Wherever He leads

Here lately, my pastor has been going through each week of Experiencing God on Sunday nights as a refresher for everyone who went through the study and to teach the ones who weren't able to attend it. Last night, something he highlighted from that week's lesson really stuck with me:


"Have you come to a place in your life where you are willing to yield everything to God in order to follow Him?"

Can we truly follow God if we aren't yielding our everything to Him? God wants to bless us, when we ask to be blessed and when we fail to ask for it. He loves blessing His children. We, by not yielding our everything to Him, are missing out on so many more blessings. How can we stand in church and sing songs like, I surrender all and Wherever He leads I'll go, if that really isn't the case? I am preaching to myself too.

God is working on me right now. He is asking me to surrender to all my comforts and just submit to Him in being willing to do overseas missions. I, at this point, don't know if He really wants me to actually GO and DO overseas missions, but He at least wants me to submit to the possibility of it. There are certain luxuries I don't want to give up that I would most likely have to give up if I actually went and did. Does that make sense?

He may not want me to go, He just wants me to trust Him enough to submit to it, knowing it could be a possibility one day. When it comes to "I surrender all" and going "wherever He leads," I really have to think long and hard about it. But why? This should be an easy answer.

I just have to get to a place in my life where I am willing to yield everything to God in order to follow Him. He isn't out to harm us. He has the best in mind for us. Why is it so hard to yield everything? Arg, stupid sinful nature! :)

Sing me a song

Well, I said that soon I would post a song I had written.  This is one of my favorites and it was written back in 2004.  I find that I haven't been inspired to write like I was in college, so I haven't really written anything since then.....actually since this song, there's only one more I wrote after this....all the rest were written before this one.  So, I hope you enjoy!

Faithful


You are faithful when I run
You are faithful when I fall
How can you love me
When all I do is fail
I fail to see that, you are faithful
Your love surrounds me
Your presence is near
What more can I do but
Praise your name

Chorus
You're my all
You're my everything
But when I'm hindering
Your perfect will
Faithful You are
for the love of your child

Verse 2
Striving for happiness
in a place up in flames
dependence on my fantasies
not wanting to give
the things that I hold so dear
The trail to righteousness
is just a grasp away
I reach out my hand,
to find you are there

repeat chorus

Closing
I couldn't go through life
without Your sweet presence
You are faithful when I run
You are faithful when I fall

Faithful you are
For the love of your child (repeat twice to close)

Nothing too big

This past weekend I got the privilege to go a Priscilla Shirer conference. 7 other ladies and I drove down to Mississippi right below Memphis for this conference and boy was it worth it! Such a blessing! God has richly blessed her with a gift that I am very thankful she is using for His glory!


Her brother, Anthony, led us in worship during the weekend and let me tell you, it was amazing. All of these women, gathering together to worship our creator! AMAZING! Then, to be able to be free in the worship. To be able to raise my hands without fear of people staring at me. To be able to sing and shout out to my God and my King without fear of being judged. Such a great weekend!

I want to share a thing or two that I took away from this conference. She spoke from Judges about Gideon. The first few words in Judges 7 refer to him as Jerub-Baal. Same person new name. Paul was the same person as Saul, in the new testament, but with a new name. When we become Christians, no the life will not be easier, but it will be better. We are a new person in Christ and because of Christ.

One of the many comforting things about being a new person in Christ is that no matter the trial, no matter the battle, we can rest in knowing that God has already won the war. One thing she said that just stuck out to me so much was, "No crisis, no matter how big it is, is ever too big to keep you out of the reach of God." No matter what comes my way, I can never be out of the reach of God. Now that is comforting.

Another thing she said that I just loved was that "God doesn't call you to do the hard things, He calls you to do the impossible things, so He can be even more glorified." So true, I have never thought about it that way! So, don't be afraid to do this or that because it seems too impossible, know that if it is what God wants, He will show up and show out!

Maybe I'll bring out my notebook and share some of the notes I took because they are too good to go unshared. So, look for a post soon with them included. I was blessed this weekend by this conference and I pray you guys are blessed in your day to day living. Remember, God is on your side and He loves you. There is nothing too big for God.