Blessings to you all! Very early Wednesday morning my hubby left for Haiti where he’ll be ministering until the 10th. Prayers both for his trip and for me while he’s gone are appreciated! Here’s the goodbye video he left for me (and one he made last year that I watch when I miss him… which is a lot!)
Art
Many of your have already received the D4Yart piece God put on my heart that goes with the Frontline Warriors vision. I have them positioned at my computer and in my dyeing areas as reminders that you all are joined with me in this journey. I pray you will be blessed by the visual reminder as much as I have been!
Also I just wanted you to know that I pray for you guys too! I have a reminder set on my iPod to pray for you all everyday. He hasn’t yet, but I have told God I am open to Him sharing something with me for any or all of you – so just giving y’all a heads up that He might 🙂
Sales
By the end of February (2 months into my quarter) I have surpassed my best quarter to date. Please don’t stop praying! Specifically, what I need prayer on is:
- Logistics. For example, the higher the volume, the more difficult it becomes to have people picking which scarf they want rather than letting me be led of the Lord. Since the focus of the ministry is the prophetically-created scarves, should I focus on that and no longer allow people to specify? This is an example of something I’m praying through. People can go to a store to “pick” a scarf – the purpose of this ministry is to deliver a WORD that happens to have a tangible reminder that is beautiful, useful, and carries an anointing.
- Expansion planning. I already have the vision for D4Y Outposts where people the Lord connects me with who are ANOINTED to do what I do can come along side, be trained, and begin to join forces. There are logistics with this as well (e.g. what percentage goes to whom) as well as wisdom needed on timing of when and how to do what… all the while managing to continue staying on top of a thriving ministry!
- Dream: confirmation to the D4Y Outposts came in the form of a dream this past week when I was handing off abrush to someone else to do the shimmering and said “I have to have a life” (i.e. I can’t do it all myself!)
- Rest & Quiet God-time. It has been very busy and so I tend to be going back and forth between full speed and crash mode. I need to get better at this (I have improved, but I am aware of symptoms of stress, so I know I need further improvement). This also plays into my quiet time with God. Let me say that I talk with God throughout the day, so it’s not that I don’t feel connected, but I definitely FEEL it when I don’t get that one-on-one sitting doing nothing but waiting time. But I have difficulty getting quiet when I know work is waiting. So I stay in a quandary (Though I confess I’m doing better at it while Allen’s gone because that has lessened some responsibilities I have to him, which has freed up some time).
- Provision. We definitely would like sales to stay up and increasing. We have financial obligations that have suffered during this desert season of testing and I firmly believe God has them all in hand.
Kim Clement
The Lord instructed us to give the tithe from the flurry of sales after Kim mentioned Dyed4you back toward Kim’s ministry. God said that it’s time to write the portion of our financial testimony that began in summer 2007 and had it’s climactic finish with Kim’s plug on air. I’m to send the testimony with the check. Please pray for me to write it as God wants it written and for it to bless and encourage Kim.
Also – and this is TOTAL hearsay, but one of the folks who found me through Kim said she thought she heard he was going to try to have me on a show…? No idea if this is true, but prayer for God’s will and timing would be appreciated.
Speaking Inquiry
Got my first speaking inquiry from someone I don’t know – in Columbus, GA. Exciting and humbling! Please pray for God’s wisdom and will. Not having done a conference before I don’t know the questions to ask, nor what to ask for provision and supply-wise. Gratefully, it’s the woman coordinating’s first conference too – so we’ll learn together (which also could be scary – LOL!).
Closing
In closing thank you again (as always). I truly cannot express the impact being joined wit this team has on me and on the ministry. Your prayers impact what goes out to every single person. Each tstimony you read is credited to your account in heaven as well as mine. TRULY I could not do it without you. Praying God’s blessings over each one of you!
That reminds me! I wanted to share a comment that one of you posted along with a subsequent comment:
What an amazing group of warriors:) Thank You, Father that You are at the helm. We trust You, as You lead Meghan. Salty tears fall by the wayside. Ocean breeze, open water. Diving into the deep. Beauty in the depths of the seas. Togetherness and trusting one another, as we lift up our prayers. “See”: synchronized swimming. God’s humor at making a beautiful point: timed togetherness but different jumping off points.
Sensing that the D4Y team is moving into open water soon. Past streams of tears will dry up…
I know MANY of you have been in challenging desert seasons just as Allen and I have walked through. I’m believing that now is the time to begin walking out of the desert and experiencing the fruit of the promised land. Let all agree in prayer that it is time for ALL of us to walk into the land of milk and honey. Lord all glory be unto Your name!
Meghan,
What a blessing the artwork is!! Looking at it is like a call ta batlle so to speak! I “rise up” on the inside!! I am SO blessed to be linking my shield with such a power-filled, amazing group of women!
Reading this post I heard BALANCE and BREAKTHROUGHS!
Blessings!!!!!
Oh, and also…will be praying regarding the letter to Kim Clement–what an obedient and giving heart to tithe back to Kim’s ministry! You continuously give and sow seeds…The Lord is pressing all those down and is about to give you the harvest–
Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”
A friend at church who has a couple of albums has a song that says, “It’s raining on my house, it’s raining on my fields, it’s raining on my seed that I’ve been planting for years. My dry season is over…it’s beginning to rain!”
It is one of my family’s (and especially Heather’s) favorites! I will have to try to post it or send it soon. That is more a project for my honey…he does better than me with computer stuff. Definitely a song I thought about while reading your post.
Speaking Inquiry
Got my first speaking inquiry from someone I don’t know – in Columbus, GA. Exciting and humbling! Please pray for God’s wisdom and will. Not having done a conference before I don’t know the questions to ask, nor what to ask for provision and supply-wise. Gratefully, it’s the woman coordinating’s first conference too – so we’ll learn together (which also could be scary – LOL!).
