Hey Everybody!!

Blessings to you all!!  I hope that everyone had a wonderful Christmas filled with Jesus!

Along with a friend of mine, Jon Shabaglian, I will be doing a benefit concert January 15, 2012.  All the information is on the flyer I’ve posted!  I know that many of you are out of state and I ask that you would please pray for this event.  For those of you who are close, please come and support!   Feel free to message me with any questions!!

A new year is approaching, I pray blessings upon you as we enter into this new season.

Amy Berna

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Merry Christmas!!!!

When I was a teenager I had a foot loathing sickness.  I hated for people to look at my feet!  In all of my insecurities that go hand in hand with the teenage years, in my mind my most inferior part of me were my feet!  I felt like everything else would do but if someone would get a glimpse of my feet then they would know my weakness!   They would see my ugliness!  My famous line was “Don’t look at my feet”!!!  And I am very serious when I say this!  If one of my friends would come over unexpectedly and I was bare foot, as we visited I would sit with my toes curled in so that they could not view them and if for any reason I saw their eyes even begin to look in the direction of my feet a fear would come over me and I would yell out, “Don’t look at my feet!!!!”  I felt like everyone else in the world had prettier feet than me and that if someone saw them it would change their mind about how they felt about me, that it would change their thoughts towards me and that was something I was not prepared to deal with!  In my mind allowing someone to look at my feet made me feel so vulnerable!  I hated that feeling!

Isn’t it funny how we are as humans?!!  We can be just fine.  Not a care in the world and then when somehow, something or someone touches or uncovers an area of our lives we are uncomfortable with…..watch out!!!  Don’t look at my feet!!!!  Like someone just uncovered the atomic bomb!  Don’t touch that!!!!  Don’t look at my feet!!!!

We have this crazy and distorted idea about worth!  We use a complete different scale to calculate worth than Jesus does!  I have to admit I have loved and served God for quite a few years now and I have heard, read and taught the message of the
cross many times.  How Christ shed his blood and died to save sinners like you and me but I never really understood
the cost and the price he paid for “ME” until a couple of years ago. It’s so easy to see how someone else could be worth it.  But when you have to look at yourself and your ugly feet and the sacrifice made for you.  It’s a completely different story.  Because it’s you!!!  You know how ugly your feet are!!!!  I know how ugly my feet are!!!  Because it comes back down to that reasoning that we have inside of us!!  I’m not worth it in my estimation of value!

Luke 15:3-10

3 Then Jesus told them this parable: 4 “Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5 And when he finds it, he joyfully puts
it on his shoulders 6 and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, ‘Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.’ 7 I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over
ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.

Look at Jesus’ reasoning!!!  He is willing to stop what he is doing, stop right in his tracks.  He is willing to leave the other 99 in search of 1!  And when he finds that 1, he places it on his shoulders and rejoices saying,“Rejoice with me for I have found my sheep which was lost!”

Luke 15:20-24

20 So he got up and went to his father.”But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him. 21 “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son. b‘ 22 “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the
best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. 23 Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate. 24 For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate.

When the prodigal’s son began to calculate his worth he said, “Father, I have sinned against heaven and you.  I am no longer worthy to be called your son.”  Sound familiar?  Our estimation of worth is based completely on what we do,  our deeds, our success, our good works, our faults and failures.  This son considered his worth to be gone based upon all that he had done!  Yet, look at the response of his father when he comes home!  Pretty amazing, isn’t it?  Remember today that Jesus thinks you’re worth it!!  Your worth has nothing to do with what you do!!!  It has everything to do with who you
are!!!  You are His!

There it stood so majestic and tall.  Reminding me with every glance why I couldn’t move on.  Continually demanding my
attention and allegiance to the unyielding wall it created.  As long as it was there I would never reach my destination.  As long as it was there I would stay in this valley of death.  What was on the other side I had no way of knowing but had been told of
the beauty and the peace.  Oh how I longed to see for myself.  Yet the steps taken up this mountain were like swimming alone in frigid water with enormous weights upon my back.  It seemed that with every step my feet would slip and I could find no footing to place them in.  So many times I have began the climb only to slide right back down and fall flat on my face. Dusting myself off once again trying to steady myself I lift my head only to find the mountain was still there.  Others would come and encourage me saying, “you can make this climb!   All you need is determination and you can do this!”  I would then feel the strength to give it another shot.  With the purest intentions I readied myself to trek another time only to fall flat on my face again.  I have prayed and believed, questioned and doubted.   I’ve cried so many tears I could fill an ocean yet there I stood on the wrong side of a mountain in my life.  I had considered just building a nice home there in the valley and enjoying the beauty of the mountainside but the spirit that still lives within me would not let me rest.  I have traveled its base trying to find ulfillment.  Looking for a way, any way to get past but like an immovable rock it stood, an impossibility, a mountain in my life.  Suddenly I hear the spirit say, “Speak to this mountain and it will move!”  I had tried everything in my own strength.  I thought I was doing the right thing but climbing was of my own strength.  Speaking was supernatural.  God spoke creation into existence.  Again it came like a harsh wind “Amy, speak to this mountain.  If you will say to this mountain be removed and cast into the sea and do not doubt in your heart but believe what you say will happen, it will be done for you.  Whatever you pray and ask for believe that
you have received it and it will be yours.”

