Do Not Sit There

Do Not Sit There

                   © 2017 Debbie Turner Chavers

                              Waterman Series

We have been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb. Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. (Revelation 19:9)

Remember what Jesus has done for us and be a prepared people awaiting His return with joy and gladness.

The "flesh"served from the Table of Malice is not a "saved seat" for you.

We must have the mind of Christ and put on the new man and give no place to the Devil.

Arise, do not sit in the seat of the unlearned.

Do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Gather the grace given by Christ and sup at the LORD's table.

There is a dead mindset, a grave of error at the Table of Malice. The chairs of this mindset are rooted in Hell. 

I left these chairs empty on purpose, for as a child of God you are to be seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus and not among the dead.  (Ephesians 1:3, Ephesians 1:20, and Ephesians 2:6)

There is much spiritual analogy within this painting.

Allow the Lord to reveal His word to you in your own walk of faith and come out from among them.

Arise, and be about your Father's business.

The Water-Man represents you and I.

Sit no longer at this table.

In prayerful hope I have painted the Water-Man looking out. That stone he is sitting on can be used to arise from that pit he is seated in.

Do Not Sit There

~Debbie 🌻

Ephesians 4:31 Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

The Chairs: 

Bitterness- (pikria) bitter gall

 1. extreme wickedness

 2. a bitter root, and so producing a bitter fruit

 3. metaph. bitterness, bitter hatred

Wrath- (thymos)

1. passion, angry, heat, anger forthwith boiling up and soon subsiding again

2. glow, ardour, the wine of passion, inflaming wine (which either drives the drinker mad or kills him with its strength)

Evil speaking- ( blasphemia)

1. slander, detraction, speech injurious, to another's good name

2. impious and reproachful speech injurious to divine majesty

Anger- (orge)

1. anger, the natural disposition, temper, character

  2. movement or agitation of the soul, impulse, desire, any violent emotion, but esp.

      anger

 3.  anger, wrath, indignation

 4. anger exhibited in punishment, hence used for punishment otself

     A. of punishments inflicted by magistrates

Clamour- (krauge)

1. a crying, outcry, clamour

Table:

Malice- (kakia)

1. malignity, malice, ill-will, desire to injure

2. wickedness, depravity

       A. wickedness that is not ashamed to break laws

3. evil, trouble

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Repost from January 31,2017

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Submission Disqualifies Division

Word Buoys-Life Preservers

© 2015 Debbie Turner Chavers

A religious spirit and a spirit of rebellion are in the children of disobedience.

Their behavior will mimic what they worship: man’s tradition and self.

Child of God, Servant of God:

You can not serve God and mammon. 

You can not be a people pleaser.

The dilemma: 

As we navigate daily interactions with others we quickly conclude that all is not well relationally if we dare to voice truth.

God’s word in a lost and dying world is a life preserver. 

Yet most will decide to drown in a sea of despair with the life buoy right beside them offering safety and relief.

Redeemed child of God:

Speak truth, throw the life line.

Misplaced desire:

Our desire for human love and acceptance easily silences our witness of God’s redemptive plan in our world, our family and our sphere of influence.

A desire to fit in is a spirit of bondage that makes you ineffective, unable to do that which your redeemed man desires to do.

This desire to fit in becomes a cord which entangles you and will prompt you to do that which you hate: hiding.

Your action cloaks or attempts to hide His light within you.

Our heart is well aware of its double minded state and the fact that its carnal nature is at war with the Spirit of God within us.

Therefore:

Our spirit must stay attuned to pleasing the Spirit of God within us. 

This tuning will turn us to doing God’s will not your own.

The war within us seeks to separate us from our true call of obedience to Christ Jesus. 

If we choose not to tune and turn:

Our witness when we refuse to stand for TRUTH will present

 a warped mirror of Christ to others.

We are to mirror Christ not the individual.

Let them see Christ in you, not an idolatrous view of themself.

Be aware:

When you feed your flesh your spirit wanes. 

Fire within you is fed by the oxygen of the Holy Spirit. 

The breath of God.

Give place. 

Give first place to God.

You have been redeemed. 

You have been bought with a blood fulfilled covenant. 

Our allegiance and first call is to serve the LORD. 

~Debbie Turner Chavers

🌻Seed sowing to the glory of God.

