The Mona Lisa is a Finished Masterpiece

 

When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished” and He bowed His head. He grave up His Spirit. John 19:30

Imagine looking at Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre museum. Would you think of adding more brush strokes to it? Of course not! It was done by a master, so what could you possibly add to the painting to improve it?

In the same way, that is how we are to look at Jesus’ work on the cross. He cried out, “It is finished!” You cannot add to a completed work. You cannot add to a finished work. Our salvation is won. Our sins are all forgiven. We are made forever righteous by the blood.  Christ paid completely and perfectly for our total forgiveness, righteousness and every blessing. EVERY BLESSING!

These three words, “It is finished,” come from one Greek word teleo. In  Jesus day, a servant would use it when reporting to his master: “I have completed the work assigned to me.” (John 17:4) The word means, “It is finished, it stands finished,  and it will always be finished!” The most significant meaning of teleo is how it is used by merchants: The debt is paid in full!” When Jesus gave Himself on the cross, He completely met the righteous demands of the law. He paid our debts in full!

Today, it is NOT our works that will bring us the blessings. It is Christ’s finished works. Christian living is not about doing, but BELIEVING in His finished work. Under the law, we must do. Under grace, it is finished. We are now living in HIS grace.

Maybe you are faced with a sickness or something else today. Jesus promises, “It is finished!” You are not ‘GOING’ to be delivered because you have ALREADY been healed and delivered. God healed you 2,000 years ago! Isaiah 53:5 says, “By HIS stripes you are healed!” You already have it all. Rest in His finished work, believe, and it will manifest.

The work is finished, the victory is won. Our enemies have been defeated.  Our blessings have been bought by His blood! Live life KNOWING there is nothing for you to do.

Only BELIEVE!

It is finished!

(Some quotes taken from Joseph Prince teaching.)

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I USED TO BE PRO-CHOICE

I used to be Pro Choice.  I even voted to fund abortions before I began to understand and know the real ramifications of what Abortion really is and what it does, (ends a life) and before I became a Christian.

Many of you who read my blogs, know that I myself had 3 abortions. I have 3 children in heaven and one day I will be reunited with them.

When I was 16 years old I was raped for the first time. I seldom talk about this rape, it was a friend of a gentleman I was dating.  We all were out at a dance club and my boyfriend at the time was the DJ.  A couple of his friends came and sat with me and my friends that night. ‘Date rape drugs’ were just being talked about, though they had been around for a while, we really were ignorant of them.  They are horrible. The remainder of the evening is still etched on my mind. I remember being led to his car and to sitting in a café. I must have been given more of the drug or it kicked in stronger because I then could not even move. I then remember being driven to his home, though I could not tell you where it was.    I was led with assistance into a bedroom that had a mattress on the floor where I was raped. I did not know why at the time that I could not move or talk and only the next day did it dawn on me what really had happened to me. This evil man told my boyfriend that I had sex with him and my boyfriend of course thought I was the most horrible person. I never told him what happened. I never spoke of that night again until I was in my 30’s.  At the time, I felt like it was my fault, and perhaps had I not been vulnerable to this evil, I could have prevented it. I of course no longer believe that lie. These men prey on vulnerable women and men and take advantage.

In College I was involved in a very unhealthy relationship which I felt was all I deserved. Rape often lies to a woman about her worth. After college, I went out with another man who was very prominent in our community.  I realized he was very unhealthy and not someone I wanted to continue to date, but that was not acceptable to him. Long story short, he broke into my home on 5 separate occasions and raped me at Gunpoint. I became pregnant and terminated that baby. I was prochoice at the time. It was a blob of tissue I was told.  I was pregnant from an evil man, why would I do anything else? Though no one ever counseled me that I could carry that baby and choose another family to raise that baby.  I was only told that abortion would solve my problem. My heart truly changed for the worse that day, I was hard already but anything that resembled a gentle woman was destroyed in that act. It is said a women can never abort her baby unless she herself has been ‘aborted’ in some way in her life. Abuse, rejection and other factors often change a woman’s heart to the point where she can then take the life of her own child. We have a lot of hurting people in our world.

I never felt worthy of having a good man in my life, even though I know that God brought some amazing men into my life, one in particular.  I never could commit to a healthy relationship. Inside I knew the horrible things I had done. It caused me to take the life of two more of my children from another unhealthy relationship.

