Healing Gate Ministries

When I am not traveling, it has become my habit to prepare the morning coffee for Jan so that we can start the day sipping our favourite beverage and sharing deep conversations!  This morning was no different - another beautiful fall day in the Okanagan and our conversation led us a topic we were both mediating on - (as so often happens).  Maintaining faith during the heaviest of seasons. 

Like a butterfly our spiritual journey begins the moment we are conceived in the mind of God,  (egg) and continues on as make our entry into into this world as babes (larvae - feeding and growth stage).  Through the next years, we becomes familiar with the world system and longing for something more (pupa).  And at rebirth (caterpillar) we are revealed as beautiful new creatures in Christ. And our spiritual journey continues as we continue on a path to become fully alive in Christ!  We know that the journey will be always before us, challenging, and God lead!  

Have you ever been talking with someone and in their conversation you hear a word or phrase  that really resonates in your spirit? That happened recently when Jan  and I were having coffee with long time friend Ralph Bromley.  He used the phrase “dropping your nets” and immediately I knew that the Lord was wanting to show me something in the scriptures.

Have you ever been talking with someone and in their conversation you hear a word or phrase  that really resonates in your spirit? That happened recently when Jan  and I were having coffee with long time friend Ralph Bromley.  He used the phrase “dropping your nets” and immediately I knew that the Lord was wanting to show me something in the scriptures.

On wrinkles: I am getting very comfortable with the ever increasing lines on my face. Like circles on the core of a tree, they not only reveal the number of years I have lived, but the intensity with which I have lived them. Deeply etched smile lines remind me that love and laughter have been a huge part of my life. I would like to think that the deep ridge between my eyes is from years of squinting in the sun, but alas, I admit, I have also been a worrier! I do wonder why so many in Hollywood go to such great extremes to erase such a canvas of memories!

“See the former things have taken place, and the new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you” Isaiah 42:9 Gold dust and oil appeared on this woman's hands! Throughout the course of history, there have been many times and seasons when God allows His Bride to experience manifestations of His Glory in a mind boggling way!  How unfortunate that now, in our present day, we have become critical and suspicious of things of the Spirit that we cannot fathom with our un-renewed minds.    “Therefore I urge you brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God – this is your spiritual act of worship.   Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.   Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is - His good, pleasing and perfect will”.   Romans 12: 1  - 2