Moments with Moni

Today's guest is Mischelle Saunders-Gottsch

She is the CEO/Founder of Altered Stories Ministry and Podcast Storytelling Host of the Altered Stories Show. She is a wife to Mark, mother to her adult daughter, Tawny, Gigi to Bentley Rose, aunt, friend, speaker, ministry and business leader and is passionate about helping women to share their God stories to help women overcome their struggles.

The call on her life to help women share their inspirational God stories stems from her experience of emotional healing that resulted when sharing her childhood cult survival story with others and seeing how her story affected her and those who heard it.

Mischelle’s professional background includes a successful Senior management career in Corporate America and working for large fortune 500 companies in Senior Management roles. She also has worked for Focus on the Family and Compassion International, high profile faith-based organizations and currently does freelance Program/Project and Change Management Consulting work.

Mischelle is a graduate of Colorado Christian University and received her B.S. degree in Organizational Management in Project Management in 5/2017.

You can reach Mischelle at Altered Stories Ministries

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Kaffee Klatsch: Biblical Covenants to Revelation

Well Hello, I’m so glad you’re here!

Come on in and have a seat

The Kaffee is percolating, and the scones just came of the oven.

I’m so happy you are not allergic to nuts, because there are chocolate covered toffee chips in this recipe.

Why yes, I can send you home with a few extras for your husband, and a copy of the recipe.

First let me hang your coat up. It sure is cold out there. The winter weather advisory was right.

Thankfully you only live around the corner, so it’s shouldn’t be too hard for you get back home.

You walked??

Well, I guess that is safer than driving today. I hear there is a huge back up of cars on the highway leading up the pass at stateline, with the roads as slick as an ice skating rink. People are stuck in their cars, and some have been waiting more than 4 hours to start moving again!

Perhaps we could pray for them before we begin.

Dear Jesus, thank you so much for your faithful mercy and kindness towards us. Even through the storms in life You bring peace, as we trust you. Please continue to watch over those stuck on the road, and get them all home safely. Thank you as well for this warm home and time to fellowship with a friend. Amen

What’s that? Oh, yes, thank you for asking. I felt so badly having to ask my friends to leave last week. The water main is now fixed! I still have pots and jars filled with water that I am using up since them, rather than wasting it. Thankfully it is now fixed before the deep freeze arrived today.

So tell me, what are the questions that you had regarding the New Covenant?

Oh, I thought you had a question, no that’s great, of course you can share it with a friend.

Who is your friend. Lily, in India? And she works where? Yes, I have heard of that butterfly farm. It’s just amazing to see the butterflies swarm. I’ve seen them swarm in CA a few times, but too cold here in Idaho to see them much. The Butterfly farm in India is beautiful place to visit.

No, I haven’t been there. That’s a bit far for me to travel, but I’m happy to hear you are sharing my podcast across the ponds, and over to India. I wonder what it’s like there right now. They are in the southern Hemisphere and in a different time zone so it must be Spring there to our winter, and day to our night. I hear the “air is full of spices” there, and many are turning to believing in Jesus there as well.

I’m not sure if their churches are underground. The people seem so beautiful to me, and of course they are to Jesus and He loves them just as much as He loves us.

Update on Work in Progress: Song of Solomon Study Work Book

Book Recommendations:

• Ann H Gabhart River to Redemption. I just started reading it on my Kindle and love her voice. She reaches back into the past and gives the main character in her book a beautiful way of sharing the past. (In fact I use the same voice in one of my novels that I’m working on, which is why I recognized it right away) The story begins with a little girl who’s family dies of Chollera in the South, and she narrowly escapes death because of the kind hearted slave of an Inn owner who didn’t seem to be affected by cholera. He buried all the dead, and kept a memory record of who and where he buried them. He and another slave at the Inn, who ran the kitchen, took little Adria in to their care, and nursed her back to health and they are in search of a guardian for her before the owner of the Inn, who just returned now that things are better in town, sends Adria away to a less than ideal situation. I was hooked by the writing on page one, and only 60 pages in but thought I would recommend the book called River to Redemption to you.

• Another book recommendation on a more theological bent is Bible Prophecy Answer Book by Ron Rhodes. I have heard Ron Rhodes speak on the Janet Parschall show in the past. What I love about the book is that Ron gives you the solid prophecies of the Bible to give you the information without making your mind up for you. He leaves you digging into the Bible to find the truth for yourself.

Some of the chapters included:

• Understanding Prophecy
• Interpreting Prophecy
• Understanding the Book of Relevaton
• The Covenants and Biblical prophecy
• The Distinction between the church and Israel
• The Signs of the Times
• The Rapture
• The Second Coming
• And more chapters leading up to Death Finally Conqured

Spurgeon quote on Revelation.

How we need a Revelation of Jesus! "The great fault of many professors is that Christ is to them a character upon paper; certainly more than a myth, but yet a person of the dim past, an historical personage who lived many years ago, and id most admirable deeds, by the which we are saved...

Short Review of Revelation 7-8

Revelation Chapter 9

The Fifth Sixth and Seventh Trumpet jusdgements

A Star fell from Heaven and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

He opened the pit and smoke and locust rose to darken the sky and sting the people that were not marked. They had the sting of a scorpion the suffering lasted 5 months!

No one would die at this point although they would cry out for the rocks to fall on them and put them out of their misery, thinking that death would give them relief. However, these were those who would not repent of their wicked ways and after the body would die, they were headed for eternal suffering.

