Striving To Be "Christ-Like"!

The devil will do anything that he can to affect what God is doing spiritually, but the enemy cannot stop God.  Don't you know satan cannot stop GOD's words, His Holy Spirit, His power, His plans, His authority?! The Lord begin to give me visions of church services I've been in over the past couple of years and how in those services the Holy Spirit used me... but I wasn't amazed by that... though I am humbled the Holy Spirit chose to use me during those services with certain spiritual gifts. What left me in amazement was what God showed me of and reminded me of the day or two, or both, before those churches services. On those Fridays and Saturdays before those powerful services, each time I faced some challenging times, whether it was the enemy (yes the enemy... get mad at him) causing sickness, hurt, disappointment, discord, strife, hindrances, deception, distractions or just plain disturbances. God reminded me how I pushed through it all and made sure I was in church ...

One of those words given to me in the past, that is needed. If it steps on your toes like it did mine, than it is for you too. We must minister to the broken more than we talk about all the problems of the world! HOLINESS is how we get to this point. We must live holy and sanctified, in which we learn to see through God our Father's eyes, love through God our Son's heart, and feel through God our Holy Spirit's presence. People have misconceptions about the word "holiness", thinking that it is associated with a certain denomination (e.g. Pentecostal). But the word of God says in 1 Peter 1:16 "Be ye holy; for I am holy." It doesn't say be ye holy... only if you are (insert your denomination). If we, as Christians, would get back to living our life holy, sanctified, and lined up with the Word of God, pleasing unto God (my only desire is to live this way), then we just might see the World start turning back to God.

You are the “rope” in a spiritual tug of war! On one end, satan and his demons are pulling you toward hell, using everything in their bag of tricks to keep you from walking in obedience to God. On the other end, God is working for your good to draw you to Himself, while at the same time respecting your free will. **The tug of war between God and Satan is for YOUR SOUL!** The demons, as they always do, are exploiting the fact that God has given you a free will. They stop at nothing to disrupt, discourage, distract, and deflect you away from allowing God to be the Lord of your life. Tug of war isn't an easy game, especially if you're caught in the middle. But to successfully win a tug of war game, you need the right people on your side; the Spiritually strong ones. See satan and his team can try and memic what God and His team does, but in the end God will win the tug of war. No one said being a Christian is an easy life; you continually have to pray for wisdom and knowledge t...

I will never forget when the Lord spoke to my spirit and ask me the question, "are you going to worship or whine?" Ouch! Being the baby of the family, the miracle child, the sheltered one, the spoiled one... it has always been my response to whine and complain, and I sure got offended when others would tell me, "stop your whining", but when the Lord tells you it is different. So it took me amost 32 years, (I'll turn 34 years old in April 2018) to finally learn how to stop whining and complaining excessively. I cannot explain the peace and how much happier and less stressed I am, when I choose to give the hurt to God and not live in offense. To truly please God and live for Him, and no one else. I will be the first one to admit, often my first reaction was not to worship but to whine to the Lord or complain even when I boldly stood up declaring "Lord send me, I will go, use me" until that is of course, He actually sent something my way that I was not c...

Jesus Washes The Disciples’ Feet (READ, John 13:1-17) - Here we are at the Last Supper on the night before Jesus knew that He was going to die. He was about to be betrayed by Judas, one of His own disciples. Soon, Jesus would be beaten, made fun of, and nailed to a cross. Even though Jesus knew all these things, His disciples did not understand that He was going to die and then rise again. It’s interesting to see what Jesus did for His disciples on His very last night with them. He humbled himself down and washed their feet even knowing that He would be denied and betrayed. As the Lord was helping me to do my best to move past pain and hurt, He brought this to my remembrance... we can't see the forest for the trees, until the trees are cut down. See, we put so much time and effort into a relationship yet we can't see the betrayal that is coming. We do for others, help them in their time of need over and over... but the Lord spoke to my heart in a moment of me being very bitt...

I came home from evening church service on June 21st, 2015 and God immediately dropped a short word into my spirit. A word that God would build upon, as He sent me into a two year growth that like to have did me in, key word "like". In the middle of receiving spiritual gifts and being on what seemed a spiritual high that summer as I taught an 8 week study at church on Wed. nights on the Holy Spirit, I was blindsided by the enemy and had no idea what was coming my way. God literally knocked me off my feet the end of August that year, that left me in a boot and physical therapy for a 6 month period. My left leg will never be the same from that fall. I still find myself waking up to a limp the next day, but I would rather limp into Heaven than not walk in at all. I'm not ashamed to say, God had to shape me up. It was a painful process, that left me broken in it seemed a million pieces, but pruning hurts when the bad fruit has to be cut away. There were still vital things I n...