You are loved.🌻

Study Opportunity:

Luke 16:13

Roman’s 8:15

Roman’s 8:7

James 1:8

James 4:4

James 4:7

James 4:8

1Peter 5:5

Ephesians 2:2

Roman’s 7

🚫DO NOT quietly live

your faith in Jesus Christ.

Your #voice is needed.

Your #action is warranted.

Stay or go.

BUT DO NOT be silent.

~Debbie🌻

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Pray to Be Refreshed

Photo copyright © 2026 Debbie Turner Chavers

Where are you on your journey 

of faith today? 

Refocus and reach out to God 

if the path has become bleary 

or weary in the doing.

God is faithful.

Allow the soil of your heart 

and mind to be aerated 

by the Holy Spirit.

🙏🏼 Let’s pray.

Father God, I am weary in the doing of life.

In the daily grind of more doing. Constant doing.

Father, even soil is to be given rest.

Thank you, Father that you have provided all that I need.

Send a refreshing of your Spirit in and upon me. Give me wisdom to know where to apply effort and where to rest.

Your wisdom is the fulcrum which moves me forward, therefore LORD, help me to not be weary in well doing for in due time I shall reap if I faint not.

In Jesus name, Amen.

🙏🏼🕊🌻

Debbie

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Born Again

Luke 1:35 

And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

When we receive salvation, Christ is planted in the womb of our heart and we become sons and daughters of God.

The Holy Ghost comes upon us and the power of the Highest overshadows us.

We are born again.

~Debbie 🌻

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New Art Parable Painting “ The Women”

“The Women”

Art Parable of The Woman With The Issue of Blood

© 2024 Debbie Turner Chavers

The Women, I painted this watercolor on March 13, 2024. 

I have looked at it everyday since then without sharing it publicly except with my immediate family.

I have progressed no further than what you see before you. Each time I started to add a paint stroke there was a distinct prompt of “It is finished.”

Indeed, thank you Father God, it is finished.There are words and paintings that are seeds that linger in the soil of our hearts until the Lord births them in His Truth within us.

There are five women in the painting. 

The number Five in Hebrew is Grace and the Letter is  ‘H’eh

Yes, I speak “Grace, Grace” to you.

I have always been intrigued by the woman with the issue of blood.

She could find no healing. 

No help anywhere else except by reaching out to the Lord and touching Him.

This is the journey of the Woman, of women, of men.

She is as all creation who needed the blood of Christ to cleanse and redeem their blood, the “issue of their blood.”

The Woman:

She was an outcast for at least 12 years.

She had spent all her living on physicians. 

How often do we spend “all our living” on seeking healing from others? 

“Our living” as not only our money, but our trust, our job validation, our relationship with one another?

Only Jesus Christ heals us of every “issue.”

It begins with blood. 

Our blood.

It ends with the Messiah’s blood.

Redemption.

There were 12 tribes and they all had an “issue of blood “ and only the Great Physician could heal them and the Woman.

They, the priests, the scribes, the Pharisees were the “physicians “ of the day. 

They had no healing, no legitimate way to give redemption. 

Only the Redeemer, The Messiah Jesus Christ who was in their midst could heal all issues. Theirs, hers, and ours.

~Debbie 🌻

Matthew 9:20-22

And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood 12 years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment: 

but she said within herself, if I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

But Jesus turned him about, and when he saw her, he said, Daughter, be a good comfort; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

Mark 5:25-34

And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood 12 years,

And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse, 

When she heard of Jesus, came in the press behind, and touched his garment. For she said, if I may touch but his clothes, I shall be whole.

And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

And Jesus, immediately, knowing in himself, that virtue had gone out of him, turned him about in the press, and said, Who touched my clothes?

And his disciples said unto him, Thou seest the multitude thronging thee, and sayest thou, Who touched me?

And he looked round about to see her that had done this thing.

But the woman fearing and trembling, knowing what was done in her, came and fell down before him, and told him all the truth.

And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

You can read more scripture on the woman with the issue of blood at Luke 8:43-48 in the Bible.

 

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Forgive and Forgiven

Cold,Stony Heart

© 1999 Debbie Turner Chavers

Water-Man Series

I pray you find healing,the ability to forgive and forgiveness too. This is an excerpt from my journal in 2014.🌻

At times it can seem impossible to forgive someone and yet for our well being it is required.  Some things are so painful it is difficult to even momentarily consider the thought of forgiveness, yet God is quite specific in His instructions.  Healing of our mind and emotions are usually a process- a process of  obedience to God's way not our own way.

