Vulnerable Valleys

I love mountaintops, I think we all do. And I think every time we get there we convince ourselves that this time we are staying up there, actually we are going to climb the air above the mountain. But then God decides to lead us into valleys, and nobody likes valleys. Especially when those valleys are deserts of temptation. See on the mountain top we get so close to touching the hand of God. We can constantly see his face, feel his presence, and we focus on His image. It is a place that is important for every Christian to experience. This mountain top is not related to our level of success, financial peace, or relationship status. Well I guess it is related to our relationship status, but only our personal relationship status with our LORD.  But then it happens all the sudden we find ourselves in the desert valley and we look for the glory of God and it's gone. We are alone, well at least it feels like that. The warm fuzzy's are gone, the refuge place is gone... THIS SUCKS! I'm sorry, it does though. It is where I am right now and I don't want to be here. The mountain was awesome, it was among the highest mountains I had ever climbed! I have come to the realization that I got there because He knew I needed to be there. I needed to experience nearly touching His finger tips so that while I am here I can close my eyes and remember what is like to be there.

See for me I was led into the desert valley not really thinking it could happen, I had figured everything out. Well I thought I had, and then temptation came. When we face these desert valley's we have two choices... 1) Look up to previous mountain top and try to get back up it to be where you WERE with God or 2) Look to the next mountain top and prepare yourself for the journey to reach it. You see our God is NOT just a God of mountain tops. Jesus came to earth to be our LORD who went before us into the desert valley. When we call on Him he will show us the way to get out of the desert as a beautiful, stronger child of our Father. As Christ guides our path the Holy Spirit gives us the Power that raised Christ from the dead to  defeat the demons we encounter. When we choose to stray we often fall and get scrapes, bruises and scares, which will be a constant reminder of what we have come through. Each scar has a story, sometimes those stories are more painful then the damage they caused, others remind us of the "good times" the world has to offer, and some are forgotten. These "good time" scares are from riding your bike as fast as possible down the mountain, it's fun and it's a rush, but it never ends well. Once you heal from it the experience starts to have fond memories and you are ready to do it again. So on your journey to the next mountain you search for that trill, and you find yourself back in the valley looking up at the mountain again. These scars are dangerous, these scares stunt our mountain experiences. We start ending up in the valley so often that we start to avoid the light that shines from God's glory, because the cool breeze in the shade feels nice. We try to avoid the voice of Christ and run as far away as possible so that we don't have to hear his nagging voice pestering us to get back on the trail. Now we are in trouble... when the night come it gets cold, we have no shelter, no fire, no water. Now we have nothing, well nothing other than the small voice of Christ and urging of our spirit. Now it is a pride issue. We don't want to run to Christ and have to admit that he was right, that we should have never run away, that we were wrong. Finally we realize that we can no longer survive on our own so we sit silently listening for that distant voice and we start to search it out. As we approach him we are crawling, covered in fresh and dried blood, unable to stand since we have had nothing to eat or drink for who knows how long. When He sees us He runs scoops us up and gives us the biggest hug, he then wonders from the path to a stream where He cleans and bandages all of our wounds and we drink freely. He quickly prepares a fire and we eat. We expect the darkness to come, but it doesn't. After we regain our strength He leads us back to the path and we begin the journey back up the mountain.

We all hate to be vulnerable, it just is not accepted today. It is funny though, Christ constantly cried out to his Father, to our Father. I mean YELLED out, and he was not humiliated or "weak." He just knew that in order to accomplish what he was sent to do he had to be DEPENDENT upon his father. In a world of independency it is increasingly harder to willingly depend on ANYONE, much less a being that we can not see and touch. If we had cried out to Jesus in the valley he would have come found us, but we didn't. We wanted to control some part of it. Our dignity, our ego... our PRIDE depends on control. What would your life be like if you were to surrender the most important thing in your life to God? There is only one way to figure out... Be dependent. Don't make scars that will continually lead you into a valley. If you need to.. cover them up, avoid them at all cost. Tell somebody... it is the scariest thing EVER, but in the right hands you will never regret it.

