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Fan the Flame

This is referring to the gift that is within you. We each have been placed unique gifts inside of us that need to be used in the earth.

We have to take action to keep it alive because there is always opposition coming to shut it down and quiet that voice.

I have had to go to great lengths to fight for my voice being heard and I can’t say that it has been fully accomplished yet. I haven’t quite found the correct delivery of what I’m trying to present to people.

Life experiences help me out and I may grab ahold of it for a bit but it can be fleeting. My main thing is to make it a point that we cannot always listen to human beings for direction we have to be tapped into a higher being which is God to me.

The thing that taints what I am saying is religion. Religion has given God a bad rap. It’s represented Him so differently than He really is. It’s one of the things that has shut my mouth more than anything else.

I have to be very cautious to stay in contact with my God and not get in the wrong lane. Strong opinions and controlling attitudes can flood over that still small voice like an avalanche.

Lately I’ve been very blessed to have some people in my path that have been able to latch on to what I’m saying because they are not indoctrinated so strongly.

We know a tree by it’s fruit. If someone does not help produce good fruit in our life they are not the tree that we need to sit under.

We really need relationship with someone before they can speak truth into our lives. I took a personality test one time and a slogan that goes along with my personality is:

Yep that’s me and my personality and the way my Heavenly Father created me! He has given me the ability to believe in people that no one else can believe in. With My God Nothing is impossible! Nothing! I have lived it!

You tell me that someone is beyond repair and I will do everything I can to help them make it happen. I have had to learn through much trial and error that we cannot help someone that is determined to stay the same! We have to let go!

I will keep fanning the flame to keep my voice being heard! That means that I have to fight to be heard! That might mean that you need to fight to be heard too!

Keep on keeping on!

With God you’ve got this!

Let us know if we can help!

If no one else has told you they love you today “I Love you!”

~jill🌸~

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Getting unstuck

This seems like it’s been the longest year to me. So many ups and downs and all around. I have felt like a spectator lately just watching things.

It’s not that we haven’t had very exciting things going on, it’s just that I haven’t had lots to say about it all!

We have had the most fun ministering to people lately and watching the surprise barter gifts that they come up with to present to us! It’s also been a good practice for me to learn to receive.

In my last book Shift Happens: Restored to Bloom—available here👇🏻

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I shared lots about sowing seeds and how that can produce a new harvest in our lives. I know that I gave and gave and I have received a harvest that I would have never expected in all my days! When I wrote that last book I had only received part of it and it just keeps rolling in.

In the way of new connections, new ministry, and new opportunities in all ways.

I’m not saying that everyday is just peachy and flows very easily, there are hard days and times in life. The major breakthroughs come through anyway and override the hard times!

I have joy deep in my soul no matter what is going on! It is well with my soul! I am so grateful! All of these positive emotions help bring positive changes and attract positive things to our lives.

We have to forgive.

We have to love.

We have to stop judgments.

We have to sow good things.

We have to be open and teachable.

When we truly have a healed heart, Faith, Hope, and Love remain in us!

We are available for help and accountability…if you need it let us know!

You got this!

You can move forward!

Much love to you❣️

~jill~🌸

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Vision for 2020

Wow this year has been a roller coaster ride in some ways! As lots of you know, January sparks off a new vision for the year for me and many of my friends as we get together and design our Vision Boards for the year.

This year started looking a little crazy and seemed like the dreams and visions may not come to pass.

I looked back the other day at some of my dreams, goals, and vision for the year and I saw something pretty comical! I had put a three seat vehicle on there to be able to haul grandkids, with plenty of room with low miles.

Marty went down to Nashville, Tennessee the 2nd week in March and found us a nice Tahoe that was very pretty and drove wonderfully.

We drove it about a month and then things started going wrong with it. Marty and friends started working on it in every way that they could and we kept thinking it was fixed, but no it wasn’t. I started thinking, “What happened to my vision.” Finally we heard that the engine was burnt up and it’d be way high to fix so we talked to the place in Nashville and they said we could trade it back in for a different vehicle.

We traded it in for a just like brand new, but used, Honda Odyssey. It drove home so nice and felt like home. We drove it about thirty days and all of a sudden it konked completely out and we were told that it needed a new engine! What? What happened to my three seat vehicle?

We went through several different things this time also and finally I looked back and my vision said, “Three seat vehicle with low miles.” Neither of the vehicles had low miles and the second one does now. We got a low mile engine put in and the auto place in Nashville sent us a check for the price of the engine.

Our Father is interested in EVERY single detail of our life! There have been many things that have come to pass and amazingly better than I could have even imagined!

It’s never a time to get discouraged or worried because as He says,

Sometimes it can get so far from seeming like it’s going to happen that we can give up hope. It is never a time to worry or give up hope! Every single time God works it out right on time-every time. Not just sometimes but every time!

Some of the things that I put on my vision board, I had no idea how they could happen, are happening! I will share more about those too!

Keep up the FAITH!

Faith makes it happen!

Never give up, even in impossible odds!

You got this!

