After much deliberation on what to blog about, I’ve decided to share with you some stuff that I’ve been chewing on!

I’ve been listening to Kathie Walters the last 2 days, and she has rocked my world!  I’ve listened to the same teaching twice, she’s so good!  She is Welsh and I could listen to her talk all day.  I’m lovin that accent!

She has given me a whole new perspective on the religious spirit that is so permeated our culture!  She calls it a “Qualifying Spirit”  I’d say it’s a spirit of unworthiness.  But here’s how she defines it:

“Anything that you have to strive for that only God can do, is a religious spirit.  If you see others with a prophetic gift or a seer gift and think that you could never have it, that is a religious spirit”

In order to fully function in the gifts the Lord has placed in you, and the calling in which to use these gifts, the spirit of religion has to be addressed.

I never really thought of myself as having issues with a religious spirit.  But you know here’s what’s gnawing on me.  I still have fear of man to a certain degree.  The Lord keeps shinging the light on that area for about the last few months.

We went to Arizona for Christmas, and spent some time with my husband’s mom and went to church with her.  She attends a small town Calvary Chapel.  Not necessarily super conservative aka Presbyterian, Baptist, etc.  But it’s not necessarily charismatic either.

That morning in the service during the worship, the Lord just started downloading all this stuff to me about the church, the pastor, and the worship leader.  About how they were going to be a catalyst for revival in that town, how in their personal times with the Lord, that His presence was going to be really heavy on them.  And that the Lord was going to take the worship leader to a place of worship he’s never been to before.

Pretty awesome stuff for sure!  However, scary for me to deliver to people I didn’t even know, and whether or not they were even going to receive it!  I had an opportunity here, was I going to let the fear of man get in the way, or was I going to let the Lord speak through me?  With much fear and trembling, I chose the latter.

I figure the Lord is going to keep giving me these opportunities to step out, and as I step out, He’s going to step in and I’m going to get free!  I want to be free!  I want to say what my Father is saying, and be His vessel, to bring hope to a lost and dying world!