Longing

For 8 years now I have felt a strong calling to work with orphans. The exact capacity that looks like I still do not know. Right now I feel and want it to be at an orphanage on foreign land, but more importantly I want to be where God wants me. Right now I am in a doctoral graduate program, and while it satisfies all the dreams I had for myself and my mom had for me, it is not where I want to be. I sat down today to study and began to cry while listening to a song called Do Something by Matthew West. Its a song written for a girl named Andrea who while in college took over an orphanage, and is now spreading Gods love to all those kids. THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO BE DOING! So often my heart isn't here. Sometimes I don't know why I am suppose to be here, but every time I try to give reasons why I should leave God makes it clear to me that he brought me here for a reason. And I have learned so much here, but I just don't feel like I am making a difference, and thats what I want. I want to hold a little child that doesn't know what it is like to be loved and give them just a taste of what it is like to be loved by Jesus. I want to see kids that don't have any idea who Jesus is be changed and blessed by him. I want to know what it is like to be in total and complete dependence on the provision of God for food, health, energy, and so many other aspects of my life I take for granted. I want to enable families and communities to  improve their living conditions through formal and informal education.

But right now I am here. When I was in high school I thought it would be really cool to start an orphanage. But to be honest with you I thought it was a phase just as all the people around me thought it was. So I planned my life to live here in America. I choose a school due to it's warm whether, dual admission PT program, and the scholarship I had received. I started in the fall of 2009, and quickly began to see why God had brought me here. I was utterly alone as a Christian, for two years I did not have one friend that lived the way I did. I also did not have a home church for the first year or so. I had to make the faith I had claimed for 11 years truly and only mine. I had to decide whether I wanted to continue to follow Christ, or if I wanted to go the way of every other college kid. But now I couldn't just claim it, now I had to study it, learn it, and live it on my own. I couldn't rely on my parents, my church, my group of christian friends to sustain my need for that community. For that period of time the only person who I could go to for that aspect of my life was Jesus, I would spend Friday nights in my room crying. Not understanding why he would leave me alone, trying to tell myself that I was not alone, He was there. That's when I realized my relationship with him was one of knowing, but not continually experiencing. I did not believe that he was enough. I wanted a tangible person to run to, to get advice from, to just hang out with. I was so lonely that I wanted to go home, but luckily I had enough pride that I would not give in and tell many people I hated it. I told my dad, but he either told me I needed to stick out the semester, or the year (I don't really remember). I remember after that I hung up the phone and was truly MAD. I wondered if I had made the choice to come to Florida selfishly and now I was being punished. But that year and the next I truly began to understand what being sustained by God in times of need is like. Nothing to the extent as going to a foreign country, but still for me it was more than I wanted. My life was nice and I had never felt the NEED for God in my life. Again in my head I knew I needed him, but did not have to experience it before.

But right now I am here. Right now I live in the midst of thousands of people that know the name JESUS, but they know him as well as you know me, probably even less. They know he is a figure of the church, but they think of him as a list of rules, not as the love of their life. So here I have the chance to show that the real Jesus loved life, and he knew all the secretes to pure joy here and pure joy and happiness for eternity. Today he is sitting at the right hand of God going to bat for you and for me. Every time I sin, every time I question why I can't go where I feel he has been calling me for years, every time I misrepresent him to a classmate, teammate, co-worker or professor he sits there and says "forgive her for she knows not what she does." He has this power because he came to this earth and avoided all the temptation I so easily give into. Then he committed the ultimate sacrifice of Love. He laid down his life and bore all the sins you, I , and all creation have committed. The people here in this community need this truth and need this love as badly as the orphans that I long to be with.

But right now I am here. He put me in a dual admission program, He knew if he didn't by the time I graduated from undergrad I would be done with this. I would move to another country and do as I pleased. But for some reason he wants me finish my education. Maybe it is only to be discipled and grown by my home church here, maybe it is only to be part of starting the on campus ministry, or maybe it because he has children somewhere that he knows need a "healing touch" by someone who had the opportunity to be educated as a physical therapist. So right now I am a student. Right now I expect God to use this time for the present and the future of my life and others. Many times I lose sight of this and so I start to write these blog post and he reminds me that I am not forgotten. He didn't forget about these 3,4,5,6 years of my life. No he is well aware of his plans. I know he wants to see how I deal with what he has entrusted to me now. On the same CD Matthew West wrote a song called Wonderfully Made for a Special Needs child named Tim. This is Tim's favorite verse

