I have not forgotten you...

Hello...back again. May not be back for another year or two...who knows with me and my blogging. :D

Despite leaving this blog for years...It is not for a lack or crazy adventure in my life or the incredible work of God changing me into HIS image and showing me more of the greatness of who HE is and my inability on my own to accomplish eternal things!

God works to accomplish that which you ask Him to. Don't forget when you cry out in desperation "God, do whatever it takes to bring me to a place where I truly am emanating Christ and filled with the Holy Spirit so people actually see "Christ only, always, living in me." God will take you up on that. He crushes all the "I can do this myself" until you realize...yes, I can do things...but they will never have the lasting, deep impact that can only be through abiding in the Vine. Finding my life-source in Christ, and Him alone.

At the end of the day...really all that matters is to know that if my heavenly father is pleased, that's what matters. I will spend eternity in His presence and if I don't love his voice now, I won't then. There is joy in obedience and total surrender!!



Last summer along with my mom and sister Hannah, we went all the way to Columbia in South America. It was an eye opener for me as I hadn't been out of the country except for Canada or when I went to Norway as an infant. The latter, I do not remember. :D In Columbia we went to visit an orphanage as well as different indigenous tribes. I was overwhelmed by the giving hospitality of those who have so much less but have a heart of giving. Many were true born-again believers. One incredible story of one tribe was that they were given these extra houses and plots of land from the government and the Christians in the tribe decided to give all theirs to the un-believers that they might be a testimony of Christ and win them to Jesus!

There are so many other examples...I was blown away. Going to Columbia wasn't for helping them...it was to help me. That my eyes would be opened and I would see a bigger picture of what God is doing all over the world with those that are seeking him with all their hearts and being totally available for HIM to use them as his hands and feet here on earth.

 God work in me a selfless love and willingness to always walk in obedience and have that joy. "The joy of the Lord is your strength".

   Our drive on the way to visit some mountain indigenous people groups <3

Below is the view I had when I went on walks with mom at the orphanage down to the little village.

They had such colorful houses in this part of Columbia.

The beginning of this year I went to Guatemala with Sam, Hannah and mom also my good friend Chandra .

 Dear dad and the kids have been so gracious letting us go on these adventures and leave them all to fend for themselves. ha! We went to a beautiful language school to learn Spanish for a month. It was a total immersion where you were surrounded by Spanish speaking people everywhere including the family where you stayed.

The ancient small city of Antigua is known for it's many Schools and it's a town of the old ruins of cathedrals and a place of intrigue, beauty and adventure. The market is so big you get lost if you're not careful and the vendors shout to one another at the top of their lungs. It's comical. By the end of that time, I'd say Hannah and I became fierce negotiators. And our Spanish was good enough to converse. We had loads of fun...and the vendors did too, let me tell you!. ha! I have stories...:D

I was able to really connect with my teacher and she was a born-again believer and towards the end I was able (by God's grace) to really encourage her in the Lord using Spanish! God truly multiplied what I knew and helped me put it into words. I was blown away by her hospitality in inviting me to her humble home...She was such a courageous and strong women who was holding onto God's promises despite a heart broken moment a few years prior when her husband left her. She said she was weeping one day...completely broken and she felt God held her in his arms and a peace and love washed over her..."Jesus is my husband and a father for my children". It was incredible beautiful to see and hear her testimony. May God continue to lead and guide her and as she prays faithfully for the salvation of her Husband may he be born-again and come back a changed man for the glory of God!!!

   

 

All of us with our teachers <3 It was so cool how you had your own personal tutor for 6 hours every day and had your own inside jokes and good times together. Ahh...the memories!

  

May the Love of Christ sustain you, and no matter what you do or where you go...make sure God is the one sending you, not you sending you. There is a whole difference and the effectiveness for eternal souls being changed forever weighs on God being in something and anointing you with the power of the Holy Spirit...equipping you for doing what you naturally couldn't do...but what you CAN and WILL do when the Holy Ghost has come apon you. Wait upon the Lord and He WILL renew your strength and you want him to work and speak through you...get alone and get that living water from heaven so you have something to give which is not from you, but from the throne of heaven! Turning back, is never an option for the follower of Christ!

