From Drinking From A Bottle To Drinking From THE WELL

I have an amazing life encounter to share with you. I would say it was a story but that implies it’s not facts but just a mere tale to share 

About a year ago I heard an amazing woman of God share her testimony on HLE Radio. My heart was touched deeply. I imediatley went and friend requested this lady on Facebook. Her name is Julie Keene. 



Julie was an addict and is now an overcomer. She suffered with addiction for over 20 years. After her father commited suicide in 1992, Julie went on a bender that seemed it would never end. 

I was blessed to interview Julie and I hope her encounters help you encounter Drinking From His Well!

FROM DRINKING FROM A BOTTLE TO DRINKING FROM THE WELL 

 At what age did your journey with addiction begin? 

I was addicted to approval from a very young age.  My father committed suicide when I was 15 and that very weekend I tried alcohol for the first time, to the point of making myself sick for days.  That didn’t stop me.  My life began a downward spiral from the get-go and I found that I could escape into the recesses of my heart when I was intoxicated.  I loved the way it made me feel, the instant courage I would have, and the solitude it offered.  I began using designer drugs while attending Louisiana Tech University in order to fit in with the crowd I ran with.  My mother was in a horrific car accident that nearly took her life only one month shy of my graduation from college.  I used that as an excuse to get away to the big city of Shreveport, LA and running from me and my circumstances then became a new and improved way of escape.  My addiction really took a turn for the worse in the big city and I began living two lives, Dr. Jekyll and Mrs. Hyde if you will.  I took on two personalities, one that helped me survive in the ghetto when I was trying to score, and one that I had to survive the work force and the demands of being a wife and mother, both for which I was completely unprepared.  I was addicted to MORE, to everything, to anything.  My addiction took me places I never belonged, designer drugs were traded for hard core street drugs when the high was no longer satisfying my desire to run from myself and the depression that wracked my entire spiritual being, it cost me more than I could pay, and kept me longer than I wanted to stay.  I was stuck and saw no way out, so I used that as an excuse to stay checked out of life as well.  Hindsight is 20/20 and looking back I can clearly see the lies that entered my spirit long before I ever took the first drug or ingested the first drink.  Excuses are the bricks that build a house of failure and I was full of them.  More was never enough.  I was putty in the hands of the enemy, but not anymore!



What do you feel triggered your addiction? 

My addiction was triggered by my inability to cope with life in general.  I had a desire to feel accepted from a very young age.  My dad had gone to prison when I was in the 5thgrade and needless to say, my entire life as I knew it was thrown up into the air and landed back on the ground not even resembling the way it was before.  It was a nightmare of epic proportions in the mind of an intuitive adolescent girl who thrived in controlled environments.  The spirits of rejection and abandonment took over my life and my being.  The thing is I realize now that life is all about choices.  Was I able to make choices about my future at such a young age?  No.  Was I able to grasp the reality of what was taking place in the peripherals?  Absolutely not.  Was I able to truly handle the deceit of the person I trusted the most?  No way.  However, I was able to make decisions as I grew older, and I feel like “triggers” are just another pretext used to check out of life.  I made my own choices.  I stepped in my own holes.  There is no real justification for why I chose a path of self destruction, other than I just did.  To place blame on ANYTHING would be completely unfair.  I stood there for the majority of my adult life, blame-thrower in hand, ready to fire.  I triggered myself.  I praise the Lord God Almighty for setting me free!



Along your path were there people who reached out to you to help you with overcoming the addiction?

I was a tornado, ripping through the hearts of every “city” that I came in contact with.  Each “city” represents a person, their feelings, and their love toward me. People came, and people left and they left due to their own inability to weather the storm.  They saw the warning, they took cover, and they made it out, sometimes not fast enough before I tore through their homes.  Destruction followed in my wake and I would be left standing alone and using that as yet another reason to stay stuck in my behaviors.  Abandonment, rejection, fear.  I lost a marriage to a great man, I lost my children and haven’t seen them or spoken to them in nearly 3 years, I lost friendships, relationships, loved ones, and now another broken marriage.  I bounced in and out of 10 detox centers, mental hospitals, rehabs, and the like over the course of 10 years before finding Jacob’s Well Recovery Center in Poplarville, MS and finding people who would never leave, due to the love that Christ has for the brokenhearted and the lost.  I was finally home, I was finally found, and I was finally free!




