Thank you for this assignment as there is a good stirring happening & what an incredible blessing to be in a community with you all💗 As I was praying, crying and interceding this morning I was hearing the scripture Psalm 36:5 “Your steadfast love, O LORD, extends to the heavens, your faithfulness to the clouds.” I was seeing this occur, the love & faithfulness, much like when a fire begins to burn and smoke permeates the atmosphere and disperses or when a fog falls upon mountains that His love will become more and more known by individuals and because of that they will be drawn to Him. His word tells us that His loving kindness leads us to repentance & I’m seeing a movement of ones that know the Lord crying out for the souls of those who don’t and it causing this love to began to fall upon them in ways they’ve never known & through those encounters many will be set free in a moment and drawn into relationship with Someone they’ve never known before but yet feel so close to. Someone that feels safe. That someone being the Holy Spirit that then begins to be a guide for them in every aspect of their lives. Chains of addiction will break in a moment, thinking patterns will begin to shift, the mind of Christ will begin to fill individuals. They will encounter the desire for a personal Lord and Savior, and that’s exactly what they’ll get! Then this began to pour forth and I wrote it down as quickly as it was coming: I’m so done listening to these voices in my head; they keep me awake and try to put me to sleep. They dance around looking for attention and steal my gaze from you. But I’m done, I’m moving on. You’ve said I have the mind of Christ and that’s the voice I’m listening to——I’m done with the other. So God please hear my cry, hear my plea, I need You to come and fill me. There’s only one God I look to, there’s only one God I worship, There’s only one god for me——now please come and fill me! Fill me with Your presence, fill me with Your thoughts, fill me with Your desires.

Along the lines of the message, I heard this to song…’open my eyes, let me see me the way you see me, take away the words that I’ve heard that are not from You, replace the lies with Your Truth so I can see me the way You see me, so many voices trying to steal my attention, keep me from believin’ that You make beauty from ashes and do all things well, but You do, do all things well, I am not a mistake, I am not forgotten, I am who You say I am, the fight over my identity is a battle You’ve already won, help me to see me the way You see me’

According to Wikipedia Edgar M. Dilley (Class of 1897-University of Pennsylvania) created the song, ‘Hail, Pennsylvania,’ and then another was created in 1990 by Eddie Khoury and Ronnie Bonner; this song is called, ‘Pennsylvania.’ Interestingly, this is sure to be a hot topic in the coming days as ‘the 250th anniversary of the United States is coming up in 2026’ and on April 23, 2025 Rep. Joseph Ciresi stated, ‘the Keystone State of our country should have a song worth singing, that represents who we are as a people.’ Here is a video of the song w/ lyrics from YouTube: https://youtu.be/WDiSCTlHl5Q?si=pomavoUaHiPdGXGg This link provides a little more legal information on the song: https://www.pahouse.com/Ciresi/InTheNews/NewsRelease/?id=138260