I am so happy and thankful to be able to start writing to all of you guys out there.   As I begin to type now I am overwhelmed by the day that is not nearly halfway over, and still of the long hard day yesterday.  This is my biography.  As I am breathing in and focusing I am realizing that this is a time to sum up the very best and most important things that I want to be known about me, so keep and open mind and heart as I begin...

My name is Joie.  I simply go by Miss Joie or Miss Greene to many.    I was in the military and police academy and so it was just the kind thing that stuck with me in both places.  I am 22 years old.  My hometown in split between Buffalo and Niagara Falls New YORK.  My heart seems to be placed in Florida however.  I want you guys to know so much about me, but I look forward to doing that when we are face to face, gathered together for one specific purpose.  For now, I am posting words that could only describe me better than myself.  These are words of scripture and prophetic quotes. 

For those of you who are wondering the incentive for any of my missions work. For those of you who beleive that I have come to you as a body without a spirit of which you claimed to have not been able to see... These are my claims, beleifs, and significant reasonings...

"Those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit." Every person who comes into your life has a BODY AND A SPIRIT.

'WHEN SOMEONE COMES INTO YOUR LIFE, THEY DONT JUST BRING THIER BODY, THEY BRING THEIR SPIRIT.'"

(the amazing discernment of a woman)

I come as more than a body. ALWAYS. I bring my body, of which the SPIRIT has led, and filled with what the LORD has asked me to deliver and of which I have promised to.

I have been saying that I have to invest everything I have right now into something. I have many things, but with the things that I have at my reach I must choose very wisely, because any one of them will take a great leap, a strong grasp that I must be unwilling to let go of for a long time, much money, support from other people, time, and committment, no matter what situations arise, in order to achieve.

I chose to suffer through this with peace and joy. Why? Because I must see if I will have the oppurtunity to take all I have and committ to the missions work I desire.

It is said not to move in the darkness. I am in the darkness. I choose not to move. I am walking by faith, not by sight. I am not making any decisions until the LORD guides them with HIS LIGHT. ___________________

EPHESIANS 14:13  DO NOT BE AFRAID, JUST sTAND WHERE YOU ARE AND WATCH THE LORD RESCUE
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When you decide to get involved and make a differnece, GOD will get involved.

This is seen through Judges4:9-10. Deborah who went to fight a battle without a sword and not entirely knowing what she was to do. She used her discernment and trusted in the LORD. The LORD was righteous and Deborah was a successor in the battle.

I am choosing to make a differnce, and I am trusting in the LORD that he will come and be involved as he has promised.

My mother struggles to understand why I do not just take her money and get an apartment. I could live more than comfortably with a furnished apartment of my own, somewhere to call home without any worry of how to pay rent. I could save or just keep paying off past debt.

I explained to her what living the AMERICAN DREAM entails, and that is consistantly getting money that allows the rich to get richer. To purchase vehicles for the family, own a home, pay off school debt, and live nicely in between while only paying monthly payments... paying monthyly payments for the next 50 years!

Then it was spoken to me, "It is easier to make a living than it is to make a difference."

I will tell you now, I know for certain that this is true. This is so hard! It is more difficult than any other time when I tried to fulfill the life of all those around me and tried to step up to live an AMERICAN life.

Reading back on my past entries it is very eveident that I always knew that the AMERICAN dream was not going to be right for me. And so now, I choose not to take it easy and make a living, but to suffer joyfuly as I take my first steps in a long journey to make a difference.

Some say that I am not wise enough. Or that my spirit is not mature enough. People may question the authenticity of my faith, ah but believe in me. For what I speak is from the heart of which the LORD has placed the eternal fire of the HOLY SPIRIT inside... bringing about wisdom, courage to carry out what such wisdom speaks, love to listen and act obediently to the words it rests on my heart, patience while I am being guided on the way... I am nurtured by the HOLY SPIRIT to, in, and through the LIFE that the FATHER has made for me.

So to show my readiness I have focused on the stupidity of the 12 disciples.

Jesus picked the weakest men to be disciples.

Discipling is more than just being carried through a book. Jesus disciples these 12 men by displying for them what he expected them to be, setting them out to put it into action, and when someone fell short, bringing them back, teaching them, and sending them back out to do it right!

