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Hey Everyone, I am back! I’ve been recovering well from surgery! The Lord has lead me in every step! Thank you all for praying for me and encouraging me along the way. I have had lots of questions about the process so I’m going to answer it all here. My surgery day was 9-9-19. I had surgery at covenant medical center in Lubbock Texas with Dr. David Syn. My starting weight was 258 pounds and this morning I am weighing in at 182 which means I’m down 76 pounds so far. My goal weight is the 130’s! Each day I learn something new but I never get away from knowing I still can’t do this on my own. I have to have the Lord! The Lord is my strength, my shield, and my hiding place! The most asked questions are. What do I eat. At the moment my day looks like a green smoothie with Thrive lifestyle mix in the flavor vanilla or chocolate, lunches are salads loaded with fresh veggies and protein. I can eat about 1/2 of a cup. Dinner is protein veggies and a tiny amount of starch. I try to get in 80...

Hey Everyone, Today the Lord has shown me specifically to share this NOW WORD that the Lord gave my Grandpa Jim Spradley. Please Share! My name is Jim Spradley. I am a naturalized citizen of the United States, born in Alberta, Canada in 1950. My father was sent there at the time as an employee of the Texas Oil Company (Texaco).  My parents were transferred to Texas when I was six months old. My wife Judy and I have walked with the Lord for the last 30 years. Our calling has been primarily in the marketplace. We are not well known, and as some say, have been somewhat hidden....in management on ranches in New Mexico, managing an Oil Field chemical business and also owning a very successful business in a small community in southwest Texas which the Lord had us sell about four years ago. I have been a spiritual father to many sons, especially in the last fifteen years. We currently reside on a mountain peak between Ruidoso and Alto NM.  As I have grown in the Lord...

The Holiday's There are lot's of different attitudes about the holiday season. For me my spirit beams with joy, gladness, thankfulness, gratitude, and love. For other's its the darkest season of the year to them. I've always decorated early. My daughter and I have many traditions we start the day after halloween. Crazy? Yes we are. We are crazy in love with the Christmas Story. For us it's not a Christmas Story but a Christmas reality. Love came down and hope was found. The very God who created the Heavens and the Earth, put himself inside of a women and became man to save ME and YOU! I don't just celebrate Christmas this time of year but if you know me or know someone who does they will tell you that it is every single day. Jesus gets to be born in me each day whenever, I choose joy instead of hurt. Whenever I get to help someone who couldn't help themselves. Whenever I get to pay for the peoples order behind me in the drive thru. Christ get...

Hey ya’ll, Today I’m going to write to the single momma’s! First and foremost you are NOT alone. Yes it feels like it when you’re crying yourself to sleep because you still haven’t allowed yourself to forgive the ones who have hurt you or your children! Momma forgive the person who isn’t sorry! You are more than a conqueror in Christ Jesus! Forgiving someone or multiple people who have hurt you isn’t for them, it’s for you! Your kids deserve to see their momma free from guilt, shame, and condemnation! We have all fallen short of the Glory of God! But today right now you can make a change for your family! Forgive and let God workout the rest! You are seen momma! Those little ones think you’re the best thing since sliced bread! You’re their hero. With that comes great responsibility. Our kids watch our every move. Do we react out of love and from a place of secure identity or do we react out of anxiety driven emotions and bitterness. As I grew up I adapted the worlds view of mysel...

Tran ● Si ● Tion- noun  The process or a period of changing from one state or condition to another. Over the process of the last few months I have had the same reoccurring dream. When me or a lady is in the transition state of childbirth. In dreams this can mean many different things but I believe The Lord is speaking to the church as a whole right now.  As the church we are in a transition. We are about to see a generation and culture rise up in humility and godly character. We will all join together and operate as the true church. For the individuals I believe the Lord is saying many are in a transition for the season, the place that they're at financially, for there relationship with Jesus, you might even be in transition in the natural as well as spiritual levels but The Lord is saying this one thing. JESUS! God's answer to all of us will and always will be Jesus. Everything we need according to God is in Jesus. We are running after the next thing. We don...