Who would you say has most influenced your life to become an overcomer?

I love the Lord with all my heart and soul.  He is everything to me, my all in all, my lover, my friend, and my strength.  He walked this earth and died for me so that I could walk in freedom.  Without Him, I am nothing.  My mother is my greatest inspiration.  That woman spends her life on her knees in prayer to God over her family.  She has lost a husband to prison, the same husband to suicide, was forced to raise two teenage daughters alone, nearly lost her life in a car accident, yet the woman still sang praises tothe Lord through it all.  She shines with the light of Jesus in a way that draws people to her, including myself.  She has been my biggest supporter and has shown me love, even when I was unlovable.  The other people who have influenced me the most in my desire to find peace through Christ Jesus are all of the people attached to Jacob’s Well Ministries, to include Mandy Haynes, Asa Haynes, Susan Haynes Brogan, Pastor Charlie Haynes, Pamela Haynes, Clarence Tilghman, Teresa Tilghman, Linda Bosh, Megan Ezell, Lisa Thrasher, and countless, COUNTLESS other souls who have poured into my life on a daily basis since first stepping across the threshold of the beautifully anointed place that I now call home.  I love them as if they are my own family.  We minister together, cry together, laugh together, and LOVE covers a multitude of former sins and regrets.  I am blessed beyond measure for the sacrifice they make on a daily basis that helped set me free.  Obedience sometimes feels like sacrifice, but because of their willingness to be obedient, they were able to gently guide me back into the presence of my Awesome Creator.




How did you hear about Jacobs Well?

I moved from Virginia to Mississippi after a horrible relapse and another stay at another treatment center where I knew all the answers in order to get by and get out, quickly.  I did what I always did best and separated my head from my heart and ran.  I ran away from responsibility again and justified every single step that I took that would get me further away from the truth of who I was.  There was a reason for me to move all the way to Mississippi, but it doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things.  Geographical cures do not work because the enemy is always waiting at the front door of every new location, unless you are carrying Jesus with you, and I wasn’t.  I found myself on the street again, living in abandoned houses or sheds, giving myself away, piece by piece, in order to get the next high.  There was a street in Meridian, MS that I called home and every day as I walked my beat I passed an abandoned house that seemed like the perfect location to get away, to use my drug of choice without interruption, to sleep when able.  However, every time I passed that house and went to step foot on the property, I was pushed back by some unseen force that wasn’t familiar to me.  I would like to call it “fear”, but it was much deeper than that, the feeling that I got each time I went to defile that old house.  I pondered it time and again as I walked, watching it from the other side of the street.  I left the streets of Meridian, checked into rehab number 10, and tried again to find hope in a “Higher Power” in anonymous rooms.  I left Meridian and traded those streets for the horrific ghetto of Hattiesburg, MS.  I died on the street in Hattiesburg after several vain attempts to secure myself a bed at a place called Jacob’s Well Recovery Center for Women.  I was penniless, hopeless, and completely lost.  I had heard about Jacob’s Well from a counselor at a treatment center that kicked me out because I had no insurance.  I had only been there 2 days when they found out about my dire situation and sent me back out to the streets that consumed me.  Several days later, as I lie on the ground in the middle of the road from an overdose, my heart slowing its beat, I lost my life as I knew it.  When I found myself walking down the street again, I was overcome with fear.  I truly believed I was in hell and if I were to turn around, I would see my own lifeless body lying in the road.  Circumstances changed and my spiritual eyes were open to the truth from the front porch with no electricity and no running water which I called home.  I walked away from that porch, from that street, and found myself the very next day walking across the doorframe of Jacob’s Well, by the grace of God.  After graduation, I saw a picture on Susan Haynes Brogan’s Facebook page that stopped my heart yet again.  It was a picture of an old abandoned house, on Royal Road in Meridian, MS.  It was the house where the Holy Spirit came through the Haynes family like a flood and their lives were changed.  It is the house where their lives ended and a new life with Jesus began.  It was the very same house I used to cruise by.  There are no coincidences in this life.  Every single step is guided by God and the way is prepared, even in the darkest moments when we see no end to our suffering and our pain.  He is always with us.  I am now a staff member of Jacob’s Well, a lifelong friend and family member to the Haynes, and a trusted servant of God Himself.  I am honored to work beside such amazing people who love God more than their own lives.  I am blessed to have such an awesome family to come home to everyday, and I am humbled by the things I get to do for the women in the program as I counsel them and minister to them out of my own painful past.  God brings everything “full circle”.

