Let your testimony shine through me!

Hmmm... God is so good. I wish words could describe His just love and jealousy over us.

So Sunday was a ground shaking day for me, at 11 am service at Riverstone I was serving on the ministry team at the end two people were healed, one from a back injury and another from I believe it was pulled neck muscle. It was amazing to see His power, to be carrying the same power that conquered the grave in my hands. Hm... Soak that one up for a second. To Him be ALL the glory... Thank you Holy spirit for your power you paved a way through us with.

So this is when heaven started rejoicing and it got RADICAL so after Riverstone's 10th anniversary a group of us college kids decided to go to Starbucks on Barrett Parkway. About ten minutes into sitting down Cassie said she was getting a word of knowledge for someone in the Starbucks, and her left shoulder was really hurting. None of us really jumped on it and kind of went on talking, so about twenty minutes later I freaked out and asked Cassie if it was her left or right shoulder that was hurting, because my left shoulder had begun to profusely hurt, and my heart was racing to many beats a minute.
So Cassie confirmed it was her left shoulder then began to stand up and announced to the table of us she was going to just walk around and ask any one if they had been having problems with their left shoulders. So I replied quickly that God was NOT a God of guessing nor did he have any intentions in making us play twenty questions to answer his SPECIFIC word. So then we would have more faith when he was proven true, and more authority in our prayers!

So as soon as I said that I knew that the two guys sitting behind it was one of them so then the Holy spirit made it pretty clear it was specifically one of them. So I told Cassie and she marched right on over. And it ended up being the guy he showed us (ha not a big surprise). So we laid hands and healed Him in Starbucks. Soon after that somehow we all broke up into groups and were reading bibles, praying, prophesying, being anointed in the Holy spirit, sharing His stories he performed in us. It was power, it was amazing.

All this to say, God did not make us to merely pray for the sick, but to HEAL the sick. To have the same authority and power Jesus carried, to be molded into His image, His identity.... to simply be HIM!

Loving through His love,
-Naomi-June

Super soaker

Hm... so these last two weeks have been A LOT of changes. Last Saturday was my last performance on "For His glory" dance company, and today will be my last day working at Evans Technology. And this morning it all of the sudden hit me, after today I am going full force into the area the Lord is calling me in..... It's no longer about me, not that it ever should have been. But I even more so now get to just scream His name all the time. Have his name written acrossed my forehead, branded on my heart.

So here is my hearts cry for this next season in my life. I want to be so drench in the Holy spirit, so wrapped in my Fathers love, that people would be able to feel it by talking to me, by hugging me, be just being around me. That I would be a dwelling place for Him, That even while I am driving that I would be so covered in His love that as people are driving by me that His love would go into their car, and their cars would take that love and carry it to where ever they are going. Sooner or later that love would touch everyone.

Hmm so that is my hearts cry.

So today I was to be drenched in His love and mercy. I want them to see Jesus in me!

Loving through His love,

-Naomi-June

Would you please complete me

Marriage... so its happening. I look around and a large portion of my friends are engaged or married. And the ones of us who are not are beginning to have our hearts transfixed on the idea of being completed by someone. We yearn to be held, to be loved in a way that we think only our spouse can complete that 'void'.

Thats when my reality check came in. God did not create a man to complete me. He did not create my future husband to be my "other half". He created man and wife to separately reflect a different side of the Lords heart. And when they unite we get to bask in that aspect of the Lord's reflection I do not have but a man has, or a man does not have but a woman has. He is a jealous God, and he created a man and wife to not draw closer together but closer to Him. To have a relationship so holy that within each other they yearn for the Lord, and keep each other accountable.

So thats when reality check number two smacked me. Men are not supposed to be our source of love and beauty. No man will ever make me feel as beauty, as loved, as ravished and the Lord can. He created us so that we could draw close to Him and be fulfilled. No draw close to a man, yes he created them to love us, and us to respect them. But I will NEVER be able to fulfill my husbands desire to be respected nor him fulfill my desire to be loved. Because first we have to find out security in Jesus Christ, the ones our hearts were made for.

Today take time to bask in His love and affections for you. Do not seek a shallow relationship to fill the void, because it will always be void. Yearn for His love, let your heart beat to the rhythm of his heart. Focus on His beauty.

Loving through His love.
-Naomi

A compus.

So one of my biggest prayers recently has been to really be an "arrow" pointing to Christ. I have probably been praying that about 75 percent of the time for the last 4 months. Well last night I was talking to an amazing man of God and he just mentioned I really liked that phrase. Then all of the sudden I just started laughing.
I did not even realize what to the extent of what I was praying. To be an arrow it is only possible to point in ONE direction. There is no half pointing, no jaded arrows, no confusion. But it is an intentional direction you are choosing to direct people to! There is no possible way to be an arrow directing people to heaven, and be pointing at myself.
It gave a whole new meaning to the die to yourself daily, and pick up your cross.

