Monday, September 17, 2012

Is there a Jezebel in your Life?

“Confronting Jezebel:  Discerning and Defeating the Spirit of Control,” by Steve Sampson was originally published in 1996. During the following years, he continued to study more about the evil spiritual principality of control and in 2012 he published a revised and expanded edition. The author shows us that more than the name of an evil queen, Jezebel is a spirit of control who works its evil on men and women with passive spirits.

Mr. Sampson does an excellent job of explaining the Jezebel principality – the characteristics of a Jezebel, the sinister strategies of Jezebel, what it’s like to see a Jezebel in action and the damage it can cause, with one purpose: to work against the move of God’s Spirit. Amazingly, the people who have a Jezebel spirit of control can have a magnetic attraction, especially to believers who have little or no interest in learning about spiritual warfare. Passive believers can be easily manipulated by people with a Jezebel spirit of control. They are dazzled by the strong leadership qualities of a Jezebel, while behind the scene the Jezebel is planting seeds of discontent, mistrust, and doubt. Their lack of knowledge and preparation makes it impossible for them to even recognize the effects of demonic forces. The author goes on to teach us how to confront and battle the Jezebel spirit of control, all based on biblical truths with scripture included. “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood, but against the principalities, against the powers, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [hosts] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].” Eph 6:12.

I definitely would recommend this book as one everyone should read. It will really open your eyes and make you aware of how important it is to put on “the whole armor of God.”

*This book was received free through Bethany House Book Reviewers in exchange for my unbiased review.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

Altered CD and Radiant Pearls

Hi friends,
This afternoon I've been busy making a card for a swap so I thought I would share with you what prompted this particular card.   In an online stamp club that I belong to, 2000 Stampers, recent discussion has been about coloring mediums.  Copic markers were mentioned several times.  Most said they loved the Copics but hadn't been able to master the shading technique.  I have to admit that I haven't invested in Copics because most of the time I don't have the patience to spend enough time shading.  I did take a class one time from Ellen Hutson using Copics and the results were fabulous.  Using a less expensive medium, I pretty much can get the same results using a paint brush doing watercolor with Marvy Markers.  If I had a bigger arts & crafts budget, then . . . .  But you know how that goes.  I might be tempted yet.  In the meantime, one of the coloring mediums that I like to use is Radiant Pearls. This CD was altered by stippling it with several colors of Radiant Pearls.  Stippling is a fast way to cover an area and make a background for stamping.  I used Memories dye ink for the stamping.  Stazon might work ok, but I haven't tried it yet.  To embellish this Altered CD, I stamped an image on vellum, roughly tore around the edges, and used a Thermo-o-web vellum adhesive runner to attach it to the CD.  I love this adhesive - it does a super good job of being invisible.  Lastly, 3 flower buttons were added.  To attach the CD to the Card I used Scotch Adhesive Transfer Tape.  This is another tape that I think is wonderful and is absolutely the best to use on pages of altered books.  If you use glue to stick the pages together they become stiff, but with the transfer tape, the pages remain pliable and soft.  If you've made some altered CD's, I love for you to leave me a link where I can see them.  If you haven't tried this technique yet, then I encourage you to give it a try.  If you mess up the first one, toss it in the waste can and grab another CD.  There seems to be a never-ending supply coming through the mail.  Happy stamping and may the Lord cover you with His love.
Annie