Satan always targets the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life. NOt to worry, Satan, that fallen angel will get his in Revelation 20.

Cravings, temptation, and boasting.

The Overcomers!

Song by Brad & Monika Hardy, "He Who Overcomes"

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Abrahamic Covenant Part One

Part of the Biblical Covenant Stories Series

I hope this story telling account of History and the Biblical Covenants is of help to you. I know we all have questions when it comes to life. When I was young, I was the oldest of 5 children. My youngest little sister was filled with so many questions as she grew, but the first question was why? Not just why, but why, why why why, why, why, but why and so on. It taught me patience for sure. But it also helped me understand that inquisitive nature. So, here we go again, As I attempt to answer some of the background info to the why questions to give us a better understanding of WHY God did what He did. Of course we won’t know it all this side of Heaven, but I hope it’s a good start to get you digging into the Biblical Covenants on your own.

Last time we got together and looked at the Covenants, Noah and his family were fresh off the boat, ok a really big boat, ok, an Ark!

After exiting the vehicle, God had instructed the family once again with one direction being repeated which was for them to be fruitful and multiply, for the entire earth needed repopulating.

The smell of a good BBQwas still wafting in the air including the fat from the animals that were given to God in sacrifice by Noah on an altar, revealing an obedient heart, with the rainbow overhead as a symbol of the unconditional covenant between God and mankind and all the animals.

God promised He would not flood the entire earth again. After establishing the family in the last covenant between Himself and Adam, God has now established government for mankind through the covenant with Noah. This covenant will remain in effect as long as there are rainbows. It does my heart good when I see a gorgeous double rainbow in the sky after a storm here in North Idaho. If you have any pictures of one in your area, I would love it if you would share them on the Moments with Moni facebook page. Let’s all remind each other of this promise from God.

Ok, back to the story.

Well, the beauty of the fresh new earth didn’t last that long. Fresh off the boat, Noah decided to be a farmer, and planted a vineyard. Yes, I realize there is passage of time, but in the very next verse, Noah drank that wine, and you guessed it...Noah got drunk.

Evidently there was a scandal that went on inside the tent, for the Bible reads, “Noah, drank of the wine, and was drunken, and had it happened today Ham would have been considered a journalist wanting to make headlines

Some say there may have been more going on, but many scholars believe that the scene was just what it was written as, which you can read in Genesis.

Do you remember after Adam and Eve sinned and made clothing for themselves out of fig leaves? The timeline from this Antedilluvian age to the Last Days before the coming of Christ, may make this moment look like no big deal.

But remember the standard of this world by the One who created it and all that is in it, rises above such lewdness.

After Noah woke from his drunkeness, it says that he knew what had happened.

I used to think that Noah just yelled at his son because he was mad at him. However, the Bible paints a different picture. Noah was now in his right mind, and since he was the head of the family, and now the head governing member of society, he has proclaimed blessing and cursing in this instance.

The guilty party is now proclaimed a servant to the other two sons, one of whom receives a spiritual blessing and the other a temporal one. We also read in this account of History, that Noah lived another 350 years after the flood and he died.

As the Bible continues, descendants of these three sons are mentioned. It looks like a dry read of names if at first you open your Bible to read them, but if you dig in to the meaning of these names, and catch a bit of history that is thrown in with them, it actually reveals a lot. But that is for another story. Our main take away for the Covenant series is that the earth was being repopulated rather well. All of these were the families of Noah’s generations, and the nations came out of these three sons families.

So what happens when you get together a lot of people who want to do things their own way? Well, since they all spoke the same language, they got together in their pretensious pride, and decided to not scatter across the earth and fill it, but to build a tower that reached all the way to Heaven. Pride and arrogance is strong and well in the hearts of mankind once again.

As a mom, I get the picture of a toddler who want out of the play pen so they can get back into the forbidden cookie jar, maybe even skip the jar and go straight for the hot cookie sheet coming out of the oven. Why stop at one, when you can have the whole batch. Mom would gently pick the toddler up and put them back in the play pen and distract the litt...

We've made it to the finish line of Ruth. It was the darkest days of the Judges, and to be honest, our current days are looking just as dark, maybe even as dark as the days of Noah. But not to worry, God already knows what the future holds.

We have journeyed with Naomi's family from, famine, death, tough travels, bitterness, empty handedness, kindness from strangers, hope, redemption, and a future! In the geneology of Jesus, God brings a great light through the birth of little Obed. Jesus our Kinsman Redeemer is at the end of the line of this list of "Movie Credits" at the end of the Book.

The last chapter of our lives is still being written. Even if these days look dark, even if these days look as dark as the Day's of Noah, there is still hope. There is Hope in Jesus. Our Redeemer lives. So don't give up. Keep looking up, keep looking at the finish line. There is still work for us to do here and we have hope in our hearts for the eternal future with our Fahter, with Jeus Christ in Heaven.

My hope is that you have fallen in love with His Word and more in love with Him through this Study through Ruth and dig deeper into the love letters. May you come to know your God more intimately before we meet Him soon, face to face.

Some may call this preaching to the Choir, but we are commanded, it's not a request, to comfort one another through the Word of God, because the "Choir" needs encouragement to finish strong in these last days. Who can mind the journey, when the road leads Home!

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Today's song, "Who Can Mind The Journey" by Brad & Monika Hardy

Thank you to all who have travelled along through this journey of Ruth.

Check back next week to find out the next series at Moments with Moni.

Blessings, Moni