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Mary; If U have the Hallmark channel; they are on there now. So; go ahead & watch them on there...
Kristine;
I feel for your pain & grief that you are suffering right now; & I do agree with all of the other ppl. who commented on here to your post; that we all lose our loved ones from time to time; but what would your bf think if U was to isolate yourself from the community?? He would say "Go on living; as if I was here with you in person... Dont isolate yourself from the world just becuzz I am not with you physically." If U want to email me; U can at: jeff3157@yahoo.com! He loves you; & if U love him like U say U do; then go out; worship GOD; Thank him for bringing you 2 together when he did; & the wonderful times U both had. Read his word; & pray; that U may find another man that will be as kind as he was; be as warm hearted as he was.. I know it's too soon now to do that; but someday another will come along; that GOD will bless you with; & then thank him; for what he has done for you... I know U wouldn't want to see your bf to suffer though.. I know; Correction; Fiance; right?? LOL...
God Bless you this day & Always!
Sincerely;
Jeff Gattrell From Cambridge, Ohio!
Thank you, Martha, for (again) such a timely video.
Two years ago my daughter was diagnosed with a rare and potentially very deadly cancer. Her survival was largely a result of her determination to have this small irritating bump that no one took seriously thoroughly examined and biopsied. Thus, it was caught early, and her chances increased from 50% survival to 90% survival. Following the diagnosis our whole family went into a state of shock. My husband, a man of science, turned to facts, to medical articles and experts. A good reaction, no doubt. However, I turned back to God, to a faith I had let slip unnoticed from my life in the last 10 years or so. Also a good reaction. As a result, despite the fear and anxiety and sadness, I was able to "keep it together" enough to remain present and grounded and useful to my child (and her sisters and brother) through the months of scary treatments and uncertainty.
I attribute my daughter's excellent prognosis and all the amazing, wonderful side effects of this experience to a higher power that guided us through the darkest hours and brought us to the other side. Science and facts and excellent doctors are not the antithesis to God and Faith. Instead, they work along with God to bring us answers. I am thankful to all for healing my daughter.
Hi Martha,
I am so glad and happy that your husband is well because just by the way you speak of him I can tell that you love him so very much.
MAY GOD BE WITH YOU AND YOUR FAMILY NOW AND FOR ALL TIME AS I AM SURE HE WILL!!!
Your friend,
Carol
Marhta, thank you. I hope you check these comments. Why is Touched by an Angel off the air? Is there another show like it coming?
Would love to have something nice to watch.
Dorothy, am praying for you and your son dear.
Mary
martha i have just returned to GOD!I was a heavy drinker!anyway i,ve been sober four 2 weeks now!I am much happier & i notice my 12 year old son &I are alot closer now.I give GOD the glory and praise!!!Also we are battlin cancer in our family too,by his grace and mercy they will all be healed!Let his will be done!PLEASE PRAY FOR MY FAMILY!!!!
I'M IN SUCH GRIEF I LOST MY GRANDSON-DAUGHTER-IN LAW TO VIOLENCE ON APRIL 6 .MY SON THAT WAS ALL HIS FAMILY MY HEART ACHES FOR HIM I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY WE HAVE TO HAVE SO MUCH PAIN PLEASE EVERYONE PRAY FOR US ESPECIALLY MY SON
Martha, thank you for your encouraging video. I found you through the CBN archive of videos.
I too had cancer. It was skin cancer, and some of it was removed through a VA hospital. There was some on my cheek and nose. They removed the cancer on my cheek, and wanted to schedule an operation for my nose, but the Lord spoke to me and told me to just trust Him and believe for healing. So I did. And the cancer went away. I think He wanted me to do that because the operation would have messed up my face. That's just a guess. I had seen other vets who had operations on their nose, probably for skin cancer, where it left them with much less of a nose.
