My grandmother “Estelle Saunders” was raised strict Church of God, no makeup, no movies, no T.V. But she had something else, The Power of God! If you know me, I say thank God, we have come a long way! I don’t remember much of my grandmother, but one thing that will always stand out, is her tremendous prayer life.
 

My mother, the late Sharon Saunders Tatum was my best friend and the very reason I am who I am and where I am in God today. No other person had ever impacted my life the way she had. As long as I can remember growing up in my household, my mother had a routine. After dad would leave for work, she would find her place in her old rocking chair in the corner of her bedroom, and would enter into deep intercession for all of her family, loved ones and friends, yet she did not stop there. One of her greatest desires was to see a move of God to sweep across the earth that would be followed by miracles, signs, wonders and a great harvest of souls. She was truly my mentor for godly living and my example to learn how to pray. I lost my mother in 2011, as huge of an impact it was to lose my mentor, my best friend, my mother, the Lord spoke to me and said it can end with her, or continue with me! Now, lets back up several years…
 

I truly surrendered everything in my life to God when I was 18, after first coming to the Lord I probably had 4-5 years of continuously feeling his presence, being super sensitive to his voice, staying in prayer for hours, I truly lived “The Ascended Life”. However throughout life’s hardships, somewhere along the way I lost my joy, my happiness and really the feeling of being “VICTORIOUS” in my life was gone. Yes, I had answered prayers; God had allowed me to get accepted into RN school, which was a huge milestone, which I was able to complete. Then God sent me the best husband ever, which was a “HUGE” answered prayer, along with the prayer answered of having a child, I conceived and had my precious Micah. I seemingly had everything I needed and wanted…However, I was still not truly happy. 
 

So in my early 30's, I looked back and asked God “Why am I truly not happy?” I have a great family, decent job, but for some reason I am so unfulfilled. I was not living “The Ascended Life”; you know that life where you know you are seated in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Through seasons of depression, discouragement, grieving for the loss of my mom, and other issues of life I felt overtaken and defeated. However in time, one day the Lord began to answer questions straight from Heaven in my personal prayer time. It was amazing to say the least, He came and refreshed me and spoke to me so clearly…You see, in the beginning I had never wanted to minister, I asked God for a “minister (my husband)” so that I could be his help meet, to be his prayer partner, the mother of his children, I desired a man of God due to the reality of the lifestyle I wanted to live, that is a lifestyle in God’s presence and with someone who desired the same thing as myself. I asked all this of ” GOD” having no idea of the price it would cost me. You see, all I wanted to do was be in the background, not seen, to sit on the back pew (after all, my family always sat in the back of the Church every service while I was growing up), but you see, God had different plans for me. God softly began to speak to me, “Lisa, are you really on board?” “Are you really willing to walk through the doors of ministry opportunities not only for Shane but also for yourself?” Never had I told God “yes” to the call on my life, but that day, I just said “yes”.
 

Finally through tears and crying out to God, I said God I am miserable, what have I done wrong. He at that time unfolded to me and showed to me every opportunity in the past that I had turned down to minister; He said you have never answered the call on your life. He spoke to me that I could pick up where my mom left off or it could die and not be reproduced. In tears crying out I said, “yes” God I will go, and do and say whatever you want me to. I have had a release in my spirit every since that moment. I can take you to the place and the paper it was written on. It is a new day in my life, and I will be what it is the Lord had called me to be so many years ago, I have answered the call of God upon my life. Yes Lord, I will go.