I love how today unfolded. We ended up at a yard sale and getting to pray over a grandmother and going through the scriptures with her granddaughter. As we were talking, I kept hearing the Lord speak “it is finished.” I shared this with the grandmother and she broke down in tears. I said I don’t know what the Lord is referring to, and she commented that she did!
From there, we went to a park and the team got out to minister to a family. I remained in the car with the youth to pray. She shared with me what the Holy Spirit has been speaking to her. She disclosed she was shy and had a hard time approaching people that she didn’t know. However, on the last stop, she and I went up to a young lady. I initiated the conversation and asked her if we could pray for her. However, she concluded it and prayed! I praised her for stepping out of fear and into faith that the Lord would fill her mouth with His words! Love getting to empower and equip the future generation for what’s to come!
Today, I had the privilege of instructing these mighty women from Kingsdome Church in creating something beautiful with their hands! It was fun to see how everyone was given the same instruction, yet each painting was just as unique as the individual creating it! We had fun reflecting on how we each we the Lord’s workmanship and how different He made all of us!
What a beautiful time we had with Jesus today! As our team began praying for direction, the Lord gave me a vision of a calla lily. I asked Brandi on our team if she knew of anyone by the name of Callie or Lily. She commented one of her friend’s daughter’s was named Lily. She texted her to see where her daughter was. As she was doing this, she received a phone call. She explained she knew another family who’s son was just in a motorcycle accident and they were on their way to the ER. The person calling asked Brandi to watch their baby while they were at the hospital. After agreeing, we picked up the baby and used it as an opportunity to pray for the family and their son. As we got back into the car, Brandi realized one of the young girls we just prayed for was named Lily. She agreed to reach out to her when she returned the baby about her interest in coming to church with her the following Sunday!
Brandi then received a message from her friend stating that her daughter Lilly was working. We went to Lily’s place of employment and prayed over her. We were also able to go through the 5 scriptures with her and two of her co-workers.
As we returned to the church, Lily’s mother called saying she had just gotten off the phone with Lily who was crying about the fact that the Lord would send three people to pray for her and give her a word of encouragement! The mom said not only was Lily and her co-workers blessed, but she was too! Glory be to the Father!
I still am in awe at what the Lord did in South Dakota! The first evening during worship, the Lord gave me a vision of children worshipping down in front of the church. The person I shared that with made it happen. The children not only led the charge in worship, but also in baptisms. What a beautiful way for the Lord to break down the religious spirit!
I also saw a vision of Ray standing in-front of the congregation. As it turned out, he led the team and remnant in prayer to bind up strongholds and loosen healing and freedom over the land! Sound the trumpet (Nehemiah 4:20).
On Mary Frances and I’s way to South Dakota, we felt led to stop in Mammoth Springs. We stretched our legs by walking around the park. It was beautiful and we found it interesting that nothing living was able to live where the water springs up from the depths of the earth. Life was; however, able to exist after the waterfall. It brought to my remembrance when the Lord told me to “jump all in for Him” off of a waterfall in a vision during worship in Miami Co. It was only by total surrender and jumping or in essence dying to myself that I am able to truly live!
After our walk, we googled local restaurants. Once we decided on one, I plugged it into my GPS. We laughed as it routed us the opposite direction and had me make a U-turn on Peace Loop. I knew that was the Lord trying to get my attention and get me focused back on Him and not my personal struggles.
Once we arrived at the deli, we were able to pray healing for the owners who were believers and exchanged contact information with them so we could follow up with them! What a joy it is as we walk out our faith in obedience to Him and I am so thankful for His gentle reminders to keep our eyes on Him alone in the process!
Today was a first for me! I taught two amazing groups of women from two different churches how to let lose, be creative, and design their own greeting cards. They painted one piece of paper and then were amazed at how different and good each card looked once they were cut into four separate pieces.
It was a unifying activity that stirred up fun conversations that I believe will have a lasting impact for His Kingdom! Before leaving, they were challenged to send their cards to people in all four corners of the earth with words of encouragement or scripture! I am looking forward to doing it again with other groups in the near future!
What a beautiful day in Fulton! I got to meet several new friends and catch up with old friends that I haven’t seen in awhile. The team was able to minister to nursing home residents, some of their family members and even staff!
My personal highlights from the day were being able to reassure someone’s salvation, pray healing and deliverance for one of the people that got baptized and then minister to her sister/caregiver.
These tent making projects have become a way of not just helping me support myself to walk out my calling, but the Lord has used it as an excuse for me to reach out and connect with people and communities I normally wouldn’t have otherwise!
I have had many prayer warriors warring with me and the Lord answered our cries! This picture speaks a 1,000 words and nothing could make me happier or prouder! Here is an image of Jonah, my stepson’s first step in obedience to surrendering his will and his life over to Jesus!
2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
Neil and I went to a rodeo in Savannah, TN this weekend. Oh how I love being around horses as it reminds me of how one day heaven will open and Jesus will be riding on a white horse!
During the intermission, I looked down at my feet and they were dusty…the Lord brought to my remembrance Matthew 10:14 about shaking the dust off the feet of the disciples. What a great reminder that sometimes we need to plant our feet and stand firm where we are…yet other times God will give us the freedom to move on…and that we are only responsible for our obedience to Him and not the results of our obedience.
Also, as I was intently looking at my feet, I was reminded about how similar my toes are to my biological father’s toes. I recalled how my daddy used this as a way to convince me as a young child that I wasn’t adopted. That because of the similarities in our feet, I belonged to him! What another fun way to illustrate that we are made in our Heavenly Father’s image and those that place their trust in Christ, are adopted into God’s family…and because we belong to Him, we should walk in His ways and be imitators of Him!
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