It is my heart's desire to share with you what the Lord did in the evening service on January 21, 2018 at Clanton Church of God. How He graciously brought the healing, deliverance, and closure I desperately needed, while keeping me humble and in line with His Holy Spirit. I have been struggling with my purpose at church since going through an ongoing year battle of depression. I wasn't on the list to sing the solo, but the person who was couldn't due to being sick with the flu, so when I got the choir email about the special being open during the evening service, the Lord begin dealing with me about singing Jason Crabb's song "He won't leave you there", and sharing my testimony about being hospitalized for depression in 2017. I text our choir leader and she was happy that I was stepping up. The day before January 21st service, I was still struggling about wanting to go to my home church, I had been for 2 weeks. In fact, I had been wanting to visit another ...

As far as my internet/social media outlets, I never really focus on traffic/views in a numbers aspect, but the Lord opened my eyes in a powerful way. The enemy works overtime at lying to us, making us believe we no longer have purpose in life or God isn't using us because we aren't on the platform or in the area of ministry we think we should be in. This past weekend (January 20th, 2018), the Lord directed me to look at views across my youtube, fandalism, and blog pages and spoke this to me, "I never want to hear you say or think again that you don't still have purpose on this earth, that is a lie from the pits of hell that you need to rebuke sometimes more than once daily." Among these outlets, my videos or posts are only uplifting the name of Jesus, spreading the Gospel, enouraging others in the Lord through words, preaching, teaching, singing, music, etc... so these tens-of-thousands of viewers and readers are being ministered to, along with 2,300+ facebook ...

If you're going through fierce storms, you are not forgotten. God has not forsaken you. You are being made ready for a royal position that will never end. God is with you in this battle even though it seems like you are alone. “Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything, to stand!” (Ephesians 6:13) Know the God you serve so that you can trust Him no matter what happens. Take time to read your Bible every single day. Let God’s truth be your armor that keeps you trusting in Him despite your problems. God has not changed. His love for you will endure forever. He will not fail you. Your hope is secure because you belong to Him. Nothing in all of creation will ever be able to stop His love for you or His plan for your life.

This week has been a lot of rest, a lot of prayer, reading and studying the word, listening to God and crying it out. No one said spiritual growth was easy, with it comes a lot of hurt and a lot of revelations, but it is worth it. The word tells us that you'll know a tree by the fruit it bears, so God has done a lot of pruning with my spiritual tree and whew wee... does that not feel pleasant. Thank God that He loves me enough to grow me and show me. I have had to learn to be a big girl with growth, stop my whining, and listen to God. Sometimes we have to learn to stand on our own without anyone's approval except for God's and that is where I am. I have truly grown spiritually, and it is not something that I am boasting about, it is something that I am sharing because it is a praise report. A wise woman of God told me several months after I started attending church at Clanton Church of God (back in 2014), that I was going to have to get some tar under my feet and stay where...

There has never been a time God hasn't seen me through... there has never been a time He hasn't been faithful... there has never been a time He has left me or let me down.... Hold to God's unchanging hand!

We may want something to change before God is ready for that particular thing to change. There are many things that God knows of which we have no understanding at all. We have to accept that our little corner of the world is not the only corner that exists. God works all things together for good, not just our things. We may be frustrated because God is not doing something that we think needs to be done, but He is working on someone or something else that has to be in place before He does the thing we are asking Him to do. God has a perfect way, a perfect plan, and a perfect time. He will not be rushed. All things work together for good in due time. Think of buying a 5000 piece puzzle. You buy it because you like the picture on the box, but when you dump the box out, you feel overwhelmed. All the things going on in our lives are a bit like that puzzle before it is completed. God presents in His Word of what we may become, but will we be patient enough to see the whole puzzle put togethe...

I write this message to tell you if that if you are going through fierce storms, you are not forgotten. God has not forsaken you. You are being made ready for a royal position that will never end. God is with you in this battle even though it seems like you are alone. “Put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground and after you have done everything, to stand!” (Ephesians 6:13) Know the God you serve, so that you can trust Him no matter what happens. Take time to read your Bible every single day. Let God’s truth be your armor that keeps you trusting in Him despite your problems. God has not changed. His love for you will endure forever. He will not fail you. Your hope is secure because you belong to Him. Nothing in all of creation will ever be able to stop His love for you or His plan for your life.

As I was praying for peace, after receiving closure over something... God dropped this very word into my spirit: "if you aren't being criticized for being a Christian, if false accusations aren't being made against you, if you aren't misunderstood, if you don't have someone jealous or upset with you, if your inner circle isn't getting smaller, if you aren't experiencing hurt, if you aren't being labeled, if you aren't being talked about, mistreated, lied on, and things being revealed, then you aren't doing something right in your walk and relationship with me". I thought for a minute, well Lord what are you talking about, although the past few years has very well dropped all that in my plate and more? The point He was making is with spiritual growth, with each step of progress you make... the enemy will continue to be nipping at your heels with whatever he can use and whomever he can use to try to distract, hinder, blindside, manipulate, a...