When God told us we were moving back to Iowa two years ago, He promised, “It’s going to be wonderful.” Well, Saturday night was wonderful! Almost 100 people came for the revival on our acreage! We were so blessed by all God did, not only the things planned, but the things unplanned–displaying His glory through the most beautiful sunset and most of all, intensifying His Presence in a tangible way!

It’s our 19th anniversary today! The roadside ministry officially started September 12, 2003! We have had a lot of changes over the years, from a motorcycle and 2 camping chairs and a posterboard sign, to a motorcycle with a teardrop trailer and a banner, to an Impala pulling a porta-potty after we had to get rid of the motorcycle in Colorado, to our present day beautiful trailer! It’s been quite a ride!!! God is always awesome!

There are a lot of things Christians receive that we don’t fully understand. Like a mark of Redemption. Many people don’t know what that means. Gifts to be able to hear. Many Christians don’t believe you can HEAR but it’s not that you actually audibly hear. Or that believers receive power. Much of the church doesn’t believe that! How about receiving a language that we may not fully understand? There are a lot of things of the Spirit that we just plain don’t understand. How can simply praying a prayer give us the right to go to heaven? How can simply asking to be forgiven wipe us clean of every sin we have or will ever commit? How can the most despicable person pray a prayer and be absolved of all his wrongdoing and be given the right to go to heaven while some of the sweetest people—kind, considerate, understanding—never found the need to pray the prayer and lose that right and spend eternity in hell? How does that make sense to us?

YET it seems the more in depth we go in the things of the Spirit, the more there comes a clarity that begins to make sense of that which doesn’t make sense! Does that make sense? It’s like when you tell a Christian who is seeking direction, “Why don’t you ask the Holy Spirit, who is the Spirit of truth, what’s the truth because He loves to tell the truth?” and they look at you like you have some marbles loose.

BOTTOM LINE: We don’t have to fully understand it to operate in it…but somehow through the Spirit, the more we operate in it, the more we understand it. That is called being led by the Spirit!

Exodus 4:15-16 NIV [God is speaking to Moses] “You shall speak to him [Aaron] and put words in his mouth; I will help both of you speak and will teach you what to do. He will speak to the people for you, and it will be as if he were your mouth and as if you were God to him.”

Exodus 7:1 NIV Then the Lord said to Moses, “See I made you like God to Pharoah and your brother Aaron will be your prophet!!”

Think of the magnitude of those two statements! I’m not aware of any other person to whom God said, “I have made you like God to them!” God was saying “I’m going to make you ME to them!” I find that statement so awe-inspiring! When God calls you or me to do or say something, He’s wanting to make us HIM for that moment, to bring a person to salvation, to repentance, into peace, into deliverance, into freedom! God’s asking at that moment, “Will you be ME to this person for the next 10 minutes?”

More than ever, it’s TIME to respond to the written and the spoken Word of God. It’s TIME to believe it. It’s TIME To become it. If God says, “Do this,” say “Yes sir!” and do it. If God says, “You are this,” then say “Yes sir” and become it! God is starting to move very quickly. Revival is already breaking out. Here’s the Lord’s invitation: “I’m calling in the workers for the harvest. I’m tapping you on the shoulder and inviting you to take part!”

So my question to you is, when God taps you on the shoulder, who are you going to be? Are you going to be Moses and say, “Noooo…please please please pick someone else”? Or will you be Jeremiah saying, “But I’m only a child, I’m not ready yet”? Or will you be Isaiah, “Yes, Lord! Here I am. Use me”?

It’s December. I said it last post: Already! We are entering a most joyous season of the year: the birth of Jesus, the celebration of the Father’s love for ALL of us, and His lavish gift to the world! Another most joyous season is Easter: the culmination of the life of Jesus on earth, His unfathomable sacrifice for ALL of us, and His resurrection for our eternal life IF we believe WHO He is and WHAT He did. Our prayer this last month of 2021 is that God will arrange a divine appointment for every one of us in which we will get to share Jesus and help one (or more) find their way into God’s glorious Kingdom of Love! It will be the best start to the new year for them AND for all of us!

October flew by and it seems all the leaves flew off our trees, too! We had such fierce winds at times that our autumn colors came and went very quickly. We had to drive a few hours away Saturday to enjoy the reds and oranges. It’s been a very busy month of ministry–65 divine appointments throughout the month. We prayed for a lady with back pain, leg pain, and foot pain to the point where she could not walk without a cane. After praying with her, she got up, walked about 20′, walked back, and did it again–all without her cane, and she hasn’t used her cane since! Thank You, Lord!

We are entering our 19th year of Roadside Free Prayer! Our 18th anniversary was September 12th. We look forward to this year and to many, many years ahead! Thank you to all our partners and all who have encouraged us over the years! Your support is vital to us in more ways than one!

We will be in the Tall Corn Days parade here in Sioux Rapids Saturday morning with our Free Prayer trailer! It is an annual celebration and starts off Friday night with a Sweet Corn Feed at the American Legion–sounds yummy!!! We are grateful for the continued exposure to our community and more and more people are recognizing us on the roadside and honking and waving! The corn in the fields surrounding our house is about 7′ tall and beautiful!

The editor of the Sioux Rapids Bulletin Press interviewed us last week and wrote an article about the ministry which was published in last Friday’s paper. The Bulletin Press is a weekly newspaper within the larger Spencer Daily Reporter, so we received some fairly widespread publicity! We are happy she mentioned the Lord throughout the article! And glad more word is out about who we are and why we’re out on the roadside! Thank You, Lord!