I would not have been able to just trust the Lord for healing some years before He spoke to me about not having that operation. I was raised with the idea that God doesn't heal today, and went to a college level Bible School that did not promote that idea either, and then to a liberal arts Christian college that taught those kinds of things. But the Lord taught me different. He used verses in the Bible to teach me that He does heal today, and gave me understanding from Him that gave me strong confidence in that truth.
He also taught me what I needed to know to be healed of major depression, identity problems, a very low sense of self-worth, obsessive compulsive disorders, psychosomatic illnesses, suicidal tendencies, suicidal thoughts, suicidal attempts and other psychological/emotional problems. I was a mess! But the Lord taught me that He is indeed a Wonderful Counselor, and more than able to lead anyone into incredible healing and freedom. He taught me that He speaks today, that His sheep hear His voice, even to those "other sheep" that He has, John 10:16,27. He taught me that He can reveal to us what is going on in our subconscious, show us what verse or passage that can address any problem going on there, and lead us into healing in that area. He taught me so much, over about a 17 year period. He is awesome, so loving, and gentle! If anyone wants to contact me, my email address is: carlcr176@live.com
great!
Hi Martha,
I just want to let you know how much I enjoy every one of your videos! You bring inspiration to many and touch on so many subjects that there is something for everyone to relate to.
Thanks for posting these and I look forward to what you teach us in the future!
Thanks again!
Donna
Martha,
As always you were right on track. But I would like to address my comments to Will who suggested we have faith in ourselves. When we hold ourself up as an object of faith we are like a patient who doctors himself and does not get the help they need from a doctor. It is very foolish and many times a death sentence because we wait to long for help. It is the same with faith. God is the author and finisher of faith. Only He can give us the help we need to have life here in this world and eternally. In fact His word says;trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6. I pray that your faith will be focused on the author not the created being that we are, because that is our only hope for the trials, and problems of this life and our hope for peace eternally.
Hi Martha,
I recommend that all of us read the book you referred to from the beginning to the end. It will then be learned that it is a book of subjugation and not to be taken seriously.
The world will become a better place when people put the faith where it belongs. In ourselves.
Sincerely, Will
thank you for your messeges, My husband just lost his job last week.
I'm a very negative person and I will like to change my way of process information,I listen to your messages often, and I find them very inspirational. I'm a devoted Catholic and find refuge in the Lord and pray daily, but I don't read the "BOOK" often. Today after listening to your message I will find confort in the scriptures, I sure do enjoy your messages. God bless you for many years to come.
After reading the other people comments,I do think that the Lord is telling me to let go and let God, I'm one of those people that can let go, and I want to fix everything in an instant, therefore I have really high ansiety, and my health is going to get bad as a result of the tremendous stress that I put myself through, but after this messege, I will get my Book out and start a daily reading. Thank you so much, I think God was talking to me through you.
The Lord have been dealing greatly with this subject on keeping my trusting and read the instructions.
Hi Martha,
I couldn't agree with you more if I tried!!!
Kristina:
I am so sorry for what has happened to you. i came to this section to see the video and happened to read your post which I never do. I wish i could hug you in person but all I can do is to tell you how sorry I am and will pray for you. i can't explain God's will either. I am going through something on a much smaller scale where I thought God had brought me my soulmate and now, two weeks later after finally meeting him, it is over. i thought I would do the Law of Attraction/The Secret thing but I don't have the energy to will him back into my life. If God intends to allow him back, then it is His will.
That's all we have, my dear, is to Trust God. I am in pain but certainly not what you are going through. I do think that you should do as the person said before me, to take it minute by minute, hour by hour, etc. My e-mail address is pineapplegrovedelray@hotmail.com if it would help for you to communicate. I know I like to isolate myself, as well during times like these but it's best to get out and just breathe the fresh air.
My prayers go out to you.
