Tonight was a great night at BSSM Atlanta. Because of a function going on at OM we couldn't meet in our normal room. We met only as 1st year and we were in the small chapel located downstairs. Now this is considerably smaller than the worship center that we are used to. We were pretty packed in there. We had a sweet intimate time of worship, it was great.
Now a couple of times in worship Tracy Cooper has come around with a mike and had people sing prophetically on the spot. Everytime she did this I was like oh, my what if she picks me. The first time I was freaked out, and then the second time I was like well this wouldn't be so bad. Well we've not done that for about 3 weeks now. So tonight, we had a lot of just instrumental parts of the song "Freedom Reigns". Everybody is really singing and getting into it,really releasing freedom, it was awesome. I'm thinking to myself, wow I really hope they do the spontaneous prophetic song, because I wanted to be picked, I was totally ready. A few minutes later the worship leader says that they are going to open the mike to people that feel like stepping out and embracing the freedom in the room. As soon as she said that my heart just starts racing because I know that its partly for me. I didn't move. A few minutes later Scott gets up and says how we all were just singing and as soon as she opened the mike up everyone got quiet, and no one moved. Well this older man who is really amazing, Tom, got up and sang then a few more people, it was really freeing just watching these people worship. It was like stepping into their prayer closet and just enjoying them worship Jesus. As all of this is going on my palms are sweating and I'm trying to come up with words to put together as a song. I'm getting nothing. It all just keeps changing. After about 10 people or so, I finally got the nerve to step out to the aisle behind this guy who had started a line down the middle. AS soon as I got out there, it was weird because I was kind of nervous but at the same time the presence of God was so strong I could hardly stand up. The guy that sang before me did such a wonderful job my eyes were tearing up, and I'm thinking great, I can't even start singing without crying.
I walked up and took the mike, I turned toward the side of the room. I had my eyes closed so it didn't really matter where I was facing. I just starting with a little ohhs and ahhs, no words, and then it just flowed out of my mouth. I sang to Jesus, it was just me and HIM. There were no other people in the room to me. I was so lost in HIM. I sang about being on the edge of a cliff. and just to step off and fly, and then fun into HIS arms, HIS arms of Love, and that He would just hold me Close. And I just broke, I just started crying. I basically sang it to my self. About how He loves me, and I am His daughter and I'm just like Him and I love him and I will love him for all the days of my life.
It was the best moment of my life. I didn't think about anyone else.
I truly believe that that was just for me.(I'll be selfish)
I really needed that. It was so freeing.
So for all the thought I took into trying to formulate a song, didn't really matter, because HE gave me the words as I opened my mouth.
It was such an amazing experience.
So instead of being picked out of the crowd to sing, I had to take the step to go up and take the mike and sing. I'm kind of glad it worked out that way because I needed to take that step out and get over the nerves and just let Jesus shine through me the way I really want Him to and the way I really know He does, and that is through my voice.
After that Judy Franklin came up and told us more stories, and then we all had encounters and went to heaven. It was awesome. I'll write about it tomorrow night after the next session. :)
Good night friends.
Love love love!!!
-Lovely, beautiful cute. Erin
Monday, November 16, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
~Adventures~
Wow, today is November 15. I cannot believe that it is half way through the month of November. Next month is December and then its 2010.. How weird does that sound.
This past month has been an amazing journey. I've moved into a two bedroom apartment with my friend and co-worker Christianna. My best friend Joshlynn was here to visit, I went home to visit my friends and family!!! And throughout all that I've really come to grow into who the Lord has really made me to be.
Today at church we had a guest speaker, Judy Franklin, who is Bill Johnson's personal assistant basically. She was just so real. it was great. I could fully relate because I feel like since I've moved down here, that I'm really really becoming my own person. Everyday is my own, its just me and Jesus. I've been put in a place that's not always comfortable. Everyone at church doesn't know me, which is what I've been used to. I'm fully becoming the person that God has created me to be and its awesome. There have been a few rough patches but its been worth it. So at any rate Judy talked this morning about this vision that she had one time when she was taken to heaven. God was walking with her down this gold brick laid path and there were these little obstacles. She walked over to them and just looked at them, then they continued to walk. Then she would turn around to look at these obstacles because they just kept getting bigger. He said, "Don't look at the obstacles, they will continue to get bigger, then they may grow to stop you in the path that I have laid out for you." He then began to show her the different paths of other people. Every path looks different....
Each and every person is called to different things. You may be called to be a Doctor while I am called to be a worship leader. It doesn't matter. Do what God has called you to do. If you begin to walk on someone elses path, you are inhibiting them from being able to do what GOD has given them the grace to be, and He has not given you the grace to do.
This really hit me because this applies also to more than just life callings but also our gifts. I believe my gift is hospitality, and singing. I don't have a strong gift for evangelism, or praying for people. I love on people. And that is okay! I walk where God has put for me to walk. There is such a freedom in that. It is actually a sin for me to feel guilty that I don't walk where so and so walks. It is a sin for me to believe that my hospitality gift isn't as good as your gift of evangelism or your gift of relating to people. GOD LOVES ME right where I am at. I just keep my gaze fixed on HIM. He is the one I'm after. I only please HIM.
People, but me especially get so caught up in judging things that we do. We've come up with a scale of rating testimonies, like if its not some big healing than it is not worthy of being shared. That is not true. My testimony of me actually talking to someone and being able to share with them the Love of God is just the same as someone else praying for someone their leg growing out. That may be there gifting, the Gift of Healing. where mine is not so why do I expect to have that sort of testimony. My gift is Love, so that is where we will see fruit in me is through love and loving on other people.
What has God called you to do? Where is your path going?
Judy also challenged us to take sometime to just sit and rest in the presence and ask God to come and give us a hug.
I was just online chatting and playing around on Facebook and then I was watching TV which I don't do much of, and I couldn't find anything so, I looked up a spontaneous song that Jenn Johnson sang on youtube, and I just laid back and the presence of God was so thick right around me it was crazy. He is so faithful and loving and GOOD. GOD IS SO GOOD.
I've learned so much about myself recently. Living on my own I've really come to learn who God has created me to be. I am a beautiful young, mature woman who Loves the Lord, who loves people, loves to dance, sing, laugh, and brings joy to people. I can't tell you the number of times I've been told that I'm cute, beautiful, fun to be around and that my laugh is contagious.
That is so life producing. I'm not even trying to be funny, or to be cute. Honestly the past few weeks, I've not really felt that way. I've got this ridiculous haircut that I didn't even really like once I first got it, that I'm sort of growing a custom to, that everyone else seems to like.. haha go figure.
but its so encouraging. I believe that I'm becoming more beautiful because I'm becoming the woman that God has created me to be. I'm becoming HIS beautiful Beloved.
That is who I am.
