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Simply Ordinary

The Lord does not see as man does. For the man sees the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:7)

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The Bible speaks about God choosing the ordinary, the humbled hearted, the uneducated, broken, and weak to demonstrate that divine strength is made perfect in human weakness. He chooses ordinary individuals to accomplish extraordinary tasks. God’s plans are not limited to the powerful or the elite, like me, He can and will use the ordinary housewife to accomplish His plans. I do not have any religious training outside of going to church, reading my Bible and allowing the Holy Spirit to direct me. I have no social status in my community or anywhere else for that matter. By creating this Blog, it emphasizes God’s sovereignty and His ability to work through anyone, regardless of their social status or personal capabilities. I also, believe that I was called to this and by being intentional and following through it gives me the opportunity to show God my faithfulness and obedience to Him. I am certain that as scripture reads in (2 Corinthians 12:9), “But He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” It’s His power, not mine, I am nothing more than a broken vessel that He has chosen to fulfill a plan. My educational background is a GED. Like Moses was “slow to speech” (Exodus 4:10) meaning the miracles and messages came from God, not Moses’ own eloquence. There is nothing eloquent about me either. I likely am not even using proper punctuation. I just hear Him. I hear Him in the quiet moments, I hear Him while in the shower, doing dishes, cooking dinner, working out at the gym, driving down the road, during worship at church. I just simply hear Hm and because He knows I am listening I believe He entrust me to share what He would have for me and for others alike. Again, this Blog has opened that door for His Word to be heard, not only by me, but for so many others. One day, I will stand before Him and I want to hear, “well done my good and faithful servant.” You see, that’s who I am, a servant, Perfectly Imperfect!

It Was the Night Before

“If only I may touch His garment, I shall be made well.” (Matt. 9:21)

My story of the over-flowing of the Holy Spirit actually started the night before. Much like the woman in the Bible who we do not know her name, what we do know is she had a twelve-year affliction. She was in a dire situation; this affliction caused her physical pain as well as emotional isolation. She spent all the money she had with Dr’s, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. (Mark 5:26). Much like this woman I found myself afflicted in deep depression. I had just gone through the death of a child/adult, non the less a child to us. He had suffered two years with AML and when reaching his final days here on earth he wanted to do hospice at home with us. Which he had been living with us a good portion of the two years already, naturally we wanted the same. Before we knew he was not going to be able to get the bone marrow transplant, which we were believing and standing in faith for complete healing and he did finally receive his complete, total healing from the top of his head to the soles of his feet, just not here on earth. That is a whole other story, maybe one day I will share that because God did some preparation in him, us, his siblings and others for his eternal homecoming. Glory be to God for that. At the same time this was going on, a few months before he got really sick, I decided to breed my Doodle for the very first time and she had 15 puppies. I had to deliver the first 3 all by myself, this turned into a very LONG night, but it gets even worse. My husband was driving a coach bus for a company that required him to be out of town a LOT, this was one of those times. Our son was very sick just before the birth of the puppies and he needed to go to the hospital for a blood transfusion and that required him to stay in the hospital for a few days. When he came back home, he tried to help me out with the puppies, but he didn’t have the strength and I was not eating, or sleeping, I had lost 15 pounds in two weeks. Six weeks after much hard and I mean hard work, keeping 15 puppies alive and healthy, by myself, it was time to take the puppies to the veterinarian for their first series of shots, where they contracted parvo. I immediately went back to my vet, got the necessary meds, hydration bags, needles, etc. to come back home and build a quarantine area for sick, still nursing puppies. Thank God my husband was home for that week, or I think I might just be up there in Paradise with our son. We lost the first sick puppy, then we lost 2 more here at home, but praise God, He gave us the strength and everything else we needed to save these little guys & gals. Now my husband is back on the road again, and our son takes a turn for the worse. He immediately meets me at the hospital and that’s when we find out it’s time for him to come home on hospice. Everything happened so fast, I was literally living and moving on adrenaline only. The pain had gotten to be too much the last 24 hours for him, so we went to the hospital for those last hours. Then we had a funeral service to prepare for. Again, I am leaving so much out because I am trying to stay focused on the message I am trying to deliver here today. Honestly, I could write a series of books if given the time for most of these blogs. Now, back to the night before I received the mighty encounter with the Holy Spirit. Like the woman in the Bible, she spent so many years full of dead ends, helpless and hopeless, but she heard the reports about Jesus and that was all it took for this disheartened woman to move forward, there was this tiny seed of hope in her heart, that gave her the courage to take a BIG risk. That’s when she reached out to touch His cloak, with faith believing for her healing. She had to be bold as well, because she was out in the crowd with all the people and Jesus, she wasn’t even supposed to leave her home. When she made her way to Jesus, as soon as she touched the edge of His garment the bleeding, her affliction had stopped (Luke 8:44). Mark says, “Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering” (Mark 5:29) But her story is not over. Later, when Jesus wants to know who touched Him, Jesus didn’t humiliate her in front of the crowd, instead you hear Him calling her “Daughter” and tells her, “Your faith has made you well.” All because she dared to reach out to Him for help when every earthly avenue had ended in nothing but loss and despair. Back again to the night before. I was all alone again, after burying puppies, saying my goodbyes to our son, and watching my husband leave again for another lengthy road trip. It was around six in the evening, and I decided to take what little energy I had and get in the shower. I cried out to Jesus with everything I had inside of me. I needed a miracle, I needed change in my life, I needed strength, I needed someone to love and care for me, right now, this very moment or take me out of here, yes that is exactly what I said to Him. I think I was crying harder than the water was coming out of the shower head and of course my voice was as load as a train coming down the track. I needed Jesus to hear me! Then, suddenly, I heard Him. He was comforting me, telling me He had me and everything was going to be alright. He instructed me to go to this Woman’s conference the next morning. I really did not want to go there; I didn’t feel I fit in with the women there and I was already feeling all sorts of negatives inside me. Fear had been playing a huge role in my life at that time as well. Satan loves to use fear as one of his tactics to keep us from our destination. Well, let me tell you, that next morning I got up early, mustered up all the courage I could and I went! I didn’t just go, I sat on the first row, end seat, and when the worship music began, I jumped up and went to that alter with all the bravery and boldness I had in me. That’s where I released EVERYTHING and I mean EVERYTHNG. Fear was gone! By the time the conference was over, I felt equal to any woman there. I had been delivered, set free from my afflictions! and I could hear Him call me Daughter. Then, comes morning. Feel free to read the blog, titled, “Where You lead, I Will Follow” if you haven’t already.

