We have now lived in the great Northwest almost 8 months. Wow, time is flying! This feels more and more like home each day, and I honestly believe that it's just been a God-given grace on me to feel that way. I miss my family and Texas, but God is truly becoming my home.....so it doesn't matter where I'm at! I'm also learning to be content in all circumstances. Not an easy idea to grasp or walk out daily, but God is SO faithful, how could I not get there! (And thankfully He is also VERY patient!)
I want to give a very specific encouragement for you. I have really been praying and seeking God's face and He is beginning to share some ideas with me that I feel are for SO many! So all that I write here, is done so prayerfully and I take it seriously. I hope that you do also. Take it to heart, and to prayer for yourself. GOD IS IN THE BUSINESS OF RAISING THINGS FROM THE DEAD! Hello?! He raised Jesus from the dead! THE sole reason that we can live on this earth and have hope and assurance for our eternal future! Thank You, Jesus, for dying for our sins! And thank You, God, for the plan of His resurrection for us all!!! God wants to bring back to life things that have "died" in your life. Even the stuff that has been dead for so long, you've either forgotten it existed or are believing the lie that it is over for good! Nothing is beyond God's repair or touch! NOTHING! And I can hear you saying, "but you don't know about 'this', Charity!" And you are correct, I do not, but God Almighty DOES! And He is ready and waiting to come in and resurrect your dead places! Your marriage, your finances, your hope, YOUR GOD-GIVEN CALLING, your relationship with your children and/or family, YOUR.....you fill in the blank. I believe the Holy Spirit is speaking to you now! God can, and will, breathe life back into these situations and they can become fruitful and living again!!! Believe it! And all you have to do is ask Him into that place that is dead! So, on one hand it is very easy, just ask Him to....and HE WILL!!! But on the other hand, this also means that you now MUST loose control of said circumstance so He can do what He needs to in order to bring about life, real, living, breathing life! I long for it! I hope you do also. And I hope that as you read this things are being brought to mind that need a fresh breath from the Lord! And, I'm willing to take this a step further on my part, because I believe that is what God is asking me to do. If you want to get serious about your dead things becoming alive again and really release this stuff to the Lord to do his thang :) Then email me, Facebook me, or comment here if you don't care that others see it. Let me know what you want me to know and I will pray with you, and for you, about what God is doing. I'm not just saying I'll pray, I WILL pray! And I hope that you will do the same in response to what God is doing! As we release control to God of our limp, lifeless stuff (REALLY let it go) He can and will come in and breathe on us and our things!
Easter is right around the corner, the commemoration of the resurrection of Jesus Christ! Let's make THIS Easter the first one we commemorate (act of remembering a person or event) our dead stuff being resurrected! Amen?! God can and He will, He's just that awesome!!! Thanks for reading my blog. I pray that God is stirring dead things in you already! Let me know if I can pray. I long for us to have the gleam in our eye, the skip in our step, the all surpassing peace of God, LIFE again!
"What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life. Soak me in your laundry and I'll come out clean, scrub me and I'll have a snow-white life. Tune me in to foot-tapping songs, set these once-broken bones to dancing. Don't look too close for blemishes, give me a clean bill of health. God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life. Don't throw me out with the trash, or fail to breathe holiness in me. Bring me back from gray exile, put a fresh wind in my sails! Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home. Commute my death sentence, God, my salvation God, and I'll sing anthems to your life-giving ways. Unbutton my lips, dear God; I'll let loose with your praise. Going through the motions doesn't please you, a flawless performance is nothing to you. I learned God-worship when my pride was shattered. Heart-shattered lives ready for love don't for a moment escape God's notice." Psalm 51 : 5-17 MSG
Monday, April 11, 2011
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
January 2011
Instead of telling you why it's been so long since I've done this, and waste your time, I'll just get right to the point! :o)
We are doing really well in Washington! It has not been easy, by any means, but God is so very faithful (duh!) and even though being stretched and maturing is not a fun process; I am learning to be more grateful for each hardship and each victory is sweeter than the last! And I am extremely excited in my spirit and don't know why. And honestly don't care if any other wonderful things happen, as long as God keeps my spirit lifted and encouraged!
