In early 2009, God began to burden my soul to begin to pray for revival in the Church.
As time passed, I began to pray God might bring together in a more cohesive way those of us who have a heart for revival and have received a calling to pray for revival since I believed we were spread too thinly on the wall (think Nehemiah).
Nehemiah 4:19 And I said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “The work is great and widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one another. 20 In the place where you hear the sound of the trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us.”
Because of that concern, I started this blog in March 2010. I’d felt the need to be strategic as we rebuild the wall. (By strategic I don’t mean resorting to worldly means but rather seeking God’s ways and God’s wisdom. The three fold cord is not quickly broken.) I confess I have often been tempted to feel like Elijah, to think there are no others out there (as I know others have had similar temptations), even though I know there are others. Let us remember that God always has a faithful remnant He is calling and He is wanting to use.
Through this website, I had been praying God might raise up a fellowship of believers in the Xanga community who could support, uphold and encourage one another, so we might be mobilized and sent back into our home churches and communities on mission for Him.
For more information on the vision I had for this blog, I invite you to read my posts Welcome to deerlife and Why deerlife? (we are separated on the wall, far from one another). (Some of the thoughts I’ve shared here have been adapted from those posts.)
However, as I had written on June, 27, 2013, in my update “For everything there is a season: deerlife & the local church,” I have come to believe that the season for this particular blog is ending – due to changes here at Xanga, as well God calling me to be more involved locally with believers here in my home church as well as in the Madison area.
I’m not planning to continue this blog indefinitely on Xanga; however, I have transferred this entire blog to WordPress, and renamed it deerlifetrumpet.
http://deerlifetrumpet.wordpress.com
I would encourage you to check out these pages there:
I’m not planning to blog at WordPress very much (if at all), but I may on occasion. However, I do want to encourage you in your efforts to work and pray toward reformation and revival (and yes — prayer IS work!). I wanted the content of deerlife to remain public as a testimony of God’s mysterious, wonderful, and faithful dealings with my own soul, as well as to serve as an encouragement to others who are seeking God’s face and pleading with Him to bring reformation and revival to the local church.
Because I won’t be blogging on this site here on Xanga, and I won’t be blogging very much (if at all) on my deerlifetrumpet site on WordPress, I invite you to visit my other websites here on Xanga: naphtali_deer (Reformed Bible teaching with an eye to experiential Christianity) and tent_of_meeting (prayer for reformation and revival). Through those blogs I hope to continue to come alongside those who have share a similar burden and grief over the state of the Church here in the west at this time.
By the grace of God may we battle with His strength where He leads us and may our God fight for us! May Jesus Christ and Him crucified be preached and Jesus Christ have the preeminence in His Church once more!
I welcome your questions or comments, and if you would care to contact me privately, you can do so via my contact form on deerlifetrumpet.
Psalm 80.
~ Karen
October 19, 2013
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
