hello 
Due to the holidays I wasn’t around my computer to much, so sorry for the delay in my blogging
What a beautiful start to a very new year. I had the pleasure of spending 4 days down at the One Thing conference in Kansas City, MO. It is a huge worship and prayer conference put on by IHOP (The International House of Prayer). All I can truly say was it was extremely powerful and very much needed in my life and the lives of thousands. Basically for the majority of the day for 4 days straight I got to just pray and worship. It was a deep intimacy with Jesus that I had not felt in quite a while and a huge blessing to my spirit. I could not speak more highly about what God is doing through that movement and through that ministry. And it makes perfect sense. Why would He not? Believers from all over coming and committing to pray and worship 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Seeking His heart. Seeking His face. And seeking HIS will. It is that kind of devoted son or daughter that He is longing to change the world with.
I was reminded of so many simple but powerful truths that encouraged me while I was there. The first being the most powerful of all. That God intimately loves me as I am. That He loves me purely for the fact that He created me, and that He created me for that very purpose. Nothing more complicated or deep than that. That fact, when it truly penetrates your heart, completely changes your life. And when you receive God’s heart and know that He not only views you that way, but every one of His creations that way……… the world begins to look much different.
So often I can keep my relationship with Jesus bottled up in my head. In my understanding, or in my knowledge. Which are great things to have. But when it remains there it is dead understanding and dead knowledge. If it doesn’t CONTINUALLY penetrate our hearts, and we don’t truly live in that truth and understanding, we begin to live in the very thing that Jesus came to set us free from. Dead religion. It’s so funny. Even as I am typing this, these are things that I have said, preached, and sang about for years. But even with all of my understanding and knowledge of this subject, if it is not continually meditated on and awakened in me daily, how quickly I can “forget”.
I am in love with Jesus Christ! Because He first loved me. And He has good things for me. The main thing being HIS beautiful and powerful will. To walk in righteousness and not in darkness. To walk in freedom and joy, not in depression and pride. To spend all of my days with the only true lover that has ever lived. My Jesus.
I am excited to be walking with Him today and to see what He can do through me in this short window of a life.
Make every day count!! First with Him. And may everything you do today and always flow and be motivated by the Love that changed your life.
