You would think a few months of not posting I would be brimming with things to say. On the contrary, I am speechless. I thought starting this blog my friends and family in Texas could be updated with not only my life but what I am learning every day at school. That is the very reason I haven’t posted in forever. I am learning so much I am on overload and normally have no idea how to put anything into words. It’s even hard to call people in Texas because I have no idea how to tell them what is going on in my life if I don’t even know how to explain anything. All I know is every morning I wake up and every morning I am different from the day before.
I feel like my brain and heart are being filled with so many new revelations, thoughts, prophecies, and sermons that I just want to sit at the end of the day and either write, cry, or stare at a blank wall processing things. I am scared I actually might float away with everything that I am learning; as if everything being deposited in me is helium and I am a quickly expanding balloon. The irony is everything I am learning me is “grounding” me in who I am and what I believe. Ha. If you can’t tell I am a whirlwind of emotions. Floating, grounding, write, cry, quite, stare, I just looked back over the last two paragraphs and I just used all those words to describe me and how I feel right now. Can anyone say, “Emotional overload!”? My poor fiancé and roommates! I honestly have been so blessed with the people in my life. I am learning about unconditional love and what grace really is from Brendon and my roommates; I know I would not be surviving this year without them.
There are so many lessons stirring in me but the biggest one that I find becoming my rock is:
I will trust in the word of God and not my circumstance.
I will trust in who I know God is and what He has said in His word; not at what my circumstance is screaming at me to believe and throwing in my face. For example, just an example, if my bank statement is low and I start worrying about finances my circumstances clearly shows I need start working on getting money even though I know God gave me this year to rest from a job and “normal” life. What the word of God says and what He has actually proven to me is that He provides faithfully! I will believe He provides and I will not act out on my emotions that come up when I see the bank statement. My emotions are a manifestation of what I believe. Simple and cheesy example but I think it gives the point. Right now this is keeping me afloat. When life is rough and my circumstances say everything is going downhill I will trust in that God is good all the time and will work everything out for good. It sounds super “Christian cheesy” but makes all the different in the world….it is also much easier said than done. I happen to be writing this down and posting it to actually help cement this truth into who I am. This of course means I do not have this core value down yet, in fact I quite failed at it last night; yet another example of how my fiancé and roommates show me unconditional love and grace.
That is all for now.
~Dani, a helium balloon.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
So…..I’M ENGAGED! No big deal. ;)
Here is the story of the best proposal ever:
I had two weeks in Texas for my Christmas holiday from school. I flew in late Saturday night the 19th. Brendon planned an all day date for me on Tuesday the 21st. One thing that you must know is I am a planner; I will have everything written down in a list, color coordinated, with the best time efficiency. Brendon is a more chill man who goes with the flow. So when he planned an all day event with reservations and everything it spoke to my heart of his love for me by loving me the way I feel loved! (Yes we took the Danny Silk relationship study together. Haha)
He took me to the Gaylord Texas to see the ICE exhibit. Very sweet and very cold! I actually didn’t think he would propose since we talked about waiting till after I graduate in May and plus it was 9 degrees in the ice exhibit so needless to say I was just trying to enjoy the day and not thinking about a ring. After the tour he drove me to Dallas to Cafe Istanbul with a dozen red roses waiting for me on the table. This is when my brain started turning and wondering if anything else (aka a ring) would happen that night! After dinner he took me to our favorite park where we had our first kiss. On the way there he told me he had a gift for me. This is the part where I started freaking out praying he would propose but still trying to push it out of my head. Oh the joys of being a girl. When we got to the park everything was perfect. It was dark, but we had a full moon, cold but not freezing and we were walking down to the bench where we first kissed with a pond and a lit fountain in the background. It was brilliant. But as we were walking to the bench he started pulling out “the gift,” my heart sunk when I saw a bag of dark chocolates. Dark chocolate is my favorite but when a girl is expecting a diamond it is a bit disappointing. But I put a smile on my face and told myself not to ruin this perfect date that Brendon planned for me. I thanked him for the chocolate and realized the bag was already opened after he told me to have a piece. I of course became quite mad realizing he didn’t have a ring and it seemed that he already had a piece of MY chocolate. Oh yet again the joys of being a girl. When I opened the already opened bag of chocolate I discovered that each piece of chocolate had a love letter attached to it, 13 letters in all! My heart jumped back up after being sunk and started going crazy. We sat down and for the next 30 minutes I read every heartfelt love letter. Each letter started with a different nickname he calls and had a theme to go with that letter. By the last letter we were standing in the dim gardens of the park, he was behind me with his arms around me holding me close with his hands in my coat pockets. The last love letter told me to pull out something in my right coat pocket, turn around, hand it to him and look at him in the eyes. He had slipped the ring box in my coat pocket and when I turned around he gave me a beautiful speech, got down on one knee and asked if I would spend the rest of my life with him! It was the most beautiful and heartfelt proposal which made me laugh and cry all at the same time! I of course said yes and told him I was honored to have such a right standing, kind, and loving man choose me. After 10 minutes of laughing, crying and kissing, he took me to his house where there was a surprise engagement party waiting for us!! It was perfect. I am going to marry the most amazing man I know. I am so honored and blessed to be Brendon Wheeler’s wife!
