From the Muck to the Mighty; My Journey with Jesus

  Testimony time!! Did you ever come to the realization that certain things you may consider as part of your personality actually aren’t? Did it ever occur to you that there are things we have struggled with since childhood, and identified with, that could truly be overcome by the power and presence of Jesus Christ?! Do we really fathom and obtain what we have access to as sons and daughters of the most high God?!  Last night the Lord set me free from something I thought I’d never “grow out of”.  Fear of entrapment. This feeling of being trapped in tight spaces, or feeling confined when hugged or overly touched has been a struggle for as long as I can remember. I have always hated being confined or tightly held for long periods of time. It would bring up this panic in me that was hard to describe. It would start as an unsettling in my stomach and a feeling that I needed to walk or move. Then it would progress to the point where it honestly felt like my stomach was going t...

In prayer this morning I was reminded of the last year and how far I’ve come. How following Jesus Christ, no matter what the outcome, can produce a life you’ve never imagined.  When you stop falling for fear based compromises and truly walk out in faith to what you’re called to do, you’ll experience things beyond your comprehension. You’ll find your true identity when you lose your life in Christ.  I was reminded how messy and treacherous it can appear when the Lord tears through the lives of those called and chosen to Him, to rend you away from the grip of the sin of this lukewarm world; and pulls you in closer than you’ve ever been before. Snatching you from the grave.  A love that pierces every cell of your physical body. A love that transcends time, spirit and matter. An incomprehensible consummation of your entirety.  The jealous love of Jesus Christ our savior, the Lord of our lives. The love made available to each and every one of us through His death and resu...

You didn’t miss it! The other day in prayer, it began to feel like I was on an airplane in decent. I could hear the Lord clearly. “The jet is landing.”  There are many people in a waiting and holding season at the feet of the Lord right now. They are crying out for answers on why it’s taking so long. Patience is being tried. Refining fire has felt the hottest it’s ever been.  Many are frustrated, with arms pulled back ready to throw in the towel. The resistance you feel is the last part of your sinful flesh rising to the surface. It’s that deep thing the Lord needs you to deal with before your next breakthrough. Lean in. Pray through. Walk it out.  It’s like taking a 12 hour flight and getting so antsy and anxious to get your seat belt off and arrive at the last half hour.  You are this close.  Whatever season you are resting in, whatever trial you are facing, whatever shaking you’ve endured, it’s coming to an end.  The jet is landing.  It’s time to fa...

  As we enter 2025 the only advice I could possibly have for anyone is to look to Jesus Christ. To center your life on His will, His word and His way. That there is nothing found in this world that can satisfy the needs of your soul like the savior. The call for 2025 is to continue drawing near and pouring out, where ever you may be, in whatever way you’re called, in Jesus mighty name. The healing revival emerging will not be held back. Lean in, pray through, and walk it out. You’re called, it’s time to act like it, as doers of the word. Amen! The other day as we were driving, I approached the Lord in prayer. Prayer for letting go of everything that needs left behind in 2024.  Prayers of thanksgiving and praise. Prayers of repentance and petitions for mercy. Prayers of gratitude for the grace and restoration that ended this year in such a different capacity than it all began. Prayers for guidance, for wisdom and for ears to hear. Prayers to be love and to have eyes to see what...

 Oh the should have’s, would have’s and could have’s of Christmas past. How they love to steal our appreciation of the present moments we are blessed with. I feel I myself, like many others tend to take the bait of Satan in this area and unknowingly come into agreement with the harmful psychological warfare tactics that the enemy loves unleashing during the holiday season.  A pattern of remembering the trauma over the years. Remembering the loved ones that should still be here but aren’t. Remembering all the situations, people, places, things, and life you’ve experienced over the years and wishing things were different. Comparing one household to another, one Christmas tree to another one family to another and wondering the what if’s.  Last night while I was getting ready to go up bed, I had one of those moments. I sat down and cried thinking that I should have a ten month old opening presents this year.  Then crying about that led to crying about a hundred other thi...