So today, look to see where your arrow is pointing. Where are you directing people to look? What is the path you are creating? Be living a life of intentional pursuit of the Holy spirit.

Loving through His love,
-Naomi

Day dream

'Delight yourself in the Lord; And He will give you the desires of your heart.'
Ps. 37:4

So this is by far one of my favorite verse. But I feel like a lot of times this is manipulated to our "own" translation. No where in that verse does it say "Naomi Fowler's heart desire is to be 5'2." As much as I would like it to translate to that, not so much. Maybe in heaven.

But it says first DELIGHT your self in the Lord. Meaning hang out with Him, spend time in the secret of secret places, growing intimacy with Him. If we are truly living a life yearning for the Lord. Putting Him on the front burner for EVERYTHING we would start to be very close to Him. Well generally when you get extremely close to someone, and start spending long periods of time with them you start to become like them. Yes, how cool is that? We can become like Jesus if we take the time. So if we start to be like Jesus sooner or later we will start to think like Jesus. Starting to follow me here a little bit?
If we start to think like Jesus we will start wanting the same things Jesus wanted. So then our hearts desires will become in unity to the Lords desires. Our deepest desires, are the same of the Lord's. No this verse isn't a fortune cookie, its not a fun little verse. It is deep and rich in
wisdom.

So today bask in the secret place with the holy of holy's. Grow in intimacy with him so you can truly become a reflection of Jesus an arrow pointing start up. Only then will you desire the things the Lord MADE you to desire. Only then will you be truly satisfied.

Loving through His love,
-Naomi-June

He loves me... he loves me not... he loves me.

Jesus replied: “ ‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”
Mathew 22:37-40

So pretty much every christian has heard this verse. Seems pretty generic not a big deal.

But when you think about it, it is pretty powerful.
Love the Lord your God with all your heart: that means no desires before Him, that the love you have for God is deeper and more passionate then any earthly thing or person.
Soul: That you are not living out of the flesh but being sensitive to the spirit at all times. Watching out out for His pulls through out each day.
Mind: Purifying yourself in the most brutal honest way. No one knows your thoughts but the Lord. Continuing to put Him first through every circumstance, creating a pure and holy life style.

I mean yes that part is important but this was the part that got me excited. If we are a hundred percent living in love with the Lord. And putting Him first in heart, soul and mind, there is NO way we could possibly not love His people. Because to love the Lord you have to love His children.

A lot to swallow, eh?

Today see where you thoughts are taking you, what your heart is beating after, what your soul is yearning for. Start directing it to the Lord, and start loving through Him, for Him.

Loving through His love,
-Naomi

Double standards

So this has been a deja vu conversation I keep having with people is my opp ion of Facebook.
Here goes...
I see facebook as a place where a lot of people tend to be a little double faced. You can see them on Sunday morning and they are a hundred percent in love with the Lord, then you see them on facebook or myspace, and there are pictures with some more inappropriate things going. Not that I have ANY place to judge them or say what they are doing is wrong. (Working on the log in my eye first -wink-).
But think about this please...
What if we started using Facebook and myspace, and blogs as a place to glorify the Lord? How amazing would that be? If just by looking at peoples Facebooks you just felt the presence of the Holy spirit? If we had EVERY aspect of our lives being arrows pointing straight up to heaven. Instead of showing how "cool" we think we are, or how attractive and having tons of pictures with the opposite sex. We are to be blameless in the eyes of the Lord. I am by no means perfect, and I am sure there might be stuff on my facebook that might not be the best. But make a conscience effort the glorify Him with your facebook. My sisters call me up the second something is questionable on my facebook, and its great accountability. I would never want the word of my testimony killed my something silly that was in a picture, or comment. And people who are role models, with some of your things, would you want kids who look up to you doing those things? If you were in a club, and you could have not have even drink en a sip or done anything but all they see is hey they are in a bar, and I look up to them as a spiritual leader? Then they go and do it because you in that portrait have told them you approve of that. Try not to give off any appearance of evil!

1 Timothy 1:5-7
The goal of this command is love, which comes from a pure heart, and a good conscience and a sincere faith. Some have wandered away from these and turned to meaningless talk. They want to be teacher of the law, but they do not know what are talking about or what they so confidently affirm.

