From the Abundance

It's been a  while since I've sat down to write anything, let alone blog.  I think I went through a season where I couldn't really outwardly or verbally express what I was thinking or feeling so I didn't write and definitely didn't say a whole lot.  But that ends here and now.  My Pastor challenged us not to return to a place called The Revolution Mark 16:20 and I accept that challenge.  Part of my purpose in creating this blog was to do just what Mark 16:20 says, so everywhere and preach.  So I've been neglecting my duties.  Now that I've gotten some things back in order it's time to move forward.  I can't promise that this blog is going to be like my others but it will be truthful and relevant.  Titus 2 (American King James Version) reads as follows:  But speak you the things which become sound doctrine: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience. The aged women...

The devil has one dollar but God has all the dollars!!  An original song made up by two of my friend's children so simply tells us the truth about our God.  Sometimes the enemy likes to fool us with the illusion that he has so much to offer... twinkling lights, fame fortune, glamor, money, power.. or whatever appeals to you.  In reality, he has the equivalent of a measly dollar.  Why settle for a dollar when God, our daddy, owns the cattle on a thousand hills?  Don't get me wrong, money is nice, but it's not all about that anyway.  Matthew 6:34 tells us to take no thought for tomorrow, for tomorrow shall take thought of the things for itself.  In other words, don't worry about tomorrow, it'll worry about itself. So what's so Important about these cattle and hills anyway?  Sometimes people get so caught up in chasing the stuff that they forget the true importance of why they're doing what they're doing in the first place. If I've dedicated my gif...

I recently finished reading the book The Help, and seeing the movie of course.  They're both GREAT!  I took a lot away from the book and the movie but the thing that has stuck with me the most is when Abileen said nobody had ever asked what it felt like to be her.  As I left the movie I couldn't help but think about that simple phrase and I too realized... Nobody's ever asked what it feels like to be me.  People see me everyday and think they know me or assume they do because we've walked through years of life together, but of all of the people I've ever met, known my whole life, or just spoken to in passing.... not one person has ever asked what it feels like to be me.  I've been asked a lot of questions but never how does it feel to be Chaconna Downs?  Well sometimes it feels great to be me... some days I feel like I'm on top of the world, at my best, doing great things, excited, giving my best and experiencing life in that moment... when at other tim...

From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. Psalm 61:2 Monday night I went to bed with a heavy heart and a a million thoughts racing through my head.  I couldn't even seem to find the words to pray to express what I was feeling in the moment.  Sometimes the burden for others can take your breath away, tangle your words and put your mouth on a temporary mute.  I am thankful that when I don't know what to pray, or even have an idea where to begin, the Chief Intercessor steps in on my behalf.  Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for we know not what we should pray for as we ought: but the Spirit itself maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. Romans 8:26 Sometimes we get so overwhelmed or hit from so many sides that it's hard to find a starting place but thank God that we have not an high priest which cannot be touched with the feeling of our ...

Tell me, what do you give when you've given your all And it seems like you can't make it through? Well you just stand when there's nothing left to do You just stand, watch the Lord see you through Yes, after you done all you can, you just stand..... Sometimes, when God puts you on assignment and you've done all that you can... you just have to stand.  Over the past few years God has truly had me on some assignments I'd never imagine myself being on.  One in particular came with an urge to pray, a declaration, no explanation, and crazy crazy instructions.  Guess what, still walking it out.. and still don't have an explanation per say.  I do have a greater understanding of the purpose for the assignment and why it's necessary.  Several times during the course of the assignment I told myself and God, "I didn't sign up for all this" and I was ever so quickly reminded that when I gave God my Yes, that meant Yes to everything, not just the ...

Image created by  Akiane    John 14:1-3 Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. Over the past few weeks my family has lost several loved ones.  One in particular really made me stop and do a serious inventory of my life, those dear to me and the state of our affairs.  It's always hard to process death, unanswered questions, unspoken words, things you wish you should have said or done, the plans left unfulfilled and the pain that shreds your heart.  We are not promised tomorrow, or even the next moment... Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. James 4:14 Ofte...

This phrase is often used when little kids have coughing spells but it's a phrase I use with my friends when we laugh so hard we choke.  I was reading a bedtime story with my little cousin and the book had some of the miracles of Jesus in it.  The last story was the story of the paralyzed man (Mark 2:1-12).  And again he entered into Capernaum, after some days; and it was noised that he was in the house. And straightway many were gathered together, insomuch that there was no room to receive them, no, not so much as about the door: and he preached the word unto them. And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four. And when they could not come nigh unto him for the press, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed wherein the sick of the palsy lay. When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee. But there were certain of the scribes sitting the...