Ezekiel 37:1-14 (The Message)

Breath of Life

1-2 God grabbed me. God's Spirit took me up and set me down in the middle of an open plain strewn with bones. He led me around and among them—a lot of bones! There were bones all over the plain—dry bones, bleached by the sun.
3 He said to me, "Son of man, can these bones live?"
I said, "Master God, only you know that."
4 He said to me, "Prophesy over these bones: 'Dry bones, listen to the Message of God!'"
5-6 God, the Master, told the dry bones, "Watch this: I'm bringing the breath of life to you and you'll come to life. I'll attach sinews to you, put meat on your bones, cover you with skin, and breathe life into you. You'll come alive and you'll realize that I am God!"
7-8 I prophesied just as I'd been commanded. As I prophesied, there was a sound and, oh, rustling! The bones moved and came together, bone to bone. I kept watching. Sinews formed, then muscles on the bones, then skin stretched over them. But they had no breath in them.
9 He said to me, "Prophesy to the breath. Prophesy, son of man. Tell the breath, 'God, the Master, says, Come from the four winds. Come, breath. Breathe on these slain bodies. Breathe life!'"
10 So I prophesied, just as he commanded me. The breath entered them and they came alive! They stood up on their feet, a huge army.
11 Then God said to me, "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Listen to what they're saying: 'Our bones are dried up, our hope is gone, there's nothing left of us.'
12-14 "Therefore, prophesy. Tell them, 'God, the Master, says: I'll dig up your graves and bring you out alive—O my people! Then I'll take you straight to the land of Israel. When I dig up graves and bring you out as my people, you'll realize that I am God. I'll breathe my life into you and you'll live. Then I'll lead you straight back to your land and you'll realize that I am God. I've said it and I'll do it. God's Decree.'"

For the past week I have been feeling like dry bones, I know that God has me at this place though to teach me what I really need to be fighting for. I have been trying to prophesy over my own dry bones and guess what that doesn't work AT ALL!!!! I need to stop and let God do that instead of looking around and seeing myself laid out all over the place. Sometimes in life we try to hard to make everything right in our lives and we get so pulled apart and worn out that we end up like a pile of dry bones. I know God is working in my life and breathing back into it, my skin is growning back, my muscles are connecting again. Sometimes in life we have to be a broken mess for God to reach us, and it doesn't matter where we are in our lives. God gives us seasons in our life to help us grow, and it is funny when he decides to do it when we "think" everything is ok. This time I am seeing though it is God stretching me and not the enemy trying to get me down, which has been very hard for me to do in the past, I am not giving the enemy credit anymore!! I am standing up and realizing God wants me to grow and not stay stagnant!!! I know it will take sometime for my bones and muscles to be back in shape, but with God as my trainer I know that I will be back in tip top shape in no time!!!!!!!

All or Nothing!

Matthew 9:20-22

20Just then a woman who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years came up behind him and touched the edge of his cloak. 21She said to herself, "If I only touch his cloak, I will be healed." 22Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed from that moment.

This morning at 2am God answered a question I have been seeking for the answer to and though the question in personal, the answer was "It is all or nothing Jen!!" All I could think about at that time was poker, you take risk and sometimes you put all that you have in or you hold on to what we have because it is "safe" for us. Well needless to say I wanted to stomp my feet like alittle girl and cry. The reason for this fit is because this answer could change a major area of my life. Reading in Matthew the passage above REALLY made me think about my problem. The woman that was subject to bleeding, thought all she needed to do was touch Jesus's cloak to be healed, and what he said to her is what got to me was, "It is your faith that has healed you" WOW so I am now trying to see how I can apply this all or nothing attitude to the situation at hand, and know that I have the faith that it will not make a huge change in my life!!! I have the faith that God is in this situation with me and he is guiding me, just as he has been guiding me through it all along but sometimes it takes a spiritual smack in the head to make us realize that God always has our best interest at heart , and he has what is in our hearts in his hands!

The way you know you have a boy when........ (Isaacism)

So on Fridays I go into work an hour later so that means alittle more sleep for Isaac and I in the morning, well this morning I woke up right before he did and I peeked in on him squriming and moving around. Since he didn't see me and wasn't fully awake I went and let the dog out and came back and checked on him. I say good morning buddy and he turns over sticks his finger in the air and says, " Here mom I just pulled a big booger out!" LOL as I proceeded to take it off his finger I said, "Well good morning to you too honey!!"

