My first year at the University of Alabama, Bridget and I exchanged gifts on her birthday (our birthdays are 18 days apart in September). In hilarity, but thinking the same, we both gave each other Sara Bareilles’s new album Kaleidoscope Heart. One of our favorite songs on the album, Uncharted, described so clearly how I felt about where Holy Spirit was leading me with Cultivate Life. The lyrics read: Oh, I'm going down Follow if you want, I won't just hang around Like

Always contending. That is my reality. Always contending for something. People. Places. Things. Spiritual people, places, and things. It’s constant. It doesn’t end. Yes, I’ve gotten better at the fight, but it’s exhausting. I am exhausted. I am completely exhausted with contending with the kingdom of darkness over the territory (seen and unseen) Holy Spirit has placed in front of me to conquest. About a month ago, I told my best friend, “I feel like I am going to have a mel

Lately, I catch myself in a reoccurring vision. I’m standing with my arms by my side and notice the palms of my hands are radiating light. I lift my arms up in mid-air, focus my attention, and watch as the light from my hands powerfully shoots forward, causing an object in front of me to stop in its tracks and quickly change shape and form. Every time I have this vision, I always get this deep feeling that this experience with power isn’t solely contained inside of the spir