May I Please Have Some...

COURAGE!

"...That is my request, sir."

Have you ever felt like you've finally worked up enough courage to ask for what you need?...

I often feel like I've got to get my "ducks in a row," before I can make a request to God Almighty.

Is it a truth-based feeling or a fear?

Am I tracking with this or am I missing a piece of the puzzle?

"Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!"-Matthew 7:9-11

"Ask and it will be given to you."

If you don't ask, you may not receive. Simple, eh?

What do you need?

Grace! I need grace! I need help receiving forgiveness. I need courage. I need mercy in my moment by moment walk. I need to give more grace and love deeper. I need to hear from you. I need direction, assurance, and peace. I need favor in relationships. I need more of you, Jesus. I need a new quiet/secret place. I need refreshment. I need help trusting you. I need encouragement. I need help in loosening my grip and letting go of things.

Thank you, God! Thank you in advance!

In faith-

Canceling the Party

"PARTY IS OFF!"

"Ouch!" #$@!#%^& ... 

So is the complaining of my soul. ;)

For when the Spirit of God within me calls off the pity party of my flesh, my flesh tends to grumble. But grumbling can not put at bay the worship that must come forth from within me!!!

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. -Philippians 4:6 

Ya see, a hefty byproduct of my uncertainties and unanswered questions is anxiety and complaint and moan & groan from my head and heart and mind. I tend to wrestle with that which I don't know the answers to. "I feel so uncomfortable." When this is so, it's quite easy to choose to be unhappy from within. But today I choose truth! Today I choose to rise above. Today I will cast off my anxiety and present my requests unto The Almighty God. For I've been granted access to The King with reason... So that I may honor him in my dependence and grow in intimacy with Him.

So King, You see my life and all it's parts. You see my wrongs, mistakes, stubbornness, pride, and self-reliance. You see my fear. May your love flood, and run it all out. Help me to come to you and receive your love. For I know it's what I need. 


Such love has no fear, because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of punishment, and this shows that we have not fully experienced his perfect love. -1 John 4:18

Thank you for this day. Thank you for my life. Thank you for your grace. Thank you for your love. I invite your love into the corners of my life it hasn't touched. Come on in... Even if as I pray this prayer, there are parts that still don't believe, help my believe. For the parts that still are not surrendered, loosen my grip. I know that I need all of you. I know that I don't want to go on with only partial experience of your perfect love. I know I want and need it all. All of you, Father! Help me through this...help me get there.

Grace

Truth Words

I see you. I know you, every part. And, yes, I love you. 

Forgiven.

Enough said for today.

Your Nearness

But for me it is good to be near God;
    I have made the Lord God my refuge,
    that I may tell of all your works. -Psalm 73:28

I want to be found with you.

I want to be found communing with you.

I want to be found talking with you and laughing with you and listening to you.

I want to be found growing with you.

I want to be found resting with you.

I want to be found with my Father.

I want to be like you.

I want to speak and act like you do.

I want my heart and intentions to be like yours.

I want to love like you do.

I want to see things and people the way you do.

Open these eyes a little wider!

Help me to come into the light...into your light.

Help me to choose you.

Help me to run to you.

Help me to receive you and all your love.

Oh, I need you, my King.

I really really need you all your nearness.

You Are Welcome Here

Today my eyes were opened to truth. Thank God! I need the truth in my life!!!...

As I sat in an evening class at school tonight, frustrated and caught in the hurry of the week before my final exam, I was anxious. Doesn't anxiety bring out the worst in us? In that moment Holy Spirit spoke to me...

I sit in the front row and I was glancing over at the door as we waited for class to begin. Students were walking in and taking their seats. We were about to begin a short quiz. I'd been working on a project all day, skipping meals like nobodies business...(and I don't skip meals lol, scary) And right then, I feel the God impress a picture on my heart. He always catches me when I least expect ;)

He began to give me a visualization of the way I walk with Him when I want to and sometimes I decide to walk alone. When I walk with Him, I am fruitful. There is evidence I am in a constant communion with The Creator. He is love and I am spending time with him...I love that! It's beautiful, right? ...Well, there are also times that I leave Him standing at the door and I walk into an atmosphere with no regard for anyone but myself. In this flesh-lead walk I hurt people, I hurt myself, and I hurt Him.

God, I'm sorry! I want to search for you each day and PRAISE you! 

God gave me a beautiful illustration tonight. He did not just convict me but he corrected me in love and showed me one of His truths!

But you are holy, O you that inhabit the praises of Israel. -Psalm 23:3

When I praise God and shift my eyes and affections towards Him, I invite His presence into my life. Praise and adoration towards God is like saying, "YOU are welcome here!" "Come! Be with me!!!" And when I'm with Jesus, everything's better.

Have Your Way

It's one of those nights where my eyes are widened to the truth in love that your ways are higher, better, wiser, stronger, and far beyond-greater than mine. Please soften me for molding, for I need to take shape in your hands, Potter. That's my prayer.

24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. -John 12

So encouraged by the word to let loose my life- into your hands!

I release!!!

Grace

Attentive Master

If I had cherished sin in my heart,
    the Lord would not have listened;
but God has surely listened
    and has heard my prayer.
-Psalm 66:18-19

"I'm listening."

What a beautiful truth.

I need to be heard!!! It's a true desire. It's a true desire of my heart!

Thank you for listening, God.

My prayer tonight is this:

Help me to walk in step with you! Help me to move onward in strength. Help me to be found overflowing with YOU. 

Thank you for listening and responding. Make me more like you.

Me