Thursday, January 10, 2008

Who Walks Into Your Life?


I received this email from a friend today...



Who Walks into your life?

The first sentence is pretty powerful!!!

God determines who walks into your life....it's up to you to decide whoyou let walk away, who you let stay, and who you refuse to let go. Ineed this back. If you'll do this for me, I'll do it for you....

Father, God bless all my friends in whatever it is that You know theymay be needing this day! And may their life be full of your peace,prosperity and power as they seek to have a closer relationship withyou.

Amen.

It reminded me of how much God wants to be a part of my life. This picture is of my friend I met in Kansas City, Jasmine who came up to me while in the Children's area and asked for prayer. She asked me, "could you pray for strength for me, that I would be stronger in my faith?" I wanted to say, no, I need you to pray for me because my faith is smaller than yours right now but of course I didn't and I did and then my faith grew. My faith keeps on growing these past weeks and as I spend more time with God and learn that I need to lean on my sisters and brothers in Christ in times of trouble and in times of joy, my faith grows exponentially. Thanks God for sending this my way through my dear friend today!

Thursday, January 3, 2008

The One Thing



Psalm 27:4 One thing I have desired of the Lord, That will I seek: That I may dwell in the house of the Lord All the days of my life, To behold the beauty of the Lord, And to inquire in His temple.




I sure didn't get it until I got to the conference. Pastor Mike said, "It will change your life!" It has changed it. I get it. See the picture attached and you can log onto the webstream GODTV.com and look for The Call Kansas City. And so we trekked to Kansas City, Missouri, 13 degrees, but he sun was out, Pastor Mike, James, Patty, Becky and myself. I stood in line one morning with 17,000 of my very best friends from ages 14 to 20, and some of us "older" kids came too! What an amazing time of fellowship with the so many others who want more. It was like a pilgrimage to go and find out what kind of secret there is going on in the mid-west. IHOP, International House of Prayer has been praying and worshipping 24 hours a day since 1999, imagine what my life will be like after joining God each day for the rest of my days...can't wait!


I spent two days with the Childrens Equipping Center, 400 visiting kids, whose parents were attending the conference. I felt blesssed to pray for a sweet girl named Jasmine and promised to continue praying for her. I brought back a lot of tools for my job but I also brought back more, how to teach our kids to pray and to seek God. Can't wait to begin to implement some of the ideas.
My final Aha was when a guest speaker began to challenge us to change our lives. 21 day challenge by Becky Tirabasi, to spend 1 hour with God daily, to actually make an appointment with the King


I am excited to get to the Prayer room today and spend 1 hour with my King. I wonder what he will do!????