“You may not want to live in the past, but it sounds like the past is still living in you.” (Hallmark Christmas movie 2021, male lead to female lead) Whoever the script writer was, they nailed an aspect of legitimacy lies and the art of rehearsal with that line. The script could have just as […]
Legitimacy Lies – “This is How You Do It”
Legitimacy Lies – “This is how you do it” misused, aims at or lands in the heart of an individual’s God-given design. When my counselor husband and I were first introduced to the ever-growing study of the redemptive (grace) gifts, we took seriously the personal component of our respective designs. Early attempts to utilize even […]
Legitimacy Lies – Designed to Disservice Our Design
Legitimacy lies are arrows of the Accuser, their poison tips designed to penetrate one’s soul. If left intact, they permeate the ground of our life and who God designed us to be. There is a toxicity to these poison arrows. The human spirit – our own and the spirit of others – becomes the dumping […]
Hinds’ Feet with Hands Trained for Battle
Dear Readers ~ Hinds’ Feet With Hands Trained for Battle comes after five years and five months of the run I was set to go on in the gift of hinds’ feet. When Holy Spirit used that December 2016 dream to shoe my spiritual feet for the next season, I had no idea how long […]
“Wellspring” Twelfth Anniversary & Birthday Edition
Twelve years of Rielyn’s life and Wellspring of Life! Two ‘lifes’, each one so valuable to the Lord, inscribed in love on the palms of His hands. We get to celebrate again! “Wellspring” Twelfth Anniversary & Birthday edition! Here’s the thing, RJ and Wellspring, about twelve. It’s about our foundations. Building them strong with faith […]
Psalm 27 – Our Deliverance Song
Psalm 27 – our Deliverance song in response to Lord Jesus Christ’s Resurrection/Ascension song David, a living, breathing individual after God’s own heart. From the earth, with eternal roots. Fourteen generations before Jesus. The same Spirit that raised Christ from the dead moved in David a thousand years before, to gaze with eyes of faith upon the beauty […]
Psalm 26 – Our Redemption Song
Psalm 26 – our Redemption song in response to Jesus Christ’s Burial song ~ Jesus Christ is the Good News. It is who He is; the Word made flesh, who lived and dwelt among us, full of grace and truth.1 He lived redemption. Before He ever went to the cross, was laid in the grave to taste […]
Psalm 25 – Our Salvation Song
Psalm 25 – our Salvation song in response to Jesus’ Death song ~ The gift of salvation through Jesus Christ our Lord. Who can scribe the depth of understanding that only Spirit to spirit may witness and secure for eternity? Yet, when the spirit thrills to the life to be found in this most priceless […]
Songs of the Lord’s Child – Introduction
Welcome to Songs of the Lord’s Child – Introduction ~ the responsive soliloquy of those saved by grace ~ In the weeks leading up to Easter 2015, I shared the inspiration behind and subsequent download of a trilogy entitled The Songs of the Lord flowing through Psalms 22, 23, and 24. In brief, the Songs of […]
Persuaded Heart – Eleven and Times of Transition
Dear thirsty ones ~ Thirteen months ago in January 2021, I wrote an initial post, Persuaded Heart, in a new Wellspring category with the potential of becoming a series for the year. 2021 came and went alongside our personal transition into a one-year sabbatical. This post lands timely in our 11th month. Before I paused […]