What has happened in the past few months!

Hello wonderful people. :) Did you realize I haven't blogged for MONTHS!!! So much has happened since then, and thankfully, God has been continuing to change things for the better as I allow Him his rightful place on the throne of my heart!
       First of all, I've been busy with G.E.D. classes which I've been taking for the last few months. I thoroughly loved them. If you are thinking of getting your GED, I'd recommend taking classes in your local town. Not only have I grown academically, but I've also prepared myself for the actual GED tests, knowing what to expect. If your teachers are anything like mine were, you would love the experience. To me they were like family in a way; very supportive and encouraged and helped me succeed and reach my goals. Being there also gave me a chance to be a witness-- not so much my words necessarily, but my actions; showing forth the love of Christ! My teachers are normal people, and they have bad and goods days. God gave me a burden to pray for them, especially my main teacher. I didn't want to be just any other girl going there, but that there would be a difference! I wanted that difference to be Jesus Christ! So many nights I'd pray and cry out to the Lord for him to fill me with HIS love for them, that they could taste and see that God is good, just, merciful and I love him with all my heart; He is my passion, my one true love; I want nothing else! God gave me words to pray, and filled me with His compassion for them. May they see from me that God is worthy of all praise. You know that the most you can do for someone is by spending time alone with God yourself! I've seen time and time again how people react differently to me when I've really been in the presence of the Lord. All of a sudden people want to be around me. They want to talk with me. I can then smile genuinely with a light in my eyes that only Jesus could put there!
         
 I've also had a couple litters of puppies born in the middle of February, and gone by the beginning of April. That kept me pretty busy to say the least, but it was good. Those nights I had to stay up with the mother dogs, exhausted and tired, that's when I really needed God to be me strength in a reality. You know you will never know God truly as your strength until you're weak and can't do it yourself! I realized how much I needed God; I couldn't do it on my own. Some of those nights became incredible opportunities to spend in prayer with the Lord for others, and just singing songs to the Lord out there in the barn alone. Just me and God. The dogs loved the worship songs, and I read aloud the bible to the dogs actually. Believe it or not, reading of the bible and singing songs of worship to the Lord really effected the dogs. Whereas they were hyper, and nervous, they became calm, relaxed and scooted closer to me. The baby puppies would all go to sleep peacefully. Even dogs can sense the greatness of God.

I wasn't sure I wanted to share this, but I will so God can be glorified! Some of you may already know that our little home fellowship had a split a couple months ago. Naturally, when things like that happen, you have questions like why God? When I saw that things were getting tense, I did alot of praying that this divide wouldn't happen... I know I wanted the Lord, and it seems as if everyone did, but it appears people get focused in on a single issue instead of seeing God in his greatness. When divisions come in churches it is easy to become bitter and resent those ones who disagreed with your family. I found the greatest healing in forgiving, and asking the Lord to fill me with a love for each one. HE DID. I still love those families that we not longer meet with, and am good friends. Satan wants to use any and every situation to turn your heart away from God; bitterness is something he uses alot. One amazing thing is this: Darkness CANNOT defeat light. God is Light, and in him is no darkness at all! Praise Him! What my I wants is that everyone would really know the Lord and let Jesus be everything and have everything. My family prays that those families continue on in the Lord, and that is really what is important! People don't have to meet in our home with us in order to be saved and walk with the Lord! What individuals need, is to truly KNOW who God is, and allow that one and only true God to come and be everything.

Well, this has been one loooong post, and I wonder if you read this far yet :) If you have that's awesome! I hope it has blessed you in some way to realize there is no other like Jesus Christ!

Love to you who are reading this now, and all I can say more is this:

SPEND QUALITY TIME ALONE WITH GOD.

Fall pictures etc.

So much has happened this fall, can't begin to talk about it all!

Here are some pictures that I've recently took with my new camera which my dear brother Isaac bought. It is technically his, but he bought it for (mostly) his dog business of which I am manager.

So naturally I get to use this camera whenever I want to pretty much so I can get good at taking pictures!

It's amazing what a difference a few hundred dollars can make!!

The above picture is of a beautiful pansy,oh the creations of God almighty.

My little sister Gloria.