Here is the story of the best proposal ever:
I had two weeks in Texas for my Christmas holiday from school. I flew in late Saturday night the 19th. Brendon planned an all day date for me on Tuesday the 21st. One thing that you must know is I am a planner; I will have everything written down in a list, color coordinated, with the best time efficiency. Brendon is a more chill man who goes with the flow. So when he planned an all day event with reservations and everything it spoke to my heart of his love for me by loving me the way I feel loved! (Yes we took the Danny Silk relationship study together. Haha)
He took me to the Gaylord Texas to see the ICE exhibit. Very sweet and very cold! I actually didn’t think he would propose since we talked about waiting till after I graduate in May and plus it was 9 degrees in the ice exhibit so needless to say I was just trying to enjoy the day and not thinking about a ring. After the tour he drove me to Dallas to Cafe Istanbul with a dozen red roses waiting for me on the table. This is when my brain started turning and wondering if anything else (aka a ring) would happen that night! After dinner he took me to our favorite park where we had our first kiss. On the way there he told me he had a gift for me. This is the part where I started freaking out praying he would propose but still trying to push it out of my head. Oh the joys of being a girl. When we got to the park everything was perfect. It was dark, but we had a full moon, cold but not freezing and we were walking down to the bench where we first kissed with a pond and a lit fountain in the background. It was brilliant. But as we were walking to the bench he started pulling out “the gift,” my heart sunk when I saw a bag of dark chocolates. Dark chocolate is my favorite but when a girl is expecting a diamond it is a bit disappointing. But I put a smile on my face and told myself not to ruin this perfect date that Brendon planned for me. I thanked him for the chocolate and realized the bag was already opened after he told me to have a piece. I of course became quite mad realizing he didn’t have a ring and it seemed that he already had a piece of MY chocolate. Oh yet again the joys of being a girl. When I opened the already opened bag of chocolate I discovered that each piece of chocolate had a love letter attached to it, 13 letters in all! My heart jumped back up after being sunk and started going crazy. We sat down and for the next 30 minutes I read every heartfelt love letter. Each letter started with a different nickname he calls and had a theme to go with that letter. By the last letter we were standing in the dim gardens of the park, he was behind me with his arms around me holding me close with his hands in my coat pockets. The last love letter told me to pull out something in my right coat pocket, turn around, hand it to him and look at him in the eyes. He had slipped the ring box in my coat pocket and when I turned around he gave me a beautiful speech, got down on one knee and asked if I would spend the rest of my life with him! It was the most beautiful and heartfelt proposal which made me laugh and cry all at the same time! I of course said yes and told him I was honored to have such a right standing, kind, and loving man choose me. After 10 minutes of laughing, crying and kissing, he took me to his house where there was a surprise engagement party waiting for us!! It was perfect. I am going to marry the most amazing man I know. I am so honored and blessed to be Brendon Wheeler’s wife!
Here are some pictures of the day!
Brendon and I at the Gaylord Texan to see the ICE exhibit
It was a Peanuts theme.
At dinner with the red roses waiting for me at the table.
Right when my Mom opened the door to the suprise party.
He makes me a happy woman!
The Ring!
