For The Brokenhearted Ministries

02/28/2020

“Mommy, I want to bless someone!”
“Is it the person eating behind me?” I inquisitively asked.
Noah’s eyes had been looking in that direction for the past five minutes, which happened to be a dead giveaway.
“Yes!” He responds with compassion.
There was a guy, in his mid twenties, quietly eating by himself.
I asked Noah how he wants to be a blessing to this man? He toiled with the idea and decided he wants to buy him an ice cream.
“Mommy, I’m nervous to approach him.”
“Noah, when the Lord puts something on your heart, He will equip you with the right words. Don’t miss the moment, act on it!”
Noah boldly got up from the table and walked his way.
“Excuse me Sir, I want to be a blessing to you. Can I buy you an ice cream?”
The man looks up in unfamiliar territory and tells Noah he would love a cone. Noah’s face grew a big smile and he skipped off to go buy his new friend an ice cream.
When Noah returned to our table, he looked at me and said...
“Kindness never takes a day off!”

01/23/2019

When my daughter, Lexi, was seven years old, during our nightly prayers, she humbly asked the Lord "how long it took the devil to dig that hole he lives in at the bottom of the world?" She curiously asked Him, "if it took Satan six months or possibly one whole year?" She even went so far with her imagination to ask "what kind of shovel he used" and how she would really like to "see one of those shovel's for herself." I kept the giggles from ear shot as she wrapped up her conversation by asking Him to "just go ahead and reveal it to her when she was at school." She asked Him to "just put it on her heart!" … (I love His children! They are simply amazing and very smart, might I add).

To answer Lexi’s question, it took less than one second for Satan to dig that hole he is facing (currently he is roaming free in the world, looking for someone he may devour). We learn from the scriptures that our God has no room in sharing His position with ANYONE! Check out what the bible has to say about that….

Isaiah 14:12-15
“How you have fallen from Heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn (Lucifer). You have been cast down to the earth, you who once laid low the nations!
You (Satan) said in your HEART,
I will ascend to heaven, I will raise my throne above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
On the utmost heights of the sacred mountains.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.
But you (Lucifer) are brought down to the grave, to the depths of the pit!”

In this passage, you will notice the word “heart.” I want to bring this word to your attention, as this is proof that God knows our hearts and our private thoughts. Angel Lucifer was not overheard by other Angel’s saying these things and then God heard about this through “hear say”. Rubbish! That is not how our Sovereign God operates. He knows our hearts, even Satan’s!

The next time you are tempted to “ascend above” and “sit enthroned” (in regards to anything ) …I would be real careful as to “who” is behind that desire and where it is coming from.
That would be a good time to confess yourself to the Lord and to examine your motives and like Lexi says… “Lord, just reveal it to my heart.”

03/27/2018

The other night, Jason and I went to the movies. On our way home, I was craving pancakes and asked my sweet man to take me to a place we rarely go, IHOP. Yet there aren’t many options for pancakes at ten o’clock at night, so I guess IHOP will have to do. As we walked into the location in front of our neighborhood, the hostess greets us and said, “You probably don’t want to eat here. We only have one server and one cook.”
Just as she said that, a customer walked out the restaurant and told us it was the worst food she has eaten. Jason and I both look at each other and our faces communicated to get the heck out of dodge.
My craving was still in charge, so I convinced my husband to travel down the road about ten miles to Denny’s. I was bound and determined to eat those pitiful carbs! As we reached the door at Denny’s, a handwritten sign said, “Sorry! Closed due to maintenance!”
You got to be kidding me! Are we being punked or does my diet know that I’m trying to cheat?
We returned to the car, and my stomach is more rebellious than before.
“Let’s keep going Jason! Just drive to the IHOP in SugarLand!” Another 20 minutes down the road.
One thing about Jason, he will do anything to bring a smile to my face. He always says, “He’s happy, when I’m happy!” (Girls, find yourself a man like that).
Finally, I sat down to order my beloved pancakes, with a grin ear to ear!
Unbeknownst to me, Jason overwhelmingly begins to hear God’s heart towards our waitress. The Lord whispers to him some very specific details about her life and then God gives Jason a word of hope to share with her in those struggles.
For anyone who walks in the gift of “Words of Knowledge,” you know that fear and doubt will stop at nothing to convince you to keep your mouth shut! Yet Jason, decided to take a risk that night.
As he boldly began to share what God showed him, this waitress quickly confirmed what Jason heard was correct and she got tears in her eyes because she knew God was speaking straight to her, through this stranger.
So, in the middle of a busy, late-night IHOP, we all bowed our heads and Jason prayed over this single mom. He blessed her, encouraged her, spoke life over her and then left her a surprise monetary tip the size of Texas.

