What's In A Name? Jeanne Curtis = Healing!

     My wife, Jeanne Grace Curtis, has a therapeutic nail salon Nails Your Way - the focus is on techniques and products that heal the damage caused by disease, physical trauma, or abuse by less competent or less careful nail salons, or damage from excessive artificial nail use.  She is a Christian Prophet, blessed with many or all of the gifts of the Spirit.  God uses her for healing - both physically and spiritually.
     As I was editing her website recently, I Googled her name to test web presence.  I knew, of course, that there would be other Jeanne Curtises.  I was astonished to find that they were all involved in some manner with healing!
     There is a Jeanne Curtis in Florida who is a massage therapist.
     There is a Jeanne Curtis in Arkansas who is a medical doctor specializing in stress reduction.
     There is a Jeanne Curtis in Arizona who specializes in skin care.
     There is a Jeanne Curtis in Oklahoma who is a dental assistant.
     There is a Jeane Curtis who is a painter whose artwork is displayed in a dedicated healing environment in a hospital.
     Jeanne has recently added the service of Spiritual Alignment to her other salon services.  If God intends to use her for healing, she is now willing to publicly acknowledge her calling.
      The name Jeanne Grace Curtis means healing!

An Open Letter to our Republican Candidates for President

Dear Potential Candidates:

We are writing this letter to share our hopes and fears with you in anticipation that you might be instrumental in fulfilling the hopes and quelling the fears. As the campaign intensifies, we beg you – please remember the following:

1. DO NOT attack each other. During the debates, during any press conferences, during any interviews… You may present your plans, views, and philosophies as the best for America, but DO NOT present the other candidates as BAD for America. They are NOT your enemy! We must have the confidence that you can all work together as a team after the election.

2. We like all of you. You are all called to represent conservative, moral, responsible values. You are all called to uphold the Constitution and protect our individual freedoms from increased Government oppression.

3. We want all of you. None of you would make a bad President. We would like to think that whoever is nominated would pick one of the others to be Vice-President. We would like to think that the others could all have some positions in the new administration. Anyone who gets that close to being President is certainly qualified for a Cabinet or Secretary position.

4. We honestly do not believe that it is possible for anyone to be a worse president than the one we have now. If Ronald Reagan was exhumed and nominated for president, we think he would be a better president than what we have now. Just prop him up in the chair and play some of his recorded speeches at the proper time.

5. Our greatest fear is that whoever is nominated will do something so foolish that they forfeit the election.

The American people are not stupid. Do not lie to us. Do not make promises impossible to fulfill. Do not exaggerate OR oversimplify – life is complicated, we will be depending on YOU to understand and direct that complexity.

Do not sink to the lowest common denominator. Rise to the occasion. You were called for such a time as this.

Rev. Harold Max Curtis
Director, Ministries For Christ, Inc.
Owner, Curtis Controls
Design Engineer, Mechadyne Machine, Inc.
Rev. Jeanne Grace Curtis
Director, Ministries For Christ, Inc.
Owner, Nails Your Way Salon

Joanne Crowe Brunson 1939-2011

Thursday, June 9, 2011.  Jeanne's sister, Joanne Crowe Brunson of Smyrna, GA, age 72, died this morning at 1:25 am of breast cancer at a hospice called Our Lady of Perpetual Help Home.  Our Lady Of Perpetual Help is run by Dominican nuns especially for terminal cancer patients.  Joanne resided at Smyrna Towers for several years and had a brief stay at Tranquility hospice care.

Joanne worshiped the Lord Jesus Christ at Locust Grove Baptist Church and in her later years at Sharon Baptist Church in Smyrna, GA.  Joanne was a loving, kind, quiet, caring and generous Christian influence all her life and she will be greatly missed by her family and friends. 

Joanne was the older sister of deceased Jane Suissa who also died of breast cancer.  Joanne was the oldest of three daughters’ of deceased Eva Jo and Vernon Crowe of Pickens County GA.  She was the wife of deceased William Eugene Brunson of Colquitt, GA.

Joanne is survived by her youngest sister Jeanne Grace Curtis and her husband Harold of Douglasville, GA and their son Eric Curtiss and wife Angela and their two children Jessica and Charles of Jonesboro, GA; a niece Terri Luczynski and her husband Stephen and their three children Hope, Stephen, and Matthew of Mount Holly, N.C.; a brother-in-law Daniel Suissa of Canton, GA

Viewing of the body is 2:00pm to 3:00pm Saturday June 11, 2011 with the funeral service held at 3:00pm June 11, 2011 in the chapel of Georgia Memorial Park 2000 Cobb Parkway SE, Marietta, GA 30060.  Rev. Brian Foster of Burnt Hickory Baptist Church officiating.  In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.

