Category: Dreams and Visions

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“Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love…”

June 20, 2021

“What marvelous love the Father has extended to us! Just look at it—we’re called children of God! That’s who we really are. But that’s also why the world doesn’t recognize us or take us seriously, because it has no idea who he is or what he’s up to. 2-3 But friends, that’s exactly who we are:… Read More “Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love…”

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Just around the corner…

June 18, 2021

I am in an interesting place within the season I’m in. And it FEELS like this season may be nearing the end… There is a sense of… “…it feels like something new and different is just around the corner… but I have no idea what it looks like—I don’t know what it could be, exactly…because… Read More Just around the corner…

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Better than we can imagine…

June 15, 2021

“I don’t think the way you think.    The way you work isn’t the way I work.”        God’s Decree.“For as the sky soars high above earth,    so the way I work surpasses the way you work,    and the way I think is beyond the way you think.Just as rain and snow descend from the skies    and don’t go back until they’ve… Read More Better than we can imagine…

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A Grand Opportunity

June 12, 2021

Do you know how you “know things”… …and then the Lord takes you into a “deeper knowing” of that particular thing? Not in an intellectual way— but in a “heart-knowing” kind of way… A deeper realization… An “understanding” that you didn’t have before. A “seeing” that you couldn’t see before. But now there’s a clearing…… Read More A Grand Opportunity

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Drawing us Into His Heart

June 11, 2021

This morning feels so simple… Short and sweet. 🧁 I don’t feel wordy, and that is okay. 😆 Father, thank You… 💝 for the one, true Way to Your heart— through our Lord, Jesus Christ. 🌹 And thank You, Father… for the multifaceted, multicolored ways—in Christ, through Christ… the ways of Your Spirit, that You… Read More Drawing us Into His Heart

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When the “hunger” begins to fade…

June 8, 2021

Have you ever been so excited and motivated about something that God is doing in your life… “super-charged” …something that He’s been stirring up in your heart— a “hunger”… …only for it to suddenly “fade”… And you’ve found yourself in a different place. And you wonder, “Father, what happened?” “Where did the hunger, the excitement,… Read More When the “hunger” begins to fade…

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May we remain Highly Sensitive— to the Cross of Christ…

June 5, 2021

“For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring you to God, after being put to death in the fleshly realm but made alive in the spiritual realm.“—1 Peter 3:18 This morning the Lord took me into the Gospel of John. And I found myself picturing…… Read More May we remain Highly Sensitive— to the Cross of Christ…

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Oh, when He writes His words upon the Heart…

June 3, 2021

Oh, when He writes His words upon my heart… 💖🌊 ✍️ When something He speaks sinks so deeply into my heart… How it rushes in… and it floods in… and it refills… and it saturates… …and it overflows… ⛲️ “Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.”—Psalm 51:10… Read More Oh, when He writes His words upon the Heart…

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What kind of season are you in?

May 27, 2021

…I poured into my journal this morning. 📝✨ It felt good to get these things in my heart out, and into the light ☀️ …before my Heavenly Father. 💝 How healing and beautifully revealing it is to simply dwell with Him. 💖 Thank You, Father. 💝 This morning, I found myself asking this question: “Father,… Read More What kind of season are you in?

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“Father, what do YOU desire to write upon my heart?”

May 25, 2021

“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.”—Psalm 51:10 “Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life…”—Proverbs 4:23 “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.”–Psalm 19:14… Read More “Father, what do YOU desire to write upon my heart?”

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A New and Unfamiliar Territory

May 24, 2021

Have you ever paused for a moment… and realized… that you are in “a difference place” “a new, and different season” “a new, unfamiliar territory”… Perhaps, you just came through a tumultuous time of transition. Perhaps, everything was spinning about and you didn’t realize where you were at, or exactly what you were walking through…… Read More A New and Unfamiliar Territory

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Desires of the Heart

May 23, 2021

There are so many things in my life right now that I never would have dreamed I would love and enjoy SO much… Sometimes we realize the desires we have within our hearts… …and sometimes it takes an act of God to help us to realize and to see… …what has been planted within our… Read More Desires of the Heart

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He knows what we need to be able to thrive…

May 22, 2021

So I’m sitting here, trying to figure out how I can communicate what is on my heart this morning. Here goes… Have you ever felt as though something in your life is lying somewhat “dormant”? Like the “pause” button has been hit on that area of your life? Something that was once “growing out of… Read More He knows what we need to be able to thrive…

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Daring to Dream With God

May 21, 2021

Have you ever discovered a “dream in your heart”… and it seems near impossible as you look at yourself or your current situation? It seems unlikely? Maybe you’ve even had people laugh at you (or behind your back) about it, or they’ve even told you that you’d “surely fail.” And then, as you can’t seem… Read More Daring to Dream With God

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He Gives “Understanding” of Things We Cannot Understand

May 19, 2021

“As you do not know the path of the wind,or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb,so you cannot understand the work of God,the Maker of all things.”—Ecclesiastes 11:5 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts,    neither are your ways my ways,”declares the Lord.9 “As the heavens are higher than the earth,    so are my ways higher than… Read More He Gives “Understanding” of Things We Cannot Understand

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An Opportunity to Step into the New

May 16, 2021

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.”— Isaiah 43:19-21 (NIV) Father, I thank You for the opportunity… that You’ve placed within this new day. Help me to be able to recognize these opportunities from… Read More An Opportunity to Step into the New