Here, let me reach around this tree trunk in my eye to pluck that toothpick from yours!

I love it when the Lord springs these out-of-the-blue revelations on me using old, tried and true verses I've known my whole life; the thought-I'd-seen-from-every-angle, and, yea, OK, probably didn't-give-much-thought-to-anymore, I admit, verses.

In a daily devotional today, Joyce Meyer referenced Matthew 7:3-5.  Well, I know the word, but not so much the exact addresses, so I looked it up...  I jump on any excuse to look things up in my Bible! 

And why beholdest thou the speck that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the plank that is in thine own eye? 
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the speck out of thine eye; and behold, a plank is in thine own eye? 
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the plank out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the speck out of thy brother's eye. 

 At first I started to dismiss the passage as one that I of course knew, but I was drawn to keep reading all three verses and as I read the last something hit me.

Jesus says THEN SHALT THOU... 

He does not tell us not to discern and assist a brother with the speck in their eye - He says don't go poking around someone's eyeball when you can't see yourself!!

Get straight with Him first, then HE will guide you to whom HE wants you to free up.  Without a plank in your own eye, you will see others THROUGH HIS EYES!

We are called to love our neighbor as ourselves - well, sometimes that is going to mean laying the proverbial cards on the table: in love of course.  But there is the spirit-led, Bible-taught, Jesus way to do it - or the flesh's way. There is the sin of pride and boasting, or the love of Christ in us.  Jesus promised the Holy Spirit would give us the words we need when we need them and you know what I've discovered?  He keeps His promises! 

If we mind our own business, Jesus will lead us when there is someone else He wants us to help.  Otherwise - just keep minding your own business! 

Our only job is to pray for others, not fix them!  How freeing is that?!  Look at all the weight just lifted from your shoulders!

Imagine how much lighter we'll all feel when we start chiseling away at the planks in our own eyes, too!

Enjoy a blessed week!

Wow, has it really been almost two years?! Oh my... no wonder the Lord has been after me!

God can be so funny in how He works sometimes…   If you’re not paying attention to the Holy Spirit you can totally misread a message – or the enemy leads your flesh to see what it wants to in something the Lord wanted you to see completely differently.

The important thing is He never turns His back on us when we miss Him! 

 If you feel any kind of nudge in your spirit, any kind of hesitation before you close your Bible or study book, mark the page and come back to it later!  Do not forget!  If we diligently seek Him, He waits patiently for us to ‘get it.’

Oh, and when we do finally see what He wanted to tell us – what a blessing!  The fact that we have an omnipotent, all-powerful heavenly Father, who simply spoke and creation came into being, who loves us each enough to speak to us individually, personally, is almost more than we can fathom in the natural.  A Father who knows our hearts like no other could, who wants more and better for each one of us than even we can imagine…    But our spirit knows Him intimately and is not at all surprised.  Let your spirit lead you, not your head, certainly not your feelings or emotions!

Slow down, brush aside all the distractions of the enemy, and just spend a quiet moment letting your spirit do the communicating.  See what wondrous thing our amazing heavenly Father may have to show you!

Oh…   What’s He been telling me?  "WRITE!  It’s been far too long, write!" 

In Jesus’ name, here I go!

My simple Christmas gift...

 I have only this simple word, but I give it with my heart and soul 

in the hopes it blesses someone for Christmas

       Wow, it’s been a while since I just sat down with the Word 

and let the Lord speak to me…  

kinda ashamed to admit that, but there it is.  

 Bless God, He is faithful, though!  What a revelation this morning!  

And short & sweet!  I think I am figuring that part out finally, too!  (…and the crowd roars!)

So, He has me reading bits and pieces of John 15 & 16 this morning, when 16:22b hits me:  …and your joy no man taketh from you.  Wow…  yeah!  What I know, I know!  I KNOW the things that God has done in my life; I know the times that Jesus has touched me, spoken to me, been right next to me; I know that I know that I know the visions the Holy Spirit has given me!  No one can ever take that away from me!  Whom have I to fear when I am a child of the most high God?!

But then verse 23 hit me, still in John 16: And in that day ye shall ask me nothing.  Verily, verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name, he will give it to you.  OK, hold the phone!!  Let me read that again, Lord…   "ye shall ask me nothing”???  My mind started racing with the, pffft – millions? – of prayers where I’d asked Jesus to handle stuff!  Always being duly respectful, of course - but sometimes as if He was the big brother I always dreamed of having.  