My bible, my treasured possession of wealth.

A fall leaf in water...

Gloria and Ella, one of my dogs which will be having puppies soon!

Go to www.grizzlykennels.com  to see more pictures of my dogs and see what I do for work!

A thistle pair <3

Fall storm coming in....

Volley ball is something our church plays almost every sunday afternoon. (mostly just us "kids")

This is Alyssa

Kirsten 

My brother Manny on the left looks like he "owned" tim on that one. Boys, seems like they're always the best in the area of sports.

Austin has gotta be the most accurate volley ball player here as far as almost never not hitting the ball. He's a great server as well.

Volley Ball I've found out brings out people's true colors, and you see things about yourself you've never seen before! I've noticed bad attitudes I've had towards others that God has convicted me of!

Thank the Lord for the Holy Spirit which convicts us of sin so we can change!

I have so much more to say, but can't right now since I have other things to get to.

One thing I can say with confidence,

SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH THE LORD WHILE YOU CAN. 

ALWAYS PUT HIM FIRST AND FOREMOST IN EACH DAY.

Sorry.......

Well, first of all I'm sorry for not writing. And especially sorry about those of you who might read this and that I owe letters or emails to. I haven't been writing  to anyone, hardly emailing, google + ing and facebooking, and obviously I haven't blogged for ages. 

I believe all those dear friends of mine who have taken the time to write or email probably think I don't care about them which is the opposite!!!

Thank God for those friends who have sent me loving and encouraging letters or emails messages or posts, I've been really blessed by them!
(this is a picture of me with my favorite pup from a litter of pups I just sold {with God's help})

Since this summer as been SO busy I haven't wrote much recently, but what are you most interested in hearing about regarding my life? I'm just curious if my posts have been a blessing to you, or if you just don't relate! I want to be an encouragement and a friend.

Also the main reason for not writing is because there's SO much going on!! What DO I write about?

God has been answering prayers left and right and I'm just like "WOW GOD" what else do you want me to believe you for? It would take for ever to write down all the recent prayers he's answered! How my unbelief has limited God!!! I believe my next post will be about this AMAZING book my dear brother Isaac gave me for my 18th BIRTHDAY!!!

(I know, I can't believe I'm that old!) And I really, really have been challenged and convicted to seek the face of God much more than I  have up to this point!

 Also my mom and brother Isaac just got back from a trip to Myrtle Beach, SC. Where they attended my Granny's 80th birthday.(my mom's mom) They were gone for a week and we were REALLY busy here.

Anyways, I hope each one of you that read this are encouraged in the Lord!!! 

Love,

 

I got baptized today!

This is something that nobody forced me into,but the Lord put on my heart and it was so clear to me that this was the next step of faith.Also in obedience to Gods word and an open profession of faith for all those around me to see!

I'm just SO glad that God is going to be continuing to work in my life, he already has been doing So much more than I could ever ask or think!

These verses about baptism really stuck out to me it is :

Acts 2 :38,39 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

³⁹ For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

 It seems like there is always repentance followed by water baptism! It is like proclaiming to satan that I'm no longer alive to him any longer, like in Romans  6 where it says :

 "Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? therefore we are buried,by baptism unto death. That like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the father even so we also should walk in newness of life!

I'm SO thankful that we CAN be dead to our flesh! Also in Acts where it says: " and ye SHALL receive the gift of the holy ghost" Oh God you know I want that! It is something I can ask the Lord to give me, he is SO good!

I also wanted to say that the river was surprisingly not NEAR as cold as I expected, and I couldn't have had a more sunny morning! It was at 9:00am so It definitely could've been very cold! God is good in every way!

 One more thing I thought I'd share! I wanted my dad to baptize me for another reason besides him just baptizing me. If you'd know me before I was saved and seen how my relationship was with my dad you would've been shocked to see how I really almost hated him! It was horrible.

After God saved me (from myself) There was a miracle, yes MIRACLE that took place between us! God taught me how to respect my dad, and see the amazing things the Lord was doing. I didn't even ever like to be around my dad,hug him or talk with him. Now all those things I can do with Love in my heart towards him. So when I asked him to baptize me and he led me by the hand down to the water ,it was also a testimony of what God had done between us, it was totally His work, not mine in any way! So I am just SO glad that God is ALIVE and WORKING in my heart and in the hearts and lives of people around me!

