Revival here...

Hasten the day, let's rejuvilate the church!

Ministry of Heart

Recently I was met with instruction in love, totally God-appointed and here's how it happened: I was ravished. I reached. I received. Praise the Lord! I was met with unusual challenges this week...thankfully, my brothers and sisters were there to lean on and God in Christ prayed for my poor tent of bodily weariness. I'm so thankful. But, yeah, this ministry of heart is what I'm getting at...encouragement. love. honor. sharing. devotion. That's what's needed. And there's always going to be hurts and needs. I cannot pretend I've got it all together or simply cope because that's stupid, I know I have need. Do you know you do? We as the body need eachother, daily, as long as the day, until Jesus comes. Let's do so.

Thank God for Amy

Amy Carmichael is my heroine! Although I cannot imagine leaving America right now because of all the work I feel needs to be done reaching girls in the city where I live; it does leave me wondering where I'll be when I let God really have His way with me :) Oh, dear! You will be there, my reader, my witness to see God work His work. Here and now, I have really ordinary tasks. Nothing like shaping your attitude in the base things as Amy Carmichael has said herself

"If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work'I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love,"

If I can work at base things with a heart full with love, I know that this yes this is what the Father wants for me, and knowing this He may choose to use me later, how He will, whatever that may be. Be patient little child.

"Utterly Irregular"

This is my generation: "Utterly irregular." This is taken from a beautifully disturbant speech at my graduation. Utter- Irregularity _fitting not to the public standard, yet forever and always in the public eye. Not because of us, but because of Whose Name we bear are we in the spotlight of the world. Marked by difference. We are

• Daily cross-bearers.
• Preachers of peace
• Proclaimers of God's truth
• United in love the world over
• Ceaseless intercessors

And why would we want to be anything else? Obviously this is not for cowards. I wrote in my Bible once that being Christ-like, is anything but cowardice. And I know it is, because I have "died" to that old life I thought was so very important to me. Time and again I died these deaths. Until recently have I learned that all death is swallowed up in victory. That victory is mine and has been won so I might always see this one thing before me - the cross of our Lord.