Thankful Obedience
I have spent a good part of  the day trying to organize my thoughts; there are so many.  In doing so, I started to become a wee bit discouraged and had to place myself back at the feet of Jesus.  It’s really the only good place to be when I seem to have used up my own strength once again.  I talked to him about my hopes and fears and whatever ever he’d have me to do with my gifts, just to make sure that I am always doing it for his glory and not mine.  I tried to read my devotions to hear him speak, but it proved fruitless at the time.  As I was paging through my Bible, desperately seeking for a nugget of truth and hope, God landed me in a passage that I m

Remember and Persevere
Hebrews 10:32-39 (New International Version)  32Remember those earlier days after you had received the light, when you stood your ground in a great contest in the face of suffering. 33Sometimes you were publicly exposed to insult and persecution; at other times you stood side by side with those who were so treated. 34You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions. 35So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. 36You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of G

Encouragement When We Are Faced With The Life Questions of WHY??‏
God has a way of bringing me back down to reality as soon as I get a little cocky; and today was one of those days. In my walk, and now in Seminary my eyes are constantly being re-focused. There are many days, even in the midst’s of my own struggles and trials, I can find that I am flying high with my Spiritual gifts of faith and encouragement, and don’t get shaken by too much. But today my heart was broken when I got an update from a friends daughter who is 2, has recently been diagnosed with leukemia and now is undergoing long-term treatment in the hospital. Things like this make you always ask “why” and “why them”. This is a good Christia

Get The Power of The Holy Spirit
 The topic of The Holy Spirit has been a HOT one for me to say the least!  I have been walking in alot of its power for over a year now.  This past yer has been full of growth.  There have been many highs and many lows.  I have learned much in the way of discernment, wisdom, humility, and grace; just to name a few.  One of the biggest factors in all this has been my constant striving to live in total surrender and obedience to God.  No doubt this has led me to hear clearly my call to seminary and has allowed me to become a stronger intercessor of prayer for others, mainly the church.  None of this would have been possible without the help and presence of The Holy Sp

This Is My Body, Broken. This Is My Blood, Poured Out For You
God did some really profound stuff with  me today.  Our church has communion once a month and I guess I lost track of time and forgot this is the first Sunday of the month, which we do communion.  It may not seem a big deal to you that I forgot this, but God has been dealing with me and the act of communion on a deeper level for about a week or so now.  I can’t get it off my mind.  Just understanding it somehow differently.  It’s like He peeled back a new level of understanding.  Growing up Catholic, Communion was always taken in the most literal sense, which was always a problem for me, and now as a protestant I’ve always understood it to be symboli