Revived July 27, 2011

Today I spoke to the Elijah Revolution Intensive and did an overview of the end times. We covered the Antichrist, Babylon, the churches finest hour and signs and trends leading up to His return. It felt so good to preach on the ache of Jesus heart as He longs for His bride and looks forward to the day of the gladness of His heart.

It has been awhile since I have preached on this topic and I felt my heart come alive again. I am made to talk about Jesus. I was made to proclaim His second coming and pray with fervency alongside Him. Oh that I would be faithful to this call all of my days!

This is all I have to say right now, but I seriously need to be faithful in putting some things in writing. So perhaps I’ll be back and perhaps it won’t be too long from now. Perhaps.

40 Day Fast March 1, 2010

Today we start a 40 day fast for the breaking in of revival on college campuses. I am going to do my best to post as much as I can during these 40 days. Since I am nursing I can’t exactly fast food, therefore I am seeking to do some things that the Lord has been convicting my heart about recently. Mostly I will be blogging for the sake of accountability. One thing is seeking to serve others and doing works of justice. This has obviously very wide implications, but we’ll see what it leads to. (preaching the gospel, praying for random people…I don’t know we’ll see.) The other thing is my tongue. I want so badly to be blameless in the words that I speak. As a messenger I am wired to talk, therefore in the process of my sanctification speech has become a major issue and a rather serious conviction. I’m not going to explain what this will look like as it is rather complicated, but let’s just say the Lord has zeal on complaining. No complaining!!! What does the sermon on the mount look like in regards to the tongue, that kind of thing. So, if your reading this say a quick prayer for me, and maybe I’ll be more holy at the end of 40 days.

Great February 16, 2010

I can be great in the sight of God even if I never leave my house. If I never accomplish anything wonderful in anyone’s eyes, but learn and choose love I can be great.

Walking forward February 9, 2010

I have been given an invitation from the lord in this season of being a new mom that I will never have again. I’m not sure what the lesson is or where the Lord is taking me, but this I know. I cannot move forward in God by trying to live in the way I moved forward in the past. This is a new season and an invitation to go deep in a way I never have. I can’t move forward by functioning in the same capacity as I was. I am no longer single and it is no longer just my husband and I. Now I am a married woman with a baby. Therefore going hard after God does not look like what it used to. I must figure out how to love Jesus as I do motherhood without comparing myself to the single fiery young adult I once was. Fiery looks different today than yesterday. If I simply love Jesus and talk to Him as I’m cleaning, changing diapers, letting the dog out, cooking, washing dishes and running errands I have succeeded. Looking backward only prevents you from growing in God and then you stay stagnant, wishing you could have again what you did, when something new and fascinating is right around the corner. You can’t move forward in God now by looking backward to then.

It’s snowing… February 8, 2010

I’m not going to write about snow, though as much as I love snow, I don’t love snow when I want the sunshine.

I finally got the internet in my home and therefore I am going to try my hand at blogging once again. I tend to start new projects with high expectations of myself and then never follow through because I get overwhelmed. Haha! Like the last time I posted was right after I got married and I promised to write often, that was over two years ago and I didn’t write a single post…until now!

This time I’m starting out with the mind set to take it a day at a time, when the baby is sleeping, the house is clean, I’ve spent time with Jesus and I can think, then maybe, just maybe I’ll type a few phrases.

It’s all over, and here I am November 20, 2007

With wedding plannning, wedding, honeymoon, second reception, and a week to breathe over and done with, I’m home and ready to hit life hard again. Hopefully my head is now clear enough to think straight again, so I am going to attempt to post again. I guess we’ll see how it goes. It’s oh so much easier to process out loud, but what great training to get it legibly on paper.
I can’t promise legible, but I’m gonna try just the same, gotta figure posting into my schedule and we’ll see what comes out.

Here we are again July 21, 2007

After a 40 day fast, tons and tons of transition and still planning a wedding, I sit down to at least put something on my poor pathetic site. Suprisingly enough people have still looked at it after forever of nothing.

Today I have 3 prayers on my heart. With only a brief definition, here they are.

# 1 – Jesus Convict me of sin
So many things we know are wrong, but I want conviction of them. I want to hate the sin within my heart. I know I can’t get rid of it alone, so I ask for help.

# 2- God give me power to be holy
A simple cry for help. Once I realize the hindering of love issues all I can do is ask. Jesus I need a supernatural power on my heart and mind to choose righteousness in those little everyday decisions in the heat of the moment that either feed my sin nature or bring me closer to holiness and perfected love, therefore my third prayer is exactly that.

