Been wayyyyy to long!
04 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
Sorry Blog world!!!! I know its been a very long time since I’ve updated my blog, and for that I am extremely sorry!!!!!
My life has been full and extremely busy the past few months. To update you real quick on whats going on in my life, I will make this quick.
After resigning at the Firehouse in late September, I took a few months off (no work.. no nothing..). Just me and the beach! Haha just kidding! Around late November, I took a part-time job working at a church daycare in the afternoons. Working only a couple of hours a day was a good transition back into the working world. Just before Christmas, the daycare offered me a fulltime position working in the 3-4 year old room, and I accepted. Now to be completely honest with all of you, I had been extremely angry with where I was at. I went from working at a fulltime prayer ministry, to putting kids in time-outs, and walking them to the bathroom so they could “potty!” I had many long conversations with the Father about where He was/is taking me, and why.
The more that I work at this daycare, the more my heart is tenderized towards the Father. Now mind you, I didn’t see it this way for quite some time because I chose not too, but that changed (Thank God!!!). Its is amazing to see the parallels between our spiritual life and children. When I get to work, I sign in and walk into our classroom, and I’m instantly met with “Jo!, look what I built” or a “I missed you!” … and one morning as I was receiving my morning greetings, I began to think about how each morning when we wake up, the Father is looking for His morning greeting as well. We are His children and how He looks forward to each glance from us.
I am working Monday thru Friday and enjoy my weekends with family and friends. Now seasons come and seasons go, and who knows how long I will be at the daycare or if God will plant me somewhere else. In the meant time, I am learning to be patient with Him, and with myself as well. Trusting Him through the seasons is hard, but those days of transitioning between seasons is where faith comes into play. Its hard, but so rewarding. We know that He leads perfectly!!!!
As I begin to update my blog more, I’m sure that you will see quite a few more parallels from my workplace to our spiritual lifestyles. We can learn a lot by watching children. God, give us faith like a child!
Rock of Ages
12 Dec 2010 Leave a Comment
This is going to be a shorter post but I just had this on my mind. There are many names of the Father found throughout the Word, but one that He is most referred too by is the Rock of Ages. In the book of Isaiah and book of Psalms talks about Him being the Rock in our life. For example, when circumstances in our lives seem unbearable and we get that feeling deep within your gut of complete hopelessness and it seems like nothing will ever make it better, we turn to the Rock. The One of whom is steadfast and never changing. His promises are always Yes and Amen. Rocks are most typically known for there extreme durability and are also used in the laying of foundations of buildings, ranging from small houses, all the way to some of the tallest skyscrapers. I give this as an example because the Father wants and desires us to allow Him to be the foundation of our lives. Unshakable, unmoveable, this is who He is… throughout the years..He is never changing ..He is the constant. He is the Rock of Ages!
Unashamed – the Movement
08 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
Jerran and I in the mosh pit of the Lecrae concert!!!! It was so so SO AWESOME!
1-1-six clique : For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. Romans 1:16
Trees of Righteousness
08 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
| I was reading from Bob Jone’s website, a word that the Lord gave him, and it really stuck out to me. The Lord is planting us as trees of righteousness, and I pray that this will bless you as much as it blessed me.
Recently the Lord showed me great trees that touched heaven in their time. The Lord cut them down and made pulpwood out of them. Then they were put into press and made into scrolls. The Bible is their testimony. They were dread champions in their times; they championed the cause for the Lord. They left a great inheritance for us because without us they couldn’t be made perfect (Hebrews 11:39-40) Amp The Holy Spirit is calling for those who would champion His cause now to grow up and touch heaven and champion His cause in their lifetime. These are the dread champions that will stand up against the enemy like these mighty champions of the past did in their time. They left us a legacy! Now let us take up our cross and follow Him beginning where these dread champions left off. (Psalm 12:1) Amp
HELP, LORD! For principled and godly people are here no more; faithfulness and the faithful vanish from among the sons of men.
