"Still My Soul" PRE-RELEASE FINALLY AVAILABLE!!!

I was running for the first time in about 6 days this morning. Just needed it despite what my body is telling me. It's been a little, I wouldn't say stressful but just busy with us gearing up for our world conference and getting the 4 song Pre-release for my CD ready to be distributed at the conference. We have been waiting all week for our stuff to go live and ready for purchase and this morning while I was running away on my elliptical, Chad walks in with the laptop and shows me that it's live and ready!!!!!!!! I literally started to cry, while running!!!! Hahahahahahaha...I felt such a release. I also felt like I needed to get it together so I wouldn't pass out while running LOL! I felt everything lift and I felt like in that moment I could run faster than ever! The fullness of time. I felt God's pleasure and excitement.

So before I give you info to access the music, I have to explain why the title "Still My Soul". It's two fold for me.

1. Given what we've been through, the title means:

Psalm 34:1-10, "I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise shall continually be in my mouth.² MY SOUL shall make its boast in the Lord;The humble shall hear of it and be glad.³ Oh, magnify the Lord with me, And let us exalt His name together.⁴ I sought the Lord, and He heard me,And delivered me from all my fears.⁵ They looked to Him and were radiant,And their faces were not ashamed.⁶ This poor man cried out, and the Lord heard him,And saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷ The angel of the Lord encamps all around those who fear Him,And delivers them.⁸ Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good;Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!⁹ Oh, fear the Lord, you His saints!
There is no want to those who fear Him.¹⁰ The young lions lack and suffer hunger;But those who seek the Lord shall not lack any good thing."  

So despite what I have been through, still, my soul, will bless the Lord, no matter what. 

2. My soul in these last years has had to learn to be still and wait on the Lord to a whole new level. I have had to learn long suffering, perseverance and patience like never before. I am still learning and will probably be learning until the end of my days! My soul has genuinely been stilled and this music represents that. 

So to conclude, here's how all of you can access the music: You can go to www.mandyswartz.com or Mandy Swartz Music on Facebook. You can also "Like" me on Faceback at Mandy Swartz Music if you haven't already. 

Chad and I are so excited to see everything that we have been walking through be used for the glory of God and we are so excited to be able to FINALLY  share it with all of you! We are praying that God's favor will saturate this whole thing as He has done up to this point. Thanks for praying and standing with us!

M.I.R.A.C.L.E.

God is so amazing! This morning, I awake feeling one step closer to recovering from whatever this stuff is that has been trying to attack my body. The reason? Two fold I believe, 1. Jesus is a healing God and 2. I took my rightful place and authority that God has given me through my relationship with Him and through His amazing living and active Word. Take a look at this acronym that God gave me for the word Miracle:

My
Initiative
Recalls
Authority
Causing
Life to
Exist

I guess I didn't really put together the fact that my initiative to confess the Word of God every day is what recalls the authority that Jesus has given me to cause life and not death in my body and in every area of my life! What an amazing revelation!

Luke 9:1-2, "When Jesus had called the Twelve together, He gave them power and authority to drive out all demons and to cure diseases, ² and He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God and to heal the sick."


First of all we have to understand that Jesus gave us authority. Once we realize this we can walk with our heads high. I found myself yesterday as I do most days, not asking Jesus to heal me, because He already did that. Did you hear me? He already did that. He already did His part. He already died on the cross and gave us His Word and authority. I found myself speaking to the things that were going wrong in my body, telling them to line up with what Jesus already paid the price for. Silly? Not at all. I was telling my nerves and my nervous system and everything else going haywire to line up to the authority and the Word of God. I had to initiate my authority and it started to cause life to exist in my body and not death. 


Proverbs 18:21, " The tongue has the power of life and death, and those who love it will eat its fruit."

Here we go again with what we SAY. We have to SAY and CONFESS the Word. That's where our authority lies and miracles happen! We find in Psalm 103:1-5 that we are having to make our souls bless the Lord. We are having to speak to our souls and remind our souls of God's amazing benefits. As we do that we are confessing and reminding our souls, our bodies, our minds and our spirits of all that God has already done. Again, us taking the initiative to recall authority causing life to exist in us! 

One more scripture and then I will stop...for now! Psalm 107:19-20, " Then they cried out to the Lord in their trouble (that's us, crying out, that would mean making some noise :), and He saved them out of their distresses. He sent His Word and healed them, and delivered them from their destruction."

I believe this is what God does for me everyday that I follow that acronym. He produces miracles in my life and delivers me from the destructive power of this world. And let me make this clear. I don't just have to spend 5 minutes in the morning doing this, most times, I have to keep at it all day. I have to keep confessing and reminding my body and the enemy where my authority lies. So don't give up if you don't see instant results. You can trust Him. Just take up your authority and watch God produce life in you!

Guard Your Hearts and Minds

So here I am, sitting in my little corner on the couch, on a Sunday morning when I should be getting ready to go church. At least that would be my agenda and usually I would assume it's God's too. Here we are a week away exactly from our Every Nation World Conference down in Disney where I have been given the incredible opportunity to not only go but go and promote the 4 song pre-release of my album " Still my Soul". We have been working diligently to get everything rolling and ready and it's been so exciting! Oh and one other MAJOR thing...I am less than 2 weeks away from being completely ms medication free for a year!

So why am I telling you all of this? Because, right now in this moment, I am having to stand on the promises of God like never before. I am having to believe what God's Word says despite what my body is telling me. Yes, that's right, it's that whole flesh thing that flares up every time God is about to do something big. As I was reading this morning, here's what revy God brought my way...

Philippians 4:6-7, " Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, WILL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND MINDS through Christ Jesus."

As I do almost everyday, I personalize a lot of the scripture that I confess and this one has been one that I can't help but personalize over the last couple of weeks. There has been much in my life to be anxious over, not just my body, I have figured out how to ignore it for the most part. But we have had 2 funerals within the last two weeks, 4 birthdays in our family in the last two weeks, working on a cd release and getting ready now for a major conference. Here's the thing...I'm actually extremely grateful that I have been physically able to keep up. God is so amazing.

Anyway, what stuck out to me is that I have been having to really guard my heart and my mind from the schemes of the enemy but also from just myself, my flesh. Without this skill, I would not have the peace that passes all understanding that I have now. And the only way that I am able to do that is because I have been in the Word, confessing the Word, living the Word. Jesus is the Word right? So those who trust Him, know Him. I trust Him and I know that He is there for me, therefore there is NO REASON TO BE ANXIOUS!!!

Hebrews 11:6, " But without faith is it impossible to please Him: for he that cometh to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of them that diligently seek Him."

Come on now, that's a good word. That's me, I have faith, I believe that He is and I have been diligently seeking Him...sooooooo He is rewarding me and will continue to in whatever way He chooses and I trust His ways. These nasty symptoms that want to lie to me are just that, a lie. I am whole, I am healed and there is nothing that can steal that from me.

One more scripture, that I personalize everyday and will personalize now, that I will leave you with today:

Psalm 91:14-16, " Because I have set my love upon You, therefore You will deliver me; You will set me on high, because I know Your name. I will call upon You, and You will possessing Your healing answer me; You will be with me in trouble; You will deliver me and honer me. With long life You will satisfy me and show me Your salvation."

Yes, yes and yes. Thank You Jesus. Man I LOVE the Word of God.

Signing off from my corner of the couch...much love and grace and strength to all of you! Don't just guard your heart, but keep that mind of yours in line with the Word. It will keep you right where you need to be every time.