Saturday, October 30, 2010
"most fun"
This blog is not only to encourage people, impart everything I am learning to anyone who wants it, and share wonderful new spiritual things; but to also share and encourage people to enjoy life to the fullest! God has made me a girl who enjoys fun, new, exciting things and experiences His creation and finds joy in life. My parents call me the “most fun” girl because when I was little every time my parents asked us kids if we wanted to do something I would ask, “will it be fun?!” I didn’t want anything to do with it if it was not going to be fun. And to this day that’s pretty much true! =) So my goal is to live life to the fullest and try new things. In the short/long two months I’ve done just that. I’ve pierced my lip, gone cliff jumping, died my hair, cooked several times a week, and just enjoyed life with my roommates and new friends being spontaneous. Today I will be going to a pumpkin patch and carving pumpkins for the first time in my life! Here are some pictures to give you a taste of my life!
Live it up!
~dani b.
This was about a 30 foot cliff into 45 degree water!
Before I died my hair.....
after! =)
This is stuffed Bell Peppers with brown rice, vegies, and grilled asparagurs, it is our one our favorite meals! And yes, we made it up! =)
Chocolate Raspberry cake!
Steak, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and break. It was a good night.
Live it up!
~dani b.
My new lip ring!
This was about a 30 foot cliff into 45 degree water!
Before I died my hair.....
after! =)
This is stuffed Bell Peppers with brown rice, vegies, and grilled asparagurs, it is our one our favorite meals! And yes, we made it up! =)
Chocolate Raspberry cake!
Steak, mashed potatoes, corn on the cob, and break. It was a good night.
Sunday, October 24, 2010
Intimacy (don’t worry Mom and Dad, not sex)
Well last time you read about my first week of school. The second week was much different. I entered into a season of finding out what intimacy with God really means.
I have always had trouble with my “quite time” and spending time with God. It was so hard for me to find His presence just reading a few chapters in the Bible and going down my “to pray for list.” Every time I heard someone talking about spending hours with God, going to a “secret place” with Jesus and actually talking with Him a jealousy would rise in me. I desperately wanted what others had but had no idea how to get it. I wanted to move in power and love, to be a part of a huge movement of God but then looked around and wondered why it wasn’t happening. I have this powerful consuming desire to do something big for Christ. Then it hit me. I cannot birth something of God without being intimate with Him……..let that one sink in a bit. I cannot birth something of God without being intimate with Him.
Of course my walk with God was not exploding into something amazing, I hardly knew Him. Conviction struck my heart. I did everything just as I should but never sat down to just BE with Jesus, to get to know Him and love on Him. I never realized God needed to be ministered to by ME. Wow. The God of the universe loves me more then I know and I never knew to love Him back the way He wanted; by just enjoying His presence.
In the past few weeks every book I read for school, every sermon I’ve heard, it all pointed to intimacy with Christ. For the first time I realized what it meant to have a personal relationship with God. Oh man, even writing this right now my heart is longing to spend time with my lover. The more I spend time with Him, the more I become like Him. Let that one sink in as well. The more I spend time with God, the more I become like Him. Spending time with God isn’t necessarily reading the Bible or even praying, but sitting there and seeking Him until he shows up and speaks with you and just enjoying His presence. So I locked myself into my room and covered myself with a blanket and asked for intimacy for 15 straight minutes; and God showed up. For the first time in my life God brought me to a secret place for me and Him to sit and actually have a conversation. I spoke with God. He spoke with me. I will never be the same. I will never be satisfied with just reading the Bible now. I will never be satisfied with just reciting prayers of things I need. Now I KNOW I can actually encounter God in such a real way. I spend time with Him, talk with Him, and even just sit with Him; I never want anything less.
I know now I cannot be a revivalist….not yet. I need to have such a personal relationship with God that I know his voice, know his presence, and can enter into it any time and any place; then great things will follow that pure love relationship. How can I hear God’s voice in the world if I don’t take time to hear Him by myself in my room?
Intimacy with God is what I long for. Intimacy with God is what I need. To sit and soak in God’s presence telling Him how much I love Him and allowing Him to speak to my heart. I don’t want anything else but a personal real relationship with Jesus and everything else will flow from that.
I pray this encourages and inspires you.
~dani b.