Their lives are now scrolls written in the word of God for our instructions. The Lord is raising up other dread champions to champion his cause like David. He was a dread champion. (Ps 89:19&20) Amp July 3, 1984 the Lord visited me for half an hour. He asked me to pray scripture to Him and ask for three things. The Lord said He would answer them in that order. I believe that we have already seen the Lord answer the first two things that I had prayed for. Now we are getting ready for the third answer to take place. |
When David Captured Jerusalem: Taking Our Land Back For Him
07 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
One of the great errors of the Church is to base its faith and standards by yesterday’s achievements. Many promises must be fulfilled before Jesus returns. The Bible tells us that the Church will experience not only “perilous times” in the last days (see 2 Timothy 3:1, KJV), but seasons of renewal and restoration (see Acts 3:21).
Consequently, in the midst of worldwide conflicts, the Kingdom of God on earth will continually be restored and renewed until it is conformed to the Kingdom of God in Heaven! Plan on seeing new harvests and expressions of God’s glory and power. We should expect to see wonders that our fathers did not see (see Acts 2:19–21). Yes, and let us also trust that the promises we fail to possess, our children will walk in.
Don’t Be Conditioned By the Past!
We can find encouragement and guidance once again in the life of King David. He was born into a time similar to ours. The Hebrews were in the Promised Land, but they shared the land with unconquered enemies. When David became king, he knew that God had promised more for Israel than the Jews had attained. In particular was the fact that the Jebusites still occupied the area now known as Jerusalem. Now if David measured himself by the success of his predecessors, he never would have contemplated an attack against the Jebusites. The Jebusites were a fierce mountain people and, in spite of being on the list of nations to be dispossessed by Israel, they had never been conquered.
Think of it: Israel’s greatest heroes from Joshua to the Judges had tried and failed to conquer the Jebusites. Thus, the Jebusites were contemptuous when they heard of David’s plan to possess their chief city, Jebus (Jerusalem). They mocked Israel’s young king, saying, “You shall not come in here, but the blind and lame will turn you away” (2 Samuel 5:6).
There are two lessons here. First, for everyone who desires to see the awesome promises of God fulfilled, the Lord is saying to us all, Don’t be conditioned by the past! Just because you have not seen the manifest power of God over your church or city or nation – God can change everything overnight.
The second lesson is this: It probably will not be the devil himself who comes out to defeat us; rather, we must guard against the misguided advice of unbelieving Christians. Remember, the taunt of the Jebusites was that the “blind and lame shall turn you away.” We may stand firm in faith against the spiritual hosts of wickedness only to be defeated by the spiritually “blind and lame” sitting next to us in church.
Who are the “blind?” Put simply, they are the ones who do not see the vision you see. They are blind to the faith-future God has put in your heart. We cannot let people who do not see our visions become our counselors. Beware of becoming sympathetic toward the spiritually blind. A little leaven of their unbelief can undermine your faith in a time of battle.
Along with the spiritually blind are the emotionally “lame.” These are people who have stumbled over something (or someone) in the past. They no longer walk stride for stride with Christ. Beware of sharing your dreams with cynics. If we heed the warnings of the “lame,” it will only be a matter of time before their excuses will deplete our strength; we, too, will become overly cautious and suspicious.
Although we need counsel from other Christians, and we must remain forgiving and kind toward those in opposition, we cannot allow the words of the spiritually blind and the emotionally lame to guide us.
The Word is God
In our world, our real enemies are not people, but the spiritual forces of evil influencing our communities. And let us remember: If we are suffering from being lame or blind, Jesus can heal us. But the fact is, like those Jebusites, satan has watched the failures of many Christians before us. One can sense the devil’s scorn as pastors and intercessors pray for citywide or national revival. The devil’s taunts are not without substance for – generally speaking – our spiritual forebears did not succeed in dislodging the strongholds of wickedness from their cities. History is indeed on the adversary’s side.
But God has given us His unalterable, immutable Word. He promises:
For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay. Behold, as for the proud one, his soul is not right within him; but the righteous will live by his faith. Habakkuk 2:3-4
To “live by faith” is to believe God until the vision He gave comes to pass. David believed God, and in spite of history being on the side of the Jebusites, we read: “Nevertheless, David captured the stronghold of Zion” (2 Samuel 5:7).
