Juggernaut

Ello all in the great wide world.

This week has been Jam PACKED full of wonderful things!

So in light of these things, I want to also mention…June 10th…seems to be sneaking up on me. I’m not sure where our time went, seems like just yesterday Pastor David was telling me, oh by the way, you’re blogging today. At the same time, I feel like that girl back there had no idea what was ahead of her.She may have actually run for the hills had she known what was going to happen to her world.

So I guess I should explain my title. Juggernaut, is a character in x-men who basically, once started, doesn’t stop and so runs through things and just destroys them.

Hm, how does this apply you may ask? With June 10th rolling around I need to remind myself that I need that kind of momentum, that drive, that…passion.

Instead of coasting past these next couple weeks, I need to dig into the best resource I have for strength. Because if I am being honest with you, and I will be, going hard after Jesus is not easy, and you get tired if you don’t just give all the troubles of the day to God. So if i am to do this challenge God has placed in front of my correctly, I cannot just glide my way in, I need to not only run through with force, but have that force take down strongholds in my way.

Yeah, I have strongholds, things that try to keep me down. We all do but we need to decide what is bigger, our problems? or our God?

It’s easy to become weary in what you do. Pouring out and pouring out may seem like a never ending thing, which…heads up…you’re right-however we can’t just keep all God pours into us to ourselves

So I don’t care about what is in my way to try and slow me down, I need to Go hard after God with every last bit of me because he gave me his all, how can I do any less?

Plus…I will have more to be proud of if I strive after God fully, than if I half do it and just get by.

Am I perfect at this? um…NO. but I wanna challenge myself and you who read this…are you just doing enough to get by? or are you powerhousing your way into your destiny?

 

lots of love

 

Jami

Breathe in

Take a deep breath! Do you smell that?!… Yes.. that my friend, is the scent of spring just around the corner!!!

It’s true there is a sweet sense of expectation for warm bright sunny days.. new growth in shades of green, pink, purple, red, yellow and blue… The melody of birds singing.. and yes even the pitter patter of rain and the crash of thunder in the middle of a storm. With every season comes the beauty in the obvious and even the obscure hidden things.

Coming back from Master’s Commission Conference last week holds a whirl of bright beautiful things for me and for the rest of our team. So many good memories made and words of impact spoken over us. But like I said; there is beauty in the hidden things as well. Just the mere fact that it is a new season can be a hidden beauty. What do I mean by this? I was faced with my past, present and future all at once on our trip. My past in Master’s Commission as a student in Ascend Master’s Commission (Also formerly known as Rocky Mountain Master’s Commission) met with my new role as staff at Beyond Master’s Commission.   A young girl stepping into an unknown world of hundreds of other people who, like herself; newly out of school jumped into a wild and amazing lifestyle change called “DISCIPLESHIP” met a woman of God who, has tasted the bitter and sweet of choosing not to call yourself a disciple of Christ, but live it out when you feel the strength and even when everything in you wants to give up. Although those are points of past and present, the instant my future walked in was the most hidden beauty of all. Seeing Hundreds of people doing what the last three years of my life have been, made me see the importance of not letting go of the past and present beauty in order to take hold of the future. That’s the funny thing! We chase our futures, but why chase them when they aren’t running anywhere? When you realize that your future is God’s and he keeps things a wonderful secret to unfold, you gain an appreciation for where you are in that moment! Your future may not have a shape to the human eye, but it has a shape in God’s hands. That’s hope my friend!

This week our Beyond students brought it!! Chris, Andrea, and Jami preached at our Wednesday night Momentum service and they all had the power of Holy Spirit moving through their words! God’s presence was so thick in the place as they allowed God to use them! I couldn’t be more proud of them! Looking at them from where I sat, I didn’t see Master’s students in training… I saw children of God as mouth pieces for their Father. That’s no hidden beauty, it was quite openly on display!!! Obedient and willing servants!

Isaiah 61:11

The Sovereign LORD will show his justice to the nations of the world.
Everyone will praise him!
His righteousness will be like a garden in early spring,
with plants springing up everywhere.

God is showing his justice to the nations, through obedient and willing servants. I am seeing everything not through rose colored glasses, but through the roses he plants around me! Spring is on it’s way, but the roses are already here! His beauty is blooming.. do you see it? Take a deep breath! Do you smell that?! Yes… That my friend is the scent of God’s garden in early spring!!!