Waking Up To Praise and Promises

Life around me has had me turning inside out recently where I'm even unusually haunted in my sleep.

Something precious is happening though the past few mornings.
Before I even open my eyes, there's a verse of a song on my heart loop playing. I'm calmly awakened by it and then I realize it's a song. There's nothing playing in the background and they're not songs I heard before falling asleep.

Maybe it's God singing over me....or is it me, in my most open and unhindered state, praising Him.


Either way, what a sweet way to surrender and wake up.


Father, you are soo good to me.






John 14:27  Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

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God, You Can Steal My Show. Yes!

"So I'll step out the way.

I'll give you center stage. 

Need you to steal my show. 

Can't wait to watch you go."

I just absolutely LOVE this song.

Our lives are a show as well. A show of God and His truths to those around us. We were created to testify, 

but we have the choice of what we testify. Some may havea  problem with giving over control, 

but it's spoken that we must choose a side whether by decision or undecision. There's nothing wrong with being a puppet folks. :)

The issue is whose puppet are you?

Father God, it's all yours. What we really need is you. you've freed and filled us to overflowing!

I want my life's spotlight to be on you. It's is soo pleasing to me. ♥ ! ♥

God, You're Beautiful.

It all breathes you. It lives as we live. All your creation knows you, God. 

From the heavens to the waters, from that which thrives off the land to that which seeks and chooses you.

Your loving mysteries abound

gift wrapped just for us 

through your word

and from all that was formed by your hands. 

It all proclaims you 

 though words

or through sunsets

through heads bowed

or through sunrises

through upraised hands

 or through even the beauty in the storms. 

In the rebirths, in the deaths, in the ever flowing rivers

and winds whispering your name.

It all knows you. 

We Are God's Advocates To All

I awoke to a dagger to my heart, but I chose... I struggled, but chose to turn to God and let Him take it out. Had I struggled with it in my own way, I would have caused more damage. With each loving stitch I felt, I was reminded of the scar tissue already there. Not as haunting memories, but of God's faithfulness and His love soo deep. He wrapped me in His arms and reminded me who I was in His eyes. I handed over the pain and said "please take this. I'm trusting you with this. Now what do I do."


*tears*

Through God's overflow in me, He said

Forgive.
and Love
because I love them..... like I love you.
Pray for them...... not against them.
Be my advocate.
Now .... I'm trusting you with this.



Father, thank you for trusting me with the opportunity to cover a soul for you. It's not about me. I know. Thank you.

You are soo good to me and you bless me and yes, I am very much yours. Your Will is what I desire.

My Prayer For You Now

You're still seeking happiness, self vindication, but you'll never find it in the anger you hold onto so proudly. Even if I had chosen a different path by joining yours, you still would not have been satisfied. Your spirit must be so weary from a lifetime of trying to find a place to lay the burden on. The burden of being completely accepted. The weight of trying to mold your own path. The strain that you feel the need to take - in order to gain. There's only one rock that can take the complete wieght of your pain. Not only hold it off your shoulders, but transform it for your good. That rock is God. Your value lies in Him - Not your parents, not your significant others. You will never be satisfied through people. Until you realize this, you will continue to close yourself off and destroy anything in your path - even those that try to help. You were so broken before I came into the picture. I wasn't your problem. I just became a part of the problem. I'm soo sorry that I was too broken myself to help guide you to God our healer. There's hope though. Only one hope, and that's in a God that loves you unconditionally yesterday and tomorrow. So, keep shooting your arrows at me. Yes, they make me stagger for a second still even today. Today, though, I choose to stand and face you and allow you to shoot however more you need to release till you're exhausted. I'm just praying even harder now and my prayers WILL come into fruitation. Prayers for your soul in eternity. In Jesus name, because I'm not not praying against you anymore, but for you.



Arrows from old love,
how they hit so devastatingly.
Once binded to me by you,
Now seeks to destroy me.


Father stop this bleeding.
Block them at the gates.
Shield my heart.
Break this soul tie’s hate.


It’s binding was broken long ago.
But I am yours alone, Father.
You alone have access to me.
None other.


