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About Nannette

Wife to The Sweetheart, Mom to the Fantastic Six, Nana to six of the cutest littles on the planet, Author, The Daniel Fast, A Devotional. UPCI ministers.

31 Days of Hope & Healing

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31dbc-participant-oct-2013Today begins the 31 Day Blogging & Writing Challenge!

But much more than that I will be sharing with you 31 Days of Hope & Healing. For the entire month of October I hope to bring you encouraging and uplifting posts every single day that will bring you hope, healing, and nourishment for your soul.

The best way to do that is to delve deep into the Word of God! I want us to do that…together. I have always wanted this blog to be an interactive community, and some of you have contributed greatly, it has been a blessing!

But I would love to have more input! Your comments are invaluable. You just never know what it might mean to a reader. They might be hanging by a thread and something YOU say just may be what they needed that very day to help them through a particular trial.

Never underestimate what God has given you! I held back for too many years worried of what others might think. When the Lord spoke to me about this blog, and I knew it was truly God, I wrestled with Him for days.

“Lord, I just cannot DO that! What will THEY think?

I am not a writer! THEY will talk about me. THEY will think I am trying to BE somebody. THEY will whisper about me, saying I am trying to elevate myself. What if I fail? What if it isn’t any good? What if I am made fun of?”

And on, and on, and on the questions went for several days in prayer.

Then one morning it was as if the sweet presence of God just swept into my room and if it had been an audible voice it would not have been any more clear…and He said to me,

“Who are THEY? I have asked you to do this to help others. This is your ministry now. Forget about other people and just obey my will.”

I was overcome with His presence and just seemed to be caught away in the Holy Ghost for the longest time. Even as I am writing this, the enemy is whispering in my ear, “THEY will think you are trying to say you are spiritual…you are holy, you are somebody!!”

You know what devil?! I will say the same thing I said that day:

“Get behind me Satan!”

I am tired of sitting back and letting him hinder me and keeping me from doing what God wants me to do!

I AM somebody!

So are YOU! We are a child of God and He gave us a job to do! To share the Gospel with as many as we can in these last days. This is the outlet He gave me for this time period and I am ever grateful. I am going to use it to the best of my ability and I thank Him every day knowing it has nothing whatsoever to do with ME, I am just a vessel, He is the Potter, I am the clay.

Now! Back to all of you!

31 Days of Hope & Healing

You can help me by becoming a partner with me these next 31 days.

If you have something you want me to write about, feel free to submit it! I will be happy to do it! Any subject of encouragement, or ways to get to faith, hope and healing of the mind and spirit. Nothing is off subject except prophecy, ha. Probably out of my league!

You can also contribute greatly by commenting! Please do!

Last, but not least, you can share the blog with your friends.

Share it on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and by email. If you are not following the blog, you can do so by any of these avenues and tell a friend. You just never know when something might be a blessing to another.

Blessings today! Thank you for your help and support these last SEVEN months! You all have been a blessing to me. Let’s make this next 31 days a month of great hope!

Tomorrow I will resume more updates on the Latvian conference so stay tuned!

Nannette, a.k.a. Candace Jo!

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Tu esi svēts, Kungs! (You Are Holy, Lord!)

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What a wonderful time we had at Apustulu Spēks Konference in Riga, Latvia!

A heartfelt “thank you” to all of those that joined the prayer team and supported us with your prayers for this conference! Although we may not have filled the house with numbers, the house was surely FILLED with the presence of God as you will see in this post through video!

We began the weekend with another rainbow!! I just could not believe God blessed us with two beautiful rainbows this week! We have had so much rain since we arrived in Riga but you cannot have a rainbow without the rain and aren’t they just amazing? This is looking out the other window in our hotel room.

 Irish Proverb Hopeinthehealing

One of the exciting testimonies from this meeting that Rebekah Kline, Associate in Missions from Pennsylvania, captured was a beautiful generational story.

Last year at the Saturday night service during the 1st Annual Apostolic Power Conference, Jurijs was a visitor to the services. He was filled with the Holy Spirit during the Saturday night service!

