Upper Room of Grace

Upper Room of Grace As God leads me along this unfamiliar path, I feel called to share lessons, inspirations and truths He gives me.

My prayer is that these words encourage you to walk closely with Him to find the strength you need to carry on-wherever your journey leads. Born into an unhealthy, unsaved environment, I faced deep struggles and intense spiritual battle. Yet though God's grace, I am becoming who He created me to be. Now my heart is to share my journey so that others can find hope, healing, and courage to follow Him into the life they were meant to live.

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06/07/2026

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These last few days I’ve had a pain in my lower back. Now, I was born with generational scoliosis, so back pain isn’t ne...
06/07/2026

These last few days I’ve had a pain in my lower back. Now, I was born with generational scoliosis, so back pain isn’t new to me—but this was a different kind of pain. This was the “I overworked it” pain. The kind that shows up after you’ve been putting in the hard work, even if it was “just” delivering groceries for someone. It was the pain left over from pouring myself out.

Yesterday, while it rained, the Lord had me working on His work. I was preparing for an upcoming book event and then He had me working on a special project (more on that later). As I sat in my office chair, the pain in my back was just…uncomfortable. I tried repositioning pillows, shifting around, changing how I sat—nothing helped.

Praise music was playing in the house (it literally plays 24/7), and as I began to worship, the tears started to fall. In that place, He began to reveal things to me.

Later, I moved to my recliner to try to ease the pain. As I sat there, praying again, He started talking to me about the stretch.

I saw certain people being stretched and pulled in different areas. God is about to use them in a big way. I saw Him stretching me, pulling me in areas I already know I’m called to—but now He’s increasing it.

Trying to relax for bed, I prayed, “Lord, please touch my back and take this pain away.” This morning, my back feels much better—but with that relief came another message.

“Your back hurt because you stretched it. It’s not used to working in that area of the muscle. When you feel things in the spirit—it’s because I am stretching you. You feel the pain and the burn because you are not used to working in the area in which I have placed you. You will feel the heaviness, the stress of others. You will see things that are new to you. I reveal these things so that you pray, relay, and protect My children. You are a natural-born protector. I put that in you. Your testimony—what you have endured—secures your dominion over these situations. You see the warnings before anyone else does. You see the darkness before it even forms. The enemy attacks you more often because he’s trying to distract you from seeing what he has planned—like a magician waving his wand so you watch the show and miss what the other hand is doing. Tell My children that in their stretch, they will see pain. They will feel the burn because they have not experienced what I am about to pour out on them. I am preparing them for battle and to step into their calling.”

So my friends, I want to ask you this:

How have you felt the stretch in the spiritual realm lately?

Do you feel some people being pulled away?

Do you sense others being drawn closer to you?

Is it finally telling some people “no” that’s bringing up old triggers you thought were dead and buried?

Not everyone is meant to walk this path with you. Some things you are meant to do alone. Some things will bring new people into your life—people God will use to minister to you.

In every season, you will have two groups of people around you:

Those you pour into.

Those who pour into you.

If you don’t have anyone following you, can I gently ask: are you pouring out the way you should be? There is always someone who needs the knowledge and love of Christ that you carry. Ask the Lord to show you who needs what’s in your cup—but make sure your cup is filled with oil, not flesh.

And who is pouring into you? Yes, your pastor, of course. But you also need someone else:

Someone God uses to reveal things to you in the spirit, sometimes without them even knowing it.

Someone you can watch and learn from.

Someone who shows you how to battle in the thickets.

Someone who helps you in the stretch.

As you grow and pick up speed, you may even outgrow a mentor—and when that happens, God will bring another one across your path. Just don’t forget the ones coming behind you. Those you are pouring into are not there by accident. God placed them near you for a reason and for a season.

That’s it.

Get to church.

If you’re local, come see me at Jubilee – 9 AM service and 6 PM service. Let God stretch you

06/07/2026

My Nala 🙂

Ezekiel 18 came for our throats this morning.“BUT if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed ...
06/05/2026

Ezekiel 18 came for our throats this morning.