Attaboy! Greystone Power

This just a shoutout to the fine field service from Greystone Power.  Our power went out yesterday when a tree fell on the power lines up the street.  We called it in and then drove out to see what the problem was.  As we got to the stop sign at the end of the street, the Greystone trucks were already pulling in looking for the short.  By the time we turned around and drove back down the street, they had already found the tree and started work on it.

All you Georgia Power customers...  Don't you wish you lived on this side of the street?

Daily Release from Oppression and Burdens

BDOTS

Rev. Harold Max Curtis, Rev. Jeanne Grace Curtis, Ministries For Christ, Inc.

It is important to be frequently cleansed and released from the burdens that we have taken on.  Sometimes, when we have become over-burdened, our minds may become clouded and confused.  Even though we are knowledgeable of the burdens, defilements, oppressions and transferences that we are exposed to, we sometimes have difficultly remembering how to pray to be released from them.

Because of the Internet, we are always hearing “dot” something, so we put together BDOTS as a reminder acronym.  The priority is to get the prayer to God as quickly and concisely as possible – trusting Him to apply the appropriate actions to the appropriate needs.  We condensed 15 minutes worth of detailed prayers of deliverance, release, cleansing, and absolution into this one quick, easily remembered blanket prayer that can be repeated as often as necessary throughout the day after we encounter people and situations:

Father, in the Name of Jesus, we ask you to cleanse us, free us, release us from all of the:

 Burdens

Defilements

Oppressions and

Transferences that we have picked up.  Please forgive us of any

Sins we have committed.

Strengthen us, guide us and give us wisdom to carry only that which You assign to us.  Refill us with your Holy Spirit.  In Jesus’ Name.  Amen.

Is God's Job Harder Than It Used To Be?

Q: Is God’s job harder than it used to be?

My wife Jeanne is a prophet. She hears from God very clearly and easily. But she usually defers to me for the more complex theological explanations for phenomena that she just naturally detects. She asked me recently, "Is God's job harder than it used to be? I seem to feel a lag when I pray… The responses to my prayers take longer…"

The typical fundamentalist answer is, "Of course not! 'God is the same yesterday, today, and forever.' 'With God nothing is impossible…'" And they would continue quoting scriptures until you got tired and went away.

My immediate answer was, "How could it not be?"

This is closely related the the basic theological problem of Theodicy: 'How can a good and loving (by definition) God allow evil to exist. There's a lot we DO NOT know, but let's look at a few of the facts that we DO know.

God created the universe, established the laws governing the physical processes, and lets them run the way they are supposed to run. You do NOT blame God if you fall when you step off a cliff! Remember: Gravity - It's not just a good idea... It's the law!

God created the universe through the operation of the Holy Spirit. There are two aspects of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit Theos is the aspect of the Holy Spirit that operates through the spirit of the believer. When we say that 'God lives within us' we are speaking of the Holy Spirit Theos.  The Holy Spirit Materia is that sustaining controlling aspect of God’s Spirit that is in every particle of Creation.  The 'amount' of Holy Spirit has not changed.  The Holy Spirit is as infinite as God.  The Holy Spirit Materia is still present in every quantum particle or we wouldn't be here!

We don't usually think this way, but: There is no direct relation between bad events and blessings. Blessings are related to communication and relationship with God.  Blessings are related to the infinite nature of God, the Holy Spirit Theos, and the Holy Spirit Materia.

Events, however, that's a different situation entirely.

At some time God also created the angels.  After Man was created, angels were assigned functions as God's agent to accomplish His purposes on the Earth.  Remember this: Angels were created, they are not born.  There are still the same number now as there were when they were created.

In prehistoric times, there were only a few million people on the Earth.  At the time of Christ, there may have been 250 million people on the whole planet. NOW there are 7 or 8 BILLION people on the Earth.
Assume at some point that the ratio Angels to People was 1 to 1 (perhaps around the time of Christ).  The ratio now would be 1 to 50! Whatever the original number was, it is 1/50, or 2%, of that ratio now!

In contrast to relationship with God, which is related to the Holy Spirit, events may be substantially related to angel to person ratio.  In other words, management of events may be related to the workload of angels!


This is the reason for the establishment of the Church, the gradual progression of revelation and theological insight, and the increased responsibility of the individual believer.  (Christians know far more about God than Old Testament believers did and are also charged with more individual responsibility.) Unlike angel-to-person ratio, as the population increases, there is no reason that the Christian-to-population ratio can’t stay the same. (Although, at the present time, the ratio seems to be rapidly getting worse.)

If every Christian does not recognize all of the revelations of God’s power and provision, then the work just won’t get done.

Defiled Holy Act

Here's an interesting question.
If a terrorist puts a bomb in his underwear, doesn't that defile it and prevent it from being an act of holy Jihad?  Wouldn't that disqualify his martyrdom?
If anyone knows the pertinent verses from the Quran, I would be interested.