- His Beautiful Beloved
This past month has been an amazing journey. I've moved into a two bedroom apartment with my friend and co-worker Christianna. My best friend Joshlynn was here to visit, I went home to visit my friends and family!!! And throughout all that I've really come to grow into who the Lord has really made me to be.
Today at church we had a guest speaker, Judy Franklin, who is Bill Johnson's personal assistant basically. She was just so real. it was great. I could fully relate because I feel like since I've moved down here, that I'm really really becoming my own person. Everyday is my own, its just me and Jesus. I've been put in a place that's not always comfortable. Everyone at church doesn't know me, which is what I've been used to. I'm fully becoming the person that God has created me to be and its awesome. There have been a few rough patches but its been worth it. So at any rate Judy talked this morning about this vision that she had one time when she was taken to heaven. God was walking with her down this gold brick laid path and there were these little obstacles. She walked over to them and just looked at them, then they continued to walk. Then she would turn around to look at these obstacles because they just kept getting bigger. He said, "Don't look at the obstacles, they will continue to get bigger, then they may grow to stop you in the path that I have laid out for you." He then began to show her the different paths of other people. Every path looks different....
Each and every person is called to different things. You may be called to be a Doctor while I am called to be a worship leader. It doesn't matter. Do what God has called you to do. If you begin to walk on someone elses path, you are inhibiting them from being able to do what GOD has given them the grace to be, and He has not given you the grace to do.
This really hit me because this applies also to more than just life callings but also our gifts. I believe my gift is hospitality, and singing. I don't have a strong gift for evangelism, or praying for people. I love on people. And that is okay! I walk where God has put for me to walk. There is such a freedom in that. It is actually a sin for me to feel guilty that I don't walk where so and so walks. It is a sin for me to believe that my hospitality gift isn't as good as your gift of evangelism or your gift of relating to people. GOD LOVES ME right where I am at. I just keep my gaze fixed on HIM. He is the one I'm after. I only please HIM.
People, but me especially get so caught up in judging things that we do. We've come up with a scale of rating testimonies, like if its not some big healing than it is not worthy of being shared. That is not true. My testimony of me actually talking to someone and being able to share with them the Love of God is just the same as someone else praying for someone their leg growing out. That may be there gifting, the Gift of Healing. where mine is not so why do I expect to have that sort of testimony. My gift is Love, so that is where we will see fruit in me is through love and loving on other people.
What has God called you to do? Where is your path going?
Judy also challenged us to take sometime to just sit and rest in the presence and ask God to come and give us a hug.
I was just online chatting and playing around on Facebook and then I was watching TV which I don't do much of, and I couldn't find anything so, I looked up a spontaneous song that Jenn Johnson sang on youtube, and I just laid back and the presence of God was so thick right around me it was crazy. He is so faithful and loving and GOOD. GOD IS SO GOOD.
I've learned so much about myself recently. Living on my own I've really come to learn who God has created me to be. I am a beautiful young, mature woman who Loves the Lord, who loves people, loves to dance, sing, laugh, and brings joy to people. I can't tell you the number of times I've been told that I'm cute, beautiful, fun to be around and that my laugh is contagious.
That is so life producing. I'm not even trying to be funny, or to be cute. Honestly the past few weeks, I've not really felt that way. I've got this ridiculous haircut that I didn't even really like once I first got it, that I'm sort of growing a custom to, that everyone else seems to like.. haha go figure.
but its so encouraging. I believe that I'm becoming more beautiful because I'm becoming the woman that God has created me to be. I'm becoming HIS beautiful Beloved.
That is who I am.
- His Beautiful Beloved
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Grayscale
Grayscale is a million shades of gray. We look in a lot of different places for the answer to what is right or wrong in the media. If I don't the definition defined by God for something in my life, something or someone will define it for me. The only way that gray is defined is because of how light shines through the color. The only way we know the answer to specific situations is by letting HIS light shine through.
I recently listened/watched a video featuring Jenn Johnson. It was absolutely amazing!
We get so wrapped up in looking for the answer. We've got to figure out our lives by connecting with every issue with His light to define in HIS scale where our answer lies. We've got to look to God. God is the source. Friendships and leaders are vital but relationship with God comes first. When you partner faith with active faith and hearing him out of that Faith is amazing. I take who I am and bring it to HIS table. I can take every situation that I have to the table and ask the Holy Spirit about it. We focus so much on who HE is we miss who WE are.
If I become to obsessed with who HE is then I miss who He has made me to be. What are the things I love in life?? What are my dreams? What makes me come alive??
Then partner with who He has called me to be.
Who is the Holy Spirit, God, and Jesus to me?
How do I relate to HIM??
I've been thinking alot about how I relate to the Lord. I've always seen Jesus as my Prince, and I'm HIS Beloved Princess. But it's not easy to live like that all the time. I tend to forget about that some days and I just live as if I'm a regular person. It takes reminders and setting things before myself to act like that.
There have been alot of changes and things taking place in my life recently. I've come to realize how much I've grown up over the past few months. It feels like its been years, and I feel like I'm about 24. :)But the Lord is so good. I've had amazing encounters and connections with people that I would have never dreamed of.
At Bethel Atlanta we just had a guest speaker Randall Worley. He was phenomenal. Its going to take me a little bit to continue to process what he spoke about but I can't wait to share it. It's good.
I will share this one thing. He was talking about the significance of numbers. The number 7 being perfection and then the number 8 being new beginnings. Well for singers, when warming our voices up we sing the doe, ray, me, fa, so, la, te, [doe]..... Well if you look at it the last thing you say is doe- which leads to the next level, and before it is 7 notes. Isn't that amazing.
He just has all these little nuggets like stored in his head and he just spills them all out and its just incredible.
More to come.
:)
I recently listened/watched a video featuring Jenn Johnson. It was absolutely amazing!
We get so wrapped up in looking for the answer. We've got to figure out our lives by connecting with every issue with His light to define in HIS scale where our answer lies. We've got to look to God. God is the source. Friendships and leaders are vital but relationship with God comes first. When you partner faith with active faith and hearing him out of that Faith is amazing. I take who I am and bring it to HIS table. I can take every situation that I have to the table and ask the Holy Spirit about it. We focus so much on who HE is we miss who WE are.
If I become to obsessed with who HE is then I miss who He has made me to be. What are the things I love in life?? What are my dreams? What makes me come alive??
Then partner with who He has called me to be.
Who is the Holy Spirit, God, and Jesus to me?
How do I relate to HIM??
I've been thinking alot about how I relate to the Lord. I've always seen Jesus as my Prince, and I'm HIS Beloved Princess. But it's not easy to live like that all the time. I tend to forget about that some days and I just live as if I'm a regular person. It takes reminders and setting things before myself to act like that.
