End of the Road: California

Well for the last 40+ days I have been on the God’s Summer of Love Tour. It has been so amazing. We went from city to city changing the atmosphere through worship and prayer. There were about 250 of us so you could imagine how intense that would be.
I learned so much about how I really want to live. Just from that small amount of time I have come to the realization that the only way I want to live is in a community of on fire believers. My desire is to live in a community of worship. I don’t just mean the appearance of community but real community. I don’t know what that looks like really but I am gonna try to find out.
My heart has really been freed because of the tour. Right now I am seeking God to find out what is next for this sojourner. I am spending a little time in California visiting friends and family and then I am back on the road.
It is really nice to sleep on a real bed after 35 days of an air mattress. Well I will definitely be blogging more about my summer but for now I am going to get some rest. Go check out videos of the tour on www.thecauseusa.com and/or www.god.tv

Just Arrived in Nashville

I just arrived in Nashville last night.  It is good to be here.  As I am here I am getting more vision for what I will be doing this summer.  Through an amazing blessing from God my family and I are stayed at a five star hotel with all the perks at no cost last night.  The next two nights we will be at another hotel with some friends and then on Sunday we will be joining the tour at the campgrounds.  I has been really nice to stay in such luxary before a summer of camping.  

I am really excited about the summer and know that God is going to be doing such amazing things.  For those who seek the Lord this summer there will be more of  Him to find I believe.  As we do this corporately all over the earth He will come more.  This is the Summer of God’s Love whether you are touring across the country or staying home so take advantage of this window in time and see what the Lord will do.  Make this summer a summer of encounter. 

I will keep you all updated as I can over the summer.  Please keep my family and I in prayer.  Pray that God will have His way and be exalted as He is so worthy.  

Going on the Road:God’s Summer of Love Tour

Well this summer I am going on the road.  After 07/07/07 in Nashville, Tennessee.  go to thecauseusa.com for info.  I will be traveling for the months of July and August.  I haven’t done this kind of traveling for a long time.  A large group of people will be on this tour and our purpose is to bring God’s love to the cities of this nation.  Forty years ago in 1967 there was a cultural revolution that started in San Francisco.  This was called the Summer of Love.  Many people gathered to experience what they believed was freedom and love.  This summer believers from all over are gathering to redeem the time through worship, prayer, and fasting. 

Stay tuned for updates of my time on the road.  Pray that God will change the heart of our nation and bring revival and revolution to America. 

Change In Schedule

As the year starts to go by so many things are changing.   I have gone from the morning shift at the house of prayer to the evening shift.  You may be thinking to yourself that it doesn’t seem like much of a change but it really is.  With any change there is always a getting use to that goes on. 

So I am in the third week of doing evenings instead of mornings.  I use to get up at 4:30am in the morning and now I don’t have to get up anywhere close to that early.  I get to sleep to a descent hour but I stay up late.  Through change God is really teaching me to be flexible and content.  Whether I pray in the morning or in the evening or do this duty or that duty for the house of prayer I have know that at the end of the day my portion is God.  When I lay my head down on the pillow all that matters is what God says and how he feels about me. 

Change is really a good tool to speed up the work of God on the inside of us.  So I just want to say thank you to the best teacher I know Jesus for loving me so much that he would orchestrate my life in a way that I would come closer to him as quickly as possible.  Jesus thank you for being jealous over my heart. 

I will say therefore to those of you who are struggling because of some change in your life that may be sudden or you don’t like it or it shifts everything know that the creator of the universe may be working it for your good.  Find your satisfaction and contentment in him.

It Has Been A Long Time

Well it has been a really long time since I have put a post on my blog.  It is defiently time for an update.  It has been quite busy at the ZHOP lately.  It seems like something new always comes up.  This makes being an Intercessory Missionary fun. 

Lately we have been focusing on praying for the restoration of the land that we are on and that we as a people would have a heart for Charlotte.  Most of those who are involved with the Zadok House of Prayer are not originally from the Charlotte area.  It really is not natural to have a heart for a place that you are not from.  So we are asking God to give us his heart for this area so that we can better pray for it.  This truely is a supernatural work. 

