Overwhelmed

Ya know, sometimes I simply have to stop and break down. Sometimes the Lord really lays into me with his stern compassionate love that I simply cannot handle all at once. This week I have been overwhelmed with the words He has spoken over me. It has been near impossible to keep my eyes dry this week because I simply cannot comprehend how my Jesus feels about me. Think about that for just one second. Think about the crazy love that my Abba Father has for me. I cannot even comprehend how much He stinking loves me. Not only does my Jesus speak this amazing identity over me that I am His beautiful daughter, but He has superbly hit me with the JOY that I bring Him on a daily basis....what's that??? Oh YEAH! I AM THE JOY OF THE CREATOR OF THIS UNIVERSE! I'm sorry...the what??? OH YEAH! JOOOOOY!


Good Gracious! What the heck?! The creator of the universe, the author and perfecter, the beginning and the end of everything in this world is overjoyed to look into my life. He is overjoyed by my spirit. Tonight I was standing in the corner simply crying in His lap. I was dancing in his arms, and He was rolling on the golden streets in heaven with laughter as I jumped around the room waving my arms in glorious praise and worship of His name. It was a "forget about everything in that room, simply be crazy in love with Jesus dancing and yelling laughing for a good hour and a half" kind of night. I know that the Lord had something for ME tonight. I know that He spoke life into me. He started something new in me. He changed my heart. He has been changing my heart since last night, and honestly I was scared to death. I hit a near panic attack because I was so OVERWHELMED by the fact that my relationship with Him is no longer a list of do's and don'ts...it was a "head over heals, you say jump I say where, lets just sit in a field and love Jesus" kind of relationship. 


To many people this doesn't make sense, but I cannot explain how emotional I get when the Lord is moving! I mean seriously sit down and really try to understand how much you are loved. Really try to make yourself see the love of Christ and the Joy that you bring Him! What was that??? That's right! YOU BRING JESUS JOY! Pretty STINKING cool right?!? Yeah when that fact really hit me, I had to get up, leave the room and go be alone and cry because I simply cannot stand that the most powerful, the most amazing, the most significant, the provider, our ABBA FATHER is overjoyed by goofy personality full of stupid comments and tons of mistakes. He loves me...wait I'm sorry I don't think you got that...HE. LOVES. ME. As an individual He stinking died the most painful death to save ME....AS AN INDIVIDUAL He stinking died so that I could live! What the heck?! You sit your butt down and try to comprehend that because I still can't do it! That is just insane, and I don't care who you are or what you believe...that's just NUTS! You are the Joy of the Father...you are the light...embrace that Identity! Step into that life and QUIT RUNNING AWAY FROM IT! Good gracious I am yelling at myself in the process....Do not give Satan that power or that pleasure of holding your heart! You stand up and rebuke that crap that He is throwing at you! Flip Satan off and say "Hell no! Back up off me you big meanie head because MY GOD has already won and you HAVE ZERO POWER HERE! This ain't your place! I am His child, and you don't stand a chance against my God!" Don't be afraid to piss him off! In fact take joy in the fact that Christ has given you what you need to stand against Satan! He has no power over you, no matter who he tries to use against you! He will use your friends, he will use your family, he will try to use the people that you believe are the only ones who are on your team, but in reality, HE CAN'T WIN! you have the power of Christ on your side, and I wouldn't dare bet against that! 


Good freaking gracious! Step into the life that Christ has for you! Accept it and LET. HIM. LOVE. YOU. You are His joy. You are His delight. He loves you more than you will ever know, and he is the ONLY one that will ever truly satisfy your soul. You better know that now because He wants so stinking badly for you to realize that He is IT...He is the thing you are looking for. He is the only one that can ever react the way you want someone to. he is the only one that will smile as big as you need. He is the only one that will ever truly get excited with you! When you want to jump around the room screaming and shouting with love...that's Him...don't hold that on humans because they will never give you what you want to the fullest! Look to Christ because he is the one that will truly jump around the room with you! He will sing until you lose your voice! He will run until you can't move anymore, and then He will carry you the rest of the way. He is the only one....that will truly give you what you are looking for....it's not the world...it's not the opposite sex. it's not friends. it's not food. run to Him because He is waiting with open arms to simply love on you and hold you and give you the deepest desires of your heart! Of course you are disappointed when people don't give you what you are looking for...they don't know what you need...the only one that knows that is Jesus so stop even trying to find it in humans! Let Him be the one! He wants you to want Him! You need to want Him. That's just the way it is.


Sweet Love and Tears,
Megz

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21 Things I Miss About My Sister!