Julie’s Website click here to learn more about “Coming Full Circle 


In your journey at Jacobs Well, we’re there times you wanted to give up? If so what did you hold onto to keep going? 

There have always been times that I have wanted to give up, and at one point, I did.  It was a brief moment when I allowed the enemy back into my clean, swept house.  Today, giving up isn’t an option, I have no more excuses.  Jesus is at the absolute center of every single decision that I make.  I had to come to the realization that I am not perfect, nor will I ever be until I see Him face to face in heaven.  I had to loose myself from old ways of thinking and fully surrender everything in my life to Him.  Today, I hold onto promises.  I hold onto truth.  I hold onto hope.  In the eyes of the world, I will always be an addict, I will be labeled as a terrible mother, and I will be rejected by a society that lives in shallow boxes, but God…

God says that I am fearfully and wonderfully made.  He says that I am the head and not the tail.  He says that He will never leave me, nor forsake me.  God says that He will repay me for all the years that I have squandered, the years the locusts have eaten.  

He says in His awesome Word that I am worthy, I am loved, I am blessed, I am equipped for His service, and I am FREE!




What scriptures do you stand on to that help you to remain an overcomer? 

I have so many, so choosing is a bit of a struggle, but I love to stand on the Word of God and the words that Jesus spoke in His short ministry on this earth.  I am moved by the Living Word and I make it a part of my daily meditation, to allow Him to speak to me and to give me the promises that He has in store for my life.  I am patiently learning patience, and His timing is always PERFECT!

John 8:36 – So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Amen and AMEN!!  There is so much TRUTH to this scripture.  I don’t have to go backward.  I am FREE!

Jeremiah 29:11-14 –  For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”

I was in exile.  I was lost.  I was captive to my own depravity and my own circumstances had me bound to the floor by chains that I put on my own limbs and attached to with locks so tight I couldn’t move.  Today, I seek God with all my heart and I find Him EVERYWHERE!  My future is bright and I do have hope!

Isaiah 43:1-7 (NIV) – “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine. 2 When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. 3 For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead. 4 Since you are precious and honored in my sight, and because I love you, I will give people in exchange for you, nations in exchange for your life. 5 Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bring your children from the east and gather you from the west. 6 I will say to the north, ‘Give them up!’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons from afar and my daughters from the ends of the earth – 7 everyone who is called by my name, whom I created for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

He will bring my children back to me.  He will gather them to me and restore our relationship.  It feels some days as if I am walking through fire.  It hurts when I feel as if I am drowning under the weight of past regrets, but I am precious and He wants to give me the desires of my heart.  He knows.

 

Genesis 50:20 – You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.

My favorite verse, my mantra, the reason I do what I do.  I desire to see more people come to know Jesus in an intimate way.  I long to see the light come on in eyes that were so veiled that brilliance no longer shone from them.  I want to see people free from the bondage that so easily entangles.  I have a purpose and it is to be part of the Great Commission.  I am ready and I am able!  



Today I am so thankful that Julie is drinking from HIS WELL!!!


Thank you so much for sharing your heart with us Julie. 

