What am I thankful for this year? The best way to communicate my heart is to share an illustration through the actions of a child.  A couple of years ago I walked through the gates of Emmanuel Orphanage in New…

Many times we hear that we are to seek the Lord’s face.  It is a common theme prayed, preached, and conversed among believers.  The other night when i was praying the Lord spoke to my spirit and said ” many of…

 5 This is what the LORD says:        “Cursed is the one who trusts in man,        who depends on flesh for his strength        and whose heart turns away from the LORD.  6 He will be like a bush…

   “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for…

  Driving down the road in Montana with my friend there we saw her… a cute hunched-back lady raking leaves outside. Without saying a word my friend slammed on the breaks and said “Marissa get out and I’ll come get you…

    I spent most my life living in that prison cell depending on the season: rejection, un-worthiness, pain, self-hate, abandonment. For the first time I felt like you unlocked those doors and pulled me out violently in your embrace. You said- Marissa…

  “I long to experience the presence of God moving through every detail of my life, both good and bad ones, carrying me into a richer encounter with God, into a closer experience of community with others, into an experience of…

  “How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how…

  “This is my commandment: that you love one another (just) as I have loved you. No greater love ( no one has shown stronger affection) than to lay down (give up) his own life for his friends. ” – John 15:12,…