If you need help, I will help you!💜

~jill🌸

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Transformation ❣️

This morning I sat out under the porch on a beautiful morning and listened to a message about the orphan spirit! That is what we help people get free from! It is huge in our world, people feel like they don’t belong!

In my three books I spoke about how much recovery groups have helped me. I didn’t have much confidence about some of the writing in my books because I didn’t want to sound like I was coming against the church! My story is my story though! I was so excited to hear a leader present this message today!

https://youtu.be/lskIVgwjbic

This is my message confirmed!! This is the movement that has been birthed inside of me for years and years! This is my story, my life and my destiny! This gives me confidence to promote my books like I have never had before! This is my voice that has gone through much opposition to not be silenced!

I just lost my Dad five days ago and I’ve seen that he helped the Jewish people get free from the Nazis in Germany and that legacy of freeing people has been handed down to me!

I am to help the Church get free from Religion! It’s a movement, it’s a New Wineskin it’s freedom from legalism! I am not afraid to share anymore! I know that it is needed! God even brought a meeting called “Overcomers” across the highway from us to attend that is the Twelve Steps presented exactly how I would present them to the Church!

I am trusting my Heavenly Father to bring this all together! A.A. is the perfect blueprint to follow and the purpose is transformation! How many people need transformation today? Many!

These three books mention transformation in a life that could have been shipwrecked beyond repair! If you need some transformation please read these books!

You will find them on Amazon!

You may need to be delivered from a religious mindset or you may have been hurt by religion! That needs to be gone from your life! It can block creativity and freedom! It can even block transformation because you may be trying to do things in your own strength!

When we are weak is when He can be strong!! 2 Corinthians 12:10

We are not supposed to depend on our gifts, we are not supposed to be self reliant, we are supposed to lean on our Heavenly Father! All things flow freely from that place!

Reach out if you need us!

Love never fails!

We need God in our communication and relationships!!

Let’s get real and stop the pretense!

We all need help!

See you soon!

~jill🌸~

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New Wineskin

I just want to share some thoughts today about how I came to thinking about a New Wineskin. First of all I feel like 2020 has been a year of transition and change for us. I haven’t been sure to even know what to write about sometimes.

The other morning, the day after we got tested for Covid and had talked to several people that we know, that are suffering through Covid. I finally sat down and started digging deep into what my feelings were. I knew I needed to do that before I could write again.

We also at the very first week of Covid had bought a used car and had nothing but trouble with it starting a few months after we bought it. Marty had always bought and sold used cars and had never ran into anything like this, that was simply impossible to come up with a solution.

There are some things that man cannot repair… only God can. We started seeing that it is the same place that our nation seems to be right now. We took the car on a vacation to see our granddaughter we had not got to see after her birth, because of the pandemic, and the auto started acting up before we got to my brother’s house in Kentucky.

My nephew and Marty did many things to this car that would normally fix it, to no avail. We brought the car back home 4 hours, traded for our truck, and took off down to Southern Fla.

Marty had been a mechanic all of his life and had some of his friends where he had retired check it out only to come to terms with the fact that it needed a new engine which means big dollar signs.

Marty called the place where we got the car and found out that we could trade it back and get a different car. That was wonderful but it did cost us more money, it wasn’t a free trade.

I have learned in my life that:

I have to say that usually I have learned many, many things this way in life.

What we were basically looking for in the beginning was a three seat car to have room to take people places. We drove this car and were loving it and enjoying it until it started doing exactly the same thing that the other was doing. We took it to the car dealer and they did a few things and sent it home and two days later it died on the road. We had to have it towed back to the place and we were told the same thing, “Needs a new engine.”

Marty knows enough about cars that he went and looked at it. He felt like it wasn’t beyond repair so we had some people that we know tow it to their shop to look at it. They sent us a pic of the problem and we saw how impossible and how much work it would take to fix it.

During this process God started working in our hearts. We realized how hurting our world is. How impossible some people’s situations are. How we don’t even know what each other are going through because if we tell someone they try to blame us like it’s something stupid that we did to cause it.

That’s the day that I put this on Facebook:

I knew that our Heavenly Father was birthing brand new mindsets into us. It really doesn’t matter to me any more what someone else’s life speaks to them. This is what MY life is speaking to me. Someone else can analyze what we just walked through however they want but I don’t hear the voice of a stranger I hear the voice of my Father.

Each one of us have our own unique voice and purpose in this earth. We can’t get all caught up in other’s dreams and destinies and lose our own. We can learn things from people but the final say so is up to God.

We are still in the middle of the pandemic, of this auto situation, and the things going on in our nation. But I am going to learn exactly the lessons that I am supposed to learn, walk exactly where I am supposed to walk, and do exactly what I am supposed to do.

If you are in an impossible situation right now, please reach out. We can help you find answers and your purpose. I don’t want any dollars, my livelihood does not come from you. That is the biggest lesson that I learned many, many years ago.

With God, impossible things are made possible!

He makes a road in the wilderness, seriously!

He can tear down any lie.

There is always HOPE!!

See you soon!

Love you. ~jill~🌸