Still Praying. Still looking for GOD's answers.

When I pray, I pray until I feel GOD gives me the answers.  For some topics that is many years.  Working Together (WT) is a long, ongoing, hard prayer.  My income needs are also a huge problem that doesn't seem to find an answer.  I will continue to seek GOD for everything and believe He already understands the details I can't see.

I'm heading into large print so I will try to post in large print.  I haven't figured out templates that keep the type size like this, but I will keep looking.

January is almost over.  This is my first post of 2024.  I am wondering how many times to post, to be regular - on the same days - or just post when I have something to share.  I figure once a week is important.  Some of the people I watch for information seem to think twice a week is the key.  I suppose I can do both in some form.

We had a winter cold event over the past weekend.  

The power was out for just five and a half hours, and that was a frightening challenge.  But the internet went down for a long time - last Thursday to just a short time ago today (Tuesday).

It is a reminder that nothing is possible now without the internet.  Our lives are becoming fully dependent on it for all the different parts of our daily life.  

Not much can be accomplished without it.

When digital currency is the norm, and the microchip becomes the "wallet" for everyone, Christians will not be able to "buy and sell" to survive.  I find it very scary to be this close to the Antichrist.

I am trying to study all the Bible passages about the End Times and the Antichrist again so I can write about my perspectives better.  It has been a long time since I went through all those details and tried to understand them for myself.  I keep remembering there will be just ONE generation that passes from the time Israel reunites and (I believe) the Antichrist... problem is, I can't really remember the end of that generation event... now, today.

The idea we will be raptured out of suffering for our faith is possibly the Great Deception that is said to happen.  This means there will be a Great Falling Away of those people who believe in the Rapture as their exit plan.

I think it's going to be a very hard time in our history.

I have been praying about this for the entire time it has been known to me.  I can't figure out how it started.  But, I suppose that is the purpose of a Great Deception.

What will GOD do about this?  I hope He saves all the people I care about, and many others.

So, one of my projects this year is to find those verses and share them here.  

I hope GOD will allow me that time.

May we all find a way to gather and care for each other through our growing needs and persecutions.  We don't really know what is coming, or how we will survive it, but I think we need to keep fighting until the last moment.

That was why I chose the name Working Together.  It is about us becoming ONE BODY in Christ.

Until next post,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us 

14 DEC 2023 - prepping for 2024 - moving my efforts to this blog.

Hello to my readers.

I am developing my plans for 2024 this month.

I unpublished my PATREON pages today.  I can start them again, if that becomes a renewed effort, but I am not sure it will.  I have been at Patreon for many years and one of my sons has been my only supporter... and that ended several years ago.

I only have a senior level of energy these days.  That is what happens when you get old.  :-)  So I am going to try to focus on just ONE main posting effort for now.  If GOD allows me to prosper this year, I will try to build up my online pages and find help for Working Together.

I decided a blog would allow me to post photos, include links to places I will sell at, and be a space to share my thoughts about all the things that matter to my life and yours.

I am working on building an ART space for myself, my senior activity project, where I can share the process and try to sell what I can.

Working Together is my ongoing project for the Christian communities everywhere.  I will try to share information about our struggles as a persecuted group of people heading into the Antichrist.

I have encountered a long path of hidden attacks for most of my adult life.  I don't have the ability to overcome them myself, so I depend on GOD to do whatever is needed to help me.  I just keep going, trying to do what I can each day.

With the internet being our main option for life needs, communication, and work, we have to connect - try to connect - through it for now.  I don't know what GOD is going to do for us as we go through these next years, I just focus on what I can do.

I wish I could have done more.  It seems GOD has decided to delay all the plans I made for us... through years of prayers and efforts.  I created a plan but He needed to provide for it.  Since the Enemy seems to have prevailed, I continue to pray for GOD's Wisdom and purposes for Working Together.

I will most likely keep my ETSY and EBAY shops open so I can link to products to fund my life and work needs.

I haven't decided what to do about social media.  I was trying to focus on Twitter as that connection, but I don't like it now that it is called X.  I let Facebook go while I was trying out Twitter.  Scaling down my presence/activities online mean changes in all my online spaces.  I am still praying about what to do.

I will post here with updates.

We are so close to the Antichrist now, depending on how long it takes for digital currency to become the global norm.  It is scary.  I am over 70 years old now.  I don't know how much longer GOD will keep me alive for the work He put in my heart to do.  I wonder who will be alive at that moment the microchip becomes mandatory.  It seems to be the most obvious MARK of the Beast.

I hope to see changes for myself and my problems in 2024.  I hope we find a path that will help all of us.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us 

When I spend more than I planned to...

I went shopping yesterday.

I had a list.  I had a budget.  Then I "siezed the opportunity" to get things I needed or wanted or that had been on my "list" a long time.  And I had my "treat" meal for lunch.  Now I have to recover my budget.

It was fun!  I hardly ever spend money like that, but it seems to happen every now and then.  I don't really regret doing this, but it does require some recovery efforts.

I am hoping to make some online sales from the money I spent, which makes it an investment in my future.

Right now, though, I am working on my income goals and strategies.  I have my goal statements for the year now.  I am trying to build up my Etsy sales, increase my Patreon supporters, my check some items off my Bucket List.  I need MONEY!!!  I think all of this kind of builds up and then I go shopping with money available to spend.  :-) 

I could have spent more than I did, and that would have been a very serious problem.

Christmas is coming and I need to get some items made to sell in the season.  Every year I try to do this, and every year I seem to fail.  I hope to change that this year.

With my new venture into creating and selling artworks, This year may be different.  I can create lots of items to sell online, especially with some of the new tools and supplies I bought yesterday.

So, did I really commit a financial crime?  I don't know.  It depends on what happens now.  Once I get my items done, listed online somewhere, and sold, it may prove to be the best year yet.

I have always lamented that GOD has not provided what I seriously expected Him to provide.  Keeping my efforts within a boundary I can deal with has been the core issue.  There have been so many times GOD could have blessed my finances and efforts to build my income and Working Together's.  At this point, I am not sure what to expect.  

I still have LARGE goals, dreams, hopes... and still wait for GOD to bless my efforts.  

I really wanted to win those BILLION dollar lotteries.  I could have spent it really good.  :-)  I have been waiting all my adult life (mostly) to spend money on Working Together, Christians, and people in great need.  I have a lot of plans that just need money.  (Like everyone else, including every church or ministry.)  I still look to GOD to provide for them somehow.

I guess all we can do is keep going, keep trying, keep praying, keep hoping...  We are GOD's servants and His Plan is all that matters, even if we don't understand it.  

I am sure GOD has reasons for what He does and doesn't do.

Keep your faith in GOD, He will provide what we need to accomplish HIS Will.

In Christ,

Deborah Martin

https://work2gather.us