Two more Days!!!

Since it has taken me all day to get ready and get out of my house the best place for me to venture to is where else but to one of the many local coffee shops in beautiful Nashville. It's a gorgeous summer day a few clouds in the sky but just right amount for a day like today. Sipping a well steeped chai it's about time for me to reflect on life.

In less than 48 hours i will be venturing into the land of the mid 20's ... at least that's how i feel since 25 means you a quarter of a century old. why is it this is the last birthday i am actually looking forward to? to be honest it's because from here on out i'm just getting closer to 30, 40 , then 50...this birthday is slowly turning into a much dreaded day.... not really but i have to be a little dramatic about lol!!!

For only turning 25 i feel like i have lived a lot of life. I feel like i've seen high's and lows of life. However if i had see it all i guess i still wouldn't be here lol! I am so thankful for the Life i have so freely been given to live and i am so thankful for the people that have walked this life along with me. I am so excited for the next 25 years to come. I am excited to see who it is that Lord has to walk with me through those years and i so excited to see and live the parts of life that i have yet to experience!!!

So here's to another birthday, here's to another 25 years and here's to living the dream that Lord has placed in your heart!!!

-Jazz

ok Jesus how bout what I need right now???

YOU are Jehovah Jireh Lord i have a need... a physical need. Here i come knocking on this door again. I don't know what else to do i don't know where else to turn but to the one who is my provider. You are the source you are the only thing i can turn to! Lord i need strategy Lord i need peace i need rest i need my Daddy

Speak and break the silence

After writing last weeks blog and really giving myself some time to just sit and think and be silent before the Lord... I had a revelation while sitting in church last Sunday. Really it was more the Lord kinda smacking me in the face with reality... BTW i need that more often than not... The Lord told me i have to break the silence. Fear in my life was making me silent even in my own home... i couldn't remember the last time i prayed out loud, i couldn't remember the last time there was a roar of praise coming from my lips.

So often as Christians(Christ followers,those who are like Christ)we forget what it means to really be a christian. Do you think Jesus was saying quiet whispering prayers when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane praying for his cup to be taken from him.(Matt 26:39 NKJV) I am going to guess not so much... the same way you can't communicate with another person silently you can't communicate with God with out speaking. I mean really, think about it the whole world was SPOKEN into existence ... this is the power of life in death in the tongue.(Prov 18:21) we overcame by the blood of the lamb and the WORD of our testimony(Rev 12:11) In the beginning was the Word( John 1:1)... When you give your life to the Lord you confess with your mouth and with your mouth you are saved(Rom 10:9-11).

I Broke the SILENCE!!! This morning I went to the secret place with boldness and i prayed as Jesus taught us to pray saying :

Our Father in Heaven, Hallowed be your name.

Your Kingdom come Your will be done

on Earth as it is in Heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread

and forgive us our debts

as we forgive our debtors

And do not lead us into temptation

but deliver us from the evil one.

For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever Amen.. (Matt 6:9-13)

Ladies and Gents it's time to break the silence. When the devil can silence you he has no reason to be threatened by you. The words that struck me to the core "the devil want to silence you.... so you ain't sayin you ain't prayin" -PD Evrist...

this is just one small step on the journey i know the Lord is taking me on..so far it's has been an adventure of epic proportion!