What's Happening- Part 1

So readers today in my state is the vote for the marriage amendment! I am not the age to vote yet but, I am putting my stamp by fasting and praying... for those teens that live in NC, I ask that you do the same. This is not another vote that our parents are doing because they have to but, this vote paints a picture on culture for something bigger to happen! Don't be blind to the fact that you can't do anything because you can! A prayer is actually one of the strongest ways to fight against the dark plan behind the vote NO. 

Another thing I wanted to talk about is something that I have noticed... the three most importance  issues that are arising right now, abortion, homosexuality, and environmentalism all have something in common.. they all are about stunting life... abortion kills us off, homosexuality you can't even have children, environmentalism thinks we should have less maybe even none. The Devil is killing us through our own stupidity!

These things are not for the benefit of us but, the destruction of us! Now I am against all of these.. but the world is rising to meet all three of these. This is the Devil's rising hour of fame... don't be deceived we are at a dangerous hour of History.

A couple months God gave me a dream and honestly I was afraid to share it because it was hard message for myself, much less sharing it with others. I'll have to go back through my journals to find the verse reference but, the dream was about us Christians sleeping and God said to me when I woke from the dream was, "My people must wake, and step out! Its time! I'm sounding an alarm and they must respond!"

Friends, as hard as it is... we have to do this!

(I'll post the dream in part 2)

God is Love

¹⁷ that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
¹⁸ may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—  
¹⁹ to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.


Soon as I read these few verses, one word stood out to me and it was love ...Love is not a mere word, it is not just a feeling. It exceeds all because God exceeds all, and God is love! May we be filled with all the fullness of God, fullness of love! Love is something that is bigger than ourselves. I mean if it has the power to brake chains that could have never been broken except by the sacrifice of ourselves because of sin... than how large, how vast, how deep it must be? Because it doesn't stop there! There are parts of love we haven't explored yet, merely because we haven't explored all the greatness of God! No, love is something we haven't even began to understand, and if we are only dipping our toes in at the beginning of this gigantic ocean of love set before us... than how powerful is our God! How big is this thing we're apart of? Love is a overwhelming force, how would it be to swim in it? To dive?....To be fully immersed? How would it be?

Waking...

So this morning I woke up... overwhelmed with the fact that I am amazingly blessed! Just reflecting on the Holiday season.. and even afterwards, God has been doing one thing after the other in my life and I am in awe! 
I've realized also that, even before the Holidays, when things were in a twist, things were happening that I had no idea about and just now I'm beginning to see what God has been working on.... 
I knew I was blessed before today but, today the sleep was wiped from my eyes, and now I see clearly what I should be excited about! 

Life is good.... which is funny because yesterday I thought life was fine but, just proves that you truly need understanding from God... to open up your eyes to see the greatness in your life because of Him. I am truly blessed! And honestly its not because circumstances but, really it is because of a new perspective that he turned on in my mind this morning!

No house, behind in school, money is tight, no job, phone is about to die... 

BUT..... God is the provider,  amazing relationship with God, great friends and family: one's I can call and they will pursue back, lives being touched: by the simpleness of me just saying God's name, JOY: I can trust God! Etc...

Journaling

Something i love to do is journal.... I love writing, drawing, etc. Which you can do both those things, and many more things in journals. The thing that I love to use journals for are ministry opportunities.... What I like to do is having journals for different people and then to pray into them.. and let the Spirit lead me in what to write or draw, etc. for or to that person.
I love this... because its a discreet way to pour into a persons life with, encouragment, words of knowledge, visions, and so much more!

I just wanted to share that idea with you all! Its one a great way to grow in the lord, and two a great way to spread the love of God!

Video- Dan Mohler

SO GOOD! Had to share!!!

An Interesting Conversation!