I look at the women who march at the women’s march, and see a lot of hurting hard, hard hearts. I see women who have been given permission now to be as foolish and evil as I have ever seen.

When I gave my life to Christ, I was living with a man. The day after giving my life to Christ my heart had changed to where I knew I could no longer have sexual relations outside marriage. I told him we could no longer sleep together and the following day,  I told him he needed to move out. Two weeks later I found myself pregnant again. Being new in my walk with the Lord, I thought if the church I was attending knew that I was pregnant they would not allow me to come and meet with the Jesus I had just met and fell madly in love with. So I found myself listening to the lies and terminating my third child.

This abortion nearly destroyed me. Again it was my choice to terminate the life of my children, but not once did anyone ever say I had other choices. I was never told there was support for single moms, that I could choose another family to raise my children. Never did it even cross my mind. Abortion is legal, I thought that was what I must do.

It took me some time to allow the forgiveness of God to enter my heart. It took years for me to forgive myself. The love and grace of Jesus Christ began to heal the wounds and the hard heart that I had. I had to renew my mind to the truths of God. Who HE says I am, and what I have as a believer. I had so much religious teachings to overcome as well as the worlds and Satan. I spent 12 hours a day in the Word of God.  You see, my body had become physically ill at that time as well.

 I am profoundly, abundantly, pro-woman, pro-family, PRO-LIFE.

I am a pro-life speaker and advocate for the unborn and their mothers and fathers. Abortion effects everyone around it. A grandma, aunt, sister, cousin, a community!

Abortion has cost our nation billions and billions of dollars. One of the things we see in those who have terminated a child, is increased drug abuse, alcohol abuse, anger, promiscuity, trauma, depression and making bad choices in many areas of their life.

If you are still pro-choice, I encourage you to ask yourself, “WHY?”

Why would I make a choice to terminate the life of my own child, the life of the child your girlfriend, one night stand or wife is carrying. We know with technology now that it is a child, it has everything at around 7 weeks. Your babies heart is beating, it has feelings and there are thousands actually millions of couples who would gladly raise your child for you.  (there are 2 million families in the U.S waiting to adopt any child)

There is support and help at the over 2000 Pregnancy Centers across the nation.

You can choose life, and still fulfill all your dreams and finish college and have a beautiful life. Don’t believe the lie that you can’t and will not. Actually studies show that abortion effects the lives of the majority so profoundly that it effects your future in a negative way. These pregnancy centers never tell a woman what to do, but educate her on all her options as she makes a decision that will effect her for the rest of her life. These centers will be there for her and the baby dad & the baby if they choose to carry to term, for as long as they need them, offering support and after abortion care if they make that choice and need healing.

God can make a way when you think there is no way!

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It Is Finished ~ Happy New Year

 

JESUS SAID
Not Connie, not your Pastor, not the press.

Jesus said “It is finished” He didn’t add a “but” any where in this statement.
He wanted us to know that He didn’t do a partial work when He paid the price for all our sins. He didn’t say I came and did some of the work and now you need to do work. Did HE leave us with things to do? Yes. But not works for our salvation. Not works for our healing, health, prosperity, forgiveness and freedom. The works HE left for us were for others. To heal the sick. preach the Gospel, raise the dead, open blind eyes.
Healing is for us to do. Health is for us to have as our inheritance.

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The Greek word translated “it is finished” is tetelestai, an accounting term that means “paid in full.” When Jesus uttered those words, He was declaring the debt owed to His Father was wiped away completely and forever. Not that Jesus wiped away any debt that He owed to the Father; rather, Jesus eliminated the debt owed by mankind—the debt of sin.

Thank You Jesus.

Many of us forget that also the power of sin and the power of Satan were finished. No longer do we have to suffer the “flaming arrows of Satan.” (Ephesians 6:16). Many Prayers and teachings of the Church are still giving Satan power and often even more power than Christ. Christ paid the price and defeated Satan. Satan no longer has power to mess with us. The only thing he has is LIES and DECEPTION. Seems many, including myself, are believing his lies at times and fall into his deceptive ways way too often. Again, I am not excluded in that. I find myself believing his lies at times myself. Thankfully they are not at often as they used to be and are not as long-lived. Filling ourselves with GOD’S TRUTH’S helps to fight the lies of Satan.