Susie
Kristina,
I read your post and was very touched and so sad for you. Sometimes it is hard to know why bad things happen to good people -- I have been going through some hard times lately myself. I know that when you are that down it is so hard to escape from it -- but YOU CANNOT GIVE UP. You have to force yourself to get up and get through the next minute, the next hour, the next day. You can do it. You really can. I know it seems like the pain will never get better, but it will. Time is a great healer. Please hang in there -- and if you need some help, you can email me, at crobert222@aol.com.
I wish you peace and prayers,
Carolyn
Kristina ~ This life is not easy and it sure smacks us sometimes. Much of its mystery is in darkness where the tragedy occurred for your boyfriend. The injustice of it all is a heartbreak for you. I am so sorry you hurt. I am quite moved by your posting, as your struggle is palpable. I don't even know you - I don't know why suffering befalls good people - but, I do know this: that when the hard times level their harsh blow to knock us off balance and put our world sideways, we must surround ourselves by those who love us, even if we don't feel like it. You must do that. Don't isolate yourself in your pain for a long haul. Being with others will give you a light in your darkness, honey. Even if it doesn't feel right, the light is there. God is comforting you even if he feels far away. He'll meet you right where you're at. ......
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The bible is the only
true guide for living and learning.
Trust in the Word and not in the
word of mankind. God is in control,
no matter what an outcome is. Amen!
Hello Martha, I have responded before when your messages touched me deeply...they are always so great...but today I had to share a similar experience!
My husband, Gerry and I had just celebrated our 6th anniversary in April 1998 (when he was 54..the same age his parents had died at) when the 3rd stage terminal diagnosis came...prostate cancer!
We, too, were shocked and numb and thrust into the biggest fear we'd ever known. We'd survived child abuse, broken marriages and many other trials and tribulations...but this was impossible to be true! We ran back to God...with hundreds agreeing to pray for him...learning every scripture we could find on healing and protection. I lived on Psalm 91 and the Matthew 8 story of the Centurian...and on and on. We continued to share our testimonies and give God the glory...as Gerry made lifestyle and diet changes and did everything we could research to stay strong and healthy. He was painfree and continued working with me (Christy clown) as Denee the Clown in our children's entertainment business and he worked with disabled students in the school system. You'd never guess he was sick. The doctors were baffled...by their own reports not matching his condition! We knew it was a "GOD THING" (I once sang on an Edmonton TV show with Della Reece in 1975...it was a career highlight for me!)
Then after suffering with a cold during our busy Christmas clowning season 2006...Gerry began to bleed (from the bladder)...and we had no idea this would be the begginning of the final battle. We cried out to God...did everything we'd been doing for 9 years...but no healing or relief nor any more miracles came! It was faith shattering...but at the end...as our 2 daughters (his and mine) tearfully watched...we renewed our wedding vows on his deathbed on our 15th anniversary, April 18, 2007. I still waited for him to be my "Lazarus man"...but 34 hours later he took his last breath. I'd never witnessed anyone dying before...it was just like I always thought..."beam me up Scotty"!
This has been a total faith challenge...my motto "Never Give Up" has been hard to cling to. As the "woman at the well" he was my 5th husband...we'd survived so much...we felt "safe" with each other and we'd become "one" ...giving God the Glory at every opportunity! We wore matching wedding bands with 3 small diamonds...which I claimed represented Gerry and Jana with "Jesus in the middle"! We counted ourselves as "walking miracles" in so many ways.
Now the "story" had such an unhappy ending! (for me!() but for Gerry it must be the ultimate healing...victory beyond my understanding.
There are no human answers ...since here we look through the glass darkly! And although this has been the most difficult 2 years and 4 months of my 69 years... as I have cried out to God almost constantly...but like Job...I end up agreing that "though he slay me ...yet will I trust him".
I suppose I have some "God assignments" left to accomplish...like writing a grief book, finishing our 2 testimony books and the children's CD which was completed Dec. 08 and dedicated to Gerry (he had recorded 2 tracks in 2006 so he's part of the project)...or does God really need me to do ANYTHING but trust His Word...which is in THAT BOOK...on your shelf and mine?
