katie rose writes

Love is and always was the longing placed inside my heart to know You, and be known by You. (from "the longing" by All Sons & Daughters...check out the whole song here and the song story  here ) The Lord woke me up with this song first on my pandora playlist this morning, after several switches through playlists. But he stopped me on this one, and it set the tone of my morning. Just to be honest, it's been a rough week. After a really great and inspiring week last week, watching God move in amazing ways, this week has been full of both wonderful ups and confusing downs. But that's life. God is bigger than life, though. And this morning, by His grace, I'm finally able to slow down, sense that, trust His hand is still at work in it all, and be revived in learning a new lesson from this song that I can even find a few minutes, sit down, and share with you. I've missed blogging. There's SO much to say, SO much going on, and not enough time to get i...

You know when we are most vulnerable? When our walls tumble faster and with more ferocity? In excitement. In extravagance. In abundance.  It's when you are stepping into the place of abundance that the enemy's whisper abounds: turn back. turn back NOW. These are his taunts, his fears, his insecurities, that have no where else to show up, than in the heart & mind of a child who has all of the rights to God that he never had.  Satan doesn't like that because it is how God wants us to live. That's what God wants for us: ABUNDANCE.  As someone who passed through a season of barrenness and is on the cusp of a valley of abundance, I can say that I have never felt the enemy's attack more closely or more deeply than right here. In anxiousness for the next season, full of hope. Last year, his attacks were superficial. Now the spiritual warfare is closer than ever before. Jesus, help me.  I've been getting a lot of what most would term "good new...

Today I had some Jesus time on the quad, with shade keeping me cool enough to quiet my mind and heart and focus on listening. Yet my voice interrupted with destructive, entangling roots of self-centered lies. But God. Those timeless words ring true for me today. This is what He did, the opposite of what I was doing.  The breeze picked up, playing with the strands of hair around my face. A subtle reminder of His presence. With it came the Spirit's challenge to lay down my concerns and convictions at the feet of Jesus.  Oh Jesus, thank you for being right here, right now, for challenging me to reject all the lies and deception that seek to chain me up in self-destructive thoughts, when you long & delight to build me up by your great love that says that I do not have to be good-enough, smart-enough, pretty-enough, loved-enough by mere humans, filled by others and a good-filler of others. All of that is loss, not gain. All of that is rubbish, not treasure. Daddy, ...