Monday…..

Monday’s would probably be one of the hardest days for me. I’m tired from the weekend and all the things that need to be taken care of creep in at 8 am Monday morning. I call these days my stress out days! I can’t really concentrate on anything else other then the stress I feel. This morning I desire to lay it all down at Jesus feet and turn my eyes toward the Father and let him carry me through the situations.

At times I become so totally self dependant and I leave my Father out. I’m not even good at it! I make a small problem into something big. I get upset, I get angry because I can’t fix it and when it gets resolved I have 20 other fires to extinguish. I could tell you I need to find better ways to get rid of the stress, but I already know how. I need to depend on Jesus. 

God, you know my struggles. You know exactly where the enemy attacks me the most. I ask for your help. I need your help Father. I can’t do much without you and more so I don’t want to. Forgive me Father for taking on things that I shouldn’t. You know how to handle every situation that I can not.   I lay my day before you feet and ask that you take my hand and guide me through out this day. Amen

Be Still

I know God has an amazing calling on my life and I feel ready to go, but God is speaking BE STILL AND WAIT FOR ME! Come on God I have worked so hard to get here. I’ve done everything I was supposed to do. WHY?? WHY CAN’T I GO?? God still will say to me BE STILL!!

My Father is asking me to continue to reach deeper into his heart. He wants me to be so fully connected that no mater the advisary I will be able to trust God and know that the battle is won. I want to be the on fire Christian! BUT I don’t want to be the burnt out Christian. For that reason alone I must continue to grow and depend on my Heavenly Father for all things so that I may never grow weary and understand where my strength comes from.

King David was a man after God’s own heart and yet still failed. He was an adulter and a murderer. He would shake and bow in the very presence of God. He searched and found God in so many different times of his life but still managed to burn out. I don’t want that. I want to burn and burn with the Holy Spirit. I want my life to be unshakable and irreproachable. The only way I can do this is to draw closer and know who my Heavenly Father is in the most intimate ways.

Father I come before you and ask that you draw the stings of my heart closer and closer to you Father. I want my life so intertwined that I stay in harmony and on fire for your works. Guide my spirit to only things that you desire for my life. I will draw closer to you Father and know when you have called me to do something and when the time is here for me to stand up for it. I love you Jesus and I pray for divine guidance in my life and others around me. Lift up the ones who are hurting and broken today. We ask all these things in your name. Amen.

Battle For Life

Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to keep our flesh in check. Our spiritual beings can soar while or flesh can fight so hard against what is right. Last night we went to a great service at DHOP. God has really revealed so much to my husband and I the last few weeks and were so thankful to be able to go and praise God. 15 minutes before we drive home an argument erupted. WHY? We are in a war. Satan is trying so hard to keep God’s people under attack so our souls can’t move forward with the work of God.

We as people have to learn to address the attacks and know who has just entered our presence. If not then we will become so locked down and let Satan win. HE CANNOT WIN! There is so much that needs to be done before our Savior comes back and we need to be ready to fight. Were fighting for our life in Heaven.

I encourage us as christians to make a stand. We need to know who we serve and know what the voice of our Father sounds like. We have to get to a point where we are only listening to our Heavenly Father and know the difference between Him and anything else.

Our prayer is for the will of our Heavenly Father to be our will as a nation. We try so hard Father to become something personally connected, but if we look for the unity as a whole then we can open the heavens and unleash the power of the one and only true King. Thank you for your trials for they make me stronger it helps us to understand your grace. I pray for the lost, for the weary, and for those who are just stubborn thank you father in Jesus name amen

Let Us Pray

This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad. I want to worship so badly. I want to be in a place of worship either in a church or just in a praying mindset all the time. I long for a relationship where I only can hear the voice of God. Life is getting to a point where life doesn’t matter. God is doing such an amazing job of taking care of everything.

Today is the national day of prayer for our nation. As believers we should be crying out to God. Our country needs to come back to a place of reverence and repentance for the things it has allowed and done. Crying out for the babies who never get to take a breath, crying out for the crime in our cities, for the sexual immortality of our country. We need to worship our God. Come back to a place where we are on our knees in reverence and worship. If you don’t have a place to go as a group to pray make your room your prayer room and cry out to God.  

I could go on and on about how our country has rejected its first love. I won’t but as believers we have a responsibility to take care of it. America is a Christian nation lets lift our voices and change the world. Were only hear for a short time and nothing is ever going to hurt us. We have already won. Lay your flesh down and let your soul guide your heart straight to God’s.