There have been alot of changes and things taking place in my life recently. I've come to realize how much I've grown up over the past few months. It feels like its been years, and I feel like I'm about 24. :)But the Lord is so good. I've had amazing encounters and connections with people that I would have never dreamed of.
At Bethel Atlanta we just had a guest speaker Randall Worley. He was phenomenal. Its going to take me a little bit to continue to process what he spoke about but I can't wait to share it. It's good.
I will share this one thing. He was talking about the significance of numbers. The number 7 being perfection and then the number 8 being new beginnings. Well for singers, when warming our voices up we sing the doe, ray, me, fa, so, la, te, [doe]..... Well if you look at it the last thing you say is doe- which leads to the next level, and before it is 7 notes. Isn't that amazing.
He just has all these little nuggets like stored in his head and he just spills them all out and its just incredible.
More to come.
:)
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
True Beauty and some....
Michael asked if I would help him research something for his paper. The topic was "effects of advertising on woman's self image." I began to look at different articles. There were alot of research papers that people just had posted on the web. I also remembered a Dove advertisement that I had seen that had alot to do with this. It was for the Real Beauty Campaign. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U
It's called Dove Evolution. It is absolutely brilliant. When I first watched it I had no idea that that many edits were done to a picutre before its published into a magazine. Its like really. What can we even believe about what any of the media tells us.
I began to look more into some of the articles they had published there. One of the articles I read, stated a statistic that said that only 2% of women in the world are comfortable enough to consider themselves Beautiful. I was really shocked by that. I mean I know that alot of women have self-image issues but only 2% of the women in the world could actually say that they are beautiful. That has to change.
I believe the Lord is raising a generation of people that understand how the Lord is really moving. I just heard Paul Manwaring speak last night and he was talking about how the Lord is Moving. Technology is transforming and expanding every single day. You may get the newest computer and within less than a year its already out of date. The media has a way of exposing things that we don't need to know. They are very creative but many times give off the wrong side of the message. I would love to hear ALL positive thing in the news, then maybe it wouldn't be called news. Can you imagine if the media industry was all occupied by Kingdom People. What would THAT look like?? That would be amazing. That is where I think we are moving too. This generation is so hungry for the spirit and how the Lord moves. We will be the people that will be leading this nation not too far from now.
God is so good. He knows all the things there ever is to know. He loves us, and He gets so tickled when we discover things that He has put just out of reach for us. Like when the next invention is made. How incredible. He never grows tired of our excitement over new inventions and things like that.
You know another thing thats so amazing..... GET THIS! We are made in HIS image, right? okay, so We are all made in His image, BUT we are all different. God hasn't run out of ideas. He is so so so so so creative.
Another thing is that when we express ourselves we are expressing God! We have the infilling of the Holy Spirit in us, so whatever we do, we are brining Glory to HIM. Imagine watching the news and hearing testimonies of what the Lord is doing all over the world. That just blows my mind. I can't wait to see that.
In the meantime, Express yourself. Be who you ARE!
You are beautiful, handsome, fearless, patient, kind, loving, peaceful, Glorious, etc.
Don't forget it!
Go and spread glory wherever you go.
It's called Dove Evolution. It is absolutely brilliant. When I first watched it I had no idea that that many edits were done to a picutre before its published into a magazine. Its like really. What can we even believe about what any of the media tells us.
I began to look more into some of the articles they had published there. One of the articles I read, stated a statistic that said that only 2% of women in the world are comfortable enough to consider themselves Beautiful. I was really shocked by that. I mean I know that alot of women have self-image issues but only 2% of the women in the world could actually say that they are beautiful. That has to change.
I believe the Lord is raising a generation of people that understand how the Lord is really moving. I just heard Paul Manwaring speak last night and he was talking about how the Lord is Moving. Technology is transforming and expanding every single day. You may get the newest computer and within less than a year its already out of date. The media has a way of exposing things that we don't need to know. They are very creative but many times give off the wrong side of the message. I would love to hear ALL positive thing in the news, then maybe it wouldn't be called news. Can you imagine if the media industry was all occupied by Kingdom People. What would THAT look like?? That would be amazing. That is where I think we are moving too. This generation is so hungry for the spirit and how the Lord moves. We will be the people that will be leading this nation not too far from now.
God is so good. He knows all the things there ever is to know. He loves us, and He gets so tickled when we discover things that He has put just out of reach for us. Like when the next invention is made. How incredible. He never grows tired of our excitement over new inventions and things like that.
You know another thing thats so amazing..... GET THIS! We are made in HIS image, right? okay, so We are all made in His image, BUT we are all different. God hasn't run out of ideas. He is so so so so so creative.
Another thing is that when we express ourselves we are expressing God! We have the infilling of the Holy Spirit in us, so whatever we do, we are brining Glory to HIM. Imagine watching the news and hearing testimonies of what the Lord is doing all over the world. That just blows my mind. I can't wait to see that.
In the meantime, Express yourself. Be who you ARE!
You are beautiful, handsome, fearless, patient, kind, loving, peaceful, Glorious, etc.
Don't forget it!
Go and spread glory wherever you go.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Snail Mail....
I'm just realizing again today, how amazing it is to send mail!! It makes me so happy to receive mail in my mailbox, but also to send people mail because its always so unexpected for the most part!!! I love it. Its a little surprise of happiness. And I LOVE surprises (note to yourself.. haha)
We started our AMT's last night at school. I can't remember exactly what AMT stands for, but I do know that MT stands for Ministry Training I believe. Its basically like electives within the General School. I'm in the Worship AMT and it was totally awesome!! We learned so much last night. It was crazy. The teacher is this amazing guy named Paul Spencer. It was so good. I'm still digesting what all I learned so I'll get back to that later.
This past Sunday we started our Outreach. It was really crazy. My outreach is Little Five Points. Its in the downtown area of Atlanta. Its apparently where 5 little roads meet. Its very eclectic. There are many different types of people down there. Many different lifestyles, there are homeless, witches, psychics and homosexuals. Just anything that you can think of they are down there. Everyone that I've told that I'm going there would tell me something different about the area, none of it was really positive, but I still didn't know what to expect. From the time we got there to the time we left I was very uncomfortable. I guess you could say I was a little intimidated. I still wasn't sure what to expect so I was just a little bogged down by all the dark spiritualness in the atmosphere. We didn't do any specific outreach then, it was more just being in the area and praying and getting and idea for what we can bring to Little5Points. As I was walking around with my group I was noticing all the trash that was just thrown everywhere. I tend to think in more practical ways, so I was thinking that one thing we could do was just to take ownership of the place and clean up around the area.
After we met, we were told to spend sometime praying this week for Little5Points and just get a vision for what we want to see happen. Last years group had a hard start. It was just hard to find a connection point with people, they did have alot of breakthrough, and at some point during the year, I'm not sure when but at some point, there was a person that had died, and they were taking him away in an ambulance to the Morgue, and the team and a couple of homeless people they had ministered to gathered around the ambulance praying, and the guy came back to life!!!
