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I am an author of Christian Inspiration and Scripture Commentaries as well as Christian Fiction. My first book was When God Says: Bring It On! The keys to having the faith to hold on. Available at Amazon.com
The second is Forty Days Hath September by Mary Catherine Aucoin (maiden name) It is fiction and available through www.signedbytheauthor.com and www.catpavpublishing.com

I strive to bring this generation into a deeper walk of faith and action based on the Word of God. We read it...but do we believe it and use it? Most of the time I find that in the church it is used just for knowledge. I find very few Christians Using the Word to work miracles in their lives.

Through personal experience I speak to people's hearts and move them to be doers of the word and not hearers only.

Writing, Lyric Writing, Theology, Songwriting, Church

Forty Days Hath September, by Mary Catherine Aucoin, When God Says: Bring It On! by Cathey Pavlikianidis

Ray Boltz

“Let Go - Let God”
“All we can do is pray”
“Just give it to God”

Oh, Please, I have heard these phrases for 23 years. In the ears of a fighter it sounds like “Just give it up, it’s hopeless; there’s nothing you can do. You’ve tried everything and nothing works, just give up...quit.” But I’m not a quitter! At one time I was, before I knew Christ. I tried to quit life a couple of times. The last time I wanted to quit, I called my best friend that had nursed me through a previous attempt to quit life, to ask her to raise my little girl. Somewhere in our conversation the Holy Spirit intervened and I made the decision that I would go to my boss’s church the next morning. He had been witnessing to me steadily for months. She said that church wouldn’t work and I heard her story about the bad experience she had. But I told her that I had tried everything else, I hated to check out without giving God a chance. And if that didn’t work, it was over. I quit. Thank God, church didn’t work but God did! I went to church the next morning, really not knowing what to expect. It was a small meeting held in a rented building. Nothing fancy distracting from the mission at hand. Everyone was so glad to see me, especially my boss. They all acted as if they knew me, but I didn’t know any of them. I sat down and the battle for my soul began. By the end of the service it had escalated into all out war. I was convinced that my boss had told the preacher everything he knew about me, and under the guise of the story of Noah and the Ark that preacher unfolded my life before the congregation. I was mad, and planning my escape from that church and my job with the man that got me here. I never wanted to see these people again. I was embarrassed, I was already ashamed of my life and here my boss ...well, you know.
The funny thing is that the battle was being fought in my mind, evidently loud, because everyone kept looking at me. And they would smile. What were they smiling at! There was nothing to smile about...I felt like a filet fish, wide open. Well, I’d show them. Then the music started and we had to sing ‘Just as I am’. Forever, do you hear me? FOREVER! I thought they would never stop singing that song. And the more they sang the more I cried. Well, that’s all the lady next to me needed was to see me cry and it was on! “Honey, do you want to receive Jesus as your savior?” she said in a sugar mouth southern bell tone. I thought I would die, and then wished I would right there. I hid my face in my hands so my little girl wouldn’t see me cry. It would upset her she was so sensitive. They kept singing. I couldn’t sing I just wanted out. Then the preacher said “Somebody in here is doing business with God and we won’t stop singing until he’s finished.” Oh, MY GOD! I’ll never get out! Who is it? It must be that girl over there, I know her, and she needs God. I wish she would just go on and do it so we can leave. Then that lady did it again. Put her arm around my shoulder and asked me again if I wanted to ask Jesus into my heart. The war in my head was raging. As she asked that eternal question I was screaming “Oh God, just get me out of here and these people will never see me again!!!” But no one could hear me. At the same time I was screaming to get out, my head was betraying me by nodding up and down! What the heck was going on? Well, that’s all that the preacher needed to see, the singing stopped and everyone left except me, the lady and the preacher and one other guy. The next is history...I quit and God won! The great thing is that I didn’t lose. God is the only one that you can lose a fight to and still be a winner. When you quit, when you give it all to God, you haven’t become a quitter...you have become a WARRIOR. So put on your armor and be prepared to fight the biggest battle of your life. Because when you become a spiritual warrior you are fighting unseen foes. Your enemy will come at you in ways that your human mind could never dream up. That is why Bible study and discipleship is so important in a new believer’s life. The only way to prepare for spiritual battle is to know your Bible and know your God. How He feels about you, what He desires for you, and what He expects from you and what part he will play in your life.
(Excerpt from my book "When God Says: Bring It On! by Cathey Pavlikianidis; available at Amazon.com