Wake up!

I thank our Heavenly Father that this day, in such a time as this, that Spiritual eyes are being opened! Spiritual ears are being opened and hearts are getting revelation to understand the Kingdom that is coming! I thank God that his grace is freely given and grace covers a multitude of sins. I thank God that the greatness in people is being drawn out today. The Kingdom of God is taken by force, so I thank God for the men and women who have blinders being removed, those who are being awoken to the battle today. I am asking for the fullness of the inheritance for myself and my brothers and sisters in Christ. Wake the sleepers, Lord, open their eyes, be our vision Lord! Stir up the gifting, annointing, vision, and passion to take the kingdom of God by force. Lord break the chains on those struggling with mediocrity, trying to survive in normal. Father I ask that the ones called to heal the sick and raise the dead and set the captives free would be lifted up. I ask for the ones who are teachers and prophets and evangelists, apostles and pastors to stand up in their role to bring fullness to your kingdom here on earth! I ask that those you have called to much would no longer be afraid of the much that is required. Lets not settle at the point we should be getting our breakthrough! Wake up, look yourself in the eye and decide if your yes is going to be yes and push into the fullness of your inheritance as children of the Light!

Foundational Seed

I am grateful for the pressure of the difficult situations that has mined who I am and cultivated my greatness. I am grateful for the ones who prayed for me! The amazing prayer warriors who covered me with prayer and the Word of God in a small room in a hole in the wall church in a poor part of the Eastside of Des Moines, IA. I am grateful for the seed planted by women who boldly approached the throne of grace in that church for the daughters and granddaughters of those in the Spirit would have generational Inheritance in the kingdom of God. I am grateful for every prayer for restoration of a family, of a child of God, for the salvation of one of The Lord's redeemed. I am grateful for the ones who loved me when I was unlovable and whispered in my ear that there is more than this! I am grateful for the ones that taught me to honor their husbands and raise their children to cultivate the kingdom. I am grateful for the spiritual Mothers and Fathers in the Kingdom who scraped and scrounged to send me to church camps, retreats, and weekends away so that the seed of The Lord could be planted deep in my heart. I am blessed by the foundation of those who dared to say that prayer works! So thank you to the spiritual Fathers and Mothers at Eastwood Church/ Experience Church, I praise God for you!

Greater than this

I am grateful that The Lord has broken a cycle of devouring in my life that had happened right around my birthday each year. This year the capital in my life isn't being devoured so I can be released to breathe into ministry. My life is no longer left to strive and earn but to "be"and inherit the gifts of my Heavenly Father and to be a vessel to flow the resources of the kingdom of heaven to the earth. So I thank God that he makes a way and provides exceedingly and abundantly more than I think to ask for because my God is MORE THAN ENOUGH! His character is to show up bigger and exponentially better than before. I am blessed to walk in intimacy with my Heavenly Father and be drawn closer to his heart daily.

Justice

I have been soaking in the joy of embracing the pain in life to breakthrough. I thank The Lord for his justice weighing my life and allowing the curse where my family and I have tried to play God and make our own agendas. I thank The Lord that he has been faithful to point out these areas where I placed my agenda ahead of My Heavenly Father's plans. Through his Holy Spirit I am able to come into repentance and be redeemed out of the curse built by my own hands. He is faithful to complete a good work. So I pray my thoughts would be lined up with the truth of the Heavenly Father and my desires would be aligned to His dreams for me! Thank you for not leaving me in the curse but counting me worthy before I'd even been born!

Double versus half

I am grateful that the promise in Psalm 126:5-6 says 'Those who plant in tears will harvest with shouts of joy. They weep as they go to plant their seed, but they sing as they return with the harvest. (Psalms 126:5, 6 NLT you version). I have gone through many seasons where The Lord is taking me through pruning. Trimming back all that won't bear fruit. I type this as I've been pouring my heart and tears out before The Lord because the shaking has begun again. Anything that breaks loose in the shaking doesn't have room in your future. So Lord bring on the shaking and change my perspective to yours so I don't miss double while I'm wasting time looking for half. Lord mold my heart to want the things of your heart! I need your wisdom and discernment, eyes to see, ears to hear and a heart to understand your ways! I have to remember there's never been a sacrifice made to expand the glory of God in my life that I've regretted making!

Grace for Myself

I am amazed at the shallow pool of grace I carry for myself. The Bible says, love your neighbor as yourself, well my neighbor's getting the shaft! Today I am grateful for friends I can be extremely vulnerable with while externally processing my feelings. Recently I became stuck in a situation that could have been avoided and I went to this person and very honestly laid everything out. I had made a mistake, this is what I need to correct it, this is what I'm doing to fix things, etc. Well this person was gracious and honest and genuinely open for the news they received. This issue I uncovered with my verbal processing, was not as I had previously suspected, that I had broken trust and therefor failed the relationship. The truth was really much uglier. Instead of accepting the freely given grace by this friend, I had chosen to exact my own punishment per the feelings of failure on my part. So this very tender friend helped me to identify my underhanded opponent, self hatred. A nasty detrimental emotion if there ever was one. So today my journey to the goodness of The Lord is extending myself grace and accepting His judgement no matter how I feel; enabling me to give and receive love from myself and stop this personal assault on my body. I am grateful that the caliber of friends The Lord has brought into my life are exceptional and choose to operate in a way to honor who I am above mistakes I have made. I am surrounded by people who choose to see who I am aside from my actions and pull greatness out of me. This is the example of a lifestyle of Culture of Honor. This is a part of living strongly community, and I am blessed to be living in this time, in this place!

Ring in 2013

This month I'd like to take time to lay a foundation of gratitude for the One whom deserves my first fruits. I am grateful for The Lord who works all things together for those who believe and is faithful to complete a good work. I am thankful for the personal breakthrough I've experienced this last year and every one of you who stood with me, went before me to blaze trail, and who dared take big risks in the last twelve months. I am grateful for new family that's been grafted in and people who have encountered The Lord. I am grateful that The Lord has shown me who I am, and that who I am is not dependent on my circumstances. I am grateful that I've dared to dream again, And experience The Lord in epic ways. I am grateful to men and women of God who have covered me in prayer and kicked my butt when I needed to change my lens about myself and God. I am in awe at the goodness of The Lord. He has placed me with people who are hungry to go after the Kingdom of Heaven. To boldly approach the throne of grace and release the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. I am grateful for love and its gentle tumultuous and splendid impact on everyday life. This last year I found depths in my heart I'd long since believed myself incapable of. The faithfulness of a Heavenly Father to expose deep desires for more than I could hope to achieve or even ask for in my lifetime. I am grateful that the presence of The Lord shows up where we are at and sets captives free, heals the sick, and forever shifts our lives. I am grateful that we serve a living and active God who is slow to anger and loves perfectly. I am grateful that every time I have asked for just enough, you have blessed me with more than enough, for you are a God of more than enough and it is against your character to give your children just enough. I am thankful that I seem to have lost my tent stakes. I am grateful that you see the hurt in my heart and desire for honest community to impact our culture and break the prideful mindset of separation and ownership when all we have we owe to you! There is so much more I can list, and so much more I will share in the next month. But for today may the love of The Lord encounter you where you are, may his light shine upon you and keep you may the angel of The Lord set a guard around you with peace that transcends all and guards your heart and mind in Christ Jesus.