So They have raised the dead in that place. I believe they are more than ready to receive Love and Jesus in that place. For me personally I just need to align myself with the Holy Spirit and conciously and intelligently recognize Him. There are spirits that we can be affected by around us when we are there, but if we are aligned with the Spirit, those things can have no lasting affect on us. When I walk into Little5Points demons flee, because I have things things in me BIGGER than them!!! For Greater is He that is IN me, than he that is in the world!!!
I can't wait to share the testimony of things that happen in Little5Points.
Remember: The Level that you are dedicated to is the level to which you will see change!!!
We started our AMT's last night at school. I can't remember exactly what AMT stands for, but I do know that MT stands for Ministry Training I believe. Its basically like electives within the General School. I'm in the Worship AMT and it was totally awesome!! We learned so much last night. It was crazy. The teacher is this amazing guy named Paul Spencer. It was so good. I'm still digesting what all I learned so I'll get back to that later.
This past Sunday we started our Outreach. It was really crazy. My outreach is Little Five Points. Its in the downtown area of Atlanta. Its apparently where 5 little roads meet. Its very eclectic. There are many different types of people down there. Many different lifestyles, there are homeless, witches, psychics and homosexuals. Just anything that you can think of they are down there. Everyone that I've told that I'm going there would tell me something different about the area, none of it was really positive, but I still didn't know what to expect. From the time we got there to the time we left I was very uncomfortable. I guess you could say I was a little intimidated. I still wasn't sure what to expect so I was just a little bogged down by all the dark spiritualness in the atmosphere. We didn't do any specific outreach then, it was more just being in the area and praying and getting and idea for what we can bring to Little5Points. As I was walking around with my group I was noticing all the trash that was just thrown everywhere. I tend to think in more practical ways, so I was thinking that one thing we could do was just to take ownership of the place and clean up around the area.
After we met, we were told to spend sometime praying this week for Little5Points and just get a vision for what we want to see happen. Last years group had a hard start. It was just hard to find a connection point with people, they did have alot of breakthrough, and at some point during the year, I'm not sure when but at some point, there was a person that had died, and they were taking him away in an ambulance to the Morgue, and the team and a couple of homeless people they had ministered to gathered around the ambulance praying, and the guy came back to life!!!
So They have raised the dead in that place. I believe they are more than ready to receive Love and Jesus in that place. For me personally I just need to align myself with the Holy Spirit and conciously and intelligently recognize Him. There are spirits that we can be affected by around us when we are there, but if we are aligned with the Spirit, those things can have no lasting affect on us. When I walk into Little5Points demons flee, because I have things things in me BIGGER than them!!! For Greater is He that is IN me, than he that is in the world!!!
I can't wait to share the testimony of things that happen in Little5Points.
Remember: The Level that you are dedicated to is the level to which you will see change!!!
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
The Power of Testimonies
- Bill Johnson's message on The power of Testimony
Learn to ride the wave of power.
ministering out of authority, another place
power is when you catch a wave, authority is when you start a wave.
Authority is, your not sure what God is doing, but you believe. You may not feel all the things yuo are looking for you just have a heart for the person. The one thing you must promise yourself is to display the love of God, sometimes theres power, but we are more intersted in displaying the love of God.
testimonies are ways to boast in what God is doing. Don't withhold stuff to appear modest.
Share honesty in what you experience, if you speak the truth, you are actually releasing the Spirit of God to transform a person. If you speak from experience you not share information you are releasing the power for transformation.
Learn to ride the wave of power.
ministering out of authority, another place
power is when you catch a wave, authority is when you start a wave.
Authority is, your not sure what God is doing, but you believe. You may not feel all the things yuo are looking for you just have a heart for the person. The one thing you must promise yourself is to display the love of God, sometimes theres power, but we are more intersted in displaying the love of God.
testimonies are ways to boast in what God is doing. Don't withhold stuff to appear modest.
Share honesty in what you experience, if you speak the truth, you are actually releasing the Spirit of God to transform a person. If you speak from experience you not share information you are releasing the power for transformation.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Spirit-Filled Life
I can't believe this. I had trouble logging into my blog again just now, I have too many password combinations and/or e-mail addresses.
At any rate... I'm sitting on my nice little porch this fine Georgia evening, an amazing cool Fall evening. The beautiful moon is out, the grasshoppers are chirping and the little toads are out. One just about hopped on my foot just a moment ago.. ahhh.. that was quite startling.
I've now officially lived in my own Studio for4 weeks this week. It has been quite the experience. Up and down, side to side, CRAZY! It has been so good, weird, tiring, amazing, lonely, hard, fun, sad, happy.... All at the same time. It has been good for me to live on my own and learn how to just keep up my own life. Which with that its been pretty waeird too, because I don't have anyone keeping track of me, and I don't have to keep track of anyone else. That part I guess has been pretty great. About 1 week ago, I was really battling lies and just darkness about being lonely, and not deserving my job, and blah blah blah, I actually got sick last Monday. I had flu-like symptoms and went home from work early. I never got sick but I had the chills and a fever and congestion and cough. I rested all evening, and didn't make it to school. I talked to Michael later that evening, and he identified this as an attack from the enemy. HELLO!!! Yeah, it was I didn't really see it as that at first, sometimes it just takes an outsider to look into the situation. I was able to then know why I was sick and identify the lies that I was allowing to influence my daily life, that was getting me so down.
Eric and Candace Johnson had been in town last weekend and spoke alot about receiving blessings from God and how important it is to receive them and not say well, I don't deserve this and try to measure up to deserving it. The Lord just wants to bless us because of how amazing he has made us. That is exactly what was going on in my life at that point. I have been given this blessing of a paid job in a missios organization, my own studio with very good rent, and this amazing opportunity to attend Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry right here across the street from where I live and right where I work.. HOW CRAZY is THAT! I couldn't have even planned it.
I continued throughout the week with this on my mind. My mood changed throughout the week, I became very thankful for what the Lord has and continues to give and provide for me.
On Friday, I headed to Panama City Beach, FL with Lisa and Marnus and the rest of the BSSM. We drove about 6 hours, friday afternoon and finally got there about 6:30 or so with the time change, so it was like 530 there, or something I'm not sure that was kind of confusing. We walked on the beach a little bit, it was beautiful. Then we got some pizza, then Kristen one of my friends I met at the school came over and invited me to go walk on the beach with her and some other girls. We went and walked on the beach, about sunset I guess, it was beautiful. We all introduced ourselves. It was great. I was so glad that I went and I got to meet them. I really feel like they are going to be a core group of my friends that develop over this school year. This weekend from the beginning was such a great time to just get together and get to know people and make connections and hang out. After that we went back and had a Worship Explosion! It was great, we probably worshipped for about 3 hours or so, Then we had a fire tunnel to release love over us. It got pretty crazy in there. It was so much fun. We were drinking out of the bucket of love, and people were even throwing the bucket of love on us, it was pretty funny and intense.