“BUT if a wicked person turns away from all his sins that he has committed and keeps all my statutes and does what is just and right, he shall surely live; he shall not die. None of the transgressions that he has committed shall be remembered against him.”
Ezekiel 18:21–22

Translation in 2026 language:
If you actually repent and turn, God is not sitting there with a little spiritual screenshot folder of your past labeled “Do Not Forget.” He wipes it. For real.

But we stay stuck on Satan’s greatest hits playlist:

“God won’t forgive you for that.”

“What they did is unforgivable.”

“You’ll never make it to heaven.”

“You’re too far gone, might as well keep wildin’.”

And we’re over here like:
“Lord I’m so sorry for that thing from 2009…”
Meanwhile God’s like, “What are you even talking about? I deleted that the first time you asked.”

We rehearse the same “I’m sorry” speech on loop, like God’s hard of hearing.
He’s not confused. We are.

He even repeats Himself in Ezekiel 33—if the wicked turn from their sin and start doing what is just and right, He says again: they will LIVE, and “none of the sins that he has committed shall be remembered against him.”
God is like, “How many times I gotta say this?”

Here’s the wild part:

We don’t want to forgive ourselves. We definitely don’t want to forgive other people. But we still want God to forgive us instantly, no questions asked.

Newsflash:
Grace is unmerited favor.
You can’t earn it, perform for it, or hustle your way into it.
You didn’t deserve it when God gave it to you—and neither do they.

And yet… God still expects us to extend grace and forgiveness.
Not because they earned it, but because He did.

Here’s the part that stings a little:
A heart full of unforgiveness and hate is not strolling into heaven like, “What’s up, Jesus, I made it.”
That’s… not how this works.

So next time you look at someone and think,
“They’re too far gone,”
or you look in the mirror and think that about yourself—
ask this brutally honest question:

“Are they (or am I) worth me missing heaven over my refusal to forgive?”

I pray your answer is: absolutely not.

God already said, “If they turn, I don’t remember it.”
Maybe it’s time we stop remembering what He already forgot.

This morning the Lord had me start a little differently. In my office sits a small bookshelf, packed full of books—some ...
06/04/2026

This morning the Lord had me start a little differently. In my office sits a small bookshelf, packed full of books—some I’ve read, some I haven’t. On that shelf is a devotional I went through last year called Buffalo in a Snowstorm. The Lord had me pick it up and flip to Day 16: “The Man in a Red Bowtie.”

The story was good, but the line that grabbed me was the one anchored in John 3:30: “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

I can’t stop picturing a cup. You know—the one we always sing about and quote? “My cup overflows.”

But here’s the question: What if our cup is overflowing with the wrong thing?

What if it’s so full of flesh—our opinions, our emotions, our “good ideas”—that only a tiny bit of oil (the Holy Spirit) can even get in?

So when we go to pour out into others:
Maybe the first person gets a little oil.
But everyone after that… gets mostly flesh.

It might sound biblical. It might even be backed up by a verse. But is it the word from God for that moment? Just because someone gives you an answer that sounds right and has scripture attached doesn’t automatically mean it’s from the Holy Spirit for you right now.

God’s timing is perfect.
Advice can be good—and still not be God.
That’s why we have to decrease.

Less of:
Fleshly thinking
Knee-jerk reactions
Worldly views
“This is what worked for me, so it must work for you”

More of:
His heart
His voice
His leading in real time

We’re human. There will always be a little “us” splashed into the vessel. But this is my prayer today:

“God, clean me out.
Pour out of me what doesn’t belong,
so You can pour into me what does.
When I minister to others,
let it be Your words flowing from me—
not just my memory bank of ‘good answers.’
Not just recycled advice,
but what You want to do right now in the middle of their moment.
Fill my ministry with Your Spirit.
Renew a right spirit within me.
Help me decrease,
so that You can truly increase in me.”

If you’re pouring into anyone—your kids, your spouse, your friends, your church—this is your heart check today: Is my cup overflowing with Him, or mostly with me?

06/03/2026

Today's message was much too long to type and for you guys to read and so I recorded it on TikTok and I'm sharing it from there. I know I'm talking really fast trying to get all of the information packed into that little 10 minute window. I hope it brings you a little bit more understanding. Love you guys

Counseling on my mind this morning. Coaching too. Let’s talk about it.Counseling usually works on your past.It walks you...
06/02/2026

Counseling on my mind this morning. Coaching too. Let’s talk about it.