I have always had trouble with my “quite time” and spending time with God. It was so hard for me to find His presence just reading a few chapters in the Bible and going down my “to pray for list.” Every time I heard someone talking about spending hours with God, going to a “secret place” with Jesus and actually talking with Him a jealousy would rise in me. I desperately wanted what others had but had no idea how to get it. I wanted to move in power and love, to be a part of a huge movement of God but then looked around and wondered why it wasn’t happening. I have this powerful consuming desire to do something big for Christ. Then it hit me. I cannot birth something of God without being intimate with Him……..let that one sink in a bit. I cannot birth something of God without being intimate with Him.
Of course my walk with God was not exploding into something amazing, I hardly knew Him. Conviction struck my heart. I did everything just as I should but never sat down to just BE with Jesus, to get to know Him and love on Him. I never realized God needed to be ministered to by ME. Wow. The God of the universe loves me more then I know and I never knew to love Him back the way He wanted; by just enjoying His presence.
In the past few weeks every book I read for school, every sermon I’ve heard, it all pointed to intimacy with Christ. For the first time I realized what it meant to have a personal relationship with God. Oh man, even writing this right now my heart is longing to spend time with my lover. The more I spend time with Him, the more I become like Him. Let that one sink in as well. The more I spend time with God, the more I become like Him. Spending time with God isn’t necessarily reading the Bible or even praying, but sitting there and seeking Him until he shows up and speaks with you and just enjoying His presence. So I locked myself into my room and covered myself with a blanket and asked for intimacy for 15 straight minutes; and God showed up. For the first time in my life God brought me to a secret place for me and Him to sit and actually have a conversation. I spoke with God. He spoke with me. I will never be the same. I will never be satisfied with just reading the Bible now. I will never be satisfied with just reciting prayers of things I need. Now I KNOW I can actually encounter God in such a real way. I spend time with Him, talk with Him, and even just sit with Him; I never want anything less.
I know now I cannot be a revivalist….not yet. I need to have such a personal relationship with God that I know his voice, know his presence, and can enter into it any time and any place; then great things will follow that pure love relationship. How can I hear God’s voice in the world if I don’t take time to hear Him by myself in my room?
Intimacy with God is what I long for. Intimacy with God is what I need. To sit and soak in God’s presence telling Him how much I love Him and allowing Him to speak to my heart. I don’t want anything else but a personal real relationship with Jesus and everything else will flow from that.
I pray this encourages and inspires you.
~dani b.
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Emptied
I have never understood the verse in the bible where it says one day with the Lord is like a thousand elsewhere….well now I do!
Most of the time believers go through “seasons” with Jesus. A season of desert, a season of blessing, a season of growth etc. I am not putting God in a box but I have noticed with most people these seasons last a few months, just like the natural seasons. Since I have started the Supernatural School of Ministry (also known as BSSM) four weeks ago, I have gone through FOUR seasons. Ha. Yes I have aged about a hundred times faster in my spiritual life then I ever expected and I have seen this happen in the mirror each week. God has been rocking my world and catapulting me in my faith. I am sure you are thinking, “oh good for you Danielle, that’s wonderful!” And you are right, but I am exhausted!! Can you imagine aging 4 year in 4 weeks?! It is spiritually, mentally, and physically draining and yet God keeps refilling me to overflow. Allow me to start with my first season, week one of school.
We have school Tuesday-Friday from 12:45-5:30, with a small group, home group, and two church services to attend on the weekends. It is quite a tiring schedule when you’re thinking of encountering the Holy Spirit for most of that time, being completely changed, having your foundation shaken then rebuilt, meeting new people every day, and trying to keep up with all the homework which right now includes reading 6 books, writing reports, and answer questioners.
The first week was pretty much hell for me. I realized how much I don’t know and how much gunk God needed to get out of me. I came from a place (and this is where my identity was placed) where I was the leader at all times, pastor’s daughter, feeling like I was hot stuff on the spiritual spectrum, pretty special if you know what I mean……and then I came here. I was in a room of 1,000 other spiritually special people. In fact they were “better” than me! I wasn’t even on the totem pole with these people. I was not noticed, I didn’t have as many prophetic words as everyone else, I was not called out to lead or asked for advice, I didn’t impress anyone. I felt invisible, my identity was stripped away.
