Category: Community

Well, it has surely been a while. Just want to talk about letting others be themselves. This is something that isn’t always easy to do.

Seeing that others have a different personality is very important. We were not all put on this earth to be the same. It’s really interesting when you do these personality tests and see how one person responds to something one way and another responds exactly the opposite!

The test is being patient, letting things roll off, and not taking things personally from others. Easier said that done. I think if we can always keep an eye on the log in our own eye, it’s easier to not see the stick in someone else’s.

The hardest trial seems to be loving other’s unconditionally!! Sometimes if we can do just that, it can bless them and give them the strength to go on!!

Its good to even learn how to welcome and celebrate other’s differences!! They could be strong in an area we are weak in!! Sometimes we can hold us up, other times we can hold them up!!

The group of kids we help out with on Wednesday nights are really a good example of this. We just keep loving on them and they are changing!! We are changing also!! You can’t be politically correct with these kids!!

Actually it messes up any plan that you have and any idea to do things a certain way!! You just have to wing it and go with it!! The sooner we can learn to do that the better it flows!!

Sometimes we just can’t have all the ducks in a row!!! Some ducks dance, some ducks sing, some ducks are quiet, some ducks are loud and every one of them is ok, just the way they are, doing just what they are doing!!

We just have to pray and let things go!! Enjoy life, take things lightly, go with the flow of things!! Let people live!! Get yourself cleaned up on the inside!!

Forgive

Sow good seeds!

Let your light shine

Be unique

Let others be unique

See you soon

I”m writing, writing, writing my book

This is what I love to do!! I can’t say that I always do it perfectly but it is my goal to find the gold and pull it out of whoever I am around.

I want to show Jesus to a cruel world that doesn’t understand who HE is. I am someone that needs lots of encouragement to keep going so I figure lots of others do too!!

Some people have only heard lies about themselves and we need to help them know the truth about who they really are. Sometimes we can speak what someone is into existence.

I somehow got this video the other day about a young man that was only 19 and dropped out of college because he wanted to be an entrepreneur and he didn’t feel like his professor  really knew how to teach him to do that.

Actually, the young man was right. He wrote a book and it went viral. He now has a Self Publishing School and helps many many folks write books and publish them in 3 months.

After I watched this, I got so inspired. I know that I have lots of words to help others. I started praying whether I should join his school because I need help in publishing a book.

I wanted to just jump in but I’m not really impulsive about spending money like that. It was around $300 to join. And that much 2 more times. I had a man that popped into HERRIN from France, a young man named Pasgal. Pasgal spoke over me that I would have many best sellers and even help others publish books.

Well how would I help others publish books if I didn’t know how to publish one myself? Prophecy is still real for today. You have to weigh it out and check it out and wait for confirmation, but it is a gift that is still in operation today. In fact, I have had it spoke over me many times that I would write a book.

It happened Sunday night, I got my confirmation. We go to a fellowship in Herrin on Sunday nights and Marty went out to get the car and bring it up to the door. I looked out and saw a guy out there talking to him so I waited.

Finally, the guy came in and I went out. I didn’t even ask for a little while what he said. Then I said, ” Oh, what did Carl say?” Marty said, “Oh! He said that someone was going to ask me for $300 dollars and I was supposed to give it to them!” Bingo!! You can’t make these things up!!

That’s all I needed to know that I was supposed to proceed on with plans!! Sometimes when something is spoken over us like that, we have to have faith to proceed on with walking it out! There is a price to pay sometimes!!

But why wouldn’t God want me to do this? It’s about HIM and not me anyway!! I joined yesterday!!

Books are coming

No doubts now

Finding the gold in others

Don’t give up

Get around the right folks

See you soon

This is an often not discussed subject. There are many roaming around with this life going on and not realizing it. From childhood hurts and trauma and pain they have learned how to live this way.

By learning Restoring The Foundations and walking people through these prayers we really are learning a new revelation of how this is happening. Many people had such an awful childhood that there was a time they actually divorced their parents or even whole family. This begins the cycle of an orphan lifestyle. Thank God it can be broken.

There is so much divorce going on in families that children figure if Dad doesn’t want our family, why should I? If Mom took off, why can’t I? I’m so excited to be able to be helping out at a place full of middle school age kids. Showing them Gods love and acceptance. I’m thankful to be helping adults also, showing them Gods love and acceptance, with our prayer sessions in our home.

I have to say, that if I hadn’t experienced all of the things I have been through, my heart wouldn’t  be so big for helping others. I’ve said before, we are surely not an island. We have to find SOMEONE that we can trust and talk to about things.