Saturday morning, I got up about 730 to go to the beach for a workout session. WOW. It was pretty out there it was good at first and then it just got hotter and hotter, and the sand made it a little hard, It was a good workout though, definitely stretched out some muscles that I still need to work on ;) Then we had a huge breakfast, then had individual devotions. Then we came back together, divided up by 1st and 2nd year, and Tracy spoke. She is so amazing. She told a little of her testimony, and how she got to be where she was today, and I could really identify with her, I think we have alot in common :) She's Awesome. Then we had like the whole afternoon for free time after lunch. I went to the audition for the Worship team. I played the keyboard most of the time and then I sang back up on a few songs. It was pretty fun, it wasn't stressful or anything, just not many people and we just kinda played so that Matthew Hale could get an ear for how everyone worked together and how everyone played or sang within the band as a whole too.
Then I met up with some girls and Lisa to go to the beach, we hung out there, then we went to Target to get Starbucks at the kiosk in there. Then got back to the retreat center. We were planning on having a Beach Baptism that night. I got dressed and ready for the baptism because I decided that I wanted to get baptized to represent this new season in my life, and what I was yesterday I won't be that in 1 year, or ever again. We gathered downstairs and the storms rolled in. We all huddled under the deck, with the exception of crazy boys and girls swimming and dancing. We waited it out for a few minutes, even though it looked like it was there to stay. After a few minutes of pouring rain, dark clouds all around and a nice cool breeze, the rain slacked off and we began to walk across the street to the beach. As we got to the beach it had cleared and light was shining through in just the spot for us to have the baptism, then to the right and left of us it was still really dark and on one side you could see the line, of rain where it was just pouring down. Everyone made a circle in the water and Pastors Steve Hale and Scott Thompson got in the middle and then one by one whoever was getting baptized walked to the middle and everyone chanted their names and prayed for fire to fall on them as they went under and came back up. It was so amazing. You could feel that we were just connecting and weaving together as a family. We were out there for a good hour and half I'm sure. I think we baptized about 75 people. Then we had a little bit of time to shower off and then meet in the chapel for service. We had another amazing night of worship then Pastor Steve gave the message, and it was just beautiful. Then we had a time of prayer for a Father's Blessing, so all the Father's went up and prayed over whoever felt like they needed the Father's Blessing. (atleast I think it was Saturday night.. hahaha; It all kind of runs together now)
Sunday morning due to my soreness, I opted out of the Workout session. I walked along the beach and read a little bit, just thanking the Lord for how amazing He Is. Then we had another HUGe breakfast, then morning devotions, then we did skits that we had prepared the night before, which I forgot to mention, but we did that. The skits were supposed to be really funny and have the them identity. It was really fun. We had such creative skits, it was amazing. My team got 3rd place, well We really ALL won, but we did have judges so we got 3rd but it was so wonderful. Then we had worship again, AMAZING, I think this time I danced alot! I'm really moving more into that gifting of dancing :)
Then this afternoone I decided to hang out on the beach the whole time. I headed to the volleyball courts in the sand! I played a few games, kind of got a little discouraged because it was mostly big men who were really competitive and just like get the ball... ahhh!! "gotta Get your head in the game, gotta getcha getcha... " haha But yeah, it was rough, but there were a few very encouraging people, so that helped. I just rotated in, so I didn't play the whole time. Then got in the water to cool off, and then went walking with Kristen and Ashley, then went back and played volleyball and I did a whole lot better this time!! I was setting the ball up and serving like a pro, it was great.
Then we still had alot of free time til dinner, I showered and then sat by the pool and mingled with some friends. Then we had spaghetti dinner, then had Worship again!!! Amazing. We had a different leader this time, Patrick, he did a great job, apparently that group hadn't played together before but they did really great. The presence was so thick in there. It was so great. Then we had Prophetic time!!! The 2nd year students went to the front and called out different people, and then once they did that for a while they had the rest of us come up to teams of two and then they gave us prophetic words individually.
It was so amazing. Then we helped clean up around the camp, then I got 3 amazing messages from Michael and I decided to call him and I talked to him for a while, then headed to bed. Then we got up early this morning about 630 and headed back home.
Overall the weekend was so refreshing and definitely solidified somethings and was a great time of connecting and getting to know people better.
More to come on all my revelations, but this is probably alot to read already.
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Send me some love!
At any rate... I'm sitting on my nice little porch this fine Georgia evening, an amazing cool Fall evening. The beautiful moon is out, the grasshoppers are chirping and the little toads are out. One just about hopped on my foot just a moment ago.. ahhh.. that was quite startling.
I've now officially lived in my own Studio for4 weeks this week. It has been quite the experience. Up and down, side to side, CRAZY! It has been so good, weird, tiring, amazing, lonely, hard, fun, sad, happy.... All at the same time. It has been good for me to live on my own and learn how to just keep up my own life. Which with that its been pretty waeird too, because I don't have anyone keeping track of me, and I don't have to keep track of anyone else. That part I guess has been pretty great. About 1 week ago, I was really battling lies and just darkness about being lonely, and not deserving my job, and blah blah blah, I actually got sick last Monday. I had flu-like symptoms and went home from work early. I never got sick but I had the chills and a fever and congestion and cough. I rested all evening, and didn't make it to school. I talked to Michael later that evening, and he identified this as an attack from the enemy. HELLO!!! Yeah, it was I didn't really see it as that at first, sometimes it just takes an outsider to look into the situation. I was able to then know why I was sick and identify the lies that I was allowing to influence my daily life, that was getting me so down.
Eric and Candace Johnson had been in town last weekend and spoke alot about receiving blessings from God and how important it is to receive them and not say well, I don't deserve this and try to measure up to deserving it. The Lord just wants to bless us because of how amazing he has made us. That is exactly what was going on in my life at that point. I have been given this blessing of a paid job in a missios organization, my own studio with very good rent, and this amazing opportunity to attend Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry right here across the street from where I live and right where I work.. HOW CRAZY is THAT! I couldn't have even planned it.
I continued throughout the week with this on my mind. My mood changed throughout the week, I became very thankful for what the Lord has and continues to give and provide for me.
