If I have no wants or desires apart from Him then Satan can't convince me that God is withholding from me. The Lord knows everything I need and His heart is to provide it for me. The Lord does not withhold from me, He gives me all good things. He does not give me scorpions, even though I sometimes unknowingly desire them. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. If I must want, it should be for His presence, and if I must desire, it should be that I would be filled with His Word.

A friend told me to rejoice in the darkness. Ah yes!

I pray that a fervor would be birthed in the body of Christ; that those who are passionate about loving You would step up and boldly proclaim the gospel.

I ask that You would raise up encouragers among the Bride so that followers would feel support when they are actively advancing the Kingdom.

Give us a strong and sound faith. Bring us to repentance so that we may be right with our Father and walk in the freedom of our inheritance.

Wreck us of our pride.

Let us be alive in You!

May Your truth penetrate our bones and may we ache with love for You and for humanity.

May we be constantly walking in the Spirit, may we be living glory to glory!

It is such a precious thing to love and be loved

Jesus looks at you and he sees something he wants- something he wanted so bad that he was willing to die for it. He yearns for your heart to be close to his, he longs to call you his. And even during the times that you overlook his pursuit of you, he does not overlook you. He knows you through and through. It is such a precious thing to love and be loved. HIS LOVE FOR YOU KNOWS NO BOUNDS.


Oh he knows that I can't wait til heaven...he knows my longing for him. The greatest treasure I have is that which I hold inside my heart. My greatest treasure is him. I want to learn every way to say I love you, and then repeat them over and over again. I am yours, oh yes, I am yours.

"She knew now that down in
the core of her own being she was
so shaped that nothing could
fit, fill, or satisfy
her heart but he himself.
"Nothing else really matters,"
she said to herself, "only to love him and
do what he tells me.
I don't know quite why it should be so,
but it is.
All the time it is suffering to love
and sorrow to love,
but it is lovely to love him in spite of this,
and if I should cease to do so,
I should cease to exist."


-Hinds Feet on High Places

Giver of Gifts

It's pretty much a no brainer that God is good. He is the Giver of life and the source of love and grace.
By absolutely nothing that I have done, the Lord has decided to make many of my dreams come true. He allows me to follow these dreams, which He has planted in me, because He loves using his kids to further his Kingdom.
Last year I had this longing for Richmond to be captivated by God's love and through a process of Him leading me after his heart, I am now a part of a community who sets out to love others to Christ. He has given me teens and broken women to love on, and it does such wonderful things to my heart to be able to serve him this way.
Also, very recently, the Lord revealed to me the next piece of his plan. After many months of patiently (more or less) waiting for God to guide and direct, He has lead me to YWAM- Youth with a Mission. I spoke with Jesus, asking him that whatever it is He would have me do, that He would just open the door. So He did. Now I am preparing to invest 9 months in the Discipleship training school. I am beyond thrilled that He would call me to do that.
So friends if you would join me in prayer I would be sooo grateful. I've already been experiencing some resistance, so let's fight back in victory :)
Love you all!

Creativity

I can't help but be amazed when I look at God's creative ability....I realize it will take all of eternity to fathom the extent of his power and awesomeness, and I look forward to spending that eternity knowing him more and more.

So he is the author of existence and I get to privilage of being a part of that... how cool!! And the fact that He knows my every need and longs for me to depend on him for everything, is there any greater love? He is love, and He is everything I could ever want.

However, it took me so long to realize this....Three years ago I started to really look at my life; what I had done and the person who I had turned into- and I realized I was at a place that I had never wanted to end up. I also realized that God loved me and if I was desperately willing to surrender to him then maybe, just maybe there was hope. I wasn't looking for a miracle, just a reason to believe. So I invited Jesus into my heart and since then everything has changed. I am able to receive his love and his plans for my life, which are so much better than anything I could ever dream of and through that I am able to love and embrace others. I am no longer constrained to the world, but I live in the freedom of who I was created to be.

God is so good, so very very good.

Love Poem

Oh my first love,
what I wouldn't do for you.
My every thought is consumed by you.
To reach out and touch your face,
let us go to our special place.
You are my first love,
my heart's desire,
this passion within me is like a raging fire.
Nothing will ever take your place.
Wherever you are is where I want to be forever
You mean everything to me
There's nothing I wouldn't give,
I don't even consider it a sacrifice,
because I love you so.
I'd go crazy without you
I'll fight for you, I'll die for you.
No, there's nothing I wouldn't give.
You will always be my first love.