(c)Daneille Gray Snowden 2024 by Daneille Snowden God is stirring in my heart more and more about prayer. I know, we all as Christian got the 1.1 on prayer! Seriously, I feel the Lord awakening His people to the simple and yet deep truth of praying to Him with profound expectation. The time we spend in His presence, the pouring out of our hearts, the worship in not only our words but even our thoughts, and also in recognizing Him as our Abba Father, our Great Creator our King, our Healer and of course our Friend! This time transforms our minds and spirits and takes us to a depth in Him, where we are unshakeable in our faith. Expectancy is certainty! We are absolutely certain that GOD'S GOT THIS! Trusting in the fact, He will act in His Way and Time! And to be at peace with the entire process! RIGHT? Our entire thought life must be attuned to what God's expectations / Will is. "If we ask anything, ACCORDING TO HIS WILL He hears us! ( 1 Jn. 5:14 ) His expectations and
Did you ever read this verse in John 15:2 and think, "that's extreme, can't we just hold onto these extra branches that grew once and bore amazing, fruit?" I have definitely ! Then life happens! In that life, we make a decision to dig deeper in our relationship with Jesus Christ. Yet, as we do, we face obstacles (or that's what we called them) that challenged us to trust Jesus to do what He wills in our lives. I believe this place is a milestone in the timeline of our lives. Will we continue to walk ever so close to the Lord, realizing as we do, He will prune us? Will we desire to be producers of His fruit and life flow through us? Many of us realize that this means more obstacles, cuts, bleeding, times of dormancy and simple hurt. This is when the milestone comes; will we accept this pruning and be fruitful or just become branches that become brittle, and ragged? A lot of questions to ponder, but I feel God wants to use each and everyone of His children in o