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Writing unto HIM, Jackson, GA (2025)

03/08/2025

I am my daughters children's pastor.

While I was cleaning her room today, I grabbed this paper up from her toy box and went to discard it.

Something stopped me and I read it:

"God can I go to Heaven? I love you and thank you. I ask you to come in my heart. Thank you Lord for all you do. Thank you, I mean it. I even know how to say a scripture. I love you so so much."

And I thought, Lord thank you for letting me pastor my daughter.

And the Holy Spirit spoke to me in this moment LOUD and CLEAR!!!!!

EVERY parent has a calling to pastor their children.

YOU, are called to pastor.
You should be guiding and leading your children spiritually.

I recently saw a post about about the shortage of children's pastors in America. I now wonder if that's because there are few that are willing to miss the Sunday morning service to pour into our kids or if it's because we as parents have failed to realize that we are called to preach the gospel to o our children.

You can raise your children in church. But are you raising them to BE the church?

10/05/2024

What is the purpose of training?

Training is for preparing.

Potty training a child is to prepare them for using the potty.

The Bible says TRAIN a child up in the way they should go and when they are old they will not depart from it.

What is the training preparing them for?

Battle.

The enemy, satan, wants to destroy your child's life. He wants your children to run from Jesus and live a life full of darkness and misery. See the enemy is training too. For battle.

Children don't train themselves.
They have to have a trainer.

You can train your child- like the word of God says, or you can go through life believing that your behaviors arent molding theirs. Do not be surprised though when the fruit you receive looks a lot like the tree that it came from.

Training isn't easy.
It's actually easier to not train.
Until you get to the battle.

In the midst of chaotic children, on a Friday night, were mamas training.

In the back of the church, a training session was held.

What are you training your kids for?

Will your baby know how to call upon the name of the Lord? Will they be able to overcome life's challenges? Will they fulfill the calling God has placed on their lives? Will they have peace in their minds? Will they feel loved and show love to others? Will they have joy? Be a good steward of money? respect their elders? What will they do when tragedy hits? Heartbreak?

Because the training for those things is right now!

When I look at these children it grieves my soul to think that they will have battles. In life though, trails and tribulations are inevitable. They will face hardships. But they will be trained up in the word of the Lord and equipped in Jesus name to overcome.

Your kids are being trained.
By you...
Or the influences of the world.
or satan himself.
But believe me, someone is training them.

What you do with your time as a mother or parent now, determines what they are prepared for in the future.

Would you send your kid into a battle without a weapon?

Would you expect them to fight without teaching them how?

Can your babies count on you to be their trainer?

09/06/2024

As a teacher, I guess it's my turn to shed some light on the recent tragedy that struck Georgia.

I can say all of the things everyone has already said.

I feel those same heart-wrenching feelings. 💔

I don't like to focus on the negative.

I refuse to spend my time in my classroom in a constant state of fear.

Going forward, I am going to love my students deeper.

I am going to make it a point to have conversations with my students about their favorite colors and the sports they play.

I am going to look for the kids who are alone on the playground and set out to discover why.

I am going to keep checking in on their well being and making sure their needs are met to the best of my abilities.

I am going to continue to show up everyday with a smile and let every single kid know that I am in their corner.

Could I have prevented this tragedy?
Could anyone?

I don't know.

But how many tragedies have teachers prevented that we don't know about?

How many times has an unloved child suddenly felt cared about?

We have so much power as teachers and rather than letting this dilute us, teachers, I encourage you to let it allow you to stand in the gaps for our kids.

We our difference makers.
We make differences!
Our energy and attitude can create shifts in the atmosphere.

This child had a teacher.
Teachers.

I pray that they did everything possible to make him feel loved and cared about while they had him.

We only get 180 days to make a difference. And I am going to push myself further to make a difference for these kids. I never want to be left questioning if I did enough for any student that crosses my path.

Teachers, Apalachee is going to be ok. How do I know this? Because they're teachers.

