From the Muck to the Mighty; My Journey with Jesus

 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...