 Ya’ll. How are we going to handle the rise of the anti Christ and the end of the world if the body of Christ keeps playing around slapping itself and seizing out like someone poured a box of itching powder all over it?! There’s a false one world religion that’s coming speaking unity and all roads leading to the same destination. There’s an anti Christ coming and false prophets that are spreading the wrong gospel. A different Jesus. This is what we are up against. Not one another.  Are we cultivating the character of Christ?! Here we are acting like we are tearing down the spirits of religion and attacking principalities, yet we let offense and suspicion tear down the very thing the Lord is calling to be built up in this time for this era?!  You want to know why generations are being lost to agnosticism, satanism, and other religions??? LOOK IN THE MIRROR.  The Pharisee’s were suspicious of Jesus.  If we can’t come together as a body of true believers seeking to...

Stepping out in faith is one of those things that we all think we can do, until we have to do it.  The word calls for us to be bold and to share the good news, yet many of us remain anxiously isolated in our comfort zones and daily routines sharing memes instead.  Are you as excited about sharing Jesus as you are about sharing your weekend plans? Are you as intimate with Jesus as you are your best friends, family or spouse? Do you know the word like you know those song lyrics or sports statistics?  Who and what are you focused on? Building up or tearing down? Sowing to the flesh or sowing to the Spirit? Praying to obtain favor and things from the Lord or praying to spend time with, worship, honor, hear from and serve the Lord?  Have you ever said, “Here I am Lord, send me?”   Then go!  There comes a time in every persons life when they will encounter Jesus Christ. At some point, every knee will bow, every tongue will confess and everything will change....

  Testimony time! Change is hard for some people, especially during the holidays. While many others handle change with ease, I tend to handle it like a cat thrown in a bathtub. Settling in here hasn’t been much different. So much change.  In many areas it’s been a blessing and the perfect fit, but I’d be lying if I said being this far away from Leah wasn’t the hardest thing I’ve ever done. While she’s amazingly independent, I always thought she’d be away at college before I couldn’t just stop by if she ever needed me for anything.   This has led to me questioning the Lord on a lot of things, and led to me wondering if us moving to Morgantown would be a good fit for the next season the Lord has coming up over the horizon.   How many of you have experienced something similar? You pray, the Lord answers, you obey, then you’re in it. You’re smack dab in the middle of what you prayed for and it ends up challenging you to grow in ways you never thought possible.  You ...

I can’t tell you the number of years I’ve spent winters in the dark. It would be dark when I’d leave the house in the morning to drop the kids off and go to work. It would be gloomy in the office with the beating of fluorescent lights my body would take all day, and it seemed like it was always extra dark as I left work, picked up the kids and headed home.  When the Lord grabbed ahold of my heart back in December 2018, He pulled me out of the darkness and into his marvelous light. I had no idea, only years later, that the Lord Jesus Christ would completely pull me out of the dark ways of the world, painfully incinerating my flesh and forever ending the dark winter cycle I had become so accustomed to as an adult.  As my love for the Lord continued to grow, I fell in love with traveling the world, spreading the gospel, seeing the sick healed and the captives set free during their own personal encounters with the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ. It has been an honor and a blessing to...

    The other night I woke up feeling restless, I scooched over to Dan in bed, and I began silently praying for a bit about the things on my heart. As I laid there on my back, tucked under his arm, the Lord decided to shift the atmosphere. I started to smell a stormy, salty sea air and the soft bed felt like damp, splintered, wood being tossed around in deep water. It reminded me of a cheap wooden raft, quickly constructed after a shipwreck. I sat up in bed to see our clothes wet and torn, to seeing a storm all around us and feeling hard drops of rain pelting my face like rocks. Instantly I was filled with fear, and an eternal trepidation as my husband laid calmly asleep right beside me. There was nothing I could do, but my mind was scrambling going a thousand miles an hour in a panic. The waves began rampantly moving us through the water as we were approaching a rock sided cliff with one small cave opening that was headed straight for us. I threw myself on my back next to Dan...

  During prayer this week the Lord took me back to tend the soil. We were in a large back yard with an area that was tilled up. There were several plants He was weeding from the garden. The different weeds He pulled would come out of the dirt with the large tap roots attached.  From the surface things looked finished and clear. Then the Lord took a sifter and began sifting the soil. What ended up in that sifter were many smaller feeder roots that broke off as the tap root was pulled.  What the Lord put on my heart is that many of us, myself included tend to tackle the immediate problem but we fail to make sure we remove everything that is feeding the weeds under the surface.  What we feed ourselves physically, mentally, emotionally and atmospherically is what hinders us or helps us grow. What we surround ourselves with and allow in our lives can either feed the soil as nutrients producing a fruitful harvest, or drain the soil of those nutrients as it regrows the root...