Get Past Your Past
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Killing Apathy
Here’s a deadly combination for apathy:
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Be deeply rooted in the Word of God.
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Live a life of intercessory prayer. (Daniel prayed 3 times a day)
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Read the right kind of books.
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Surround yourself with people who are Iron. (Proverbs 27:17)
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Write down what you’re learning so you can remember in the future.
Jesus over Everything
It’s easy for Jesus to become just a thing in our lives, but Jesus has to be everything and above everything! 
Jesus over everything isn’t just a well meaning statement.
It’s a life choice that whatever comes my way, I’m standing on the unshakable rock.
When you’re walking through new situations and change, instead of being afraid, you can be confident because you are connected to the one who doesn’t change.
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Hebrews 13:8
#1. BE FIRMLY FOUNDED ON THE ROCK.
We must have a firm foundation, and that foundation is Jesus.
“The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous man runs into it and is safe.”
Proverbs 18:10
We must always call on the name of Jesus!
If our faith is not FOUNDED and built upon the rock, Jesus… then we cannot be firm in anything else.
We’ll shift with the sand blown by the storm.
We’ll go along with what “feels right”.
But the Bible says, our hearts are deceitful above all else!
“The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know (or understand) it?”
Jeremiah 17:9
We can’t follow our hearts. We have to connect our hearts to the heart of the Father.
We can’t live exactly like the world and expect to be able to change the world.
We can’t do what the world does and expect to walk in the fullness of what God intended.
Jesus must be our foundation in which our faith comes from. If we know he is our rock, we’ll remember to cling to the rock when everything is raging around us.
#2. GET CONNECTED.
We need to connect to the source.
A device without a power cord is useless.
I can place my phone near the cord, but that won’t charge it at all.
It’ll simply be close by.
Some people will say that you need to be close to God, but that isn’t close enough.
We need to be more than close to God, we have to be connected to him!
Once we have chosen to be ONE with God, daily seeking his face, then it is much harder for us to be moved away from him when the storms of life come.
#2 STAY CONNECTED-
Prayer and immersing yourself into the word connects us to God. It reveals his heart to us.
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LOVE THE WORD: The more you read the Bible, the more you will want to read your bible.
What we are putting into ourselves is what is going to come out.
Read your bible every single day! Set aside a special time and place.
If you don’t know what to read, psalms and proverbs is a great place to start.
Also, start reading through a book of the bible and finish it before going onto the next one. (I’m pretty fond of Hebrews right now!)
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PRAY MORNING AND NIGHT: Prayer takes our eyes off of our situations, and places them on God.
When we are looking to God and surrendering our worries to him, our fears shift into faith.
We are saying , “Lord I trust in you in this situation or in this area of my life”.
1 Peter 5:7- PUT all of your worries and anxieties on God, because he cares for you.
PRAY IN THE SPIRIT: Acts 1:8- You WILL receive power when the holy spirit comes upon you!
We need the empowerment of the Holy Spirit in our everyday lives.
When we don’t know WHAT to pray, The spirit does and he will pray exactly what we need.
He also prompts us to do the right thing, to convict us, and to direct us.
When Jesus went up to heaven, he sent the Holy Spirit as our helper.
So, let us not forget we have a helper!
JOURNAL: When we write down what we are learning and hearing from God, it helps our growth
In the future, we can also go back and remember what he has done for us!
It’s important to remember our victories and the Lord’s faithfulness when the accuser is trying to remind us of our failures.
It’s time to get back to the basics.
The more time you spend with Him, the more you’ll know His heart. The more you know His heart, the more you’ll desire to be like him.
In what ways can you cultivate a deeper intimacy and intentionality in your daily living with Christ?
He’s not just a thing to put on our t-shirts and coffee mugs, He’s everything.
Vision of the Playing Cards
On 8/27/2020, I was crying out to the Lord and had a strong encounter with Him.
I heard the Lord say “THE TIME IS NOW.”
Those who have been held back from their callings, those who has been restrained from boldness, the Lord is lifting up and empowering with the Holy Spirit. They will begin to preach and declare the goodness and coming of the Lord in many places throughout the USA and the world.
People who are without great influence, “nobodies.”
Isaiah 48:16- And now the Sovereign Lord has sent me, with his Spirit.
Where the enemy has tried to cancel our callings, the Lord has been concealing them!
Yet the time is NOW for them to be released like arrows in the hand of the mightiest warrior.
Isaiah 49:2 He has made my mouth like a sharpened sword, in the shadow of his hand he hid me; he made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.
FOR SUCH A TIME AS THIS.
I saw a vision of a triangle. I began to pray against the Illuminati and demonic persons of interest such as Beyonce, Jayz, Lady Gaga and George Soros.
I saw a stack of playing cards set up like a triangular pyramid and where the highest person was, they had confidence that they had built a sturdy empire in which they could operate out of and have great influence for the sake of evil. And yet I saw the cards begin to be pulled, one by one from the bottom, from the middle and in no particular order.
The ground that the enemy thought he had is being pulled!
Filled with the Holy Spirit, I prayed that Lady gaga would turn for Jesus. That were she thought “she was born this way” she would begin to declare that Jesus is Lord and she was born for a holy purpose.
I prayed for Katy Perry, that the ancient ruins of her salvation would be restored, that she would be delivered from her manager and that another person would come into to guide her back to the light and the truth of Jesus.
