22 David left Gath and escaped to the cave of Adullam. When his brothers and his father’s household heard about it, they went down to him there. ² All those who were in distress or in debt or discontented gathered around him, and he became their commander. About four hundred men were with him.

³ From there David went to Mizpah in Moab and said to the king of Moab, “Would you let my father and mother come and stay with you until I learn what God will do for me?” ⁴ So he left them with the king of Moab, and they stayed with him as long as David was in the stronghold.

⁵ But the prophet Gad said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go into the land of Judah.” So David left and went to the forest of Hereth.

1 Samuel 22:1-5

Isolated.  Lonely.  Alone.  Distressed.  In debt.  Discontented.  I identify with these verses, but instead of finding us in a cave we were in the isolation of quarantine in 2020 during Covid19.

Four friends messaged me often in distress.  Time was lingering like a bad rash.  There was distress over where we would buy toilet paper, what would become of our jobs, and our futures.

Thus, I put all five of us in a Facebook Group.  What was meant to facilitate complaints and chains, has become a catalyst for prayer, camaraderie, and revival. This Group has brought thousands added friends, focus, support, help, assistance, encouragement, community, light-heartedness, smiles, fun, and more.

Connection Needed

We want you to be a part of this connection, this movement.  Feeling heard and seen is our specialty.

We want to wrap arms of faith around each other and gird each other up with strength and grace.  Celebrating each other, and supporting each other through crisis is what we do. We want to be the voice of faith crying out to circumstances that seem impossible.

Today, we may find ourselves in the categories of in debt, distressed, and discontent.  Please don’t drown in those conditions alone!  Reach out.  Acknowledge the state we may be in, but get help.  Share prayer requests, dive into the resources in this website (more will be posted gradually).  Comment, share, shine bright.

Belonging

We each want to be seen and known here!  From the happily married woman, to the immigrant using translate to read these words, to the sex trafficed, the addicted, the overlooked, the widowed, the single-mom, the divorcee, the influencer, the broke, the worn out, the thriving, the rich, the poor, the over-achiever, or the just barely getting by, and everyone in between; we are here for YOU!

Please, give us your wisdom, share your experience, cultivate community here.  Life can be so, so challenging; let’s never do it alone.  Share the funny, share the difficult.  Most importantly, if you feel lonely, if you find yourself alone.  Please don’t stay there.  Make this a garden where you are planted, blossom, and grow.

My Story

I too, have found myself needing a tribe.  Negative experiences have filled my life including: the church banning me, been fired from jobs, been rejected by my former husband, been forced to find work, while caring for medically fragile children.  I find myself like David, overlooked.

David wasn’t even on his dad’s radar as a possibility to be chosen king.  His brothers made fun of him for being a shepherd.  His wife thought he was crazy for his freeing worship style, and yet…

God chose David to be King!  God didn’t just determine him to be king, no, God called David a man after His own heart.

Labels

Today, please know: we may have been labeled trash, well I see treasure and so does the King of Kings.  We may have been reduced, used, maybe even abused… but God sees us vitally important, even for His frontlines.

Please, dear Friend: remember what the Bible says, God chooses what is foolish to the world to shame the wise.  We may not be someone’s first pick, but sure enough… WE MATTER!

Revival Is Here

I pray we find pure, fire here!  My prayer is that we come together, stand together in prayer and experience REVIVAL.  I pray we rally around one another: no fake, no pretense, no masks; only a desire to hear, “Well done good and faithful servant, enter into the joy of the Lord.”  We can’t do it alone.  Alone, we will have the devil eating our lunch, and destroying us.  But together, as a movement, as a team… we triumph, we grow, we fulfill our full potential; our destiny, the reason we are alive.

So sister, let’s throw off the grave clothes.  Let’s cast off the garment of sadness.  And, let’s speak up, shining brightly.  Cheering on, not only each other, but our Maker, our Master, our Savior, Jesus, who deserves all admiration forever more.

Time is short.  Tomorrow is not promised.  Let’s seize the day, and gather as many in with us; going out in glory… a glorious bride, without spot, wrinkle, or blemish.  The past is behind us.  Let us make the future bright, helping each other right now in the present.  

Truly, what we do today, determines our tomorrows.  Let us experience the gift of now… the gift we call the present.  I believe it will be so much sweeter, if we live not as an island alone, but tethered to one another a united team… determined to help each other thrive, and soar like never before.

I am so glad you are here!  You aren’t staying in the state you are today.  We are growing, transforming, into all that God has called us to be… together.  The best is yet to be, together: you and me with Jesus!  Thank you, and let’s see what is next.  I know it is going to be so so so very good!  Thank you.

I see you.  You are known here, but more importantly: Jesus sees and knows you too.  He cares so very much about you!  Stick around.  You are going to be so very, very blessed.  

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