"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.

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.

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.

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.

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!!

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!

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.

Papa Baloo!

I will take a short break from my testimony to let you know I have named by new car PAPA BALOO!! Like the big blue bear from the movie Jungle Book. Also these are my three beautiful roommates whom I love dearly already! I can't wait to tell you all about them, I just want to get through my story first. But just a little spoiler, you have Kirsty on the left from Australia, Ashley in the middle from Wisconsin, and Sarah on the right from Minnesota. I love them all and we hit it off the moment we met!
Signing off for now, the girls from room 149 and Papa Baloo.

Part Three – The Fire

Continued from last post.

It is in the fire that the black smith can mold, bend, and hammer iron into shape.

Since the begging of 2008 God has plunged me into the fire melting things away from me leaving only a desperate burning I can’t even explain for Jesus and a strong desire for the School of Ministry at Bethel.
One of the first things he took away was college. I always said I would never go into debt for college so at the end of the fall semester of 2008 I looked at my budget and realized I had no money for school the next semester. I prayed about it and felt like I should stop going to school. For those who know me, I hate leaving things half finsihed. I was almost a senior in college, just one and half more years till I would get that diploma and here I was stopping. I felt stupid, like a quitter, and fighting lies that I wasted the past few years in school. Jesus had to do a work in my heart and is still dealing with the fear of man in my life. It was test, would I give into those feelings of being a failure or would I obey His word without a logical explanation or an end in sight? I chose Him and started pursuing the only thing on my heart at the time, theater and acting.
I was still leading youth at the time and that wouldn’t end till May of 2010, but I knew after that God was going to do something big for me. I knew after pouring my heart and soul into my girls it would be my time for something that God had planned. I was just waiting to see what it would be.
Spring of 2009 was my first semester off from school. At the time I was dating a tall, dark, and handsome man named Brendon! We had dated for over a year at that point. I loved him so much… but there was a check in my spirit I would not acknowledge. Something deep within me that I wouldn’t even allow my mind to form into a thought; that I was not going to marry him right then, that our time for now was coming to a close. I fought that fleeting feeling with every fiber of my being. I wanted to marry him. I knew God was doing a great work in my heart and in Brendon’s heart but for some reason I knew He needed to do it in us as single people. I could see Brendon and I growing closer to God but further apart from each other even though we were crazy about each other. I figured a wedding would fix it. I wanted to control everything, I wanted to “fix” Brendon and ignore all my faults. But Jesus would let me live that way. He kept bringing to the surface things He wanted to pull out of me such as the spirit of control, fear and worry. Six hard months later after some really tough realizations I was so desperate for God because everything else was falling apart I finally got on my knees and put my relationship with Brendon into God’s hands. Exactly one week later Brendon and I mutually agreed to separate. It was the best and sweetest break ups anyone has heard about! Jesus had revealed to Brendon we needed to be separated as well so we took a whole weekend and enjoyed our relationship, apologized for anything in the past, laughed and cried about the good and bad times, and left each other in God’s hands. I have never felt so empty. I know I am never alone or empty because Jesus fills me, but at that moment I thought my insides were ripped out and all I had in me were tears. In my eyes the world had ended. But it is in the fire that the Smith can mold the iron into the shape it wants. God was putting me in the fire and hammering away to form me into whom he created me to be in the first place.
The summer and fall of 2009 is by far the hardest time of my thus far. Jesus wrecked my life, in a good yet painful way. He purged me and changed me so much that summer I would wake up one morning and come home that night a totally different person. I learned that summer God hears my prayers. He did everything I asked; I asked him to change me, shake me, and purge me of things that were not of Him, and most of all just give me more of Himself. I would get on my face and cry out for Him to do His worst knowing in just a few hours something would happen to test me; but it was his presence I craved so intensely I would walk through anything just to be close to Him. It was the most extreme transformation I have ever experienced and it happened because I kept asking God to put me through hell so I could see more of His glory. I just want to reflect Him. I wish I could take the time to explain to everyone what God did in me but that would take too much time, too many words, and I think it is just for me and Jesus. I will say that I started praying in tongues last summer and I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to edify themselves. It was a huge part of what totally transformed me; allowing the Holy Ghost to pray God’s will over me and through me; it is one of the best things a Christians can do.
During the time Jesus was stripping everything away from me He was also revealing his perfect plan.

To be continued.