On Friday, I headed to Panama City Beach, FL with Lisa and Marnus and the rest of the BSSM. We drove about 6 hours, friday afternoon and finally got there about 6:30 or so with the time change, so it was like 530 there, or something I'm not sure that was kind of confusing. We walked on the beach a little bit, it was beautiful. Then we got some pizza, then Kristen one of my friends I met at the school came over and invited me to go walk on the beach with her and some other girls. We went and walked on the beach, about sunset I guess, it was beautiful. We all introduced ourselves. It was great. I was so glad that I went and I got to meet them. I really feel like they are going to be a core group of my friends that develop over this school year. This weekend from the beginning was such a great time to just get together and get to know people and make connections and hang out. After that we went back and had a Worship Explosion! It was great, we probably worshipped for about 3 hours or so, Then we had a fire tunnel to release love over us. It got pretty crazy in there. It was so much fun. We were drinking out of the bucket of love, and people were even throwing the bucket of love on us, it was pretty funny and intense.
Saturday morning, I got up about 730 to go to the beach for a workout session. WOW. It was pretty out there it was good at first and then it just got hotter and hotter, and the sand made it a little hard, It was a good workout though, definitely stretched out some muscles that I still need to work on ;) Then we had a huge breakfast, then had individual devotions. Then we came back together, divided up by 1st and 2nd year, and Tracy spoke. She is so amazing. She told a little of her testimony, and how she got to be where she was today, and I could really identify with her, I think we have alot in common :) She's Awesome. Then we had like the whole afternoon for free time after lunch. I went to the audition for the Worship team. I played the keyboard most of the time and then I sang back up on a few songs. It was pretty fun, it wasn't stressful or anything, just not many people and we just kinda played so that Matthew Hale could get an ear for how everyone worked together and how everyone played or sang within the band as a whole too.
Then I met up with some girls and Lisa to go to the beach, we hung out there, then we went to Target to get Starbucks at the kiosk in there. Then got back to the retreat center. We were planning on having a Beach Baptism that night. I got dressed and ready for the baptism because I decided that I wanted to get baptized to represent this new season in my life, and what I was yesterday I won't be that in 1 year, or ever again. We gathered downstairs and the storms rolled in. We all huddled under the deck, with the exception of crazy boys and girls swimming and dancing. We waited it out for a few minutes, even though it looked like it was there to stay. After a few minutes of pouring rain, dark clouds all around and a nice cool breeze, the rain slacked off and we began to walk across the street to the beach. As we got to the beach it had cleared and light was shining through in just the spot for us to have the baptism, then to the right and left of us it was still really dark and on one side you could see the line, of rain where it was just pouring down. Everyone made a circle in the water and Pastors Steve Hale and Scott Thompson got in the middle and then one by one whoever was getting baptized walked to the middle and everyone chanted their names and prayed for fire to fall on them as they went under and came back up. It was so amazing. You could feel that we were just connecting and weaving together as a family. We were out there for a good hour and half I'm sure. I think we baptized about 75 people. Then we had a little bit of time to shower off and then meet in the chapel for service. We had another amazing night of worship then Pastor Steve gave the message, and it was just beautiful. Then we had a time of prayer for a Father's Blessing, so all the Father's went up and prayed over whoever felt like they needed the Father's Blessing. (atleast I think it was Saturday night.. hahaha; It all kind of runs together now)
Sunday morning due to my soreness, I opted out of the Workout session. I walked along the beach and read a little bit, just thanking the Lord for how amazing He Is. Then we had another HUGe breakfast, then morning devotions, then we did skits that we had prepared the night before, which I forgot to mention, but we did that. The skits were supposed to be really funny and have the them identity. It was really fun. We had such creative skits, it was amazing. My team got 3rd place, well We really ALL won, but we did have judges so we got 3rd but it was so wonderful. Then we had worship again, AMAZING, I think this time I danced alot! I'm really moving more into that gifting of dancing :)
Then this afternoone I decided to hang out on the beach the whole time. I headed to the volleyball courts in the sand! I played a few games, kind of got a little discouraged because it was mostly big men who were really competitive and just like get the ball... ahhh!! "gotta Get your head in the game, gotta getcha getcha... " haha But yeah, it was rough, but there were a few very encouraging people, so that helped. I just rotated in, so I didn't play the whole time. Then got in the water to cool off, and then went walking with Kristen and Ashley, then went back and played volleyball and I did a whole lot better this time!! I was setting the ball up and serving like a pro, it was great.
Then we still had alot of free time til dinner, I showered and then sat by the pool and mingled with some friends. Then we had spaghetti dinner, then had Worship again!!! Amazing. We had a different leader this time, Patrick, he did a great job, apparently that group hadn't played together before but they did really great. The presence was so thick in there. It was so great. Then we had Prophetic time!!! The 2nd year students went to the front and called out different people, and then once they did that for a while they had the rest of us come up to teams of two and then they gave us prophetic words individually.
It was so amazing. Then we helped clean up around the camp, then I got 3 amazing messages from Michael and I decided to call him and I talked to him for a while, then headed to bed. Then we got up early this morning about 630 and headed back home.
Overall the weekend was so refreshing and definitely solidified somethings and was a great time of connecting and getting to know people better.
More to come on all my revelations, but this is probably alot to read already.
I LOVE YOU GUYS!!!
Send me some love!
Thursday, September 17, 2009
His Love Never Fails
Beauty for ashes, taking fire and burning off all the outsides and making it beautiful. We started school today, it was absolutely amazing. We are already starting to connect as a family and we haven't even really all gotten to know each other. As we were worshiping, we all joined hands and raised them together singing " We are free, We are free..." It was incredible, I could hardly sing I was getting choked up with the sense of family and strong loving community. God is so amazing. He brought me here to this school just for me, He brought me here to OM just for me.
well its Thursday morning now, I started this blog on Monday night and I'm just now finishing it. I'm not sure where I was going up there. so I'll start from today....
It is almost 8AM. I've had a lovely week so far. It's been so weird to have to work all day and then come home and fix dinner and read and just hang out, then go to bed and do it all over again the next day. I've decided that I don't want an office job in the future. I like it for now, but when I've got a darling husband and children, definitely a NO!! :)
I've also come to realize the importance of living on your own. Its so bizarre, but you are creating your own person. The people that I've been meeting only know me because they've personally met me. Not my parents or my friends and then they've met me, but just me. They will know me by how I present myself, and all that. How's that for crazy!!!?? I mean here I am only 18 years old, fresh out of high school, living on my own in Tyrone, GA. Middle of nowhere USA. But it's great. God is so good, and He knew exactly what He was doing when He set all this up for me. Sometimes I don't know, I just think that its absolutely wonderful, crazy and exciting all the same.
This weekend, is Tyrone Founder's Day!!! I don't even know how many years we are celebrating. I'll have to get back to you on that. But I'm pretty excited, we'll see what its like. Its small town USA, little Fairgrounds and a Parade on Saturday morning!!!
I'll have to try to get some pictures from someone else to put up here. considering I don't yet have a camera.
Note to the Lord: I would really like a new camera!!!
Alrighty got to get ready to head to work!
Love love love love
well its Thursday morning now, I started this blog on Monday night and I'm just now finishing it. I'm not sure where I was going up there. so I'll start from today....
