Wyld Creativity: New Year, New Life

Monday, January 5, 2015

New Year, New Life

So..
2015
Ah, I hope for so much this year!
Its too soon to call it but around Oct last year I felt like something switched in my brain, I figured some stuff out about myself that I needed and gained this better understanding and peace for my life.

Everything is just starting to FLOW. For those of you who tune into Elevation Church, you may have heard the Pastor, Steve Furtick talk about finding our Flow during his New Years Eve message. It was pretty powerful! The idea that we don't need to look for new wells to receive a fresh movement from God in our lives, that the one we have may be clogged up and rusty but it's still good!! We just have to clear it out instead of continually looking for new sources of Spiritual refreshment. No need for New Wells!

For so many years I was searching for a new spiritual encounter similar to the life changing one I had in the summer of '99 when I was prayed for and released from heavy oppression and bondage. Since that time in my life I haven't been able to experience the power of the Holy Spirit in the same ways as I did that summer and the fall months that followed. I thought for sure that someone was going to have to pray for me intensly in order for me to hear the Holy Spirit speaking into my life and feel His presence.

It happened slowly, I started to dig in this summer. Through the tears and sadness of everything that has happened in my life I cried out to God. What I realized every single time is after the crying and saying "I can't do this..this is too hard..I feel so lost"...amongst other things! My pain turned into praise..praise at how God had brought me through to this point, how I was starting to see that He was carefully holding me and the plans for my life were still going to happen, He hadn't forgotten about me!

God is using the past mistakes and faliures to recreate a life and a future with purpose that I can't even imagine. His plan and purpose for my life hasn't changed and He is not going to leave me this way!

All this realization and 3 words:

Trust

Wait

Let Go

These words were given to me at different times but in that order last fall by the Holy Spirit so clearly I will never forget them. All during complete and utter pain staking moments while I was hanging on for dear life, not sure I was going to make it! Every single time..after I heard the word..peace beyond measure and a whirlwind of clarity consumed me!

Since then I have figured out too that the only time I feel really really good and hopeful & in the "Flow" is when I am spending time with God. I watch Podcast sermon series' a few times a week, This I have found is the best way to start the day! Craig Groeschel has some of the best sermon series' ever!!! Always gets me motivated and inspired. I spend time all through out the day just trying to stay connected to the Lord. Bible reading and prayer in the morning is the best way to start everyday (But you already knew that!) I love to listen to worship music at the gym too! Makes the hour on the treadmill a mini worship service!

All this to say..
I feel like something has shifted in my heart and I am so thankful.
I feel like I am just beginning but on my way to truly transforming into the woman God has believed me always to be. He's never given up hope and I am full of it now too!

1 comment:

Unknown said...: Heath - this is so cool. I'm so excited that you're hearing from God. Keep pressing in!; January 10, 2015 at 7:18 PM

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The Story of a Prince and a Girl who Dreamed of finding Her Prince.

Once upon a time there was a young woman named Ruby; she lived in a far way kingdom where only the stars in the sky could light the way. The kingdom was tall and made of stone. Inside, it had all of the finest linens and tapestries with winding stair cases, golden mirrors and exotic flowers that stretched the kingdom’s stone walls. The kingdom was surrounded by a large creek bed and had a large wooden draw bridge outside the tall black iron front gates. Beyond the kingdom were many forests, pastures, rivers and hills.

The young woman lived in the kingdom with only her two servants Nigel and Jasmine. They had been with Ruby ever since her mother gave birth to her and have cared for her and loved her since the great royal war that took her family tragically away from her. Years had past since then and Ruby was a young woman now. Since the great royal war she had not seen another person beside her servants. The lands had been deserted as other kingdoms were destroyed and abandoned. No one knew this kingdom existed. It stood in a far off place that only one deserted over grown pathway in the forest would lead to.

Ruby spent her childhood growing up playing with all the animals in the forest, she had names for all of them and would spend her days dancing in the pastures and walking along the creek bed throwing stones into the water. She was content those days as she lived free and enjoyed every tree, every stone, and every pathway near the kingdom. She loved her home but she missed her family and many times she felt alone.

As Ruby grew older she began to stop playing in the pastures and instead she spent her days walking along the creek bed dreaming of finding love and not being alone anymore. Every night outside her balcony she would spend time looking out into the stars and making wishes that one day soon a wonderful man would find the unmarked path in the forest that would lead him to her kingdom.

Nigel and Jasmine were very old now; Ruby took time to care for them and tended to their needs. She would gather food from the garden and make them food to eat and get them blankets to make sure they were comfortable when it was cold. She was not sure how much longer they would live but one thing she knew was how much she admired they’re love for one another and she hold that in her heart for as long as she lived.

It was a warm fall evening; the leaves from the trees were lightly falling as the sun began to set. Ruby was standing on her balcony in her long white silk night gown. As the dark sky began to shine, a light breeze bustled against her gown and her long brown hair blew lightly in the wind. She stood with her hands on the balcony ledge and wished to the stars like she had so many nights before singing” Star light Star bright bring my prince home to me tonight” She stared up into the dark blue sky and began to talk more to the shinning stars.

Just as she was looking up into the sky, talking to the stars a man was following the pathway from the forest that leads to Ruby’s kingdom. He was beginning to approach the edge of the pathway he had began journeying on earlier that day and was about to step on to a beautiful white shiny stoned pebble walk way that would lead up to a draw bridge and to Ruby’s kingdom.

The young man had been travelling for months only eating what he could find along the pathway. Henry was a prince from the golden city of Persia. He was on an expedition when he was captured by rivals and taken to a far away land where he was imprisoned in a place he did not know. Months ago after many nights planning Henry escaped while the guards were sleeping. He thought he would be able to journey home by recognizing land marks but once he had fled the guards he realized that he was further from home then he ever imagined and much to his dismay he did not recognize any of his surroundings. He had been following the sun in hopes of finding his way home. Each day he walked further hoping that one day the pathway would lead him to his family.

Earlier that day Henry had been walking though the forest with large green bushes and fruitful trees around him when he saw a small unmarked pathway that was ragged and old. There were no fruit trees, only old tall trees and an old pebble pathway that seemed run down and abandoned.

He was going to continue to walk on the pathway he had been but something caught his eye as he walked past this abandoned trail. Henry saw a small red ruby attached to a ring lying in between some wet leaves. The sun was shining on it and it glistened and shinned at him. He bent down and lifted the leaves around it away and dusted the ring off and looked at. The ring was prestigious and fit for a princess. He thought about continuing on the main pathway road through the forest but he was drawn down this unmarked pathway. He wondered if this ruby red ring belonged to someone. He put the ring in his pocket and began to walk along the jagged unmarked pathway. He noticed that there were no markings along this pathway so it appeared that no one had walked this pathway for many years.

To Be Continued…

Wyld Creativity

Overcome.

Monday, January 5, 2015

New Year, New Life

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