This is kind of where it all started for me. This verse, this song, this was my AH-HA! moment. This was the first time I FELT God speaking directly to my heart. Somehow, in the recent weeks, I've drifted away from the happiness that it has always brought me. I've been battling negativity, feelings of inadequacy and I've just been in a complete funk.
God has really shaken me today and reminded me that I need to be a light. I need to remember that He has blessed me greatly and I need to live in a way that I'm always trying to bless someone else.
One of my greatest weaknesses has always been gossip. I am aware of this and I do my very best not to take part in it, or to be the source of it myself. Obviously I am not perfect and I make mistakes, but I have felt the Devil using that weakness against me so much lately! I can feel him urging my lips to let things pass through them that do not honor God. I've asked to be forgiven for it, and I have prayed for God to work on my heart and to take the desire to gossip away.
That leads me to the point I was trying to make. Living a life in which I am always trying to bless someone else. I have not been very good at this lately but like I said before, God shook me today.
Life is short. Our family is being faced with the severity and reality of that statement right now. Its had me thinking long and hard about what happens to us when we die. Just as this whole thing was beginning to churn in my heart, we started a series about Heaven of all things at church! I am so thankful to have been able to hear this series because not only has it convicted me tremendously, it has ignited that fire in my heart that has been dwindling!! It has made me realize the way I have been acting isn't a blessing to anyone. Least of all a blessing to God.
I have felt a God putting a conversation on my heart for weeks and I have been to afraid and stubborn to follow through with it. Today he convicted me and it was so overwhelming! He all but screamed at me "I have been telling you to speak these words! I have been putting the words on your heart!! Stop making excuses and just do as I have asked!!" I desperately hope that when the time comes for me to say the words that God has given me, it will be a blessing.
God has been hugely present this week!! He has put plans in motion and has allowed things to fall into place that I know I have been praying for, for what feels like forever. I can see the positive things happening all around me. My brother in-law got an amazing job opportunity, my son is making huge leaps in the areas he has been struggling in, my friendships are getting stronger and stronger with some of the most encouraging and supportive people and my husband and I are moving ever forward in our relationship!
All of these are just a few of the ways I have been blessed. Just a few of the reasons that I should be trying to bless others. It isn't' always easy. It isn't always comfortable. But it will ALWAYS be worth it. Bringing glory to our Father is always worth it! We are called to love one another and to share the Word with others. I want to do that. I want to always be ready to share what God has done and continues to do for me!
This may have been a little disjointed, maybe it didn't flow like it normally does.. but I hope that whoever reads it takes something positive away from it.
God has really shaken me today and reminded me that I need to be a light. I need to remember that He has blessed me greatly and I need to live in a way that I'm always trying to bless someone else.
One of my greatest weaknesses has always been gossip. I am aware of this and I do my very best not to take part in it, or to be the source of it myself. Obviously I am not perfect and I make mistakes, but I have felt the Devil using that weakness against me so much lately! I can feel him urging my lips to let things pass through them that do not honor God. I've asked to be forgiven for it, and I have prayed for God to work on my heart and to take the desire to gossip away.
That leads me to the point I was trying to make. Living a life in which I am always trying to bless someone else. I have not been very good at this lately but like I said before, God shook me today.
Life is short. Our family is being faced with the severity and reality of that statement right now. Its had me thinking long and hard about what happens to us when we die. Just as this whole thing was beginning to churn in my heart, we started a series about Heaven of all things at church! I am so thankful to have been able to hear this series because not only has it convicted me tremendously, it has ignited that fire in my heart that has been dwindling!! It has made me realize the way I have been acting isn't a blessing to anyone. Least of all a blessing to God.
I have felt a God putting a conversation on my heart for weeks and I have been to afraid and stubborn to follow through with it. Today he convicted me and it was so overwhelming! He all but screamed at me "I have been telling you to speak these words! I have been putting the words on your heart!! Stop making excuses and just do as I have asked!!" I desperately hope that when the time comes for me to say the words that God has given me, it will be a blessing.
God has been hugely present this week!! He has put plans in motion and has allowed things to fall into place that I know I have been praying for, for what feels like forever. I can see the positive things happening all around me. My brother in-law got an amazing job opportunity, my son is making huge leaps in the areas he has been struggling in, my friendships are getting stronger and stronger with some of the most encouraging and supportive people and my husband and I are moving ever forward in our relationship!
All of these are just a few of the ways I have been blessed. Just a few of the reasons that I should be trying to bless others. It isn't' always easy. It isn't always comfortable. But it will ALWAYS be worth it. Bringing glory to our Father is always worth it! We are called to love one another and to share the Word with others. I want to do that. I want to always be ready to share what God has done and continues to do for me!
This may have been a little disjointed, maybe it didn't flow like it normally does.. but I hope that whoever reads it takes something positive away from it.