This School Rocks

Yea, yea, I know....I'm biased....but it's still true; this school rocks. This first year class of 7 is a complete pleasure to teach and lead. Thank you FSoM! I am completely proud to be your spiritual father. Pastor Randy Dean

Repentance in it's purest form

I have been waiting all of my 24 years of not being an overcomer in my christian walk to hear a message on repentance that would require change! To repent beyond an overcoming lifestyle.

I used to say, " if I do not hear a minister stand up and cry for repentance I do not know what I will do" I did not know what the message was but I knew desperately I needed it!

I started getting thrown into treatment at a very young age 12 or 13 years old. I remember thinking if I need to stop using just to be a "good girl" it's not enough.

I've in some ways carried that thought process into my christian walk.

This principle of repenting to the fullfillment of not just an overcoming lifesyle for myself and others but repenting all the way to recieve the full destiny and see the destiny of others come to pass as we pull the whole deal of The Kingdom of Heaven to this earth!

In prayer before service we were crying out for the real deal God we want the real thing here God "what is it going to take" we want your fire to fall like never before in history God. We want the real drink served here. Give us new wine skins for the new wine God. Touch your people in this place...show us how you want us to pray God...

Our prayers were answered, "Pastor Randy is moving into incredible boldness and is so incredibly transparent and real, we love him!" We will stand behind him in prayer!

As I was saying our prayers were answered, we have a new revelation that the Holy Spirit can now use to direct us in prayer, to repent into what God has for this place and the people in this place to never stop repenting we are going all the way with you God, there is no other!!!

Iv'e heard it said before to live a life of victory you need to live a life of repentance. If your mind like mine was defining repentance just to be a good girl or a good boy, you know then that just was not enough. Then Iv'e heard it said also to repent is to change your mind and go another direction but if your mind is not changed about repentance and you do not get the revelation of repenting into your destiny, your mind will never be changed to go another direction. Wow!

How incredibly wonderful is the word of God, our Father, the work of Jesus Christ, the precious Holy Spirit and the manifestation of the Sons of God!!!

Thoughts about Daddy God

So this weekend I went home to say goodbye to my dad as he left for a Job with the government and not knowing how long he'd be gone, but knowing that the next time I'd be seeing him is at my wedding in November.

But one thing that we did was all of us at his goodbye party went around to say one thing that we appreciated about him. We don't have to wait for someone to die or for someone to leave in order for us to tell them how we feel about them. In fact we should be doing this regularily as the body of Christ. We all said differnt things, some said how they appreciated how my dad would drop everything and selflessly go to help with all things. Others were thankful for the ways that he encouraged those around him. Some who weren't family, were blessed by how he'd raised his children to be people of God.

And as I was in worship this morning I was thinking about the very same thing with our Daddy God. There are things I so appreciate about my Daddy in Heaven.

Here are some of those:

I appreciate that He doesn't rule us with an iron fist or with a sword, but He rules over us with love.

I appreciate how He picks me up time after time, when I fall, or am in need of His grace

I love how He loves me with out condition, or without need, he just does.

I love that He provides for my every need.

I love that He gives of himself without us deserving any of His love, but still He gives it.

I appreciate how He speaks to me, showing me time and time again that He loves me.

I love the example that He sets for us in His son Jesus. The example of what a good husband, father, mother, and child looks like.

I am eternally grateful for how He sent Jesus to die so that I might live, and share His kingdom with others.

I have so much to be thankful for. Should there be a limit to our thankfulness?
I think about the message we heard at church about the 10th leper who returned to show his thankfulness to Jesus. Yes Jesus had sent the 10 away to show themselves to the preist. but only one returned to the True High Preist to give the thank offering to a God who deserved his thankfulness.

Lord may our lives be like this leper, who having nothing, yet gained everything, only to lay it down again at the The Preist's feet. I want to be that Human tithe, I want to be the life expended for the Kingdom's expansion. Thank you Lord for revelation, In Jesus' Holy Name!