hello again

thanks for those of you who pull me out of my little corner of the world and ask how I’m doing. 

I am blessed.  Here’s some stories.  My life is now composed of a shared reality that is seen through the lens of 7 other people as well.  Their story is mine and vice versa.  community truly is beautiful.  It feels good to be known.  I also like living in a small town.  enough of that, on to the stories…

The life of a christian is a life of fasting.  Our will is no longer our own. It belongs to another and he is good.  I have no rights or justifications before an almighty God.  I have been bought.  I am enraptured with my owner whose ways are always better than my own and who never fails to show me and lead me for my own good into his ways.

Oh yeah, story… Kristy likes meat, she’s like lord, my roomies don’t really eat it and its getting expensive.  I’m handing this over to you.  My roommate Sara, whose stepping out on faith for her support, has a dream about the verse where God says he owns a cattle on a thousand hills (storehouses of wealth).  We also corporately are doing our first declaredly all food fast.  me likey this and have been praying for it.  This started Monday. 

Monday.  A man from near chicago gave us a cow…in the form of 9 cooler and 4 boxes.  like 500 lbs of meat if not more.  We had freezer space.  Same man commits to fund Sara for an entire year and attaches 100 on per month to other staff.  My roommate gets documented word of being recommended for being hired back for teaching again next year.  This was her first year ever.

Tuesday.  Honestly there’s been some spiritual warfare going on for me and this was a day where I had a really good convo with a teammate who prays (go figure) and God’s totally being faithful to bring me out of a low place of agreeing with the accuser.  He gave me a dream this night “The one who defames himself defames that which is holy.”  I’m not going to agree with the accuser about myself anymore than I would agree with him about Christ.  Spiritual warfare is not something you get down.  Everyone has a relationship with the accuser its just whether to let him hang out with you or you don’t.  It needs to be maintained with truth my friends!  I was given $50 as a gift from one of the places I volunteer at.  What?  that doesn’t happen…

Wednesday.  A pastor in town says Gary’s an encouragement and wants to meet not just on a one time only basis.  This, for those who know what we’ve been doing here, is miraculous.  As Heather C’s ministering on the street a former addict walks up, clean for like 6 months (also miraculous), and HC’s like your supposed to minister to these two.  He drops Psalm One don’t hang out in the counsel of the wicked.  They like drop their jaws and this guy totally has the Word in him, its just been buried by slavery to addiction.  Praise God.  We got a fridge after not having one for like a month.  Also having to do with food… funny.  Finally released to apply my educational stipend to the loans I’m paying off.  Praise the lord.  Also confirmed that I was payed the $50 that another paster north of us had felt led to give me.

the journey continues my friends.  i will not quit.  I will not settle for my will.  I will not agree that death and sin reign, they no longer have authority.  Only to the level a christian or the corporate church is ignorant to the enemies way and allows it to happen.  We have been given life in every area.  We have a right to joy.  That’s another thing we prayed for this morning and just that fact that we prayed for it was supernatural. 

I continually covet your prayers and desire Christ to be manifest in flesh in you and through you.  His word is power and transforms us.  His spirit is ever willing to take us deeper as our actions dictate.  mercy in this hour.  let our flesh not rule over us.  Give us dominion in EVERY area of our lives Jesus.  please grant me the mind of the messiah.  let us starve for your righteousness and your kingdom to come.  I pray God you would send fire on this reader.  Light em up!  the flames are unquenchable.  dreams, visions, and revelation of your word and their callings jesus.  release destinies. reveal identities. deliver us from our own understanding.  let us dance in the freedom of your all-encompassing love.  Give us that freedom we only dream about but never really have faith enough to obtain.  Believe it.  Let us believe.  you are able.  you want it for us.  it really is for us.  yes lord. no lowered expectations.  never again.  our faith is what needs to persevere, only then will we surely lay ahold of what you’ve freely promised us.