Simple Thoughts

A few days ago, I was traveling on the interstate to go to a city 3 hours away from home. It was just me in the car. I was rocking out to my music and enjoying Jesus. All of the sudden, I noticed something. In front of my car, passing in front of my windshield… was a butterfly! It seemed like quite the contrast. Me – driving approximately 70 mph on the interstate, and this butterfly – taking its time in travel, flight. Have you ever noticed that when butterflies fly, they seem to take their time flittering about, looking for the flowers they want to land on? They don’t exactly strike me as the insects who are zooming about in such a hurry. Life can get so busy. There are so many reasons to rush about, going from place to place, appointment to appointment. But I felt like that butterfly on the highway, was God’s little reminder to me… “You can be on the highway of life. You can be busy. But in your busyness, you need to slow down. Enjoy the beauty God has placed around us. Searc...

You know those people who seem to never fill up their car all the way with gas and they just seem to live on Empty? The last few months, I have found myself filling all the way up, and then driving until I am dangerously low on gas and THEN filling up again. But the other day, I did something different, I filled up when I was only ¼ a tank full. I wasn’t empty yet, but still decided to stop and get gas. That got me thinking. So many Christians live their life on Empty. They may be low in energy or low on time, in the same way that people who usually live on empty with their physical cars are short on money. They may not have time or energy to expend on their relationship with God, spending intimacy with Jesus, to refill the tank of their spirit. But those very people who don’t seem to have the time and energy to encounter God are usually the ones that feel rushed, the world may be crashing down around them, and they seem to live their busy life without joy and without hope. We ...

I want to be a mother of a nazarite nesting ground - a place to raise up prophets and nazarites and children and youth who are set apart, Holy unto the Lord. I want to be apart of the Adoption Revolution. I want to live a culture of LIFE that appreciates and values a LIFE regardless of color, ethnicity, mental capacity, or age. I want to rescue babies from the jaws of the death of abortion through adoption. I want to change the world around me. One child, one youth, one life at a time. That's what I want.

Excerpt from “Christmas Reformation Long Overdue” by A.W. Tozer … In our mad materialism we have turned beauty into ashes, prostituted every normal emotion and made merchandise of the holiest gift the world ever knew. Christ came to bring peace and we celebrate His coming by making peace impossible for six weeks of each year. Not peace but tension, fatigue, and irritation rule the Christmas season. He came to free us of debt and many respond by going deep into debt each year to buy enervating luxuries for people who do not appreciate them. He came to help the poor and we heap gifts upon those who do not need them. The simple token given out of love has been displaced by expensive presents given because we have been caught in a squeeze and don’t know how to back out of it. Not the beauty of the Lord our God is found in such a situation, but the ugliness and deformity of human sin. Among the harmful abuses of the Christmas season in America is the substitution of Santa Claus for ...

Do you ever just have one of those days when God reminds you, “Be patient.”? I’m having one of those days. So I decided to look up the word “Patient” in the New King James Bible and see what I came up with. 7 verses. Verse #1: Ecc 7:8 NKJV - The end of a thing [is] better than its beginning; The patient in spirit [is] better than the proud in spirit. In the middle of words of wisdom, there is this saying. So much of this verse intrigues me. The first part, “The end of a thing is better than its beginning”, has so much to do with the end – being patient in spirit. The first thing that I think of is the return of Jesus, the end of days. That glorious day when Justice takes His place on the earth. The end is better than the beginning… like every good fairy tale. But it’s no fairy tale. It’s reality. We must be patient in spirit and here’s the very reason why. The end is better than the beginning!! What a glorious thought! Do you know why the patient in spirit is contrasted with the...

Last Saturday, I attended a conference at IHOP Tallahassee. Randy Martinez, from Fredericksburg Prayer Furnace, spoke a word to the House of Prayer on hiddenness… not despising the place of hiddenness, this place of preparation. It really gripped my heart. Oh that place of hiddenness. Most despise and hate it. Most desire to be seen, desire for their ministry to take off, and desire to be used greatly by God to touch thousands of lives. So what about when we are waiting in the place of the desert, the time of preparation? Does it offend you that Jesus cares way more about your heart than He does your ministry? He cares way more for your heart. John the Baptist was in the desert and in preparation for 30 years to “only have” a 6-12 month ministry. Does that offend you? Do you groan and say, “God please not me! It’s already been a decade! I’m ready to be released into ministry. The amazing ministry you have called me to, to touch nations and the people of the earth!” God cares....

Our house of community goes through cycles. There are times when it is easy to love, and there are times when it is difficult to love one another. And then there is a phase of those cycles that I like to call “when community becomes ‘Survivor’.” ------- Suddenly, the 10 or more people living in one house begin sectioning off. They turn into what some would call “cliques” and what I like to call “alliances.” It could be for any reason really. I like these people more than the rest. They are my friends. Those people bug me so I just won’t hang around them. She doesn’t really have any friends so I’ll be her friend. Being closer to certain people over other people is not the issue. The issue is when these factions begin to turn on one another. When they begin to agree that another person or group of people is annoying or frustrating to deal with. ------ The other thing that begins to manifest in Community Survivor is gossip. Every reality TV show has that side video camer...