To learn more about Jacobs Well check out their website below. 

Jacobs Well

Dream Catcher 3:20

Cassie G

Becoming the “Leading Lady”

Let me first start by saying, this will not be a short blog. So grab a cup of coffee and settle in for a few .
I also want to say that we sometimes get in a box and limit what God can use to speak to our hearts and change our lives. I am going to share with you today; my life’s journey and how three movies have impacted me so! There are things and lifestyle choices I don’t condone in these movies. However there are lifestyle choices and things I don’t condone in my own life story.

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The first movie that I will mention is The Holiday. This is where I got the title for my blog today. This movie is about two ladies journeys in overcoming their fears, suppressed hurts, and disastrous relationships.

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Then we have Eat Love Pray. This movie is about another lady who finds herself waking up one day; married but lonely and no clue who she is. She goes through a divorce and sets out on a journey to find herself and God. A journey we have all been on

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The final movie is Under the Tuscan Sun. The leading lady of this story finds out she has been betrayed by the one person she trust the most; her husband. After going through a painful divorce she sets out on a journey she never knew she needed. She is given a trip to Italy so she can deal with her divorce and emotions. It is this trip that turns into her journey of finding who she truly is.

I will be quoting from these movies throughout this blog.
I have always had this person inside that wanted more in life. I admired strong women. I would fall in love with movies like these above. I would see the “me I was” in them and the “me I wanted to be”.
Growing up, all the way to recent years I would find my identity in; who I was friends with and who I was in love with.

Iris, in the movies we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You I can tell are a leading lady, but for some reason you are behaving like the best friend. ~Author

In the old romantic movies, a leading lady is confident in who she is. She stands and shines. The best friend in the movies is always behind the scenes. She is taken for granted and used as a backup plan. Always trying to be what everyone else needs and wants them to be.

As I was listening to the quote above I saw myself as Iris as she responded to Author.

You’re right. You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God’s sake~Iris

Now the way she uses for a “God’s Sake” and the way I mean it are different. She said it as a saying. I say FOR GODS SAKE -FOR GODS GLORY WE ARE TO KNOW WHO WE ARE! Be the leading lady of your own life.
I married at a very young age and had babies quickly after. I am so very grateful for my babies. I look back over my life in the area of boys, men, romance and love. I see where my way of thinking was wrong. These thoughts caused a lot of choices that led to hurt, fears, disappointments and regrets. Instead of asking God who Cassie was, what her dreams were and what her purpose was, I found it in others.

I jumped from one marriage into another. I found myself in the most dysfunctional relationship I could imagine. I continued to go back with this man because I believed the best was possible. I saw potential. I had fears of being alone. AND I was addicted to this dysfunction and drama. We divorced and remarried 3 times. Who does this? That’s what I would ask myself as I layered on years of guilt and shame.
“Who does this?” A person who is not being all they are called to be. A person; who doesn’t know who they are in Christ.

God dwells in me, as me~Elizabeth Gilbert/Eat Love Pray

 

Now wait before you throw stones at that quote!! God says in His word that we are ONE.

John 14:20 at that time when that day comes you will know for yourselves that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you.
John 17:21 That they all may be one, just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe and be convinced that You have sent Me.
1 Corinthians 6:17 But the person who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with him.
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness. Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

I’ve been in love with being in love. Hoping I would find that strong woman I was so searching for; through being a wife and a mom. When reality is the only way to be a good wife and mom is to be a strong woman in Him first and foremost.

A man cannot tell me who I am, they can only mirror who I am.
“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. ~Eat Pray Love
I have jumped from relationship to relationship or to dreaming about the next one in my life. I’ve thought if I find that “one” all will fall into place. I’ll become strong and have a backbone and be that woman I admired in others. I wouldn’t have had a backbone I would have had my husbands “backbone” I would have been as weak or strong as he was. Relying on; his faith and identity.

