It's felt very strange to wait for so long to be able to post something. I might have to go twice weekly for these.
Before we get into why this week's entry is called "Save Me Please", I would love for us to go through this prayer together. This prayer is meant to refocus our hearts and put us into the Kingdom perspective. Father, today I give you my heart, the thoughts of my mind, and what I do in my daily activities. Help me to worship you with even the most mundane of my daily activities. I love you my King, and I ask that you would come and be with me. Live with me. Love me. I invite you to bring conviction where it is needed, and to show me clearly the areas in which I need to grow. Amen I would love to talk this week about some of the things that I've been going through lately, and what I feel that God has been doing in my life because of it. It's been difficult, yet wonderful in the ways that only God can orchestrate. I pray dearly that you will be encouraged by it. These past few weeks, I have been struggling with being under heavy stress, and feeling very discouraged. I've been working and trying to adult and attempting to be proactive about the chaos that is the process of applying for a competitive college program. Among all of this mess, I realized that the mindset of seeking to give God glory in all things was starting to be moved to the back burner. My time alone with My Love, the Greatest Love... was ebbing and my heart felt like an empty shell... But get this... Let it sink in... He, did not stop pursuing me. Over this time, He tugged gently at the edges of my heart, seeking to prod me to open it, and eventually I did. Dear ones, Our God defies the preconceived laws of societal propriety. He will not walk away when we ask to be left alone. He stays beside us, waiting patiently. He does not push us away in anger when we have pushed Him away. Instead He welcomes us... Cares for us, and tenderly loves us. What an amazing God we serve. During this time of discovery, I was reading through the book of Ephesians and just recently began Philippians. I realized that Paul had many times in His life in which He felt like He had been abandoned by those He had trusted and loved... Especially while in prison. I could easily relate to some of those feelings, but what I found so amazing was in Philippians 1:3-4 when He said, "I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all." His prayers in this time of loneliness and captivity were a precious offering to His God, whom He trusted completely. Even while He was filled with longing and heartache for the Philippian church, He trusted God to guide and protect them, and to be faithful in love. His prayers replaced the sweet fragrance of a burnt offering, as ours are meant to be. Offered with joyfulness, and complete trust in Him. Philippians 1:3-10 "3 I thank my God in all my remembrance of you, 4 always offering prayer with joy in my every prayer for you all, 5 in view of your [c]participation in the gospel from the first day until now. 6 For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. 7 [d]For it is only right for me to feel this way about you all, because I have you in my heart, since both in my [e]imprisonment and in the defense and confirmation of the gospel, you all are partakers of grace with me. 8 For God is my witness, how I long for you all with the [f]affection of Christ Jesus. 9 And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in real knowledge and all discernment, 10 so that you may [g]approve the things that are excellent, in order to be sincere and blameless [h]until the day of Christ; 11 having been filled with the fruit of righteousness which comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God."
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Geri Randall
12/4/2017 06:11:51 am
Your heart is what I see when I look at you. Your physical body may or may not be one you approve of(Do any of us like how we look)...but I see a young woman who is mature far beyond her years that loves Jesus and sings with a full heart of that love. Don't be beaten down by the lies of the devil. You're BEAUTIFUL INSIDE AND OUT!
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