As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

³ “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴ As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

John 9:1-5

I will always be not only the creation of God, but a beloved child. He knows me, and He knows my heart even better than I do. He knows where I need to be, and I don't need to worry about where I will be, if I will just focus on him, if I will just focus on what I can do here the future will become the present and I will be right in the midst of where God wants me. This is my prayer for myself and all other children of God. I think we have heard it so many times... concern, worry, anxiousness, or stress are all just products of not trusting that God has planned our next step, day, week, month, year, decade, or however far out we are focusing on.

^Rachel

Safe and Secure

Be safe. How many of us heard that from our parents? I bet all of us did. The first time I went driving after I got my drivers license comes to mind... as I took the keys, running out the door in excitement my parents prepared me... "leave the radio off, check your blind spots, don't speed, and be safe." Yeah ok, those are good instructions and words of warning/wisdom. But sometimes the devil uses our comfortability of being safe and our fear of what might happen to keep us from going to those God calls us to help. I'll admit when I see someone that needs help I look at them and say "if I were a guy..." "if I didn't have loans..." "if I were in a more public place..." "they may have a gun" "they could be selling drugs." What is your if? How many do you have? While many times our ifs are quite ridiculous, sometimes they are legitimate fears. Weeeelll, legitimate for those who do not know the savior we know. What if Jesus had fears. I mean he KNEW what was going to happen to him. If anyone has the right to fear, it was him. He knew that he was going to be taken by the guards, whipped, and crucified. If I knew that was going to happen... I would avoid going out. I would batten down the hatches and avoid anyone at ALL cost. But Jesus knew that he had come to fulfill the scriptures, he also knew that after the suffering he would be reunited with his Father and inherit his place in the kingdom at the right hand of The Majesty. (Hebrews 1)

We also love security. Nearly all Americans have a savings account. If someone is living paycheck to paycheck that is basically saying they are poor. In order to be "middle class" you need to have enough money to pay for the basics, (food, clothing, shelter, school supplies) as well as a car, cell phone, a vacation, and a college fund for your kids. IN AMERICA WE ARE HOARDERS. All of us, ok 99% of us, and I am definitely in the majority. I won't go into what I mean exactly, but read this blog from Katie (who wrote Kisses from Katie, which has been a huge encouragement in my life) I think her personal experiences speak to our spirits as to the true NEED and poverty that exist around the world. If you read a few more of her blogs you will continue to see how we sit here in america and think we are living in poverty if we don't have cable, a cell phone, and a car. There are people in America that live in poverty, but we look at what they have done wrong. And in many cases they have done things wrong. Instead of passing judgment maybe we need to go to them... here in America, and around the world as the hands and feet of Jesus. Sometimes this is just providing resources, and at other times its about offering of our time, time that none of us have, or our abilities, or our will on the life we have sacrificed back to him.

These things are uncomfortable. But we need to become comfortable with being uncomfortable while trusting in the provision and will of the God that wants to give to us above anything we could ask or imagine. But just as Jesus did we have to be ready and willing for it to be outside of our plans. For it to be uncomfortable. For it to be painful. But it will show us just how much we are loved because he will always provide what we need according to HIS will.

If His grace is an ocean oh I am sinking

“And He is jealous from me, loves like a hurricane, I am a tree

Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy

When all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions

Eclipsed by glory and I realize just how beautiful You are

And how great Your affections are for me

And oh, how He loves us, oh

Oh, how He loves us, how He loves us all

And He is jealous from me, loves like a hurricane, I am a tree

Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy

When all of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions

Eclipsed by glory and I realize just how beautiful You are

And how great Your affections are for me

Oh, how He loves, yeah, He loves us

Oh, how He loves us, oh, how He loves us

Oh, how He loves

And we are His portion and He is our prize

Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes

If His grace is an ocean, we're all sinking

And heaven meets earth like an unforeseen kiss

And my heart turns violently inside of my chest

I don't have time to maintain these regrets

When I think about the way

Oh, how He loves us, oh

Oh, how He loves us, how He loves all

How He loves

I failed. I fell, and I didn't want to get up. This time I had made a promise to Him that I really thought I could maintain. But I FAILED! It was the worst feeling in my entire life, honestly I was sick to my stomach and hated myself for letting it happen, heck for making it happen. And for a week or two I just was too ashamed to even ask for forgiveness, I didn't deserve it this time, this time it felt different, so I just tried to stay out of His way. I prayed for the people, organizations, and causes that still deserved His time and attention, but not for me. I didn't enter into His presence, I couldn't, there just is no way He could still accept me.