Part Two

Continuing from last post:
Jesus Culture wrecked my life (in a good way!) The conference was all about the presence of God. As Christians, if we do not have the presence of God we are just another one of the hundreds of religions that pollute the earth. What is the point of having church if Jesus doesn’t come? Jesus Culture is just that, to live a life (to have a culture) like Jesus. What did Jesus do? Signs and wonders and had communion with the Father all the time. What are we called to do? Sings and wonders and have communion with the Father all the time. Jesus is talking about His miracles when he says in the Bible in John 14:12, “I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these…” We are called to do what Jesus did on the earth. For those who have read the Gospels you know that’s pretty crazy stuff!!! Anywho, before I start preaching =) I better move on.
At the conference they did this thing called “Treasure Hunts.” A Treasure Hunt is asking for words of knowledge from the Lord to lead you to a person to pray for. Words of knowledge could be, “beach ball, purple shirt, hurt knee” etc. etc. So if you happen to go to Wal-Mart down the beach ball row, see a guy limping because he is in a knee brace and he is wearing a purple shirt, then it’s pretty darn clear God wants you to pray for him! It is asking the Lord to speak and giving him the opportunity to use you to bless and love others, brining His kingdom and power wherever you go! Pretty much it is just teaching you to be open to the Holy Spirit’s move all the time no matter if you are shopping for groceries or getting your oil changed, you should be in tune to the Holy Spirit to see if He wants you to pray or minister to someone 24/7.
Now just because the night before I was set free from a bunch of lies and insecurities doesn’t mean I wasn’t totally freaked out by going on a treasure hunt! Haha I had to fight my very powerful desire to run away, but above that I just wanted more of God, I wanted to see Him work and especially wanted Him to use me. Long story short, I didn’t whiteness any miracles through me or my team, but I was left with this crazy hunger for EVERYTHING of God.
It was at that Jesus Culture in 2008 that I heard of Bethel church in Redding CA and the school of “Supernatural Ministry.” The school sounded like a bigger version of Jesus Culture, learning to walk in the presence of God, developing spiritual gifts, studying the life of Jesus and past revivalist, going on Treasure Hunts and other ministries. This school was a culture of Jesus. It was then when I heard about it a seed was planted in my heart. I wanted to go. I wanted to be a part of something that Jesus was so evidently a part of. But I couldn’t. I was in a serious relationship I wanted to get married, I was in college, I was leading youth, I had no money, and I couldn’t just drop everything and go to some Jesus school that is not even seminary. I couldn’t drop everything…so God just took it all away from me.
To be continued.

How It Started

I am in Redding CA my new home town for the next year! I’ll be moving into my apartment on Wed. Sept 1st, until then I am living with a wonderful family/community home who is renting out a room to me.

I’ve learned testimony has the ability to stir up a kind of hunger that drives people to the Lord. This is why I want to share my testimony of how I’ve come to leave everything I’ve ever know to live in Redding CA 2,000 miles away from family and friends. I pray my testimony actually encourages people and makes them hungry for the things of the Lord.