God, We are sinners. We have missed that mark. We have failed. Forgive our nation. We ask that you bring our leaders to you Father. Their hearts need to be changed. We ask the people in our streets would bow before you and remember who their creator is. We ask that the mother’s who think about aborting their child will see your face and come up with a new plan. We ask that the doctors who do procedures that murder will come to repentance and never allow it again. We ask that father’s will find a love for their children that could only come from you. We ask that you come into our military and clean the hearts of the men who are supposed to love our country. We ask Father, we know you have a plan, but we ask to see a change. God, I want millions to come to you Father. Pour out your burning fire of anointment that they will go and presue the work of You. We ask all these things in your name. Amen!

I Live For You.

Its you I live for. God you are the creator of all and you take care of the impossible. I walk in your presence Father. You are guiding my life and controlling the things around me. I thank you ,for that I know I would never be able to do anything without you. I have tried and I fail, and if not fail I am truly miserable.

When I learn to put you first you take care of anything that comes my way. I have a new-found trust in you. Admitting my anger and my resentment towards God for all the years past I have found a freedom and a forgiveness for myself and towards Him. Now I have an open line of communications with my Heavenly Father.

Father, I thank you for this day. I think you for the times I spend in your presence. I desire the time to become greater and greater. I’m learning to depend on you and really reach deeper into your heart. I want to know you. I want to be totally free and be like the dove with eyes only set on you and know that the things around me will be taken care of the way you desire them to be. I love you Jesus. My heart is soaring today. I just feel happy and free. I refuse for the enemy to hold me in bondage again. We ask in your name to just grace this day with your overwhelming presence and your will be the done in every aspect of my life. Amen

Equipment is packed!

Shane and I decided to write together today. With two of us writing I would hope there would be something good in here!

The true meaning of Grace is the empowerment of being what we are called to do and be who we are called to be. It is not just the covering for our sins. It’s the ability to do what God leads us to. I mean think about it. Is there really any way that we could get a message from God and just have the ability as a human to just do it. Well NO! Usually the things God asks of us are the things we wouldn’t have a clue how to do or more so were so weak in the area that we are just unable to do them. WE NEED GOD’S GRACE. He fills in all the cracks making us as christians strong and powerful warriors that are used to get the job done.

Right now Shane and I are in a place were we know what God is calling of us in our lives and we need that Grace. Grace isn’t necessarily always happiness its the acknowledgement of knowing what we have to do. God never promised happiness and roses, but promises he will never leave us or forsake us, and more so he will equip us to do the impossible. Right now things seem impossible! We will overcome by God’s grace. We will be able to be the people of God. We will be covered by God’s grace to empower us to go and reach the world for his name! (PS look out! ~Shane)

I have been talking a lot of Peter here lately but I can relate. I have little faith, I have not trusted God, and in my thoughts have denied him. If not saying he isn’t real then by denying his love and standing in a place of distrust and resistance. Peter denied him and more so after the death rejected the calling that Jesus had placed on his life. He went back and did what he always did KNOWING he had a greater purpose. The AMAZING THING Jesus came back to him. He revealed his splendor to him after his resurrection. He was going to bless him in the old place he was but told Peter to come with me and I will place you back in my line of GRACE and equip you to make you fishermen of MEN! How amazing is that. I have stumbled and messed things up but Jesus comes back and reminds me that I am called and promises to equip me and like Peter fishermen of men.

Shane’s Prayer:

Jesus said for us to pray like this:

Our Father, who art in heaven, Hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done, On earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses, As we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Amen.

Our Father in Heaven knows what we ask before we ask. He knows the number of hairs on our head. He feeds the sparrows. How much greater are we then the sparrows?

STRESS!!!!!!!

Stress is a motivator to make you do anything your emotions tell you to do. In my personal life Satan really uses it as a strong hold in my life. It makes me not sleep. Stress makes me angry. I can’t let anything to go under stress. I hold it so tightly and the pressure is unbearable. Doing this gives me an excuse to make rash decisions or do something that would be otherwise way out of character. It’s amazing how wonderful life can be and you can’t ever imagine getting off the mountain top anytime soon then SOMETHING no matter how small happens cause an inflammation of stress!! !My desire is to find away to let it go and just let it go knowing it will be okay. No matter the result I need to remember that God is control. My emotions and actions can’t fix the problem. Only God can. I heard someone say that months later you won’t even remember what was really stressing you out. I wish I could apply that right now in my life. When the stress is too much just remember that in the long run it won’t even matter and even likely even be remembered. God, I need to come to a point in every day to understand you hold the keys. You control the world and my life. That taking my trust and my dependency off of you to myself isn’t what you desire for my life. You want me to trust you and know your taking care of it. I know there are so many different times that you have protected me when I don’t even realize. I ask that you build a wall of protection around my mind that I can’t start imagining the crazy problems that aren’t even there yet. I commit to making a daily a point to trust you Father. I love you God and I will TRUST you I will allow you to do your will. I bless your heavenly name, AMEN!