Where You lead, I Will Follow

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. (John 10:27)

Jesus refers to us as sheep. If we are His sheep, meaning saved through the washing of His blood on the cross, then we will hear His voice. Over the past year and half, I have found myself with a finer tuning in my hearing regarding the things He is saying to me. I spend more time ruminating on those things I hear more than before, not so quick to make a rash move forward. Yet I am also being more obedient than ever as well. It was at this same time of the year that I had a six-day encounter with the Lord like NEVER before. On day seven I was ready to do what I had heard Him saying to me, I was learning obedience in the richest form. In the book of (Jeremiah 7:23) God commanded saying, ‘Obey My voice, and I will be your God, and you shall be My people. And walk in all the ways I have commanded you, that it may be well with you.’ Surrender & Obedience rose up in me in like NEVER before. Not only that, but I had been emptied completely and filled with new wine just as in (Mark 2:22) there was a new covenant of grace. I was SO full of the new wine (Holy Spirit) that is, I was overflowing, I literally felt drunk. I continued saying, I can’t take anymore, but then, I would immediately gasp for more, there was no way I was not going to receive ALL that the Lord had for me. Again, this was a new thing. I had only experienced something to this magnitude one other time in my 30 years of living for Him. When God calls you to obedience, follow where He is leading you, I promise just like He said, “that it may be well with you.” That overflow I spoke of was revealed to me by the Holy Spirit that it was important that I receive it because it wasn’t for me, but for others. I soon was to find out what He meant by that. A lot happened over this past year and half that proved every word I heard. This BLOG is now just another part of the process of; Hearing, Surrender & Obedience, with a bit of INTENTIONALITY!

Follow Where He Leads ~

Being Intentional

Brothers I do not consider that I have made it my own but one thing I do forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead. I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upper call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippines 4:13-14)

January 1, 2026, the Lord placed a word in my heart, “Intentional” my husband was given the word “Revelation”, so we combined the two and began really listening to what the Lord was saying to each of us. There is much to be said about being one flesh in a marriage, God truly had engrafted us together. The revelations that he was receiving and the intentional mindset that I now had allowed us to move to much higher levels than we have ever been before. Our marriage was the beginning of this new heighten. We spoke new vows that day to each other, then began to watch the power of God do what only He can do.

VOW’S: “My New Year’s commitment to you for our marriage is to commit to a healthy marriage-to overcome obstacles, show you more love, grant you more grace & mercy and give you forgiveness & respect. I want you to know that you matter and your opinions are important. I commit to create a space for you to be yourself, and I will not belittle your weaknesses. I commit to be a listening ear and an understanding heart, even when you are upset. When things are down, I commit to work as a team and do the best I can. When things are up, I commit to cherish every moment and not take any of our time for granted. I will celebrate you when you are strong and humbly console you when you are sad. I will pray for you, smile and laugh with you, and hug you tighter. I will be there whenever you need me, and I promise to help make this year one of our best years yet.” This is what INTENTIONAL looks like.























	


	





	

		
		
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First things First, this was NOT my idea! For the past 12 years I have been doing a little sharing by the leading of the Holy Spirit on social media. My husband thought it was time I start a BLOG, though I have NO clue what I am doing, funny thing, neither does he. Get ready for lots of humor, life lessons, inspirational thoughts and the Word of God, again by the leading of the Holy Spirit. 




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