In intercession you have to partner with the Lord in his desire.  At times it is easy to just pray whatever you would like to pray for a given thing.  To really interceed is to align yourself with what the word says as well as what God says and cry out for that.  Daniel did this when he cried out to God in repentence for his nation.  He asked God to forgive him for what his forefathers did and reminded God of his promises for the nation spoken by the prophets.  Because of Daniel’s prayer God moved. 

I know that as we cry out for God’s heart he will give it to us.  God will surely avenge his elect who cry out to him day and night.  He will give to us the knowledge of his will.  Things are slowly changing here as we cry out for his kingdom to come in Charlotte.  O God, give us your heart for this city. 

Blogging

I really like blogging though I don’t know how long I will be faithful to continue to update my blog.  I really want this blog to be available to those who I have not been able to keep in contact with as much as I use to.  I am hoping that my friends back home in California will check it out a bit.  Also I would like people to look at it and be encouraged as well as to find out about the Zadok House of Prayer. 

So again I will say that I like to blog.  I am not addicted to it.  But I would like it if people would make comments on it.  So if you are checking this blog out let me know.  Well I know that you are because there is such a thing as blog stats.  That means that I know numbers and statistics on how many times my blog is viewed.  But as you know or are finding out, I am a woman and I need feedback.  All this to say if you visit my blog please make a comment it would really make my day.    (-:   (-:   (-:   (-:   (-:  (-: 

The Next Testimony

Like I said before in my post “Somebody Testify” there will definetly be more testimonies to come.  Well I am learning that my Father in heaven always takes care of me.  Even when I forget that he does he reminds me of this fact.  So here goes my testimony.  Not last Monday but the Monday before I was almost broke.  I had a few dollars left and I needed gas.  Actually, I had $4.35.  I was with a friend and she said that I had to have at least $5 to put in for gas.  So she got her change out and gave me what she had.  When I counted it up it was $5.55.  I was at pump number 5 also.  So I went in to the gas station attendant asked for $5.55 on pump number 5.  The gas station attendant asked if I planed the amount and the pump.  I told her no.  When I left the gas station I felt like the Lord was saying grace, grace, grace  to me.  For those of you who don’t understand this the number 5 is suppose to speak of grace.  I am not really sure why!

Then the next day I was at the ZHOP reset and from 3 different sources  I received $220.  I was completely broke at that time and on empty.  So God in his grace came and filled up my gas tank as well as my pocket.  Then the next day I was just thinking about what happened and thanking God for his provision in my life.  While I was thinking about the amount $220, I thought of Galatians.  I was like, ok Galatians.  So I looked up the verse and it says, “I have been crucified with Christ, it is not longer I that lives but Christ who lives in me and the life I live I live by faith in the Son of God….”  What was highlighted to me in the verse was the part that says the life I live I live by faith in the Son of God.  In two days the Lord reminded me of his grace over my life and that the life I am living I will live by faith in the Son of God.  My daddy always takes care of me.  I was encouraged once again that the life placed in God’s hands will always prosper and that I will definetly be taken care of. 

It is so cool how creative God is and how he loves to speak to us in new ways as he makes a way for our lives.  In him we live and move and have our being.  Praise the Lord.

ZHOP Reset

This last week we had a focused time for ZHOP staff to get more focused.  So this last Tuesday through Thursday we had a time of resetting ourselves before the Lord.  It was really good!!  We all came together as a staff and spent six hours before God.  We are normally in the prayer room for six hours a day but not all together.  We had times of corporate meditation, intercession, and worship, as well as meals. 

The time that we had was really a time to remember:  why you are at ZHOP as an intercessor and to committ yourself back to that call.  I really felt the presence of the Lord during that time and received some refreshing that I needed.  As an interecessor at the house of prayer I have realized the need for resetting oneself.  You may not be part of a house of prayer but each person needs to reset themselves before God daily.  If you don’t have a focus and don’t remember why you are doing something you will not be able to follow through with it. 