The Lord gave me a dream where he tipped my head to the right and sand started falling out of my ear. It was coming in pounds and making a huge pile on the floor. I would tilt my head back up, shake it a bit and still feel the sand in my head, it blurred my eyesight and hindered some of my hearing, so I would tilt my head and dump more sand out. This dream was a perfect picture of what was happening to me the first week of school; I was being dumped out making a perfectly empty person for the Lord to work with. Wonderful…but really painful. I bawled my eyes out after school on the first Friday wondering if it was going to get any better. It was so humbling to see what was inside of me that I had no idea existed. I didn’t want to share God’s love, I didn’t want anyone to be better than I was, I would not celebrate other’s successes…these realizations broke my heart. So I would tilt my head and let Jesus dump more sand out of me. Seriously in worship I would sing with my head tilted to the right prophetically dumping sand out of my head! Every time a thought came into my mind that was not Christ I would just dump it out of my ear. (I would say I looked funny but most people here at BSSM manifest the Holy Spirit in pretty crazy ways so I was quite tame.J)
The first week was a week of deflating Danielle Beacham so the Holy Spirit could breath Himself in to expand me. I had to be broken before I was build back up. Once I realized that I asked Jesus to do His worst. Take anything out and pour more of Himself in. It worked. The next week was a whole different very sweet season that I will share later.
I hope this is encouraging some way somehow. I pray anyone who reads this that the Lord will touch in a new way and new revelation of what is Him or what isn’t Him in any of our thoughts or beliefs.
Love to all,
~dani b.
Most of the time believers go through “seasons” with Jesus. A season of desert, a season of blessing, a season of growth etc. I am not putting God in a box but I have noticed with most people these seasons last a few months, just like the natural seasons. Since I have started the Supernatural School of Ministry (also known as BSSM) four weeks ago, I have gone through FOUR seasons. Ha. Yes I have aged about a hundred times faster in my spiritual life then I ever expected and I have seen this happen in the mirror each week. God has been rocking my world and catapulting me in my faith. I am sure you are thinking, “oh good for you Danielle, that’s wonderful!” And you are right, but I am exhausted!! Can you imagine aging 4 year in 4 weeks?! It is spiritually, mentally, and physically draining and yet God keeps refilling me to overflow. Allow me to start with my first season, week one of school.
We have school Tuesday-Friday from 12:45-5:30, with a small group, home group, and two church services to attend on the weekends. It is quite a tiring schedule when you’re thinking of encountering the Holy Spirit for most of that time, being completely changed, having your foundation shaken then rebuilt, meeting new people every day, and trying to keep up with all the homework which right now includes reading 6 books, writing reports, and answer questioners.
The first week was pretty much hell for me. I realized how much I don’t know and how much gunk God needed to get out of me. I came from a place (and this is where my identity was placed) where I was the leader at all times, pastor’s daughter, feeling like I was hot stuff on the spiritual spectrum, pretty special if you know what I mean……and then I came here. I was in a room of 1,000 other spiritually special people. In fact they were “better” than me! I wasn’t even on the totem pole with these people. I was not noticed, I didn’t have as many prophetic words as everyone else, I was not called out to lead or asked for advice, I didn’t impress anyone. I felt invisible, my identity was stripped away.
The Lord gave me a dream where he tipped my head to the right and sand started falling out of my ear. It was coming in pounds and making a huge pile on the floor. I would tilt my head back up, shake it a bit and still feel the sand in my head, it blurred my eyesight and hindered some of my hearing, so I would tilt my head and dump more sand out. This dream was a perfect picture of what was happening to me the first week of school; I was being dumped out making a perfectly empty person for the Lord to work with. Wonderful…but really painful. I bawled my eyes out after school on the first Friday wondering if it was going to get any better. It was so humbling to see what was inside of me that I had no idea existed. I didn’t want to share God’s love, I didn’t want anyone to be better than I was, I would not celebrate other’s successes…these realizations broke my heart. So I would tilt my head and let Jesus dump more sand out of me. Seriously in worship I would sing with my head tilted to the right prophetically dumping sand out of my head! Every time a thought came into my mind that was not Christ I would just dump it out of my ear. (I would say I looked funny but most people here at BSSM manifest the Holy Spirit in pretty crazy ways so I was quite tame.J)
The first week was a week of deflating Danielle Beacham so the Holy Spirit could breath Himself in to expand me. I had to be broken before I was build back up. Once I realized that I asked Jesus to do His worst. Take anything out and pour more of Himself in. It worked. The next week was a whole different very sweet season that I will share later.
