Saturday, March 29, 2008

So So Busy...

We have been so busy lately I have not had a chance to blog. And today is no different! Hopefully I will have some time to myself and I will get to bring you all up to date soon. We have a lot of things that have changed or are changing in our lives right now and I can't wait to share them with all of you. Talk to you soon.

Sunday, March 9, 2008

Sick Children!

Our family has been completely attacked this year as far as sickness. I myself have been fortunate as far as staying well. I truly think that as mothers we just know that we are unable to get sick. Who would clean up the messes and nurse the family back to health. Babies want their mothers regardless of what age they are when they are not feeling well. And husbands try hard but just don't have what it takes to walk in mommy shoes! So with that being said I am going to give you a little insight into what I attribute all of this illness to.



Of course, I know that I have 4 children and with that comes germs, cough, cold, flu, etc. But does it have too? Absolutely not! In the past year Mike and I have truly pressed into the Lord hard and whole heatedly. Every single time that we have major breakthrough in the kingdom, our family will literally be attacked in some way the very next day. For example: 1 week ago Mike and I went to our once a month leaders meeting for our core groups that we lead. It was amazing! There was a turn out of about 50 leaders. They broke us up into 4 groups. You remained in the room that they assigned you and there was 4 groups of very powerful prophetic people that came around to each group to pray and prophesied over us. To make a long story short, it was the most amazing thing that I have ever gone through. I have never had so many good words that hit right on track. It was powerful and revealing of many things that we have been looking for confirmation on. The very next day, I had the craziest off the wall day. It started out by going into work to find that I have a new boss. A new boss that is completely power hungry and just a down right mean person. My old boss still works there and we ultimately have to report to him, but he has appointed this man to over see our department. Then in the middle of the day I went to take our region chiefs car to have new tires put on it. I was so glad to get out of the office. That is until I was pulled over in a marked state vehicle and given a speeding ticket. Now if I really would have been speeding this would have been exactly what I deserved, BUT, I was doing 59 in a 55. When the officer was giving me the ticket he used the foulest language I have ever heard and proceeded to tell me what a piece of S#$@ state workers are. You can bet I will be fighting that ticket! Then I get a strange phone call from my ex-husbands girlfriend. Keep in mind we NEVER hear from this guy let alone his girlfriend. She begins to tell me how they are going to the authorities because I have forged his name on court papers causing him to miss court dates and he is now going to jail and child support services has intercepted his tax refund. (This was actually a brighter part of my day to find out that he is finally going to have to pay up and be held accountable for something!) Then of course to end my day I end up with half of my children coming down with illnesses. My thoughts about all of this..........Something really got the enemies attention the night before at our leaders meeting. Now I may be rambling on so I am going to sum it real quick because the kids want my attention.

1.) I absolutely refuse to believe or accept that because I have a large family, we will catch every sickness that we cross paths with. My God is bigger than that! We have decided that from here on out we will battle this head on. I had words with the devil earlier today and made sure to remind him that he is powerless here. We have the authority to say "No". We will be extra conscience of every word that we speak. We will speak only life and never death. When people try and tell us that we will just have to accept that fact that our family is large and therefore will battle sickness a lot, we will take that opportunity to teach the speakings of life and death and how much the spoken word is really able to effect our lives and what that means to us and our God.

2.) Mike and I feel that we are on the right track to our destinies. We truly believe that every time that the devil attacks us or our family that it is one more confirmation that we must be doing something right. He reveals himself so openly because it is a last resort during the time when he is so desperate because he is losing every little piece of us that he thought he had.

3.) We believe that Jesus shed his blood for us. His blood provides us with many things and one of those things is to be free from sickness and pain. We have always prayed for our children when they are sick and we have taught them to pray for healing and protection. But we have decided to shift our prayers. We give thanks for good health. We pray for the blood to cover us and shield us from viruses and germs. We will no longer accept the lie that our family will be sick a lot because there are a lot of us. We say "NO"! We will guard ourselves and our children from those who speak negatively.

To Be Continued....................