NEW BEGINNING

Feb. 5, 2020-New Beginning

Wow,  all I can say is Praise Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit!  Friday I left the RV Park at the lake.
Monday Asher, my Grandson and I are living in a two bedroom, two bath luxury apartment complete with lake, pool, state of the art fitness gym, and ducks.  We applied on Friday, and the same day, a man called because he saw the RV in the Shopping center parking lot and asked me if I wanted to sell it.  I didn't have that in mind, but God did and it is sold.  We signed a lease for a year and it is about 50 feet from where Daniel (Elijah) and his family live.  He is the one that Father God brought me here to Royal Palm Beach to be under his Spiritual covering.  Only God could have done this in such a short period of time.  Monday at noon we signed the lease, got the keys and people showed up from the Ministry and by 5 PM everything was out of the RV,( Lots of stuff) in the apartment and 6 PM the RV was sold!  The man that bought it was real nice and I invited him to a fellowship, he seemed interested in coming.

What a mind shift, He is showing this old Lady that I don't know anything without Him.   Father is showing me that I can give up everything for Him and still be taken care of even so much better!  Please call, text or email me if you want my snail mail address.  It has been since 1978 that I lived in an apartment. 

We, of course, had no furniture.  Asher has some things, (mostly kitchen items, he is a chef) in storage in Clermont, FL which is about 3-4 hours away, so we are set on Kitchen stuff.   The first night we each had to sleep on the floor.  The floor was carpeted and I had a 3 inch topper which helped a lot.  Asher had pillows but he broke his back and ribs and has other health issues that kept him from sleeping.  Last night we both got beds, praise you Father!  What a wonderful 9+ hours of sleep!  The day before we moved was bulk trash day here.  We were on the way to a Super Bowl fellowship and picked up three small nice tables 3 lamps and 2 dressers.  God will supply all our needs! 

Leaving the Lake again

So much is happening in the spiritual realm that I don't even see, and it is high impact even when I don't see it.  It is so amazing to become aware of the fact that there is so much more activity and happenings in the spiritual world and it is very important to know whose side you are on.  When you know Jesus personally, and abide in Him you win, because you are on the winning side.    He died for us and has given us the keys to the Kingdom and we are truly free because our battles are being fought and won by Heavenly Hosts against the ungodly.  You may not get it and I surely didn't for years while being in a traditional Church.  It was not taught and I am so blessed that I learned about it even in the latter part of my life.  Father God is so deep and powerful and amazing and so gloriously merciful and loving toward us!  He doesn't have to be.  He chose to love us unconditionally and then we treat Him so badly.
 Well, we are about to leave the Lake again, this may be the last time for awhile.  I am being nudged out of the RV life to be more stable in a single location.  It will give us a better location for fellow- shipping, where people will know where we are and can come.  My Grandson is a Chef and loves to entertain, so it will be a perfect fit for both of us.  We are set to go into the Apartment  around Feb. 9th if all goes well.  It is a lovely luxury 2 bedroom, 2 bath with a Community pool, exercise room, and Bowling Alley, and a movie theater.  We are subleasing it for 3 months and have the option to continue the lease after that time without a deposit.  We will be paying $400 less per month than the regular rent because the tenant had to leave before the lease was up.  It is such a blessing.  We don't have furniture, but Father God will work that out.  We have everything for the Kitchen and the rest will be worked out.

Back at the Lake

1-17-20

I am so sorry that I have not blogged until now. 😒 It is hard for this old lady to keep up with life and things are just moving so fast.  This is not what I signed up for as a 77 year old, but Father God's plans were already set and I didn't listen when I should have so now I am catching up with Him.  His grace is sufficient but He is wasting no time like I did.
 I am back where I started from 2 weeks ago in South Bay, Florida, on the last blog.  I didn't deal with the slow leak in the tire until I got ready to leave Breezy Hill (there is no hill within 3 hours).  My Grandson decided to go on an R & R to Boca Raton at an Air B&B, which is about 10 miles from Popano Beach and he left 2 days before and was not available to help with the fix'in to leave.  The hose that was, is still hanging, taped with duct tape(standard issue with RV's), I will deal with that later because I haven't heard from my "go-to-RV-guy yet.
When I got ready to leave, the tire was low again  and after trying to call my roadside assistance service and getting no where fast, I called my Grandson that works in the RV Park.  He came immediately and drove me in his truck, to two tire places until we found one that would deal with the RV.  I set it up to bring the RV back.  He drove me back to the RV and I drove back to the Tire place.

