Confession of a Woman 7/27/2014

My Fellow Women,
Let us come to together in one voice,
As if we have no choice,
Together let us rejoice,
In Thy Father who made us,
Who saved us,
When they tried to break us.

Ladies, listen.... can you not feel Him?
Seek Him?
Release your pain unto Him and he shall receive it gladly,
These times are worst than they have ever been,
Seek not to fall into temptation...

And do not get me started on these good for nothing men,
But just listen...
Women of God, whom I call my sisters...
An imperfect woman as I,
Who was spit upon, persecuted, and rejected from all sides,
Was saved, repaired, and given new life from Thy Father.

So that I must go out unto the world,
And serve my purpose unto Him,
Lead the women and nurture Thy children.
Keep peace among us whom are torn apart,
Let no man in whom doesn't possess the key from the start.

For I am an example, I am a witness,
My life has not been one of utter blissfulness,
But I have been blessed, yes I have been Chosen,
Bearing the birthmark of the Cross,
My sacrifice and path has been determined.

Be not afraid of man, but fear the Lord,
It is He who shall make judgment upon your soul,
How long have I yearned just to be truly loved?
Oh, how Satan has led me astray,
But God sent a guardian angel to guide and protect me from my mistakes.

Sometimes if feels as if I cannot face the day,
But the Lord has shown me that I must marry in Him,
He has shown me the way...
How I can relate to Mary of Magdelene.
For what man can hinder me now?
What man can hurt me or knock me down?
There is not one,
Thy will be done,
Thank you Jesus for believing in me that much,
For what has been done cannot be undone,
So now only in Him do I put my trust,
Yes, prepare me for Salvation Lord,
You have healed me,
Thus I will serve thee for the rest of my days gladly.
Amen.
-Wise Owl Lady

The Epistle of Paul, the Apostle, to the GALATIANS CHAPTER I

PAUL, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, 
but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who 
raised him from the dead;)
2 And all the brethren which are with me, unto 
the churches of Galatia:
3 Grace be to you, and peace from God the Father,
and from our Lord Jesus Christ,
4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might 
deliver us from the present evil world, according 
to the will of God and our Father:
5 To whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen. 
6 I marvel that ye are so soon removed from 
him that called you into the grace of Christ, unto 
another gospel:
7 Which is not another; but there be some that 
trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ. 
8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach 
any other gospel unto you than that which we have 
preached unto you, let him be accursed. 
9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any 
man preach any other gospel unto you than that 
ye have received, let him be accursed. 
10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do
I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I 
should not be the servant of Christ. 
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel 
which was preached of me is not after man:
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was 
I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. 
13 For ye have heard of my conversation in time 
past in the Jews' religion, how that beyond measure 
I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it;
14 And profited in the Jews' religion above many 
my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly 
zealous of the traditions of my fathers. 
15 But when it pleased God, who separated me
from my mother's womb, and called me by his grace, 
16 To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach 
him among the heathen; immediately I conferred 
not with flesh and blood:
17 Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which 
were apostles before me: but I went into Arabia, 
and returned again unto Damascus. 
18 Then after three years, I went up to Jerusalem 
to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days. 
19 But other of the apostles saw I none, save 
James the Lord's brother. 
20 Now the things which I write unto you, behold, 
before God, I lie not. 
21 Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria 
and Cilicia:
22 And was unknown by face unto the churches of 
Judea which were in Christ:
23 But they had heard only, That he which persecuted 
us in times past, now preacheth the faith 
which once he destroyed. 
24 And they glorified God in me. 

Do it Right by Wise Owl Lady 7/20/2014

 There is this pain within my heart that does not seem to subside, 
There is a sorrow that washes against my soul like a rough tide...
Sometimes I sit there and I just cry,
As much as I try, nothing ever seems to turn out right...

I feel your heart reaching out to me, 
I try and run, but this time I have found that I am stuck. 
Somehow I love the way your fingers intertwine with mine, 
The sound of your voice, our minds coincide. 
Perhaps it is the look in your eyes, 
This must be the right time...

No longer do I want to hide, 
Or choose the darkness over promising new light;
Can you truly love a woman as I?
Can you understand that this woman has died,
And found new life within Christ?

Could you understand my greatest weakness, 
Has been also been my greatest strength?
Could you wipe these tears, 
And tame this wild dame?
Could you run free with my spirit?
Would you be able to sustain my pain?

