It feels like I'm born again, It feels like I'm living
For the very first time, I'm living for the first time
It feels like I'm breathing, it feels like I'm moving
For the very first time, I'm living for the first time
In my life.
Monday, 8 June 2015
Born Again...
This weekend was amazing. Friends came to church and shared from their heart. I was touched so much but over all I was filled to overflowing with the Love of God. Since saturday I've been so filled with joy, peace and love. I'm finding things that usually bug me aren't....not everything but mostly. The screaming coach at soccer tonight almost grounded me but not quite, haha. I've been trying to figure out how to portray how I'm feeling. Suddenly this song popped in my head. Its a Third Day song, I don't even know it well but I know the chorus. It sums up my feeling fairly well:
It feels like I'm born again, It feels like I'm living
For the very first time, I'm living for the first time
It feels like I'm breathing, it feels like I'm moving
For the very first time, I'm living for the first time
In my life.
And now I'm better equipped to walk in the way He wants me to. To live in a way that is pleasing to Him and to shine bright for Him and hopefully I can bless some people along the way.
It feels like I'm born again, It feels like I'm living
For the very first time, I'm living for the first time
It feels like I'm breathing, it feels like I'm moving
For the very first time, I'm living for the first time
In my life.
Monday, 1 June 2015
Open Door
May 31, 2015
God keeps speaking this one word over me, Intimacy. Today during worship I felt a break in the spiritual realm, we entered in deeper into His Presence, during the singing Ally drew a picture of the cross. Upon the cross she wrote God loves me. This is a typical drawing for her. What is not typical is the next thing she drew. At the top of the cross she drew a door. At the top of the cross she drew a door. I had the word intimacy going over in my head again and again when I saw it. Immediately I thought of Revelation 4 where John speaks of his vision of Heaven (really the whole chapter): After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." Also today when I saw Ally's picture I thought of the Jake Hamilton song Drink in Deep, it says: I see an open door, I hear a voice that's calling, He's calling come up here, He's calling come up here...I just read the lyrics and the whole song speaks intimacy to me. There's an open door, He's longing for you to enter in, go deeper with Him. There's no place I'd rather be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q2Pp4Kivkg
God keeps speaking this one word over me, Intimacy. Today during worship I felt a break in the spiritual realm, we entered in deeper into His Presence, during the singing Ally drew a picture of the cross. Upon the cross she wrote God loves me. This is a typical drawing for her. What is not typical is the next thing she drew. At the top of the cross she drew a door. At the top of the cross she drew a door. I had the word intimacy going over in my head again and again when I saw it. Immediately I thought of Revelation 4 where John speaks of his vision of Heaven (really the whole chapter): After this I looked, and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, "Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this." Also today when I saw Ally's picture I thought of the Jake Hamilton song Drink in Deep, it says: I see an open door, I hear a voice that's calling, He's calling come up here, He's calling come up here...I just read the lyrics and the whole song speaks intimacy to me. There's an open door, He's longing for you to enter in, go deeper with Him. There's no place I'd rather be.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q2Pp4Kivkg
May 22, 2015
Every morning I usually wake up, lay in bed, grab my phone and scroll Facebook. Today though I did something different. I got up. Grabbed my bible and went outside to spend some quiet time with God. Yesterday I read an article called Stop Reading your Bible. Sounds misleading. The author didn't mean to actually stop reading your bible but rather stop reading your bible with the motivation of checking it off your good Christian check list but rather read it with expectancy. Read it with intention. Read it as Gods love letter to you. Pray and ask God to reveal something to you. I think too often we can get in our heads oh we have to read lots or we aren't being a 'good' christian. Yestereday God laid one verse in my head and a line from a song that really spoke into my life something I've been struggling with. One verse. I read a chapter too from the book I'm currently reading but thats it. Reading that one verse and one chapter for me was much more effective than the days I've read 4 chapters. Read them then forgot about them. I reflected on that one verse all day and still am. So here's my challenge to all. Start your day off with God.....before Facebook, before email or anything. Ask God to reveal Himself to you through His word. Read with intention and expectancy, not because you have to but because you want to. He wants intimate relationship with us. If we only spent time with our husbands once a week our relationship wouldn't be very strong. Seek Him. He is faithful and just waiting for us.
Every morning I usually wake up, lay in bed, grab my phone and scroll Facebook. Today though I did something different. I got up. Grabbed my bible and went outside to spend some quiet time with God. Yesterday I read an article called Stop Reading your Bible. Sounds misleading. The author didn't mean to actually stop reading your bible but rather stop reading your bible with the motivation of checking it off your good Christian check list but rather read it with expectancy. Read it with intention. Read it as Gods love letter to you. Pray and ask God to reveal something to you. I think too often we can get in our heads oh we have to read lots or we aren't being a 'good' christian. Yestereday God laid one verse in my head and a line from a song that really spoke into my life something I've been struggling with. One verse. I read a chapter too from the book I'm currently reading but thats it. Reading that one verse and one chapter for me was much more effective than the days I've read 4 chapters. Read them then forgot about them. I reflected on that one verse all day and still am. So here's my challenge to all. Start your day off with God.....before Facebook, before email or anything. Ask God to reveal Himself to you through His word. Read with intention and expectancy, not because you have to but because you want to. He wants intimate relationship with us. If we only spent time with our husbands once a week our relationship wouldn't be very strong. Seek Him. He is faithful and just waiting for us.
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