The time of resetting our hearts before God this week has really helped me to be able to continue in what God has called me to do at ZHOP.  It is easy to forget what God says about you and who he is.  It is necessary to reset your heart towards him constantly so that you will be able to face whatever may come your way.  I know that apart from God I can do nothing, but as I focus on him I can do all things through Christ Jesus who strengthens me.  Start today by rededicating yourself to God and asking him what he says.  He will strengthen your heart so you can make it through the day.     

You Can Experience God’s Love

I just have to tell you that God is amazing.  I feel so elated today.  I don’t even know exactly why I feel elated but I know that God is the reason for it.  I feel his love today.  There is nothing better than feeling the love of God.  God is love.  Well, when I came into the prayer room today I started meditating on the reality that God loves me in my weakness.  I started thinking about the fact that he loves me just as I am.  From that I felt the Lord’s joy and peace and his great love.  My whole time in the prayer room was like that.  Now that is a good day in the prayer room. 

If it has been awhile since you have experienced the love of God wash over you or if you have never felt this I would advise you to get in a place to receive his love.  You can do it in so many ways.  You could meditate on a scripture about the love of God that touches your heart.  You can sing love songs to him and hear him sing his love songs back over you.  You could journal your desire for him and his desire for you.  There are so many ways to encounter God.

It says in James 4:8, “Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.”  In one of the Psalms it also says that the Lord’s name is Near.  God is not a far off atherial God.  He is a very present help in time of trouble.  He is the light that shines in the darkness.  He is Christ in us the hope of glory.  God is near and he longs for us to know that nearness.  The reality is that God has made himself extremely accessable for us.  Jesus, the Son, came to earth as a baby, became a man, lived a perfect life, and died as our sacrifice, so that we could have an intimate realtionship with him.  The word became flesh and dwelt among us.  God reached out so that we would reach out to him. 

God is accessable to every person on the planet.  We just have to open our hearts to him, surrender, and earnestly seek him with desire.  If you seek him with all of your heart you will find him.  The Lord has promised to his people intimacy for those who desire it.  The King of all the Universe wants to have a love relationship with man.  Not an ewey gewy one but a real, deep, heart relationship.  He wants to be known by us.  The seeker will always find.  To him who knocks the door will always be opened.  And to him who asks it will be given him.  And this is the kingdom.

So as you are going on in your day today, remember that the Lord is near.  He wants to be sought out by you.  You can know him.  A true seeker will find him.  He longs for you to know his love.  So don’t stand at a distance there is no reason for it.  You were made to encounter God.  You were made for intimacy and friendship with him. 

Good to be back in the Prayer Room

It is so good to be in the Prayer Room.  We had a few interim days where we were helping the MorningStar K-12 school called the Comenius School move.  So all of ZHOP was moving boxes and all kinds of furniture.  The experience was great because we got to serve in a practical way together in community.  It was also really good to meet MorningStar people. 

The Zadok House of Prayer is still praying for a long term building for the house of prayer.  Where ZHOP is meeting now is very near the 52 acres of the PTL Club where we were located before.  On the 52 acres there are a handful of other ministries.  I mention this to say that it is really cool to get more and more connected with the other ministries that are on the same land.

I really like MorningStar and look forward to getting to know the people and the ministry more.  So I had such a good time helping with the move.  We at the Zadok House of Prayer got a little of some very needed exercise.  But today Sunday I am really glad to be back in the prayer room.  God knows that I really need to be before him for at least a good 2 hours a day.  I really need his strength to carry on.  The Lord really knows this and he graciously has called me to the Prayer Movement so that I can be in the prayer room for many many hours a day. 

So being out of the prayer room for 2 days I have realized that I need to be in the prayer room as much as possible.  It is for my good.  God is for my good.  But I did enjoy the fellowship and physical exercies of the move.   

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