Jurijs has been coming faithfully all year long to the Apostolic Way church. While doing so, he lead his parents into the Truth and they also received the baptism of the Holy Ghost this past year! Praise the Lord!

Saturdays just seem to be the day for this family because at the 2nd Annual Conference Jurijis’ grandmother was also filled with the precious gift of the Holy Ghost in our service!

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One Year = Three Generations!

God is doing great things! What do you need from Him today? Healing, restoration, deliverance, salvation? Any and all of these things He is able to supply! Give Him your burdens, your worries, your cares and worship Him for who He is. Then let the Holy Ghost come in!

It is a promise! 

“Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.” Acts 2:38-39.

I will be sharing more testimonies this week but wanted to get this post out quickly today! I pray you are blessed as you listen to my friends sing and glorify the Lord in Latvian.

 

If you have missed any of these posts you can catch up here and here!

 

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Growing Up in Every Way…Truly

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5-minute-friday-1Truth is like oil in water, no matter how much oil you add to depress it; the oil will always float to the top!

We can say something isn’t true all we want, we can try to make it a lie, but truth is truth no matter how many say it is a lie. You can never change the truth! It cannot be undone!

Winston Churchill once famously said, “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

Pardon the pun but, truer words were never spoken!

Why do we love to embellish the truth? Why have we capitalized so much on the “little white lie”?

We have even justified ourselves by the telling of the “white lie”, which has been around since at least the 1700’s! The term “white lie” has a feeling of innocence and purity, meaning it is not a darker or evil lie.

For instance, we might feel we are protecting someone’s feelings by telling a “white lie”.

“Honey, does this dress make me look fat?” “Well of course not, dear!” When in reality it is two sizes too small for your beloved but you value your marriage and want to eat at the dining room table and sleep in your own bed for the next two weeks.

That, was a “white lie”.

“Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth…” Psalm 86:11 ESV.

But the telling of little “white lies” can lead to other lies. It becomes easier to slip them into our conversation. We don’t think about it so much anymore if we are not careful. And even worse, our children hear us and they do not understand the difference.

Austin O’ Malley said, “Those who think it is permissible to tell white lies soon grow color-blind.”

The devil is the liar and the Bible says he is the father of lies. “He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies.” John 8:44.

There is no truth in him!

But the Lord desires truth in our lives and in our hearts, to show forth in everything we do…and say!

“Behold, You desire truth in the inward parts, and in the hidden part You will make me to know wisdom.” Psalm 51:6 NKJV.

He will make us to know wisdom! The New Living Translation said “…you desire honesty from the womb, teaching me wisdom, even there.” From the beginning He was teaching us, molding us, making us to know wisdom. Putting His truth in our hearts!

This truth is built on the foundation of the Word of God but the doctrines of men change with every generation.

We must be settled with what we believe and never waiver. “Buy the truth and sell it not”, the Word says.

Others are watching our lives and we want to emulate Jesus Christ every day, ALL DAY!

This scripture in Ephesians 4:15 completes our thought beautifully: “But, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ…”

Now look at it in this version, the exact same text only expounded just a bit! (Emphasis is mine.)

“Rather, let our lives lovingly express truth (in all things, speaking truly, dealing truly, living truly). Enfolded in love, let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him Who is the Head, (even) Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).” Ephesians 4:15 Amplified New Testament.

Enfolded in love! Let us grow up in every way and in all things into Him…friends, it is so plain, it is so beautiful and we make it so difficult.

Jesus is waiting for us to be enfolded in His love…

Let us grow up…

Feel free to comment and let me know your thoughts on “little white lies”!! This is community!

And remember to pray for us here in Latvia! Tonight begins the leadership part of the 2nd Annual General Conference. We have missionaries arriving from Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Norway and the United States, all coming to Riga to help support this conference. We appreciate your prayers for a mighty outpouring of the spirit here in this beautiful country. If you have missed previous posts you can read them here and here! God bless!

 

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