Thinking and talking about the exciting times we live in, AWE is the word that best describes my hope. No person can stop God’s will for our lives except us. When a person realizes the power that God has placed in them, and they tap unto it, courage emerges to step out in tremendous faith.  Pay ATTENTION to each word cast, and to personal motivations to glorify God.  In FAITH — in He who is in us — we participate with God’s mighty angel army to accomplish His will.  AMEN

God’s grace has given me 72 years. As His daughter, I was named after my shunned German Oma.  Jesus was rejected, and He tells us that  “persecution” keeps us in close fellowship with all the heores of our faith.  I am thrilled to reunite with those who prayed for me. The majority of my glorious eternal life is in front of me, and even though my hope is secure, I need His help daily.

My internal spirit has never grown weary. The voice inside of my heart urges me to pursue more time in the holy Presence of God. In my youth, my pursuits vascilated between internal and external pleasures. My heavenly Father remains infinetely patient with me.

He chose my parents, and He allowed me to cast myself from the solid Rock, way out into enticing waters. Faithfully, after I tasted the bait, my Fathered reeled me back to Himself. As a more mature Christian, I look back with gratitude for His great grace. My body has more wrinkles and dimples, but my spirit is timeless, and it has a solid appreciation for how God never grew weary. He enjoys every single conversation we have. My spirit is eternal, and my soul longs to be forever in His presence. I will always need His love, wisdom, attention, encouragement, grace, and daily mercies.  Barbara Hoyle

“Its so hot!” There are people who went to sleep all over the world last night, poor and rich and saved and unnsaved, but they will never wake again. Those who expected to rise did not, their beds became their cooling boards, and their blankets became their winding sheets. Those dead folks would give anything, for just five more minutes with their loved ones. One more day of hot or freezing weather or ten more minutes of  waiting in traffic.  It was the complaints of God’s people that kept them in the wilderness for 40 years. When we murmur or grumble, our Father hears it. So listen to your silent groans and repent quickly.  Pray that whenever anger stirs, that He remembers His word to you. Ask God to replace all bitterness with His holy Presence.  In our flesh we can’t change people or the frequent irritating circumstances. BUT GOD, can change us. Don’t complain. Psalm 119:49 “Remember Your word to Your servant, for You have given me hope.”

Jesus got baptized and was led by the Spirit into 40 days of wilderness, and God’s people spent 40 years in the wilderness — we too should expect to have a time spent in the wild for our Father to teach us. Pastor John Bevere shares his 18 months in the thick of wild. Emerging, he made a rule in his house. Grumbling was punished as nobody was allowed to complain. But God, woke John up and brought him to his knees for the silent murmuring God heard in his very own heart.

A 9 year old muslim girl with only one promise in scripture was used by God to influence nations. She too grew in faith through a rough wilderness.  God used a weak, dying kid to spread the Gospel in Iran and with presidents of many nations.  She was rejected by her parents, and arrested many times for her faith. Her Pastor husband was imprisoned for his faith. She sought the help of the church and Presidents for her husbands freedom. We are each to RUN our race, and when we grow weary, trust Jesus to give courage. He gives us peace and rest.  She gave God her whole heart and God used it for over 30 years! Strive to be more like Mary, ENJOY sitting at the feet of Jesus. Martha was busy doing, NOT sitting. Listen to the wonderful whispers of our Father. Prepare for persecution with prayer. Don’t get distracted with politics or divisions and get disqualified. Endurance requires constant prayer.

A recent Barna Study rocks the church. A shaking now stirs up a quest for purity.