Titus 1:7
Since an overseer is entrust with God's work, he must be blameless- not overbearing, not quick-tempered, not given to drunkenness, not violent, not pursing dishonest gain. Rather he must be hospitable, one who loves what is good, who is self-controlled, upright holy and disciplined. He must hold firmly to the trustworthy message as it has been taught, so that he can encourage others by sound doctrine and refuse those who oppose it.

It is powerful to start trying to glorify God even in the small aspects of your life. In the things that do not seem like a big deal. Be a light for Jesus in EVERY dark place, even if it is already dimly light, make it brighter.

Loving through His love,
-Naomi

Leaper

So God has been really pushing me about just really talking to random people (Walmart and the Daily Grind are His favorite so far, lol) He's been giving me prophetic words for some and just and urge to talk to others. So at first I was just kind of making small chat with random strangers, then just saying "God bless" at the end of the conversation. Nothing big, no mountains moving. Just trying to be a light. Well then reality check came in, I do NOT want to be a dim light I want to be His light, and His light is blinding not a timid God bless you. So I started praying for people as I would walk through stores and so on.
So here is what God has been letting me translate in the last lets say three or four weeks maybe?

So about two weeks ago I was in Walmart and this lady was checking out in front of me, and she was casually talking to the cashier, so I kept seeing a picture of the Prodigal son. Of course I quickly dismiss and kind of argue with God like "seriously? Please let me just get my stuff and be on my way..." well obviously God won the fight, so I ask the lady as she is gathering her sacks if she had a son missing. She looks at me and starts sobbing, so I ask her if I can walk to her car and pray for her. Luckily she quickly nodded her head, so I proceed to follow her to car.
She begins to tell me the story of her son, he had Leukemia when he was about 4 and had been healed through much prayer, raised in a very christian family who loved the Lord. Well when he turned 16 he got hard core into drugs, achohol, and girls. By the time he was 17 he dropped out of high school and ran away from the house. He was gone for about a year then moved in with his grandparents. He had gone the hospital several times from over dossing on drugs.
I looked at her and asked if I could pray for the Lord's restoration in the relationship, and just for God to show himself to her son. She nodded, I prayed and then gave her my number and said please never hesitate to call. Exactly ONE week later almost to the hour she called, her son had returned home, and wanted to go to rehab and get his life back on track!


I was in daily grind about a month ago and this guy walked out of the bathroom and I just randomly start talking to him (surprise surprise I will talk to any one) so I start asking him about his life, and he tells me he has just put in his resume for a full-time job working with youth at a christian company who works in high schools, I ask him if I can pray with him (John Fajuke was with me too!) and so we laid our hands on him and prayed, he emailed me on facebook the next day and had received the job!

I have a few more, but I will leave it at that!
Do not be afraid to step out in faith! God will rock your world with it!

Loving through His love,
-Naomi

Do we ever make it worth it?

Does it still hurt God?
Every time we turn our hearts from you,
Can you still feel the tears running down?
When we find faults in our reflections,
The beauty you made, and died for,
Can you hear the nails pound deeper?
Would you ever take it back?
When we speak out of anger, and not love?
Does is still hurt God?
When we mumble a prayer every so often,
Do you ever regret it?
When reading the bible becomes an obligation,
Does the spear in you're side grow even deeper?
When we try to be the same and fit it,
Even though you made us to stand out,
Does you're crown of thorns burn deeper?
When you wanted to cry out, but held it in.
Do we ever make it worth it?
Does it still hurt God?

Are you running?

I hear the heavy echo's as my feet hit the pavement.
As if each time my foot left the ground I hear a thousand footsteps to follow.
The sweat slowly dripped from my face. As if a flood of pain was being release.
As I looked to the crowds, for encouragement and love.
Their desolate faces left a void image in my mind.
I cried out for love, yet I heard no reply.
Only the for ever echoes of my feet hitting the pavement, over, and over, and over.
As the other racers flew by me I tried to keep up, to stay along. Te be a part. to maybe even belong?
God why can't I be strong, weak, broken tattered and torn.
Looking to be filled, soaked in your spirit.
Yet here I am dry as a bone, weak as a child.
As the clock struck slowly, the minutes turned to hours. As spring turned to fall.
I finally began to reach the finish line. As I see the banner, my heart beats violently. I have almost won, I am almost there.
Oh, This race of acceptance. Never ending, always repeating.
As quickly as it came as quickly as it was swept away. My feet stood frozen.
Yearning to reach that red line, to get the mark of approval.
Thats when you came in. Your hands enthralled me. Your love over powered me.
It was then when you took me out, no longer could I hear the echoes. No longer did it matter my place. For I had found it in your arms.
No longer did the cravings of world's acceptance taunt me. no longer did my heart long for the affectionate words.
You had fulfilled my desire.
You're acceptance started the day the world began. The day I became yours.