There are people in this world we can trust. If someone hurts you, it’s ok, just get back up and have a little more wisdom and trust again. I am not saying that flippantly, because sometimes people can hurt us worse than we can imagine! I’m just saying, work through it, take the steps you need to take to forgive, grieve it if you have to, and move on!! Don’t stay in that hurt and bitterness forever!! No matter what it is!

I am so happy to be so surrounded by so many people that I can trust right now. I did not do that, God did. I just had to persevere and stay in one place even though it took years to feel this way.

It’s so funny, I was being trained for ministry where I used to live and when I moved here one of the pastors told me that if I moved I was missing my purpose and calling. I knew that God put Marty in my life and that I was supposed to do it. Do you know how many days, months, and years it looked like he was right?

I had to hold on to the promises that God had spoke to Marty and I in the beginning when Marty had the dream and the man he worked with confirmed it. That’s what faith has to do. Persevere and hang onto the promises. Whew it is so exciting and fulfilling and bigger than anything I ever imagined!! Don’t give up!!

Most of it really had nothing to do with me! God literally made it happen! He’s just looking for a broken and contrite spirit that He can work through. Sometimes it only happens through the process!

Do not give up

He has a family for you

Keep persevering

Everyone is special

See you soon

 

Just want to talk about how important YOUR voice is. If you are in a group where you are invisible and never heard and never even acknowledged as being there, chances are you might be in the wrong room, or you might need to work harder at being heard.

That’s what I had become. I was around all young people with college degrees and such confidence. Now I realize… they need me, they need my voice, they need my wisdom, they need my love, and they need my input.

There is something about living a lot of days on this Earth and going through many experiences that just can’t be taught in books. Of course I have to throw in here, I know many young people have had as many life experiences and learned as much as I have in a few short years. I’m definitely not saying that I know more, I’m saying that I know something too.

I almost started getting intimidated by a know it all attitude. A haughtiness comes along with that. I am no longer intimidated by it now, I can see through it. I can see a hurt little kid that went through lots of different things in their life and has had to be so tough and bump their way through.

I see a nation full of these kids that haven’t got their needs met in many ways and shuffled through the system to lay down their true feelings and take on a false identity to fit in this world. I can see it because I even started doing it myself. Mine was by being quiet.

I am so, so grateful to get to be doing what I am today. My voice is back, it’s ok if others are confident because I am too. It’s ok if they have a voice, I do too. It’s really miserable being quiet when you have things to say. It’s really miserable being politically correct every minute. It’s just the pits!!

If you feel like you aren’t accepted for you… if the people around you aren’t celebrating you and you are getting overlooked and underheard. Start checking  that out. It could be something going on inside of you. It could be that you are around the wrong group of people. You do have a purpose and you do have a voice.

It’s so fun to be you and even encouraging yourself if no one else is around to do it!! Now I see the truth not the lies…helping others do the same People need to be out of their boxes and enjoy what really makes them happy and what they are really meant for…. not just lost in the shuffle of busyness and systems that aren’t working!!

Keeping digging inside

Don’t get lost in the shuffle

Don’t give up

See you soon

Just thinking about honor today. That means honoring everyone on this Earth. Red and yellow, black and white, we are precious in His sight. That is totally true too. We are all loved by God.

We are all created differently, with different giftings and even a different message to tell others. It’s so wonderful to embrace our own unique qualities along with everyone else’s too. We don’t need to get angry just because someone is different!!

We can always learn from others. I believe everyone is put in our path for a reason. Some people are more of a challenge to us, and we learn a different lesson, like, “Wow that person is pushing all my buttons!” We have to learn why our reactor is reacting so badly!! Others are just a gliding easy ride.

I have found, that if I keep looking inward to what’s going on in me, that I can learn to honor the person that pushes my buttons, even if I have to handle it differently than the easy to handle ones.

I think the hardest for me is someone that is acting like everything is great in their life and you can tell something is going on. I know that everything does not have to be shared with me, but at least tell me you have something going on!! Even if you don’t tell me what!! Ha ha!!

Different personalities, different giftings, we all have to learn to work together and learn from one another. The comparing and thinking everyone has to be like us is hideous. It’s not good to back off from all the people that aren’t like us. Then we might miss a good lesson!!

It’s not always the easiest thing to do, but I think we all have to keep our reactors in check!! Find the good in others…just like you want them to find the good in you!! You can do it, don’t give up!! Love never fails!! We need to make a difference in this world!!

Give it your best shot!

Love never fails!

Blessed are the peacemakers!!

Tomorrow