I've been running around like a crazy person trying to get things done. I am moving into a new apartment tomorrow and I'm so excited. I've been trying to get rid of things at the same time that I'm trying to pack. I have huge pile of STUFF in my room waiting for it's final journey into the dumpster outside of my apartment. I am so excited to be getting rid of so much stuff. I am excited that I have less stuff to move because last time was ridiculous. Poor Jared had to move 3 loads of my stuff all by himself last time I moved. And that was the "last little bit" of my stuff last time, in June.
This time I have a whole crew of buff brothers to help me. Josh, Ben and Matt are going to be helping me. Yay! Thank you, God for my amazing brothers that love to help. :)
I've been having the most amazing time with God. Sam gave me a homework assignment about doing a word study on the word anxious, which is a story in itself. I started that but the way that the Lord took me was a little different (all stemmed from looking up Philippians 4:6,7.). I picked up my guitar and started singing. I started playing Majesty. I haven't played that song in forever but the Lord brought those lyrics and the chords back into my heart. So, I'm playing and I get stuck on the lyrics, "Your Grace has found me just as I am, empty handed but alive in Your hands" and I just felt the Lord wanted me to rest in that for a while.
I felt the Lord telling me that my hands weren't empty. He showed me a couple of things I was holding onto and I've been pressing in for healing and for the Lord to completely take those things out of my hands. My heart is to lay everything down before the Lord. I'm learning how to trust the Lord in such a complete way. I'm so excited to see what He has for me. I know that as soon as my hands are empty I will have the capacity to receive from Him.
This time I have a whole crew of buff brothers to help me. Josh, Ben and Matt are going to be helping me. Yay! Thank you, God for my amazing brothers that love to help. :)
I've been having the most amazing time with God. Sam gave me a homework assignment about doing a word study on the word anxious, which is a story in itself. I started that but the way that the Lord took me was a little different (all stemmed from looking up Philippians 4:6,7.). I picked up my guitar and started singing. I started playing Majesty. I haven't played that song in forever but the Lord brought those lyrics and the chords back into my heart. So, I'm playing and I get stuck on the lyrics, "Your Grace has found me just as I am, empty handed but alive in Your hands" and I just felt the Lord wanted me to rest in that for a while.
I felt the Lord telling me that my hands weren't empty. He showed me a couple of things I was holding onto and I've been pressing in for healing and for the Lord to completely take those things out of my hands. My heart is to lay everything down before the Lord. I'm learning how to trust the Lord in such a complete way. I'm so excited to see what He has for me. I know that as soon as my hands are empty I will have the capacity to receive from Him.
It's like He is holding out gifts for me but I have to set down what is already in my hands in order to take and receive those things from Him.
I just lost my job the other day. I think that really took my eyes off Jesus just long enough for me to find myself back in a few ruts and patterns of behavior that I'd kicked out of my life. God has been so faithful to show me where I've gone astray and how His desire is to lift me up out of that. God's desire is for complete relational restoration. That is a phrase that has been ringing in my spiritual ears for a few days. I've had it come up as I was praying for other people and for myself. God sent His son for us to have salvation and an abundant life. A complete restoration of what God intended as seen as in the Garden of Eden before the fall. God want's to walk with us in such a real way, His desire is for a complete relational restoration. I believe that includes our spirit, body and minds. I just want to tap into that truth of God's desire for restoration. Creation is waiting for us to be restored so creation itself can be delivered from it's groanings. (Romans 8)
God, I just pray for anyone reading this right now. I pray God that You would reveal to them the desire that You have for their complete surrender to You. That You long for their hands to be empty so You can place specific things in their hands. God, I pray that as Your children that we would be completely restored to You. That we would walk with You in the cool of the day and not be ashamed to be bare and open before You. God, restore us so that the sons of man can bring creation into the fullness in which it was created. God, continue to bring about Your will on the earth through me and my brothers and sisters. God, we choose You. We choose to partner with You. I ask right now that the Holy Spirit would fill and overwhelm our hearts. God, I impart any revelation that I've received into anyone reading this right now. Any revelation, favor or gifting, anything in my tool box, I pray that would be imparted right now. In the name of Jesus, Amen.
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