YOu remind me in today's message that we have to trust HIM ...EVEN when the outcome is not the one we'd prayed for. We do not have the vision to see the "bigger picture".
I am thankful for you and your husband and children...that you came through the prostate cancer challenge exactly as you'd hoped and prayed for. And that God allowed Gerry another 9 years...7 more than any doctor believed was possible. I still believe in miracles and am hanging on for the next one.
Thank you for being such an inspiration on my journey.
Jana Lapel living in Edmonton, Ab. Cn. (Iowa born/Chicago launched)
Martha ,
this is my first day so this will be short someone must have sent me this i am only signed up for joel osteen excuse the errors i am in so much grief i haven't slept or barely eaten in about 13 days. Long story short my fiance died unexpectadly the day after Easter they say they had added a medication that did not mix with his sleeping meds (just on him) never happened before They put accidental overdose on perscription meds--- he was 44 and i am 37 we had fallen in love about 8 yrs ago and due to circumstances lost touuch ( we are both singer songwriters and both of our careers were taking off and us both being devout christians believed if this is what we think it is and that we are soul mates God will bring us back together.....he was also going through a divorce and had just stopped drinking i felt as though with a new baby although they only married due to that he should give it a chance sober (she was mentally and physically abusive to him and didn't support his music at all, which some was christian rock he is so gifted!!!!!! a while back i found out through him looking for me for years , because right away they divorced the abuse was more than he could take he would never hit a woman so he just would try to block her punches and the telephone to the temple, well he found me on my myspace page and left me many messages hoping i would check it, i had gotten sick, fibromyalgia and had to come off the road a while to rest and get it under control, i did not know the page was still up so he looked for years about 4 one day in the ER a nurse said to me i googled you and your myspace came up and i love your music.....i did not even know it was up anymore when i stopped touring i thought they took it down to hide from fans i was sick so i went home and checked it ....he was so happy and we were like time had never passed oh and when i sent him a msg he replied in 5 min he had been checking it all the time for all those years we started slow on the phone but quickly wanted to see eachother and we were so in love we dated about 6 months and he proposed he died the next day, and i don't believe in suicide but i can't understand how god could put us together again make us so happy we made so many plans and he planned to propose on easter or he would have sooner and now he is gone and i can't handle it i sob 24/7 no sleep no real food and don't think i can go on!!!! it's been a little more than what 2 weeks? i don't even know i just know that my faith is shaken to the core and i really have no desire to go on i just cant i can't get a hold of myself i loved him more than anything and he me he has written some of the most amazing songs about how he felt and i just can't stop this hole inside me for anything and i can't keep going like this i cant!!!!please tell me how god could do this to us and what i am supposed to do because right now i just dont want to see another day........he was my everything!!!!!! my whole world we had combined our music too so i have nothing without him !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kristina
Martha, once again you have given me such encouragement. I just wanted you to know that I look forward to your videos because they seem to get right to the heart of what I need to hear. Thanks again and please remember you have touched my life and I'm sure the lives of many others. We love and appreciate you very much. You and yours are in my prayers. See you soon. Debbie
GOD BLESS.
Martha, God Bless You. You are such a insperation to me . I look forward to your viedos everyday. You put me a lot in my mine about myself. Yoy always turn to GOD for everything. I turn to GOD when I am happy and give Thanks and I turn to GOD when things are not going well , for Strength. I donot know how anyone gets through everyday life without GOD. We have to pray for lost souls. Keep up your wonderful work for our LORD and SAVIOR.
