I just heard this song and loved it! I want to dedicate it to all who are running as hard as they can run…..you can’t outrun mercy; you can’t outrun grace. He loves you…no matter what. Quit running and just…..come on home.
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Broken Girls
I recently heard this song by Matthew West and it amazed me. As most of you know, I was sexually abused as a young child (if you don’t know, read past blogs to read my testimony). I have felt the pain and shame and know how alone this can make you feel. I know how it feels to want to take your own life because you can’t take the shame and who you’ve become. You don’t have to be that way. God stands with open arms waiting to heal you and make you whole. You don’t have to live broken any longer…
Is He Your Everything????
This video is one the most amazing human videos I have ever seen. In this a young girl goes from having Jesus as the center of the universe, Him being her best friend to being coerced by Satan. Just like that, her world is changed. First there comes romance, then money, followed by partying and drinking, self-esteem (or lack thereof) and finally depression. She is almost ready to end it and realizes that Jesus is her everything. She starts to run back to Him, but the world is fighting her. She’s fighting so hard to get to Him. That’s how it is for us sometimes. We want to get back to where we were with Him at one point in our lives, yet we feel like we can’t. But! I want you to take special care to notice this…..the whole time Jesus is on the other side pulling her….literally pulling her back to Him. That’s how He is….He pulls us, woos us back to Him. Let me ask you….is He your everything?
Will the Real (insert your name here) Please Stand Up???
This is a blog that I have been trying to get together in my mind for quite some time. We all wear masks. At some point or another, we are different people at work than we are at home or different people at church than we are at work. Maybe we show more grace to our co-workers than we do to our own family. I know that sometimes I do. The point is, at some point you hide your true self to appear better on the outside. I have something to tell you though: God sees the heart.
He knows your insecurities. He knows your hopes. He knows your dreams. He knows when you think you aren’t good enough. And he knows when you get a big head. He knows your heart and loves you anyway.
We need to take off the masks. We need to be real with people. People don’t need to look at me and think that I have all together. I don’t. Only through the strength that God gives me can I have it together. The more real we are with others the more receptive they are.
Some days I struggle. I struggle with my temper, my thoughts, or any number of other things. I tell God. And I tell my prayer partners. The Bible tells us to pray for one another. When I am having a hard time, I need sometime to pray with me and for me.
Take off your masks today. Reveal yourself to God, because He already knows. Sometimes I have youth ask me how to pray. I tell them to talk to God the way they talk to me. He loves you and you know what—He likes you too!!! You are exactly what He needs you to be to fulfill the plan He has for you. He wants you to bring your brokenness to Him…He wants you to bring your dreams to Him….He wants you to bring it all to Him so that He can begin to mold the broken clay into His work of art. Not what you want yourself to be, but what He designed you to be.
As “The Real Me” by Natalie Grant states…..wonderful, beautiful is what you see when you look at me…..you’re turning the tattered fabric of my life into the perfect tapestry….
In the Desert
Are you in the desert? Listen to the words of this song and let me remind you…that no matter where you are….He is still God and He still in control. He deserves ALL of your praise whether in the desert or in your promised land……
