The Fly Has Spoken

...Yes, Renee, that's you! ;)

Wednesday was my niece's second birthday. See this beautiful hat she's wearing? It was "supposed" to be a dress. Except that I had never knit anything other than a scarf and made the dress a bit too small around the waist. One day I was playing around with it and folded it around a bit and realized it would be the perfect little hat for cold winter days. Which, we are expecting tomorrow! YEE-HAW!!! If the snow really comes, then God loves me more than all you other people who live in Indiana and hate snow. So, nothing much to say. Ya'll be nice and say hi to Renee (my friend from my previous employer) and admire the talent that my mother-in-law shared with me...that is, the knowledge of knitting.

Oh, by the way...the elder's retreat was this weekend and it was good. I was inspired by the word that Lynn Furrow gave us (in case you did not know, Lynn Furrow is part of the apostolic team of Christ Fellowship Church). I'll share more on that at another date and maybe also share what the Lord spoke to me. The thing is, he spoke so much to my heart and I got it, but I was asking him, Lord, what am I to say. I have no words to say what he said to me.

Share a Prayer

This is something that I wrote in my journal from October, 2004:

...please stir up our body and let us grab up the equipment you've supplied for us. Equip your saints so that we can make other saints. In Psalm 149, it is written: "Let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of ___, to execute on them the judgement written; This is an honour for all His godly ones! Praise the LORD!" So, Lord, I pray that you will burn this into my heart. Lord, I want to have the sword, your sword in my hand at all times. Help me to bring vengeance to the people. Convict Rush County of their sins and bring them to you! And I'll surrender myself to you. Do with me as you chose. AMEN!

It's amazing to look back at the prayers and to notice that some of the things in the prayers from then are the same prayers I have today. I pray for sin to be revealed and for chains of bondage to be broken. I still pray for vengeance on those that persecute the church and I also pray that we will provoke sinners to want God. I think it's fantastically miraculously awesome that Paul in Acts 2 ripped everyone apart and a huge number of them repented and were saved because of it. Today, we feel that we have to sugar coat the gospel. How in the world can we make it any better than it is? Christ died for us. Period. We were born sinners and He came so that we could be redeemed from the judgement of our sins. I am ready to tear my flesh down and press on toward the mark of the high calling. I want to be like a soldier in battle who carries the flag. Whether their are fellow soldiers around me or not, I want to bear the flag of the Lord and wave His banner freely.

God's Blessings

My boss has been very appreciative of my work and I get e-mails weekly and sometimes daily telling me how proud she is to have me on the team. Tuesday morning, I was beyond words when she handed me a parking pass. That means all the money that Jason and I had devoted to parking, the Lord has now given it back. In addition, my boss called the team together Tuesday and told us that as soon as two girls on the team completed their tasks for the day, that we could all go home. So, we got off at 12:30! I returned to work refreshed and ready to push through another stack of paperwork. My boss called me into her office again and blessed me tremendously with a $50 prepaid credit card! She had tears in her eyes as she explained to me how much she appreciates all my hard work and positive attitude.

I am humbled by her gift and I know that God has blessed me and I am exactly where I need to be. The only concerns I had were over parking and petty things like that. Well, the Lord has answered those needs and I count myself blessed.