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Are Engaged.

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I waste my time TRYING…
to be creative, conjuring up design ideas for projects
to please the Lord
to find the people God wants in my life
to get words for people
to balance my schedule
to stay in touch with people
to know which people to cut out of my life
to reach out and touch people around me… ‘for Christ!’ (just [...]

Brett’s on his way to pick me up to go out and meet up with some people in Tulsa.

Here’s what’s on my mind (not related to tonight’s activities):

I want to be great…
I want to know things.
I want to hear the voice of the Lord well.
I want to know God, experience the Holy Spirit and follow [...]

Spiders have been attacking me. They’ve been finding corners in my mind and weaving little webs of lies and deception, trying to destroy my trust in people and my knowledge of my identity in Christ. Today I had coffee with Brett, one of my best friends that the Lord has me in close community with, [...]

I need you so bad. I’m longing for you so badly I feel sick to my stomach. It’s really hard to find you the way I’m used to finding you right now. Sometimes these times make me question what I’m looking for… Am I looking the right way? Am I going to the right places? [...]

I feel like I’m being called to the small things again. I’m definitely at an intersection. All red lights for now, it seems like. There are a lot of accidents that happen at intersections. Lots of cops (religious spirits) trying to direct traffic. I’m here to break the rules. If religious rules were meant to [...]

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I’ve been pushing through something. I’ve experienced a lot of resistance from the Enemy lately. He’ll creep into my dreams and whisper in my ear when I’m focusing my mind on the Lord. He’ll distract and deceive his way into my thoughts and try to knock me off alignment with Jesus. Even now, I feel [...]

There’s been a shift in seasons recently. Quick recap of the past year :

October : The Lord takes me into the desert via a painful, abrupt, hi-jacking style of purging… See post : ‘The Desert’ for details. I watch daily at His doors, and He is faithful to be All Sufficient One in my loneliness.

November : [...]

this is a sketch of the next screenprint I’m making. The dark type is stuff the Lord said to me, and the light type is made up of song lyrics that directly spoke to me over the past year. The lighter refers to the fire I found myself in a year ago tomorrow. Even though [...]