There was something in David from his early years that urged him toward the goal of victory over the Jebusites. In fact, Scripture tells us that when David was still just a youth, after he killed Goliath, he took the “Philistine’s head and brought it to Jerusalem” (1 Samuel 17:54). Remember, at that time Jerusalem was called Jebus and was occupied by the Jebusites. It was as though he were saying, “Okay, I’m just a young buck, but I’ve conquered this Philistine giant. Remember me, I will be back.” Fewer than twenty years later David returned, now as king of Israel. As he had conquered Goliath, so he conquered the stronghold of the Jebusites and it was renamed the “City of David,” though it soon became known as Jerusalem.
You see, this is not about the fulfillment of our lives but the fulfillment of God’s Word. God’s Word cannot return to Him void without fulfilling the purpose for which He spoke it. When King David heard the taunts of the Jebusites, he did not draw back in unbelief; neither was his faith crushed because of his ancestors’ failures. Instead – and this is important – David interpreted the battle in light of the promises of God. At stake was the integrity of the Lord’s personal promise to Abraham and to his seed: “Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies” (Genesis 22:17). While the enemy may have had history on its side, David had the unalterable Word of God on his side!
The Influence of God in Our Communities
It is the heritage of Abraham’s spiritual offspring to bring the prevailing influence of God into their communities and, through Christ, possess cities. That is not my word or yours, but the promise of God Almighty! He said it and He will fulfill it. His people shall possess the gates of their enemies. It is a reproach to us that the devil wants our cities more than the Church does! David’s desire for Jerusalem was a godly desire that came to him from Christ, for what outwardly was to become David’s city was soon to become the city of God.
As David simply believed God’s promises, so also must we. The Lord has sworn that “nations will come to [our] light” (Isaiah 60:3). Whom shall we believe? Shall we take counsel from the blind if they cannot see the potential we see? Let us take God at His Word. Let me state this again: Jesus Himself assures us that “All things are possible to him who believes” (Mark 9:23). Do you believe? Or are you just a nice unbeliever who goes to church?
Beloved, if we fail, it is no great shame. We simply join the ranks of the spiritual heroes who went before us and “died in faith, without receiving the promises” (Hebrews 11:13). In truth, it is better to die in faith than to live in doubt. But consider: What if we succeed? What if, through the process of believing God, He imparts to us Christ’s perseverance and His character, and in so doing we find God helping us turn our land back to Him?
Lord, You have promised that nations shall come to our light. Forgive me for wavering in unbelief and from the conditioning of yesterday’s failures or attainments! I believe that You have prepared our nation for great things. We will follow Your promise to dislodge our enemies, even as David conquered the great city that would bear the name Jerusalem! In Jesus’ name, Amen.
Francis Frangipane
Ministries of Francis Frangipane
Here We Are God!!!! We are hungry for more of You!!!!!
05 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
Release the Fullness of Your Spirit!!!
You Are For Me- Kari Jobe
03 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
Kari Jobe is an extremely anointed singer. This song has ministered to my heart the past couple weeks and I know that it will minister to whomever listens. Be blessed.
Whom have I?
18 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
Psalm 73:25-26
25 Whom have I in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
26 My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 42 … I find my rest in You!
12 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
Psalm 42
1As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
2My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
3My tears have been my meat day and night, while they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?
4When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
5Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
6O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar.
7Deep calleth unto deep at the noise of thy waterspouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.
8Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the day time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.
9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
10As with a sword in my bones, mine enemies reproach me; while they say daily unto me, Where is thy God?
11Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.
Random Blessing!
11 Oct 2010 Leave a Comment
While at Lifelight 2010, Jerran and I went into the Souled Out stages prayer room. While in there, we met a really awesome and amazing guy names Brian. Brian is an artist and gave me and Jerran this painting. Its 3ft. by 4ft. and its amazing!
Jerran and I at Lifelight 2010. Second year that I did not work for Lifelight, but the best one ever!!! God has truly blessed me with an amazing boyfriend whose passion is to see Jesus recieve all the glory!