I feel like we all get to this point. We all let the Devil wear the mask of Jesus. We assume that Christ's limitations in his love for us is equal to our limitations in our love for others. It isn't. God sent his son to cover the sin that you just committed, that when you go to Him and repent, He acts as if it never happened. Yes there will be consequences and a few scars, but He still loves you, and He can redeem anything! I mean ANYTHING! You are perfectly broken, perfectly scarred, perfectly imperfect for the perfect, all covering blood and love of our Savior, Father, and Lord. 

The song “How He Loves Us” was put in my heart a long time ago. The first time was August 25, I don't really know why, but at the end of my quite time that day I wrote in big letters "HE LOVES. OH HOW HE LOVES." The NEXT DAY we were getting ready to have a Hurricane and my mom sent me this text as I was recovering from a concussion and unable to do ANYTHING.

"When you are in the winds of the hurricane today look at the David Crowder song "oh how he loves us" and think he is bending you and covering you with his mercy. I so love you, but nothing like he does.  That should encourage you cause you tangibly experience how much I love you.  May your body continue to heal as you are made to stop." 

When I went to do my devo that night I realized that I had written those lyrics just the night before, and found it odd that a song I have not heard for so long would pop up in two separate occasions. Since then it has come up at three other key points in my life, as a song of healing and hope for what so often seems like a bleak future. 

My favorite part is... 

And we are His portion and He is our prize

Drawn to redemption by the GRACE in His eyes

If His grace is an ocean, we're all sinking

  

And heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss

And my heart turns violently inside of my chest

I don't have time to maintain these regrets

When I think about the way

HE LOVES US!!!

When our worship band played this, I was sitting there in my chair, too ashamed to stand and crying. I felt Him say to me "I have things too big to allow you to sit there and REGRET what has happened.  REPENT and get on with it." See my problem lies in the third sentence in this post... "I had made a promise to Him that I really thought I could maintain." Neither you nor I will ever overtake a sin. That is why we need Him first; He comes and loves us while we are dirty and sloppy just as our parents loved us when we were born. It is not a pretty sight, but because it is theirs they love the ugly alien covered in nasty fluids. WE ARE HIS! We can never forget that, I can never forget that. He wants to hold you NOW, He knows that you can never clean yourself, so He sent His Son to clean you and the Holy Spirit to teach you how to stay clean. It is hard, I get it, I fail, and you will too! Good news is... this world, and your life is not about who you are or what you do, but rather who God is and what He has done, is doing and will do! We just get an awesome opportunity to get in on the action and adventure as He gives us an abundant life. Don't be ashamed of the mess you are in, be grateful for grace, love, and the one that will come and clean it up as you repent. 

Watch this video as the man who wrote the song explains his story and heart behind the song, and remember God is made perfect in our weaknesses. 

http://vimeo.com/10868953

Its all part of His plan

Over the Past 3 months God has opened up all the right doors for us to start a ministry on the Nova campus. I still can not comprehend how I am involved in this the way I am. I mean my calling is kids, or so I thought. I spent the first two and half years of college ready for the next phase of my life and planning my life for when I would either have my own children or for when I started an orphanage. I mean yes everyone on campus that I knew was aware that I was a Christian that was more “Christian” than most, (after sharing my convictions and morals people would always say “your REALLY Christian.” Funny concept… I was unaware that there were degrees of Christianity.) but I was not at college to win souls into the Kingdom. I was here to get my degree so I could do what he called me to do. Thing is that was MY decision not His. So I am going to take you back a little bit because I think it is just beyond AMAZING how God puts everything into place in order to speak to us in order that we my receive the BLESSING of being used by him. So this one starts back at my birth technically, but we will pick it up in 9^th grade or so. My brother, Kyle was in college, and for years he had been my role model. Everything he said was just a little more important to me than anything anyone else said. One day we got on the topic of California and he brought up a pastor by the name of Francis Chan, and we went on to have many conversations about this pastor. Naturally I started to listen to Pod cast by him later on. His messages were awesome, so rawly God. They challenged me to recognize and change the things in my life that God was pointing out as rotten fruit.