Where I fail and can no longer give,
You will finish in him.
Take hold of your wounded creation
And draw him to you.


God, have mercy on him.
Poison eats at his core still.
His eternity is at stake.
Establish, in him, your will.




 

You Were No Mistake

You are soo beautiful.

You were created with loving hands. 
He smiled through tears of joy as He dreamed of you
and how you could love Him out of a willing heart.
A love for Him unique only to you.

He spoke words of destiny into and over you.
He whispered your name as he quietly sang His song over you
telling you what His plans for you are.
Everything about you was thought out.

He gave you a name that you would one day hear after some time -
A draw to Him that would be familiar to you.
You were defined before you were in your mother's womb, and no one
has the ability to take that from you unless you give it to them.
They will try,
but don't you take heart to it.

God makes no mistakes
and He makes everything perfect and He makes everything for a purpose.
It's no mistake that you're here
and my my
you are soo loved.

Confidence In God Isn't Shaking In Your Boots. Speak To That Mountain and Tell It To Move.

Confidence in God isn't knowing how to avoid a fearful situation.

Confidence in God isn't standing up to fear while crossing your fingers with high hopes and closing your eyes like you expect to be blindsided.

I've decided today to not tiptoe around fear aka these "mountains" anymore. Instead, I've decided to speak to these mountains and tell them to MOVE, in Jesus name. I'm going to stand tall with my eyes wide open because my God is soo much bigger than what's in front of me.

We are not going to hope that it will turn out alright.
We are not going to beg that it will turn out ok.
This mountain WILL move because God said we could tell it to move.

We already know how this story ends! and it's NOT for our doom. We are going to be humble and confident in knowing that God's path for us continues on the other side of this. We're going to walk in faith towards God's plans even now because we believe in Him that much. God's good for us was already planned and in motion before we heard Him speak to our hearts for the first time. So we are going to walk right up to fear and speak God's authority to it without hesitation or grimacing and tell it to get out of our way. We are not going to hope God will come through for us. He already has. It's done. There's nothing to question. Our God doesn't need to avoid, tiptoe around, hide, nor run and neither will we, His obedient children. Amen

Prayer For Restoration In A Person/Relationship

Father God, we hold onto your promise that you will restore us as the church and as individuals as well and also the relationships we are involved in. 

What you have joined together and created is YOURS. 
What we have committed to you is YOURS.  
What we submit to you is YOURS.  
We are YOURS because YOU created us.  

Those of us who have returned, use us to strengthen the weak.  We will be obedient and not care what attacks us.  We will not focus on who attakcs us.  We will not hand over our energy to the enemy.  It's all just outward attacks because the enemy ultimately has NO authority over what is yours, God.  Be our shield physically and emotionally.  

Those who are lost or running, draw them to you.  Your plans are irrevocable.  You are a jealous God for our hearts! and we pray in agreement as you go after the lost ones running from you, from themselves, and from their families.  We pray loving conviction and protection over them.  In the meanwhile, we that are stronger will not join the world in condemning them. We will not tear down what you once built up.  We will have faith and prepare for healing and restoration in them before we see it.  We will praise you in the rain.  Draw your prodigal son/daughter to you, God.  Soften their hearts, Lord. Reveal yourself to them.  Give us the strength to pray continuously for them in word, in song, in prayer, and in thought. 

God, YOUR WILL be done adn NONE OTHER. Amen

When There Seems To Be No Hope, What Would You Do?

"I believe in the sun, even when it's not shining. I believe in love, even when I don't feel it.  I believe in God, even when He is silent."

These were the words found on a wall inside a concentration camp, after the war. This story is the inspiration for this song by the BarlowGirls.  In the dark, when all hope seems lost, do we shake our "fists at God, or do we write words of faith on the walls" surrounding us...

No matter the outcome here on Earth, God, your glory awaiting us is worth our last strength here.  Powerful and soo humbling. Father god, there's so much more to all this than us and these daily things we call "struggles".  In the grand scheme of things, we are still so blessed even on our worse days. Help us to really embrace you at all times.  Help us to see the deep faith out there that is possible to have given to us by example by those soo unshakable and devoted to you.