I believe it is important to record the awesome things that God has done for us.

God has been so faithful to me for my whole life whether I realized it at the time or not.

I’ll begin my story when I was seventeen. I had been praying for the husband God had for me and asking for the specific things that I wanted in my mate. I wanted someone who was as passionate about God as I was, close to my height, and knows how to play the piano. Oh, did I mention that I prayed I would meet him when I was seventeen and that I wanted to be married by the time I was twenty, I know your thinking wow, what else does she want?

Well without even realizing it at the time, all of my prayers were answered. I met Jason when I was seventeen and we started dating. Before you know it we were married and I realized it was just what I had wanted. We married when I was twenty and Jason was exactly what I had asked for. He is close to my height, he plays the piano, and he is definitely passionate about his relationship with God.

To some extent I have always known what I was supposed to do with my life. I have always had the conviction that when I had children I was going to stay home with them and teach them the way God instructed me too. Jason was still working on his degree when we got married and we didn’t want anything to interfere with that. Needless to say we weren’t trying to have a baby just yet. Well, God had a different plan. Two and a half months later we discover that we’re having a baby! After we got over the shock, we decided to just do the best we can and trust God to take of the rest. I was working while Jason was going to school full time. I wanted to stay home when the baby arrived and God lined it up just perfect. Jason got a job at the university and started just in time for us to transition, God is faithful!

It’s easy to be like the children of Israel, who quickly forget what God has done for them in the face of impossible circumstances. That brings me to the next chapter of our life. When my daughter Haley turned two I thought its time to try for a brother or sister.

So when Jason and I decided to try for another we thought we had this one in the bag. I mean the first time we weren’t even trying, how hard can it be? right?

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We are really excited to welcome Linda Harrington of Treasures of Life Ministries to our House Church.  She will be at our house on March 6, 2010 at 6 pm.  She will also be ministering at Calvary Worship Center in Mt. Olive, Alabama on Sunday Morning, March 7, 2010 at 10:30 am.  The address to both are below.  Both services are open to anyone.

Linda is a VERY accurate Prophetic Voice out of Atlanta Georgia.  In fact, she has given us some of the most accurate Words from the Lord we have ever experienced.  Linda will be ministering both the Word as well as Personal Prophesy.  Come with high expectations of what God will do!

She has spoken at various ministries, churches, workshops and conferences around the United States and South America.  She has had the opportunity to minister to various leaders, pastors and government officials in Lima, Peru.  Linda has trained and released ministry teams in several ministries and local churches.  Linda also served as secretary, president and on the governing board of a Women’s AGLOW chapter.  Many refer to Linda as “the flag lady” as she  creates, makes, sells and worships with flags and streamers.  Linda has authored two books on color, The Color Book Volume I and Volume 2, and what Linda refers to as thought provokers A Little of This and a Little of That.  She is currently working on a devotional book along with a book of visions and encounters she has experienced.   Linda has recently completed the first in a series of soaking CD’s – Season of Prosperity, soon to be released.

We will receive an offering for her ministry at each service.

The address of Calvary Worship Center is:  1931 Brookside Road, Mount Olive, AL

Please send us an email for the address to our House Church meeting.

You can find additional information about Linda on her website:  http://www.treasuresoflife.org

I was talking with my husband the other day, we were discussing the saying “the grass is always greener on the other side”. We agreed that this saying appears to have some truth to it. I know that we all go though tough times that make us long for change; usually something that looks a lot like our neighbor’s situation. It’s a real shame when we get stuck focusing on all the negatives of our situation. We have taken for granted the positive things that we have in our lives, of course it could always be better but isn’t that pessimistic thinking (the glass is half empty). We all have a tendency to be short sighted not thinking of the problems our neighbor is facing that might possibly Read the rest of this entry »

Today I learned something else while soaking in the presence of the Lord.  I saw a vine with branches and remembered what Jesus said, “I am the vine and you are the branches”.  I understood that life, peace and joy flow through Him “the vine”, into me the branches.   I realized that the amount of nutrients that can flow though a vine is small.  Then I saw a large branch and realized that the amount of nutrients that can flow through it is much greater.  I understood that this relates to the anointing.

I also read Ephesians chapter 2 this morning and I related it to this vine picture and it was pretty cool, I could see it much clearer.  The picture shows that the same stuff that flows through Jesus flows through us when we’re abiding in Him.  “The same spirit that raised Christ from the dead now lives in me and quickens my mortal body”.

Then I understood more, the sun represents The Father, Jesus is the vine and the Word (seed), and the Holy Spirit is the rain and the wind.  The soil is our heart, and the seed is the (Word), once the seed takes root we move from death to life in Jesus and become part of His body.  Without the rain of the Holy Spirit we can become dry, every plant needs water.  Some of the body of Christ rejects the rain of the Holy Spirit and becomes weak and dead.

Before all of this I had been thinking about how Jesus was asleep in the boat with the disciples during the storm.  I’ve heard that because of the peace that indwelt Jesus, He could project it onto the circumstance.  But you can’t project what you don’t have.  Then I remembered that He rebuked the storm and it stopped.  I then thought that everything that Jesus did is our example, so when storms come in our lives we can rebuke them.  And as we abide in the Vine we will have all the peace, joy, and love that we need on the inside of us to meet the situation.