Ok so now we are almost caught up. About a year ago I started to hear an advertisement for the ONE Conference. It was going to be here in Miami, and FRANCIS CHAN WAS GOING TO BE THERE! I would be able to hear him live, and I was beyond excited. So I bought the ticket and with two precious friends we went. While Francis, the other speakers, and worship were INCREDIBLE, two things just really touched me beyond compare. First was the hosting pastors’ (Pastor Pedro) amazing PASSION for the people that were around him everyday. Whether he was at his church, in line, at home, in another state, or another country I could just see his genuine LOVE and deep NEED for those people to join him as a child of our AMAZING God. It was truly contagious. The other thing was how God spoke to me… first in opening my eyes to see just a glimpse of His passion for the people we are each surrounded by. Second was he just placed this verse 

“well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Come and share your master’s happiness!” (Matthew 25:23) 

on my heart. He reminded me that He is always looking to see what I am doing here, what I am doing now. I feel called to work in another country with special needs orphans, but first God brought me far from home to see what I would do with what he entrusted me with here. He called me here to be a missionary. He tells us to be in this world, but not of it. While the world sees me as just an athlete and student, God knows that really I am a missionary. On a daily, hour by hour, moment by moment basis have to decide if He or they determine my identity. In the weeks following the conference when I was wrapping my mind around the impact of this conference I felt God tell me to ask two things of my pastor, (Pastor Billy) which has had the biggest impact on my life since coming to Florida. First was to seek a someone to disciple me (which was very odd to me), and the second was to offer to help in anyway to start a Calvary NOVA on the NSU campus (the senior pastor (Pastor Bob) had mentioned it in a vision sermon he gave.) I have attended two churches in my life, both are on the list of 50 biggest churches. I understand how busy the pastors are, and so I resisted sending the email for about two months because I though my questions were just too petty for the Pastor to deal with. But finally God got what he wanted and I sent it, complete with the subject line “No big deal.” I honestly don’t even know if Billy remembers reading the email, but because of that Diana, (his assistant at the time) an amazing child of God and faithful servant is now discipling me. She has challenged and encouraged me through some pretty amazing changes God has wanted to make in my life.

Ok so now we are up to date, well at least to where this story looks like it starts.  My friend Julie and I went on a outreach trip to the Keys with the Eikon ministry of Calvary. Pastor Billy, Diana, and John (Billy’s Ministry Assistant) were all there. At this point I knew Diana pretty well, and also knew John from the Sports nights, but had never actually met Billy. So we sat down at a table in the shade and Billy walks over and ask if anyone is sitting next to us, and there wasn’t so he sat down. You are thinking so what, and that is a fair question. But God knew it was a little bigger and eternal than a seat in the shade. During that dinner we started talking about how all three of us really wanted to start a CalvaryNOVA, but just didn’t know if it was Gad’s plan right now. So we started praying fervently. That night in our room we spent 30 minutes praying for the campus ministries and the possibility of starting a CalvaryNOVA. Well a lot of prayer, several emails, and a few meeting later we decided to make it an official club. But God didn’t stop there, he continues to bless our patience and reliance. The dean of student affairs agreed to be our advisor. Diana, my discipler, is now working with the women in all of the on campus ministires of Calvary, and God fostered our relationship before there was even plans to start CalvaryNOVA. Now today Elizabeth, one of the people that has been helping us start this thing got baptized by a guy that is starting a college ministry at the Plantation campus of Calvary, which is much closer to nova than the main campus. I don’t know how God is going to use this, I don’t even want to speculate, but I have stopped thinking that God has coincidences. God has plans, plans that never fail, and plans that are in place to prosper and grow each of us.

