Dying to Live

    In the loudness of life's trials, His voice still speaks. It's our job to make the effort to listen for it. It comes to us in the exact moment He intends. This week He spoke to me while I was sitting watching my kids play. All around me was noise from children playing, and the heavy traffic during this part of the day. But somehow that still, small voice rang louder than anything else. He spoke my heart a passage from Psalm 24.      Lift up your heads, O ye gates; and be ye lift up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.- Psalm 24:7     It really baffled me because for one, it was said as it's written in the King James Version and I have never owned this version of a bible, and two I didn't understand the Lord's intent on speaking this to me. So this week I continued to pray and meditate upon this passage and obviously read it in context. It really took my a few days to fully grasp why He spoke this to me, but it's becoming more and m

  I really don't know where to begin other than the absolute truth; Trials are hard but God is good!  This season has made every worship song I've ever known come alive. The more we pour out, the more we are filled. In every season, I have a reason to worship. I surrender all. You give and take away, yet I still choose to say blessed be Your name. Great are You Lord. He is my hope and stay. You are my deliverer. Never once did we ever walk alone. It is well with my soul. The context of these songs that I have sung over and over again, are so raw and real in this season. This season has been pure desert-walking. I would maybe even go so far as to call it our own personal Exodus. We are still walking in the desert, but you know the beautiful thing about desert walking? He is here.   The funny thing about these desert places is the growth you find here. We have battles coming at us from multiple angles. It seems like everywhere we look there are giants surrounding us. But we h