Hi, my name is Nina Jacobs.

I used to be real deep into church, but church wasn’t deep into me! 

What do you mean…

I mean I attended every church service, ( Bible study, family ministry, singles ministry, women’s ministry, watch ministry), you name it… Every special occasion the church had or celebrated, I was there. I remember it was a saying that said something like… You can’t straddle the fence (oh yes you can because I did it) but I was deep in the church building and all the goodness it had… though I was present and I filled a seat, my temple was empty, I was in a dry season to where the knowledge of God was present in my life sometimes (during some of those things I mentioned above), but was I really understanding God’s word? It’s not the church that saved my soul, it wasn’t all those functioning bodies and the events that went on in the church…. I had to ask the man if I messed up… Was I blind? I was crippled, I was lost, or had I not understood the full meaning of allowing God into the temple, allowing the fresh anointing of rain to fall on me so that I just had to make a choice to be on one side of that fence! To not just be a pew note taker (No, it’s nothing wrong with writing down God’s words while sitting on a pew. It is something wrong if you do not apply what you have written! The church is where I receive God’s holy word (yes, I know you can receive His word anywhere), but those of us that are babes in Christ must be fed inside the church, to be able to provide for our temples outside of the church building!!! How do I witness to a lost sheep, pray for the sick, or even bless a stranger, if God Almighty Himself does not dwell in this temple! How does my temple light shine, not the church lights? Eventually, they burn out. My temple light will never go out (though there are times it gets a little dim) but then I think about how God allowed me to cross over (He never judged me when I was in the middle of that fence, He never closed the doors of the church and He never lost hope in this sheep, I have been restored for my rebirthing season!