Hello all!  I know I haven’t blogged for a while.  God has had me on a little “retreat” with him and I.  A little trip, so to speak 🙂  Actually, I am in the process of writing a book that He had been prompting me to writing for several years and  I finally  decided to become obedient (which hasn’t been the easiest road if I have to admit) and I have been engrossed in the trip that He and I have been on………and oh, what a trip it is starting out to be!

To give you a little taste, it hasn’t always been a beautiful, smooth ride so far on our “trip”….however, life changing already……that’s how you know it’s a God-trip!…it is a book about a year or so in my life about God dealing with my heart and some heart issues…… heart issues……you know, the deep stuff.. the HARD issues…. and how transformation continuously takes place in our walk with HIM or it should….walking out our salvation with fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12)….inwardly first and it flows outwardly……. God concerns Himself with our heart and what is in there………..more than I believe we realize at times.  The heart is mentioned many times throughout the Word……..depending of course which translation is used…….heart is found hundreds of times throughout the scriptures….however the interesting part is that God is very concerned what is inside of our hearts, knows what is inside of our hearts, wants to transforms what is inside of our hearts to become more like His son in attitude and that starts in our hearts and not in our outward appearance.  That’s why His Word even states that murder starts in the heart even if we hate our brother…(1st John 3:15)….it’s a heart attitude…….that why adultery starts in our hearts when we look in lust with our eyes…(Matthew 5:28) ……..it’s a heart attitude……and our actions reflect what in inside our hearts and our heart attitudes.    “For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks”……..Luke 6:45

In other words, it starts in our hearts…..it protrudes from our hearts.  So, I am on yet another journey.  I have aways been able to relate to Jesus when he seemed angry with the Pharisees when their outward appearance seemed so right and they knew the laws and did the “right” things yet they didn’t have the greater things right like agape love, mercy, grace and their hearts right.  I also got angry because of those attitudes…..  I want my heart right.

Revival?  I am one of those that will say I don’t think we need another revival.  Why?  Because we go to one.  We get all charged up.  Kind of like a spiritual drug.  Sorry…..lack of better word, maybe??  But I have been there.  And then the high goes down.  The charge goes down.   We don’t need another revival.  We need Jesus and we need the simple revelation of what He has done on the cross for us to penetrate so deeply in our hearts and to ask Him to change our hearts where ever HE thinks needs changing today and then we need to cooperate with Him……working out our salvation…….with His grace and help……He knows what we need best, where we are at, what needs to be addressed, where His grace is resting upon us, what is on the road ahead, hmmmmmmm

so resting in His gift of the cross, His finished work, asking Him to change us and what He wants us to work on and allow Him to do it (because we can’t do it on our own) so we are made further into His image and simply be spreading His love and the simple message of His cross……to make other disciples?

could it be that simple ????