Well.....I haven't blogged in a month and a half.
I'm sorry guys! The world caught up with me; weddings, swimming, running, work, ice skating, cliff jumping, church, and trying to stay alive is a LOT to do in one Summer. Somehow I am managing.
I can't wait to see what this next week is going to bring. I am going off into the wilderness of Lake Tahoe, and I'm going to spend a few days away from EVERYONE there. I need to do this, just because I have to get away from what people are telling me to do and do what the One tells me to do. In order to follow the One I have to listen to His voice. However His voice is becoming clearer and clearer to me here is something He released to me that it was okay to share with you:
One struggle being in college is connecting with local churches, and finding one that believes, nurtures and values and is a good steward of my money. I hadn't given my tithe to the local church, I usually give to Missions Organizations instead of the church. However, at home the church that I go to blesses me so much and is a great steward, and I felt it on my heart to give to this church, but for some reason or another I kept forgetting to bring my check book to church. Well, during the week, I had this dream, it was the most clear (as in visually clear) dream I've ever had from the LORD and in it the LORD said to me: "If you do not tithe, then you cannot take part as my daughter." I woke up right after that, and wow it was intense!!!! I did not understand it because in my mind I thought: "You can't buy your way into the Kingdom of Heaven! What is God talking about?" Somehow I just knew that dream was from the LORD.
Saturday came around and I was late to church, but I got there as quickly as I could and I remember praying: "LORD please don't have them take the offering until I get there." I got there, and after a song or two the offering was taken and I gave my tithe. Then my pastor goes up front and starts to give a sermon about tithing, and his sermon explained what my dream meant. Because I was not tithing at a local church I was under a curse from God. (Malachi 3:9-10 "You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me, even this whole nation. Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house. Prove (test) Me in this," says the Lord Almighty, "and see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room enough to receive it." ) Then the pastor began to explain if we do not tithe we could not receive the full blessings that God has in store for his children. He used these verses: 1 John 3:9 "Those who have been born of God's family do not make a practice of sinning, because God's life is in them. So they can't keep on sinning, because they are children of God." If I continued in this delayed obedience (which was on par with disobedience, sin) I could not receive blessings of being God's child, or even have the privilege to take part as his daughter.
