Deliverance

You know deliverance is something as human beings we ask for a lot. It hit me the other day just how much I ask for it. Stuff like please get me out of this traffic, I need a closer parking space, please let it rain cuz I am hot, I need a new job, etc.

Here's what the Lord just shared with me, literally right now, ha I had to get it out before I forget. Do we as a people want deliverance from our situation or from the enemy causing the problem. Sure I believe asking for deliverance from certain "situations" but how many times does it take before we get the lesson, and move on? What does it need to take to wake me up?

Last Tuesday was the last time for me to be apart of the food bank at Faith. It was 100 degrees no air conditioner. We were short handed. And it was a very emotional time for all involved this whole journey that we have been down. I found myself all day long asking God to send deliverance in the form of rain. It looked like rain that morning! But the more I asked the hotter it seemed to become. What I wanted deliverance from my situation. What I needed was deliverance from the enemy causing the problem. I even mentioned in passing to Dana I guess the Lord will not send the rain today. I was wrong, see He had already sent the rain. It was time for a new season and a time to grow. You cannot grow all the time in the rain, you need sunshine too. I am so thankful that the Lord still gives us dry periods to grow even though He longs to shelter us with the rain. We must grow strong to fight the enemy!
So sisters take comfort in all we do, we are not forgotten, or left behind. Our ministries were not in vain and the enemy took no victory from the kingdom!
Love and Peace

Life changing moments

Everybody has those moments in life that everything slows down around you and you get a glimpse of life and how it would be without you. My moment came about two weeks ago 30,000 feet above the ground.
I would love to tell you everything about that moment or just say that I had some kind of spiritual vision in those few moments. I can not even tell you where I went but I do know this I was very lucky that I got to come back at all. I have not spoke of this moment to anyone or even said much of anything simply because it's almost too much to think about. I know some things for sure... I saw no blinding light just a sense of weightlessness. If Mel had not been there to pray I know i would not be here today, because I think some part of me wanted to keep floating. I would love to say I saw my life flash before me and it was full filling hahaha. I had only one thought and that was I hurt for my sister who was sitting beside me and I thought of him. Would he be sad? I wishing I had not been so stubborn and called him before I left.
That's when I heard His voice in my head. See I have a saying that I say when things in life get too tough or exhausting or just plain stressful. I cannot die because I have not suffered enough. Thinking back on it now it is kind of a slap in the face to Jesus who bearing all my sin toted the cross to Calvary. He asked me just one question have you suffered enough are you done? The easy thing would have been to say yes I am ready, but as I thought I realized I have too much to do. He promises even though it will not be easy and I will probably suffer along this journey I will not suffer alone. See He has never left and each time I have been let down or had my heart broken. I must learn to lean on Him instead of trusting in myself or friends.
So friends this is my life changing moment, pretty involved take it or leave it. I thought if someone could get just one thing out of all this it would make it worth sharing!