Number 3 – God annoint me to love you.
Give me a supernatural grace from heaven to love you God. I want to respond to your invitation upon my heart. I want to love you back. Help! Let the word come alive in me with understanding that shows me the nature of Christ in the scriptures, and help me live love like you.

Well there you have it, a super broad stroke into my heart in the last little bit of time.

Daniel’s Response May 27, 2007

This morning as my phone buzzed in my ear alarming me that sleep was no longer welcome in my room, I laid there for awhile and began thinking about the 40 day fast coming on Mon (which for some reason I though was starting tomorrow) and suddenly the first part of Daniel 9 popped in my head.

The story is this: Daniel is in captivity in Babylon with the many others of his people and they have been there for 70 years. Daniel knows the season and the year, and knows that deliverance is close at hand (I wonder what tipped him off, besides knowing Jeremiah’s words). He is familiar with the texts of history and their prophetic words, Jeremiahs being that after 70 years deliverance would come. (2 Chron 26:21) The text reads:

“I Daniel, understood by the books the number of years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that He would acomplish seveny years in the desolation of Jerusalem.
Then I set my face toward the Lord God to make request by prayer and supplications, with fasting, sackcloth, and ashes.”

Daniel knew the word, the prophecies that were given. He recognized the year and season they were in. Daniel didn’t just wait to let it happen knowing that it would, he threw himself into prayer and fasting. Instead of being passive and simply letting things happen, he understood that he played a dynamic role to play as an intercessor in the unfolding of God’s plan to release His people from their captivity.

This morning I was thinking about our (IHOP”S) own prophetic history and how Mike put the two seasons (1983 and 2007)together in all the parrallels and prophetic words and dreams. It seems simular to Daniel’s time, knowing it’s time for something big, yet climax is still yet upon us.

We have promises from the Lord and it is abundantly clear to those that are paying attention that He desperatly wants to answer. What was Daniel’s approach? Prayer and fasting. The Lord said 24 years ago he would answer and May 28 and for this long there has been nothing, until now. 2007 and 1983 all over again plus the fullfillment of dreams some had then. May 28th is in two days and what is the Lord’s answer(besides GODTV)? A 40 day fast with the nation for revival.

I feel pretty honored to be living in this season of history, a little terrifyed, ok a lot terrifyed and I don’t really feel adaquete for this (which is probably why I’m here) but here I am, let’s do this fast with excellent spirits and pray in the promises over our house and the nation in this season.

I feel like we could simply stand in awe at what the Lord is doing and terrifically marvel, which is not necessarily bad, but let’s be ones that would pray in the promises and not just watch them unfold. Many have dug the trenches and done most of the dirty work for us, (we are all newbies at this) but our role is just as dynamic, let’s pray in the rain.

Parks May 21, 2007

Nothing insightful to say, other than I love parks and I love going to them and reading books on a blanket. I love the russle of the trees that produce a music that nothing manmade can produce. I love watching hawks make themselves completely unwelcome in the tops of trees as they make all the other birds angry, creating a hullaballoo of a rucus. I love the sun and the shade of the trees. I love that the Lord gave us outside. I love the feeling of not wanting to drink a whole bunch of water because the bathrooms are always locked and you feel super tired and dehydrated when you finally leave. I know that’s weird, but it’s that feeling of exausting your body because you actually used muscles that you sometimes forget you have, because blue chairs don’t seem to take advatage of them. I love the next day when my arm hurts becuase we continued to play catch. Oh I just love outside. That’s it, simple yet beautiful. The End!

Becoming Prayer May 16, 2007

I had a thought last night as I was prayer leading that I thought I would share. I was thinking about what I posted yesterday about leading the nations in prayer, and this is what came in.

Ezekiel and John were both told to eat the scroll. They were to not only give the message, but to become the message. Their lives were to be the message everywhere they went. Revelation 10 speaks of the messages of the messagers that many of us are called to proclaim, a message that we must become, not just preach.

With this concept in mind I was thinking about prayer and how much bigger it is than this prayer room. The prayer room is a gift to us as intercessors so that we would 1. actually pray and 2. sustain it in a community where others are called in the same way. What we do is so much bigger than our little room, it’s not about the prayer room, but about the prayer movement. Meaning we are to not just pray, but become prayer. Our lives must be a pleasing fragrance to the throne of Heaven, every little second of every day.

Our prayer room is becoming a place where we come to serve the nations, not to just have personal devotional time, (though you can do that, totally!) but to come and serve real people across the globe that we will never meet.

My thought in summary, the way we must become the message we preach, we also must become prayer. We get to serve the nations in prayer, by becoming it for them. To know and feel His heart and emotions for them, that they would do the same and Israel would be saved, then He will return. (amongst a whole lot of other events, obviously!)