If I give you all of me,
Would you give me all of you?
Could you make it so that I would never have to choose?
That I would never have to love a man again, only to lose?

What must I do to prove to you?
Can you come and dance with me in my storms too?
Maybe then I could reveal my love for you.
Can I include you in my dreams and show you the visions that I see?
Perhaps you could be the one that saves me from drowning in the deep. 
Or even fight alongside with me, 
I as your queen and you as my king. 

Everything changes, and nothing does, 
This time I will not run. 
I see you on the other side of the looking glass, 
I refuse to turn and look back at my past...
There is my future shining bright ahead of me, 
Yet, now you are part of the reflection that I see. 
You have to understand the will of a determined woman. 
Fate has spun our webs and placed us in each other's paths, 
I refuse to let you go, A black widow's pride, 
But by the Lord's will, this time I will do it right. 

-Wise Owl Lady 

II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER XIII.

THIS is the third time I am coming to you: In
the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every 
word be established.
2 I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were 
present, the second time; and being absent now I 
write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to 
all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare: 
3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, 
which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.
4 For though he was crucified through weakness, 
yet he liveth by the power of God. For we also 
are weak in him, but we shall live with him by the 
power of God toward you. 
5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the 
faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your 
own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except 
ye be reprobates? 
6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not 
reprobates. 
7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that 
we should appear approved, but that ye should do 
that which is honest, though we be as reprobates. 
8 For we can do nothing against the truth, but 
for the truth. 
9 For we are glad, when we are weak, and ye are 
strong: and this also we wish, even your perfection. 
10 Therefore I write these things being absent,
lest being present I should use sharpness, according 
to the power which the Lord hath given me to 
edification, and not to destruction. 
11 Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfect, be of 
good comfort, be of one mind, live in peace; and 
the God of love and peace shall be with you. 
12 Greet one another with an holy kiss. 
13 All the saints salute you.
14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the 
love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, 
be with you all. Amen. 

[The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.]

II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER XII.

IT is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I 
will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 
2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years 
ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether 
out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such 
an one caught up to the third heaven. 
3 And I knew such a man, (whether in body, 
or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)
4 How that he was caught up into paradise, and 
heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for 
a man to utter.
5 Of such an one will I glory: yet of myself I 
will not glory, but in my infirmities.
6 For though I would desire to glory, I shall not 
be a fool; for I will say the truth; but now I forbear,
lest any man should think of me above that which 
he seeth me to be, or that he heareth of me. 
7 And lest I should be exalted above measure 
through the abundance of the revelations, there was 
given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan
to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. 
8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that 
it might depart from me. 
9 And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for 
thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. 
Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my 
infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. 
10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches,
in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses
for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. 
11 I am become a fool in glorying; ye have compelled 
me: for I ought to have been commended of 
you: for in nothing am I behind the very chiefest
apostles, though I be nothing. 
12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought 
among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, 
and mighty deeds. 
13 For what is it wherein ye were inferior to 
other churches, except it be that I myself was not
burdensome to you? forgive me this wrong. 
14 Behold, the third time I am ready to come to you;
and I will not be burdensome to you: for I seek
not yours, but you. For the children ought not to lay
up for the parents, but the parents for the children
15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent 
for you; though the more abundantly I love you, 
the less I be loved. 
16 But be it so, I did not burden you: nevertheless,
being crafty, I caught you with guile. 
17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them 
whom I sent unto you?
18 I desired Titus, and with him I sent a brother. 
Did Titus make a gain of you? walked we not in
the same spirit? walked we not in the same steps?
19 Again, think ye that we excuse ourselves 
unto you? we speak before God in Christ: but we
do all things, dearly beloved, for your edifying.
20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find 
you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto 
you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, 
envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, 
swellings, tumults: 
21 And lest, when I come again, my God will
humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many
which have sinned already, and have not repented 
of the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, 
which they have committed.  

