I was just reading God’s Word while listening to some music and there is no way to describe how I feel.

How can a non-Christian understand what God’s Word does within my heart?  How can they understand the POWER just in the Name of JESUS?  

Your Name is a Strong and Mighty Tower!  Your Name is a shelter like no other!  Your Name — Let the Nations sing it louder cause nothing has the power to SAVE like Your Name!  Jesus, You give me strength for another day!  There is healing in Your Name.  Salvation in Your Name.  Comfort in Your Name.  Joy in Your Name.  Tender mercies in Your Name.  Jesus! (Lyrics from Paul Baloche: Your Name)   

We must be confusing to a dying a world, to those with darkened hearts.  We are a stench to some and a pleasing aroma to others.

2 Corinthians 2:14-16
But thanks be to God, who always leads us as captives in Christ’s triumphal procession and uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge of Him everywhere.  For we are to God the pleasing aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. To the one we are an aroma that brings death; to the other, an aroma that brings life. And who is equal to such a task?

I have often wondered what my own family has thought of me over the years — especially my nieces and nephews.  For many years I had to hide the Baptism of the Holy Spirit from my family — simply because I knew they wouldn’t understand.  Well, not my sister — she knew and so did her daughters.  Yep, I’m sure my nieces thought I was a nut, but I was a HAPPY “nut” in Jesus.   Now that I’m at a Spirit-filled church, I don’t have to hide anything anymore.  


I’ll never forget when I first received the baptism of the Holy Spirit one of my husband’s cousins (who was also baptized in the Spirit) told me I was being too bold.  (No Jo Jo, it wasn’t you.  Ha.) In other words … shhhhhh.  Don’t talk about Jesus all of the time.  Don’t testify about what God has done for you.  WHAT?  Who can hide His light and place it under a basket?!?!  She was afraid our “secret” would get out or something?  Fear … that is who was behind her gentle warning.  Satan doesn’t want people to be ON FIRE for Jesus.  He wants people to wander through life, warm a pew, and basically walk through life without victory in ANY area.  Shhhhh.  Don’t tell how God still touches us today —  not only in the heart, but physically.  The God who created heaven and earth still TOUCHES US WITH HIS SPIRIT.  Shhhh.  People might want what you have.  Shhhh.


Yes, I’m sure we are a peculiar breed.  

1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

How can we be so in LOVE with someone we have never met face to face?  How can we be willing to lose all family, friends, reputation, what this world has to hold for Him?  It must seem “mad” to those on the outside looking in …

1 Corinthians 3:18-20
Do not deceive yourselves. If any of you think you are wise by the standards of this age, you should become “fools” so that you may become wise.  For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written: “He catches the wise in their craftiness” and again, “The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

I don’t want to stand on the wisdom of this world.

It’s all because of Jesus I’m alive.  It all by His Blood.


Thanks for listening to my morning ramblings.