As some of you know, I go to IHOP (International. House. Of. Prayer.) and being a part of IHOP I've been tested and told things about it. Like its a "cult"- "Julie Meyer is a false prophet" and so forth. Now I know some of you don't believe in some of the things of the Spirit but, here is a conversation I wanted to share.
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Hey!
I might be going to IHOP's (International House of Prayer) high school conference FASCINATE this summer, and I was just wondering if any rebelutionaries were going?

I was thinking of turning the trip to the conference into a ministry idea and car pooling from Orlando Florida, with some high schoolers that would like to go and with chaperons of course, to Kansas City for the conference ... but that is still up in the air at this point.

If you don't know what IHOP is, here is a link: http://www.ihop.org/ (IHOP is awesome, by the way.) 
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Kassie,

I felt that I should post this - while I sincerely hope I do not offend you, I must defend the gospel.

Please watch this video, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgXb7yIlDNc

I know the content of what Mr. Friel says in the video is true! This is not a movement that we as Rebelutionaries should be involved in! I would beg anyone reading this, please do not attend an International House of Prayer meeting! While prayer is wonderful, the teachings in this movement are unbiblical. 
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 This is me...

I watched the video. I've heard this for awhile, and I have done my research but, I was wondering how it is unbiblical?
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The other girl... Kassie Burke wrote:

I watched the video. I've heard this for awhile, and I have done my research but, I was wondering how it is unbiblical?

The IHOP movement is unbiblical in many ways, one of those ways being their worship serivces. In the worship serivces there is a lot of repetition, which is part of the new-age mysticism movement. In one video I watched of an IHOP meeting the people there repeated one line in a song for two hours, in another instance I heard of a young man was told by an IHOP leader to repeat a scripture over and over for 2 hours - or until he "recieved Revelation from God". Nowhere in the Bible does it tell us to act this way.
There have been many, many reports of young people leaving an IHOP conference and not remembering what they had just seen because they felt they were in a "state of hypnosis". This is caused by repetitive, hypnotic sounds which can induce trance-like states by focusing the brain’s attention on a minimal set of sensory inputs.
Just because the words to the songs are about Jesus does not mean that they are okay! (See 1 Peter 5:8, 1 Corinthians 14:15 and Galatians 5:22-23)

Another instance is the common "jerking, twitching, and lack of sanity" that comes over many of the IHOP leaders as they pray. This was the description one young lady shared when she came back from an IHOP conference. We know that a lack of sanity or being unable to control ourselves is not of God! The Bible tells us in many passages that God commands us to be sober, and the dictionary tells us that definition of that word is not only free from alochol and drugs, but also being self-restrained and rational.

One girl emailed me and asked (as response to my previous post) "How can prayer be "wonderful" and right when the teaching is wrong?"
The answer to this is that when a man tells us how we must pray then it is unbiblical.

A young woman (we'll call her Alice) graduated high school and decided to go into the IHOP ministry as an intern, little did she know what she was getting into. She spent several months living at the IHOP "ministry" to learn under the leaders. She recalls spending hours and hours in the prayer room, yet for the entire time she was there she never once talked to God from her heart. While she was in the prayer room she was required to pray certain prayers (There's Catholocism mixed into this movement too) and fill out worksheets. They were requred to stay in the prayer room for 2 hours - no exceptions for any reason. She said there were leaders who always stood like guards blocking the door preventing any of the interns from leaving. There were many mentally damaging things that happened to this young lady, when she left she had expected to be on fire for God and rejoicing in Him. Instead she left in a state of serious depression and the only thing she wanted to do was warn others of the extreme danger of this movement.


I could go on - but I think I've provided enough evidence that this movement is unbiblical. So, I hope someone who reads this can agree with me that the only "IHOP" we should be attending is the International House Of Pancakes. 
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 A friend to help...

________, I am guessing that Kassie has talked to her parents, and they've probably decided that this is okay. There is different denominations in the church of God...Baptist, Protestant, Presbyterian, Assemblies of God, Carasmatic, and so forth. This could be jsut another denomination. My church does no do that long of worship liek that, BUT we do have worship sometimes where there are repeated lines....it's a crying plea, or a uplifting praise. The jerking and twisting are manifestations of the Holy Spirit, kind of like praying in tongues. I'm not exactly sure what your church believes on this, but I think that there are definate physical characteriscs that happen, like the jerking and twisting.

