'FRESH COFFEE AND FRESH BREAD' JONI AMES

May 6
4 min read

Because I spent most of my life traveling all over the country as I did ministry, I have had coffee in a lot of different places. I love a fresh, hot, robust flavored cup of coffee with cream and a tiny bit of sweetener in it. Most of all, it absolutely has to be fresh.

Prior to K-cup coffee, we had all kinds of coffee brewing systems. When I grew up, it was a metal pot that you put on the stove and perked. The smell of that freshly perked coffee would permeate the whole house. It was wonderful.

In later years, we had a Mr. Coffee maker. It was good if you drank it when it was freshly done, but it could burn and taste terrible after an hour in that pot. Pretty disgusting.

When I went to Restaurants, I would ask if their coffee was fresh and the answer was always yes. But it wasn’t always true. I learned how to tell if it was truly a fresh cup of coffee. I will tell you the secret…

If it is a truly fresh cup of coffee, when you put the cream in it, you do not even have to stir it. It immediately swirls into the coffee and changes the color. If it is old coffee, no matter how much cream and sweetener you put in it, it looks and tastes old.

I remember going to someone’s house one time and seeing them pour me a cup of coffee out of one of those Mr. Coffee maker pots and knowing it was going to taste terrible. The pot was stained and gross. And so was the coffee.

I once lived near to a bread factory. There is nothing like the smell and taste of fresh bread! Jesus is called the Bread Of Life. When He is present, the aroma is enticing and life-giving. Bread off of the shelf at a grocery store has no aroma at all.

I’m 71. I’ve heard a lot of people preach and teach. Many of them would give a message and then say that the book and recorded series was available on the book table afterwards. It wasn’t a fresh message. It was regurgitated for 20 years every time they went somewhere else.

I always wondered why they would do that. There are many topics in the Bible to preach from. I mean, look up the concordance in the back of your Bible and choose one.

It’s no wonder we can go to church and leave as empty as we came when something like that occurs.

There are a lot of good teachers with great lessons out there. Don’t get me wrong. But there is nothing like a fresh, hot off the press, upfront and personal relationship with the Lord and hearing His voice for ourselves. Or sitting in a service under a minister who has decided that they are going to have that type of relationship with the Lord and give that type of message.

I got in many Prayer Lines over the years to be prayed for and imparted to. But my best times are when I am having face down, in person times of connection with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

I remember when I was 28 years old and we had a special speaker for a service at our church. I could not wait for it to end so that I could get home and spend some real time with the Lord, not listening to some screaming, hollering, kicking their feet with white shoes on into the air stale performance.

Even back then, I did not just want somebody else else’s used anointing. I wanted a fresh cup of coffee. Fresh bread. An up front and personal encounter with the Lord for myself.

Please understand that I appreciate all of the wonderful good teachings I have heard and experienced from truly anointed preachers and teachers over the years. But there is just nothing like us getting our own oil from the Lord. It’s like having freshly perked coffee as opposed to coffee that has set on the burner in an unwashed pot for hours. Or freshly baked bread instead of bread that has been in a wrapper on a store shelf.

And that is my heart’s cry in this time and season. For me and for all of us in the Body of Christ. Fresh bread. A fresh cup of coffee. A truly upfront and personal, life-giving, relationship with Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

With all that is going on in the world, that is what will sustain us.

Lord, thank you for the excellent teachings that are out there that we have been able to partake of. But please also grant us all the wisdom, strength, courage, time, and grace to make sure we spend personal time together with You as well.

In Jesus name. Amen.

Love and Blessings to you!🙏

Joni Ames

JoniAmes@aol.com