My children lived with me for the first few years after their father and I divorced. Then life become more and more complicated, as they each decided to go live with their dad. Children need both parents. So reality is this was not a bad thing. If I would have had my security in God and not as a mom this would not have rattled my world. This time in my life added to a sense of being a failure and a lot of shame.
I have been on a journey of truth and forgiveness for several years now. I believe I have arrived at finding truth in God and forgiving myself. It has been through many tears but worth it to know now I’m on the other side of that.

“Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

Romans 8:1 with the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

In this journey I allowed the fear of living and being alone to control my life. I would step out to try to be a “leading lady” only to fall back on securities of others. In 2011 I moved out of my apartment and into a friend’s home to “help” them with a ranch and to “find myself”. My plans fell apart when this was the choice I made that caused my daughter to move to her dads to be with him and her brother.

From this time in my life till present; I have not lived alone. I have wished, dreamed and even planned to make that step. However the fear I had was stronger than the faith I had. This is all okay though. You know why? He is a God who meets is where we are. I’ve experienced things, traveled to places, and met people I never would have without this part of my journey.

Hebrews 4:14 Now that we know what we have—Jesus, this great High Priest with ready access to God—let’s not let it slip through our fingers. We don’t have a priest who is out of touch with our reality. He’s been through weakness and testing, experienced it all—all but the sin. So let’s walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.

I have had people speak into my life and try to tell me that they see me stronger than I see myself. That has taken me a long time to see. Sometimes we get confused and lost on our journey. But God says He will make the crooked paths straight for us. If you are lost, don’t worry! He knows where you are.

“When you’re lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you’ve just wandered off the path, that you’ll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it’s time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don’t even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

It’s in these times that the SON will rise and shine light on your path!

Changing how we think and speak about life and ourselves develops who we become in this life. It determines if we will behave like the “best friend” or the “LEADING LADY”

Groceries, you need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select what clothes you’re gonna wear every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control. Drop everything else but that. Because if you can’t learn to master your thinking, you’re in deep trouble forever.Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Proverbs 18:21 Words kill, words give life;they’re either poison or fruit—you choose.

Philippians 4:8 Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.

There comes a time when we have to stop wishing and talking and start doing.

You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be.” ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

So where am I at today? Am I in the best friend mode or leading lady? Well let’s just say I’m well on my way to leading lady!

 

 

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My children and I have amazing relationships. I have recently encountered a friendship with a male who God used to heal a brokeness in me as a parent. He also allowed me to realize through this friendship that HE ALONE is all I need. Anyone else in my life is a bonus. And the big kicker is after 4 years I am now holding the keys to my very own little place to call home.

So like these ladies in these movies my joinery has brought me to truth, love and strength.

I hope that you too will take this journey! Become a leading lady! Besides they make the truest best friends!!

Dream Catcher 3:20
Cassie G

 

Interview with Bart Fortenbery

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BART FORTENBERY

 

I am really excited about this interview with Bart Fortenbery.   I have been reading Bart’s website information, listening to him minister and listening to his jams…Loving what I am reading and hearing.

 

Check out this Video of Bart Ministering on Living to Please God

 

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In 1993 Bart gave his life to Christ. Since then, he knew that God had a special plan for him. Bart has always had a love for music. Once he discovered Christian music, he knew that was where God wanted him to be. Bart’s mission, is to help the lost get saved but also help the saved stay encouraged in their walk. With the message in his songs and his testimony of money struggles, going through a divorce, losing a home, yet never giving up; most people can relate to his life. Bart says, We often try so hard to do what is right and yet, Satan keeps trying to wear us down. Personally I have wanted to give up many times. Through the love and encouragement of others I have continued to follow Gods will. That is the same thing I want to send to others.
In Roman’s 13:10 ;Love does no wrong to anyone, so love satisfies all of God’s requirements;, and Ephesians 5:1-2 ;Therefore be imitators of God as beloved children, And walk in Love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God;. Bart says that we need to show more love and understanding towards each other and to be that reflection of Jesus Christ, so that others will want what we have , as Christians.

