How He Loves

This changed my heart. Don't ever forget how much he loves you. EVER.

Awake our Soul

Then He said to me,

Prophesy to these bones and say to them,
Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord!
This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones,
I will make breath enter you,
And you will come to life.
So I prophesied as I was commanded.
As I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound,
And the bones came together, bone to bone.
And I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them,
And skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.
Then He said to me,
Prophesy to the breath,
Prophesy, son of man, and say to it,
Conjure the four winds of breath and breathe.
Awake my Soul — Chris Tomlin/Lecrae

The shootings. Guns. Abortions. Hatred. Murders. Sin. The lies. Drugs. Homelessness. Lack of God. Sickness. Fear.

This is America, where freedom rings. We have so much to be thankful for. We have everything here, yet when you watch the news and read the Facebook statuses, it’s all poor me, help me, SIN, fear, it’s a fallen world. People seem to care more about what the next trends are and the biggest and best gun to be bought before Obama bans them. We don’t see people in America.  We see ourselves, we want the American dream with the cars, the house, the perfect children. We want it all…

I don’t like America. I want to like America, I want to like the white people, I really do. I keep hearing the Lord say “GRACE, baby girl, love them, teach them”…. I don’t know how to extend grace to people who have everything and yet when they look at their lives they see nothing. I want America to WAKE UP. We have SO much here, so much that we should be a living example of heaven! If we  only cared as much about our children’s education and as we did about Obama banning guns or better yet, if we cared about our relationship with the Lord, America would be such a different place!

America is not dead, we have a fighting chance here, we have hope. We have more churches on every corner then we even know what to do with. Can you imagine America if we all stopped and just prayed? Really think about it.  If we all came together and worshiped our Lord, sat at his feet and tossed our crowns down… AH! what a glorious moment that would be! America can conquer sin.  I mean shoot, Jesus did the hard part people!  If we would just stop for Him and do what He is asking, if we would stop for each other and see the best in people, if we chose to love, if we lived and breathed His words that He put on this earth so you and I could live this world for HIM!

As I sit here in tears, I need to choose to love America. I can not throw it away and just move to Africa. I am just as much called here as I’m called to Africa. I need to choose grace on His people, I need to love the unlovable, I need to choose to love His people who do not yet know the love of the Lord. If I can have hope for a place where Jesus is not even known, I can and WILL love America.

— JESUS, help me. Help us. Come down this week and lavish your precious love on America. Wake your people up God. Encounter them so they have no choice but to bow at your feet. We owe you everything God, you deserve America to look up at you in love. Help our unbelief, you make ALL things work for your good, ALL things. Help me learn how to love your people here, to love them like you. I believe America will one day be yours again, not just pieces of it, but all of it. This is my cry God… To see this place be yours, to love your people, to show grace when you ask me to! Forgive us Father for not turning to you. We need you. We love you. We want you here! I love you papa, thank you God for saving me!

Bella House

I had the honor to visit Bella house, a Rescue and Rehabilitation home for child prostitutes and sex-trafficked victims in Kenya, Africa. There are currently 5 girls living at Bella House, ranging from age 8 to 20. These precious baby girls all have stories that are straight from hell, stories of being sold and tossed to the side by countless men every single night. Stories that make you lose your breath and make the magic carpet come right out from under your feet. I am not allowed to go into their specifics stories, for one they are not mine to tell, and their stories do NOT define them! For when you look in their beautiful eyes you see the glory of the Lord and more hope than you could ever imagine. They have faith that can move mountains, and set captives free, and I can say that I got to spend 3 glorious weeks filled with love, laughter, and SO much joy.

These girls have more joy than you can even believe, Bella House is a house full of FUN!  They start off the morning with family time and we got to worship the lord at the top of our lungs and every day the girls would thank the lord over and over and over again that they get to be like Queen Esther now. I really hope that people understand, those girls have been at Bella House only 3 months, and they are laid down lovers of the lord already! They went from hell … To living a life where they walk around the house praying, where they want to worship and dance before the lord, where they want to read the word and sleep with the bible at night. They have more faith than you and I can even begin to even imagine!

They captured my heart, forever. Those babies are what I call VICTORY. They are daughters of the lord and are not afraid to call it out… They are living in a house where they get told every second how loved they are, they know who their Father is, and they know when they lay their head down at night God is protecting them. They taught ME love, and hope… They taught me to overcome my past and to live my life with passion. My Bella House Princess’ changed my perspective on life, and I am forever honored that I got to meet these world changers.