It is almost 8AM. I've had a lovely week so far. It's been so weird to have to work all day and then come home and fix dinner and read and just hang out, then go to bed and do it all over again the next day. I've decided that I don't want an office job in the future. I like it for now, but when I've got a darling husband and children, definitely a NO!! :)
I've also come to realize the importance of living on your own. Its so bizarre, but you are creating your own person. The people that I've been meeting only know me because they've personally met me. Not my parents or my friends and then they've met me, but just me. They will know me by how I present myself, and all that. How's that for crazy!!!?? I mean here I am only 18 years old, fresh out of high school, living on my own in Tyrone, GA. Middle of nowhere USA. But it's great. God is so good, and He knew exactly what He was doing when He set all this up for me. Sometimes I don't know, I just think that its absolutely wonderful, crazy and exciting all the same.
This weekend, is Tyrone Founder's Day!!! I don't even know how many years we are celebrating. I'll have to get back to you on that. But I'm pretty excited, we'll see what its like. Its small town USA, little Fairgrounds and a Parade on Saturday morning!!!
I'll have to try to get some pictures from someone else to put up here. considering I don't yet have a camera.
Note to the Lord: I would really like a new camera!!!
Alrighty got to get ready to head to work!
Love love love love
Sunday, September 13, 2009
sunsets and hot tea
It has quickly come to the end of the weekend. It has been such a wonderful time. I got to spend some time with my friends Hillary and June. We had a blast. Lots of laughs, amazing worship times, long drives, long day of shopping and good fellowship. The Lord is so good! We began the weekend by attending Ignite conference at Victory World Church. We got a chance to sit and chat with Jake Hamilton. It was so God to line that all up. What favor. He prayed for us too. It was really sweet. Can't wait to see him in Wilmington and here in Atlanta. Then Saturday we spent most of the day shopping for groceries for my fridge and other miscellaneous things I needed around my studio. We saw the new Tyler Perry movie, I Can Do Bad All By Myself which apparently was filmed here in ATL. It was really good, you should see it. Then we stopped and had coffee and finally headed home about 10. Then we rearranged my furniture. My room looks really great now, its better organized. We were up for a while. Later on around 11:30 or so, I tried to talk to Michael love, but he didn't have very good signal and it cut off our conversations like 4 times while I was in the middle of telling him about meeting with Jake Hamilton. We finally turned in a little after midnight. What a day.
Today has been just a wonderful day. It has been quite a rollercoaster but still so wonderful. I pre-registered for BSSM which starts tomorrow!! I'm so excited. And Worship this morning was so sweet, very intimate. I had the wonderful chance to connect with a lady I hope to continue in great friendship with, what a sweetheart. She is married and has three lovely girls. (my type of family huh.. ? :)]
After I found my way home, I made a delicious lunch. By the way, I think I will be quite the chef when I am ready to get married, I'm becoming quite creative with different types of random foods :)
I've gotten a lot of reading done today, I'm enjoying all the quiet time I get to spend with the Love of my Life, my prince, Jesus that is. I was given a book that has love letters written by the Prince to the Beloved Princess Bride. It has been such a blessing. I try to read it every evening.
I've also just begun a blessing jar. I'm going to start writing down everytime that the Lord does something amazing that can be a testimony. Like the fact that I have a job at OM and I'm living here in amazing housing in a quiet little town and attending Bethel School of Ministry. Totally GOD!!! All I did was step out and look into Operation Mobilization (OM) to go on missions, and this is where I am. He opened the door wide open. That will be one of the first things I put in my jar.
Blessings!!!
Today has been just a wonderful day. It has been quite a rollercoaster but still so wonderful. I pre-registered for BSSM which starts tomorrow!! I'm so excited. And Worship this morning was so sweet, very intimate. I had the wonderful chance to connect with a lady I hope to continue in great friendship with, what a sweetheart. She is married and has three lovely girls. (my type of family huh.. ? :)]
After I found my way home, I made a delicious lunch. By the way, I think I will be quite the chef when I am ready to get married, I'm becoming quite creative with different types of random foods :)
I've gotten a lot of reading done today, I'm enjoying all the quiet time I get to spend with the Love of my Life, my prince, Jesus that is. I was given a book that has love letters written by the Prince to the Beloved Princess Bride. It has been such a blessing. I try to read it every evening.
I've also just begun a blessing jar. I'm going to start writing down everytime that the Lord does something amazing that can be a testimony. Like the fact that I have a job at OM and I'm living here in amazing housing in a quiet little town and attending Bethel School of Ministry. Totally GOD!!! All I did was step out and look into Operation Mobilization (OM) to go on missions, and this is where I am. He opened the door wide open. That will be one of the first things I put in my jar.
Blessings!!!
Monday, September 7, 2009
Let the Adventures begin...
I've been meaning to post something since last Friday, but the events of this weekend have delayed that. Therefore I am posting today, Monday 7, 2009 on Labor Day. I have just spent this entire weekend with my family and extended family. It has been a wonderful weekend.
Friday was yet another day of uncommon favor. As the day began it didn't seem that way. We were planning to wake up at 5:45 to vacuum out my truck , and load up all my stuff. However, I opened my eyes at 7:05 realizing that I had over slept. It was totally the Holy Spirit that woke me up. I awakened with a start. I jumped out of bed, and was rushing around to start getting things out the door. I knew that we would be late getting on the road.
We got all of my stuff outside in the driveway; it looked like way more stuff than would fit in the back of the Yukon and in my Passport. Somehow it all fit. It took about a total of 1 hour and a half to load everything up. We had breakfast and loaded ourselves in the car about 9 AM, only to discover that the car battery was dead. It could be seen as a tragedy and stresser but maybe our lives were saved from an accident because we were running late? We would never know. We charged up the battery and then finally headed out of the driveway about 9:45. It didn’t quite occur to us during all the little preparation that we did, that with the trailer we would only be able to go so fast, therefore it takes us a little longer to get down here than normal. By about 4:45 and we are about 1 hour and 15 minutes (according to the GPS) from OM, where we dropped off the trailer and the Yukon. So we were late for the Braves game, but we did get an extra ticket for Ginger. There was one extra one, Praise God! By being late to the game, by only 30 minutes really we didn't have any heavy traffic getting to the staduim, we didn't have to pay $12 for parking and there was a Chick-fil-A in the stadium which is what Ginger wanted for dinner. God was totally watching out for us. The game was pretty good, not too eventful. There were fireworks and everything, it was a lot of fun.
Saturday morning brought delicious pancakes, lots of unpacking the trucks, and starting to unpack all my stuff. We worked in my studio from 10 AM til 6PM during that time we unloaded all the stuff, took the trailer back to U-haul, went to Wal-Mart to get things, lunch and the Escobars came to help. We hung curtains, pictures, and put together my bed. After that we headed back to the Bowmans house for dinner and games.
