"For He spoke and it came to be; He commanded and it stood firm." Psalm 33:9

Psalm 25…(the message)

Brittni Rawdon — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 07:16:44 +0000

When you work out, especially after not working out in a while, your body experiences physical pain and the tearing of muscles in order to be built up and experience growth. Why do we expect a spiritual workout to be any different??Why do we expect to not be tired after prayer or outreach. Don’t we know, by now, that the Lord desires for us to be LONGSUFFERING!! But how in the world are we going to be longsuffering unless we work ourselves out spiritually to gain more endurance??

My mind is so full processing everything that happened in Denver I can’t hardly communicate it to myself much less to this computer screen.

I know one thing my spiritual life was challenged to run a 5k whether i was ready for it or not. My Father called me to prayer in places that were HIGHLY uncomfortable for me..for rather long periods of time. I experienced favor that only Christ HIMSELF can bestow..yet He can only bestow it when we are willing to go to these highly unlikely places and do things the world will call crazy while picking up their stones to chunk at us. People..Believers..Warriors..there is NO other way to live!! I don’t want to live any other way. I always desire to share adventure with my Heavenly Father who loves me enough to allow me to tag along on His GLORIOUS adventures!! What an honor to be able to plant spiritual seeds places that you didn’t expect to plant them..to pray things like “hide us Father under the shadow of your wings..” and literally mean PLEASE LORD MAKE US FOGGY to the normal eye so that we have the ability to finish what you called us to this night.

It’s fun.

Serving God will always be way more exhilerating than anything else that this fallen world has to offer..walking in the Spirit will always lead to things that, I , in my carnal mind didn’t expect to be led too..and this truth..intoxicates me and challenges me and pushes me to be more and prepare for more..and burn more and more and more of my flesh off at the altar. People of God RISE UP!! Rise up and shine God’s love be infintely more! Our life is but a vapor..

Thank you Father for believing in me and for calling me to things so much bigger than myself. You are more than enough and I can’t imagine life without you guiding my every breathe. Challenge me Jesus. Change me Lord. Help me to rise up and throw off everything that hinders me. Be my strength. I love you daddy.

^{Psalm 25:1-4}

^1-2 My head is high, God, held high; I’m looking to you, God;
No hangdog skulking for me.

³ I’ve thrown in my lot with you;
You won’t embarrass me, will you?
Or let my enemies get the best of me?

   Don’t embarrass any of us
   Who went out on a limb for you.
   It’s the traitors who should be humiliated.

⁴ Show me how you work, God;
School me in your ways.

Thrust me out of bed Lord please..

Brittni Rawdon — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 05:14:20 +0000

So after growing up in church my whole life hardly ever missing a Sunday, not out of religious tradition I just loved being in the presence of my Jesus..my sophomore year of highschool they stopped having sunday school which totally messed up my sunday ritual..i stopped going..and then it just became a habit to not get my butt out of bed on Sunday mornings for now a good four years..now I have continued to grow and flourish in my Christian walk over the years and have stayed involved in church throughout the week but there truly is something beautiful about giving the Lord your Sunday which really is a totally different blog in itself..

Anyways, this past Sunday I had prayed Saturday night Lord if you want me there in the morning URGE me out of bed..which is a prayer I have prayed often and have learned that there are many times He just wants me to choose to get up rather than Him beg me..but this Sunday was different as my alarm was going off and I continued hitting snooze I had a dream that a friend of mine had run into my room and was trying to “urge” me out of bed and even in the dream I knew I wasn’t going to get up but then as I got a text message that interrupted my dreaming it was from a friend that I had mind you..invited to go with me that morning..asking if I was there yet..it was 930..church starts @ 10:15 and I live 20 minutes away..I flew out of bed and made it there just on time..because I wasn’t going to invite someone to church and then not be there when they were..

Sitting in service the Pastor and his wife kept talking up this testimony that they were about to share..well I always love hearing testimonies but I don’t even think my heart was ready to hear what was spoken..they eventually got to it and called Brother Gary to the stage..let me preface this with he had no clue what was about to take place..they asked him “Gary do you remember that letter you wrote about 3 1/2 years ago to that girl who was contemplating abortion trying to persuade her not to abort her baby?” he humbly nodded his head yes..”Can you bring baby Sydney to the stage please..Gary this is Sydney she’s 3 now, this is the child you fought for”…WOW !!!! For any of you that know me my heart bleeds for this..and I WEPT..and wept and wept it was beautiful..the Little girl went on to saying the Lords Prayer in the microphone..I wish I could say that was it but there is more..

Later on in the service they began talking of the pastor that is going to be preaching this upcoming weekend and how he had an amazing testimony..I’m only going to share part of the testimony..while this pastor was still in the womb he was a triplet..his mom for some reason began having a toxic poison running through her bloodstream, the doctor informed her she needed to terminate her pregnancy, so she did his sisters died..he LIVED!!!!!..once again about abortion..and GOD rescuing a precious soul from the hand of death! I wept AGAIN!

So then..( i know what you’re thinking how could there be more..trust me I was too)…Pastor Rod came up to speak a man of many words who really had nothing to say after witnessing these two testimonies..he said “I just want you to know that in Revelation 19 it discusses how in the end times the very testimonies that are spoken out will become as prophecies themselves and we will begin seeing the same things happening again” he went on to say i want ya’ll to know these things will be seen again..I wept again! I pray the Lord allows me to fight for another childs life and actually see victory this time!

I was just in awe that the Lord loved me enough to share those things with my heart, to urge my lazy butt out of my bed just so he could encourage my heart and confirm my calling!! I haven’t even gotton into what he did at the gas station that afternoon but I’ll leave that for another post!!
Thank you Father for loving me and leading me beside the still waters even in the rainy seasons:)

You are my hero.

nAsty faces….and you thought you were a ninja..ha

Brittni Rawdon — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:14:37 +0000

Oh my ..its nasty face time..

Everyone….and yes I mean everyone..should have nasty face contests..it really will put a smile on your face:)

I miss you conway..

..scared beauty..

Brittni Rawdon — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 07:43:16 +0000

“i think the scarier part is we know its something we’ve waited for our whole life..

with high expectations.. and now that it is in front of us the beauty of it is so overwhelming that hiding under a rock seems so much easier than staring it bright eyed in the face..”

..we know we wont settle

but then the day comes where we see in the distance something COMPLETELY

worth fighting for

but now that its here it freezes us and our hearts beat so rapidly we know there is no turning back but if we could talk ourselves out of this seemed perfection we were certainly going to try..

even though we are already so in awe of it.. leaving seems just as ridiculous as surrendering to it..

to most of you..this conversation that I had with a very dear friend will not make sense at all..but to those of you that get it, see it , feel it..it won’t take much at all to understand every morsel of it..