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Grab A Hold of the True YOU: An Embassy of God's Presence

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YOU are an Ambassador of the Kingdom of God in your classroom, school, & community.   Jesus is inviting you to hear His voice, His ideas, His leading even while you're planning lessons, teaching, and managing your classroom. You're the same person at church as you are in your public, private, or your home school classroom. The same Holy Spirit who lives inside of you when you're at home, out shopping, or pumping gas-- goes with you to school and He's wanting to partner with you because you are an Ambassador of Heaven! Within us is the ability to release the power of God in our classrooms. It all starts with knowing who we really are as sons and daughters of God. We’ve been designed for such a time as this to rewrite the face of education and leave behind a legacy that will have lasting fruit. So let's start by tranforming our thoughts about ourselves. The Kingdom Educator engages with the truth of God's word  and believes it with great faith.  Our Kingdom E
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Surrendering, Again, to God's Faithful Love

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Fully Devoted: Surrendering in seasons of sacrifice  to God's Faithful Love. Sometimes when life get's hard we need to surrender our heart's intentions again... to His Faithful Love. We can recognize God is fully devoted to us, that Jesus paid the bill with His precious blood, that we're temples of the Holy Spirit... but if we're not fully surrendered to letting Him heal the hurting places as we go through challenging seasons we can lose touch with His love. He wants to touch our hearts, not just our minds. The past couple of months I've been reflecting on God's faithfulness to me through one of the most accelerated seasons of growth I've ever been thrust into. In one year's time I become a first time wife and automatic bonus mom to six children (then 2nd thru 6th grade), after leaving everything familiar to move to western Kansas... and one week after our first anniversary I birthed our daughter! Talk about HUGE CHANGES. That's saying nothing of
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Dreaming with the What ifs of God

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Dreaming With the What if's of God:  Believing God's promises when the odds are stacking up   God,  What if you're better than I've thought, better than I've drempt all along?  What if all my disapointments, my tears, and my anguish disappeared when I woke up to the reality of your overwhelming goodness?  What if you're incredibly kind and patient and all this time you've been aligning a "royal-settup" that will literally blow my mind and grab the depths of my heart? I'm banking on the wild outcome-- a God outcome.  I'm dreaming with the What if's of God. I'm believing that my "YES!" to hope's invitation will result in a bigger breakthrough than I've ever imagined. And in the waiting-- this in-between space-- of hearing and knowing the truth,             and not seeing any possibility of that outcome-- the place where my faith has to engage, or I fall of the hope train... In this space, I am forging new depths ba
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Childlike Encounters

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 This time of year is filled with wonder, especially when seen through the eyes of a small child.  This Christmas season has begun with a sense of wonder as I've been gifted the insights of my 5 year old daughter.  She's   really been getting into the Christmas carols. Her yearning to remember the words to songs I've sung for four decades, as well as her eagernes to point out every lit Nativity as we drive around town, causes my own heart to return to the wonder of our Savior's birth. The awe of God becoming man and dwelling among "us" so we might know Him and learn the ways of the Kingdom is nothing short of a miracle. Even talking about the real story of St. Nick and how he loved Jesus so much that he wanted to gift those left fortunate, stirs my own heart to give with a renewed expectation that God will show up in a special way for each person I'm wanting to bless. Why not stop to ponder the miracle that made a way for us to receive fullness of life? We
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Open Up & Let the Light In!

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God of the Breakthrough Is At Hand.   Are you seeing His Light Breaking Through?  It's time to partner with Friend Holy Spirit to Open the Windows.  Not only has "Let The Light In" by Cody Carnes been on my daughter's top two favorite songlist for the past 2 weeks, so we've been jamming to it at least 2x a day, but it's also been coming to the forefront of my mind each day. Cool thing: It's teaching me the power of Our Great Light.  Let The Light In Lyrics: It's time for the sleeper to wake. It's time for the old winds to change It's hear the Spirit say, "It's time" It's time for the dead man to rise It's time for the great light to shine I hear the Spirit say, "It's time" Fling wide, you heavenly gates Let the King of glory in (x2) Come ride on Your people's praise Let the King of glory in (x2) I'm a full proponant of listening to the Holy Spirit because the Word says that when "he will guide yo
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You Belong: Meditations from Psalm 23

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 Yes, You Heard Correctly: YOU BELONG! The past few weeks I've been drawn to Psalm 23. I've been asking the Holy Spirit why I've been drawn to this passage of scripture and hear Him saying, "I'm unpacking treasures of my truth." So I've responded with: "Show me the treasures!" So here we are on this journey of unpacking some of the treasures packed in Psalm 23.  These truth-gifts all hinge on WHO God is to us and for us, as believers in Jesus. WHO He is, calls us into a place of BELONGING because He loves us and wants us to wake up to the full reality that we're His sons and daughters. In Psalm 23 God is our Best Friend, Shepherd, Lover, Restorer, Strength, Peace, Comfort, Anointing, and the One who satisfies our souls. WHO God is to us becomes clearer as we commune with friend Holy Spirit, whom Jesus sent to be our guide (Luke 24:49).  I am always your best friend and your shephered.  The Lord is my best friend and my shepherd.  I always hav
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