I adopted two more Grandchildren and I got to Minister to them, as both of them had lost loved ones within the last year.  After changing the tire stem to one that will last 12 years or more, and checking the rest of the tires, they charged me $6 and sent me on my way.  God is so good!  I left my car near the entrance of the RV Park and was able to hook up the car.  The most difficult part is telling whether the lights are working on the car after it is hooked up. (brake lights, turn signals, etc...)  Since it is hard to apply the brakes on the RV and at the same time look at the back of the car to see if they work, I asked two people passing by if they could help, they did and told me they weren't working, then went on their way.  After checking the connections, getting back in, getting out, getting back in, several times, I turned the connections around, put the turn signal on and WALAH!  It worked.  The lesson I learned, don't ask French speaking Canadians to help (they didn't help much), and if the turn signals work, trust God that the rest of the lights will follow.  They did!  So I made the 70 miles with no more incidents and I unhooked and hooked up by my self.  Just Jesus and me, like it used to be.

A lot has happened in the Ministry, I have been placed as Ministry Head over the Membership Ministry.  My Grandson is over Hospitality and the Ministry is growing, we can see the fruit almost before the tree is grown.  There are so many people who have been hurt, damaged, judged and disillusioned by the traditional Church and they are in dire need of restoration.  Father God has another plan that is much like the early Church where those that believe and are on one accord meet together "breaking bread from house to house"., Acts 2:42-47  I have shared with many of you, the vision and you can find it on my personal website: Grandmaswann.com under Grandma's Ministry..

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1-1-2020

Wow, the first day of 2020 and I am blogging!  I’m amazed that 20 years ago we were all dealing with the new millennium and all the fears, changes, alarms, challenges.  Now 20 years later, we are into a new decade, with all the opportunities to be better than the last 20 years, but knowing that Father God has birthed us into new beginnings and provided everything we need for accomplishing His will for our lives.

 It is so simple to me, (not easy) if we give up everything we want, to do it God’s way, the way He set it up, everything is better.  He gives us everything we need, (not everything we want) but miraculously, it is just perfect for us, how did He know?  It is called trusting God.  Check it out, who do we really trust?  Really? Banks? Self? Money? Our own mind? Our job or employment? Experience? Our thoughts? www?  Social Media? The cloud? Other people? Electricity? Our phone? Water system. Government?  America? Our Parents?  Church?  Car? Etc…  If we live long enough, (or are aware enough) we can see that our (human, world) systems cannot be truly trusted.  Guess whose system can be trusted, every time, all the time, beyond and before time?  God even made time.  Soooo, why is it so hard for us to give up our way for His, completely?

WANT A STRESS FREE LIFE?  DO IT GOD’S WAY!!!!  It is the only way.  He even gave us a map, His Holy word, and if that isn’t enough, He gave us His Holy Spirit that gives us the discernment and true interpretation.  We have no excuse although it would seem better if we had one.  Here we go again, thinking our way instead of His.  HE LOVES US INSPITE OF US!  Go figure!

Well, Grandma Swann went to a New Year’s Party last night!!!!  I drove 70 miles to go to a real party.  WHAT????  I even danced!  What???  Knowing my history, you would understand why that was a BIG deal!  When Father tells you to do something, you better do it, at least that is what I am learning.  Do you walk and talk with Father God that way?  He loves you and wants that so much for you, (with you).  If not I suggest that you make it a 2020 goal to give everything up to God your Father, ask Jesus into your heart and let Him guide and direct your life from now on and forever, it is the only thing that works!  HE LOVES AND YEARNS FOR US SO!

PS.  At the party, I met a new Granddaughter and Great Granddaughter, new friends (I only knew the Hostess before), after midnight we all held hands in a circle and I was asked to pray the New Year in, and I taught them the song,  “Bind us together” and we all sang.  “Some plant, some water, God gives the increase.

2019 All in one Blog-New beginnings

12-30-19

This is the first day I have written my blog since December 24, 2018.  Wow, Father God told me not to blog until now.  In hindsight, I see why, although I didn’t know why at the time.  You would have been thoroughly baffled, mixed up, confused, turned abound, shocked, surprised, amazed, emotionally jerked, wondering what was going on with Grandma Swann.  She was growing spiritually and healthily.  Much of my growth was seeing and understanding myself from Father God’s perspective.  Although I always knew that God had a plan for my life, it has become much clearer and He had to take me on the “Great journey of 2019” to bring me to where He wants me to launch in 2020.  With a renewed mind, perfectly positioned for the next dispensation of Grace in Father's plan. 

What a year!  Since I did not blog, much of the year is a flurry of life events that have brought me to this place of “take off”.  I will try to outline the events.