Sometimes we get frustrated with unforeseen circumstances, all the while God was leading you to something greater than yourself! So next time you’re upset because you are unable to get your “pancakes.” Stop and consider that maybe God is orchestrating a supernatural encounter!

11/28/2017

LOVE REQUIRES FREEDOM!
There is a misconception that God (Love) wants to control us.
If God wanted to control, there would never had been two trees in the Garden.
Those two trees represented a choice, and one of those options, was to the detriment of the Designer. But that did not stop Him from offering the choice, because He is not controlled by fear of what we would choose (there is no fear in Him).
It is people, who control, out of fear.
Instead, we were crafted for freedom. The Lord knows that without a choice, Love can NOT be born...Only manipulation and control. LOVE offers freedom.
He didn't control us in the Garden and He doesn't control us now.
If you really KNOW your Maker, than you would understand that He will never step outside of LOVE!
His perfect love for us is absolutely fearless and you are always free to choose!
2 Cor 3:17- "Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is LIBERTY!"

11/21/2017

Me: "Jason, have you left the office yet?"
Jason: (Sheepishly) "Ummm, I'm about to leave...."
Me: (Angrily cuts him off)) "JASON! It's 6:30 and you said you were leaving the office thirty minutes ago! Dinner is almost ready and you have not even left yet?..."
Does this sound familiar to anyone, other than me?
To the wives, who put a lot of stock in spending quality time with their family in the evening, especially over a home-cooked meal...
And to the husbands, who have good intentions to try and make it home on time, but the thought of, "Oh, just one more email," often trumps freshly cooked lasagna.
Here is what I want to say to that...
Ladies, let it go!
Someone wise once told me, the definition of insanity; Is doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results!
Let me ask you this... how's your controlling/frustrated reactions working for you?
Let me answer that from experience: IT’S NOT!
I know, because that scenario, was me, for many years in our marriage! So much so, that I would allow that scene to dictate the rest of my night, which ultimately didn't pan out well for me, Jason, or the children!
It never produced the type of "change" I was trying to manufacture in my husband.
I'll even take it a step further than lasagna:
I clung to control, manipulation, and angry outbursts all throughout my marriage to try and reproduce what I thought I wanted. While at the cost of not loving my husband and sacrificially putting his needs above my own.
You see, I saw things differently.
I looked at things from an inward perspective. I was focused on MY needs, MY rights, MY desires, MY lasagna ...MY... MY....! Get the point?
Today, I wake up each morning to love my husband. Period!
When I wake up, I do not "need" my husband to treat me or love me a certain way. Otherwise, I am only doing as good as he is treating me, which means he gets to dictate how I "feel" and that will result in an emotional roller coaster. Instead I am filled with Love (not need).
If he is tardy to the dinner table, then I wrap his meal up with foil and greet him at the door with a smile.
LOVE covers a multitude, while a harsh word ALWAYS stirs up anger.
The integrity and strength of a virtuous wife, transforms her husband into an honored king. But the wife who disgraces her husband, weakens the strength of his identity.

09/19/2017

After everything our city...country...world has experienced these past few weeks, I now see with clarity why the Lord was relentless with me opening His Secret Garden.
He knew that women from all different backgrounds would need a safe place to come and taste that He is good!
A place where we will see his faithfulness in all the surrounding greenery. Where faith will rise up like ivy and redemption grows on trees.
He will stop at nothing to heal our broken souls. Yet for this very moment, He had planned ahead that we would meet in His Garden so we could be fed.
Please join me for this six weeks gathering. Details can be found in the flyer below and on my website.

