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Sometimes when you start out on a journey you don't know what the route looks like.  At times you may go through a place you have never been before.
When I started out on this journey, I didn't realize some of the implications of what I was doing.  One thing I had been doing monthly I will no longer be doing.  This is a ministry I had been involved in for a number of years.  It was very difficult to stop.  However for over a year God was preparing me.
Per prophecies I have received and what I have received from God, I have three main ways God uses me.  These are:  prophecy, prayer and healing.
In my case I believe that God is helping me to unlearn somethings so that I can re-learn kingdom principles.  What makes this hard is that most of my Christian friends probably do not understand.  The fact remains that God works differently with me than others.

Update:  2/3/15
I am happy to report growth and repentance in my life.
I have the release to begin praying again for the ministry mentioned above.
God has done work in my heart.  He has re-ordered priorities, put relationships in correct places in my heart.  It is such a joy to pray for my fellow workers for the gospel.  Also, this means being able to be a helper to a dear friend of mine.  My helping her, I am helping the cause of the gospel of Christ.

Update:  2/7/15
I have yielded to the call of the Holy Spirit, regarding my call to being a watchman.  I know it will be hard, I likely will suffer in many ways.  

Update 11/11/17:
I had no idea how I would suffer.  This journey is hard at times.  My friends and family often do not understand where I am coming from.  They want me to toe the "Christian line".  Change is not easily embraced by "Christianity".  However, the deep, abiding peace of God is worth it all.  When I stand before God, I want to hear him say "Good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord."
Unfortunately, I have seen relationships change that I thought would always be there.  I've seen problems where I could not imagine.  BUT it's time for me to rise up and put my faith in the ONE who will not fail me.  That is my everlasting Father, the prince of Peace, and my Lord and Christ Jesus.

The Beginning

I was reading Kris Valloten's book Spirit Wars this morning.  This one sentence jumped out at me:  "What I did not realize until that night was that I had been educated right out of my solution."  That hit me hard.  This thought came to me, "what if I could forget what I thought I knew about God and start fresh and learn again"  It sounds crazy.  That is the purpose of this blog, a reset, a new beginning.  Starting without preconceived ideas about God.  Doing what new Christians do.
My plan:  to write what I am forgetting and what I am learning.

Afterward:  Coincidentally?  Tonight I watched "God's Not Dead".  It is about a student who chooses to accept a challenge to try to prove that God is not dead.

Update:  2/16/15
This has been a much different journey than I had expected.  But just as a plant is pruned to help it grow and produce more, so have I been pruned.  This winter has been long and cold.  In many ways it has been hard but joyful.  It won't be long until I hear the words, "Lo, the winter is past....."

Update 11/11/17
How far this journey has taken me.  I believe that if I had not left the Standard American "Church", I would be a dead and cold Christian.  I am shocked to see where I am now.  But there is the "life" of God stirring in my heart and I believe that I am closer to being like Christ.  Is that not what we are meant to be?  Formed in the image of Christ.  I am planning to update my blogs first and there continue on, by relating how I have gotten from where I was to where God has brought me.  I have a glimpse of my future.  I believe that many Christians all over the world are escaping "church" in order to become the body of Christ, His church, also called the "remnant".