So we have an enemy? Yes. Can he do whatever he wants with us, causing sickness and disease, disasters or trials? Only if you believe his lies and deceptions. You are healed, prospered, forgiven and set free. you have power and authority because what HE did. You have the power of Jesus Christ living in you to raise the dead and heal the sick. to open blind eyes and live this amazing life here and NOW.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.          John 8:32

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, (healed, prospered, forgiven, set-free) and shall go in and out, and find pasture.  The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:9-10

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MERRY CHRISTmas

May you celebrate the amazing inheritance that you now have because of HIS birth.
Wishing all of you a wonderful Christmas as you rejoice in the Birth of Our Lord. May you have the time to get to KNOW Him even more in this coming year.
Thanking all of you who support the Ministry of CSWMI-  Connie Weiskopf Ministries.
May all the mountains in your life be moved this year.
~ B E L I E V E ~

In His love and grace and mine

Connie Schlepp Weiskopf

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WHY I AM ABUNDANTLY PRO-LIFE

I am now about 9-10 weeks old in my mommy’s womb. I have fingers and toes, all my organs and a heartbeat. My mommy’s breasts are tender now because she is preparing to be able to breast feed me and pretty soon she will be able to feel me.

I am pro-life because the science of embryology establishes that from the earliest stages of development, you were a distinct, living and whole human being. You weren’t part of another human being like skin cells on the back of my hand; you were already a whole living member of the human family even though you had yet to mature.

“There is no essential difference between the embryo you once were and the adult you are today that somehow justifies killing you at that earlier stage of development. Differences of size, level of development, environment and degree of dependency are not good reasons for saying you could be killed then, but not now.

Taken from Focus On the Family article By Scott Klusendorf

~I AM ABUNDANTLY PRO-LIFE~

~BECAUSE GOD IS~

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AMAZING GRACE

HIS AMAZING GRACE

 In the English New Testament the word “grace” is always a translation of (charis), a word that occurs in the Greek text over 170 times.

CHARIS  =  GRACE

Salvation by grace in the New Testament is opposed to an Old Testament doctrine of salvation by works.

2 Peter 1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

Titus 2:11   For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

 Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Justified = To pronounce free from guilt or blame; to declare or prove to have done that which is just, right, proper, etc.; to absolve; to exonerate; to clear.To take oath to the ownership of property.

You cannot earn anything by your works. It is all about what HE did on the cross and now you simply need to BELIEVE and receive all HE has provided for you.

BELIEVE and RECIEVE

AMEN

(John 1:17; Romans 6:14; 1 Peter 5:12). 

CONNIE SCHLEPP WEISKOPF 

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Contrary to God’s Word

Anytime you hear things that are contrary to God’s Word, you need to cast them down.

For example: When you hear on TV that it’s flu season. Instead of agreeing with all the negative words you just heard about everyone getting it, and you need to go get a shot. This is when I say “Not for me, It’s not mine to take, or my household.” I haven’t been to a doctor for many years, because I have the greatest physician, who has given me His healing power and words to use over all the sickness, diseases and ailments in this world.

When I hear things like, “I am old and this is just what happens.” I say, “Not for me!  I have the power of the Living God living inside of me.”

I remember when I first got a hold of God’s Word and His promises for us and first started believing for God’s healing and knowing all that He has for us.  I was shortly after that attending a women’s conference. A group of women were standing around talking about hot flashes and other symptoms. Another woman approached  the group and shared that the first time a hot flash tried to come upon her, she simply spoke to the lying symptom and said, “No, I am not taking that!” My response was, I’ll do that when the lies of the enemy try to come against me.  When I did reach that place in my life that a lie tried to come upon me, I simply spoke to that lying symptom and it left. I still do this today.  I take God’s power authority living in me and command the sympom to leave and command healing to manifest.

I have people sharing with me that they or someone they know believed for their healing, but did not get healed.  I ask them how they are/were praying.  I can tell right away if they are speaking POWER WORDS or  if they are still beggars. Begging God to heal them.

God told us to heal the sick, raise the dead, and never said for us to beg Him for healing, He did say to pray continually. My prayers are speaking to my symptom and Thanking God for his inheritance, His healing. He paid the price for us at the cross for all the healing we need. It lives inside of me. If you are a believer, it lives inside of you.  You have power and authority.  You first need to know HIS Truth and then appropriate what you already have.

