When I was in AL recently I stayed near the 5 points area. One day or it may have been night that I was driving by a fountain and thought to myself, Oh my gosh there is a statue of satan on the square area. I began to bind and pray over that in my car. I then thought to myself how could they put that in a location right in front of a Methodist church. It sure did baffle me. My instinct was to pray and declare and cover it with the blood of Jesus. I thought to myself how could I be staying at a bed n breakfast feet away from this. My mind then began to wonder a bit with thoughts of no wonder why there is so much noise at night in this college town atmosphere.
The night when I could not get to sleep because of the outside noise, remember how I shared about that already? There is a bit more to the story. I put on and played the highway revival video of the first night they met recently in the church location. I fell asleep while that was playing on my phone. It was in the twilight time of when you are just about to fall asleep and I saw an angel walk past me. Ever so gracious I just saw it wisp by me and next thing I know I was asleep.
The morning we were all about to travel back to our homes I met my children for breakfast at the Original House of Pancakes, they picked the restaurant and it was a good choice. The Canadian bacon I had was cooked just right. We were waiting outside for our name to be called and I mentioned to my children in an inquiry type of comment that do you think that is a statue of satan across the street from us. One of my children told me it was a philanthropist it was created for. I am curious so I crossed the street and did a bit of investigation. Turns out they were right. I took a few pictures of the fountain. Why am I so ministry oriented in my life? At least I did pray prayers of protection around that fountain when I thought it was a monument to satan. Do you notice I do not capitalize his name when I mention him? I just do not want to give glory and honor to him and that is why I do that, does that make sense to you.
I was sharing with a woman last night on the phone how I need to get a life. That I live a pretty simple life and how 2 neighbors I like will be moving soon. When you rent you never know who your new neighbors will be. I already anointed the conjoining walls with anointing oil in which I speak forth represents the blood of Jesus. When will I be back in my own home where I will not have to deal with noise of others. Some people have exciting lives and are always going here and there and having fun. As I was sharing, I realized I do live a pretty sheltered life meaning I do not go to worldly type of places and do not participate in church clubs so to speak. When I do share my testimony I guess you could say it is an exciting life because I go off of the beaten path so to speak and adventure with Holy Spirit. At times when I think my life may be boring it really is not it is just that it is so much a part of my lifestyle on a daily basis I do not think of it as living like others may live their lives. I really am sheltered by God the Almighty and I tend to like living in a cave dwelling type of atmosphere. It is when I am sitting on my patio and I see others gather with friends around the pool or grill dinners together that is when I think I am missing out on another aspect of life.
Did you ever hear of the restaurant, Tupelo Honey? It is a lovely restaurant that one of my children and & I stumbled upon a few years ago while in Chattanooga for a day trip. Well, when I used to work in Franklin there is one location there. We went to it a time or two on lunch break. I will be meeting some of my former co-workers this weekend for a late lunch time of gathering and fellowship. We are going to then go and attend a ministry gathering afterwards. Do you think I bake too much? Why do I feel compelled to bake and give it to others? I do not know why. It is in times like that that I think I really need something more in life then baking. I found a new brownie mix while at Publix last night. I went in to get cherry preserves to make the oatmeal squares and stumbled on this. Here is my game plan, make half of the oatmeal squares with cherry preserves in which I will add fresh blackberries to that side to bake. The other half will be apricot preserves with fresh red raspberries to bake on hat side. Looks like I will make both the oatmeal bars and the new chocolate peanut butter brownie's too. Chocolate brownies with mini peanut butter cups in the mix. I also bought a small bag of salted peanuts maybe I will either add to the mix or sprinkle a few on top as they are baking what do you think?
As I was getting ready to leave the place where I stayed in AL I hear the Methodist church bells ringing so I took a short video of the sound for you to enjoy. When I look back on my life it truly is most exciting to live then the days when it was just a worldly type of life. I give all the praise, glory and honor to God my Father, Jesus Christ and my beautiful comforter, Holy Spirit.
church bell video
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