Human Trafficking victims and slaves of any kind will be set free and will share their testimony of the faithfulness of God!
Will you also continue to fast and pray? Freedom for our land and our country is not a right, it is won on our knees. It is released through continuous fasting and repentance and calling out to God.
THERE IS NO TIME TO WAIT. THE TIME IS NOW.
Clicking The Refresh Button
Faith comes by hearing.
Not once, not twice, but hearing over and over.
We have to click the ‘refresh’ button on our minds every day, every hour, every minute.
Fear doesn’t only try and break in once a day…
Lately, anxiety comes pounding at the door of my mind every time I hear the news, scroll my social media feeds or step foot into a grocery store.
For this reason, Faith must continuously be increasing through what we are ‘snacking on’ per se.
That sounds a little weird, I agree.
But we are repeatedly fed anxious thoughts.
We can either snack on them until we are full or we can feed ourselves with faith, leaving no room for fear to reside.
My baby girl still drinks bottles, but she is at the transitional stage where we are weaning her from formula into drinking regular milk. We do this by mixing formula and regular milk together.
I noticed lately that I have been pouring too much hot water in for the formula first, and not leaving enough space for the milk. Therefore, it is too hot to give her and she has to wait to drink it. (Hungry babies do not like to wait for their bottles!)
I was a holding an overly hot bottle and had an epiphany.
If I would only pour the milk first, then I wouldn’t continue to have this issue.
Yes, If we would only be FILLED up with a faith that is being refreshed anew, then there would be no room left for fear and anxiety to settle into our minds.
Be on guard about what you are allowing yourself to hear and dwell on.
Take every thought captivate. Set your mind on the things above. Turn off the news, open the word of God. Hide it in your heart so it is what flows out when you need it. Write it on your arm or in your journal, write it on your mirror, or your letter board.
Do whatever it takes to hear and continue hearing words that bring life and peace.
Faith comes by hearing.
IGTV: More On Embracing Your Brush Strokes
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Embracing your Brush Stroke
God has placed his unique brush stroke on you.
When re-doing my bedroom furniture, I was chalk paint happy and loved how it came out. However, my husband wanted to help and I let him paint one drawer. Admitedly, I was afraid that he wouldn’t follow the grain pattern right or allow what I thought was the right amount of wood show through the paint.
Time allowed the paint to dry and the final look to be revealed. Brady put the drawers back together and assembled the dresser to put my creative heart in awe. Except, I saw the one drawer he painted. It was completely slathered in paint and looked different than all of the ones I painted.
In art, brush strokes are a “the configuration given to paint by contact with the bristles of brush”, according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
Simply put, this is the finishing touch of the painter’s creativity, the remaining shape once the brush is lifted up.
There may be many a hundred thousand others with the same PAINT as you, but there is no one else who possesses the same brush strokes that you do.
The world needs your originality, your talents and your inimitable anointing.
The thing that is distinct about you is what sets you a part.
It brings a unique emphasis to your calling.
Instead of talking yourself out of doing what you were created to do, it’s time to
OWN YOUR BRUSH STROKE.
Perhaps you are trying to use someone else brush strokes because it works for them.
My three year old son has a pair of shoes he loves to wear, but they aren’t quite his size. So every time he goes to jump on a rock or skip down the road, he slips and falls down.
Perhaps you also are wearing shoes that don’t fit.
You keep falling down when you try to run, you scrape your knees when you try to land the jump. It’s not that what you are doing is wrong, it’s that you can’t do it right because you don’t have the gear meant for you. God has given you specific talents and ways that may not look like other people’s ways.
Perhaps you are trying to wear the kings armor, but you are struggling to carry it, like David. (Yet, he opted out of the armor and used his sling and some stones because that was what he knew already worked for him. )
Don’t be discouraged. It was never meant to fit you!
Instead, ask the Lord, what is YOUR way for me? What is your strategy FOR ME?
“What is my brush stroke?” And as you discover it, embrace it and let it shine!
The world needs the light you possess and the way you shine it.
Will you set aside the kings armor and pick up your sling, even if it feels silly?
You never know what may come of your courage.
Fully Loaded
I heard a whisper, “FULLY LOADED”.
What exactly does that mean?
It sounds powerful, it sounds ready.
It sounds as if there’s no empty space inside and no detail unattended.
Fully equipped. Fully stocked. Like a powerful weapon. A gun.
When it’s fully loaded, it’s ready for battle.
When it’s empty, it’s nothing more than great power gone to waste: completely useless.
The time has come to WATCH and PRAY.
and prayer is an ammunition unlike any other.
The Lord is calling us to wake up, rise up and get filled up.
Living a lifestyle of prayer will change you and equip you.
Are you ready to live your life fully loaded; ready to be shot out with power and accuracy?
Then pray:
Lord, fill me up with your anointing. Let your Word be stored up in my heart that I may be ready and fully equipped on the day you are ready to fire me into the world.
I don’t want to miss the target when my trigger is pulled because there was no ammunition found inside.
I refuse to be great potential found lacking, but dangerous in the right hands.
Fill me up, Lord.
Amen.
Nothing Is Wasted
Moves or Excuses
“I got two choices when I do this, make moves or make excuses.”- Andy Mineo
I decided with my actions to stop making excuses and start living again: to the fullest and freest.
Little by little strength is increased.
Each time fear didn’t stop me, it launched me.
What choice are you making:
Moves or excuses?