Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Backstories from Heaven
    Backstories from Heaven
    Backstories from Heaven
    Ebook83 pages1 hour

    Backstories from Heaven

    By Karmen Copes

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Everyone has a story to tell about their lives and the choices""good and bad""that they have made. Lena Payne hasn't always made the right choices. Neither have the brothers and sisters who she lives with in heaven, but for sure, they all made one right choice. Be encouraged to know that we all make mistakes in life, we all have challenges, and we all have refused truth at some point, and yet God has prepared to give us His very best.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChristian Faith Publishing, Inc.
    Release dateNov 27, 2018
    ISBN9781642992700
    Backstories from Heaven

    Related to Backstories from Heaven

    Related ebooks

    Christian Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Nov 27, 2020

      I I believe b that we are living in the end times as we read about in all the books of the Gospel and listen to what Jesus had said. He warned of pestilences and famines. I believe that Covid-19 is one of the pestilences, as well as all the locusts t

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Oct 2, 2020

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      May 19, 2023

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Jun 15, 2020

      A lot of people are asking why the world is the way it is. What’s going on? What on earth is God doing? Most of these people have never considered God before, but are questioning now that there is this terrible international crisis that is killing th

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Nov 19, 2021

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      8 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Dec 29, 2023

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Sep 23, 2022

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jun 24, 2022

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Aug 7, 2020

      Greetings in the Holy Name of our Lord Jesus Christ. In your July issue of JOY! you asked what we are grateful for. I’m grateful for the fact that Jesus Christ saved me and my family. My third born son suffered severe burns on his body, and my last b

      6 min read

    • Article

      August July

      Jun 15, 2021

      August July
      34 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jun 16, 2023

      Dear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to ke

      7 min read

    • Article

      Reader Testimony

      Dec 31, 2021

      For as long as I can remember, I have had so-called symptoms of Bi-Polar mood disorder. I can also claim symptoms of PTSD. At risk of giving anything not of God any kind of recognition or sense of pride in itself, I hesitate to write too much about t

      3 min read

    • Article

      Easter

      Apr 3, 2023

      Easter
      3 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Apr 5, 2024

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      10 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The EDITOR

      Jul 21, 2023

      D ear readers, we love to hear your thoughts on the stories that we publish, what is going on around the world, and what the Lord has placed on your heart! Email your letter through to [email protected] for a chance to be featured – please try to k

      6 min read

    • Article

      My Path to Redemption

      Mar 26, 2022

      My Path to Redemption
      6 min read

    • Article

      Activate Hope

      Jun 9, 2021

      Activate Hope
      2 min read

    • Article

      Letter To The Editor

      Feb 10, 2020

      I refer to the “Old Age Homes Are Not Good Enough” letter in your January issue of JOY! Yes, old age homes in African and Eastern societies are not common, because the youth make up the larger part of these populations. In India for example, more tha

      5 min read

    • Article

      Rebecca Rose.

      Mar 3, 2022

      Rebecca Rose.
      16 min read

    • Article

      Yes, You Can!

      Mar 23, 2020

      Yes, You Can!
      4 min read

    • Article

      Letters To The Editor

      Aug 19, 2019

      Thank you for your wonderfully illustrated Biblical series of articles that you regularly publish. I find that I can’t concentrate like I used to, and love the short, precise, and factual articles. I have learnt so much from reading them. I was fasci

      7 min read

    • Article

      Prayers Answered

      Feb 1, 2024

      Prayers Answered
      6 min read

    • Article

      Lucy Peach Is A Period Queen

      Nov 5, 2020

      Lucy Peach Is A Period Queen
      20 min read

    • Article

      Why, God, Why?

      Sep 7, 2021

      Why, God, Why?
      3 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Backstories from Heaven

    0 ratings

    0 ratings0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Backstories from Heaven - Karmen Copes

      cover.jpg

      Backstories from Heaven

      Karmen Copes

      ISBN 978-1-64299-269-4 (Paperback)

      ISBN 978-1-64299-270-0 (Digital)

      Copyright © 2018 by Karmen Copes

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, including photocopying, recording, or other electronic or mechanical methods without the prior written permission of the publisher. For permission requests, solicit the publisher via the address below.

      Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

      832 Park Avenue

      Meadville, PA 16335

      www.christianfaithpublishing.com

      Printed in the United States of America

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1

      Chapter 2

      Chapter 3

      Chapter 4

      Chapter 5

      Chapter 6

      Chapter 7

      Chapter 8

      Chapter 9

      Chapter 10

      Chapter 11

      Chapter 12

      Preface

      Backstories from Heaven is a collection of stories from the life of a fictional character, Ms. Lena Payne, following the events of Revelation Chapters 19 through 22 of the Holy Bible. It is this author’s intention to give an account of what the new heaven and earth may be like in all of its wonder and to share of the redemptive power of God. The premise of the story is believed to be true by millions and millions of souls around the world who are yet alive as well as those who have already entered into eternity because it is based on the Word of God. This fictional account is in no way intended to add to or take away from the true and faithful Word of God and is a story based on the imagination of the writer who admits that she in no way can express the beauty and magnificence of the Lord our God even with all that is contained in the Holy Bible.

      Chapter 1

      The New Beginning

      Iwas sitting and talking with my guardian angel, Evona. So when I was going to kill my husband, was that you who wouldn’t let me get up from the floor? I asked her. Being in my now glorified body in eternity, I knew the answer already, but I loved to hear her retell the story over and over again.

      Okay, I’ll retell it again, she said with a smile. Some time ago, I looked up and saw the very man that I was once contemplating murder upon appear onto this new earth from far off. He had been visiting relatives who were before the Lord Jesus on a trip to Mars. Many people wanted God to create a vacation paradise of sorts on that planet (unfortunately, I have no other words to describe what the planet would be as we were already in the new heaven and earth—paradise, heaven—but God made man creative and willful). That man who had been my ex-husband, Julius, could only wave; he was still in awe after being in the presence of the King.

      Ahem—Evona cleared her throat—you and he had one of your usual arguments, and he had snatched the phone away from you and rolled up the cord as you were about to call his mother, as usual, so that she could come to your rescue. He stormed off and went into the bedroom, and you slumped on the floor crying, feeling hurt and angry. Then, as the Enemy sends them out to do, a lying demon told you to just get the butcher knife, go into the bedroom, and put your misery to an end, Evona recalled. I remember having visions of peace after his death. I somehow thought that my life would instantly become better after that man would be gone. That lying demon told you that everyone knew you two argued all of the time, and that he often came storming out of the house in a rage. Well this time, everyone would think that something worse must have happened and you had to defend yourself. That lying demon showed you what it would look like to chop and slice through his flesh, and how good it would feel to cut at him the way your heart felt so many times when he would reject you and give his time and attention to something that he thought was more important or better.

      I couldn’t help but interject, almost giddy like a child. Now, tell me your part and how the Holy Spirit intervened.

      Playfully rolling her eyes, Well, God is greater than Satan and his demons and gives us charge over his children to protect and to guide them as He pleases, Evona said in that echo voice that permeates every time the angels speak of God; that sound still gives me chills. It’s like mini-echoes dancing on air. The Holy Spirit intervened. He spoke to you in his quiet, sure voice and told you, ‘Don’t do it, think about your life and your children, calm yourself and pray to the Father.’ Of course, you didn’t want to. You were ready to kill but you needed a moment, and that’s when I did my job and stood between you and the lying demon to give you a moment of clarity and to block his instruction.

      I am so glad that I listened to the Holy Spirit, I said, in the same amazement that I had every time I heard the story.

      Yes, you needed a moment. What that lying demon did not tell you about was a life in prison, the hardships you and your children would face, and the many experiences that you would have missed if you had murdered Julius. Not to mention he had not been saved at that time. What would his eternity have been? But you had victory because you obeyed God and said no to what you really wanted to do at that moment, a moment like many others that had the ability to alter the entire course of your entire life, depending upon the choice that you made.

      Wow, that blows my mind how every detail of our lives was altered by all the other moments and choices, I said, still amazed at God.

      Yes, it is amazing how all the events in human lives worked. Evona stood up to leave, she had to go before the Lord to worship. There was a time in my life that I hated all of the preparation in getting ready for church, I remember wasting time deciding if I was going to put forth the effort to go, then the additional time that I wasted in debating with myself about what I would miss if I didn’t go, and then getting there and being so distracted with my own thoughts that I missed the benefits of the worship service and had to struggle to tune in to the sermon. What a waste of time! Had I known in those days that the right to worship God was going to become a privilege, I would have appreciated the blessing of freedom of

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1