So many teachers will put a smile on their faces on Monday morning to make returning to school the best experience possible in the worst circumstances.

Because they're teachers. The kids ALWAYS come first.

I'm praying for Apalachee.

Teaching is becoming a brotherhood.

Aspinwall, Irimie, out of service.
Gone but not forgotten.
Your brothers and sisters will take it from here.

09/04/2024

Sis got in the car tonight and said "I got worship money"

When I went to correct her, to tell her that it is called offering, the Holy Spirit stopped me.

That's exactly what it is.

It's worship money.

Money that you are going to use to worship the Lord.

I can't explain my finances to you because sometimes the "math ain't mathing".

But since I worship God with my money instead of worshipping the money God, my cup never runs dry.

Worship money.

The best way to describe giving money to Jesus.

08/13/2024

When I reach my arms out to my daddy, he lifts me up, holds me, and carries me.

When my Daddy can't carry me anymore, I will know the one who lifts me up on wings like eagles.

Because Daddy pointed me to Abba Father.

08/05/2024

Have you ever been in a situation that hurt so much and naturally it drew you closer to the Lord?

You were relying on him for hope, strength, and comfort.

I am going through one of the most painful and heart wrenching times I have ever faced and as I as I stood in church this morning, during praise and worship, I said, "God, you feel so far away. I feel like I should feel you more now than ever, and I can't find your presence."

I haven't been able to write.

I sing about Gods goodness and the enemy is in my ear - "Is he good? Is he faithful? All this time you have watched your daddy praise the Lord and look at him now".

I cried out to Jesus this morning.

And I said, as I sang, "God I really do need your goodness to run after me. I really need you to chase me down right now, fight til i'm found, leave the 99. I know I don't deserve it and I know I can't earn it God, but I really need you to find me because I'm having a hard time finding you right now".

I taught my kids in kids church this morning and I told them how they have to know who they are in Christ because one day when they're going theough a hard time they will have to stand on what they KNOW to be true and not what they FEEL.

I FEEL broken.
I KNOW I am whole.

I FEEL tested.
I KNOW God is faithful.

I got a text tonight that said my daddy, who is suffering with a terminal illness, went to church today.

Wednesday will be one entire month since he came home from the hospital
on "hospice".

31 beautifully, blissful days that I have gotten to spend with my daddy in his RIGHT mind. He feels more like my daddy now than he has in months.

AND that is how Jesus chased me down. That is how he fought for me. That is how he left the 99. That is how the devil was defeated and it's how I can still sing or the GOODNESS of God.

ALL my life he has been faithful.

Even now.

Even in this time that has been so difficult, and unfair, and uncertain.

Thank you Lord for finding me today.

Through this season of my life, will you keep chasing me? Will you keep fighting for me? I know I can't do this without you. Flood me with your presence.

Jesus, seated at the right hand of our Father, will you pray for me?

Will you pray for my hurting heart and the days to come?

Will you ask God to keep showing up for me?

I'll praise when I feel it.
I'll praise when I don't.

🎵 When I'm at my end, You're just getting started
When I hit a wall, You just walk through
When I face a mountain,
You are the Maker
So it's gotta move
When I'm out of faith and You are still faithful
When I'm at my worst and You are still good
In all of my questions, You are the answer
It all points to You
'Cause You're the God of the breakthrough
When I'm breaking down
You'll be working a way through
When there's no way out
This one thing I know,
You're still on Your throne
So whatever I'm feeling
I've still got a reason to praise 🎶

08/01/2024

I really wanted to look in the sewer for Ninja Turtles today.

I wanted to walk my babies to kindergarten and third grade.

I wanted to see them at lunch.

I wanted to post their first day of school pictures on the same day as my first day.

I wanted to know they were just a hallway away.

Isn't it frustrating when your plans and Gods plans end up being different?

When you know you're in Gods will, he's directing your steps, and leading your decisions, yet it still hurts your heart?