I hope this is encouraging some way somehow. I pray anyone who reads this that the Lord will touch in a new way and new revelation of what is Him or what isn’t Him in any of our thoughts or beliefs.
Love to all,
~dani b.
Monday, October 4, 2010
149 girls!!
Hello Hello Hello!
Yes I am still alive. I apologize it has take me this long to update my blog.
First off I wanted to let you know that after 10 months of being single God brought Brendon back into my life last April of this year!! J I don’t know how that slipped my mind at the end of my testimony! Ooops, sorry Handsome! But long story short, God did some amazing growth in both our hearts and gave us His blessing to enter into a relationship again which has been sweeter, stronger, and better then the first! I love him with all my heart and Brendon is so supportive of me being here doing what God has called me to do.
I am now starting my fourth week of school. The first week was extremely overwhelming. The second week I was sick. The third week I went on a retreat with the school and had my birthday weekend as well. Soooo needless to say, things have been a bit hectic over here.
I cannot wait to share what God has been doing in me and teaching me, but first, drum roll please…..TIME TO MEET THE ROOMMATES and see my home!! =)
I have been blessed with the best roommates anyone could have asked for! It honestly is Jesus how we get along so well and have so much fun together!
Kirsty!!
Kirsty (also known as sweet cheeks or the crazy Aussie) is from Australia and shares my room. She is one of the sweetest girls I have ever met and we hit it off the minute she stepped off the plane! We have become fast friends caring each other through some things and laughing together at everything else! We do have a rivalry thing going on as to which is better, Texas or Australia. Don’t worry, I will win her over! ;)
Ashley (also known as Prada) is from Wisconsin and is one of the prettiest and funniest girls I have ever known! She has a heart of gold.
Yes I am still alive. I apologize it has take me this long to update my blog.
First off I wanted to let you know that after 10 months of being single God brought Brendon back into my life last April of this year!! J I don’t know how that slipped my mind at the end of my testimony! Ooops, sorry Handsome! But long story short, God did some amazing growth in both our hearts and gave us His blessing to enter into a relationship again which has been sweeter, stronger, and better then the first! I love him with all my heart and Brendon is so supportive of me being here doing what God has called me to do.
I am now starting my fourth week of school. The first week was extremely overwhelming. The second week I was sick. The third week I went on a retreat with the school and had my birthday weekend as well. Soooo needless to say, things have been a bit hectic over here.
I cannot wait to share what God has been doing in me and teaching me, but first, drum roll please…..TIME TO MEET THE ROOMMATES and see my home!! =)
I have been blessed with the best roommates anyone could have asked for! It honestly is Jesus how we get along so well and have so much fun together!
Kirsty!!
Kirsty (also known as sweet cheeks or the crazy Aussie) is from Australia and shares my room. She is one of the sweetest girls I have ever met and we hit it off the minute she stepped off the plane! We have become fast friends caring each other through some things and laughing together at everything else! We do have a rivalry thing going on as to which is better, Texas or Australia. Don’t worry, I will win her over! ;) 
Ashley!!
Ashley (also known as Prada) is from Wisconsin and is one of the prettiest and funniest girls I have ever known! She has a heart of gold.
Sarah!!
Sarah (also known as Minnesota) can you guess where she is from?! Ooooo yeah, don’t ya know! Haha She is from Minnesota which I of course remind her all the time is inferior to Texas! She woke up one day with my Texas blanket draped over her which I snuck in while she was sleeping, haha! She is wonderful and makes our house complete!
Ashley and Sarah's room!
The Bathroom
I made the things hanging on the wall! =) They are for photos and letters etc.
Mr. Chub and my bed.
Mine and Kirsty's room
Kitchen (we spend most of our time in here)
Dining Room (we have extra chairs for guests)
Part of the living room. This is our Money tree! Sarah is in the middle of painting it and we are believing God will supernaturaly provide for us and prayed over it! I want to see money grow from the tree!
Our living room! Got to love Ikea!
Ashley and Sarah's room!
The Bathroom
I made the things hanging on the wall! =) They are for photos and letters etc.
Mr. Chub and my bed.
Mine and Kirsty's room
Kitchen (we spend most of our time in here)
Dining Room (we have extra chairs for guests)
Part of the living room. This is our Money tree! Sarah is in the middle of painting it and we are believing God will supernaturaly provide for us and prayed over it! I want to see money grow from the tree!