This was a prophetic vision God gave me when I was about 15 year olds. When I was really struggling with approval. No longer are you called to run the race that leaves you empty. Bask in His arms that are full of mercy and love. For it is THERE you belong. For ever more...

Loving through His love,
-Naomi-June

for you, and only you

Dear Skyler,
When I see you're bandanna and crazy smile.
It makes my heart happy for a while.
You wear the cutest dresses.
It leaves me with no stresses.
To see you pray, the flood gates open,
Its like God is giving you a token.
To you Skyler, to you.

I love you!
I have now updated.

Toad Prince. No substitutes.

As we look around and see large amounts of flowers, candy, pink & red, couples being rather affectionate, us who are not involved in this "love season" (aka Valentines day) begin to have a desperate/lonely feelings, a low point. We have the realization of I am alone, everyone else has some one, etc.... what ever you tell yourself as you pop bon bons in your mouth while watching Sleepless in Seattle. Its a little pathetic we must admit.

So I am doing a bible study with JoAn Ryan and 10th graders at Riverstone, and we talking about waiting for our what man God has for us, not settling for a Toad Prince, but the real deal. No substitutes, no allowances, no exceptions. But learning to wait on a man who does not only honor and love the Lord with all his heart, but loves and respects you. If we could learn to respect ourselves, to see ourselves as beloved and cherished. And learn to step into God's plan for our life, and not just run for instant gratification in the world, our hearts would have a lot less stitches and band aides on them. Luckily God is a pretty handy doctor for hearts. ;-)

So sit tight, enjoy being in love with the Lord. Having Him be your Prince. Do not settle. Make a list of what you want in a future husband or wife, do no make any exceptions. No toad princes. God's timing is always the best.

"For I know the plans I have for you" declares the Lord.
"Plans of good and not for evil, plans to give you a future and a hope."

Loving through His love,
Naomi-June

Sticks and stones

So today I have been really praying about the power of my words. How much of an impact they can have on others. How much other's words have an impact on me. It is amazing how one little comment can turn around a friendship, how one compliment can make you crave more, how one little sarcastic remark can make you shrivel and hurt. The impact they carry.
There is a quote that says "The words spoken back to us are echo's of what we speak". That really hit me hard, the way people speak to me is generally a reflection of the way I speak to them.

Then, of course my mind ran away and left my feet dragging, what if I spoke with the authority of Christ? What if I spoke with a voice that could move mountains, instead of constantly speaking on my own petty things. If I spoke the very words Jesus would speak. If I was not only His hands and feet, but his very words.

Think before you speak. Speak words of Godly encouragement and love. Speak the very words Jesus would say. Be His translator.

Love through His love.
Naomi-June

The man in the mirror

Genesis 1:27
"He created them, man and female. He created them in His likeness."

Can we as humans even comprehend what that means? We are created in the image of a flawless God. Each person you see, every time you lock eyes with someone, driving, shopping, at church, at school. You are walking around witnessing the hand crafted art work of God.
Yet as humans we have the wonderful habit of looking at that reflection, those brothers and sisters, perfecting them, replacing features with what we believe would make them more appealing to our human eye.
I cannot imagine the heart break of God. The time, love and care He put into perfectly forming us. But how easy is it for us too look at our images and choose every "flaw" we have. Who makes these things flaws, who decided tall dark and handsome was the perfect guy, or blond tan and curvy was the ideal woman. How often we forget the beautiful uniqueness we carry. The image and hand crafted work of God.

So next time you look in the mirror remember. That is TRUE beauty, the reflection of God.
Loving through His love.
Naomi-June

Direct flight or lay over?

It is funny how we have these ideas of our perfect day, perfect future, perfect plan. We often run to God asking for him to fulfill His plans, to grant us our wishes. But we have given him so many guidelines do's and don'ts to every little thing. We've taken the map of our life from God, yet we are asking him for directions. We talk to Him as if he has failed us, when really we never wanted His help from the beginging. we have gone in with our own agenda. Really just wanted our idea of "perfection"

So here's my question, do we REALLY want Gods plan? Our our plan with His name on it?

"So here I am one more day. Not loving Him the way He asked. In fact my heart is singing praises to the things that make me feel alright. So I am sinking fast like a stone heart should, and on the way down I've done what I could to try and try and try to turn this stone heart flesh. I'm haunted by my God who has the right to ask me but why my nature of my rebellion I cannot breathe. So I beg for you to move, I beg for you to break through. So here I am got my deeds for the day. All my cute little words about how I am saved. Am I saved? Could I love you with my mouth like a church kid should. At the end of the day my words get burned as wood. Oh but I was good. I beg for you to move. "

- Beg (by Shane and Shane)

Loving through His love,

Naomi-June Fowler

The simplisity of love.

