Hearts Transformed

Kari Jobe "Healer" I believe your my healer I believe you are ALL I need I believe you're my portion I believe you're more than enough for me JESUS you are all that I need. You hold my every moment. You calm my raging sea. You walk with me through fire. You heal all my disease. I trust in you. NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU! You hold my world in your hands! Seriously!

Several years ago I was mesmerized by the search for songs. In one of those searches I used my name. I was always jealous of my friend Sarah and her name song. I found a few but in all honesty they fell short. No one to my knowledge had ever written a song about or for me. My song. In the verse below I picture that God is singing my song. The One who knows me more intimately than any other is rejoicing over me with singing Zephaniah 3:17 (New International Version)   17  The LORD your God is with you,         he is mighty to save.         He will take great delight in you,         he will quiet you with his love,         he will rejoice over you with singing." And I Praise God in heaven! As I attempt to remove the masks that I wear it is such a comfort from the Word that my savior is mighty to save. I am amazed that the same warrior will ...

Songs often get stuck in my head. Often it isn't anything that I want to keep on replay. Several days ago a song came to me. No worries I am not turning "Nashville" and becoming a song writer. It was an already written song. The recurring verse, "Who am I that you are mindful of me?" I didn't know what God was doing but I was certain there was something moving inside me. So I wrote it on top of the board in my office. Maybe because I am a little slower to hear or maybe because my timing is not God's timing it didn't come to me until today. All day today I have been singing this verse. Why is this particular song stirring in my spirit? This afternoon at Starbucks over a delicious Peppermint Mocha and a great conversation with one of the precious young ladies that I get the privilege of serving another seemingly unrelated idea came about. We should find a bible study that we could do together. So we headed to Lifeway to seek out the perfect study for...

It seems like here lately there has been recurring themes to my months or weeks. I believe these are God's way of getting something through my thick skull. Most recently the theme has been "rhythm." I am a list maker. This blog is not on my list by the way and it is really causing me distraction. But there are times you just need to "get it out" and this is one of those times.  What is rhythm? According to  http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rhythm it is: Rhytm: Pronunciation: \ ˈ ri- th əm\ 3 a : movement, fluctuation, or variation marked by the regular recurrence or natural flow of related elements So I guess I am in search of movement of regular recurrence. It seems like 2010 has been a hodge podge of things strung together. I haven't found it yet this year. I haven't found rhythm and much like a song with no rhythm so my life feels chaotic and a little irritating to deal with at the moment. I don't feel out of control. I just feel o...

The great snowfall of 2010 happened this last weekend and it is lasting well into this Wednesday. At first I was bummed because I knew it meant my weekend plans would be changed and if you don't know me well. I do not like for my plans to be changed. I was a little over talking about it because it seemed to captivate all of our thoughts and facebook posts. I do however want to share the lesson I learned through this snow. Sunday morning I awoke to thick white blanket of snow still covering most of my tiny corner of the world. I was much too aprehensive to drive that day and had to have a chauffer. However, I was a little taken back by the glorious sight of the white snow in the beautiful Sunday sunshine. Sunday had a bright blue sky overhead and the whole world seemed to glow. I prepared to go out in the cold and donned my best coverage high heels to brave the snow. I do not own snow boots or anything similar. Everyone commented on my silliness yet I feel the heel stabbing throug...

I am in the middle of teaching a three part series in high school where we are talking about the things that hinder our spiritual lives. One of the things I have been wrestling with in my own life recently is how difficult it is for me to really fall into relationship with my Creator. I love lists and I love ticking off the items one by one. The accomplishment of completeling the things I have set out to do really gets me pumped. I love to "get things done." Here is the thing...God is not something to "get done" or "get to later." I am confessing that I have often relegated God to another check on my list. But the really cool thing is that in this process of encouraging others in the journey; I am learning (albeit slow) to be quiet and still before the Lord and to listen for Him. If He is singing and dancing over me then I want to hear the that song! I am going to do my best to blog through my thoughts as I take the next 30 days to work through "...

This week is one of those weeks. My mind is mush after an incredibly eventful summer and fall at Community Church of Hendersonville . It was just the kind of day when I needed a word from God. I went to listen to the latest post from Mars Hill and got the greatest gift...Dr. Don Davis. Dr. Davis is the director and founder of World Impact’s Urban Ministry Institute and he was a guest teacher last Sunday at Mars Hill.      The message was simple enough... Salt and Light (Matthew 5:13-16). But it was the idea that we often want to talk about all we are doing for God. The quote that cut to my heart was this. " If we open up our hearts and open up our hands; THEN we have the right finally to open up our mouths." "Give us clean hands and give us pure hearts" yes but in order that we may have full hearts and dirty hands for the kingdom of God and then we will not    only speak the good news but we will be living it out.