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Be Bright – There’s No Dimmer Switch on His Light, Jenny Price

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The Sky’s the Limit.

Or is it?

There are no limits – except the ones we make up.

There is no dimmer that can be placed on His glorious light.

D.L. Moody said , “The world has yet to see what God will do WITH and FOR and THROUGH and IN and BY the man who is fully and wholly consecrated to Him”.

How bright is your life?

Are you expecting God to show up and demonstrate what only He can?

When I get overwhelmed, and tired, and weary of being bright, He reminds me -

“Jenny, there are no limits.  Live like that!”

In marriage, I want to scream loud and proud that marriage is worth the work –  it’s our legacy.  It matters.  I want the message of my love for my husband to be severely bright in a dark world of wrecked marriages and heavy heartaches.

In motherhood, with each of my five kids, I want to be an example – sincere and struggling every day to say - God is enough for every failure and all our shame. I want my son to know, when he comes to me with his mistakes, that my Jesus is Bright – and His light shines over our dark failures.

In ministry, as a pastor’s family, we know God is limitless and that He is leading Covenant Fellowship to shine brighter in our community and in our world.  And it’s scary, exhausting, and overwhelming. And there are days, we havent’ a clue because the needs are so much bigger than we are.  So we trust. Because it’s His Bright Light we carry.  Not ours.

In believing God for more – I am relying on His power to continue boldly telling my story.  As Tammy and I wait for our book, “Inseparable”, to be discovered by the right publisher, we believe in what we cannot see. We know that it’s His story within us that makes the world brighter.  So, we trust Him, and hold onto the good work He started.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.     2 Corinthians 9:8

Mark Batterson, author of “The Circle Maker” says:

I’ve always felt like I’m in over my head. 

But that’s when God has you right where He wants you. 

Why? 

Because it forces you to live in raw dependency upon God and raw dependency is the raw material out of which God does His greatest miracles.

If you feel like you are equal to the task then your task isn’t big enough!

When we only swim in the shallow end, we don’t need His Light or His power.  We’re fine on our own.

But when we jump in the deep water, we get scared and realize – we do need His Light.

Deep water faith requires our Deep Water God to show up.  

Live like that!  Get your Light on and Swim!

Where in your life are you needing God and His Light to carry you?  What dream are you seeing as your deep water swim?

Share in COMMENTS below.  I commit to pray over your shares! 

Hide It Under a Bushel? NO! Jenny Price

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I woke up yesterday . . . crying.

Actually, it was on Wednesday, not yesterday, but I literally woke up weeping.

That’s how I woke up!

I was wounded, and my heart was hurt deeply.

My wounds are still raw.

The worst part is that I was wounded by the words of those that I thought loved me and wanted the best for me.

Maybe they do, but I wasn’t feeling it, and I’m still not - to be honest.

I’m a pastor’s wife, and they need me to be something other than what I am.

I’m told that my passion scares people, my thinking is too far outside of the box, and that I need to dim my light a little (or maybe hide it under a bushel).

Didn’t we sing about that as little kids?  I’m gonna let it shine!

I’m asked what makes me think I’m special — what qualifies me to do this, to be that, to say this, or to live that?

My courage is NOT my courage.  It’s the same courage the Holy Spirit has given you.

I am simply choosing to use it.  It’s in you.  I’ve seen it.  And my prayer is that you will accept it, and live it out every day – your way, not my way, His way, in His power (not mine & not yours).

My thinking is HIS thinking.  I have been transformed by the renewing of my mind.

The mind He gave me – the one he formed in me when I was still in my momma’s womb – he handcrafted it for His glory, to think as He does — with creativity that breaks from “normal” – whatever that is??? – on behalf of those who have no voice.

My voice is NOT a quiet one. I am a child of the King, a princess I suppose, but I am a warrior.

I was made to change the world every day – one moment at a time, one relationship at a time, one message at a time.  He fought for me, and on the cross, the war was won.

Now, He has called me to fight the battles He sets before me.  

He told me (it wasn’t a ‘suggestion’) to shine MY light.  

I was made to point people to Jesus — to shine so brightly that the world,

and maybe even the church, takes notice (even if they don’t understand).

The light is on, and I’m not installing a dimmer switch. This is me. 

My special is JESUS’ special.  I have been super-sized.

I have super-hero qualities (those would be the qualities of my Hero and Savior, commonly known as the fruit of the Spirit).

According to Scripture, I have been seated at the right hand of God – placed, sealed, and held in Jesus Christ himself.

Don’t try to tell me that I’m not special.

