02/28/2019 - Principals for our careers.

Applying principals to my career,

ASK = making the calls, ASK for the listing, ASK for the appointment, ASK just ASK.
SEEK = looking, its SEEKing
KNOCK = The dreaded door knocking ... KNOCK and the door will open ...

HI!  My name is Caroline.  {HELLO THERE} 

You all know, KNOW, that I have a RADICAL level of FAITH. If you don't know you should read my BLOG!  ALL OF IT!  

I am doing a NEW THING.  I am doing a NEW RADICAL THING.  I am applying Biblical verses to EVERY portion of my LIFE.  YOU HEARD ME RIGHT.

So I keep THIS sign in my bathroom.  My best North Carolina Friend had gifted one JUST like it to me.  It is one of my very favorites that has rung true before in a radical move I did in the past.

I am not a quiet believer.

I am not a soft spoken person.

I have a sternness about me.  I have a drive about me.  I have a determination and a mindset to be THE BEST VERSION OF MYSELF I CAN POSSIBLY BE.  

Today I was on Facebook, and the person I look up to, I call her my mentor ~ she may not even know she is my mentor, had done what she calls a Prophetic Prayer Call.  yesterday.  Today I catch the replay and EVERY SINGLE WORD spoke to EVERY CELL IN MY SPIRIT.  She mentions the leaking pipes, she mentions other things that detail my crooked lil shack, and then ~ She says There is a lady in REAL ESTATE, my head spun, she says it all began in 2017 and I got CHILLS, she mentioned Atlanta, no I am not there BUT ~ when SHE lived in ATLANTA we had a phone conference in 2016 and SHE told me the Real Estate move I was considering at that time would be for me.  She relayed I would "Beast in Real Estate", she goes on and she says about CREDIT REPAIR, I nearly fainted.  She says at the end about the CAR INSURANCE!  

I am going to send her an email and see if she will allow me to use her link.  If so I will add it HERE, in this space.

So.  Now that I am all excited on today ~ HOW am I going to APPLY biblical versus to my life, my career, my marriage?  Easy peasy.

REAL ESTATE:  Ask, seek, knock ... simple principals the amazing instructors at IGNITE have been saying the past few weeks.  Make the calls, farm your areas, go DOOR KNOCKING!  GASP! The word does NOT return VOID.  So what is the PROMISE of this?  You WILL FIND.  *whoa* there is some heavy revelation.  There is room there for RADICAL FAITH.  Hmmmmm.  So.  WHAT am I going to do about it?  Well, what any RADICAL FAITH FILLED PERSON WOULD DO!  I am getting ready to farm my chosen area(s) I have them designated.  I have them waiting.  I also am making the calls.  My call list may only be 2 or 5 or 10 BUT I am SEEKING more.  I am SEEKING new avenues.  And lastly, I am going door KNOCKing.  Mhhmmm.  For everyone who asks ~ receives, for those who seek ~ they find, for those who knock ~ the door will be opened.  THANK YOU LORD!    

Wrapping up.  It is simple really.  The instructions say to ask, seek, knock.  The results is finding.  That right there is a supernatural, Holy Ghost, God spoken WORD that CANNOT return void.  Period.  

You will see.

Have a beautiful blessed day! 

02/26/2019 - Gifts of the Spirit - FAITH

     Growth is HARD. Change is HARD. 

     I feel like we have many layers of who we are. Over time we must shed some in order to gain new skin. We become the caterpillar and the butterly over and over again. Are you a caterpillar today or a butterfly? Me, I am a caterpillar. I am wrapped up in my cozy little cocoon as my whole life crumbles apart in my crooked lil shack. All the while holding on to the gifts of the spirit. Mainly FAITH. Mainly HOPE.

Gifts of the Spirit 1 Corinthians 12:8–10

1. Word of wisdom
2. Word of knowledge
3. Faith
4. Gifts of healings
5. Miracles
6. Prophecy
7. Distinguishing between spirits
8. Tongues
9. Interpretation of tongues

Let's take a look at FAITH for a moment.

Faith as small as a mustard seed.  We have all heard that phrase by now.  If not, you can find it HERE

What does this look like REALLY? When faith is a gift from the Spirit, it is a radical level of faith.  It allows one to do something they normally may not do.  It uproots like the mulberry tree and plants it in the sea!  Let me share with you.

I knew in my heart I didn't belong in Indiana.  I felt lost, alone, abandoned, & desperate.  I was dying inside and I KNEW it.  I was restless.  I tried rearranging our home over and over.  The restlessness did not pass.  I tried changing jobs, still I was so unhappy.  So restless. So alone.  Whether I pushed people away or was deserted, either or, I was alone.  I was restless, and I knew I did not belong there.  Toxic relationships were like poison to my soul.  I often would walk over to the park to sit on a small mound of sand next to the most beautiful little creek.  My sympathetic soul felt bad for the creek.  I apologized to it for making it feel like it wasn't good enough!  I really did.  See, in my heart I longed for the big wild vast OCEAN!  Every thought of it took my very breath away.  I was holding onto the hope of water in the middle of the desert.  There was only one thing I could do.

The very last day of school for my little guys came, I loaded what I could into my Jeep, rushing a little too much for fear I might change my mind again.  That I might talk myself out of it.  I crammed pillows and blankets, and two bikes into that jeep!  Along with what non perishables I had laying about and just a can opener.  I filled my gas tank and counted the money I had left.  $180.00 ... That was it.  ONLY $180.00.  Well, okay.  I knew I needed every spare penny I could so I did not pay for my phone service, (it was a pay as you go) which left me with no way to contact anyone, no GPS.  My plan was basic, old school.  Travel East until I find the Ocean and South until I find home.  I knew I would know it once I got there.  Stay on the Highways and stop at the rest stops to check the map.  Seemed easy enough.  I knew that I knew that I knew ~ this was IT!  The KEY I needed!  The level of FAITH that had me change my life so intensely, so radically that it could only of been gifted to me by GOD.  I was like a raging bull that day, and NOTHING, I do mean NOTHING was going to get in my way of finding my happiness.  Finding my healing.  Finding my purpose.  We made it to that beach.  We headed East all the way to Roanoke Virginia, then headed south all the way to Wilmington North Carolina.  We made our home there.  Blessings upon blessings upon blessings were showered onto us.  When the time came, God once again whispered, "Move" and I did.  Sometimes the method of transportation self destructs upon arrival.  Which it did.  But it got me where we needed to go.  I strongly believe God moved us out of NC for our own safety, for our own growth, to reach the destination he has waiting for us.  I am NOT at that point yet.  That is why I started this blog.  To share with you REAL LIFE.  To share with you what gifts from the Spirit REALLY are, in real life. 

I, in no way, am saying to you to do anything so radical.  I am not endorsing any kind of "do as I do" mindset.  What is right for me, is for me.  What God has for you is for YOU. 

If you are anything like me, you have questioned who or what God is.  Who/what does God do.  WHERE is God?  In the day we live in, the age we live in, it appears the belief in God is fading.  Changing, it just isn't cool to believe in age old things anymore.  We have shifted into counterfeits that morph the gifts bestowed to us into following different paths, I say to you ~ that is all they are, counterfeits.

Do you have a radical story of FAITH you would like to share?  Email that to me!  I would love to read it.

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