So, I was talking with a friend last night about love. How you speak and show love, what love is, so on and so forth.
Here are a couple definitions I found-
affectionate concern for the well-being of others: the love of one's neighbor.
a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.
a feeling of warm personal attachment or deep affection, as for a parent, child, or friend.

Their biggest point was they really liked to verbalize how they loved people, why they loved them, encouragement so forth and so on. Well it really got me thinking, what are words with out actions to back them up? Loving someone should be way you treat them. Something that even the deaf or blind could feel or see. Its the way we treat people, what we say to them and about them.

Words are often forgotten, and void. You can over and under exxagerate your words. It is much much harder to do that with your actions. Actions truly do speak louder then words.

Loving through His love,
-Naomi-June

A true relationship

Okay so last night I was in a bible study and we started talking about the difficulties Christians have hearing God's voice. That as much as they struggle, and persevere to hear it but it’s like an empty void. As soon as we brought up the subject I had a thought. How can we expect God to talk to us, if we barely talk to him? As Christian's I feel like we constantly strive for perfection (sometimes that is good, sometimes not so much). When we think of spending time with God it has to be a set apart, before each meal, in church on Sunday type of thing. In our own comfort zones that is the only time we "schedule" to talk to God. (expect for the rare turn of the lights, shut the world out, no phone, candles, in awe of God sessions, with don't happen as much as we wish, reality gets the best of us.)
So from there I thought, man if had a "best friend" a true pure relationship I would not only want to talk to them max four times a day for about fifteen twenty seconds to tell them "hey thanks for food, sorry I screwed up today. Read the word it was good. Keep us safe. Bye!"I wouldn't, every time something exciting, sad, annoying, passionate, upsetting etc. happened I would run to my phone, computer, what ever it took to fill them in on my latest. Well why is that so hard with God? That is so rare and out of the ordinary, almost unheard of.We always say I have such a good "relationship" with God.
Well what is relationship people? It is learning about someone past all the fronts, and appearances, knowing them on a private intimate level. Them knowing you in the same exact way, that’s what I want with God. When I get a good grade on a paper, I want to say "Hey God GUESS WHAT?!?!?! I DID IT!!" Every same detail I want Him apart of. (I mean hey He already knows everything might as well talk to Him about it right?!).

I want to take him off the agenda, and pencil Him in for every minute of everyday! The relationship when I am alone in the car looking like a crazy person because it looks like I am talking to no one. But they have no clue I am talking to my best friend! :-D

Loving through his love,
-Naomi

Our true idenitity

So, as the New Year has rather rapidly graced us with his appearance, we go through the yearly "New years resolutions". Do not lie to me you all know you made one, even if you do not have one you thought about having one. Well, this year I am dedicating myself to truly start digging deep in God's word and love. My identity in Him.
With this I started thinking... the ONLY thing holding me back from being a mirrored reflection of Jesus, and doing the same works He did, is myself. I know you are all thinking of course your flesh, not that is not what I am talking. I am talking about insecurities here. In my heart I so often doubt my power to be Jesus's hands and feet. It sounds so clique but think about it. I CAN BE THE HANDS AND FEET OF JESUS! He healed hundreds, fed thousands, loved millions. That is the power that is inside that is screaming and yearning to shine through me. And the only think that has stopped me is my doubt of being capable to be like him.

Luckily, I am not the only one who struggles with this. The first sin in the garden of Eden. It was not that they ate the fruit, they ate the fruit BECAUSE they doubted their knowledge and capability to be just like God. Which is why they ate the fruit. Then when Peter walked out on the water and sank and Jesus replied "Ye of little faith" it was not that he did not have faith in Jesus. He doubted that he had the power to be like Jesus. This is an amazing calling to be like Him, the man that was perfect, who has love so passionate and so fulfilling. We can love with that love, and do all of His works! Before Jesus ascended into heaven he said you will do even greater works then I! I have to power through the Holy spirit to do greater works then Jesus. Wow, that is some power. I do not have an identify of Naomi Fowler, but an identity of Jesus, living through Naomi Fowler.

Jesus became like us. So we could be JUST like Him. Our true identity in Him. To do greater things on this earth then He did! To move mountains, to heal, to change lives. It is your calling and it is mine. Together we can be the body of Christ.

Loving through His love,
-Naomi