“No weapon formed against you shall prosper. – Isaiah 54:17

With Long life will HE satisfy you.  – Psalm 91:16

By HIS stripes you are healed.  – 1 Peter 2:24

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge:… – Hosea 4:6

 

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Planting The Word in Your Heart

 

“I planted the seed in your hearts, and Apollos watered it, but it was God who made it grow. 1 Corinthians 3:6-9

It’s not important who does the planting, or who does the watering. What’s important is that God makes the seed grow. The one who plants and the one who waters work together with the same purpose.For we are both God’s workers. And you are God’s field. You are God’s building.”

The reason I share Jesus and plant as many seeds as I possibly can, is that I have found the one my heart truly loves. He changed my life in such a dramatic way that there is not one person (enemy or friend) that I would not want to know this amazing Jesus that I met over 30 years ago. When I fell in love with Jesus, I was very selfish.k  I wanted everything HE had for me and everything HE gave HIS life for us ALL to have.

I grew up in the Church, but I never really knew Jesus and I did not really want HIM meddling in my life.  I though it would be a boring life without all the ‘fun.’ I was so wrong.  When I ‘surrendered’ this old Connie to Him He filled me with such Joy, and peace and something so exciting that I had never felt living in the ‘world.’  The peace and love that filled me has overflowed into every part of my life. Is my life perfect? Far from it! But, when storms rear their head I have a Jesus that fills me with peace, wisdom and understanding as I read and study His Word. If I just left my life to chance, thinking God would just miraculously guide me, I would still be stuck. The thing I needed to do was find out what HE says I have and who HE say’s I am.

I AM A CHILD OF THE MOST HIGH GOD, JESUS CHRIST.

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SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL

I have found something so beautiful in this life. Something so wonderful and incredible that I seldom if never keep it to myself. Something so lovely that I cannot ever imagine living my life without. 

HIS NAME IS JESUS CHRIST.

He gives me peace beyond my own understanding.

He brings love, peace, health, healing, prosperity, freedom, forgiveness and a joy that is only found in HIM.

HE SENT HIS WORD AND HEALED ME.

Connie is an Artist, Author and Minister of God’s Word.

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Committed to Jesus Christ

Are you committed to what God says?

Do you KNOW what God’s Word says?

Many are more committed to what a doctor, friend, the world or the media say.

When I was diagnosed with cancer the world was telling me to find out everything there was to know about cancer and treatment. God clearly spoke to me and said: “NO, Connie, I want you to find out everything I say about healing.”

And so I NEVER searched the internet, I went to the Word of God.        (As tempting as it was at times).

I searched His Word to find out everything He says about healing, blessings,  salvation, forgiveness.  I have now been cancer free, healed, prospered, forgiven, and set free for over 10 years. Standing on God’s Word and  His instruction book is what God told me to do in the beginning. I did and I still do.

Satan and the world do come against me, sickness tries to come on me and I have challenges. But where I go is the Word of God. I go to Abba Father. He is my healer, He paid the price for me to have it all. I refocus on what I have as a child of the most high God. I focus on His promises and provision. It seems more difficult to refocus if I have been listening to naysayers, the TV and even a friend or medical person and paid attention to an ache or something the enemy has tried to come against me with. It takes me longer to refocus and get rid of some of the unbelief that I may have entertained. God says that by HIS stripes I am healed, No weapon formed against me shall prosper. With long life will He satisfy me. I focus on and picture myself healed, prospered and set free. I picture whatever it is I am in need of, coming to be. Healing is mine. Health is mine. I speak to the pain or problem, and command it to go.

There are times that I do not see it come about immediately or even in a week or two. It does not matter to me. I just keep speaking to my ‘mountain’. Not because I don’t believe the healing isn’t mine yet, but because I need to feed my believer to see the manifestation come to be.

Eventually I will see it, if I do not give up. God provided all I need as He hung on the cross and paid the ultimate price for me. What an amazing God we have and what a wonderful, healthy, loving, beautiful life we have because of HIM.

I LOVE YOU LORD.

& I am committed to everything you say & everything you say I have LORD &  who I am. Amen

~MOVING MOUNTAINS~

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