Thetus Tenney
Two Altars
Jessica M Marquez
“It began the night she had an awakening--and that awakening was not the kind one gets from a revelation. Ruth Beardsley’s awakening, let’s just say, was heaven sent.
Ruth had been asleep when she suddenly woke up and at the foot of her bed stood a man. Ruth shared that she knew it was an angel from the Lord. The man at the foot of her bed pointed at her, and stated, “You better get right before it’s too late.”
Ruth did end up getting it right: she made her way to a United Pentecostal Church and gave her heart to the Lord. Ruth embraced the One who comforts and saves--and she received Him into her life through the gift promised to all: the Acts 2:38 experience (Acts 2 - And when the day of Pentecost). It didn’t just stop there: Ruth ‘getting it right,’ after receiving salvation, ignited a curiosity in her late husband, Larry Beardsley.
Many times when Ruth would go to the church, Larry would sit in the back of the service making fun of the people who would receive the experience of Acts 2. He would say they were working themselves up. Larry didn’t believe that the Holy Ghost fell into people and that the evidence of it happening was them speaking in other tongues. He had been known to laugh and scorn them . . . until, let’s just say (as it was told to me), one night he had his own heavenly visit
While sleeping something woke Larry, he noticed the room seemed to have a haze of some sort.Then something tugged at him to look at his wife. When he looked at her, he saw that she was sound asleep. Suddenly, Ruth, with her eyes still shut--in sleep--she sat up in bed and threw her arms straight up in the air and started speaking in another tongue. And as quickly as she had sat up, she then flopped back in bed, never waking up! That’s when a still-small-voice stated to Larry, “Did she work herself up?”
The next day when Ruth woke up she walked into another part of the house and found Larry sitting and reading the bible. Yes, the man who had thought people were just working themselves up was soon to find out for himself that the Holy Ghost was not just for the people of the biblical era. It wasn’t long before Larry, too, got it right: he received the Acts 2:38 experience in a mighty way. (A story to be shared in the future.)
Ruth and her late husband, Larry, for many years worked and dedicated their lives to bring people to the arms of the Lord. (Even after retiring from Pastoring, they continued to bring the message of salvation to many souls.)
On a personal note:
One day, when I was younger, while I was resting I could hear my mom (Ruth) in her room upstairs, “Tap, tap, tap . . . sha ma ma . . . shama ma . . . tap, tap, tap . . . sha ma ma . . . shama ma . . . ” and I knew she was doing her Indian dance unto the Lord as she spoke in that heavenly language called the Holy Ghost (Acts 2:38 - Then Peter said unto them).
Not long ago my recently-widowed-mom returned one of my calls, she apologized for not answering. She stated, “I’ve been baking banana bread for Joe to sell at the barbershop, he’s going to use the money to feed the men at his Thursday evening Bible-studies . . . made him fried pies for his last Bible-study . . . .”
And that’s—just a small part of—why we wanted to honor you, Ruth Beardsley! ❤️☕️

10/22//2025; 9:35 am
Our Father, our Creator, Who is in heaven, Hallowed, sacred, is Your name: Jesus. There is no other God beside You. You are the Keeper of my (our) soul: Truly, You will guide me all the days of my life.Though the enemy of Your soul [all our souls] is working very hard to discredit You– and Your Church–Your promises will come into being. Yes, for You are with us; therefore, we will not fear. You are our God, so we will stop being dismayed and troubled by that which surrounds our lives: . . . the frustrations we feel and express regarding Your fulfilling the promises that we know You have given us: Job frustrations [book of JOB].
Forgive me Lord for our sins. Forgive us as we forgive our debtors.
I ask for Your guidance and will in our lives, and our children’s and the Church. Shine bright, Father! Make the Way clear! Deliver us from resisting Your ways and Loves, lest we walk the paths of delusions! Yes, be with us! Never leave, ever! Thank You!
-Kick out satanic people away–forever–from us and our children and Your Church! Amen and Amen. Thank You.
-Bring us into the paths of righteousness.
-Cause Your kingdom to reign within us!
-Remove the deceptions of hell from mouths that are in low and high places.