When you truly say, Lord let your will be done and not my own. When you do what's best for your kids even though it's not what's best for you.

I didn't realize as a christian, being in Gods will could also hurt.

I press on.
You will press on.
We will press on.

Because we know that HIS ways are higher than ours.

And even if it hurts, I don't want anything that is not in the will of the Lord.

Will you continue to walk the christian walk when the Lord's will isn't your way? When your mama heart hurts? When you face a change you didn't ask for or want?

It's a testimate of your faithfulness in Jesus. We must remain against all odds. The Lord will give his strength to the weak. He will give his comfort to the broken hearted. He will bring his light into the darkness. But we
must remain.

07/14/2024

Did you go to church this morning?

Could you have gone?

My daddy got to watch his church on TV today. He was so excited. We have had a hard time getting it to broadcast on the TV.

He never missed a church service.

Not Sunday morning, not Sunday night, and not Wednesday night.

He told me after he retired that the only day he needed to know of was Sunday so he could go to church.

Did you go to church?

Could you have gone?

Because one day, you won't be able to go.

We take so much for granted.
Some of us stayed in bed this morning or "had too much to do" to go to church.

Go while you can.

Because the day will come when you can't.

07/12/2024

Inside Out 2 was an excellent movie.

In the movie, the main character Riley, learns that even though she has many different emotions she has a choice in which emotion takes prominence in her life.

Many of the buttons on my control panel right now are labeled "grief".

And sometimes grief lays across the entire control panel and consumes me.

But picking grief up off of the control panel are peace and joy.

How can you be stricken with an emotion such as grief and experience joy and peace?

It's only through Jesus that you can access joy and peace while navigating heartbreaking emotions.

The Bible says, "May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope."
Romans 15:13

"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds"
James 1:2

I'm experiencing heartbreaking grief right now. Yet, i'm experiencing joy and peace through Jesus Christ.

I don't know what you're experiencing and what trials you are facing- but if you will allow Jesus to go through it with you, I promise you he won't let the hard emotions take completely over.

Choosing Jesus is choosing Joy.
The thing the world has wrong is that we all have joy in us. Joy is given by Jesus and without him there is no joy.

Hard times.
Tough emotions.
Grief.
But GOD!
Peace.
Joy.
Ever lasting.

06/30/2024

I was on the way home from the hospital last night, from seeing my dad, and I was having a pity party.

God why?

I serve you diligently.

I pulled in the driveway.

I opened my devotional for the day, desperate to hear from God.

And there lay these two verses.

The rock and the sand.

And the Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, "You can build your house on the rock or you can build your house on the sand, but either way, they both receive a storm.

The rock- rain pours down, the river floods, and a tornado hits.

The sand- the storm rolls in and the waves crash the house.

So what is the difference in the rock and the sand?

If you build your life on the rock- Jesus Christ- you will survive the storms, trials, and problems of life.

If you build your life on the sand- the things of this world, sin, satan- your life will collapse and fall apart.

I don't know what your storm is right now- I don't know what you're going through.

And if you're not going through anything- I hate
to tell you this, but it's only a matter of time.

You need to make the decision that you're going to build your life on the rock BEFORE you find yourself in a storm.

I pulled in the driveway and I was sad. My heart was hurting and my emotions were lying to me.

In the midst of my pain I chose to stand on the rock of Jesus.

It doesn't mean that my storm is going away, or that I instantly don't have any problems.

But what it does mean, is that I will survive. My house is going to remain standing. Im not going to collapse. I'm not going to fall apart.

Listen, the storms of life are coming regardless of what foundation you build on. So, choose the rock.

Because when you're in this storm like i'm in, there's no way but Jesus.

06/03/2024

Why are we waiting until kids in kids ministry get to the sanctuary before they become equipped in the power of the Holy Spirit?

There is a place for coloring and cartoon songs filled with many colors and moving graphics- it's called the nursery.