This is my friend...nope....BEST friend...nope....SISTER! Yeah! That's It! :)

For those of you that don't know...I miss her every single day! These are simply 21 things that I miss in honor of her 21st birthday! AH! She is getting so big :( (cue the shedding tears here)

1.  Her love of Sonic

2.  Her sarcastic tone to everything she says to me

3.  Her ability to come out of sarcastic tone when it's "serious time"

4.  The fact that she would put up with ANYTHING I did (& usually helped plan it)

5.  Her crazy laughter that turns into a duck quack when it's ridiculously funny!

6.  Her singing voice

7.  Her ability to encourage & uplift me w/a sarcastic bite :)

8.  Her amazing ability to make AWESOME cds

9.  Her ridiculously on fire heart for Jesus Christ

10.  Her beautiful long curly hair

11.  Her spontaneous attitude that allows my creative to flow like cray cray

12.  The fact that she LOVES to have nerf gun wars!

13.  The fact that she will still play "man on sand" with me on the playground

14.  Her protective spirit that still wants to beat up people who have broken my heart

15.  The fact that if I say, "Skip with me!" she says, "Let's skip everywhere we go today!"

16.  Her spirit that allows her to jump in a stranger's pool with me fully clothed!

17.  The fact that she still leaves Grinch quotes on my phone because I can't hear them in person

18.  Her amazing acting ability that allowed her to get the lead in NUMEROUS plays (she's kind of a BIG deal!)

19.  No matter what time it is, she will take over 100 pictures with me making different faces EVERY time 

20.  Making BBQ Chicken pizza in her kitchen as her Brother-in-law walks in to discover our "dance" moves ha! ha!

21.  Not being able to talk face to face & hug her neck for hours & hours...that's what I miss most!

Reaggy-Poo-Poo, you know how much I love you, and you know that I miss you more and more every single day! Graduation cruise CANNOT come soon enough! You still make me laugh harder than anyone on this earth, and that will never change! You have the key to my heart, and you know every single piece! You have been there to laugh with me through everything, and you have made me laugh when the tears were falling! You know me better than anyone else, and I love that about our friendship! I love that we can still say the exact same thing at the exact same time even though you are a gazillion miles away! Have an amazing 21st birthday! I am praying for you, and I am thanking Jesus for giving me such a blessing in 2nd grade! Elementary School would have SUCKED without you, and you and I both know that I would not have made it through my senior year without you right by my side...considering you are the only one that I let in during that time ha ha! Thanks for never backing down when I say "I'm fine!" Thank you for not believing me when I said "I don't need anything or anyone!" You saved my life, and i will love you forever sister! Now go out and have a blast baby! Live it up and call me and tell me how it was later :))) You have my numba ;)

Sweet Love and Cray Cray Parties,

Megz

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What Else Really Matters?

I am not ashamed of my Jesus!  I am not ashamed to leap in the air and sing songs to my Father!  I am so terribly in love with Him!  I could talk about Him for days and days on end, and NOTHING else in this world matters!  He has romanced me and grown me in ways I can't even explain.  I could sit with my Jesus forever just listening to Him love me :)  I often jump around just because I can't contain my love for Him!  I know that He is laughing with me when His spirit fills me with joy.  I often get all mumbo-jumboed because I can't explain Him and His glory...it's INCREDIBLE, and I want to shout it from the rooftops of every building in the world! 

Ya know, lately I have really noticed a heart change in me.  My heart has been released, and I have allowed God to change me in ways that I could never have imagined in my entire life.  The Lord has lead me to do things that I never would have done.  My heart song has harmonized with Him, and is still being tuned each and every day.  The Father has changed my ears to listen to Him and only Him.  Though Satan tries real stinkin hard to pull my heart away, when it comes down to it... I know I am a daughter of the King.  I have learned to wait on Him, really sit and BE STILL and know that He is going to speak to me.  

He has changed my heart for His children.  He is the only one that can truly bring me joy.  My King is so incredibly amazing, I could never fully explain to you what He has done in my life.  When I find myself doubting, I run to Him and sit and listen and I am able to feel His arms wrap around me.  I feel at peace when things are crashing down all around me.  I am a mighty woman of God, I am His beautiful daughter, and I am an overcomer!  Satan has no power in my life.  I know that Jesus is fighting for me, loving me, forgiving me, encouraging me, and letting my heart grow more for Him with every second.  I don't have to worry about my future, I don't have to feel down because my Jesus is bigger than all of this, and He will never let me down!  He has called me to the nations, He has called me to love His people, and when I am in His will, that's all that matters.  People ask me what I'm going to be doing with my life, and the only thing I can say is "Whatever He calls me to do."  