I'm not saying any of this confrontationally, but you need to make sure that you go on all grounds before you tell someone that something is evil!

If you have any questions, I'm not an expert but I'm able to answer some. PM ME!!!
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The other girl's reply....

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The jerking and twisting are manifestations of the Holy Spirit, kind of like praying in tongues. I'm not exactly sure what your church believes on this, but I think that there are definate physical characteriscs that happen, like the jerking and twisting.

Britt, I'm really not trying to be confrontational, but I'm just wondering why you think that jerking and twisting are signs of the Holy Spirit? As far as I can see in the Bible when people are unable to control their bodies it is caused demon possession, not the Holy Spirit. The Bible calls us to be sober. 
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MY REPLY... 


All I say is this... on the day of Pentecost what do you believe happened? Because a lot more crazy things happened there then anything that has happened at IHOP. I know lots of people personaly that have gone to IHOP and I've seen them before they've gone, and when they came back. And they were more on fire when they came back... then when they went! I've seen the fruits of this "movement". God does call us to be self controlled to a extent but, when David danced for God and all his clothes fell off. God did not rebuke Him but, rebuke His wife! The holy spirit is apart of God, you cannot control God! John the baptist said in Mattew:


"I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. Matthew 3:11

IN Acts Jesus says:

4 On one occasion, while he was eating with them, he gave them this command: “Do not leave Jerusalem, but wait for the gift my Father promised, which you have heard me speak about. 5 For John baptized with[a] water, but in a few days you will be baptized with[b] the Holy Spirit.” Acts 1:4-5


You can't shake fire off. The only way to get it off is by putting it out... but if you put fire out, then its out! God comes as a flame and that is simply what the spirit is and I don't want that flame to go out because if it does you will lose it!
When God said for us to be sober he meant for us to not get so (overly) zealous for God that we start slashing peoples ears off, like Peter. Or yell at them to become Christians... A lot of the time we get overly zealous, frustrated, legalistic, etc. with people. So Him wanting us to be sober, is really a warning for us to not push people around or make them feel guilty so they will except Christ! He was not warning us against His spirit! ~~~~~~~~~~~ 


Now everyone before you point fingers here, I been on both sides so.... 


Just thought I would share... Kassie

My Journal Entry- Part 3. (Story of Esther)

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After that I began to push my self to spend more time with Him. 
Here is a conversation I had in this time with Him:

-"God, I want a conversation with you."
* "Talk to me."
- "What do you truly want to teach me?"
* "My love for you."
- "God, I don't deserve you."
* "I know. (The 'I know' is a inside joke. Maybe I'll share it later. ;))
- "So why did you choose me?"
* "Kassie, it take many plants to make a garden but, only one to fill its one place perfectly."
- "Still, why me?"
* "Because no one could fill it as perfect as you can. My plans for you were made for you and you only!"
- "Me only?"
*"You alone I plan these plans for. Your call made for you, you must except the vision."
-"Help me step out of darkness, fully. Pull me out!"
* "I'm not going to make you love me, you have to decide."
-"I do want you."
*"Be a hero, not a victim."
-"God help me..."
*"I will and have, I love you."
-"I love you too, my Groom."
* "My Bride."

To tell you the truth, this conversation was so real! That it was hard for me to grasp that it was reality!
One thing I've learned is that a lot of the time we except Christ because at one time we loved Him but, lost the vision of His loveliness somehow or we except because its the right thing to do or because its a generational thing. Mine was the first... I don't really know how it happened... I think part of it was my mind set was just warped!