Sunday morning we went to Bethel Atlanta! It was amazing. This guy who'd been in a wheelchair for 2 months, got out of his wheelchair after telling a little bit of his testimony and with a little help walked back to his seat. I believe he is going to be totally healed. The Lord is so good. Then we came out to my apartment for my sister to see it, then we went back to the Bowmans house for lunch. Then I went with Michael's family to Stone Mountain. It was really fun! We hiked up the stone mountain, it was a really pretty view. Then we all went out to dinner together to a Japanese restuarant which I have leftovers for, for like the next 3 days! :) Then I said good-bye to my family and the Escobars took me to my apartment which I stayed my first night by myself last night. Then today I had some big adventures. I went to Michael's hotel for breakfast and hung out there for a little bit, then we drove up I -85 to Swuanee (spelling??) and went to the park there to get Allie. It was so amazing. The park is big and its kind of like a Mayfaire with a big big ampitheater/field in the middle. We had lunch at 5 Guys and then Michael and I got to spend some quality time together. It was really good.
I really could keep going. I am so excited to see what this next year brings. The Lord is definately at work!!
Love love LOVE!!!
Friday was yet another day of uncommon favor. As the day began it didn't seem that way. We were planning to wake up at 5:45 to vacuum out my truck , and load up all my stuff. However, I opened my eyes at 7:05 realizing that I had over slept. It was totally the Holy Spirit that woke me up. I awakened with a start. I jumped out of bed, and was rushing around to start getting things out the door. I knew that we would be late getting on the road.
We got all of my stuff outside in the driveway; it looked like way more stuff than would fit in the back of the Yukon and in my Passport. Somehow it all fit. It took about a total of 1 hour and a half to load everything up. We had breakfast and loaded ourselves in the car about 9 AM, only to discover that the car battery was dead. It could be seen as a tragedy and stresser but maybe our lives were saved from an accident because we were running late? We would never know. We charged up the battery and then finally headed out of the driveway about 9:45. It didn’t quite occur to us during all the little preparation that we did, that with the trailer we would only be able to go so fast, therefore it takes us a little longer to get down here than normal. By about 4:45 and we are about 1 hour and 15 minutes (according to the GPS) from OM, where we dropped off the trailer and the Yukon. So we were late for the Braves game, but we did get an extra ticket for Ginger. There was one extra one, Praise God! By being late to the game, by only 30 minutes really we didn't have any heavy traffic getting to the staduim, we didn't have to pay $12 for parking and there was a Chick-fil-A in the stadium which is what Ginger wanted for dinner. God was totally watching out for us. The game was pretty good, not too eventful. There were fireworks and everything, it was a lot of fun.
Saturday morning brought delicious pancakes, lots of unpacking the trucks, and starting to unpack all my stuff. We worked in my studio from 10 AM til 6PM during that time we unloaded all the stuff, took the trailer back to U-haul, went to Wal-Mart to get things, lunch and the Escobars came to help. We hung curtains, pictures, and put together my bed. After that we headed back to the Bowmans house for dinner and games.
Sunday morning we went to Bethel Atlanta! It was amazing. This guy who'd been in a wheelchair for 2 months, got out of his wheelchair after telling a little bit of his testimony and with a little help walked back to his seat. I believe he is going to be totally healed. The Lord is so good. Then we came out to my apartment for my sister to see it, then we went back to the Bowmans house for lunch. Then I went with Michael's family to Stone Mountain. It was really fun! We hiked up the stone mountain, it was a really pretty view. Then we all went out to dinner together to a Japanese restuarant which I have leftovers for, for like the next 3 days! :) Then I said good-bye to my family and the Escobars took me to my apartment which I stayed my first night by myself last night. Then today I had some big adventures. I went to Michael's hotel for breakfast and hung out there for a little bit, then we drove up I -85 to Swuanee (spelling??) and went to the park there to get Allie. It was so amazing. The park is big and its kind of like a Mayfaire with a big big ampitheater/field in the middle. We had lunch at 5 Guys and then Michael and I got to spend some quality time together. It was really good.
I really could keep going. I am so excited to see what this next year brings. The Lord is definately at work!!
Love love LOVE!!!
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
ohh the Wonders
It has been apparently a year, since my last post. And the post before that was 1 year before that. Obviously it is not one of my priorities to be on here. However, due to my present adventures, I plan to update my blog atleast 2 times a week. There are many people of which I want to know what is going on in my lovely little life.
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending my "Send-Off Celebration" Party! It was such a delight to be with all of my friends and family that I love! I am so loved! Thank you to all that came, I loved every minute of it. The food was wonderful, the fellowship was amazing, and your prayers were greatfully received.
Today, has been such a glorious day! The Lord is so good! I woke up rather late for me today, it was 9 o'clock by the time my sleepy little eyes opened up. I enjoyed every moment of that rest though. And outside has been just wonderful today, its very nice and breezy. What a welcome to September. I enjoyed a rather quiet morning. Then I had lunch with my wonderful friend Jennifer. It seems that I have packed up my last few days here. I have a lunch date everyday, and the evenings I take one day at a time. The Lord is so wonderful though, I don't seem to be over scheduling myself. I know that he has provided the time for me to be with who I need to be with.
I treasure each and everyone of my friends. I thank God for every person the Lord has brought into my life!! He has given me the bestest of friends that love and encourage me!
I will keep you updated.
As for now, I sit on my back deck here in Wilmington, NC watching the clouds roll in and enjoying the breeze. I should probably get my computer in so that it doesn't get wet!
Until next time, May the Lord bless you and keep you may He give you uncommon favor!
Last night, I had the pleasure of attending my "Send-Off Celebration" Party! It was such a delight to be with all of my friends and family that I love! I am so loved! Thank you to all that came, I loved every minute of it. The food was wonderful, the fellowship was amazing, and your prayers were greatfully received.
Today, has been such a glorious day! The Lord is so good! I woke up rather late for me today, it was 9 o'clock by the time my sleepy little eyes opened up. I enjoyed every moment of that rest though. And outside has been just wonderful today, its very nice and breezy. What a welcome to September. I enjoyed a rather quiet morning. Then I had lunch with my wonderful friend Jennifer. It seems that I have packed up my last few days here. I have a lunch date everyday, and the evenings I take one day at a time. The Lord is so wonderful though, I don't seem to be over scheduling myself. I know that he has provided the time for me to be with who I need to be with.
I treasure each and everyone of my friends. I thank God for every person the Lord has brought into my life!! He has given me the bestest of friends that love and encourage me!
I will keep you updated.
As for now, I sit on my back deck here in Wilmington, NC watching the clouds roll in and enjoying the breeze. I should probably get my computer in so that it doesn't get wet!
Until next time, May the Lord bless you and keep you may He give you uncommon favor!
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