Earth Is Crammed With Heaven-Live Barefoot!

 Yesterday's post was long and meandering, just as much of my time being led by the Spirit is. Proverbs 25:2 says, "It is the glory of God to conceal things, but the glory of kings is to search things out." How privileged I feel to be able to have the time and resources available to search, pray, read and study for lengthy amounts of time.  Like I pointed out yesterday, its difficult for me to ascertain a beginning point. But I think where I tried to begin yesterday, will serve to make the point I'm trying to make.  1 John 5:20 says,  "And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know Him who is true; and we are in Him who is true--in His Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life."  This verse is one of many that reinforces that understanding comes from God. Jesus himself said in Matthew 11:25  “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and ...

I'm unsure of where to begin this post because it feels as if I need to back track to a previous day in order to encompass everything I feel like the Spirit is teaching me. I have had a very intense and intimate two weeks or so with the Lord. My conversation with Him has been the closest to "constant" as I think it's ever been, making it difficult to find a "beginning reference point" whenever the conversation has been so fluid and interweaving, with one's day's focus piggy-backing on the day before, but not without a new focus of its own. It's been an amazing web of delight.  But for now, I think I want to begin with Friday, March 28th. We'll see how that goes. I expect we'll probably jump back even further in time in the process of explaining the chain of events, or the way the Spirit moves during our time together. For optimal understanding, I need to inform you of  how my typical day with the Lord evolves. It begins with a Dollar Tree...

Today, while scrolling through my Facebook memories, this post from John Parsons of Hebrew for Christians, stood out among the rest. It was originally shared by John on 24 January 2022, but I shared it as a memory last year saying, "This concept of "Waiting on the LORD" has been placed in my heart." Interesting since this year (2025) my #oneword is "wait". Considering this, I took the time to reread his post. It is easy enough to hurry past words of Scripture without slowing down to reflect on what is being said. For instance, in our Torah portion for this week (i.e., Mishpatim) we read: “The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain and wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction” (Exod. 24:12). The Hebrew words veheyei sham (וֶהְיֵה־שָׁם), usually translated as “and wait there,” can also be translated as “and be there.” But why -- if every jot and tittle...

*This morning, 1.20.2025, as I was lying in bed between Jared’s snooze alarms going off, half awake, half asleep, the Holy Spirit simply whispered, Matthew 15. So that’s where I began my morning. After reading the entire chapter once through, my heart settled in on the below portion in regard to the concept of persistent prayer in the face of silence and even apparent denial.  Matthew 15:21-28 21 And Jesus went away from there and withdrew to the district of Tyre and Sidon . (Matthew 11:21 - Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty works done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon , they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes). Tyre and Sidon are not Jewish communities. They’re Phoenician cities in modern day Lebanon. They were predominantly Gentile regions. 22 And behold a Canaanite woman from that region ( Tyre and Sidon ) came out and was crying, “Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David , my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon.” Notic...