Brenda Moore
Dear Martha:
I love your videos because they are very encouraging and hit the mark every time I sit to watch them. Congratulations on your work and keep doing it because you help a lot of people with your uplifting views of what goes on everybody's life! Thanks and May god bless you! Alma
I didn't realize this was a Bible or Christian list, since I am not a christian, plese remove me from your list. Thank you
David
HI MARTHA MY NAME IS RUBEN AND IM GOING THROUGH A HORRIBLE TRIAL IN IN MY LIFE RIGHT NOW. YOUR WORDS AND YOUR VIDEOS ARE SO ENCOURAGING, BUT EVERYTIME I LISTEN TO THEM IT BRINGS TEARS AND HURT BECAUSE MY WIFE HAS LEFT ME AND OUR CHILDREN. I TAER UP SO BAD BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU SAY THE RIGHT WORDS AND I JUST CANT HOLD THEM IN, ITS BEEN ROUGH AND I MISS MY WIFE DEARLY, I HAVE HAD A PAST WHERE I WASN'T PERFECT. WE HAVE THREE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN, AND MY WORST NIGHTMARE HAS COME TRUE, THEY DON'T HAVE DADDY AND MOMMY TOGATHER IT HURTS ME DEEPLY, I HAVE TO PUT MY FAITH IN OUR LORD HEAVENLY FATHER BECAUSE I KNOW HA HAS SOME KIND OF PLAN FOR US. THANK YOU FOR HAVING YOUR SITE ITS LIKE MY GET AWAY, OF COURSE NEXT TO THE BIBLE BUT YOU GIVE SOME PEACE OF MIND Y YOUR WORDS, SO THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART.
Greetings from Colorado!
I met you in Denver a few years ago at a "Christians in Media" conference. I would so like to send you a personal e-mail, but don't know how.
If you read this, please respond offline.
Thank you for your postings. I love your comments and insights. They make my day!
In Him,
Sue Summers
For the past several months, I have enjoyed watching your weekly messages. In the past two weeks, I have been unable to get the latest message on my computer. Have you upgraded your system, so that my older software is unable to read it anymore? I do miss the practical uplift your videos provide and hope my difficulties will be resolved.
Thank you for your assistance.
Since the murder of my 2 year old granddaughter your words have encouraged me and given me hope thru the grief and depression. Thank you for sharing. I agree with the need for the written closed caption on your videos. Many times I've wanted to read it so I could write parts of it to encourage me thru the day but I can't write fast enough during the video. Thank you again. You're truly a blessing. Lynn
Hello Mrs. Martha I'm glad to know you can admit to your short comings and share them with others it shows your readers that you look to the right book for your instructions while here on earth. We love love and respect you for that and GOD can continue to get the glory HE put in you out of you to share with others I pray your husband live a very healthy long life with you right there cheering him on. May GOD bless you all and keep you is my prayer be blessed ! ! !
Martha,
I absolutely love your videos. So inspiring and so helpful and so encouraging.
When I was diagnosed with breast cancer, one of the books that the PA at my doctor's office included in the beautiful pink sack of information was Breast Cancer for Dummies. One of the most valuable books that helped me get through all the topsy turvey, roller coaster ride my husband and I were going to embark on. One never knows how life can change in such an instance.
The Bible has also been on my bookshelves. Being a minister, I even have a copy of the Greek New Testament and a companion interpretation. The Bible I treasure the most is one that I received at my ordination. What I have found out through the many challenges in my life is that the Bible provides whatever I need to get through. The Bible, the instruction manual, as one person put it years ago, The Manufacturer's Handbook, is always one of the staples of my life.
I am glad that your husband is okay and healthy. I am currently after almost three years, looking at either a new cancer or a recurrence of breast cancer. No book for Dummies can ever prepare a person for that news. Knowing the Bible is there, the messages of the Psalms of comfort and hope are there will help me get through. Knowing the Author and the Finisher of My Faith will also get me through.
Why is a frequent question asked. Not sure that there is ever a why to our questions for lots of reasons. Perhaps if we knew the why we couldn't handle it anyway. The why but Who is the the question to know the answer to. That is what gets us through when everything makes does not make sense.
Your divine inspiration and your words of grace and love are such a ministry. Please never give it up. You are indeed needed in this world, not only my world but the world in general.
Thanks for being there. You seem like my next door neighbor.
