Redding

$1,725 left to go for my BSSM tuition for 2016-17 that is so cool!!!!!
I thought that was a lot, but it really it isn't. Not at all.
School starts in a month and here I am in Redding, Ca already. Students have been coming in and keep on comin. It is hot hot hot here in Redding Cali but even with the heat it has been a great week and 2 days of living here. I am renting from one house for the month of August then come September will move down the street to be in a beautiful home with a beautiful family for the rest the year. My roommates have been incredible. We are all warrior princesses. Wow. Even when fear and death try to threat us and linger at night we can stand strong and discerning on Gods promises. We don't have any need to shrink back and down; we can walk boldly and fearless. Courage is our call. The armor of God is everything for us.

This house, this neighborhood has a lot coming, for it is the Lords. Miracles and salvation are at the doors of each household. People will be lined up at the believers homes and all over the place hungry for Jesus. Hunger will ripple out. Our hunger for more of Jesus will affect our neighbors and their hunger will ripple to the other neighbors and out to the outsiders. God's love extends and is spacious. He will not be boxed into a building on Sundays, he will break out whether the people like it or not, he is on pursuit and will continue to pursue.

My ANTHEM, in this season

These here are my desires
And I will give them up to you this time around
And so I'll be found
With my stake stuck in this ground
Marking the territory of this newly impassioned soul 

Mumford & Sons - Roll Away Your Stone 

This song is pretty amazing, I have enjoyed it for a while now but I am seeing some great prophetic meaning to it.

I mean of course not everything is spiritual but this song affects me big time in this time in my life! God speaks to me in so many creative ways (and i'm sure He talks to you too/or would if you'd let yourself see it).

What is Father God telling me? "ASK!"  "I have put amazing desires in you my daughter, stop the worrying, you are abiding in me and you are co-creator and co-heir... DO, LIVE, BE. I will direct you but you have to MOVE, I can not direct you if you do not move."

Luke 12:32 says 

Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

We can give ourselves permission to BE AWESOME, to DREAM, take steps... we are trusted to act and create in this world, now.  God calls us to serve ON PURPOSE not just to float through dazed and confused.  Maybe y'all know this and I am just talking for myself… I sure know I needed to encounter this. I am in a time in my life where I am dreaming again, asking myself 'what are your desires and what ignites your passion?’.  I am learning to make small steps to succeed in the plans God has for me. 

I am also looking at- 'What makes you scared to death?' (Healthy motivating scare- for me its public speaking/public anything really, leading people in something on the spot...) That which frightens me... I know God wants to use and make STRONGER and I also know that our enemy wants to use it to scare us, intimidate us, and freeze us so that we would not grow or beat the fear. God wants to use me in that area while I'd like to not move into that "scary“ territory He says to me "Take it on girl, learn and grow in that area. You might fall and there's no problems in falling. You will get up and learn to walk and then run." And that “scary” place is actually something I long to do but the fear of people, fear of rejection, fear fear fear freezes me (but deep down it is a longing and God knows it that’s why HE helps me step out in boldness)

Anyways…We got to GO FOR IT. Charge against our fears and take our rightful place as the over-comer.

Love; it will not betray you dismay you or enslave you, it will set you free

Be like the MAN YOU WERE MADE TO BE

There is a design, an alignment to cry of my heart to see, the beauty of love as it was made to be

Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More 

HELLO!!! Read that! Re- read that!  Take it in. That is our cry.

Love this song quote too! We are NEW and have the option to walk in that newness.

This season has been hard for me because I realized I had been walking like a zombie. I had been so stressed out about "pleasing God" and doing "His will", all the while God is and was PLEASED with me but would love for me/us to do what He created us to do and enjoy it. I think there is a time when we suffer a bit but I don't believe that is for us for all of life. I think there are so many times and seasons, "good" and "bad"... it all starts in our minds and whether or not we see with the eyes Jesus has provided for us and with the mind Jesus had provided us.

Ok, perhaps I am rambling on BUT I know 

-both these lyrics are powerful truths

-the verse from Luke helps my faith and hope in my Father and King, and it is a NOW promise and continual in Jesus...

- I WILL give, continually, my desires to King Jesus and hold onto hope and ask continually for that which God has put into me for eternity.

-I am realizing deep dreams that I didn't even know I had, dreams I had forgotten, and skills I had forgotten that I had

-I have begun to see the fears and lies that have tried to trap me for too long

It time to move on, stop hiding under a rock, and rise to greatness.

Limit-less

It's time to end the excuses in our lives. It's time to quit living with limits. WE get to decide for ourselves our lives. We get to DO and not wait/ be stuck... We get to learn, live, and DO.

I want to use the God given wisdom that I have and skills for the Kingdom here and now. To lead well, love well and better this world that we live in.
Living intentionally with vision and goals to get things done. I have the grace to LIVE and leave a mark.

It's time to make daily decisions, even if they are small and seemingly insignificant. Little steps in freedom. We are not here just to pass by without being light and salt... Without leaking out our unique identity.

Revival in the earth is ready and waiting for us to BE who we were created to be. 

Rise & shine

Gods passion for the world. He loves all people and is good. But it is hard for people to believe that God is good because there is so much pain. How are these people supposed to find it believable?  That He is good for those that are hurting with so much pain in the world. The answer I am discovering from the Bible is a little surprising because it turns out that we’re the plan! God doesn’t have another plan. Jesus says to His followers, us as His disciples( Matt 5: 14, 16 ) YOU ARE the light of the world... Let your light shine among men, that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in Heaven! Jesus doesn’t say “you might be the light of the world” or “you could be the light of the world” or “I sure hope you turn out to be the light of the world”. Jesus says to us “you are it”.  In 2 Cor 5:20 Paul says God is making his appeal through us. For 2,000 years Christians have been trying to make it believable that God is so good through us, especially to those who are hurting and in pain by going to them and showing them the love of God. When we help these people, give, serve them, love on them and they see us- the body of Christ actually shows up. It becomes believable to them that God is so good.

             There are people suffering, not suffering because they haven’t heard the Gospel or because they don’t have food or because they don’t have doctors or don’t have housing. These are the people that are suffering in our world because of intentional oppression and abuse of other people... victims of injustice in our world. We know that God hates this kind of abuse and wants it to stop- Psalms 10: 17&18, Psalms 35:10. This is good news from Scripture. What is His plan for making it stop? The answer from the Bible again is that we are the plan, no other plan- Micah 6:8, Isaiah 1:17, Isaiah 61. No doubt God has given us the job of justice in the world. When we feel powerless or full of despair or “who are we to do this” we can remember that the disciples felt the same during the feeding of 5,000. Jesus asked them “well, what do you have?” He told the disciples to give what they had to him. In that moment Jesus precedes to take responsibility.  “Will you give me what you have, so that I can do the miracle?”

The light of the Gospel goes to the darkest places. Let’s offer back to Jesus what He’s given us so others can know Gods goodness and freedom. We have influence.