-Break the strong-hold that seducing ones have in all lives: unto a thousand generations!
-Renew the right spirit within us! Yes, renew Your Spirit within us! Amen and Amen!
Thank You for always sheltering and providing for us, everyday!
Strengthen, help and uphold us–Your people–with Your righteous right hand.
We give You glory and honor, forever: Yours is the kingdom, power and glory–forever and ever! Amen~
(Prayers from L.D.B. Prayer Journal (some excerpts removed for privacy))
“Many know my phone had went into ‘gone mode’: it’s the third phone, along with my laptop, that wouldn’t turn on at all over the last year. Call it what one will: accidents, as one was thrown in the wash; nevertheless, one thing for sure, the isolation just focused me into the Lord and into seeking Him. Now, a phone has arrived and satanic forces are trembling for they know I will tell of God’s mighty works—and share Hope through its tool . . . . Yea, I think I will share one right now:-).
“Yes, it’s true: satanic forces do not want any godly voice to be seen or heard or to shine on—for it brings victories for others: It could be a sickness, isolation or a cunning predator scaring one down, but hear and see this, Dear Reader: Once that season has reached the God-limit, your name will be called and you will step into the Promised land that He has Deeded . . . .
Get up child of God—right now—in your livingroom, vehicle . . . wherever you are and start stomping, dancing, walking and proclaim every situation as a walk-of-the-lands-promise: conquering strongholds by each step of faith, as it is a step towards His promised ‘Deed’:
✒️Thus, no matter the pauses or those who try to not acknowledge . . . or who may prey upon your isolated-situation—keep stepping forward for you were never meant to be hid, forever: the promises of God are, ‘Yea and Amen.’
“Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid” (Matthew 5:14).
(Prayers and chapter excerpts: “Be Seen and Walk in Him: You are a Light set on a Hill,” Lora Dean Beardsley.)

L. D. B.
“Yesterday I quoted Isaiah 54:2-3
I would like to continue on with what I feel.
“Enlarge the place of your tent, and let the curtains of your habitations be stretched out;
DO NOT HOLD BACK; lengthen your cords and strengthen your stakes.
For you will spread abroad to the right and to the left, and your offspring will possess the nations and will people the desolate cities”
Enlarge your space
Stretch out
DO NOT HOLD BACK
Strengthen!!!
You will spread to the right and to the left
You will possess
You are entering an occupying season
You are entering a TAKE-BACK AND RECOVER ALL season
You are entering a recompense, reconciliation, and restoration season
You have been in limbo and delay….in restriction, with ceilings and walls all around you
You have been in a time where you have fought to maintain the territory and land that is yours
Even in the fight, it feels like what is in your hands has fallen through your fingers
It has been a season of forfeiting
It has been a season of deep surrender
It has been a season of purging
It has been a season of having to hand over to God what has taken a life time to build
Nothing has worked
Broken expectations and hope deferred have mounted up on every side
…..But there is a shift in the atmosphere
You will move from being stuck to obtaining
You will now enter into a time where you will occupy the land that the Lord promised He would give you
“Now," says the Lord. "I will cause everything that worked against you to SUDDENLY be what will work on your behalf.”
“I am laying up the wealth of the wicked for the righteous," says the Lord. "I will cause My people to occupy and to own. To take back the territory that seemed like was lost. That's right. I will settle you in the home I promised you," says the Lord.
"You will own homes that you did not build. You will occupy and inherit regions that were not on your radar," says the Lord, "I am not giving you one land, but multiple lands.
Stretch out to the left and to the right
Stretch out faith!
Break out of apathy today
Let go of disappointment and disillusionment that have tried to strangle your heart
Let go of rejection and dejection that have tried to suffocate your vision and your dreams
This is a moment," says the Lord, "that My people need to rise up and take the land. Occupy!" says the Lord.
It is time to seize.
It is time to take.
It is time to move forward into the land
DO NOT HOLD BACK
God is with you
His power is within you
SO TAKE THE LAND—
PEOPLE OF GOD, TAKE THE LAND
It is time to tear down principalities
It is time to tear down strongholds
It is time to confront giants
The principalities that have been taunting can no longer taunt and exert their authority
Take the land, take them down.