The next things He said was "Touch the door knob."- "I use youth! For wonders, it starts in youth and blossoms later." (Youth as in childhood or teen years.)
I thought He still was talking of my ministry but, He wasn't.
When He was talking of youth He was trying to remind me of the times where I, as a child cryed for Him. Me literally belting "I am a Friend of God." I finally got what He was saying when I read, the first couple of chapters of "Enjoying God." He talks of Ezekiel 16:1-6 This is where I realized what He was reminding me of a deeper love realationship I was ready for.

"Later, I passed by, and when I looked at you and saw that you were old enough for love." (Stop)

There that small part Jesus said "We were friends when you were a child, now I'm calling you deeper." (Gosh, I feel like I'm in one of those "perfect" romantic movies Hollywood always make! Except mine is real!!!!!... Everything I've ever dreamed for, Jesus is... He is my perfect match!)

Him saying "Touch the door knob." was Him wanting me to open the door of a deeper, more intimate realitionship with Him, and to fully rejoyce the way I was made to rejoyce!

My day of blossoming had come. I had to pursue it!

The next week, I just pursued God. Spent hours just thinking about Him. All through out the day, God just said "I love you!" I've been so tickled by what God has done and just Him in general!

I love Him! In pursuing Him, He has kissed me more than once with a verse. My two favorites are, Songs of Songs 1:1 and Philemon 1:7.

Songs of Songs 1:1 He said: "Love is my favorite song.

Philemon 1:7 - I find my self melting through out the day, by His simple touch on my spirit. It's hard to fathom but, yet not.

He has also called me His Esther. Which I didn't understand at first but, I do now! Last night my youth pastor, Nick, talked about laying down your desire for His desire. He talked of the narrow road, like a tunnel, we try to take in our own desires but it doesn't work, because the road is to narrow. They just won't fit! My favorite part was He talked about the path broadning once we fully start to desire Him, and really pursue.

After that the story of Esther clicked in my head. The narrow path is, like the training stage just like in the story of Esther how the virgins were chosen to be taken to the palace, they had to lay their past behind, all all they had for the desire of the King. They had to be trained a full year, before they entered to the King. Esther was chosen because of the God in her, even if the King didn't know at the time. When Esther's training was over and she entered the chamber of the king and all he had for her. Her training was done, it was her time to honor Him!
She had nothing to offer the king but, herself and she did that, she devoted herself to the King's desire even in training when she didn't know him at all! 

That's what God wants me to do now, be trained by Him. Him training me to love him fully and study His ways that way I can do the best for Him, give Him the love he so fully desires.
I have to be trained though... If I'm being training by God then, I'm all for it.

The next part that He showed me, is just like the story of Esther: Esther had to bring up her past to save her people. God said this: "There will be a time where those ideas will need to be used to save a people, then they will be used."
Kassie.


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That was the end of that one.... but for those that read your Bible. ;) You know the story doesn't stop there! So I shall post more of My Journal- on a different day!

Thanks for reading and thanks for just taking the time to hear my story and what God's doing!

Raging Storm

Rains crash,
Storms yell at me,
I can feel the winds whip my skirt and my hair.
Everything around me is suddenly falling apart,
I have a million reasons to look a round but,
I don't!

My gaze is set on one,
My hope is in Him,
He is my joy and my resting place.
I can hear the screams of my flesh,
Saying look there and there!
I ignore and press forward,
Looking towards the peak,
The sun I see behind the clouds peering down at me.

In the myst of the storm,
 Our gaze met and His eyes kept me going.
His hand out to me,
Thats all I see,
I feel is Him.
I run to meet Him,
He does to me!
He has set me as a warrior,
His warrior to fight for His love,
 And the freedom of all people!

Pressing forward is,
 Learning to ignore everything and focused on one.
The tornadoes turns coming closer to me,
I see hurricanes coming but,
Continue to focus on the one light,
The light I can see,
 And almost fully feeling with every step.

I am not scared,
 For my Groom has taught me the signs,
I remember.
He whispers, "Remember my teachings."
The tornado is at my side,
The hurricanes at the other,
Rain pounding and snow coming.
Death is near,
I know.