I baptized my phone in the toilet twice, (one every 6 months) they were insured, got new phones which came with all the “set-up headaches”, but resulted in a good reliable phone, hum(car diagnostic gadget), new jet pack, hot spot and  a better insurance plan.

My 2000 Honda CRV car found a new mechanic she loved, so did I.  But she also got a “new” engine with only 44,000 miles on it, and then she had “hot flashes”!  I was down to 58 cents in my Bank account for 3 weeks and never stressed or missed a meal or appointment or moment’s peace (well, maybe one). A friend I loaned my car to, wrecked it and I received $377 just in time from the Insurance, to pay for a hose replacement, after the car ran hot (hot flash) on the way home from depositing the check in the bank.  Praise Father!  After fixing hoses and plugs, etc... her hormones got back in sync and she is fine.  My RV is doing fine, has 51.000 miles on it, it is a 2001 and when I got it, it had 36,000 miles.

Grandchildren drama; One moved in, moved out, another one moved in, moved out, another one moved in and out and the first one moved back in.  Drama, drama, drama, drama... all is well and wonderfully orchestrated by God!

I flew to the homegoing of my founding Pastor John A. Cherry in February, stayed a week.  It was awesome and his life made such a difference in mine and many other lives!

I flew to a wedding in North Carolina for 3 days, stayed with friends, wonderful time, including the airfare, it cost me $94.00 for everything.  Got to see a lot of my friends from Maryland.

I was in a Tornado and a Hurricane, with no damage, no stress.  Interesting experience in trusting God.

Went on a Cruise to the Bahamas after the Hurricane and saw no damage.  Went with 12 “Ladyciples” at Church.  Great spiritual experience. drama, and fellowship.

I attended four conferences, “Step into your greatness”.  At least three things came out of that one. 

1.     I set up my website, Grandmaswann.com

2.     A Face Book Live “Christian View” panel was established which I was a part with five Women that attended the conference from the Church. 

3.     We all wrote a chapter in a book called, Womanhood” which was published shortly after the conference in July.

The Church in Clermont put on a Marriage Conference, and un-married’s were invited.  I had been to many Marriage Conferences when I was Married but this one was more focused on the Spiritual, Excellent!

The Shaklee Convention was in Las Vegas, NV.  I got stuck in the Indianapolis Airport overnight (long story) and was a day late to the Conference.  Met with my Grandson for lunch the next day in Indianapolis (A God thing) 6 Months later he is caved into Father and His plan for his life and back staying with me and a part of the Ministry.  Restoration is real!!!   At the Convention, I agreed to a Shaklee partnership that lasted until September and it was dissolved which was mutually beneficial.

I attended a Christian Authors Seminar and was more and more convicted to write a book (or two).  It was very encouraging.

I read a book newly published by a friend, that changed my life. (Jehovah, My God and Father is Real by W. Dwightel Weathers (On Amazon). It helped me realize that I had not acknowledged Father God (Jehovah) in my life and honored Him with respect to His position as He exists.  It put together completely for me, the relationship with Father, Son, and Holy Ghost and me.  I fell in love with Father God so completely and absolutely that I will never be the same again.  I saw His great love for me and Father’s desire to be in fellowship with me, was the reason He set the whole Earth up for me (and you) and had to send Jesus on earth in the flesh to accomplish that relationship. For God so loved the World….John 3:16. No greater love!  He found a way to sacrifice His Son to make us free from sin (if we receive Him) so we would be worthy to come boldly to the throne of Father and enjoy His company in fellowship with him.  What a God we serve!  The only way we can understand is to accept and receive Jesus and all that He did for us, it doesn’t make sense, so don’t try to make sense out of it, just believe and receive and it will make perfect sense and a such a difference.  We can’t make worldly sense out of Spiritual matters.

Wait there is more…I jumped into the pool (of emotions) which I had not been in for a long time (or ever).  I always saw people like they were in a swimming pool of emotions, some drowning, some swimming, some barely keeping their head above water.  All my life, I would watch from the side, occasionally sitting on the side and dangling my feet in, but never jumping in or get fully “wet”.  Well, I jumped in the pool of love, with complete abandonment and with full knowledge and understanding.  I stayed for a while, got out, dangled my feet, back in, out, in, out, then way out and now I am in balance, fully dry and so far from the pool, that I can barely see it.  All the while, I was distracted by this adventure, I remained in right standing with Father but severely distracted by my emotions.  I learned to not trust or rely on my emotions and that the world’s way of loving emotionally, while I’m glad I experienced it, it is not for me now.  I have work to do and I don’t want or need distractions. 