Hey Ya'll! So I am getting closer to a surgery date over here and I am so excited I can't hardly stand myself lol! While I am waiting on that phone call from the surgeon the Lord has really been showing me all that will be new with me after surgery, and it's really exciting. So I am writing a blog about things that maybe people aren't aware of and just trying to shine some light on areas where people don't like sharing this kind of info. Things I Won't Miss About Being Plus Size  1. I wont miss being the largest person in the room. Hear me out here. I know that I am not always the largest person but a lot of the time I am. I am excited to walk into a room and people not stare. You can see just how much I have had to rely on Jesus to be my strength :) 2. I won't miss shopping for clothes This is something I absolutely dread. Like avoid at all cost. Like don't even do it but maybe once a year. Usually the plus size secti...

Hey Everyone, I haven't updated my blog in a few months, and today I had that gentle nudge from the Lord to write this and post it. So here goes. About 3 years ago I started researching VSG which is also known as The Sleeve or Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy. Every year I would tell myself I am giving myself one more year. Well here we are 3 years later,and I am still stuck and where I don't want to be physically! I started having these dreams where I could see myself about 115 LBS lighter than what I am now. I would wake up so excited and I would declare what the Lord had shown me in the dreams over myself and my body. I could see myself so free in my dreams. Free to wear clothes and not constantly avoid my reflection in a mirror. I don't hate my body the way I am right now but I know that God has so much more for me than just this. After awhile of seeing myself in my dreams like that God started showing me how I was going to get to that place and I would dream abou...

Hello Everyone, Sometimes we can be in a hard place and feel like we work so hard for nothing, or we continually have to watch people get what their heart desires, mean while our hearts desire never comes true. I see so many ladies complain about things their husbands do everyday that gets on their nerves and on the inside I am physically aching and longing for my husband whom I've never met and I don't even know if there is one for me. I have never wanted to share about this because it's an honest and deep hurt that only Jesus sees. Why would I care so much to be married? Well I would love to find what all of you take for granted every day. I would love to pick up laundry that was left out by my husband because, he was tired after work. I would love for my daughter to have a step dad that is a true dad to her. She prays for him every night. I would love to have a real life, life partner to make decisions with and not always have to do things alone. I would love to not h...

Jesus,  The name above every name. Died and rose for us. It's something that I refuse to take lightly. Most of the time when I think of Just how awesome Jesus is. It sends me right to tears. I haven't wrote a blog in awhile. I wanted to many times but something kept me from just doing it. I recently just got back from a Power and Love in Watuaga TX, and Jesus always shows up bigger and better than I could ever picture him to. My ears got healed. I am still in awe that I can hear without it sounded muffled or without constant ringing in my ears. I am so blessed that the Lord of all the earth would heal me. He has healed me before but every time he shows up it blows me away.  Here we are it's another year and everyone is setting new goals and wishes for this year. This year my wish is to truly love Jesus well. If I could do anything in this life it would be just that. 2019 has come with its share of trials but The Lord is so faithful and kind to always call...

Rest..... I've wrote on this before, about it being the season that I am in. I now know why I have been in this place. It hasn't been a rest of doing nothing. In the rest I have had to make the choice to go and get alone with Jesus. I have had to choose Jesus when I could've slept in or watched TV. The season of rest that I am in is for the accommodation of what is next in my life and walk with the Lord. ⬤ I've had to not go and do everything I have wanted to, but it has been so rewarding. Not only in the fact that my house is spotless most of the time (Can I get an AMEN) lol but in the sense that I am growing here in this place just as much if not more as whenever I am in huge corporate settings. ⬤ There is something about knowing him, that knowing that Jesus is waiting for me when I wake up early every morning. Knowing that with out a shadow of a doubt he is doing everything I pray and speak out in complete faith that he always shows up. He will alwa...

Loving ourselves... A subject we often over look. If it wasn't important Jesus wouldn't of said. "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind'; and, 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"  Luke 10:27. It's hard to learn this scripture and to walk it out when all we have ever been taught is. Eye for an eye. The way that seems right to the world. Not easy! But it is so worth it. Would you rather have an okay life or do you want to raise the dead? Not just the dead physically but the spiritually dead? Me? I wanna raise the dead! I want everyone on planet earth to know the real Jesus Christ of Nazareth.  How does this pertain to loving ourselves? If we can't see ourselves through the eye of Christ we can never see other people for their created value... Christ died while we where yet sinners. He knew no sin and became sin so that we could become the...