I would really encourage you to sit down and just listen.  Listen to whatever God has you called to do.  I would put money on the fact that the very first thing He is going to tell you is how much He loves you...and Lord knows that He could tell us that forever and ever amen!  He loves us so much, and He loves to tell us that!  When you're feeling down, please just sit back and feel His heartbeat, sit back and listen to Him compliment you, listen to Him love you, and listen to what He knows you need to hear!  He knows our every trouble.  He knows our every heartache.  He knows our every joy.  He knows our every sorrow.  He knows.  Just sit and listen because He is the ultimate comforter and the ultimate advisor!  He is amazing at making ya feel better!  Trust and know that He will speak to you because He is not a quiet God, He is not a timid God...He will rock your world when you least expect it!  Be faithful and know who He is, and strive daily to figure out more as you live this life.  He will never let go! 

Sweet Love and Simple Beauties,
Megz

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Preparation is Key

Tomorrow is the Day!!!!

I am so beyond excited because tomorrow I get to drive to Norman, Oklahoma, and then I get to head to San Diego, California, with my best friend!  This journey began with a few simple words...


Kenz: "I'm going to San Diego with Antioch over Spring Break!"
Meg: "I wanna go!"
Kenz: "Then come!"
Meg: "OK!"


And so the fundraising began!  


I have seen so much of my best friend in the past few weeks, and honestly I LOVE every second of it! We have officially decided that we should have random trips like this just so we are forced to see one another more! :) (we miss each other!)  I had to travel my big ol' butt to Norman a few times for some training sessions because this trip is going to be AWESOME!  They had to prepare us for all the wonderful things that are going to happen ha! ha!  We are going to San Diego to love on the people there and share the good news with the college students of San Diego State University.  This is my first mission trip since I have been in college, and I am so stinking excited to go and spend a week with my family sharing the good news and inviting people to join our family!  I know God is going to do some MARVELOUS things this week, and I can't wait for it to get started!  I would appreciate prayers for our team, and huge prayers for the people of San Diego!  God prepare their hearts to be changed, and definitely wow ours with the crazy cool things that you are going to do and are doing!  Let's gooooo! 


Sweet Love and New Family Members,
Megz

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To Change or Not to Change?

I know I say this a lot, but....Lately I have had a lot of things on my mind. As most of you know, or will figure out by reading my blog posts, I have a PASSION for people...and I'm not just talkin about "people are cool", I am talking about an "on fire-go for the goal-fight to the death-love on them in any and every way I possibly can-walk through fire-bring them joy" kind of PASSION. (sorry if that doesn't make sense)


This has not been a "my whole life kind of passion" this is a recent obsession that God has blessed me with. I am the person that has never known where she was going to go to college, or what job she was going to get, or where she was going to be tomorrow. I have always been the girl that took life one day at a time, and I am grateful for that. God blessed me with a careless about what comes next spirit. Don't get me wrong, I do have my doubting days where I think things are never going to get better, or those days that seem like they'll never go away (I mean come on! Who Doesn't??) But I don't constantly worry about where I will be in the future, I don't worry about money too often (mainly because I am blessed abundantly with good parents with GREAT jobs), I don't constantly think about my future...


There are things that I do worry about quite often that God has really placed on my heart to do something about it...I can no longer just sit back and hope for things to change. As someone once said (I'm terrible remembering people who said stuff)

"Be the Change that you want to see in the world"

I worry about my friends' and family's eternal lives. I want to see them in heaven when I get there and I want to be standing there when they walk through the golden gates with open arms ready to welcome them into the wonderful place called heaven that we will spend FOREVER. I worry that I will run out of time to make a difference...so why not start today? I worry that I'll hurt someone and never get the chance to say I'm sorry...so why not be sweet to everyone? I worry that children are starving all over the world without being loved...so why not adopt a child and support them? I worry that children are being medicated and criticized for being children...so why not encourage every child to be themselves and play with them even though I'm getting older? I worry that people will go their lives without feeling important or valued...so why not give a hug and listen to their story without interrupting? I worry that girls will never feel beautiful...so why not hand out every compliment that pops into your head (even to a complete stranger)? I worry that boys will fall to the sexual immorality that is constantly thrown in their face through advertisements, tv, movies, and magazines...so why not dress appropriately and not add to the temptations? I worry that dreamers are being destroyed because the world tells them they can't do something...so why not encourage every dream and every passion that I come in contact with? I worry about people because they are my PASSION. I care about their FOREVER, I care about their NOW, and I care about their past. I want to see people smile and I want to hear them laugh, I want to help them be silly and find their inner child. I want to sing songs with them, skip down the road holding their hands, roll down a grassy hill and laugh until we cry. I want the world to be a joyful place.

I know a lot of this really is just a mess of words, but I am so passionate about dreaming and believing and hoping, that it all comes out a little "mumbly jumbly" and I don't really care. My point is...don't just sit and hope for something to change...CHANGE IT and ENCOURAGE OTHER PEOPLE TO CHANGE IT WITH YOU! Don't you dare put God's power in a box and say "that can never happen" Don't you DARE tell yourself you can't do something or let someone else tell you it's not possible because with my God ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE!

Sweet Love and BIG Changes,

Megz

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