**Location is directly off of Beltway and 288. Easy and quick to get to. **

PLEASE REGISTER online at:
Forthebrokenhearted.org/events

05/27/2017

I was driving down the road to meet with a group of people. When all of a sudden, the Holy Spirit began to randomly download information about a specific lady that was apart of this group. "The download" was so intense, I had to pull my car over and grab a pen to jot down everything that was being said to my heart. I wrote down very specific details that I could NEVER had known or imagined on my own.
In order to protect this person's privacy, all I can say is the 'word of knowledge' shared with me was so personal and revealed a secret this person had struggled with and been tormented over.
You may be asking yourself, why would God share someone's private information with me?
I'll tell you why... because He also provided me with answers that this person had not known (about this situation) and desperately needed to hear.
He provided me with a "key" to unlock this person's doubt, unforgiveness towards herself and shame.
God is not in the business of gossip, He is in the business of setting people free and He wanted to partner-up, by asking me to communicate this message to His beloved! The only thing standing in the way.... was me!
I battled with my own doubts,
"What if I made this up?"
"What if I'm wrong?"
"This person is going to think I'm crazy!"
"I can't share this with her, it's too personal and I don't really have that kind of relationship with her."
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!
Here is what I can tell you; When a message comes from the Lord... IT WILL NOT GO AWAY UNTIL YOU ACCOMPLISH WHAT HE ASKED YOU TO DO!
I would stay up at night thinking about this. It would flood my mind during the day, and even visit my dreams! The Lord was relentless until I surrendered. You see, I was thinking about myself, God was thinking about her freedom!
I finally reached out and when I shared what the Lord had told me... she cried!
She cried because she knew this came from the Lord. It confirmed things she had privately thought about. She told me, this "secret" was the very situation, many years ago, that had ultimately turned her away from God!
I didn't know that but God did and in this supernatural encounter, He mended the gap that stood between them!

05/07/2017

I got my hair done the other day and as I went to leave, my hairdresser walked me out. Before we could reach the parking lot, the owner of the salon next door motioned for us to come see her.
As soon as I entered, she looked me straight in the eyes and said, "Holly, will you pray for my business and bless my new salon?"
There were women getting their hair done, so I replied with a little hesitation, "You want me to pray right now?"
"Yes! Right now!" She said with urgency!
I have to be honest, just because I am in ministry doesn't mean I don't get intimidated and caught off guard.
Yet, I have walked with the Lord long enough to know how He operates, and He usually works best when I take risk and step out of my comfort zone.
Just as I was about to begin, another woman pokes her head in (from outside) to ask a question. But instead of getting what she came for, she quietly sits down as if the Lord positioned her to receive in such a timely manner.
As I begin to open my mouth, I quickly learned that I was not there to "bless this business" but instead the Lord had each woman on His mind!
As I prayed, one by one God began to share things with me about each individual person in that room.
What I heard, I spoke. Which released His presence (love) in the room and each individual heart was fused together.
The things I shared could have only came from the Lord (Someone who knew them intimately) and the listener knew it.
It didn't matter that we were strangers. Hair, no longer was the focus. It was Him who was at the center of it all, which means everybody gets blessed (even His messenger).
For a brief moment in time, busy schedules were put on hold, curling irons were set down, walls began to crumble and strangers wept while sharing their secrets.
It didn't matter if you were "religious" or not! We ALL felt His presence and we all agreed that we had encountered Him!
Church doesn't only reside in a steeple, Church doesn't only take place on Sunday. We, the people, are His church and He meets us exactly where we are, even in a hair salon!

03/05/2017

My story (video) of working at a strip club and facing an abortion.

01/21/2017

True transformation starts on the inside...I often see people posting pictures of their remarkable outer transformation. We admire the hard work and discipline they put into altering their physical bodies by dropping weight and adding muscles. It's great to look at! It's inspiring to all.
But what about a transformation that's more important than that? Because let's face it, you can morph your physical body to replicate Barbie or the Incredible Hulk, but if you're not transformed internally then everything else is meaningless.
This post isn't about some "holy roller" who found Jesus! No!
This is about a girl who was SO lost but now is found.
A girl who was SO blind but now can see!
I remember that girl, all too well. I'm not sure I could ever quite forget her, nor would I want to.
The pain and insecurity she carried was more than she could handle. She would cry in the mirror, every-single-night, wishing that it would be her last day. She numbed her pain with booze, men, drugs and anything else that could temporarily quench her heartache. She was enslaved to the darkness and shackled to its daily (mental) torture.
Some people call this the "rebellious and immature season of life!" I call it, being lost, depressed, hopeless, valueless, shackled, bounded, and in need of true redemption.
Unless you have experienced being filled with fear, doubt, anxiety, insecurity, loneliness, anger, frustration, etc. Then it will be hard for you to understand the importance of being set free of it!
I remember, crying out to God one night from my bedroom (16 years ago), completely exhausted and at the end of myself. Tears rolling down my face I told Him,
"I don't even know if You are real, but I'm tired of doing things my way! Please change me!"
This was my first, authentic encounter with God! There were no bright lights, visions of angels, or an audible voice.
It was just me, an orphan, who found her Father.
My transformation did NOT happen over night. That day, marked the beginning.
In fact, I will continue to transform (into His image) until the day I breathe my last breath!
If you know me personally (before and after) then you can attest to the fact that God transformed me from the inside-out! There is no denying it, no debating it! I am living proof! I have been set free!

01/20/2017