New Season #1

So much going on lately it seems hard to back track and try to refollow the trail enough to report!  I'll do my best to string the highlights together.  

It's all for the glory of Jesus Christ!.....

Well, a few weeks ago I was reading one night and I felt like the Lord laid something on my heart. 

 That is was time to begin GOING TO the kids house to meet instead of bringing them to our house each week.  

Of course, when God tells you something like that (at least for me!)  I still roll it around in my reasoning a bit before just accepting it and responding.  One day I'll hopefully learn this really slows the process down! ha

So I was thinking, "Hmm, ok Lord, what does THAT look like and how does THAT happen?!"

I had a lot of excitement about it but some reservations too.  What would MY family, husband think about this major change?  What would the kids think?  How in the world would these parents ever agree to bringing the chaos into their home!?"....these were just a few.  As I just typed those reservations, I realized they are mostly based on what others would think.   That kind of thinking isn't going to get far in moving forward in faith! hmm

So, about 10 minutes later I call Chris saying, "Ok, now I know I'm famous for crazy ideas, but just listen to me and then brainstorm with me ok?!"  I shared with him and he was silent.  I was like, "Uh oh..."  He goes, "Julz, God's been telling ME the SAME THING!"  I don't know what you call that... but I call it confirmation!

Green light city.  Just need to know it was God and not me and I'm all in!

Just in case that wasn't enough confirmation, I finally got the nerve up to call the mom about the idea.  "Hey how do you feel about us (min of 20 people) crashing your house every Thursday for awhile?"  Yeah, I was a bit nervous but I knew I had to try!

She seriously says, "BRING IT!"  

And that's how His newest church began. 

We've now had 2 weeks meeting in their home.  The nights have included lots of food (sent by workers that we are praying like crazy for and He is bringing in all on His own!) , lots of football, bball, snowball/slush/football this week, giving Him PRAISE and bragging all about Him- rapstyle, countless testimonies of God sightings in each of our lives and so much more.

I'm so glad to know that He doesn't get tired of me.  Lately, I'm bombarding Him with questions.  Several times a day, I can sense Him saying, "Oh little one, ONE step at a time.  I'm with you.  Just chill!"  Ok, the chill part was totally me but it makes me laugh.

Already we've outgrown this apartment.  Last night we had 30+.  Good problem huh?!  

As I was driving home last night pretty high, I told Him, "That was the best church service I've ever been to! I wish everyone could experience that!"  I felt like He said, "I've got pockets of this going on all over the place!  Enjoy the one you're in."  

I'm going to do my best to journal this journey. 

Late last night, my husband and I were sitting at the counter kinda bleary eyed, hungry and shoving food in our mouths (there were so many people we weren't sure the food would be enough!  and yes we prayed for Him to multiply it!!!)  All of the sudden we both just started praising and thanking Him for what He was doing.  The coolest part of our prayer time was the sense that HIS PRESENCE was still AT THE APARTMENT accomplishing things we could never.  

Oh Lord, invade the dark places!  We invite your Holy Spirit to love, comfort, encourage, tear down, rebuild, and basically ruin us for anything less than a life consumed with passionately following Your lead.