They set a fire in my soul to help fight this battle of sex trafficking. .  I was amazed at how many girls are pimped out or how many feel forced to go out based on their circumstances.  Little princess’ who are being prostituted out, sold for sex to men who don’t even ask them their name. I mean in this village there are hundreds of girls out there stuck in hell. My eyes are opened, the lord would whisper dreams and hopes of the little girls I would see, and even though their lifeless faces would just stare straight into my eyes, their tears would fall at my feet, I saw their life beyond the next man! The lord allowed me in that moment to speak life into them, and just love them. But, that is not enough. YES, I am called to love them, but the lord is calling me higher, he is calling me to Kenya. He has shown me little girl’s faces that are going to be mine, brothels that will be turned upside down and used for his glory, this village will be his again! My heart is captured for this place, and ready to see an end to sex trafficking and child prostitution… I have faith that Father God is bigger than hell, amen, I have faith that God is calling me to here to not just make a difference but SEE the difference! Slavery, sex trafficking, hell on earth, WILL be stopped in the name of Jesus; Bella House is just the begging in this village! 

Extravagant Love

Increasing the love in our hearts is just as miraculous as raising the dead. It requires just as much Holy Spirit. 

-Rolland Baker on the miracle of love

     As I have had time to stop and reflect on Harvest School and Kenya, my mind just bursts. I can't seem to put into words what my life has become and what I learned in this special honeymoon season I had with the lord! I learned to stop just talking about him like he wasn't in the room, but I learned that I can see him, I can feel him. That we sing right to him! We can talk straight to his ear!! It's the basic foundation people, but with out that our faith is crumbles at the bottom of the table. Come one somebody! 

I am changed. I am healed. I am loved. I am a daughter of the Kings of Kings. 



Extravagant love.

            The fact that our Jesus left heaven. He left heaven where streets are lined with Gold, where he was sitting in the throne room with his father, to come walk the streets of dirt... He left it all to do his Fathers will. He was willing to surrender all his riches to come and lay on a cross for you and I, and he was JOYFUL in it all!!! If we could stop and understand that we don't get the right to complain when the lord ask us to lay down our lives to serve him, come on somebody, that's what he did for us. That is extravagant love, the way he loves us endlessly. The way we get to love him back in joy and honor for a man who laid down his life so we get to wake up and breath his glory. Extravagant love. 
             We are love. Our identity is love.  He created us to love and be loved. Love is not complicated. Love is giving it all up, laying it all down at his feet. Love is always know that at the end of the day we are seen. Love is knowing that we are a voice to him. Love is taking his hand and knowing that he is going to lead you to every divine appointment. Love is getting everything we need from the best dad in the whole world and never deserving a penny of it. Love is dying a hell of a death and then raising up on the 3rd day just so we could live a life of love and hope. Love is calling me out of the dirt and making me a princess. Love is never being an orphan. Extravagant love. Glory. Hope. Forever. Never ending. New wine. Laughter. Extravagant love is FUN. Our Papa is FUN. 

I know that I am loved beyond a shadow of a doubt! I know that in my secret place, when I close my eyes I can see Papa God.  I am hungry, and never ending pit of hope and want for his words. My cry is to serve my God and follow his will. To walk away from it all, throw my crown at his feet and worship him. That is my heart, to love him with all of me. I am HIS. This is not my life to live but HIS. All the GLORY in his precious name. 


            

Psalm 63

A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah.

You, God, are my God,

    earnestly I seek you;

I thirst for you,

    my whole being longs for you,

in a dry and parched land

    where there is no water.

I have seen you in the sanctuary

    and beheld your power and your glory.

 

Because your love is better than life,

    my lips will glorify you.

 

I will praise you as long as I live,

    and in your name I will lift up my hands.

 

I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;

    with singing lips my mouth will praise you.

On my bed I remember you;

    I think of you through the watches of the night.

 

Because you are my help,

    I sing in the shadow of your wings.

 

I cling to you;

    your right hand upholds me.

Those who want to kill me will be destroyed;

    they will go down to the depths of the earth.

 

They will be given over to the sword

    and become food for jackals.

But the king will rejoice in God;

    all who swear by God will glory in him,

    while the mouths of liars will be silenced.