Ok–last one—not awake enough to post it all at once I guess. 🙂
Not sure how much you want ME to pray on this one–I will PRAY YOU DOWN HERE IF I COULD!!!! Because you know that I will SO figure out a way to be there!!!
I didn’t ask before–what type of a conference is it going to be? If it is dance or worship related, I wonder if any of my friends at church know the person who is arranging it…..
Love you!!!
@Christine – Lol multiple comments are ALWAYS allowed! 🙂 Thank you for all of them! To address your question, it’s a dance conference. I believe it’s at a black church – probably Baptist or Pentecostal. First email addressed me as “sister Williams” 😉
LOL So, sister Williams, I loved Allen’s videos. They made me smile. I’m sure they help when he is away. I too am blessed by the print card that you sent. Thank you.
Will be praying for the other issues. Love you and thank you for the opportunity to be a part of your prayer team as well as a recipient of your prayers as well.
Meghan, dear Meghan ~ I see – Divine connection that flows so abundantly from the Crystal Sea that is there just before the Throne. Pure, pure rivers of His Presence, His Mercy, His Grace, His All-seeing eyes, His prophetic Wisdom, His Healing Balm. Flowing through the heavenlies into your spirit man, out of your hands, onto paper, entering new eyes & into the spirit just as it is, there, where the Ancient of Days sits, ruling in might, power and thunderous Love. Flowing, flowing, unceasingly flowing. Release and fulfillment.
As He leads you follow.
Release
Increase
Wisdom
Open doors
Deep calling to deep
Divine connections
Only sit at His Feet ~ all is provided. All is set up. All is in Him.
Calming storms
Thank you so much for bringing me in and allowing me to be a part of this prayer team ~ truly, as we pray for you and you pray for us we are all united in Him and one another.
And thank you for the print card. I mean THANK YOU! My husband, who has been not supportive but also not not supportive so far Looked at it and said: “Whoa!” and slapped me on the back “You go, girl. That’s awesome. Is this what you have been telling me about?” Ah, Yea ~
Still grinning, he reaches out his stubby fingers, then dusts off his hands that much show the effects of his work with trees and gardens, then gingerly, as though holding something very precious, grins from ear to ear: “That’s, that’s …” and does a happy dance (Richard is NOT a dancer). His shoulders lifted along with his spirit. His eyes sparkle. He looks at me, back at the warriors shields, back at me, eyes towards heaven.
“We need a frame”
I definately feel you on the not being able to put everything away and just have the one on one time. Father I speak the mind of Christ on us all. I speak all thoughts come into alignment and order and be established in our minds. I ask that the exspansion of D4U come in your divine timing and all peace be with Meghan on that when she makes decisions. I ask your strategy be revealed and the hands & hearts are even now being made ready.
We praise you for the blessed provision! Thank you, thank you, thank you! I ask that the orders continue to flow at a steady pace. Bless you Lord!
I will now print this so I can keep it before me! I have seriously been challenged with my time and priorities and have to get some order in my own day! Thank you Meghan for the journaling suggestion – I am finally getting it done. I have found in the past week, the Lord has been talking to me so much – & – I am missing it because I’m scattered. You will for sure be covered on balance by me as I will still be seeking it myself!!! lol
Meghan,
I just recieved my print today in the mail. It is truly BEAUTIFUL, I can not tell you THANK YOU enough. I will be framiing it!!!!
I will continue praying for your Ministry, I am honored. God is moving and he has so much more to come. I pray that he will place the people in your life to help you as your ministry grows.
I will pray that Gods gives you wisdom and understand on the letter to Kim. What a blessing this will be for his Ministry. I pray blessing for your Ministry.
Love, Tami
I’m printing this so I can take the next week and pray specifically. Thank you for the print… Got it today. I too will be framing it.
A little bit laughing, just a tiny, tiny bit and yet totally understanding the feeling of going out into new and uncharted waters (the speaking engagement) ~ Meghan, you hear so clearly and respond with amazing clarity and accuracy with a totally appropriate word in perfect season for countless upon countless people on a daily basis ~ I have no doubt that you will hear and be led in all the details of what I see as your first of many new adventure.
It is good to stay humble and always seek the Voice of the Lord, for sure ~ hmmm, maybe I am just expressing confidence that you will not only walk into this as He leads but that there will be other engagements birthed out of this first time venture. Confidence that comes from what I hear from Heaven as well as what I see on earth 🙂
So Meghan today I pray, as we again anoint your eyes and ears with eye salve, we ask Father to send a deeper, higher, more keen anointing to hear even the smallest whisper from Your Throne and her eyes to see even the slightest wiff of dust on the far horizon as she seeks You, as she seeks to follow as You lead, even when logic may seem to contradict.
We pray, too, that as the details of life increase and demands and pressures for time multiply that you are able to enter into that Most Holy place, even standing in a grocery line, nd feel the refreshment that comes from His Presence. We pray that time becomes your servant as you give your time to Him; that as He is your necessary food ~ we pray, too, that you are able to shut out any voice but His during the time that you set aside for Him. May that time be the only time that really matters in all that you do.
I love you, Meghan and rejoice in what He is doing in and through you.
Thank you for the print. You have such a giving heart. May the Holy Spirit guide and direct you in every area of your life. I pray for peace and may you walk beside still waters and enter into the rest of the Lord. God is so good to us and his promises to us are true. May you find time to be in God’s word it is life and leads and teaches us. Thank you God for blessing Allen and Meghan continue to guide them in ministry and give them direction. Love you !!