Living Above the Sun Ministries

Lately I've become more sensitive to the fact of how important it is to thank people. When they do something for us, or you observe them doing something nice for others. Many times the hardest workers are not thanked nearly enough, or told they are appreciated. So I would challenge you to start thanking people...I've been doing this more lately. Sometimes we need to stop a minute and take everything around us in, noticing what others are doing and if they need encouragement. So go ahead make someones day a little happier and express your thankfulness toward them for what they do. Remember to always thank our Heavenly Father too! Thank Him for this person who works so hard, or does something nice for you. God needs to hear Thank You from us as well. So on that note.... Thank you for reading this blog and post! :) And Thank you God for the gift of writing and the people who take time to read my little posts that come from my heart through You.

When the music fades And all is stripped away And I simply come Longing just to bring Something that's of worth That will bless your heart I'll bring You more than a song For a song in itself Is not what You have required You search much deeper within Through the ways things appear You're looking into my heart I'm coming back to the heart of worship And it's all about You All about You, Jesus I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it When it's all about You It's all about You Jesus King of endless worth No one could express How much You deserve Though I'm weak and poor All I have is Yours Every single breath I'll bring You more than just a song For a song in itself Is not what You have required You search much deeper within Through the way things appear You're looking into my heart I'm coming back to the heart of worship And it's all about You All about You, Jesus I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made it When it's all

I've been reading this great book by Henry and Melvin Blackaby called "A God Centered Church: Experiencing God Together." I have read 2 chapter and I have learned so much about the Christian life and Salvation in a new light. I believe every Christian needs to read this book. The second chapter of this book really got to me, it's about God's love expressed. The word Koinoina is used through out this chapter to describe Love. Koinoina is the anglicisation of a Greek word that means communion by intimate participation. The word is used frequently in the New Testament of the Bible to describe the relationship within the early Christian Church as well as the act of breaking bread in the manner which Christ prescribed during the Passover meal [John 6:48-69, Matthew 26:26-28, 1 Corinthians 10:16, 1 Corinthians 11:24]. As a result the word is used within the Christian Church to participate, as Paul says, in the Communion of - in this manner it identifies the idealise

Today driving back from Tennessee, storm clouds were coming in. I looked in the sky and there was a heart!! Do you see it? God wanted to tell me He loved me, and I know He does but he's so good to us that He likes to create little reminders. I love going home to Tennessee. I always feel so sad when I come back to Charlotte after leaving, but soon I get back in the routine of things. It sure is special to go to my Grandmama's house; I have to many special memories. There is so much love in her house, so much to learn, so much to be thankful for.

So it's 1:53AM here right now, and it's been another night of tossing and turning. I can't sleep. I've not been taking my medicine like I should but, I think my sleeplessness is more than anxiety and not taking my meds. HAHA. I get so Burdened about things at night. I get to thinking about my age group, and all the young people who are unreached. I think about my church and how I wish so many things would happen. God gives me visions and dreams at night and I can't get them out of my head. I can't turn my mind off!! I often feel like it's a war between good and evil every night. I don't know. I get so pumped up about stuff, and I can't shake the feeling. Everything inside of me wants to explode. Explode toward what? I don't know, everybody!! Christians, where are you? I can't find you in this world! You don't stick out like Jesus wants us too. Churches, where are you? You're not reaching me!! I need you. I have be

Most everyday I am reminded of how precious life is. We are not promised tomorrow, the next hour, or even the next minute. I have grieved family members deaths, friends deaths, and although I should rejoice that they are in a much better place; I miss them in my life. Most of my early teen years and even some in my adult life I remember not wanting to live. But when I go to bed at night and think, I take a step back, and I look at my life. I ponder all that God has brought me through, all the awesome people he has put in my life, all the opportunities He has blessed me with. I wouldn't miss what I have right now for the world. I try to let all the people I love know just how much they mean to me. I want them to know my life has never been the same since God placed them there. I want to hug them as much as possible. I want to keep learning and gleaning wisdom from them. Most importantly, I would hope that above all, my friends know Jesus Christ as their Savior. That I don

Job 37 1-13 "Whenever this happens, my heart stops— I'm stunned, I can't catch my breath. Listen to it! Listen to his thunder, the rolling, rumbling thunder of his voice. He lets loose his lightnings from horizon to horizon, lighting up the earth from pole to pole. In their wake, the thunder echoes his voice, powerful and majestic. He lets out all the stops, he holds nothing back. No one can mistake that voice— His word thundering so wondrously, his mighty acts staggering our understanding. He orders the snow, 'Blanket the earth!' and the rain, 'Soak the whole countryside!' No one can escape the weather—it's there. And no one can escape from God. Wild animals take shelter, crawling into their dens, When blizzards roar out of the north and freezing rain crusts the land. It's God's breath that forms the ice, it's God's breath that turns lakes and rivers solid. And yes, it's God who fills clouds with rainwa

There is an old hymn called "The Solid Rock" written by Edward Mote in 1834. My hope is built on nothing less Than Jesus’ blood and righteousness; I dare not trust the sweetest frame, But wholly lean on Jesus’ name. Refrain: On Christ, the solid Rock, I stand; All other ground is sinking sand, All other ground is sinking sand. Tonight I had the honor and privilege to hear Mike Huckabee speak at my church. I wish I could repeat everything he said, or even remember everything he said. It was a great message!! Wow! He said a lot of good things, and I agreed with everything he said. When he was talking I was reminded of something the Lord told me one night last year about our country. I thought it was cool that said more or less the same thing God told me. I'll share that in a minute. One of Obama's "catch phrases" was "Hope we can believe in." I guess he was referring to himself when he said 'hope.' But as we just read in the song a