I took those signs and wonders, the magnificent miracle of His manifestations to me, somewhat for granted and often just prayed right to Jesus.  Oh, I always prayed in His name, ‘cause I knew the last part of that verse, if we did that our prayers would be answered!  Right on, Jesus!  

But for all the spewing rhetoric I do about there not being enough reverential fear of God these days – I am guilty of the same thing!!  Well that sucks…  hellooo – revelation!! 

Jesus tells us right there that we are to pray to the Father, IN His name.  He freakin DIED that horrific death on the cross to tear the curtain in the holy of holies and break down that which separated us from the heavenly Father, so we could go directly to Him!  For me to not pray to the Father now is just disrespecting the sacrifice that Jesus made!  Who would do that on purpose???  Not me!  Not now that the truth has been laid out so clearly before me!

Whoa…   Thank You, Holy Spirit for laying the Word out before me the way you do!  

OH!  See!  I almost said, “Jesus, help me to start…”  Well, I see this is going to be a habit that will have to be consciously broken!  (21 days to form a new habit, here I come!)

Glorious heavenly Father, I magnify You and thank You for Your boundless love and mercy!  I can do nothing without Jesus, I ask in His name for the guidance to change my prayer habits and not take any of You for granted, Abba!  I yield my prayer life to You, in Jesus’ mighty name.  I praise You and worship You, Father!  Hallelujah!!

You know, ‘gold and silver have I none’, 

but I sure hope this touches someone out there!

Merry Christmas one and all!! 

ABC Pushes Too Hard

 "Good Christian Bit***s"?!

Really, ABC????  Really?!  

On our TVs, in front of our children?!  

I think you have just gone too far this time!

"TAKE HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU" 

Jesus said this in Matt. 24 to prepare us for just THIS kind of thing...  

a fight against not only those who would suppose to DO this in the first 

place, but those who would, as this article suggests at the end, 

be so deceived as to think 

that this would somehow be OK with the creator of the universe, 

the Father of all nations, the Alpha and Omega, 

the great I AM - the one true and living God who spoke 

everything into its very existence!  

The enemy comes like a roaring lion to STEAL, KILL, AND DESTROY, 

seeking whom he can devour...  

ARE YOU GOING TO LET IT BE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY???? 

 

  (John 10:10, 1Peter 5:8)

Here is another article on the matter.

Use this link to tell ABC you do NOT approve!

How long before the F-word is just another part of 

TV language and billboards?

How long before people finally stand up and say ENOUGH?!

 

Falling into Place

NEW GAME PLAN

Yea, OK...  so I have this tendency to hear God when He speaks, but before He really finishes, I'm sorta like a big yellow lab, straining at the end of the leash, choking itself to get out the door goin, "Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!  We're gonna go for a ride, we're gonna go for a ride!"  And while I'm slobbering all over myself with glee, I missed the part about the ride being to the vet's office!  Then I am disappointed in my owner who I thought loved me and was supposed to care for me, that they could take me to a place where I am poked and prodded, given SHOTS, and forced to sit in a smelly room full of all those 'other' animals so obviously from the wrong side of the tracks!   :/

Ahhhh, yes...   I used to drive this one boss of mine crazy in one-on-one meetings when I would fidget and get this 'let's pick up the pace' look on my face!  

BE STILL and know that I am God.   Now there's a tough one for me to grasp!  haha!

But, I think I may finally have gotten some of what I am supposed to be doing with this blog business figured out!  Yeah!  *insert crowd roaring with applause here*

I am all about God and racing...   hence "Breakthrough Racing" - and this blog.  So, until I learn my way around blogdom a little better, here's the deal.  Off to the bottom right you will find some "additional pages."  They are named appropriately for your perusal as you may desire.  

This main body will be for racing and general 'stuff' as it flies.  The "Sword of the Spirit" page will be my devotions/Bible study section, feel free to ask questions, not that I am a theologian by any stretch of the imagination, but I will do my best to give you what I believe the Bible says on issues.