Father orchestrated 3 Church membership changes for me, from my “home” Church of 33 years with 27,000 members in Maryland, to a Church in an RV park in Clermont, FL, (3 years old) to a Beacon of Hope House fellowship in Royal Palm Beach, FL. (6 months old).  I am the oldest in the last two and Father God has strategically moved me into position for His next plan for my life. 

I was delivered from my past, things that I had not acknowledged, or denounced and although I was forgiven, I needed to Covenant with God.  They were things that I had buried in my subconscious that could hinder my walk with God, going forward.  It is good to be free of them! Also my hearing has been healed and I haven't used my hearing aid for over a Month.

The vision that Father gave me over 50 years ago (it’s on my website Grandmaswann.com) is finally beginning to begin.  It took years of refining me through trials and tears, changes, hurts, heart aches, new alignments, letting things go that were “so important to me”, lessons learned, traveling, life experiences, meeting and adopting Grandchildren, purging, pruning and all the things Father God had me to “go through” to prepare me for His amazing plan for my life.  Many people I have met (some “Grandchildren” and some of you that are reading this) have been called to be a part of His vision for the Kingdom of God on earth, (it is worldwide).  I am so grateful to Father for allowing me to be used for His Kingdom on this earth in such a wonderful way in my “latter” years.  God is not through with me yet!   My only desire is that MY LIFE BE USED ANY WAY FATHER DESIRES.  HIS WILL BE DONE IN EARTH, AS IT IS IN HEAVEN!

It has been quite an adjustment from my “old school” thinking, adjusting to younger people and trying to stay connected in the “Unity of the Spirit”. Which is the whole point!  The greatest lessons I have learned (and still learning) this year is how to love unconditionally, without judgement, just the way they are, no matter how they are   I was not fit for the Kingdom at one time, and am still trying to be “fit” and adaptable to Father’s plan for me.  He loved and still loves me with all my “me-isms” and I don’t know why He has chosen me (or you) or all the “diverse family” that he has hooked me up with, but this one thing I know, He’s got me and I have no fear of the next move in 2020 because Father loves me and He will not allow me to fail doing His will when I continue to obey Him, and since it is my choice and I love Him, I WILL OBEY!!!!

Summary of 2019:

Emotionally:  

Up, very down, high, very low, sad, confused, very high, in the emotional pool, out of the pool, way out of the pool, etc…  Now I am balanced, peaceful, with comfort and joy!

Spiritually: 

I learned:  Not to judge, To Love unconditionally, Only FATHER GOD can change others or me.  Small Churches/Fellowships are in God’s plan, I don’t know everything (if fact almost nothing), Father God is so real in my life and I Iove Him so much that all of my life is His!  Father God will move mountains of Judgements, prejudices (pre-judgments), attitudes, “set” thoughts, I can change the way I “always was”, how I “always thought”, how I perceived things and people.

Naturally: 

I learned to trust Father with all my heart, financially, to be a good steward over my stuff & things (work in progress).  I learned to love Florida and it’s weather, love bugs and critters.  It seems to be the best place to be right now, I am still in flip-flops!  What a life!  Still haven’t seen an Alligator!

Come back often, I will be blogging again regularly.

I love you all and your encouraging words and the blessings you have given me in word, thought and deeds.  I COULDN’T HAVE DONE IT WITHOUT MY FAMILY.  THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE FOR ME!

I will be on a 21 day fast for the first 21 days of 2020 and would appreciate your prayers for the “Road to Restoration” vision and the Unity of the Body of Christ.

Happy New Year!  I cannot express with words how much I wish wonderfulness and Peace and Joy that I know Father has in available for you in 2020.  A new decade of possibilities and new beginnings.  You are not finished yet!  I invite you to, Flourish to the Finish with me

Have a Blessed, Peaceful, Loving, Stress-free Christmas

December 21. 2018

Well, it is officially Winter and although it is cool, it is nothing like Maryland winters, thank God!  I haven't been to the pool for 3 days because it has been rainy and thunderstorming.  Also a lot has happened since I last blogged.  I can't tell you everything, but I do want to wish you a wonderful, heartfelt Christmas with those you love.  I will be with my newly adopted Church family on Sunday and during the time between  Christmas and New Year, I will be visiting my friends from Maryland.