Bart is from the small town in Cherryville, North Carolina. He has 2 kids who is grown, daughter graduated from Sacramento State in California currently going for her masters at Appalachian University in NC  and son who graduated from UNC Asheville and married living in Gastonia NC.

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http://www.bartfortenberymusic.com/about-me

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What artist would you say has influenced your music the most?
Steven Curtis Chapman and I was introduced to Christian country by listening to Del Way
What was your first song to hit the air waves? And which station started your adventure on air?
My first song released to radio was “The Power of Prayer” which went to #1 on the Inspirational Country Music Charts in May of 2003, which was written about a little boy who was dignosed with Spinal Bifada. And how The Lord has healed him through prayer. And station I am not sure.
What would you say was the defining moment in your music ministry that you knew that this was what you wanted to do?
It has not been one thing but a list of things that the Lord has placed me in and the learning experience has been overwhelming. Like, started leading praise and worship in a few churches, then started a youth band that went to different places and played, and then was offered the position as Youth Pastor at a church and I am still doing that and loving it, and was asked to fill in as a pastor and turning out to be a 4 month long event bringing the message every Sunday and leading praise and worship, and then being asked to speak in this church and that. I feel that The Lord was working in my life to do this, even without having an education to be a pastor. The pastor of the church where I am the Youth Pastor, has guided me and gave me advice along the way. And it helps when he is also a teacher at Gordon Conwell Seminary in Charlotte NC, a school that Billy Graham had a part in starting. And through the response from all the places that I have sung and spoke has reassured me to follow this calling.
What motivates you to keep going when your tired?
Just knowing what God has done in my life and used me in the life of others keeps me going even when the thought of giving up occurs.
Do you have any projects in the making?
I just finished a project, but am working on a Bluegrass project and Contemparary Project, and will be next year before those are complete.
What’s your current single on the air waves that we might hear?
“He’s working on Making it Better”
Do you write any of your own songs?
I write all my songs,
What is your personal favorite out of all the songs you have recorded or sung?
I would have to say The Power of Prayer since it was my first release and #1
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Can you share one of your funniest memories of Singing on stage or while recording?
I was not on a stage but I was singing in a Nursing home and the nurse had rolled a sweet ole man close to me as I was singing and he started coughing and he could not stop. As I was singing he coughed and his teeth come bouncing across the floor and I motioned for the nurse and never missed a beat singing. But afterwards it was a good laugh.
Can you tell us about Apple Lane Music Group?
I started this a few years ago, trying to learn about the song promotion part of the industry so I could help those starting out. I know how hard it was for me to come up with the money that some ask for, which is fine and they have done a great job for me in the past but it is hard to come up with alot of money. So I am learning as I promote myself. And my son had gone to College at UNC Asheville for Music production and he is helping me getting the studio up and running. I also give music lessons to students and used to have a music store.
TO LEARN MORE ABOUT APPLE LANE MUSIC CLICK LINK BELOW
What is your favorite scripture and what does it mean to you?
That one is easy, and it is Galations 5, 22-23. If everyone had love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control, this would be such a better place to live!
Thank you Bart for this interview
This has been one of my favorite songs so far.  Recently I have been helping another artist on a project that has made my heart so tender towards our soldiers.

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Kickn It Java Style with Cassie

For those of you who may not know! I am launching an Internet Radio Program via my blog on March 7th.
It will be a weekly program, posted every Saturday morning.

KIJS is a program featuring Christian Country Music. We will special feature Southern Gospel and Christian Folk Music as well.

Each week KIJS will be uploaded in the form of a blog. There will be a play button or link to listen online. I will feature one artist each week by giving their Website and Booking information on the program. I also will feature them with add links to their website.

KIJS will be syndicated late spring or early summer. I will be posting what stations it can be heard as this takes place.

KIJS is an independent program, It does not report to charts or ratings. It is strictly for getting Gods word out through music, promoting artist and making Dreams come true.

If you are an artist and want your music played on my program please submit a request to [email protected]

Dream Catcher 3:20
Cassie Gilman

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