From the Abundance

About a year ago I was having a conversation with a friend and we were talking about God's instructions and being obedient when He speaks.  Fast forward to a couple of days ago and that same word was spoken by another friend with myself and the first friend present for the conversation.  I can't begin to explain to you how excited I was.  God had just awakened me from a deep sleep with a specific set of instructions, then sent vessels to confirm it.  It didn't take a long time, it didn't take a bunch of extra stuff.  It was a simple coming together of believers. In the initial conversation I had with my friend she spoke to me about how things would start to fall into place once I started to move in obedience.  It's been an amazing journey so far and I can't even express all of the things God has done and is doing.  This morning on the Prayer call Bishop Walker was speaking from Psalm 23:2 on the topic of He Knew what I needed...  Rest, Resto...

I was watching an episode of the Carrie Diaries where she and her friends were having a conversation about the mentality of the people in Manhattan.  She was smitten with the luxe and glamour of NY and how everyone was so posh and had exciting lives. But her friend pointed out that in Manhattan everyone was their own little individual island... trying to keep up, outdo, and make the other little islands jealous..it was lonely being an island. Over the past few weeks I've found myself extremely irritated with this spirit of selfishness and self-exhalation that seems to be running rampant these days.  NO I am not about to get on my soapbox and just rant out of frustration but I am about to share some biblical truths with you concerning this foolishness right here... what I have termed Me Me Island Syndrome... There are times when we all have a lapse in judgement and think we don't need anybody else, we can do everything on our own, or that this show is all about us. ...

Every now and then, an artist needs a blank canvas.  Sometimes that blank canvas comes out of a fresh package, other times it's made by hand, and even still there are times when a blank canvas is created by sanding and painting over an old canvas with Gesso.  Well... this is where I am right now.. God is sanding me and has begun painting over the old painting to create something new. There are times in life when everything around us seems to come crashing down around us and everything we knew to be true is ashes.  The good thing about that is God already said He would give us beauty for our ashes (Isaiah 61:3) . The process of reworking a canvas amazes me but also expresses exactly where I am right now.  Imagine this... you're a canvas that's had a picture drawn on it and as you've walked through life that drawing has been filled with color and texture... brush strokes, flicks of the artists brush, scrapes of a painter's knife, and even some thinn...

My pastor is preaching and teaching a series on becoming good ground and today's message was awesome (as always). There was a certain part of the sermon where he had us tell our neighbor to start over.  Sometimes things don't really hit you until you say them out loud and you get cut by your own words.  My God, that thing cut me so deep today...  I had already been feeling a fresh start on some things and with some people but this was confirmation. He was talking about how the thorns and thickets ended up here because the ground was cursed due to disobedience (Genesis 3:17). The crazy thing wasn't the ground being cursed or the disobedience... the thing that just came from waaaaaaayyyy back and sucker-punched me in the back of my head was when he said they were still in disobedience to the original command God had given them and were responsible for fixing it, or in other words, doing what God told us to do the first time... even after receiving the wrong spiritual co...

What a difference a good night's rest can make.  After that awesome service on Tuesday I was so excited and energized I thought I was grown and stayed up until 2am.  Like I didn't have anywhere to go the next morning!! WHAT WAS I THINKING?? I was soo sleepy at work I couldn't even keep my eyes open.  So I went to bed early last night and had the most restful and peaceful sleep.  Thank God!   It was like God personally stopped to sing me a lullaby and cradle me in His arms.  I tell ya He's alright with me!!  So now that my brain is functioning again, I can collect my thoughts and write what was on my mind.  A while ago I started this fabulous book by Dr. Cindy Trimm (A BEAST in the spirit might I add) called Commanding Your Morning and last night I began to think about how powerful words can be and the old saying that sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.  NOT SO!  Proverbs 18:21 s...