December 24, 2018

Wow, Christmas already and life is so wonderful!   I praise God for sending Jesus, birthed in a lowly, dirty, animal barn, so all of us, no matter how low we think we are, we can have full, personal, access, to the King of Kings and His saving , abundant and wonderful power!  If the King of Kings had been born in a ritsy castle,  some of us would not have access to Him. We don't deserve such a wonderful gift, thank God we don't get what we deserve!
God loved the world so much, that he gave Jesus, His Son,  (the only one) to die a horrible death, just so we could be reconciled back to God  in a personal relationship.  Jesus is God's gift to us, really, the only one we need.  It doesn't make logical sense, and if you are looking for logic, you won't find Jesus.  God is Spirit, He is real, Jesus is Spirit that became flesh and grew up in this world so we are without excuse.  We are spiritual beings, we just happen to live temporarily, in a body,  which, when our spirit leaves, it dies and recycles back to dirt,  We are not dirt, only our bodies, so we don't die.  Our spirit goes somewhere, we get to choose, (thank God He gave us free will to choose) Life everlasting with Him or torment everlasting in hell with the devil.  We have been given the gift of Jesus, it is our choice to receive the gift or choose everlasting hell!
Jesus is the only way to everlasting life.  Even if you have been a "good" person and are "alright" in your own eyes,  Jesus is still the only way.  We didn't make the rules!

The greatest gift that I could give you at Christmas (or any other time) is the gift of Life through Jesus Christ!  He is the answer to any problem I have ever had.  I spent too much of this brief life that  I have in this body, abusing it (the only place  I have, for God to live in me).  I also spent too much of my life consumed with me, my stuff and "mine".   His plan for me, is to share the wonderful truth about Jesus to everyone I meet so they can have eternal life with Him too.

I encourage you, if you know Jesus personally, don't allow the adversary to make you ashamed to share the Prince of Peace you know.  If you don't know Him personally,  He is very near, and just wants to be invited into your heart.  Won't you ask Him in today?  You will never regret it!!  It will be the best Christmas ever had and you will never forget it!  I love you all and I hope I can tell you soon about all the excitement and wonderful moving of the Holy Spirit.  I wish you Jesus for Christmas!!!

A wonderful day of surprises!

December 5, 2018

Wow, it has been cool here and I didn't go to the pool today, but not because of the weather.  I will tell you about that later.

First, let be tell you about Sunday.  I watched FTHCM.org (My Church in Maryland) until time to go to the Church here in the park at 11;30 AM.  When I arrived I was there a little early and I talked to  Pastor Cole and he had a twinkle in his eye.  He told me he new a friend of mine and tried to help me guess but I couldn't.  When he told me, it was the friend I had planned to visit during Christmas.  Well that was surprised enough, but then Pastor Cole told me that he was looking to come under the authority of my FTHCM church in Maryland. WHAT?!  Wow, he had no clue I was connected until his wife saw FTHCM in my blog.  We hugged and I cried!!  That is so awesome, God is so amazing!

I like this RV park and I was able to extend my stay another 8 days.  Which was really helpful.  I met and adopted some people last night at the pool and hot tub.   A couple from New Hampshire adopted me and invited me for coffee/tea this morning to their RV.  It was a beautiful 5th Wheel and it had  fireplace!  It felt really good as it was cold (50 degrees).  They are Christians and we shared so much in common.  Pat is an author and an artist.  She published a Children's book and did her own art work, it was really cute and it was about Celiac disease.  Her daughter had been ill with it for over 10 years and nearly died before it was diagnosed by a Naturopathic Doctor.  They took her off of Gluten and she was fine.

Did I tell you when my new  Grandson Mike helped my put on the wheel covers to protect the tires from the sun, he noticed a bulge in the wall of the back tire on the RV?  When I was at the hot tub I asked 3 full-timers who were there about the tire and got a wealth of information.  Did you know that the date of manufacture is written on the tire?  It is in the oval, written as 4 numbers the first two numbers are the month and the last two are the year.(tip of the day)

I checked a couple of places and finally got an estimate of $230 for a single tire, but they recommended that I get two so they would be even, since it was one of the dual wheels.  I kept checking and found out that one of my Roadside Assistance Programs (remember I had 4, now I have 3) would come to me, change the tire right here in the park, and would use my spare tire (which I had and didn't know it) to replace the tire with the bulge.  After many hours because the first tow truck got lost, then blew a hose, they sent a second tow truck that got lost in the same place and they found each other and so two tow trucks showed up at the same time and helped each other do the job.  The miracle was that the spare tire which was under the back of the RV, WAS BRAND NEW!!!!!  IT DID NOT COST ME ANYTHING!!!!!  Praise the Lord!  He takes such good care of me!  PS. I adopted one of the tow truck drivers.
So, that is why I didn't go to the pool today, it was too cold anyway.  Four of my Grandchildren came to check on me while the tow trucks were here, that was nice and comforting.

I am continually adding to my family, 221 Grandchildren and counting.  Woopee!!!