For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Jeremiah 29:11

Right now we are praying for the following things…

-direction (individually and as a group)

-leadership (specifically a president for the club)

-John, Diana, Billy (the amazing servants that God has called to work with young adults)

-professors (we need more professors that profess Jesus)

-students (move the one’s that are Christians into action, and soften the hearts of the ones that do not yet know and understand the Love of God)

-Our boldness on this campus (we can’t wait any longer to capture the hearts of those on this campus. We need boldness to live different and to courageously declare his name to all)

We wait in hope for the Lord;
    he is our help and our shield.
²¹ In him our hearts rejoice,
    for we trust in his holy name.
²² May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,

    even as we put our hope in you.

Psalm 33:20-22 

As you read this I ask that you pray with us, it is greatly needed now and all the way through this process. Our hearts are to reach those that are impossible to reach. The only way their hearts are going to respond is if the Father softens them.

We have come to share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original conviction firmly to the very end. As has just been said:

“Today, if you hear his voice,
    do not harden your hearts
    as you did in the rebellion.”

Hebrews 3:14-15

Live Foolishly

Hey everyone. This is just my blog to share my feelings. When I write in my journal, it is like I am talking to God, but sometimes I want to talk to someone. The first thing that inspired me to start this blog was reading Kisses from Katie (highly suggest reading this book, but you WILL cry) and just all the different things I have felt God tell me that I think may help someone else or myself in the future. My dream is to start an Orphanage, that is all the details I know right now. But I hope that as I embark on my Journey to impact and change this world for the purpose of sharing the love of Christ that this blog will capture how God is molding and changing me.

 "Brothers and sisters, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: “Let the one who boasts boast in the Lord.”
1 Corinthians: 26-31

World changers come in many different types. Some are evangelist, world missionaries, and pastors. Others are intercessors, local missionaries, listeners, givers, and just in general lovers (you can be many of these). But don't decide that you are one because that is where you are comfortable. Continually look to make sure you are on the same trail as God. And remember he even knows what lies ahead on paths that had not been made yet.

Some say "your crazy," as us crazies embark on the next phase of life doing something that they would never dare do. Well you are crazy, your odd to hear and obey God. To trust that he will provide even when it all seems so unlikely around you. But guess what, I think they would have called Jesus, even God the Father crazy with a capitol C.

Just imagine for a minute... God is at school, church, the grocery school, or his best friends. They ask "Hey what have you been up to lately?" He replies "Coming up with a plan to allow my only son to be brutally beaten and killed in order to save you and the rest of the world." Now does what he called you to do seem so crazy? If they tell you it is not safe let me assure you that in obedience to God you are much safer physically, economically, and definitely spiritually. Remember Jonah? Yeah keep running from what you know God is calling you to do, God will eventually win. If he has prepared a work for you, what everyone else says really doesn't effect what he does (that is reassuring in itself:).) Now this doesn't mean that you and everyone you love will be healthy and safe nor does it mean you will be rich, but it does mean that in all circumstances he will provide for you in the way which he knows is best for you. I am currently reading a book called No Greater Love (another book about orphans) and this is an excerpt from it that I though was just so perfect to describe where we should seek to be with our Lord, Lover, Savior, and Provider.

"This was the deepest darkest place we'd ever been together and yet, strangely, 

at the same time it was one of the most beautiful places we had ever been.

 We were at that sacred place of human weakness, where we recognized

 that our abilities were not enough. We had no choice but to trust God." 

Levi Benkert, No Greater Love. Pg 52

So do it. Do not be afraid to go out there and Live Foolishly. Live without a safety net. Live daring to trust that God will provide. This does not mean to be lazy, to sit there and expect God to move. He waits patiently for us to run into his arms. We have to go to him in prayer and in action. God does not move, his plan is to be constant and to send us out to mobilize his word and his LOVE! As Jesus left he asked Peter three times if he loved him, Peter replied "yes" and Jesus just said "feed my sheep." Thats it, take care of those who Jesus came to lead. If you do that and persistently seek the Lord through Prayer and the Word you will be in the will of the Lord, and you will be given heavenly blessings (which does not always look like earthly blessing).

Here is the video where the name of this blog came from. Just a bunch of foolish people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXvBI5fdFaA

Live Foolishly,
Rachel Woodson