Not long after I accepted Jesus as my Savior I wrote a song in 2004 called "Passion For Me" as much as I would love to publish the words on here I don't want to because they are not copyrighted, and it's such a good song I would hate if anybody stole it. Gggrrr!! Anyway. In 2004, Mel Gibson's "The Passion" was in theaters. I saw it and it totally impacted the way I thought about Jesus. To get an idea visually left me dumbfounded. I say idea too because as bad as the Jesus in the movie was beat it probably didn't compare to what our Jesus went through. So this movie moved and inspired me to write something. In watching it I began to realize Jesus’ passion for me. The visual of the beating, rejection, backstabbing, and mockery Jesus took for me, took on a whole new meaning in my mind. It’s incredible that Jesus died for us. There line in the first verse, “you never gave up on me, until I found it.” Some people might find the sentence confu

When I was little...maybe most of my childhood life, I was in trouble constantly. I don't remember a lot of things I did, but I remember being spanked! That's a hurtin' you'll never forget. But obviously for me it took several years to get tired of it. My dad mostly gave me the leather belt, or his hand across my butt a few times. I tried everything to delay the spanking..from locking my door, to manipulating the situation, or even having a better attitude and being REAllY sorry. But do you think that worked? No!! It made the number go up, as well as the strength! Not a smart idea huh? Thinking about those memories doesn't make me laugh, however, when I think about my mama trying to get me I laugh silently inside. Her weapon of choice, the wooden spoon. To this day at 20 I look at a wooden spoon and remember my mama chasing me through the house swatting at me with it. She'd yell, "Don't you run from me, Allison!" I'd laugh so hard

So on a less serious scale today...I made a resolution not to be so serious, haha! This weekend I and a group of students from my church are going on a mini-mission trip to a correctional facility for boys in Columbia, SC. I've been totally excited about this trip since I heard about it the first of this year. I believe God is going to do some awesome things. It's all the this weekend, and I can't wait to see the harvest! Please lift us up in prayer as well as the prisoners. I'll write more later about it. Keep telling others of our Savior, until the whole world hears!!

Last Saturday evening, some friends of mine, and I went and visited Elevation Church which is a newly formed more modern church in the area. I was very leery of going there, I had heard some people express their opinion about it, and I also had my own thoughts about it. One thing about these more modern churches is, I feel like they target one age group the 20-late 30's group; Jesus wants us to reach everyone. SO, I finally decided to go and just see for myself what was going on down there. To my surprise I totally loved the whole experience! When you pull into their parking lot, if you are a first timer you put your flashers on indicating this is your first time, and you are considered their VIP! They park you in a good place, then someone comes to greet you saying they are excited you came and explains what you need to know, and where you need to go. Everyone there made us feel welcome. What I noticed was people serving Jesus, and His church. I noticed young people and

I started reading a good book last night, that again has been sitting on my shelf unread! I hate myself once I start reading in it, because I'm like how helpful this would have been a few weeks ago when I needed to hear this. It's been under my nose the whole time, it irks me. I'm just not much of a reader, I start off reading books with good intentions to read it all, and I get through 2 chapters and thats all. However, I will come across a really good one like the book I started reading last night. Joyce Meyer "The Battle Belongs to the Lord: Overcoming Life's Struggles Through Worship." I read 3 chapters last night!!! I am in love with this book. I love to read about Worship. So I wanted to share what I gleened from it last night. She was using the story of Jehoshaphat as an illustration. I love his story, I even used it in the book I'm writing. His story is found in 2 Chronicles 20, you might want to flip there in your Bible just so you get

This little theological workbook has been awesome to work through! Is has challenged me in ways I need to be challenged, and has helped me gain an understanding of so many things. My mom got my brother and I this book a few years ago. I didn't touch it for the longest time, which I think that was okay because sometimes you're just not ready to do things...especially when your parents want you to. HAHA! I don't remember why I put it off. The first of this year I decided I was going to work through it, and what a blessing it has been so far. Gordon Lewis, wrote this book because like many others he was tired of being told what to believe. The great Christian doctrines are worth thinking through for ourselves, but rather than just telling us what he has found in scripture, he offers this workbook and questions that help us explore the evidence, and to draw our own conclusion. The material is organized around the themes of the Trinity (God, Jesus, and The Holy Spirit), h

You can say that my life story could be told in the songs I write, it’s very true. As I have written songs, life has happened. Times of trial have come, different emotions from happiness, to sadness, anger, joyfulness, it’s all in the songs I have written. It tells of who I was, but it also includes how God changed me, and how he has been there in every dark place of my life, and how he has brought me through storm after storm. I like the quote Corrie Ten Boom said, "No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still." These songs God has given are full of truth and a power that cannot be moved. By God we are all given a gift. A certain area of our lives has been enriched and blessed by God to give back to Him in service as a sacrifice of praise. A great place to start using your gift is in your church. Since we are Christ followers are the church, our gifts impact how effective we are towards others in the body of Christ, as well as non-believers. In the Bible, Paul emp