Pictures!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I finally decided to pull out the pictures! I just wanted to show you some things that we've gotten to do over the summer since being back here at KC. Well as you can see my dad has built us a shed here in our back yard! We are so excited to finally have a place to store our yard tools! I dug around in the garage to find the missing springs I needed to be able to put up the trampoline and placed it to the right of the shed. Mallory and I decided we would sometime in the future build a really nice pool to the right of the trampoline so that we could jump off the shed onto the trampoline and cannonball into the pool. Needless to say our parents didn't think to highly of that idea.

About 1 month ago my team for Audra Hartke went to the Cheesecake Factory down at the Plaza in downtown KC to celebrate our last set together. Then about two weeks later, my friend Chastity G. took me to the Plaza for some girl time. We ate pizza at the California Pizza Kitchen and then hung out and talked. I had an amazing time. Well, for Mallory's birthday, which was in June, I wanted to take her somewhere special. I put it off because we were going home for three weeks, then we moved, then we did ATC, then we started school and time really just got away from me. But Sunday I took her to the Plaza for her birthday. We had an awesome time taking pictures, talking, goofing off, and just being sisters. We got even got to go to a really nice Starbucks at the Plaza. We went to several stores and held up shirts and sunglasses and took pictures. It was so much fun. We ended the night at the Cheesecake Factory with a garlic bread appetizer and a Chocolate Rasberry Truffle cheesecake for dessert. It was really yummy!

This is Tamice's team. We got to perform in a park for a community event. It was a powerful time of worship and ministering to the Lord. It was a lot of fun!

  

This is Queen Mother. She prayed for her neighborhood for several years and has seen breakthrough in this area of town. She is in her 70s and still praying for her family. She paid for all the food and for the entire event. God has blessed her so much to be able to pour into this communtiy!  (ps. she is hilarious!)

Moma also had her birthday in August. We had a really nice day spending time with her and enjoying the day. 

Well, that's all I have right now. I'll see if I can download some of the pictures from Mallory and my adventure to the Plaza so you can see them. Have a blessed day!

Have you ever heard this voice?

Okay, so I was reading in the Psalms one night when I was doing screens for Audra. (screens for those of you who don't know is where I put the words of what the singers are singing on the black tv's in the prayer room). I was flipping through my favorite psalms when I thought about something Audra had said in briefing before our set. She had mentioned something about the voice of the Lord because we were doing Psalm 42 and in verse 7 it talks about hearing the voice of the Lord through the Holy Spirt, the one who searches the deep things of God. (1 Cor. 2:10) She has this awesome chorus:

I can hear the voice of the Lord
It's like the roar of the waters
And it comes, crashing over me

You should hear her sing it. It gives you chills because of the power and truth behind it. Anyway I turned to Revelation 1:15 where it says that the voice of the Lord is like the sound of rushing waters. Now when I picture rushing waters I don't picture a little creek flowing in the woods somewhere. I picture a huge white-water river/Niagra falls type thing. The loud, booming, make your bones rattle type sound. The scripture says that the voice of the Lord is like that.....loud, booming, make your bones rattle, powerful sound. It also says in the scriptures that his voice is like a faint whisper. I like the way Job put it when he said, "How faint the whisper we hear of him! Who then can understand the thunder of his power?" Isn't it incredible how it can sound like a whisper and also like rushing water?

Then I was turning back to Psalm 42 and went to far to Psalm 29. In the first two verses I found the words to a song Justin Rizzo and Jill Marsh sing. I was so excited so I began to read and then found this........more descriptions on the voice of the Lord! I was so excited. It said in verse 3 that the voice of the Lord is over the waters. I thought "what does that mean?" Over the waters? And then I remembered the rushing water thing. The voice of the Lord is over that.......louder than that! The next thing it says is that the God of glory thunders. His voice thunders......the bone rattling thing. It says that the Lord thunders over the mighty waters. So his voice bone-shaking rattles over the sound of white-water/Niagra falls sound. Then it says that the voice of the Lord is powerful. His words are powerful and cut to the heart. Then it says that the voice of the Lord is majestic. We find awe and wonder in his voice. The next one really blew my mind. Okay so you know those huge Red Wood trees in California that are hundreds of feet tall and have huge trunks? They are some of the biggest, strongest trees in the world. Cedar trees are just like that but even bigger and stronger. The voice of the Lord breaks the cedars; the Lord breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon. His voice splinters the trees like they are little twigs........his voice!!! Amazing huh? All he has to do is say one word and these huge trees crumple into millions of tiny splinters! Then it says that the voice of the Lord strikes with flashes of lightning. There is so much power and authority in his voice that literal lightning actually comes from his voice. This thought and trying to picture this image makes my mind hurt! The next verse says his voice shakes the deserts. Which means that the dust storms and sand storms result from his voice, or they could. His voice shakes the deserts.......the entire desert! Have you ever thought about how big one desert is? It shakes the whole thing! By now my brain is really hurting and I'm kinda just sitting there in shock. The next verse blows me away. It says that the voice of the Lord twists the oaks and strips the forests bare. His voice makes huge trees twist and the whole forest is bare.....nothing left.....just from his voice! In Psalm 18:13 it says that the voice of the Lord resounded and thundered from heaven. It was a firm, definite, clear sound. In Isaiah 30:31 it says that the voice of the Lord will shatter Assyria. His voice has so much power it can shatter a nation! And Revelation 1:10 it says that his voice sounds like a trumpet. Ezkiel 1 is a really cool description of the same thing John saw in Revelation 4 but through Ezkiel's eyes. I would highly encourage you to read it. It is very mind provoking.

Anyway just thought I'd let you know what I had found. Isn't this voice amazing? I would encourage you to check out Psalm 29 for yourself! It will make you think! The voice of the Lord is incredible..........have you ever heard this voice?