The humidity in Tennessee begins sometime in May. For my Northern friends, Southern humidity doesn't take a day off.   Up North you'll have a few days of really HOT and HUMID weather.. and then you might get a few weeks where the humidity lets up.   NOT HERE!!  Every day is HOT and HUMID. Every day.. until....oh......about........the end of October.. or the middle of November.   And on those days when the temperature sign on the local banks has an actual temperature reading of 109, "we" Southerners comfort ourselves with the thought, "Well, at least we don't have to shovel snow."...   WRONG!  Last night it snowed.. almost 3 inches of snow is on our back deck... 3 INCHES.  Tomorrow it's going to be in the mid-50's so it will be gone by then......    But still......SNOW.  OK.. well just got back home.  Had fun watching the boys.  They're good kids.  Of course, it's always nice to sleep in your own bed...although....they have a really comfortable one.   OK.. well.....thanks to those of you who have been emailing to say, "Hey" ... I'm just gonna sit here and wait for the snow to melt.   

It's a pretty busy week here........some friends are away and we are helping with the care of their children.  Sharing it with friends.. So I'm in and out.  They don't have internet access at their house, so I guess .....my blogs will be short this week.   People are reading the blog.  Some of you are sending some really INTERESTING comments. How about some more???  I won't post them if you'd prefer I didn't. 

The Army of the Lord is 50% women.  We make up half the ARMY.  The weapons of our warfare are not carnal. They aren't things we can figure out, they aren't things that come to us naturally.  We are the ones who will tear down strongholds.  We are the ones who will plant the seeds of faith in the generation that will follow.  What are we planting?  What kind of harvest will our generation see?

I grew up with a Warrior Woman.  I called her "Mom".   When I was younger, I remember that she was just a normal woman.  But then, something happened and she changed in to a supernatural being almost.  A SuperSpirit Mom.   She took her hand and put it on my forehead whenever I got sick and commanded that sickness to leave me ---- and IT DID!   You can call it coincidence, but I called it faith.  As the years have passed, she is more and more focused on one thing:  The Kingdom of God.   People from all over call me to "ask your Mom to pray".  I mean, seriously, what can be a higher honor than to have a mother who is known for prayer?  (I wrote an article about her that is appearing in the April 2008 issue of HomeLife Magazine)  In our neighborhood in New York City she was known as a woman of God - the people ran to her for counsel and prayer. 

Where are all the Warrior Women of God?  Sure, we have a couple of famous authors and conference speakers that we all flock to hear.  But they don't have an exclusive right to God's power, God's plan, God's wisdom. No.   God's plan is for half His army- the Warrior Women - to infiltrate every level of society with His power - every neighborhood, every school, every job, every Sunday School class, every supermarket.   

Where are all the warrior women?  Are we watching Oprah?  Are we getting Botox?  Are we complaining about our husbands? Where are we?  Do you know a Warrior Women?  Tell us about her.

I've always been a good girl, ya know?  It never entered my mind when I was living at home to disobey my parents.  I always kept myself away from the "bad" kids at school.  I never partied. I just went to school, I went to church, and I then I came home.  I dated a Christian boy and  99% of our "dates" consisted of going to church. We dated in a Godly way.. until our wedding.. (If you get my drift)..   If you asked me then if I was an obedient follower of Jesus, I would have answered "yes".   I guess I still regard myself as the kind of woman who is obedient to death.. But am I really?  

Phillippians 2: 5 & 8 clearly tells me that my ATTITUDE MUST be THE SAME AS Jesus. And Jesus was obedient to death. He kept obeying, even though he knew that the end result of His obedience was dark death.  There aren't lots of Crosses hanging in my neighborhood at the moment.  There aren't many Roman soldiers trying to crucify me.  For the immediate future, the chances of me being put to death for what I believe are very, very small.  So what does it mean to be obedient unto death? 

It means I must obey - EVEN IF IT KILLS ME.   I must CONTINUE to do what I know is GOD'S WILL in that situation and OBEY IT - even if it kills me.    It means that ALMOST OBEYING is the same as NOT OBEYING AT ALL.   Jesus didn't almost obey - and then it got really, really HARD to obey so He stopped obeying. He kept obeying until it killed him. He kept obeying until it killed Him. 

Whatever part of my flesh needs to die, I must obey until my obedience kills it.......until it dies.   My attitude MUST be the same as Jesus attitude - and He obeyed...........until God's will was accomplished.    There is no such thing in God's Kingdom as obeying until it hurts and then I can stop.  No.  No such thing as that.    I forgive until all UNforgiveness is dead.   I love until all hatred is dead. I give until my selfishness is obliterated.   I lay my life down until I don't even notice that I'm laying my life down.   If there is a sin that keeps tripping me up - I obey Jesus command to be as drastic as I need to be to cut it out of my life.   I obey. I obey - because I want God's will more than my own.  I obey.  I obey. I obey.   Even when it kills me....