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249. Winter in the Sun


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 serve the Lord in this capacity and I pray to continue doing so in Gods timing and following His lead for as long as I can.

Some mornings I wake up and I don’t understand how I got to this point in my life. All the good, all the bad, has led me right here to this place. A place of awe, a place of wonder, and a place of seeking His face. I often think about what Jesus has planned, and every day I am blessed to be surprised by the daily events and testimonies that unfold as we are led by the Holy Spirit of the Lord; wherever He may take us. 

Today I was extra thankful. 

Thankful I am out in the winter daylight on a weekday. Thankful for the sun on my face in December. Thankful for my husband and the way it all worked out. Thankful for snow days with Nash man and fun dinners with Leah Faith. Thankful that the Lord truly knows the desires of our hearts as He lines them up with His perfect will for our lives. Thankful that I can breathe when I need to, rest when I need to, and pause with the Lord for as long as it takes; even until the deer show up in the winter snow. 

The other week I finished my first class for my doctorate. Oh the grace on this, let me tell ya. Praise you Jesus! But as I completed the ministry log for the quarter and listed out every city we have been led to over the last few months, recalling the people we have met and how the Lord was glorified, I couldn’t help but be brought to tears. 

There’s something deeply satisfying and soul invigorating that gratifies your spirit when your every day life becomes delighting in the Lord your savior, as you fulfill your individual calling of Jesus Christ. The bonus is doing so alongside your husband who is also your 24/7 best friend, and your children who randomly tag along with you. Nash loves to talk to strangers and give out Jesus hugs. 

Words cannot accurately describe what it’s like to walk out the calling and daily endeavors of the Lord as an evangelist, completing random assignments in obedience as led, leaving the 99 to find the one. The one person, in the one city, in the one place, at the one time, who needs just one touch from the ONE WAY to eternal salvation…Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior. 

Here I am Lord, send me. 

In the fall of 2020 on a random drive with Daniel Keech, he looked over at me and told me he would be my first sponsor when the Lord called me into ministry full time. Back then it was just kind words from a friend. Today he is my husband, the Lord is our provider, and healing evangelism with the Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ is our daily life. 

I am forever thankful to the Lord and Savior Jesus for bringing me out of the darkness of this world and into his marvelous light. 

God is good. I am home. Jesus is King!

Psalm 18:32-34

32 the God who equipped me with strength

    and made my way blameless.

33 He made my feet like the feet of a deer

    and set me secure on the heights.

34 He trains my hands for war,

    so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

1 Peter 2:9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

2 Corinthians 4:6 - For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 58:8 - Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward.

Isaiah 6:8 - Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

Romans 1:16 - For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.

Acts 1:8 - But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

2 Timothy 4:5-6 - But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry. 6 For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.

Ephesians 2:10 10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

2 Peter 1:10 - Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

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