I am blessed! How wonderful it is to join in prayer with church family for 24 hours and end with amazing God inspired worhsip!

Later, I began thinking about what a couple of men were saying. They noted the peace and calm they felt walking into the sanctuary during the very early hours of the morning. When it is calm. When there aren't any pressures. No phones ringing. No people wanting something. It's just easier to hear Him. To see Him. To just BE with Him.

That is my goal. To defeat this undisciplined side of me.

Psalm 5:3 In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.

The Road of Life

At first, I saw God as my observer, my judge,
keeping track of the things I did wrong,
so as to know whether I merited heaven or hell when I die.
He was out there sort of like a president,
I recognized His picture when I saw it,
but I really didn't know Him.

But later on when I met Christ,
it seemed as though life were rather like a bike ride,
but it was a tandem bike, and I noticed that Christ
was in the back helping me pedal.

I don't know just when it was
that he suggested we change places,
but life has not been the same since.

When I had control, I knew the way.
It was rather boring, but predictable....
It was the shortest distance between two points.

But when He took the lead,
he knew delightful long cuts, up mountains,
and through rocky places at breakneck speeds,
it was all I could do to hang on!
Even though it looked like madness, He said, "Pedal!"

I worried and was anxious and asked, "Where are you taking me?"
He laughed and didn't answer, and I started to learn to trust.

I forgot my boring life and entered into the adventure.
And when I'd say, "I'm scared,"
He'd lean back and touch my hand.

He took me to people with gifts that I needed,
gifts of healing, acceptance and joy.
They gave me gifts to take on my journey,
my Lord's and mine.

And we were off again.
He said, "Give the gifts away, they're extra baggage,
too much weight." So I did, to people we met,
and I found that in giving I received,
and still our burden was light.

I did not trust Him, at first, in control of my life.
I thought He'd wreck it;

but he knows bike secrets,
knows how to make it bend to take sharp corners,
knows how to jump to clear high rocks,
knows how to fly to shorten scary passages.

And I am learning to shut up and pedal,
in the strangest places,
and I'm beginning to enjoy the view
and the cool breeze on my face
with my delightful constant companion, Jesus Christ.

And when I'm sure I just can't do anymore,
he just smiles and says..... "Pedal."
---author unknown

I was reading from 2 Peter 1:3-11 this evening. This is the scripture the staff and elders are focusing on this month during our prayer time for one another. When I get to verse 9 it makes me really think. Do I want to be "shortsighted or blind, forgetting that I have been cleansed from my old sins?" Well, thats what happens when we don't make every effot to respond to God's promises.

We are called to supplement our faith with................................

Can you fill in the rest?

Excited about the future. Confused about the past. Fully understands that Jesus loves me. No buts. No what if's. Nothing. He just loves me. yeah!

I have been singing the following song all day: "O how marvelous! O how wonderful! And my song shall ever be: O how marvelous! O how wonderful! Is my Savior's love for me! ........."

To end the day, I had the privelege of witnessing a baptism of an elderly lady. It is a reminder to NEVER give up on your loved ones! Accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior can happen. Just keep on praying!

Blog migrated. Check. Whatever that means! :o)

Getting so excited about the upcoming Prayer Gathering at New Hope. Making final preparations for our Prayer Service. You won't want to miss this!

While in Florida, Mitchell and I were walking out into the ocean to a sandbar. As we were walking along I noticed a jelly fish. I told Mitchell to go get me something to catch it with, he gladly went in fear...lol As I approached it, I realized it was not longer alive. I was able to get it back to shore so the kids and I could examine it.

I have never seen a jelly fish up close. As I was looking at it, i realized how transparent it was. You can see right through to the core of what it is. Made me stop and think.....that is exactly how Jesus sees us. No clothing, no flesh, just the center of who we are. Is my center one that Jesus would proudly proclaim to our maker?

Search me, O God, and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23

Excerpt from a book I finished reading on vacation: "I struggle to always and actually keep in step with the Spirit, moment by moment. To submit and give up everything truly is radical and terrifying. However, when I think deeply about it, walking in my own wisdom, contrary to the Spirit's leading, is even more frightful. Though I struggle, I know that ultimately I want nothing more than to live in total surrender and abandonment to the Spirit every moment I have left on this earth. a few pages later..... when a person is habitually and actively submitted to the Spirit, what comes out of his or her life is the fruit of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit will not - cannot - lead you into sin. If the Holy Spirit is in you, as a believer, then when you sin you are not listening to the Spirit's leading.(ouch) (Forgotten God, Francis Chan)

Ephesians 4:30 - And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.