II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER XI

WOULD to God ye could bear with me a little 
in my folly: and indeed bear with me. 
2 For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy:
for I have espoused you to one husband, that 
I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ. 
3 But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled
Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should 
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ. 
4 For if he that cometh preacheth another 
Jesus, whom we have not preached, or if ye receive 
another spirit, which ye have not received, 
or another gospel, which ye have not accepted, ye 
might well bear with him. 
5 For I suppose I was not a whit behind the 
very chiefest apostles. 
6 But though I be rude in speech, yet not in 
knowledge; but we have been thoroughly made 
manifest among you in all things. 
7 Have I committed an offence in abasing myself 
that ye might be exalted, because I have 
preached to you the gospel of God freely? 
8 I robbed other churches, taking wages of them,
to do you service. 
9 And when I was present with you and wanted, 
I was chargeable to no man: for that which was 
lacking to me the brethren which came from Macedonia
supplied: and in all things I have kept myself 
from being burdensome unto you, and so will I 
keep myself.
10 As the truth of Christ is in me, no man shall 
stop me of this boasting in the regions of Achaia. 
11 Wherefore? because I love you not? God 
knoweth. 
12 But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut 
off occasion from them which desire occasion; that 
wherein they glory, they may be found even as we. 
13 For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, 
transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. 
14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed 
into an angel of light. 
15 Therefore it is no great thing if his ministers 
also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness;
whose end shall be according to their works. 
16 I say again, Let no man think me a fool; if 
otherwise, yet as a fool receive me, that I may 
boast myself a little. 
17 That which I speak, I speak it not after the 
Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of 
boasting. 
18 Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will 
glory also. 
19 for ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are 
wise. 
20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, 
if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man
exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face. 
21 I speak as concerning reproach, as though we 
had been weak. Howbeit, whereinsoever any is 
bold, (I speak foolishly) I am bold also. 
22 Are they Hebrews? so am I. Are they Israelites?
so am I. Are they the seed of Abraham? so am I. 
23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a 
fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes
above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft. 
24 Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes
save one.
25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I 
stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night an a 
day I have been in the deep;
26 In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in
perils of robbers, in perils by mine own countrymen,
in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in
perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea, in perils 
among false brethren;
27 In weariness and painfulness, in watchings 
often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold 
and nakedness. 
28 Besides those things that are without, that which 
cometh upon me daily, the care of all the churches. 
29 Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is offended, 
and I burn not? 
30 If I must needs glory, I will glory of the 
things which concern mine infirmities. 
31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, 
which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie
not. 
32 In Damascus the governor under Aretas the
king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, 
desirous to apprehend me: 
33 And through a window in a basket was I let 
down by the wall, and escaped his hands. 

II CORINTHIANS CHAPTER X.

NOW I Paul myself beseech you, by the meekness 
and gentleness of Christ, who in presence 
am base among you, being absent am bold 
toward you:
2 But I beseech you, that I may not be bold 
when I am present with that confidence, wherewith
I think to be bold against some, which think of 
us as if we walked according to the flesh. 
3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not 
war after the flesh:
4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not 
carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling 
down of strong holds;)
5 Casting down imaginations, and every high 
thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of 
God, and bringing into captivity every thought to 
the obedience of Christ; 
6 And having in a readiness to revenge all 
disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled. 
7 Do ye look on things after the outward appearance?
If any man trust to himself that he is 
Christ's, let him of himself think this again,
that, as he is Christ's, even so are we Christ's. 
8 For though I should boast somewhat more of
our authority, which the Lord hath given us for 
edification, and not for your destruction, I should 
not be ashamed: 
9 That I may not seem as if I would terrify you 
by letters. 
10 For his letters (say they) are weighty and 
powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his 
speech contemptible. 
11 Let such an one think this, that such as we 
are in word by letters when we are absent, such 
will we be  also in deed when we are present. 
12 For we dare not make ourselves of the number, 
or compare ourselves with some that commend 
themselves: but they, measuring themselves by 
themselves, and comparing themselves among
themselves, are not wise. 
13 But we will not boast of things without our 
measure, but according to the measure of the rule
which God hath distributed to us, a measure to 
reach even unto you. 
14 For we stretch not ourselves beyond our 
measure, as though we reached not unto you; for 
we are come as far as to you also in preaching the 
gospel of Christ:
15 Not boasting of things without our measure,
that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, 
when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged
by you, according to our rule abundantly. 
16 To preach the gospel in the regions beyond 
you, and not to boast in another man's line of 
things made ready to our hand. 
17 But he he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. 
18 For not he that commendeth himself is 
approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.