Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Great is Thy Faithfulness

You can trust God's promises!!

Don't let your lack of trust in people spill over to doubting your trust in God.When God says something,He is going to do it.He is faithful.

Know that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God. He keeps his commandments! Deuteronomy 7:9.

When we are faithless, God is faithful! (2 Tim. 2:11-13) He can't stop being who He is. Faithful is His attribute.

You don't have to fight the temptation of sinning for the rest of your life on your own. God's going to fight it for you.

In Ezekiel,the dry bones couldn't come to life on their own.They needed breath ("numa").God breathed his Spirit into them and LIFE happened.
Just as we didn't come to Christ on our own, we don't remain in Christ on our own. That's what the Holy Spirit does. He breathes in us every morning. New breath. He gives us new life and He operates through us! You aren't alone! Why? Because God is faithful to His promises.

"They are new every morning; great and abundant is Your stability and FAITHFULNESS!"( -Lamentations 3:23)


Your actions do not change God.


When we are faithless, God is faithful!
Like Hosea, God keeps saying "I want YOU! Whatever it takes, whatever the cost, I want you back." He will not give up. Why? Because He is faithful. That is His very being. He is who He says He is. I can just picture Gomer who has chosen to sale herself for sex. She's chosen this lifestyle. She's in the midst many beautiful girls- she's exhausted because she's been with so many men in one day and she's all messed up. Then, I picture this auction happening in a brothel and the men get to Gomer and they're only offering half the price of her normal rates. She's looking down. Not caring who buys her and she hears this voice saying, "i want you." and it get's closer to the stage and it kept saying "i don't want all these other women, i want you. just as you are. you. all of you." It's a voice that she recognizes. And she starts thinking "wait a minute, that's my ex husband. I left him for this. What's happening? Why would he want me?" Hosea wanted Gomer just as God wanted Israel, his people. The ones he taught to walk. (Hosea 11)
His son, His child. The one that was called out. Chosen. Israel was God's. Can you see how much God loves us in that story? While we are prostitutes, selling ourselves to whatever, God looks at us and says, "Logan, I want you. I don't care what you've done. I don't care about your past. I do not change. I am a faithful God. My promise to you will not fail. I keep my promises. You can trust me. I'm trustworthy. I am who I am and I do not waiver in my very being. I want you."

God remains faithful to his people! There's an if though. He remains faithful IF we remain in him!
No matter what you've done, you can't change who God is. He wants you! All of you. Not the clean part. He wants all of your filth. Your dirt. Your grossness. Just as you are. He wants it. And he's going to remain true to his promises and you can trust him because he is a faithful God!

Sunday, February 10, 2013

#Luckiestgirl #Lovestory

February is known as the "month of love." It's a month where couples post on Facebook how much they love their significant other, they tweet to them, they leave sweet notes on the mirror for their spouse, and plan an extravagant dinner and buy presents and flowers, and okay you get the point. I'm about to be very honest with you. I've never really wanted a huge wedding. I mean yes, what girl doesn't dream about dresses, colors, flowers, cake and first dances? I even have my "How Sweet It Is" board on Pinterest that has all sorts of wedding ideas but I doubt I'll ever put any of it to use. I want a wedding and I want to be married but I don't want to be caught up in all the fluff. I don't really think about my "dream proposal." Of course, I've been on YouTube and watched countless videos of amazing proposals; crowds of family and friends all lip-syncing the couple's favorite song as the man escorts his soon-to-be fiancé to a candlelit beach at sunset. I just don't give much thought to what my own proposal might look like. I don't have the slightest idea of the ring I'd want. Sure, I've admired engagement rings on other women. Yes, I've gone to try on engagement rings but in all honesty, I still had no idea what kind of ring I would like. I skim through Jared or Helzberg Diamond catalogues when they come in the paper. Don't get me wrong, I love diamonds as much as the next girl but I don't have the cut, color and clarity of the diamond picked out awaiting my future husband's credit card. I have the God-given desire to be married and it seems to intensify with age. Maybe it's the fact that others my age are all trying the knot or maybe it's because graduating college, marriage, child birth and death are the only major milestones that I haven't crossed off of my list. I've spent time praying about marriage and the desire to be in a relationship. But, I've been thinking about the whole idea of marriage and it's the symbolism of it all that matters. Not the ring, the sobbing that occurs when saying vows or the romantic proposal. When I notice a lady who is wearing a wedding ring.. I think "lucky her!" Not lucky because she has a huge rock on her hand, but because she's been chosen. She's different. It means that a man is so in love with her that he can't picture his life without her. Chosen. I want to feel set apart. I want to feel special, chosen, and unique. I want others to look at me and say, "wow, lucky her!" Not lucky because of my ring, but because I have been chosen. Here's the thing though. Because I wanted that feeling, I settled and entered into a meaningless relationship that I changed who I was because I thought the guy was special enough. I was going to be called "lucky." I was going to be chosen. Then I woke up. I came back to my first love. A man that loves me for exactly who I am. Yea, I changed some things for Him but these were changes for my good. Rather than getting down on one knee and asking for my hand, this man got on a cross and asked for my sins. This man chose me, set me apart, and took time to write my ending before my beginning. He knows my thoughts before I think them and I love spending time with Him. I can walk with my head high now. It has nothing to do with who is around me. It has everything to do with who lives in me. With who loves me. With who chose me. With who proposed to me, on a cross, long before I was born. I dare you to find a better love story than that. With all this being said, use this "month of love" to shine bright for Jesus. Go back to your first love. You are chosen by Jesus. Set apart by Jesus. Rest content knowing that you are one of the luckiest people in the world.