I will be adding to my Bio page here and there; I have not quite decided what I'm doing with that just yet, how in depth that's going to go - don't want to scare folks, you know!  heehee!  But then, those who frighten easily may want to avoid the "Randomness" page altogether as that is liable to churn out anything from the wild first entry baring my soul about something from my past, to a commentary on Bass Fishing tournaments...   one can just never be sure with me.  It's what keeps folks coming back!   ;o)

Either way, you can count on honesty, humor, lots of racing, and a place to renew your faith and receive prayer and refreshing for your spirit when you need it!  Hmmm...   I suppose a page for prayer requests is called for as well, then!

Welcome to the new Breakthrough Racing blog experience.  I hope you will come back often!

The Reluctant "Prophetess"

The Sword of the Spirit…

it is a two-edged sword that cuts both ways; 

cut me to the quick when I need it, too, Lord.

OK, so for quite some time now the Lord has been after me doggedly to “WRITE!” But, as usual, true to form, I ran. He showed me exactly what I was to say, and I said, “nooooo! I can’t say that to people!”

So then what does He do? Takes me to Jeremiah 1 and promptly says, “Don’t tell me what you can’t do! You will do this and you will not be afraid of what people think.” And I’m pretty sure He said something like ‘period, end of sentence’ when He was done… but I wouldn’t swear to that!

So, a few more days of dragging my feet, a few more days of Him flashing BLOGGING through my head, and here I am, humbly - yes, somewhat reluctantly - to share some of the things the Lord has been showing me. This whole blogging world is new to me as well as stepping out in the Lord this way, so I ask for your indulgence as I wet my feet these first few weeks and not allow comments. One mountain at a time, OK?! Thanks!

Well then, starting soon will be various offerings here in this blog, in a series which I have decided to refer to as the "Sword of the Spirit," on subjects the Lord puts on my heart, or otherwise instructs me to share.  Sometimes He's not so subtle, you see.  He does have a "still small voice" - until you ignore Him, then He is not above smackin' you upside the head with something.  Trust me!

There will be issues coming on subjects such as the "If and Then" principle throughout the Bible; the future without our Bibles; true repentance; Ishmael and the current conflicts with the Middle East; rampant compromise today; unanswered prayer; and many, many more.

I hope you will enjoy the journey, I pray you will receive these words with an open spirit as the Lord intends them, and I hope you will pray for me as I humble myself to accept this mantle that I guess I pretty much asked for, but am now stepping into like the Ghost and Mr. Chicken!

Thank you.

Wow...

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water...

As a professional in the racing world, I have had to tip-toe around situations and keep my peace while I've seen things that I knew were wrong went on. OK, sure, growing up I didn't always do such a great job of keeping my mouth shut, but I learned my lesson, usually at my own expense, and most often the proverbial hard way. But what I learned has served me well.

Then along came Daniel Orr.

I really thought I had seen pretty much everything guys had to dish out, being a woman in her 50s who has a lap or two on her. But this guy - wow...

I mean, we all knew he was lying the whole time, I told him straight up he was a sociopath and a compulsive liar. But even when he stiffed me for the money he owed me for management fees, I still gave him credit for being some semblance of who he had presented himself to be... I held out that glimmer of hope that he would come through and prove that all of my time, all the heart and soul I had invested into him were not a complete waste - just so many days and hours of my life I would never be able to recoup.

Alas, today I discovered that not only was I wrong; I was woefully, humiliatingly, frighteningly wrong.

Today one of the drivers I so 'proudly' represented as a Breakthrough Racing driver, a man I spent hours mentoring, counseling, and guiding his 'racing career', someone for whom I even with prayed over the phone, was handcuffed and hauled off to jailed for multiple felony charges. There is no way to put any kind of a promoter’s "spin" on just how far beyond help he turned out to be, and how badly I just didn't want to see it.

Fortunately, I am surrounded by so many other wonderful professionals, so many friends, and so many racecars... that this will pass in no time. I have come away from this experience with the bonus of having made an alliance with the incredible team at Momentum Race Group. I will continue to pray for Daniel and hope the best for him as he faces this road. Breakthrough Racing is on to bigger and better things and has other drivers to promote - and protect! Individuals like Daniel Orr cannot stop the real racers!

Well, I certainly never expected this to be the subject of my first blog! But watch for far more interesting and fun reading down the road! I love to write and hope to start utilizing this to expend some pent up energy… hey, I don’t work out at a gym, have to get it out somewhere! ;o)

Till next time, be blessed!!