" I'll bring fire in the winters

 You'll bring showers in the springs

 We'll find our fly through the Falls and Summers

with love on our wings  -

 Through the years

 as the fire starts to mellow

 burning lines in the book of our lives

 though the binding cracks

 and the pages start to yellow

I'll be in love with you

I'll be in love with you"

                                         to Sheryl

 We have need that we give our hearts to Him daily - not just once at an altar call. Our hearts become an altar upon which we offer daily sacrafice.  I must renew my vow, to give him my heart completely-  each day: for my heart is a frail, wandering thing, prone to wickedness.  I must chain it to the Lord's heart  - and throw away the key. I must submit to the Lord daily, day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute.

Sheryl's very cool testimony

 

So it's Sunday morning.  Sheryl is about to go to church.  It's raining so she wants to go to a church near her "abode". She hears a voice say "go to (her cousin) Terri's church. Her church is much further away. So she shrugs it off and goes on to the first church, but on the way, she again hears "go to Terri's church". So she does.

After she gets there, a young, newly-wed couple testify about their new house. They are really excited to have their own place  -  but they have, literally,  almost nothing. Just one piece of furniture. No beds. No chairs. No couches. No dressers, lamps. But they're so happy they want to show it off. They invite Terri and Sheryl goes with.

The next morning,  Sheryl goes to work. A co-worker,  an older lady, announces she has a table to give away  -  does anyone need a table? Sheryl tracks her down eventually:  has anyone taken the table? "Someone expressed interest, but no one's taken it". Sheryl explains about the young couple.  The lady says - "would they like a bed too"? Terri volunteers a truck  - and the young couple go to pick up their new, free items; and the lady throws in a box spring and mattress, a dresser, a lamp or two and a night stand! THEN she finds out the young man she's blessing is one of her former students! Is not God super cool?!

 There's the cocoon phase of our spirituality-  then there's the Butterfly phase. 

There is a time for growth. Like the roots of a tree, that will later grow tall  - the growth is hidden  - it's all happening inside the soil, our flesh  - where our heart is. What we were when we entered the cocoon, or when the cocoon was formed around us  -  is not what we are when we emerge, or who we are. We are vastly different, for our former selves could not fly. This flight that we take, this is possible because of the Holy Spirit-  He is the wind within us that our reborn spirit's float upon. He directs our flight path. Ever notice a butterfly's flight path is totally unpredictable? So it is with us, spiritually.  

Cocoon: Inward  -  growth  -  inaction 

Butterfly: Outward manifestation of inward growth  - action!

Satan's desire is to keep us in the cocoon  -  till we rot like the left over Manna  - we must use all God gives us, we must not keep our talents "buried" - hidden, in our cocoon (flesh). Like the veil in the Temple we must tear apart our own FLESH,  (Forever Lusting and Engaging in Sinful Habits) to enter into the spirit realm. Satan wants to abort our butterfly phase, therefore,  BUTTERFLY SAINTS need to guard jealously and fiercely our cocoon saint brethren. There's a time to be taught and a time to teach. A time to receive prophecy and a time to give it. A time to breathe in and a time to breathe out. 

By the way, Satan has a false cocoon for his own, only they emerge as moths...fake butterfly's in other words. Moths are nocturnal,  their wings drape down. Butterfly's are diurnal,  their wings are upright.  False saints are always "down", downward spiral, negative,  led more by the flesh than the Spirit. True saints are "up", usually positive,  floating up, looking up towards Heaven,  tobsee God's face. Yes there are seasons of sorrow...but we don't stay there.

In the Movies -  you can only see what they want you to see and you can only hear what they want you to hear. Everything is scripted, preplanned  - every word, every sight.

In some churches  -  you can only see what they want you to see and you can only hear what they want you to hear. Everything is scripted,  preplanned.  Every word, every sight.

The goal of both is to be so realistic that you forget what you're seeing isn't real. You forget it's all fake. You even pay money for both, don't you? Both movies and religions make millions every year don't they? For the spirit behind them both is the same - except in Hollywood the fake do not pretend to be otherwise.