The Fool In The Pool

I just love being in the HOUSE of The LORD!!!!  Today was an awesome time!  I was blessed and challenged!  I also found out who I was...but I will get to that later =)

The pastor talked this morning about how deep we go with God.  Sometimes we just get ankle deep in the Living Water, while other times we go deeper.  I  love the analogy of water.  The water moves, like The Holy Spirit, the water is refreshing like God The Father, on a hot summer day the water is inviting, like JESUS! 

Think about swimming with the Lord.  Going with the flow of the water.  Just being lead to go where He goes!!!  The beauty of the LIVING WATER is, you cannot get too deep!  There is always deeper water and Daddy God is always right there to make sure you don't drown! 

Picture this:  If you are a woman you will be able to relate to this!  You are at the pool.  You washed AND fixed your hair this morning and all you came to do is lay out on your raft!  You do not, I repeat, do NOT want to get your hair wet!!!  As you slip into the shallow end, preparing to mount your raft.....there he is!  It is usually a kid or a middle aged man trying to BE a kid!  Either way, every pool, ocean, and lake has one, they are THE FOOL IN THE POOL!!!  They are having fun, splashing around, jumping in doing cannonballs and jack-knifes!!!  They do not pay attention to you OR your hair!  They have come for the sole purpose of enjoying the water and all it has to offer!  Just as you attempt to mount your raft you hear the unmistakable sound of WoooHoooo followed by the wave of water that saturates your entire head of hair!!!

Now that you have that picture, and maybe the flashbacks!  Ask yourself this question....Who is having more fun??  Who is not allowing anyone else to ruin their good time???  Who is receiving all the benefits of the water?  Yep, that would the the FOOL IN THE POOL!!! 

Now, lets relate this back to the Living Water.  Do you just wade in enough to cool off?  Maybe you go in and swim for a little while, but your trips to the pool are few and far between.  For years I just sat on the bank!  I was saved and had all access to the entire pool, but for whatever reason, I didn't take advantage of it!  Then as I got closer to God, I would go in the pool and even splash around for a bit, but I still wasn't enjoying it like I should.  I think part of me thought that I didn't deserve all access.  The enemy deceives us into thinking this way!  That is why it is so important to KNOW God's Word!  His Word is what we use to prove the lies of the enemy!!!

Anyone who knows me or just follows my blog, knows that Daddy God has birthed a dream in my heart that has me about to burst with excitement!!  In fact, if I use the word EXCITED one more time, the people around me are going to scream!!!  As I was writing this post I got a call from a friend that Daddy God has opened ANOTHER door for me!!  I told her that I needed to find another word because I have over used the word EXCITED!!!!  hahahaha  So today I discovered that, I AM....THE FOOL IN THE POOL!!!
Yep, that's me out here enjoying the Living Water. Enjoying just being with Jesus.  This is me out here splashing around getting everyone else wet!  To be honest with you, as much as I am enjoying being here in the WATER, I long to go into the DEEP!!!  To be completely submerged in the goodness of  Daddy God! 

Where are YOU in the Water?  Are you even IN the Water? 

I hope that you are challenged, like I was, to swim deep and swim often =)    Most of all, ENJOY THE LIVING WATER!!!!!!

Dare to be...... THE FOOL IN THE POOL!!!!

New Shoes/Remix

I just love to look back and see how The Lord has lead and worked!  You know when you are in the middle of something and you respond in obedience knowing that God will provide the results, but you are in total faith because you can't see it?  Then as time goes by you can look back and see just how perfect His plan is was!!!  This next post is from several months ago.  Daddy God has been very busy since this happened!  The things that I am walking in now I believe is a direct result of the obedience I displayed then!  I trusted Him then and I trust Him even more now =)  So I hope you enjoy this post.  If you have already read it I hope today you read it with fresh eyes and that Daddy God speaks something to you through it! 
There are not too many words that bring the kind of excitement as those two little words, "NEW SHOES"

Can you feel the flutter in your chest right now just thinking about it?!  hahaha  I have had a love affair with shoes since as long as I can remember!  In fact, my earliest memory is going to my Grandmother's house and playing in her shoes!  She had a closet FULL!  She kept them all in their boxes so her only "rule" was that I had to make sure I put them back in the right box and stacked them back like I found them!  This activity lasted for hours!  I would pretend I was different people with each pair I played in. 

Well, over the years I have collected a few of my own shoes!  My husband can not for the life of him understand my love for shoes.  We recently went on a trip (with my son's school band) to Washington DC.  We stayed for 3 nights and as I unpacked our suitcases in the hotel room I realized that without even thinking I had packed NINE pairs of shoes!!  Ok, maybe I have a problem but I will deal with THAT later! 

Several weeks ago in church, out pastor announced that in addition to our regular tithe, we would also have opportunity to give offerings towards our new building.  That day (after giving our tithe) I didn't have any money to give but I wanted to give!  As I dug through my purse thinking I would at the very least fine some change in the bottom, there was not even a penny!  I was holding a pen and looked up at my husband and said, "I do not have anything."  He said, "You have that pen, give it because they will need a pen to sign papers for the new building!"  So, I gave my pen.  The next week I was prepared with my offering but when the time of offering came I heard the Lord tell me to give my shoes!  WHAT???  I tried to ignore it but it was very clear.  Just to give my shoes! I looked down and I had on a really cute pair of shoes, and I thought, there is no way I can give my shoes!  It just didn't make sense to me.  So I gave my money and kept my shoes! 

The next week as soon as Pastor started preparing for the offering I heard the Lord once again ask for my shoes.  But this time He told me to give him my shoes because He had NEW SHOES for me!  This is the message He imparted to me:  "You have been walking this path in YOUR shoes and now it's time to offer your walk up to me and I will give you new shoes to walk a new path, that is My path, it is BIG and it is GOOD!"  
I was shaking and calm all at the same time!  I looked down and I had on the SAME SHOES I had on the week before!  I tried to reason my way out of giving my shoes!  I would be too embarrassed.  What if someone saw me and thought I was crazy.  How am I going to explain walking out of church with NO SHOES?  As the bucket got closer to me I slipped my shoes off and sat them down beside me (almost sitting on them).  My heart was about to beat out of my chest!  When the bucket got to me I put them in and passed it very quickly!  I could see one of my boys who was sitting beside me with his mouth wide open in disbelief at what he had just seen!  I leaned over and told him not to say a word!  hahaa  I knew in an instant that I had obeyed God and that there was nothing that could convince me otherwise!  I felt a power come over me and a closeness to my Daddy God who I knew was going to take care of everything!!! 

As I reflected over this I am settled in myself that Daddy God loves me more than I can imagine.  He has a plan for me.  He spoke to me in a language only I would understand.  He instructed me to give of something that has way more value that a pair of shoes.  See, the physical giving up of my shoes was just an act of obedience.  It was "my" path!  It was "me" trying to make sure everything worked out.  It was giving up my own walk and walking in a complete trust in the ONE that already holds my past, present and future! 

I have learned (well, I am still learning) that when God speaks to me to move, I MOVE, and TRUST HIM to the details!  Then enemy tries to throw all the details up in my face but God already has that!  If He instructs us to move, that is really all we need to know!   Obedience always brings a blessing =)


I have to add that about a month after this happened I was BLESSED with a BRAND NEW pair of AWESOME shoes!!!!!  Yes, God impressed on the heart of a dear friend of mine to BLESS me with the CUTEST shoes!!!!!  They are  SO AWESOME that I'm sharing them with you today =)  But know this, that as amazing as thees physical shoes are the SPIRITUAL SHOES that He has me walking in today are the ones that are taking me places I never dreamed I could go!!!