MY flesh wants to say, "OH! I'm not surprised." -- BUT, lets face it...when GOD does something - it's hard NOT to sit back in AMAZEMENT & WONDER!!I REALLY did have faith, even if it was as small as a mustard seed. I KNEW I heard him deep within my spirit -- and I knew he would give us some keys...BUT THIS?? WOW!
To me this is a the simple picture of what God says in Ephesians 3:20....
He is the key to immeasurably MORE than ALL you could ASK FOR or even THINK of!
So here is the simple quick story.
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This MORNING...I was talking to my sweet neighbor-friend. I started telling her what we were doing, and she said she had found a keyring of keys - (11 keys on it) an we could have it. We already found 7 the night before....so you can imagine Isabella's face with now MORE than the night before!
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Around LUNCH-TIME...I ran across the street to Mr. Nasar's store to get some eggs. Mr. Nasar was standing in front and said, "I heard you were looking for keys?!"
And he pulled 2 from his pocket!! I was sooo overwhelmed, I forgot to ask him WHO TOLD HIM?! He said one was on the sidewalk outside the door of his store....the other on the inside. I told him what God was doing...and that we were on a treasure hunt for keys! (He's Muslim, so we often talk about God - in the context of we BOTH LOVE the God, the God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob! -- another story...but GOD is moving powerfully there!)
And he pulled 2 from his pocket!! I was sooo overwhelmed, I forgot to ask him WHO TOLD HIM?! He said one was on the sidewalk outside the door of his store....the other on the inside. I told him what God was doing...and that we were on a treasure hunt for keys! (He's Muslim, so we often talk about God - in the context of we BOTH LOVE the God, the God of Abraham Isaac & Jacob! -- another story...but GOD is moving powerfully there!) Anyway.... I told him that we believe that there is a LOT to be "unlocked" in MEXICO, and that we believe God wants us to take these keys and bury them in the land of Oaxaca as a Symbol of FREEDOM for this land...the villages...and ultimately the PEOPLE of Oaxaca!! He then said..."WAIT HERE! I have MORE KEYS FOR YOU...." and he went in the back of the store and brought out a key ring of 10 more keys - we got 12 in ALL!!!
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Moving along... TONIGHT. I had an PureLife Executive Team Meetin in the city....so Isabella & I hopped on a train praying for more KEYS!! (you should see my girl on the "SCOUT for keys!!" -- she's like the pink panther (do-do.. do-do..do-do ta-do-ta DO...do-da do-DO....!)...leaving no stone unturned!! This girl LOVE treasure hunts....)
We're sitting in our meeting and my ladies on the team start handing me keys....2 old keys from a purse...one from the office...and then I get a TXT from one of my "key prayer warriors" (ha! no pun intended...she PRAYS for me...txts & IM's me...all the time. - I'm sooo covered with her on her knees! wowzzaa!!!)
SHE "has something" and is on her way to the location of the meeting....& wants to pray over us! She walks in...with a BAG of OLD KEYS!!! (84 in all....) I could've fallen OVER....Isabella eyes were like SAUCERS!!! This girl is a nanny...and she and her kids embarked on their own scavenger hunt...getting the idea of walking into an old locksmith store. She asked, "Do you have any old, unused keys? We are doing a "Key Drive!?" After asking how many she wanted - they said as many as you have....
WOW....
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So, in this...hears the rub! I'm JUST beginning to SEE that God is using this to SHOW me, he's doing something bigger -- I MEAN BIGGER....!!!
I can't even fathom how big, and significant this trip is for the Kingdom of God!
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I feel the words, "Keys to the Kingdom" rise up in my spirit....so I couldn't resist to see what is in his word about "KEYS"....
Matthew 16:19 ~ "I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven."
OH WOW....
I can't even GO ON....I know GOD is LOOSING... I've been praying FREEDOM!!!!! The heartbeat of heaven is surely to loose the chains that keep us from freedom in Christ!

1 comments:
I'm so glad you posted this link you your precious blog!!! My friend, your spirit and love of Jesus is a blessing. What a cool story.
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