One last time I surveyed the valley, allthat was here was death I could stay no longer.  So, I lifted my head from the valley and forced myself to face the mountain allowing my eyes to scan every inch from the bottom all the way to the top and said,
“Mountain, be moved in Jesus name!”  “You will no longer stand in my way.  You will no longer block my view and keep me from the place God has destined for me.  In the name of Jesus and with the uthority He has given me I say Mountain be removed!”

…..and the mountain moved

Psalm 6

1 O Lord, do not rebuke me in Your anger, Nor chasten me in Your hot displeasure.

2 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am weak; O Lord, heal me, for my bones are troubled.

3 My soul also is greatly troubled; But You, O Lord — how long?

4 Return, O Lord, deliver me! Oh, save me for Your mercies’ sake!

5 For in death there is no remembrance of You; In the grave who will give You thanks?

6 I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

7 My eye wastes away because of grief; It grows old because of all my enemies.

8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity; For the Lord has heard the voice of my weeping.

9 The Lord has heard my supplication; The Lord will receive my prayer.

10 Let all my enemies be ashamed and greatly troubled; Let them turn back and be ashamed SUDDENLY.

NKJV

What a comfort to know that the “man after God’s own heart” had some pretty long nights filled with dreadful tears and pain!  To know that even one of God’s most favored servants found himself begging God for healing and restoration!  His honest expression of the countenance of his soul seems very recognizable to me:  “I am weak”, “My bones are troubled”, “My soul also is greatly troubled”, “How long?”, “My eyes waste away because of grief”!  Sound familiar?  I know it does to me.  It’s been a long winter but the season is about to change!  I woke up this morning with a stirring in my spirit and the Lord saying, “The recession is over!”  Our lives have fallen into a true resemblance of the economic crisis that our society has been in.  We have taken on the form of being in a spiritual recession!!!  Hopeless, without resources, bankrupt, stolen joy, no solutions, the talk of dread & landscapes of death!  As I read Ps. 6 I found a word in there that has somehow been forgotten & somehow escaped my vocabulary!  SUDDENLY!   V10 LET ALL MY ENEMIES BE ASHAMED AND GREATLY TROUBLED; LET THEM TURN BACK AND BE ASHAMED SUDDENLY!!!! Ezekiel was facing a valley of dry bones when God told him to prophecy life.  Ezek 37:7-8 So I prophesied as I was commanded; and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and SUDDENLY a rattling; and the bones came together, bone to bone.  The believers were in the upper room or better said the “waiting room” waiting on the promise!    Acts 2:2-3 And SUDDENLY there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting.  Paul and Silas began to sing songs in their prison cell during the midnight hour!   Acts 16:26-27 SUDDENLY there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken; and immediately all the doors were opened and everyone’s chains were loosed.  I don’t know just when “SUDDENLY” will be!  Wouldn’t it be nice to know the exact hour and day?  But what I do know is this,

2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us ,not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.  Hold On, Be Strong, Let your faith arise in the midnight……because SUDDENLY is coming soon!

It’s a beautiful, sunny morning here in California today and my heart is overflowing with gratitude.  What can be better than the grace of God?  The Bible says that His mercy is new every morning and today I say, “Lord, thank you for Your mercy!”  I encourage you to live today in the beauty of this mercy and learn to smile because you are loved with an everlasting love! 

Listen to www.faithradio.org today at 3:00 p.m. P.T.  for an interview with Amy Berna!

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The last couple of weeks have been great!  God is doing amazing things!  I spent last Sunday morning with the wonderful people of The Word Community Church in Fresno, CA.  This past weekend I ministered at a Women’s Retreat in Santa Cruz, CA where God did so many amazing things!  Many were touched and healed in such a special way.  I’m learning that God will meet you right where you are, no matter where you are!    :)