God is good, and He is good to me!

Oh Lord. . .

All I have is everything you intended for me to have! Where could I have gone to find it? What could I have done to conjure or inherit life itself? What could I have believed to will into my own existence the essence of goodness?

There is nothing to see here, but the working of Your hands!

Is there a voice that can be heard before, without, or in addition to Your heavenly whispers of affection? I know there is not! Because surely, Grace, that glorious empowerment, this very substance and tangible expression of love, has filled me with life, and shall follow me all the days of my life!

Surely any denial of your existence, or your love, or you Kingdom, or your plan must pale in comparison to the exceeding joy that you have over me, your highest creation!

Father, I believe that I am a gift that you have crafted with immense potential to love. It causes angels to marvel, very solid foundations to shake, and great seas to part. The power of belief in that our existence is rooted in Your heart has caused even death to lose its sting! You are good, and You are a great Dad, and You are preparing for me a place in Your home, and in the meantime choose me as your dwelling place. WOW! You are wonderful, and as You continue to show me loving-kindness despite me, I find You, over and over to be not exceedingly righteous, but consistently GOOD in accordance with Your unchanging nature.

Jesus, You are the revealer of the Father and His Heart. And for now, it seems it is all about You because You are all about the Father’s heart for us, and so He has given you the fullness of His Kingdom, His authority, and Himself to do what it is You do because of who You are to Him! I’m starting to understand that you are not only a Savior, but a Son, of The Father, and a living King, a representation of our true nature in that it was intended and created good, regardless of the state it was in when I entered this world, even if it was a result of others’ belief in a lie that God was not good and not a father. Your perfection that is rooted in relationship not performance casts the false hopes conjured through rejection in my heart into the sea of forgetfulness. Your life reminds me of what knowing God is all about – LOVE, going the extra mile, leaving striving and the compulsive need to compete and win behind, and embracing and providing for those in need as a means to appreciate and receive parts of Father’s heart, that I couldn’t possibly have known any other way. You’re teaching me that losing is winning. So continue Jesus, to take my life, and let it be consecrated to holy living, Your purposes as King and ruler of all, and consider this a reminder that I still accept your invitation to join You in the Family Business, at the service and pleasure of our Father as He rejoices over me in You.

Holy Spirit, I love you. You are the revealer of the Jesus, the King of the Father’s Kingdom. You are the wind in my lungs. You are my freedom. If Jesus marked my being with the irrevocable invitation and credential of citizenship with Him as as a son, You are the fullness and substance of life that this citizenship provides! You are the essence of the life of Jesus that accompanies me, is changing me, and abides in me for the glory of the Father, the Love Heart of God! If Jesus reconciled me to my destiny in God’s heart, you are the gift that has come upon me, continually to carry out the desires of God’s heart in Jesus.

Lord, please help me! I desire that my hope in you would be revealed and grow through the refining of my heart in the fire, even if it costs me my life. I’m dedicated to letting you show me how to release my ownership of values that don’t line up with your intentions for me, and I offer to You all that I am, as a gift, because you’ve promised me that you’ll cherish me forever. I do love the way You love me, and I’ll receive all that You have for me, I’ll just need help stewarding it well.

I’ll give you all my praise, all the honor, and all the glory, God, for You are Good, and the only one deserving of my affection.

We've Moved! On to Kansas City!

I hope that this message finds you alive and well! There is a lot of news to share!

As you know, God’s plan for us was to spend a season of training here in Redding, CA at Bethel School of Supernatural Ministry. This had been planned for some time, as the Lord gave us a prophetic word at a gathering in Sept. ’08 that we would ‘be in California for a season of training’, before we were even married!

We have since completed the first year school of ministry here, and throughout last summer, we both felt as though we weren’t supposed to continue with the second year. Carrie and I both had several dreams in the night that prompted us to pray and in doing so we’ve been making decisions on how our future plays out, and are finding ourselves back in the middle of the word given in ’08 that we were to be ‘radically launched’ into ministry.

Over the past 5 years or so, I have been in a developing and growing relationship with individuals directly and indirectly involved with 24-7 Prayer at Believer’s Church in Tulsa, and with the Boiler Room/24-7 Prayer USA headquarters in Kansas City. Adam Cox and David Blackwell are on the core team for the KC Boiler Room, and ended up here in Redding last April. To our complete and baffling surprise, they were meeting with my housemates in MY DINING ROOM (they are all old friends through YWAM). This was the beginning of discovering what God was unfolding for this next season.

As the plot thickens, Carrie and I are finding ourselves in the middle this global grass-roots movement, 24/7 Prayer (24/7) and The Kansas City Boiler Room (KCBR), discovering that we in many ways are wired for relationships and roles they have need for in leadership, administration, and envisioning the future of revival through this movement. Most of all, Carrie and I find that our deepest passions – FAMILY, PRAYER, & WORSHIP – are also core DNA elements of the KCBR and 24/7 (Core values KCBR, core values 24/7).

We are in transition now, out of this amazing and wonderful season of transformation, renewal, and revival in Redding, CA, and into the next season of these same things in Kansas City. The roles that Carrie and I will fill will both support the local KCBR community, and 24/7 Prayer USA.

I've been invited to shadow Joe Steinke, the national team leader of 24-7 Prayer USA, as his apprentice in serving the national network of relationships. This will orient me with the big picture of what's going on in 24-7 Prayer, not only in the US, but also internationally. Joe likes the idea of a Paul with Timothy kind of relationship, where he can entrust to me, over time, the same responsibility he carries for the kingdom family work in these fields. We are leaning in, finding ourselves in a community of people that want to share the stewardship of Kingdom Family in the expressions of 24/7 Prayer.