I was made in the image of my Creator, Sustainer, Savior and King.  So were you.

I’m no different.  I’m no more called.

I don’t have more Jesus than you do.

I’m a pastor’s wife.  I love the honor it is to lead and to serve people with my husband — to lay down our lives together, for the sake of His kingdom, and I am privileged to raise my five children in the midst of an incredible church family.

And I am tired.  Maybe even spent.  I feel empty.  I’m not, but that’s how I feel.  My efforts have been misperceived, misunderstood, and mishandled.  I have been criticized, my motives critiqued, my heart called into question, and it hurts more than anyone might imagine.

Even your pastor’s wife cries salty tears.
She lays her head down at night, and sometimes she can’t sleep because sometimes . . .
She hears your words, and feels like she’s been gutted.

I am a pastor’s wife, I am a princess, and I am a WARRIOR for my King.  

And THAT is what I will be. 

They call us PWs.  I choose for that to stand for Princess Warrior, rather than simply a Pastor’s Wife.

So think what you will.  The last thing I want is to be a stumbling block for you.

But I must be who I was made to be — Standing boldly and with joy.  Sometimes loudly, but always in His power and grace.

Amazing music video that speaks my heart way better than I can…Thanks Brit!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fccqaKTz3Ko

“Ready or Not”, Here I Come, Brit Nicole and Lecrae…

How is your “light shining” going?  How can I pray for your courage and brightness?  COMMENTS Welcome!

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Who Wants to Be an Oxymoron? Jenny Price

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Who Wants to Be an Oxymoron?

An oxymoron (from Greek ὀξύμωρον, “sharp dull”) is a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms.

Read through these oxymorons – which ones do you most identify with or which ones make you chuckle?

A fine mess

Almost pregnant

All natural artificial flavor

Agree to disagree

All alone

Bad luck

Balding hair

Baggy tights

Birth control

Baby grand

Blind eye

Clean oil

Clear as mud

Civil War

Clearly confused

Climb down

Clean toilet

Chocolate Vanilla Wafers

Controlled chaos

Words are funny.  They matter a lot.  Kind of like life.

How you live your life.  The messages that you send.  The words your life is putting out there. They matter.

What do you want your life (your everyday life) to speak to others?

Do you want…

A clear message?

A mixed message?

A half-hearted message?

A non message ?

A sharp, dull message?

Or just a sharp,

Or just a dull message?

It’s up to you.  Deep down inside.  You know your message.

It has been placed in you by your Creator – the Creative One, the One with THE Message.

Some days the message is screaming so loudly, you can barely hear anything else.  So you boldly proclaim it, for all the world to hear.

Other days, you barely hear the faint, tiny whisper, since you’ve been furiously burying it – because “no one’s even listening”.

And still other days, it’s just too confusing to figure it all out.  It’s loud, it’s soft, it’s cold, it’s hot.                     It’s “whatever”. So, why even try?

An oxymoron life is a life that combines contradictory terms, contradictory messages –

an oxymoron is a life of “false truth”.

I want to live in His truth for me, with His message pouring out of every bit of my soul, with every second of my day.  So, today, I live in Courage.

I named this year, 2012, “Courage”.

I am claiming this courage each and every day.

His courage in me.

Courage like David, fighting Goliath.  Throwing one tiny sling shot at a huge, gigantic, unreasonable goal.

I don’t want to live in contradiction to His calling to live, daily, wholeheartedly – my courageous life.

It’s not a run, almost to the finish line – it’s all they way across, every single, painful step, finishing with arms to the sky, celebrating all that He can do in and through me.

It’s not a climb, half way up the mountain – it’s all the way up, through the dark, scary woods, over the roaring, wild river, up to the view, from way up there.

It’s not a table of contents for my new book – it’s the whole book, word by word, chapter by chapter, courageous truth, after courageous truth.

It’s not a business plan, and a list of goals to talk about; it’s not a concept or an idea – it’s the nitty-gritty, risk taking building of the business, asking for support, putting myself out there, promoting the event, hiring the speaker, creating the coaching packages that sell, taking one risk after the other –

With His courage, and His dreams inside of me.

It’s not a dull, boring, timid, light-hearted courage.

It’s the real thing – bold, brave, big, beautiful, God sized “Courage”!

What’s your message?  Respond below.

 

Where in your life are you living in “false truths”? 

If you could accomplish any goal, no matter what, it would be completed, what would you do this year? 

What new thing can you do today, to live in the real truth, and the real message, that you say you want your life to be?