Our living room! Got to love Ikea!Friday, September 24, 2010
Part Four - The Prophecy!
Sorry for the delay folks. I have started school and was a bit overwhelmed (that’s a lie, I was REALLY overwhelmed) and then my body shut down on me and I was sick for most of this week. I will knock out the rest of my testimony today so I can move on to what God is doing here and now. I would like to remind you that I am praying my testimony sparks a fire in your heart for the things of God. In no way am I trying to “toot my own horn,” but as it says in psalm 143: “I remember the days of long ago; I meditate on all your works and consider what your hands have done. I spread out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land.” I hope reading this even my heart is reminded of God’s faithfulness and thirsts for Jesus like a parched land.
June of 2009 right after Brendon and I separated my two good friend LeaAnn and Charity (yes they play a huge part in my life, I love those ladies and am who I am because of them) encouraged me to go to another conference called Kingdom Culture in Redding CA at Bethel Church. It was a last minute decision but I bought a $400 plane ticket and joined the other two girls. We arrived early Wed. morning for a three day conference. The very first step I took into Bethel church I felt like I was home. That day was the very first day I ever told anyone I wanted to go to the School of Supernatural Ministry. Once I shared the deep secret in my heart with LeaAnn and Charity they looked at me and said: “You have to come here.” The thought scared me. Leave everything and everyone I have ever known and move 2,000 miles away by myself; it terrified me. But if I have learned anything with my walk with Jesus it is, if I feel terrified of something normally Jesus is doing a big work. I brushed off their comment with a common phrase, “I’ll pray about it,” and walked away to buy a coffee at “He-brew” coffee shop in the church. I was standing in line thinking about how crazy it was I ended up in Redding and felt so at home here when the family in front of me in line said something about the father paying for all of their coffee. Joking around I said out loud, “Am I included in that?” The father, Randy, turned around and said “yes, actually you are.” I was so shocked but later I found out the God told Randy to turn around and buy the girl behind him coffee!! We started talking and in the middle of our conversation Randy looked at me and said, “Do you know you are coming to school here?” I laughed out loud because I was so surprised and asked him what he was talking about. “God just told me you are coming to Bible school here.” I was stunned. This stranger just prophesied over me about what was one my heart for almost two years and what LeaAnn and Charity just spoke over me. My next question was “Did God say anything about money?!”
After that the Lord used Randy’s little daughter to prophesied over me saying “Danielle I don’t know where you are going but you cannot stay in Arlington Texas.” Yet again I was shell shocked. Everything was taken away from me, even Texas.
I knew I couldn’t start Bible school that fall, just a few months away, so the only time I would start would be fall of 2010 which would be right after the girls I lead at church would graduate high school and my time as their leader would end. It was lined up perfectly, just what God told me, once my leadership was done something huge would happen for me! Funny how that happens.
After I said yes to God things started coming into place. Peace like nun other washed over me. God grew and matured my heart. In February of 2010 God released to Brendon to pursue me again. I was held back with fear in my heart I had to deal with between me and the Lord before I ever entered into a relationship again. Jesus set me free in April from that fear and Brendon and I are now back together!! J
The Lord even answered my question to Randy about money by dropping a Home Depot national commercial in my lap just a few months before I packed up and left. This is a testimony in itself, so I will just briefly write about it. I have an agent in Dallas who gets me auditions for commercials and movies. A commercial auditioned for Home Depot opened up to me in March that said to bring “your husband or someone to pretend to by your husband, NO ACTORS JUST REAL PEOPLE.” Since Brendon was pursing me again I thought it would be fun for him to come along, long story short, out of hundreds of people and two auditions, both Brendon and I were chosen to play husband and wife on national TV! Haha Commercial actors receive checks in the mail every few weeks every time the commercial is aired for a period of time. Well my checks are now dwindling out. I am still praying for more in the mail but I honestly still have to rely on God to provide for me since my budget is still tight. It’s funny how God can use something completely random to provide for me and still put a limit on it so my faith is in Him not anything else. And as you all know my car died two weeks before I was supposed to drive to CA so I had to purchase a new car, yet again putting my faith in Jesus.
