Isn’t this cute?  Now I know where they’re putting it:)

I just posted this Madagascar 2 Widget for 500 credits; you can earn free credits too!

I really don’t know what to write.  It’s either a couple of sentences or a book.  I don’t have time for a book right now:)  and I don’t want to torture anybody.

Just know I do read the blogs of those I know and love, and I pray for you, too.  Your friendships mean a lot to me, and I’m blessed to call you friends.

This election is driving me crazy because I believe that unless God intervenes we’re in for a “wild ride” to say the least.  In California we also have to decide whether to declare marriage as between one man and one woman, and whether to require parents to be notified if their under-age daughter has an abortion.  To me these are no brainers, but people aren’t like they were when I was a little girl, so I just hope there are enough non-liberal people out there to help us choose correctly.

And ok I’ll be honest one silly reason to write is so I can put the Madagascar 2 on my blog:)  It’s cute and it comes with 500 credits:)  Not sure where it goes when I do put it in.  We’ll find out, huh?

Now I have to write a formal lesson plan for my ASL2 class because my university Mentor is coming to observe. 

Everybody have a wonderful week:)

Love to all,
Gerrie

Finally I started going to the women’s prayer group at the church I’ve been attending for a year. All last school year I wanted to go but pressures of school made it so I just couldn’t spare the time.  But this year I don’t have that, so I started going.  Wow.

These women are kind, sweet, spirit-filled, full of grace and power from the Lord.  We pray for each other and others, and sometimes one of them gives us a word from the Lord.  And it’s not just a weird dream or vision, it’s based on what the lady has been reading in scripture and something struck her that she shares with all of us so we can be blessed.

I’m just getting to know these ladies.  One of them is a “neighbor” — she lives one block north of me on the same street.  She and her husband were not able to have children.  She prayed for a child, but then 3 years ago they started the adoption process.  Last week they got a phone call saying, “come and pick up your son.”  The baby is about 10 days old now.  What a blessing from the Lord this is for them!  So Julie won’t be coming to prayer group for a little while:)

Another lady shared a book she is reading, and I got it and have started reading it.  It’s called “The Breaker Anointing, by Barbara Yoder”. It’s a short book and an “easy” read but you DO want to look up the scriptures she mentions. I woke up in the middle of the night and read two chapters.  Like I said, it’s an “easy” read, but on the other hand you don’t want to read this in a hurry, or you’ll miss out on the powerful impact of what she says.

I want to be involved in the Lord and not feel like I’m looking through a window.  Worship and praise is not performance art for us to watch at church, it’s for us to participate in!  And the same is true of our relationship with the Lord.  We’re to go out “to all the world” (which means wherever the Lord puts you in your life) and “preach” the gospel to all nations (and it’s been said “preach the gospel daily, if necessary use words”, so it means preach by your actions, to whomever is around you).

The book of Acts chapter 2 describes the power that descended on Pentecost.  In the description of this event, reference to Joel 2 was made, that “in the last days” men will dream dreams, etc.  That was two thousand years ago, and the writer called THEN the “last days”… aren’t the days we’re in “more last” than that?

I just think we need to think outside the little comfortable box we’re in and stop treating church like performance art for us to enjoy once a week.  We need to stop limiting what God can and wants to do in and through us.  We talk about God and the Holy Spirit and yet “deny” His power by either being afraid of it, or blocking it or limiting its flow.  Miracles happen in other countries, why not here?  Why not in your own church?  Why not in your own city? Why not inside you?

I think we too often have the attitude God will do what He will do, and view Him as being a bit far off, looking “down” to us.  But I think we need to view Him as being IN each of us from the time we were saved.  And so we need to “invite” Him to do more in our lives.  Not just “give us stuff” but to ask Him to “activate” the Holy Spirit we received when we were saved.

That doesn’t necessarily mean running around laying hands on people and yelling “be healed”.  it means mostly being so in touch with God that you are active with Him, participating, acknowledging Him in you to the point where you can be a “Kingdom influence” on others.  Matt. 28 was for us too, not just for the apostles. 

You know the silly saying “wherever you go, there you are.”  Where?  In your mission field.  And it’s white, ready for harvest.

I recommend this book as well as the book I read a few years ago, “Lord Disciple Me” by Richard Mull.  God is IN you, let Him do more through you.

Love to all,
Gerrie