There was a lack of understanding. Jesus spoke of parables and common knowledge to the men and yet they did not follow.

Jesus addressed the following in the following ways.

Lack of understanding: Jesus taught by words, and teaching in display.

Lack of humility: Jesus showed this by being the prime example.

Lack of Faith: Jesus showed by miracles and mighty needs, or as ACTS1 says, "unfathomable deeds..."

Lack of COMMITTMENT: Jesus said "...but I will pray for you"

LACK OF POWER: Jesus prays for the HOLY SPIRIT to come to them.

What does this show? Well first, it says ultimately taht THERE IS HOPE FOR ALL OF US. God can use us, and someone better will be used for us....etc.

What this shows for me?

I am already way ahead of the stupidness of these men, but still weak enough to be led and become strength in the way the LORD expects.

I have been critized for taking the oppurtunity to make a difference rather than to live life. As I said, it is easier to live the life. I am told that I am not balanced, but we come as three... as body, spirit, and soul (which is a make up of what controls our spiritual heart and mind)...

As I speak this now, I have spoke of this many times before. What makes this significant this time is that I have been affirmed and convicted by scriptural and prophetic confirmation. Such has taken just what my heart heard from the LORD and affirmed it over and over and over again. There is not one thing that I have proclaimed that I have not had God guide me to, to let me know that I am following HIM, and going the right way. Even though I am in darkness, that I am where I need to be... So, anyhow, the criticism falls on what sufferings I must endure to come from where I should not have been, and trekking the way the LORD has called me to go. I am tired, often times very tired, sleepless, hungary, but as I say "MY SPIRIT IS WELL!" I am still smiling.

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PROVERBS16:15

"When the king smiles, there is life; his favor refreshes like a gentle rain."

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This means nothing to someone, like a pastor, who thinks that you come only as a body and has disregarded your SPIRIT. Perhaps just not cared enough to look for it...

But it means something to me when the LORD promises that our strength will come from nothing within, nothing we do, but from the strength HIS power (by the HS) will bring to us.

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Zachariah4:6; "IT IS NOT BY FORCE, NOR MY STRENGTH, BUT BY MY SPIRIT SAYS THE LORD"

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Yes I am tired, I am hungary, I have been traveling a whole long way nearly alone without proper leaders or followers, but then I am reminded from my first scriptural prophecy during this time of my life. It is of Jesus at the well, feet bleeding and swollen, exghausted from walking like two days without anything to eat and no rest... and he called to the LORD to provide.

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PHILLIPIANS4:11-13

I have learned how to get along happily whether I have much or little.

I know how to live on almost nothing or with everything. I have learned the secret of living in every situation whether it is with a full stomach or an empty one, with plenty or little. For I CAN DO EVERYTHING with the help of CHRIST who gives me STRENGTH I need.

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And yes, sometimes my mind is not well. I fall short. I fall short but I know better and the constant renewing of a heart because of the constant turning to the HS is what gets me through. The LORD provided for Elijah in the desert, and I do not fear that he will do any less for me.

For right as I question if I can take it, as my exghaustion, the heat/cold gets to me, the hunger... I am answered. I am given new work, food, rest, and comforting touch to see me through until my mind will not fail me. The LORD steps in...

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LAMENTATIONS3:19-23

"The throught of my suffering and homelessness is bitter beyong words. I will NEVER FORGET this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet, I still dare to hope when I remember this:

THE UNFAILING LOVE of the LORD NEVER ENDS! By HIS MERCIES we have been kept from complete destruction. Great is his faithfulness, his mercies begin afresh each day!"

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This has all come after much prayer through all the "concerns" and helpful criticism that I have recieved.

Prayer allows an ordinary woman to become EXTRAORDINARY!

I am an extraordinary woman.

It was said it takes courage to get to know someone. The men who have taken the time to know me are some of the most courageous people out there!

If theres any concern now as to why I choose even in my weakness to follow, you might want to take this entry and re-read it. Perhaps a bit slower. Or perhaps with a sound heart, ready to listen to what the LORD has spoke...

I am just a messanger passing it on.

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1THESSALONIANS2:4

"We speak as messangers who have been approved by GOD to be entrusted with the Good News. Our purpose is to please GOD, not people. He is teh one who examines the motives of our hearts."

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