There will be a reset in families allowing them to take back the ground that has been lost for decades and generations
Wounds that have been inflicted on marriages, causing them to be on the verge of destruction, will be healed
Prodigals will come home in DROVES
It is time to move from defensive warfare to offensive warfare
Break the back of satan!
Stand in authority and power!
DO NOT HOLD BACK!!!!!
It is time!”

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Ever feel unaccepted?
“When God has selected you, it doesn’t matter who else has rejected you, or neglected you. God’s favor outweighs ALL opposition.” - Author unknown
The angel Gabriel was sent by God to visit Mary (Luke 1:26-28), and he had three high compliments for her: (1) “You are favored highly, (2) the LORD is with you, and (3) among all women, you’re blessed.”
We have no information as to Mary’s mother, and scarcely more about her father, but one thing is apparent: she was RAISED RIGHT. Mary was still young—a virgin—but it is evident that her character was already well-balanced. When Gabriel declared her to be “highly favored” (meaning: lovely, charming, especially acceptable), it wasn’t just his observation—this was a message from Almighty GOD. Her behavior, demeanor and reputation were apparently above average. Today, we might say that Mary was proclaimed by the angel … to be “an angel.”
Although—from Gabriel’s assessment—Mary was attractive physically, faithful spiritually, and well-loved socially, YET mentally, she became troubled at his very first words. She was “cast in her mind”—lost in thought and presuming up a storm. (And Gabriel hadn’t even gotten to the bombshell message that he came to deliver!) But that’s when he said, “Mary, FEAR NOT!” In other words, “STOP! Let not your heart be troubled over what you know nothing about yet! The FACT is: you have found FAVOR—you are a FAVORITE—with GOD! You found GRACE in His eyes because He found GRACE in YOU!!” Something more than prettiness and popularity—even more than piety. A gracious God discovered in her a special GRACE—He observed that she was already qualified in her spirit to handle the most difficult assignment ever given to a woman.
What is GRACE? The Greek word: χάρις, which is transliterated “charis,” appears in the Greek New Testament as “grace” no less than 130 times. In short, it means God’s divine influence upon the heart and its reflection in the life.
But the related word that Gabriel used when he called Mary “highly favored” was χαριτόω—“charitoo.” This special form of grace is mentioned only twice in the Greek New Testament. FIRST, as referred to above, when God sent Gabriel to tell Mary that she was blessed, chosen, and (ACCEPTED) highly favored; and, SECOND, when God inspired Paul to write to the Church (in Ephesus) that WE are blessed, chosen, and ACCEPTED (highly favored)!
Read it for YOURSELF! Take this as a special GOD-inspired message to YOU today! “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath BLESSED (YOU!) with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according as he hath CHOSEN (YOU!) in Him before the foundation of the world, that (YOU!) should be holy and without blame before Him in love: to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein he hath made (YOU) ACCEPTED (“highly favored”) in the beloved.” (Ephesians 1:6-8 KJV)
Sometimes, like Mary, we become “cast in our mind”—unsure, insecure, full of questions. Anxious before we even know what to be anxious about! But God, who knows the future, sees something in us that perhaps no one else—not even we ourselves—can see. He sees GRACE through which, by His Holy Spirit, He has already prepared us—prequalified us—for what is coming. Just like Mary. As we are IN Him, and He IN us, we already possess the grace to face our future—to endure what we must, to persevere beyond our ability, and to accept the uncertain and unknown from the Hands of the All-Knowing One. Be at rest, dear one, “casting all your cares [all your anxieties, all your worries, and all your concerns, once and for all] on HIM, for He cares about you [with deepest affection, and watches over you very carefully]. (1 Peter 5:7 AMP)
He knows, He cares, He goes before us, and He has already given us everything we will ever need—to handle anything we will ever face. In this new year and beyond, whatever the circumstance du jour happens to be, let us declare, “Behold, I am Your handmaid, LORD! Come what may—I am blessed, chosen, and ACCEPTED! I AM one of Your FAVORITES!!”