Do you want to know why your church kids, who have been raised their whole lives in church, leave when they're grown?

When mama no longer makes the decision for them to go to church- and they don't go.

It's because they've grown up
on the milk of the word and they were ready for the meat.

All it takes for this generation is one
person. One person that believes they can handle more. One person that tells them they can and will speak in Heavenly languages. One person to show them how to operate in the laying of hands on the sick and seeing them recover. One person to teach them to worship.

At our church, our kids take communion.

Why?
What if they're not saved?

The Bible says do this in rememberance of me.

It doesn't say, "Do this in rememberance of me if you're saved".

It is a teaching moment that prepares them to go into the sanctuary when they're older and instead of having to learn all of these things, they can immediately take part in it.

Children's ministry was never created for the kids to disaccociate with the church body.

Sunday school actually started because low income families with children who worked in factories were not able to attend school during the week. So they had "school" on Sundays.

Later on, we realized children would better be served with teachings and activities that meet them on their level.

What happened is, we took the word to such a practical and watered down version of the gospel that we have started to lose our children.

They can do more in your kids ministry than you are allowing them to do.

STOP
letting them pray a prayer that rhymes.

When they need to call on the name of the Lord in times of trouble, will they be able to do so?

Can they lay hands on the sick and see them recover?

Do they understand the trinity?

Are the baptized in the Holy Spirit?

Oh ye of little faith.

Give these kids the meat and watch your kids group become church.

I'm not going to miss my Sunday services every week to do kids ministry where we sit around drinking milk and coloring. I get what I need when I'm there too.

No one even wants to serve in kids ministry because they feel like they're missing "church".

Bring the church to your kids.

We have a call to go deeper.
It takes boldness.

The first time I asked my kids to pray and then reveal to me what Jesus had spoken to them, visions he had given them, or to ask for the baptism of the Holy Spirit- I was scared to death.

But you know, I stepped out on faith, and they're already on another level of faith than us- and they responded.

They are capable of so much more.

We have to stop with the mindset that they our the church of tomorrow and get to the place where we allow them to be the church of today.

06/03/2024

I was sitting in prayer this morning, writing.

I communicate with Jesus a lot through writing.

For me it's tangible, and i'm a writer, so it's what works for me.

As I was writing my prayers, some about the church service that day, and some that were much, much, heavier; the Holy Spirit prompted me and said, "It's in the dry place that fire ignites".

Have you ever been in a dry place?
What comes from a dry place?
Dry places have little to no vegetation and no water.

I am in a dry place right now.
Maybe you know what I'm talking about.

There is an area of my life that is not producing what I want it to.

In other areas, there is an abundance of fruit and vegetation. But in this particular area the moisture just keeps getting sucked away.

It's a painful place to be. This dry place.

You pray for the rain.
You pray for the resolution.

It's in the dry place that fire ignites.

The dry leaves and sticks, the unbelievably difficult circumstance you're facing, is what will ignite the fire.

The dry seasons and difficult situations of life are necessary for the fire to be ignited.

“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33

We aren't promised a life without the pain of a dry situation.

But take heart, sister. For Jesus has overcome the world.

This dry place you're facing will soon ignite a fire that will send the rain of Heaven.

The Holy Spirit was telling me today, and I am telling you now, the dry place has a purpose.

It is in the dry place that we find a deeper appreciation for the rain.

In the dry place we depend on other sources to provide for us.

In the dry place we remain steadfast and relinquish control, knowing and trusting that Jesus has a plan.

In the dry place we rely on the roadmap of God and turn our GPS off.
We lean into God and allow him to lead.

Dry places will come.
Ecclesiastes 3 discusses time.
"There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens". Ecclesiastes 3:1

A dry place is just a preparation period before the fire starts burning,

It's necessary.

If you're in a situation, like me, that comes with an indescribable amount of pain, I challenge you to remain.

God has a plan higher than ours.
He knows, even when we don't.

It's in the dry place that fire ignites.

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