In beginning of 2008 a conference called “Jesus Culture” came to Dallas Texas. I knew nothing about it and honestly didn’t want anything to do with it. At the time I was in a relationship which I was pushing to become a marriage, I was in college, I was leading youth, and pursuing my dream of acting. In my head, my life was perfect and didn’t need a life change. Its funny how God choices that moment to turn your life upside down.
My dear dear friends Charity and LeaAnn told me about “Jesus Culture” and had already purchased their $50 tickets for the whole conference. They invited me to the first free night of worship and said I should buy a ticket for the entire conference. I agreed to the night of worship but held off on promising to commit my whole weekend and $50 to some “Jesus” thing I didn’t know about. I didn’t know why at the time, but I was nervous and border line scared of the meeting. I remember distinctly the fear that lurched in my belly when I was in LeaAnn’s truck driving to the church as the girls told me it was a “healing revivalist” conference. I wanted nothing to do with it and began to panic, the words “get me out of this car” actually came out of my mouth. I didn’t realize the fear and doubt that lived in my heart when it came to receiving and praying for healing from the Lord. Don’t’ get me wrong, I believe/d God can heal but I didn’t believe He could use me. There were questions and fears I have repressed my whole life, things I didn’t even want to touch or acknowledge. What happens if I pray for someone’s healing in the powerful name of Jesus Christ and they were not healed?! What kind of whiteness would I be? How could I wield such a power? I almost broke out into a sweat when LeaAnn and Charity tried to convince me to go to the conference all weekend. “I don’t have 50 bucks.” I blamed it on my finances, “someone will have to give me a ticket or $50 tonight if God wants me to go.” Me and my big mouth.
Long story short, someone walked up to me right before worship started and gave me their ticket. Charity and LeaAnn laughed out loud, I almost cried. I knew there was something wrong in my heart, something I couldn’t put my finger on; that night it was made clear. God shed light onto the doubt and fear in my heart I tried to repress and ignore all these years. I had a distrust of how God wanted to use me and the person I was in Christ. I didn’t think I was good enough or spiritual enough to heal someone. But it is not I who heals; it is the God of all creation. I was standing there watching a room full of people falling down and worship in the presence of God and there I was feeling nothing. I was left with a choice. Now that I knew what was in me, I could keep my normal life and live with it, or could choose the harder road and press into the Lord until I was free which would mean my world being turned upside for the rest of my life. What else could I do? I went to a godly couple I respect and hold dear and asked them to pray with me. I had to get lies out of my heart and pray truth in. We prayed and broke off chains holding me back swinging the door of freedom open for me to live in trust of the truth and fullness of God and His power. A revelation hit me like a ton of bricks, I do not have to worry if the person is healed or not, it is not my job, my sole job is to hear the voice of the Lord and to be open and ready to obey whatever God says. If God tells me to pray for someone then that’s what I do, I leave the rest up in His completely capable hands. God will not tell me to pray for someone without a divine purpose no matter if the outcome is a healing or not. My life is to follow His lead, obey His voice, and carry His presence around with me to affect others around me. With that comes complete freedom from fear of performing, outcome, or explanation. A will walk in the Holy Spirit and trust Him, He will do all the work and all I have to focus on is making sure I am in communication with Him inviting Him to use me everywhere I go.
That weekend has changed my life forever. Since then I have been trying to tune my ears to the Lord’s voice in whatever way he speaks to me. He has tested me, and little did I know some of the biggest tests were to come that involved hearing His voice and choosing to obey.
To be continued.

Blue Baby

Here is my new car the Lord provided for me! I am still deciding on a name, but until then, it is my blue baby!

joyfully getting gray hairs

Four, yes four, days and counting people! I pack up my life and head west early Monday morning. I have not even started my year of Bible school and God has already tested my faith and shown Himself faithful by providing for me.
As some of you may know a week and a half before I DRIVE to CA my 96 Honda civic breaks down; the diagnosis, I need a new car! I had a week and half to buy a new car!! After my initial panic attack and quick growth a few gray hairs I was able to look through spiritual eyes and see: If this did not happen before I left, my car could have died on the way there with my whole life packed away in it in the middle of some desert driving to CA. Or it could have broken down after I got there when I was all by myself not knowing what to do! So it was such a blessing to have my car give out on me while I am still here which allowed my Dad to show me the ropes of buying a car.
Long story short God was so good is closing all the wrong doors and brining me to the car I now own, a Bright Baby Blue 2008 JEEP Patriot!! LOVE IT! I mean come on people, how awesome is that! I have always wanted a jeep and I almost bought a few wrong cars but God was so faithful and not allowing that to happen and teaching me to be joyful in every circumstance. I am pretty sure my mechanics think I am crazy! I was in good moods every time I would bring them a car I wanted to buy and they would tell me it was not good enough. I would just smile and say “I’ll bring another one soon.” I think they felt sorry for me so they didn’t even charge me for checking a few cars over for me. Ha. Just chock that up to another blessing from God saving me about $80 bucks each time.
Every time God shuts a door it is because there is something better out there. Even though I literally only had 5 days left, I had to learn to trust Jesus that He has everything in control and really does have the best plan for me, and now I have the perfect car! Now granted I have monthly payments I was not expecting, but hey, I am just waiting to see how God drops money in my lap this time.
I will wait on His timing and be joyful in uncertainty for the ONE thing I am sure of is His crazy love for me.
~Dani

It is happening

Well ladies and gentleman, It is happening, I am moving to Reddding CA. Hence the blog.

The Lord has been preparing my heart for quite some time (somewhere around 2 years now) to move out to Redding and attend Bible School. I am leaving everything I know, everyone I love, and pretty much everything I have to follow where God is leading me. I do not want to loose contact with people and I would love my friends who are dear to my heart to see and know what is happening to me, so here it is, a blog to follow! I will update it as I can during my studies and new life in California.

I want this blog to be a witness of Jesus in my life. I will start with the story of how I ended up at this point in my life. But not right now. =) Give me a few days to get this thing under control and learn how to be a real "blogger" (ha) and I have my goodbyes to say to friends, family, boyfriend, and Texas during my last full month here. I'll be packing up my cowgirl boots and driving to CA in the middle of Aug to teach those crazy west coast people how to say "ya'll"!