Moments.

Sometimes...
It can be easy to forget that God is perfect.
It can be easy to read scripture as a story, or just words to a general group of people.
It can be easy to think that you care about something more than your Heavenly Father does.
It can be easy to feel like you're time is being wasted, or that sacrifices are in vain.
It can be easy to try to do everything yourself and know all the answers.

Sometimes...
Faith is hard.

Today something obvious made sense to me: Jesus actually meant the words that he spoke.

THATS A BIG DEAL!

That means that when Jesus says 
"Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground apart from the will of your Father."that he means it!  (Matthew 10:29).

I believe that God made known to Jesus everything of His heart because He loved Him. If Jesus knew everything of the Father, and Jesus says He shares that with us because we are His friends, then that is true! (John 15:15).  We have access to all of the Lord's heart just by being His friend! By being His loved one!

I know that all those things listed above can be easy to do, (I do them all the time) but in doing those things I am not living an abundant life full of joy. Two things of which Jesus died to provide for me.

Jesus really does have everything in control. He knows every moment of everyday.

A week ago some anointed ladies from home group were praying over me.
Jesus said to me "With me, it's easy"
and He placed in my arms a bundle of wheat and joyfully said "Here's some harvest" :)
It made me laugh.

To enjoying the simple moments,
Deanna

The Sweet Life.

So I havent written a post in almost 2 months..gosh I guess thats how it can be with blogging sometimes.
So Ill share a little of how my life has been recently :)
Im loving being an RA this semester.
3 days ago I quit at McAlisters :( that was a sad day.
But the happy news is that the reason I quit is because...Ill be spending the summer in Mozambique! :D
I have the awesome opportunity to learn about missions from those who have been doing it faithfully in the Lords presence a majority of their life and I get to meet Heidi Baker. No human being has ever inspired me more. (Besides Jesus, but thats a given lol).
So far I have read "There is Always Enough" and "Visions Beyond the Veil." All I can say is wow to both of those books. The first book just brought me into closer awareness of Jesus' intimacy and that every fruitfulness in this earth comes from looking into His beautiful eyes of fiery love! From the second book I was reminded of how with every person we encounter, it is our responsibility and honor to give them the option and awareness of the Gospel, just like it had been given to us. It is our blessing to LOVE on people!!

If there is anyone reading this blog that has never encountered the love of God, a love that is more satisfying that anything on this earth, then please just know that it is for you. A man named Jesus gave his life so that we could have an abundant life full of joy! If you have any questions about this or want prayer or anything at all really, come talk to me and I would love so much to help. God is always listening too. I know that for a fact.

I had a dream the other night and I want to share it.
So in my dream I was back in my childhood and I was playing with my friends. Since it was a dream I could hear the thoughts and conversations of the dads watching as if I was standing right next to them. One of the dads said to the other "Man, it physically hurts me to let him go, I just want to spend more time with him." (talking about his child). And the other said "you know, the more time you spend with him, the more like you he will be." And immediately my thoughts went to Jesus. Jesus was so much like God the Father because He spent 30 years of his life hanging out with Him! From what we see in the scriptures he spent his time studying and memorizing the word and even at the age of 12 was in the temple inquiring about his Father. He had a hunger and burning desire to know all there was to know about the goodness of his dad and all of the inheritance that Jesus had as a human being to show us what we could be! Its so sweet! :)

Blessings