May you be healed and whole, forgiving and forgiven.
In Jesus Christ name. 
Amen

*My journal entry...
"When will the the healing begin?" I ask in my heart as I say it out loud.
I hear the quiet whisper in my soul, "Write, Debbie, write.''
And so I start, tears streaming across my face, pen to paper, I write.
I feel as though I have years of tears to shed and a need of the Son to dry them.
I sit frozen in my heart seeking warmth from the wind of His Spirit.  Breathlessly waiting to see if the teeny spark of fire in me will flame.
I write, the words stirring in me.

I hear "Forgive" which is followed by,
One Word
One Way
One Savior

I know this is not my thoughts concerning my pain, it is the Spirit of God reminding me of His Word concerning my ways, my choice to forgive or to hate.
The quick, quiet reply soothes my soul.  As with all instruction from the LORD, obedience is required and my lack of ability toward forgiving another has nothing to do with that obedience.
I am given a choice to obey or disobey.

So in the natural man your fleshly desire may not want to forgive, yet for the process of healing you must.
God is Jehovah Jirah, my Provider.  He is Provider.  That encompasses whatever the need is for me.  What I have to give is me and my obedience to His Way.  He is not bothered by my lack, my unforgiveness, my hatred. 
He wants it all.  Everything.  Everything submitted. He can and will receive it all.  You just have to choose to give it to Him.   
Not perfect, not planned. Submitted. 
You ask, He supplies.  I know it sounds simple and on His part it is simple.  But for humans, everything about our flesh wants to do exactly opposite of that which is for our good. 

Like physical exercise, the things you can not see with your natural gaze are starting to get stronger, leaner in your body as you exercise.
When exercising a walk of obedience to God's word you are changing also in your body, soul and spirit.  You will begin to feel the love that only He can instill in your heart. Choose to obey Him. Trust Him.  He is able.

~Debbie

Matthew 6: 15 But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Ezekiel 11:19  And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh:

1 Thessalonians 5:23  And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Reposted from Feb.9, 2015 on my Word Parables blog.

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Watercolor For Sale “Olive with Tomatoes” to Benefit Adoption Aid

Olive with Tomatoes

© 2025 Debbie Turner Chavers

The watercolor painting is 4 x 6 inches on cold press paper. 

All proceeds for this painting are to benefit Show Hope adoption aid.

If you would like more information about Show Hope, click here

The price is $55.55 plus postage.

If you are interested in purchasing Olive with Tomatoes you can contact the Studio email at 

studioonepenny@gmail.com  to arrange payment and shipping details.

***Olive and Tomatoes  is the first 4 x 6 inch painting for sale at Studio One Penny.

My signature is long so I sign my smaller paintings with DtC on the front as not to draw attention away from the scene and my regular signature is signed on the back of my paintings.

Examples of the watercolor painting “Olive and Tomatoes “matted with 4 x 6 mats to 5 x 7 inch

*Mat pictures are for visual example only to show alternate presentation for framing purposes.

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The name Studio One Penny was chosen as I prayed about being able to help more outreaches financially. It is a gift to be able to help and I realized that I could use my gift of painting effectively in this particular way.  Each one of us have been called and the Lord has gifted each one of us with the ability to help in his vineyard.

It is never too late to help.

~DtC

Debbie Turner Chavers

As Matthew 20:1-16 records there were 5 times

1. Early in the morning

2. The third hour

3. The sixth hour

4. The ninth hour

5. The eleventh hour

Matthew 20:1-16

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.

And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.

But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

And when they had received it, they murmured against the goodman of the house,

Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

So the last shall be first, and the first last: for many be called, but few chosen.

Prodigal : God Loves You

The Prodigal and Family

© 2010 Debbie Turner Chavers

If you are a prodigal you know it. As a prodigal your return unto God is a welcomed, blessed event. 

Yet, your natural earthly family may not welcome you back. 

But your heavenly Father runs to receive you. God loves you more than you can hope or imagine. 

The imagery of Jesus Christ slain on the cross represents an all encompassing sacrificial love for you. From head to toe and fingertip to fingertip He circled you with His love.

The Father sent him to receive you into his kingdom. 

Return unto your first love, God.

~Debbie

You can read more about this art parable and associated scriptures by clicking these links.

The Prodigal http://visionsofhisword.blogspot.com/2010/08/prodigal-and-family.html

Luke 15:11-32. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2015%3A11-32&version=NIV

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