C.A.M.P. SAINTS/NO WALLS MINISTRY Missionaries on the MOVE

Powerful Weekend for my heart, mind and soul at the Beth Moore Living Proof Conference this past weekend.  I have written before about what our call is but so many times, my desires outweigh that call in such a way that the devil gets to play in my mind.  Like wanting Church Ministry again.  Really, I don't want it, I want to reach children for Jesus but I don't want the politics of church, I don't want the cradle to grave option of grace in a building. My heart wanders and wonders time and again what being in the church would be like and I go searching and sometimes even applying for jobs just to get shot down.  It's not that I am not qualified, I am well qualified.  But those rejections are reminders to me that God has us right where he desires us to be.  He has us as a Light in the Darkness shining His light.  We don't have to preach the Gospel, but we do have to live it so others see Him in us.  It doesn't mean we don't mess up, ...

Our purpose on this earth is to ...  Know Jesus? Worship Him only? Live for only ourselves? listen to false gods? love others? Glorify the Trinity? die trying? go to church but never change our ways? go to church and learn how to live as Christ Jesus? grow in knowledge, love, learn scriptures, love others and myself, help others? Which one fits you?  And how's that working out for you?  I, mean, really?  List three things you are grateful for and then look at how your life is going.  Is it going the way you want it to?  Or is it going the way the Lord wants it to for you? Do you play in the dirt with the devil?  Or do you play in the field with the Lord?  Has there been hurts in the past you can walk through and over?  Or have you been stuck in unforgiveness and you keep a packed bag/trunk with hurts in them and you store them away for another time to use them as weapons on someone else?  Did you know unforgivene...

Have you ever been so angry at the devil for taking something so precious away?   As I am writing this, I was attacked by the enemy of Jesus.  I felt pain in my chest down to my waist, it was tight and I thought I would pass out.  My husband began to pray and it ceased.  See, the enemy comes to kill, steal, and/or destroy. Last week a child, he was just 15, was taken by the Spirit of Death who lied to him.  He believed him and he is gone.  The devil uses whatever he can to take away life, and believes that he will "rescue" you.  But he doesn't rescue, he steals from the person he lied to and the entire family.  The devil comes to kill, steal and destroy.  If he can do one of those things, he will not leave you alone until he gets all of them.  When we enter in a life with Jesus, no one said it was going to be easy, NO ONE EVER should tell you that living in obedience will be easy.  When you enter into a life with Je...

This is my favorite time of the year!  I love Ash Wednesday, Passover, Palm Sunday,   Maundy Thursday and then it's quiet until Easter when He rose!  I miss the tradition that we learned in the Lutheran Church I worked in, where on Maundy Thursday they stripped the alter and it was quiet.  It was like stripping Jesus of everything, his flesh cried out and He wept for He believed His Father had Forsaken Him.  Do you ever feel like God has forsaken you?  Do you ever feel like He doesn't really know what you are going through?  He does!  He really cares for you!  This day we sing Glory in the Highest, Hosanna, Hosanna.  In John 12, John tells us about what happened the week before Easter.  John 12 New King James Version (NKJV) The Anointing at Bethany 12  Then, six days before the Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was who had been dead, [ a ] whom He had raised from the dead. 2  The...

On the road again, after spending the winter in two different places.  The Sabbatical has been good.  Growing ever closer to the Lord is always an amazing journey.  More of Him and less of ourselves.  He always provides. Always gives abundantly.  Always is there when we call on His name!  The Name of the Lord is Strength, Protection, Grace, Peace, Love, and Hope.  Even in the Storms of our lives, He is there.  I write this because so many times, things come and things go, but I don't worry because I know my God is with me.  He has never forsaken me.  Ever.  Oh sure, at times I have wondered "Lord, Why are you so quiet?".  For years, I have dealt with something so dark and sinister, even through ministry, even through working.  It's not that I believe it's bad but it is.  God gives us life and life abundantly right?  After David died, these thoughts that I never realized were self-hatred came rushing i...