Well, what do you tell people when they say, "Hey, I want to do that too." I guess I am not talking about those that may have a calling similar to our own. Nonetheless, there are those that just mimic others. they don't understand that they are made and suppose to be unique. Unique now there's a word. We are all created for a specific purpose, yet many of us are content at trying to be anything but what they should be.

Okay, let me break this down, I know that some people may have the same ideas. However, come on, how many times have you heard about someone that was doing something with their life and you said, "Hmm, why didn't I think of that?" Time evolves and you find yourself, taking that path. I know we all have done it . Maybe not to the extreme of copying them but we have tried to imitate them. If you are honest you will agree with that statement. Some say that imitation is the highest form of flattery. Then May I should be flattered but I am not.

Why, you may ask. Well let me say this, I need you to be what you were created to be. I need you to be your unique self. No one else can do the things you are destined to do and without you doing them, they may never get done. So think about it. Be your authentic self.

You were created as a designer original, so don't settle to be a carbon copy.