Well ladies and gentleman, that is my story, this is why I am 2,000 miles away from everything I grew up knowing. It is only because of God I have made it this far. I wish I could describe every detail of what happened in my heart so you could be amazed by Jesus, but some things are just between me and the Lord, and plus I don’t want to write another “War and Peace.” ;) Just wait till I tell you about my first week of school….I didn’t know if was going to survive the next 9 months of studies. But I’ll save that for a little later.
Thank you for reading my heart. I hope it encourages you.
Love to all,
~Dani b.
June of 2009 right after Brendon and I separated my two good friend LeaAnn and Charity (yes they play a huge part in my life, I love those ladies and am who I am because of them) encouraged me to go to another conference called Kingdom Culture in Redding CA at Bethel Church. It was a last minute decision but I bought a $400 plane ticket and joined the other two girls. We arrived early Wed. morning for a three day conference. The very first step I took into Bethel church I felt like I was home. That day was the very first day I ever told anyone I wanted to go to the School of Supernatural Ministry. Once I shared the deep secret in my heart with LeaAnn and Charity they looked at me and said: “You have to come here.” The thought scared me. Leave everything and everyone I have ever known and move 2,000 miles away by myself; it terrified me. But if I have learned anything with my walk with Jesus it is, if I feel terrified of something normally Jesus is doing a big work. I brushed off their comment with a common phrase, “I’ll pray about it,” and walked away to buy a coffee at “He-brew” coffee shop in the church. I was standing in line thinking about how crazy it was I ended up in Redding and felt so at home here when the family in front of me in line said something about the father paying for all of their coffee. Joking around I said out loud, “Am I included in that?” The father, Randy, turned around and said “yes, actually you are.” I was so shocked but later I found out the God told Randy to turn around and buy the girl behind him coffee!! We started talking and in the middle of our conversation Randy looked at me and said, “Do you know you are coming to school here?” I laughed out loud because I was so surprised and asked him what he was talking about. “God just told me you are coming to Bible school here.” I was stunned. This stranger just prophesied over me about what was one my heart for almost two years and what LeaAnn and Charity just spoke over me. My next question was “Did God say anything about money?!”
After that the Lord used Randy’s little daughter to prophesied over me saying “Danielle I don’t know where you are going but you cannot stay in Arlington Texas.” Yet again I was shell shocked. Everything was taken away from me, even Texas.
I knew I couldn’t start Bible school that fall, just a few months away, so the only time I would start would be fall of 2010 which would be right after the girls I lead at church would graduate high school and my time as their leader would end. It was lined up perfectly, just what God told me, once my leadership was done something huge would happen for me! Funny how that happens.
After I said yes to God things started coming into place. Peace like nun other washed over me. God grew and matured my heart. In February of 2010 God released to Brendon to pursue me again. I was held back with fear in my heart I had to deal with between me and the Lord before I ever entered into a relationship again. Jesus set me free in April from that fear and Brendon and I are now back together!! J
The Lord even answered my question to Randy about money by dropping a Home Depot national commercial in my lap just a few months before I packed up and left. This is a testimony in itself, so I will just briefly write about it. I have an agent in Dallas who gets me auditions for commercials and movies. A commercial auditioned for Home Depot opened up to me in March that said to bring “your husband or someone to pretend to by your husband, NO ACTORS JUST REAL PEOPLE.” Since Brendon was pursing me again I thought it would be fun for him to come along, long story short, out of hundreds of people and two auditions, both Brendon and I were chosen to play husband and wife on national TV! Haha Commercial actors receive checks in the mail every few weeks every time the commercial is aired for a period of time. Well my checks are now dwindling out. I am still praying for more in the mail but I honestly still have to rely on God to provide for me since my budget is still tight. It’s funny how God can use something completely random to provide for me and still put a limit on it so my faith is in Him not anything else. And as you all know my car died two weeks before I was supposed to drive to CA so I had to purchase a new car, yet again putting my faith in Jesus.
Well ladies and gentleman, that is my story, this is why I am 2,000 miles away from everything I grew up knowing. It is only because of God I have made it this far. I wish I could describe every detail of what happened in my heart so you could be amazed by Jesus, but some things are just between me and the Lord, and plus I don’t want to write another “War and Peace.” ;) Just wait till I tell you about my first week of school….I didn’t know if was going to survive the next 9 months of studies. But I’ll save that for a little later.
Thank you for reading my heart. I hope it encourages you.
Love to all,
~Dani b.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)