Priceless Moments

“God’s Way is not a matter of mere talk; it’s an empowered life.”  Its amazing how many times I’ve flipped through the Bible and each time see something I’ve never read before.  I’ve been in a women’s conference all week and this morning our speaker spoke about this verse of scripture.  I had the Message with me and when I read this I thought, “Wow - I can quote scripture but how often do I trust His word enough to believe it for myself?  Do I really grasp the understanding that I have Him living in me and as long as I stay in His will His power is MY power?  Does He have room to be living on the inside of me or do I have so much junk there’s no room for Him or His power? 

Freedom.  Sometimes we work so hard to acheive it and its already right here for us.  Freedom was achieved for us a long time ago at the cross.  It’s a gift just like salvation is a gift.  Gifts have to be received.  We have to choose to be free from the things that bind us.  Don’t make the choice of putting the chains back on - make the choice to be REALLY free!

“God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before Him…..I feel put back together….God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to His eyes.”

Psalm 37:5 in the Message Bible says, “Open up before God, keep nothing back; he’ll do whatever needs to be done…”

Over the last several months I’ve tried to keep my heart closed before God instead of open.  I’ve tried to keep everything hidden from Him.  Everywhere I looked my life seemed to be one big mess.  Instead of turning to God who I know has every answer I began to walk in something I thought I had been delivered from.  It was easier to mask the hurt than to go to God with it.  Going to Him means we have to come face to face with the pain and allow God to reveal the root issue.  But what He reveals He can also fix if we allow Him to.  I’m not  blogging this because I have it figured out - I don’t.  But I wanted to share that today God showed me this verse and I’m coming to a place where I want to trust Him enough to do exactly what it says.  We all know that we can trust Him but how much do we REALLY?  We can’t fix ourselves, we can’t heal our hurts - only He can do that.  I trust Him to do what needs to be done in me.

Priceless 2010 was absolutely amazing.  Just when I think God couldn’t POSSIBLY do more, He does. It was so hard to leave last night.  I just wanted to stay in that atmosphere, in His presence.  The afterparty, the babyshower, all those things are fun and the decorations were amazing, but nothing can compare to being in His presence.  When I got home, God continued to minister to me.  And I think He ministered more to me in the two hours after I was home than He did all weekend.  Its those times with God, when its just me and Him that mean the most.  As much as I want to stay in the atmosphere of a conference like we just had, God reminded me that Jesus didn’t stay inside the four walls of a temple, or a tent or a whatever.  He didn’t stay there and wait for people to come to Him.  He went out among the people, to where they were.  And when He went out, the power and presence of God went with Him.  We want to stay in that and we can if we choose to, but sometimes we get so caught up in “life.”  We get home and the house is a mess so we throw ourselves into that, or we throw ourselves into our jobs, kids sports activities, etc., and we neglect our time with God and then wonder why we don’t feel His presence like we have this week, in a conference.  Because we stop taking the time to get there.  Everything else becomes more important than being with Him.  And when that happens it creates an open door for the enemy to come in, and I can say that because it happened to me.  Issues of life become more important, and every solution under the sun is attempted and considered except the One and only solution.  I guess my purpose in writing this is to encourage you to stay in His presence.  He has been first and foremost all weekend.  Keep Him in that place.