I hope this makes sense. Oftentimes I can't express on a blog what's in my heart!

Lord bless you all richly! ~Katie

Here are the pictures!!

me and dad

me and dad again

dad praying over me

i was dunked under!

(my dad's facial expression is so funny, he was freezing the whole time!)

and getting dried off!

coming out of the river

God's will in everything including a marriage partner...

I was just happily surprised recently a few days ago when my cousin Andy with a lovely lady and also a friend of mine, Alyssa Barnard announced their engagement!!

That coolest and most amazing part was how BOTH of them had given the area of marriage up to the Lord, and not trying themselves to find a marriage partner!

So anyways to make a long story short, the Lord spoke to both of their hearts and after Andy got permission from the father, he started to court Alyssa and it was clear to them both that this was God's will and Alyssa said "yes" and yes they are totally in love with each other...it is SO cute to see them together and how much they have BOTH matured in the Lord! 

Folks, that is how every relationship that is of the Lord should be! If you're only growing farther from God when you're in a relationship it's not right!

Just remember that what God has in store for us is always going to be best!! That is true in everything!

So yes, here are some pictures I took!!! One of them Gloria Marie my little sister got to be in :)

I want to know God.

I  haven't posted in a while....I don't know if I will for quite a while, I know I can spend so much time just checking my stats...LOL (and realizing they were all from me checking and/or viewing my blog....I know I could do "don't track your own page views, but my numbers go up so slowly.....I'm being honest...it's pathetic! I just spend way to much time online. No necessarily on BAD stuff per se...just wasting alot of time.....

I WANT TO KNOW GOD.

And I find myself having these dry times where I don't even want to pray or read my bible, I have to "try" to be nice to my siblings and respect my parents, it's not like it's flowing out of my because of my love for the Lord.

I've experienced being broken before God and seeing my wretched state of being who I am apart from GOD, Really seeing that truly, and knowing in the depths of my heart that my righteousness is as filthy rags, and without Christ I am nothing. I want to always be broken before the Lord and want his desires!! 

God has been so gracious and long-suffering with me, I don't deserve how many chances he's given me!

I'd appreciate your prayers for me as God puts it on your heart. I want to REALLY love God! Compared with his love for me, my love for him is nothing! I want to love him more, just become closer and only more like him every day! I really really want to be a shining light wherever I go, and never be ashamed of the gospel! Praise the Lord for those ones who have went before, conquerors IN Christ!

I love you all lots dear friends. May God give us all HIS vision, and may we ask him what our purpose is here on this world, and why God put us where he did! 

                                                     Katie Cline Elizabeth Vannoy

ps. I know this is probably a ramble and doesn't make sense in some areas....

How did you meet me and how long have you know me approximately?

Hey Everyone!

This is that awkward moment when, as you're reading this I ask you how you know me.

It's not really that awkward though in all reality! I just thought it would be SUPER fun to see how do you know me....So just comment on this, ok and I'll get to see how many of you will actually do that for me!

I'm so excited, yes I am, so bring it on! Also you could write honestly what you impression was of me when you met me. I know I've not always come across as a sweet angel. actually hardly ever. And I know that if you honestly tell me how I seemed when you  first met and/or saw me, will help me learn how to change too! God helps us see our mistakes and change as well as see where he's made us beautiful and how we can continue in it!

P.S.  don't  make up something good about me if it's not exactly true, this is suppose to be truthful! ;)

 

Sermon Index....

Those of you who have already listened to sermon index down loads know how wonderful it is that there are so many!

So, I have all the down loads here on my blog now! So if you just want to scroll down to the bottom of my page, there right there for you to listen to any time!

I have only listened to a couple, it's like I've hit a gold vein!

Paris Reidhead,Corrie Ten Boom,David Wilkerson, A.W Tozer. just to name a few!

The other nice thing is when you click on them, a whole new window doesn't open, just a little pop-up where you can listen to it while you're on my blog....:) I just thought I'd let you know, and "share the wealth" with you! 

So, God bless you! Happy listening!

~Katie