Listen to the Music!!! You may just be suprised!!

I love the fact that God has an amazing sense of humor, cause he knows that is what I can relate to!!! It doesn't surprise me that he has been answering the specific prayers I have been praying with music, dreams, and people that I would never believe would ever say some of the things I have heard (good things). I have to sit back and laugh though, cause I can sit and pray and pray and pray and N O T H I N G!!! I feel like sometimes I need a megaphone to make my prayers louder. Well that is how it has been for me for the past 2 months looking for answers, so finally I said God I am not going to let this bother me anymore, and I know you have your hand in this situation and I know it is about your timing. Well wouldn't you know within a week I have heard 3 songs that have related to my issues, I was talking to my dad (my dad here on earth) yesterday, and he said something that would of never in a million years would of come out of his mouth, and then I had a dream last night to sum some other things up. It makes me laugh and appreciate his sense of humor because I LOVE MUSIC!!!! and what I have learned God will use the things and people we love to talk to us sometimes!!!!!Well I am sure glad God knows how I work and what really will speak to me. Just remember sometimes we want God to speak to us directly, but sometimes he wants us to sit back and enjoy the music :)

In the search of a Path!!!!

A sound mind. I don't know about you, but I sure would like to have sound mind. Did you know that a sound mind is a promise of God? Something that surely is in the will of God for us. Now, let me tell you, the world we live in is trying its best to give you an unsound mind--but God through His word says different.....

"For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." (2Timothy 1:7)

So many things of the world tell us we are doing things wrong when we feel deep down we know they are right, I have learned over the last couple of days that, when those occasions arise and we find ourselves questioning is this Gods voice either A. Speaking to me through someone or B. Are the things that I am hearing really from God.? It gets to the point where we just wanna say SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and sometimes we can, but other times it is better for us to stop and really listen. The feeling of hearing every ones opinions and trying to feel like you have to make everything right gets tiring!! and you feel like all you can hear is noise and you never have a sound mind. Well I am here to tell you if you have the fear of God in your heart, you learn to sit back and not fear what everyone else is thinking. Also there are things in our lives we want answers to and we want them badly, and the enemy knows that you are seeking God for those answers and will swoop in and pollute your brain with confusion, and one thing that I have learned in the past 8 months that God does not hold the spirit of confusion, the situation or person that you are letting control you and making your mind unsound holds the spirit of confusion! We also have to realize that the spirit of fear (fear of the worldly things) is what causes us to have a unsound mind, so if we learn to fear God and trust in him with everything in our lives who else to we have to fear when God has our back??? God has laid out a path for us to follow to receive the sound mind He promises. The two steps that lead to your sound mind are by power and love.
Power. Get power. Well it makes perfect sense that if we can have God's power, we certainly won't have fear any longer--and will be well on our way to a sound mind. Love. Did you know that love is a commandment? Love gives results. God is love-(1John 4:8)--and His power works through love--and specifically for the results we are looking for. Wow! If you have the mind of Christ how can you not have a sound mind? But you have to know this You have to get it clear and strong in you Jesus has all power that His love casts out all fear. So when you are in Christ living in His love you have His mind and that is a sound mind! But look again The Bible says we can't say we love God and hate our brother. Sometimes we have to forgive some people in our lives that we really would rather not and I know it's tough, but you gotta just think of the sound mind that the Lord has for you! It does take time for this to happen and it will happen as long as ou are willing to let it!!!!

Don't Be Deceived By a Wolf in Sheep's Clothing......

Genesis 3:4-5

4 "You will not surely die," the serpent said to the woman. 5 "For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil."

God gave me a word, and it is from the old children's story of Don't be deceived by a wolf in sheep's clothing. Looking back when Eve was deceived by the serpent, it is almost the same moral. Relating this to the world today it still sticks so true, and it sticks true to some things that are happening in my life. There are things that seem like they are good like the little sheep in the story thinking that the wolf was his mother and he followed it into the woods, and well we know the rest of the story the little sheep goes bye bye :( Well this can hold true to the way the enemy can put some things in front of you that you think is ok, and think that it is God instead. These things can be things like friendships and situations in life. We can stay in the rut of our life that we are used to and be deceived into following the wolf into the forrest or we can get out of our rut and run into open pastures with our heard (God and his angels)