Jan Koelsch
Hi Martha
Please add close captioned to the bottom of your videos so we, the deaf can read and understand about everything you said.
With gratitude,
Kathleen
Thank you very much for the encouraging videos, I, too, read my Bible dailey, I'm an Alcoholic and addict and since I hit bottom twice, once when I stopped speed, then when I stopped the speed, I began to drink again, thus hitting my second bottom, both time I couldn't have made it back if it weren't fpr my crying out to the Lord, when I was broken and couldn't take care of myself any longer. I honestly believe that Jesus Christ came into my heart and has gently but steadily taught me how to pray, what to pray for, to read the Bible on a daily basis. I'm 21months clean and sober, 40 pounds lighter, much happier,woman, my walk with my Lord and Saviior is so awesome, my three grown children and I are cloder than we've ever been, we all live within 5 miles radius, my family now numbers as follows; 3 children, 4 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. God showers me with blessings on a daily basis.
Everyday I walk to work after I have read my Bible, I think about what I read that morning and I sort of digest it through the day, for instance, the tenth of April, 2008, I read how God wanted His people to do the different sacrifices, at the end of each sacrifice it would say,"and let the aroma be pleasing to the Lord>" That was an easy lesson, God loves BBQ, it says so in the Bible, and my Granddaughter was born, Erin Danae Baldwin, I always think of the two together. Again thank you somuch for your talent.
Martha, your encouraging chats are so appealing that I am drawn to read/watch them first, though they are surrounded by a 'zillion' other e-mails in my inbox. Thank you for your honest and down-to-earth approach to life's challenges, for not being afraid to mention your faith in our loving Savior and God, and for your gentle sense of humor so innate to your personality. Your beautiful daughters are blessed to have such a precious mother. I am 75yr. old, widowed 2years, the mother of seven, the grandmother of 28, and the great-grandmother of 13. They are my treasure from our loving God. Martha, keep on with these chats --- they are so appreciated.
P.S. I really LOVED your mom's request for Stars and Stripes Forever at the end of her memorial service --- since my senior year in high school (1949/50) I've been a fan of Sousa's marches, because I was an ROTC "sponsor" (one girl for each company) and marched with the boys while the band played those stirring songs. That was before girls were allowed to be in regular ROTC. Bobbie
Hi Martha I know what that book is too, I really try and read it every day.
I know some times in are lives we really have to trust are wonderful God
Its very hard doing that but we all have to try and let go let God. He is my
best friend and the one who has seen me through so many things . Martha Thanks
for the touch of encouragement ,and shareing your life and tribulations with so
many different people. What a gift you have!!!!!!!!!!!!.God Bless You Always
Angie Toelle
Martha, I too, look forward to your video every Tuesday and Friday. Some how you manage to discuss a subject that touches us, and bring us to the knowledge that God is the Master of all. I remember when I was very young and faced a diagnosis of Breast Cancer. I was so scared, and in 1973 there wasn't much out there to read. We lived at an Air Force Base in Upper Michigan. I was so lucky to have a young surgeon who knew the most up-to-date information. The "Subject" for Dummies was not out then, so we had to rely on the information the Doctor gave me. This was before Betty Ford was diagnosed with Breast Cancer, which brought this scary illness to the world's attention. But I was so fortunate to have excellent care, a supportive husband, and a best friend who helped me through it. I did not know the Lord as well then, as I do now. It was a time that He carried me, and I did not know it then. Isn't it wonderful that He knows what we need, and directs us to something or someone who helps us through, even though it may take years before we thank Him. What a wonderful Lord we have. Thanks for taking time to make your videos that touch the heart of someone out here in the world, bringing us to the knowledge that we can turn to the Book of all Books for the answers to our concerns and worries.
Thank you so much for all your videos. I so look forward to receiving the notifications in my inbox! They are always right on target and touch the heart. Of course, you are the Queen of Touching the Heart!! Thank you for making a difference in our world -- in my world.
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