The worlds are finally aligning,
The tornadoes colliding with the Earth.
Wind against the flesh of the Earth.
Spirit colliding with my flesh!
The rain I say thanks for it is Grace,
For I am soaked in it!

The tornado takes me up,
And so does the hurricane.
I am now in God's grip,
I am not afraid of death,
 For I already see His face.
There at the top I see the son,
 And then I enter the presence.
But wait I am not dead, I am alive.

Entering God's presence is like a tornato,
Loud  and uncomterble.
Scary and soul searching,
Full of all fruits,
A feast full of dealious foods!
Keep sight on the Son,
He is at the top of everywhere,
He is everywhere!
Raging is the wonderful storm,
 Of His presence!

War

Life is short,
And is in barren lands.
A place where evil manifest,
Where ever it can fit!
Satan's battle ground.
How do we survive?
How do we fight?
No materiel sword can defeat,
No mere human can win by self.

Oh but if you cry,
If you praise,
If you give your self body and soul,
Unto One.
You will see a war greater than flesh,
 Be won-
The air will scream Holy is the One who Made me,
An then you will see the war of Spirit and Flesh.

Evil can rise and say,
I am the Most High.
For that he cries,
Lying to Him self in desperation,
Wanting it to be Truth!
But Thanks be to God,
its a lie and always will be!

Be warned brethren,
The shadows many times,
Tries to swallow up the Light,
But never succeeding!
Them warring for your soul and mine,
For if his identity is realized then,
The war is done,
And all Heaven rejoices!

For Light always comes,
The next day.
The sun always shines when the hour comes,
Light flourish onward and is always high in the sky!
Because God is Higher still,
And will ALWAYS rule on His throne!

Jospeh My Cousin!

So I had a conversation about Jesus with my three year old cousin this past weekend. He started it while eating his peanut butter sandwich! Here is what our conversation looked like...

"Kassie, Jesus is singing m-m-m-m- MMM m-m-m- MMM (Ode to Joy)"- Joseph "He is?" Me "Yeah he's singing M-m-m-m MMM m-m-!"

 "Heaven is in the sun/son." I didn't know what son/sun he was talking about...

Then he said "Jesus is in the sun." He said that also a couple of times! 

He then said "He can't hear you singing Kassie.."- Joseph "He can't? Yes he can." -Me "No...Because he is in the sun!" Joseph.
Then Joseph said "He can hear you now Kassie!" he smiled so big then...

That was our conversation....Now he is known of talking very profound and his siblings as well.
After that little convo I really started thinking about the things he said! The words kept coming to my mind... So I decided to research... After that I was so amazed by what I found that I had to tell my aunt- his mom about it! Now through this I asked God to help me understand what this little guy was trying to communicate here, he did! Here is the message:

Hey,


I had a conversation with Joseph in the kitchen and I want you to know about it... Joseph was eating lunch when he started talking to me about Jesus. He said a couple of things that made me stop and think... These are the things he said "Kassie, Jesus is singing m-m-m-m- MMM m-m-m- MMM (Ode to Joy)"- Joseph "He is?" Me "Yeah he's singing M-m-m-m MMM m-m-!"



I looked up that song because I forgot the lyrics, also because I was researching something else he said. he kept saying it over and over again...and I just didn't want to take his four year old words an push them aside because of his age.... He said that "Heaven was in the sun/son." I didn't know what son/sun he was talking about...well if you read the first verse of "Ode to Joy" you will understand. I put it below...



Joyful, joyful, we adore Thee, God of glory, Lord of love;

Hearts unfold like flowers before Thee, opening to the sun above.

Melt the clouds of sin and sadness; drive the dark of doubt away;

Giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day!



So he was talking about Heaven is in Jesus...far as character and freedom and when are hearts are melted we will have heaven on earth!



Then he said "Jesus is in the sun." He said that also a couple of times! Look at the next verse of "Ode to Joy"



All Thy works with joy surround Thee, earth and heaven reflect Thy rays,

Stars and angels sing around Thee, center of unbroken praise.