Counseling usually works on your past.
It walks you back through the hard places, the trauma, the pain, and helps bring restoration and healing there.

Coaching is also a form of counsel, but in a different way.
It focuses on the here and now:

If your past is affecting you, how do we move forward?

How do we lay a biblical foundation and apply scripture so you can move in body, soul, and spirit?

How do you get unstuck, draw closer to Christ, and actually flourish?

Proverbs 15:22 says, “Without counsel plans fail, but with many advisers they succeed.”
So many people right now feel complacent. Stuck. Numb. Unsure of where to go or how to move forward.

But God has not called us to just sit in our current status.
He calls us to “grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord” (2 Peter 3:18).
That means movement. Growth. Stretching.

Sometimes instruction and direction come—rooted in scripture—and people still have their minds made up about what they’re going to do.
Your plans may be good… but are they God’s plans for you?

Just because a door is open doesn’t mean you should walk through it.
Just because something feels like a “godsend” doesn’t mean it came from Heaven.
Satan can make things feel easy too—just to get you off track and distracted.

Proverbs 24:6 says, “For by wise guidance you can wage your war, and in abundance of counselors there is victory.”

Maybe it’s time to take a step forward.
A step of faith.
A step toward counsel. A step toward coaching. A step toward change.

Maybe this is your sign to stop trying to figure it all out alone.

If this is stirring something in you, I want to invite you to reach out and set aside a grace-filled hour—a safe, quiet space for you, me, and the presence of God.

Let’s spend an hour praying together, pouring out what’s really on your heart, processing the heavy stuff, and inviting the Holy Spirit to speak so you can finally start moving forward instead of staying stuck.

If that sounds like what you’ve been needing (and maybe avoiding), send me a message and let’s schedule your hour of grace.

06/01/2026

My audio version of my Bible reading this morning. I pray it blesses you just as much as it blesses me because sometimes I need to be reminded of God's word in a whole new light.

Let the high praises rise.Psalm 149:6–9 says:“Let the high praises of God be in their throatsand two-edged swords in the...
06/01/2026

Let the high praises rise.

Psalm 149:6–9 says:
“Let the high praises of God be in their throats
and two-edged swords in their hands,
to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples,
to bind their kings with chains
and their nobles with fetters of iron,
to execute on them the judgment written!
This is honor for all his godly ones.
Praise the Lord!”

When my pastor preached on this, I wrote a little note in my Bible:
“High praise equips heavenly armies for you.”

That can only mean one thing: in all things, give praise.

Praise when you’re in trouble (even when you can’t see past your own nose).
Praise in the good moments and the darkest nights.
Praise on the way to work, at work, leaving work.
Praise in the shower, while cleaning the house.
Praise when enemies show up.
Praise when people are removed from your life.
Praise when new people are sent into your life.
Praise right in the middle of your situation—whatever it is.

Yesterday, our pastor preached a fire message:
Whatever you speak out is what you invite back in.

If you speak out praise—
claiming healing, declaring freedom, proclaiming the Word of God—
you position yourself to overcome what’s trying to keep you bound.

But if you speak out complaints, negativity, despair,
words of depression, anxiety, anger…
you will live in the atmosphere you create.

So what if your praise today sounded less like a quiet “thank You”
and more like a high praise that shakes chains off?

“Thank You, God, for my enemies.
Satan wouldn’t be fighting me this hard if there wasn’t something You put inside of me that’s about to burst wide open.
Thank You for the people who came against me—they pushed me deeper into prayer.
Thank You for the fire I’m walking through, because You’re refining me so I can help others in the middle of theirs.
Thank You for this job, even if it’s not my dream, because there are people there I’m assigned to witness to.
Thank You that You trust me enough to carry the torch for You.”

I won’t just give praise—I will give high praise.
Not only so heaven’s armies war on my behalf…
but because He deserves it.

He deserves all the praise.
And I will forever praise His Name.

Question for your readers:
What is ONE thing you’re choosing to give high praise for today, even if it still hurts?

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