Hello Everyone, Thank you for reading this blog today. It blows me away that God has used this blog to reach 15 nations in the world. Our God is so big, so strong, and so mighty. There's nothing that our God will not do. I love that song. It's so sweet to me. I sing it with Hadlie every day! SOOOOOO... It's beginning to look a lot like FALL! I love this time of year. Christmas is my absolute favorite but Fall there is just something so crisp and clear about that season that always ends up changing me again spiritually. A new season. I don't believe that we will end 2018 hard and in a striving manor. We are entering this season where the Lord want's to correct us in love, grace, and mercy. The things we thought where right for so many years. He wants to show us his heart, his mind, and he wants us to HEAR HIM! I love getting together and waiting on the Lord with friends and family and then I love to share what he spoke or what he did when he showed up. I...

Hey Precious People! Are you comfortable? A question I wish I could answer YES to but I know that it's not where I am suppose to be. Jesus said he gave us the comforter for a reason. The reason is so that we could fully and completely depend on him in the worst and best of every situation.. Why do we need full dependence on him? Because people always miss the mark but GOD.... Never will! If we look back at all the different situations in our lives we can see that people have always let us down. Why is that? Because we put all our trust and love and time and energy into them. God designed us to be that way but only with him.  That's why it's all about relationship with Jesus Christ and not religion and if it is about religion to you then it should be, James 1:27 Pure and undefined religion in the sight of our God and Father is this; to visit and care for orphans and widows in their distress, and to keep ones self unstained from the world. That is true religion. ...

Hey Ya'll, It's such a blessing to see that God is using this blog in over 13 nations. Only God could do something like that. Thank you all for reading and sharing this blog.  I want to share with you what I have been seeing lately. It's really heart wrenching to know that people feel unloved, unwanted, and ashamed. I guess my heart is so gripped with this because, I use to be that person. Even though I knew what my Mom always would tell us but I had trouble believing it. Why though? because any other time I was "loved" on earth I had to earn it. Like being in a relationship you don't say I love you until you've been together for like 4 years. hahahaha It literally makes me laugh because, love can't be earned. It is a literal person. You have to encounter him, to love yourself and out of that place love other people. Ephesians 3:19 to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with ALL the fullness of God. Th...

Being Enough. ↓     How do we simply be something, that most of the time we don't feel we actually are? Well it has taken me a long time to find out what really ripped out all the lying thoughts that tried to keep me bound. It was a process. A longer one then I would like to admit but, God saw me through. It started in 2013 The Lord started revealing himself to me in everyday situations. At this point in my life I was dealing with sickness that kind of consumed my every minute. So I would start noticing God speaking to me through songs, or movies, or being stuck at a red light. It was awesome to start seeing this kind of stuff happen but I didn't know what it was. So I would just think.... Oh that's awesome!! But I didn't understand what it meant to respond to his calling and his reaching out.      I didn't know that Jesus was a real person who wanted to encounter me. I didn't know what was on the other side of depression but I wanted it. It wasn't...

Hello Everyone, Thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read this blog post, I appreciate all of you!  I am excited for this new school year and to watch my beautiful daughter grow in all the areas she wants to improve. For myself lately I have started a new to me Keto diet. Which I have so loved. The Lord had been showing me I needed to fast for sometime now and I have been for about 3 years. It has helped me grow spiritually and it was showing me what I needed to get done in the natural also, to be the best mom and person I can be. I have always loved working out and having a what I thought was healthy lifestyle. Things have changed for me over the last few month. I am finally losing weight and feeling so much better. Last year was a rough year for me and I was running on empty the whole year. I had lost two jobs and I felt like a failure as a mom. I started listening to the enemies lies about me. Then one day Holy Spirit revealed to me in scriptur...

Hello! I hope your week is off to a blessed start! Thank  you for reading this blog post. Well it's that time of year again and we start school in about a week. This year my daughter and I have daily goals we want to accomplish and they are simple but yet it's stuff we need to do. I feel like starting school again is almost like setting New Year's goals that hardly ever happen but you have good intentions, but this year it's going to be different.  Goal #1 Is to get to bed on time every night.  The reason I want this to be number one is because the Lord tells us how important rest is. Not only physically but spiritually and emotionally also. I want to live out a lifestyle of rest in Jesus so that Hadlie can see that it is possible to do that, and I want to live in this promise he has for us. Goal #2 Wake up Hadlie up a few minutes early. So I can read the bible to Hadlie and we can talk about things and pray about them before we even st...