Field and forest, vale and mountain, flowery meadow, flashing sea,

Singing bird and flowing fountain call us to rejoice in Thee.



He was saying that Jesus is light- Jesus is in the light of God. He is the way the truth and the light :)



He then said "He can't hear you singing Kassie.."- Joseph "He can't? Yes he can." -Me "No...Because he is in the sun!" Joseph. This caught me off guard because I know Jesus is always with us... well if you look at John 17:1-26 Jesus is praying that we will know the Father as He knows Him. What Joseph was saying is- sometimes Jesus steps into the light of the father so we will know his Fatherly side! So the Jesus "side" may not hear us but at that point, God the Father is hearing us. Do you get it?

Then Joseph said "He can hear you now Kassie!" he smiled so big then...

I've been really thinking about this the last couple of days and its because God was trying to talk through Joseph's four year old speech!


Love you guys!

Kassie
 
How amazing is that? All this week I felt like God wanted me to look into this more and I learned a lot. 
I hope that blessed ya'll- Your Friend Kassie!

Vulnerable

Friends,
I am entering a new season of vulnerability with God! I am going to share with you the deepest parts of my journey. God is calling me to dive deeper, climb higher, and reach like I've never reached before. When God first notified me of my performance life and light weighted- almost weak relationship with Him, I was frustrated saying-asking "God I am doing everything I know how to do, this is to much! What else do you want?"
What I didn't realize is... He wasn't calling me to do anything, when He first spoke the song "Pursue Love", that I posted so many weeks ago, He was letting me realize that I needed to step back- rest, relax, in His arms.
About a year ago...I think...I was coming back from church with my aunt and I was annoyed with how some people dressed for church. I didn't understand then, God does not care what you wear to church... as long as you are in his presence. I'm not saying that modesty does not matter but, it is secondary to the first commandment which is: Love. 
Once we get a understanding of love, it will open up our hearts for the understanding of other things.
It starts with love!
Anyway, I had a legalistic spirit then. Well as I began to share my thoughts she began to share hers... I don't know how we got to a specific part of our conversation but, I remember her closing her eyes and saying "Kassie, I see a glass heart and its broken and you are trying SO hard to put the pieces back together but, its not working. God is saying 'Rest, let me do that.' She then opened her eyes and then said "God is calling you into a time of rest...I believe this year coming up (16), is going to be amazing and you are going to go deeper."
Its been deep alright!

As Christians we focus so much on doing and not resting, I'm not saying we need to throw our responsibilities out the window... what I'm saying is we need to realize that pursuing God does not stop, He so longs for a bride who is on fire for Him just because we love him so much! Duty is secondary to a intimate, deep relationship with God.
Now before I came to this revelation of Him just wanting my heart, I was trying to be the super homemaker, getting up at seven, doing my devotions, making breakfast, and getting my chores done by ten and then getting all my school work done by twelve thirty, so I could then get lunch done by one and then have the rest of the afternoon to crochet, read, write, etc. Having that goal is good, don't get me wrong but, what you don't know is I had church almost every single night and I was helping my grandparents at the office and I was trying to start a ministry, oh and help many different websites with things and blog! My to do list was endless and my time with God was getting down to just church. My life was very performanced...the worst of it was that when I didn't get all that I needed done. I would get over whelmed! I might even cry... Part of the reason for doing all these things is because I thought it would bring my relationship with God closer and others would know of His love.... I was missing though, that I my self didn't even know what love was or that duty needs to come out of a deep relationship with God not just because... He said so.

I was hurting my self...also there were times when I would cry and say "God this Christian thing is way to hard!" I felt like giving up...letting go...of course I knew that the other side is worse and that would be stupid of me. I wasn't going to... to tell you the truth! That's when God showed me the true side of knowing Him!

Resting in Him is so relaxing... so as I dive deeper and share with you my experiences... I hope you experience Him as well!