Carrie, on the other hand, has accepted an invitation to serve as the operations manager for 24/7 USA, handling all things operational and administrative, as well as a similar role in the KCBR – coming alongside the core team (leadership) to serve the local expression of church and community through her gifts in administration. Below is a link to a video that will give you a better picture of what we're getting into.


Kansas City Boiler Room from KC Boiler Room on Vimeo.

It seems that Papa really knows what He’s doing! We can’t think of anything that would give us more life than being with people that have the same passions as we do, and chasing those dreams full on ahead.

At this point, we need some help with financial support, and we would like to ask you to partner with us. Please consider supporting us as we pursue the passion and call of God to provoke a hungry generation of believers and non-believers to ‘come home’, and find hope in the Lord through seasons, rhythms and expressions of prayer and community with the King and His Family.

Thank you so much for being a part of this journey with us. We can’t imagine where we’d be without your involvement in our lives. There is no way to fully express any appreciation we owe you, but know that without your contributions in our lives none of what we’ve accomplished would be possible.

Blessings,

Brandon & Carrie
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All donations are tax deductible, should be made out to ’24-7 Prayer’, and can be sent to:

Walsh Washburn, LLC
ATTN: 24-7 Prayer USA
5360 College Boulevard Suite 100
Overland Park, Kansas 66211

Please be sure to leave the ‘memo’ line blank on a check, but include a note with our names, Brandon & Carrie Snell, with any donation. This will ensure your donation will be credited to our account.

Dear Trinity, . . .

Oh my. . .

I'm admitting to you, Lord, my state of mind, body, and spirit, are all out of whack, and mostly because of the underlying affect your presence has in redeeming them, sanctifying them, reworking them, unfolding them, and even continuing to create in and about them, planning their future with Love in mind.

Oh Jesus. . . You will never cease to amaze me. Your example, your relationship with Papa, your steadfast nature, your pure mirror image and reciprocal acts of love and generosity to our Father have proven that you indeed are His Son, and that we are His, as co-laborers, friends, brothers, and someday soon, as I imagine it in my heart of hearts, partners in an exquisite romance, dancing in the courts of our Papa's house, sharing the immense dreams and vision that Papa has granted us as an inheritance for eternity. How I long for the days of our 'union'!

But until that day comes, I know you are here, with me in Spirit, revealing yourself in subtle, and not-so-subtle ways. I know that when I call you answer, and when you don't, I seem to still know you are here, sharing my pain, sharing my tears, sharing my joys, and celebrating the effects that the resonance of your Kingdom in my life has upon the world around me as I believe, just as you did. You prove that you don't merely guide and 'manage' humanity, but make resounding marks throughout our lives, calling out to us with the same inspiration that authored our existence - asking us to believe in the compelling nature of Love, so that once we believe, we'll find ourselves amidst a gravitational pull to the center of God's affection.

Oh how you have lavished us with love! All of my days, I vow to desire encounters with You, Jesus. Mundane, and extravagant, frequent and sparse. You've so graciously come to share your experience with death and the grave, and in doing so have also shared with us your victory by overcoming them. You've taken on my pain, so I'll continue to allow you to identify with it as I experience it, and I'll believe, even then, that you are with me, because I trust You.

Holy Spirit, my comforter. You exhibit so well the character of the Father, and of the Son, but in your own way have become the life of God in creation, the breath of God in man. You offer condolences fit for kings and bums, for hard hearts and those who have no more tears to cry, and seemingly compel those needing attention to receive the thing you know soothes the soul, eases the mind, and heals the body. I'm continually enamored by the fact that you never stop searching the hearts of all men for glimmers of hunger, for the slightest of hopes, and weakest of prayers; you consider these permissions to interrupt and confirm that we indeed are not alone! You so carefully instruct, and the sense of compulsion in your bias invites both the lazy and broken trust, the indifferent and callused hearts to take the leap of faith. Wow!

Holy Spirit, you are the manifestation of God's passions, Jesus' convictions. You are the song of Life. I admit that your ministry is perfect and I vow to desire encounters with You, Holy Spirit, every day of my life, acknowledging the petty and normal things as having a part to play in the life you've given me, and to draw from them the evidence that you are indeed at work all around me, not just within me. You'll always be to me the enabler, the power of God that reveals the significance of the resurrection through your song. You are the mark on my life, the anointing on my life, the approval on my life that gives me the knowledge, and wisdom to recognize that God is Holy, and I have been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, and you are the fire in my heart, and fire in my belly that to me, proves that Jesus lives.

Father, Abba, Papa – You are good, and your promises reflect a steadfast nature, a heart not set on changing, a holy love, so perfect, so glorious. You are so mysterious! You know all, see all, feel all, sense all! WOW!

You Lord, are to me the air I breathe, and I will forever believe in your mercy, because you have saved me, baptized me, strengthened me in your timing – which is impeccable because when you did these things, I needed them most! Most of the glory of your works go unspoken, because your creations go beyond the farthest reaches of space, and transcend the most broad senses of time. You are perfect, and what you do, is VERY good.

Papa, I want to make you proud all of the days of my life. So Father, I will believe in the Good News, the Message, that you sent us through your Son, and with the Gospel story of Jesus, and what He has done for me, for us, that in these things, I will remain in your care, trusting your timing, and relying on your power to change me, to compel me to give thanks, and allow you to call me your own. You alone have made me yours, righteous, and worthy to see you.

Lord, all of you, is where I want to be. My heart cries out for you, and I ask that you would forgive me for taking food from your hands, and calling it wonderful, without looking into your eyes to give thanks, to see the true expression of your generosity, the spirit, the nature behind your gifts. I desire that you would continue to heal my heart, continue to teach me about identity, and my role as a son in your Kingdom, and help me to see that redemption is not about the prodigal son, but about the unconditional love of the Father.

You are great, and greatly to be praised, there is no one else like You.