Oh Mary Lou, Shiloh, the beast, a papasan chair, and a lamp.

Well, it's been a fun day. Again, so much to process after 2 hours of intense teaching at church, 1 hour of listening to Ihop's prophetic history (OH MY GOODNESS), and 4 hours in the prayer room. At church this morning, the topic was on Social Justice, and how, as God spoke this to Stuart Greaves..."The present social justice movement is preparing the poor of the earth to receive the Anti-Christ." We can see it happening before our very eyes. There are so many humanitarian works out there that only see to physical needs. We need to feed the poor, yes, but without the name and glorifying of Jesus, it's not truly justice. Because justice starts in a right standing with the God-head IN Jesus. The humanism movements, though good to help people, do not save souls. We must be after hearts to be turned to Jesus, first. What good is it if we feed someone, but they don't meet Jesus? Not saying we shouldn't feed them. But the book of Revelation speaks of the deception that is going to overtake the world, claiming to be the right way in a unification of world systems, but are not for God, and will ultimately fail. Oh, but those who are Friends of God. Those who know Him, who hear His voice. We know His goodness. This all just impacted me. I so often do things in my heart in the name of Jesus, but when people don't know. Jesus is just so good, when we have met Him we can't help but to tell people how good He is!

I will shift gears. On Sundays I usher. Which, I'm not gonna lie, I don't like doing it. I always get in trouble for not paying attention. Twice today Mary Lou, the head usher, had to get on me because I was worshiping instead of finding seats for people. Mary Lou was very gracious with me, we joked how she was born to be an usher, and I was not. I also ran into my friend Chrissy (top picture), who has been living here for about 2 years. We met through a friend and she spent a Christmas with me and my family, and has actually been to Louisville several times. When I came to the Onething Conference this past year, it's kind of a crazy story, but I stayed in her apartment...by accident. You see, my YWAM friend Jess, who is getting married in Sopchoppy, told me I could stay with her during the conference. Awesome! Then a couple days before I head out to KC, I decided to text Chrissy because I knew she was living in KC. Chrissy said I could stay with her, but I told her I already had a place...anyway, I found out that Jess and Chrissy were roommates! I had NO IDEA. I met Jess in KC with YWAM, and I met Chrissy in Louisville because of our mutual friend Rebecca (Hi Rebecca!). Strange. If you didn't catch any of that, it's okay, it's just really cool to me.

My days seem kind of a blur, because I am taking so much in. After 1 hour of listening to the prophetic history, I was ready to call it a day...but, I had 4 hours in the prayer room (which were amazing, by the way). Chrissy and I met after that and went the Shiloh, which is property owned by Ihop. There is a lake, and some paths to walk on, a garden, and a retreat center. We ran into one of Chrissy's friend's out walking his dog. I forgot the dog's name already, because he called him a beast, and that just sort of stuck. Half mastif, half bull-dog. Cute and friendly. We talked for a while, which was great. Chrissy and I got to catch up on life, which was nice. And she shared her thinking with me about how country songs all seem to have a similar Job experience. Ha. But then we busted out in our rendition of the song sung by, well, I don't know actually, about what you get 'when you play a country song backwards.' Good fun.

On our way home, we were walking past some houses, and we discovered some furniture someone had sat out for garbage. I got so excited, because I saw a papasan chair. I had been wanting another one for the living room, but didn't exactly have the money to spring for one. Elizabeth and I decided that a dog must have lived on it, but it's cool, we have a vacuum and some Febreeze. And Chrissy scored an amazing lamp to add to her eclectic apartment life. Oh, God is funny in His provision, but we LOVE it! Well, I am overwhelmed with terminology, theology, eschatology, I'm just tired, and I'm going to bed!