Category: Testing

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8.14.2020 – “Is God able to share His secrets with me?”

August 14, 2020

There is something about a “hidden” or “secret” thing that intrigues me—there is something about a mystery that makes me want dig and discover and seek and find and understand… But why? I’ve been thinking a lot about God’s secrets… and what could be the things on His heart… When we want to really get… Read More 8.14.2020 – “Is God able to share His secrets with me?”

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8.13.2020 – When our hearts’ desire comes into alignment with His…

August 13, 2020

Have you ever had a moment, where you felt your heart come into alignment with a desire of His heart? 💖 And you realize that this desire of His heart somehow became such a deep desire of your heart… I had a moment like that this morning… 💖☀️ I was talking with the Lord about… Read More 8.13.2020 – When our hearts’ desire comes into alignment with His…

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8.12.2020 – “Am I being authentically me?”

August 12, 2020

I have to ask myself that question from time to time… This morning, the Lord took me back through my dream journal for 2019, and I came to one of my dreams, and in this dream I was frantically “looking, looking, looking” for a place, a bathroom, where I could change into some “better looking… Read More 8.12.2020 – “Am I being authentically me?”

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8.11.2020 – God’s Windows

August 11, 2020

I asked the Lord this morning, what He was speaking to my heart… Because I knew that He was speaking…. But in that moment, my mind felt “cluttered” with distractions and all kinds of things bouncing around in there… So I asked Him to help me to “zero in” on what it was that He… Read More 8.11.2020 – God’s Windows

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8.10.2020 – The “Foreshocks”

August 10, 2020

We had a 5.1 earthquake in North Carolina yesterday—apparently it was the first one of this kind of magnitude we’ve had in the state in over 100 years. We’re definitely not used to earthquakes around here—at least not the natural ones. As I was reading about the earthquake in the news yesterday, the thing I… Read More 8.10.2020 – The “Foreshocks”

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8.9.2020 – “…but you belong to God…”

August 9, 2020

A simple reminder… “But you belong to God, my dear children. You have already won a victory over those people, because the Spirit who lives in you is greater than the spirit who lives in the world.” —1 John 4:4 NLT Here is the full passage in The Passion Translation: A Warning against False Teaching… Read More 8.9.2020 – “…but you belong to God…”

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8.7.2020 – “When did that happen? When did that change?”

August 7, 2020

There is this mysterious “way” that He does things… this way of His that is so “hidden above the surface” of what our eyes can see…. “that thing we never thought we’d be doing”— and yet suddenly… we find ourselves doing that thing. And it feels natural—or perhaps I should say “supernatural” —it’s not forced.… Read More 8.7.2020 – “When did that happen? When did that change?”

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8.6.2020 – Do you ever find yourself “wrestling”?

August 6, 2020

God allows us to “wrestle” through things, sometimes… Have you ever felt you’ve had to “wrestle” your way through something? To “wrestle” means, “to struggle with a difficulty or problem.” Maybe you’re wrestling with a series of circumstances… Maybe you’re wrestling with a lack of understanding or clarity or because of being in a scary… Read More 8.6.2020 – Do you ever find yourself “wrestling”?

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8.5.2020 – The “Little Things” are “Big Things”

August 5, 2020

I’m realizing that…often the things we think matter, really don’t matter as much as the things we think are “too little” to matter. (oops…is that a tongue twister? 😆) There are things that we think, don’t matter…. and they actually really DO matter, a whole lot. “Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful… Read More 8.5.2020 – The “Little Things” are “Big Things”

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8.4.2020 – He can do Wonders with His Brush 🎨🖌

August 4, 2020

In the moment we take hold of His hand… He begins to prepare, sanctify, purify, dedicate, and reserve us—to make us holy and consecrated for His purpose… He takes us to a place of being “set apart”… “designated or separated for a particular use.” God’s ways are so far beyond our ways—He does things we… Read More 8.4.2020 – He can do Wonders with His Brush 🎨🖌

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8.3.2020 – The Inbox of our Hearts

August 3, 2020

If God had something He wanted to share with you, from His heart…. A message… Would you like to know what it is? Would you like to hear it? Would you like to read it? 💌 Would you want to hear what He has to say from His heart to yours? If He had something… Read More 8.3.2020 – The Inbox of our Hearts

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8.2.2020 – “Certain things do not matter…”

August 2, 2020

Good Morning, Father. 💖☀️ Thank You for Your Holy Spirit, who teaches me and leads me and deals with all my ways, and shows me the way…. by Your Holy Spirit I am helped into the place of being able to encounter Your heart, Father. 💝✨ Heavenly Father, it is Your heart to love me… Read More 8.2.2020 – “Certain things do not matter…”

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8.1.2020 – This goes out to the “Black Sheep”

August 1, 2020

This morning as I was sitting here, I thought of the term, “black sheep.” This term means, “a member of a family or group who is regarded as a disgrace to them.” “In the English language, black sheep is an idiom used to describe an odd or disreputable member of a group, especially within a family. The… Read More 8.1.2020 – This goes out to the “Black Sheep”

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7.31.2020 – A Unified “Voice”

July 31, 2020

I’m realizing that right now, is a time that we —”the church” —are meant to be God’s “answer” and His “voice” of truth and hope to the earth. 💝☀️ But what happens when the church doesn’t have a purified, “unified voice?” Can the voice of the Lord be clearly heard through the church, to the… Read More 7.31.2020 – A Unified “Voice”

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7.30.2020 – It’s All About “The Voice”

July 30, 2020

There is a battle raging… …and it’s all about “the voice.” My voice, your voice, the voice of the body of Christ as a whole. What happens when the enemy finds a way to “silence” us? To “shut us down” in response to fear. To “shame” us. To “disqualify” us. To “muzzle” us… To shut… Read More 7.30.2020 – It’s All About “The Voice”

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7.29.2020 – When I find myself struggling with “surrender”…

July 29, 2020

I came across this song again yesterday… and it was like I was hearing it in a new and fresh way…. with “fresh ears” —if I can describe it like that. After hearing this song many, many times throughout my life, and in all different kinds of seasons, here it is speaking to me in… Read More 7.29.2020 – When I find myself struggling with “surrender”…