A few Evans updates: Leah is losing teeth at a rapid rate (poor girl looks homeless), but I'm hoping they all start coming in soon so you can understand her again, lol. We let Connor's hair grow out (really I should say Darrell let it grow out, because I have hated every moment of it) but I think it's finally starting to rub off on me....it's kinda cute. (KINDA!) And Zachary, after much practice, is saying McQueen correctly....thank You, Jesus! I know everyone always says it, but it's SO true...they grow so fast. Where has the time gone?!?!
I've been thinking and praying on a lot of things lately. I have a really good God-idea brewing (I think) and hopefully I can develop it more and share it later. But here is a small part of the beginning of what God has been speaking to me:
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
“‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
“Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him." Matthew 21: 28-32 NIV
It's the follow through that is of most importance to the Lord. It's not how you start, but how you finish! (Thank You, Jesus!) And all we need to do is repent and believe the way of righteousness. Believe that in God you are righteous, you don't have to DO anything to "attain" it. Repent and believe. Believe that He finds you NOT GUILTY (the enemy will try and convince you otherwise, once you have asked for forgiveness it is GONE, no longer to return!), believe that only in Him are you righteous (all you have to do is choose to be in Him, say outloud: "God I choose You over me, over my loved ones, over anything in this world"), and believe that it IS this simple to get it right. Whew, I don't have to be perfect, because in Him I am.
"As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. The Holy Spirit confirms this: This new plan I'm making with Israel isn't going to be written on paper, isn't going to be chiseled in stone; This time "I'm writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts." Hebrews 10:11 MSG
Rest assured, child of The Most High, it's the ending that is most important. And we are not at our end yet! So--- dust off, stand up, and believe! He is who He says He is, you are who He says you are, and ALL things are possible with Him!
The word 'impossible' should not even be used in our vocabulary because "...WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE." Matthew 19 :26 NIV
We are doing really well in Washington! It has not been easy, by any means, but God is so very faithful (duh!) and even though being stretched and maturing is not a fun process; I am learning to be more grateful for each hardship and each victory is sweeter than the last! And I am extremely excited in my spirit and don't know why. And honestly don't care if any other wonderful things happen, as long as God keeps my spirit lifted and encouraged!
A few Evans updates: Leah is losing teeth at a rapid rate (poor girl looks homeless), but I'm hoping they all start coming in soon so you can understand her again, lol. We let Connor's hair grow out (really I should say Darrell let it grow out, because I have hated every moment of it) but I think it's finally starting to rub off on me....it's kinda cute. (KINDA!) And Zachary, after much practice, is saying McQueen correctly....thank You, Jesus! I know everyone always says it, but it's SO true...they grow so fast. Where has the time gone?!?!
I've been thinking and praying on a lot of things lately. I have a really good God-idea brewing (I think) and hopefully I can develop it more and share it later. But here is a small part of the beginning of what God has been speaking to me:
“What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’
“‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went.
“Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go.
“Which of the two did what his father wanted?”
“The first,” they answered.
Jesus said to them, “Truly I tell you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you. For John came to you to show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not repent and believe him." Matthew 21: 28-32 NIV
It's the follow through that is of most importance to the Lord. It's not how you start, but how you finish! (Thank You, Jesus!) And all we need to do is repent and believe the way of righteousness. Believe that in God you are righteous, you don't have to DO anything to "attain" it. Repent and believe. Believe that He finds you NOT GUILTY (the enemy will try and convince you otherwise, once you have asked for forgiveness it is GONE, no longer to return!), believe that only in Him are you righteous (all you have to do is choose to be in Him, say outloud: "God I choose You over me, over my loved ones, over anything in this world"), and believe that it IS this simple to get it right. Whew, I don't have to be perfect, because in Him I am.
"As a priest, Christ made a single sacrifice for sins, and that was it! Then he sat down right beside God and waited for his enemies to cave in. It was a perfect sacrifice by a perfect person to perfect some very imperfect people. By that single offering, he did everything that needed to be done for everyone who takes part in the purifying process. The Holy Spirit confirms this: This new plan I'm making with Israel isn't going to be written on paper, isn't going to be chiseled in stone; This time "I'm writing out the plan in them, carving it on the lining of their hearts." Hebrews 10:11 MSG
Rest assured, child of The Most High, it's the ending that is most important. And we are not at our end yet! So--- dust off, stand up, and believe! He is who He says He is, you are who He says you are, and ALL things are possible with Him!
The word 'impossible' should not even be used in our vocabulary because "...WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE." Matthew 19 :26 NIV
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