Today God is speaking to me about my "words"... about the power that words have, and the fact that they can either give joylifepeace or they can hurt people deeply. God tells me that I have to watch them... be careful with them...no...be FAITHFUL with them.
I LOVED this quote today:
Don't get impatient, remember how God dealt with you - with patience and with gentleness; but never water down the truth of God. Let it have its way and never apologize for it. Jesus said, "Go and make disciples," not "make converts to your opinions." ~ Oswald Chambers
Verse of the week...month...year:
Don't worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all He has done. Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. (Phil 4:6-7 NLT)
What else?
That all I have to do is focus on God- live for Him. That's ALL I "have to do"...Put HIM first... the rest will follow.
That I am SO blessed to have an amazing community of believers surrounding me and building me up. That God uses me - especially when I am not trying to be used - when I am just weak in the knees with love for Him.
That nothing matters but God.
That I have to thank Him first - praise Him - worship Him with my everything.... then ask Him to transform me. [pause] Then be faithful to His prompting. [pause] I've fallen away. I've fallen away from obedience. I failed and I got mad at myself and I stopped talking to myself. I stopped being honest with myself and God. I started living by shame....controlled... stifled... by shame.
God loves me anyway. God is with me anyway. I can be the biggest pot of sin in the world- but God doesn't see that- His focus is on the love that He has for me - His everlasting perfect love which, by the blood of Jesus, is IN me! That's what He sees...so then I need to focus on that love TOO! I need to get my eyes off my shame- off my sin- off the ugly parts of me, and onto the beautiful parts of me and the world!! --> Namely: LOVE!
This marks the end of today's random rant.
Happy Thursday.
woooooooH! I just got excited!!!! A pinwheel of happiness just spun my heart!!!! Why? Because I just re-realized that today I get to go to my first mid-week tech/worship team rehearsal! Have I mentioned how much I LOVE serving at Journey??? It doesn't make much sense because you'd think that an extra "to-do" on my already-crazy schedule would be an added stressor- but no- I am rejuvinated when I am serving!!
There is this surreal mixture of rest and an uprising of joy in me when I am working for, by, and with God... you won't get it unless you do it- so I'll stop talking about it because I sound the same as everyone else who I ignored for so long who talked about how much they got out of it and that I just nodded and smiled at... meh.
HAPPY THURSDAY!
a cha cha cha chaaaa!
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