"Lioness Arising"

Awaken in me Your desires for me and this world so that every individual will know true hope and true love.

Lioness arising, she's fully awake and fully capable of doing all that's demanded of her. Demanded?

She knows what's required of her and what it takes to accomplish it. She embraces her responsibilities. She understands sacrifice. She understands protection. She's nurturing and grooming(taking care of a fellow lioness). She does well with others and is available to serve. She's fully awake of her surroundings.

In each woman is a lioness that is fully awake or awaiting to be awakened.
Lisa Bevere's book "Lioness Arising" and her talk at the Resilient Women's conference at Victory World Church confirmed what I could never put into words. She helped me understand why I had relentless desires for stewardship, nurturing and grooming. It revealed why my heart was big for the nations and why it yearns to see the captives set free. This truth unveiled my place as a woman in community.

I live as a lioness arising, becoming fully awake with each day that I choose to heed to my calling. Not only to answer a God ordained call to steward my gifts, but also to be fully aware of whom to serve and how to serve the people in my life and at my place of worship.


To every woman, you are called to be fully awake. Regardless of the war against you, this life requires it, be fierce and confident in who you were made to be.

A lioness,fully awake.

Unending love

I ponder deeply on the value of life, how tomorrow is not promised to us. Of how breath isn't guaranteed, but eternal life is, if we live for our truest love, Jesus.

This morning as my feet hit the ground or were about to hit the ground (non-morning person blurs) Jesus whispered "Love IS life unending".


God's kind of love is everlasting. For surely in heaven He'll love us too. Prior to this morning, thus truth never resounded like it did today.

He promised the Israelites, a wavering people, unending love.
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: "I have loved you with an everlasting love, I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. Jeremiah 31:3

And yet we too are like the Israelites. Won over by God's love.
How has Our Creator's love drawn us? With unfailing kindness. I encourage us to search our hearts to see God's kindness in our lives so that our hearts remain filled with gratitude and contentment in Him.

The most evident and propelling way is seeing kindness through humility and sacrifice. At times it does not make sense that Jesus died for us on a cross. But I guarantee when we survey the deep mysteries and wonders of God, His word and the level of sacrifice by willingly giving His only Son, our hearts to bow in reverence and embrace what He has done.

But what does it say? "The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart," that is, the message concerning faith that we proclaim: If you declare with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. As Scripture says, "Anyone who believes in him will never be put to shame." For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, for, "Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved." (Romans 10:8-13 NIV)


May His peace bring you goose bumps, joy and peace that His kind if love is forever.

Mercy,love and grace is yours.

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast. (Ephesians 2:8, 9 NIV)

Reneejael