The question that may be the hardest to truthfully answer is, "How can I pray for you?"
The question digs deep, it pokes and prods its way into the darkest crevasses of my life! So the help I want to ask for, just turns into uh hmm... how about, my walk with Christ, or my relationship struggles, or family issues, or whatever will answer that question the fastest!
Well recently I have been praying for CONSISTENCY, (i.e. the title of this blog post) and with CONSISTENCY comes a whole separate "to-do list" of prayers... Prayer requests that I am too ashamed or embarrassed to mention, prayer requests that dwells in the deep, dark crevasses of my life, that not too many people like to venture in too!
I have been meeting weekly with my pastor, to basically have a mentor, accountability, a friend that is hours away that I can sit and have a Godly conversation with. It has been nothing but positive for me, and as for leaving ENC, a safe haven, I was lost, I missed my friends, people I could be accountable with, daily! Well unfortunately its easier to be accountable with people that are there in person, as opposed to in spirit, and I have not had the people in my life, that I need to be there! And this blog, at least for me, has been a way for me to vent, to share, to be accountable with! As James 5:16 states:
"Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective"
Well lets be accountable then, God... Since God already knows what I am truly struggling with and I know what I am struggling with I think my accountability partners are those around me, those who will read this, and pray that Jesus' powerful name will PROTECT me from the dastardly, malicious, evil that surrounds my daily life!
1. I have been struggling with my daily Scripture reading, it is virtually in-existent
2. My prayer life (clearly) is absent
3. My free time is spent, roaming the places on the internet, that leave me empty, and wanting more!
4. My lack of close by Christian friends
5. My struggling with finances (school loans, car payments, car insurance, etc...)
6. Family issues
7. Depression - which tends to lead to point 3
So to you all who ask that deep penetrating question, of "How can I pray for you today?" There you go! Pray for 1-7, and be CONSISTENT with me!
Thank you God for the people in my life that will read this, that will pray for me, who will be CONSISTENT in my life, who will be ACCOUNTABLE with me and will not be judgmental of the sins that I commit!
GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME AND ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!!!!!!
First off I like the Staples Easy Button, and I wish LIFE came with one, cause this would be so much easier, so for whoever reads this, there is a female in my life (not dating) but I'm truly having a hard time with trusting that God will provide, and she is totally seeking out for God's will for this, which is super attractive... and I digress, but this is my prayer, for the situation and like last time I ask that you would pray for me as well, not that God blesses me with this beautiful woman, but that I trust Him, and stop doubting Him, and the situation. And further down I asked that whoever reads this if they feel at led they'll give me a call, and say I'm thinking about you, and give me someone to chat with, to help take my mind off of this. Thanks all for stopping bye...
Lord, I feel like these prayers are going to start sounding more and more selfish, Lord, and you know that my intentions are not too be. Lord give me PEACE, give me REST and RELAXATION, slow down my THOUGHTS of NEGATIVITY, and DOUBT. Lord just help me to TRUST YOU! Lord, you know the situation, on both sides, Lord, you have a plan for me, a wonderful and perfect plan for me, Lord help me to trust you with my life... No more trying to hold on, Lord, I'm surrendering everything, it all my life, my relationships with friends with a woman, surrendering my future, IT ALL!!! I ask that you take what's been on my mind and wrap it up in your love and grace, (along with me) but Lord, I'm tired of losing sleep, and thoughts of doubt, if you told me you got this... then why am I doubting what you can do!
Lord be with me these next few days, help the feelings of loneliness stay out of my life, Lord and I ask that you put me in the minds of my friends and they call me to just check in and see how I'm doing... Cause I'm struggling, and hurting, pretty tired, mentally and physically exhausted. Not going to bed till after 2, 3 or 4 for this past week has not been good to my body, and waking up days like today to go running at 8:30 doesn't allow for much sleep. Ah Lord! She is always on my mind, Lord help me to forget (forget me not's) and by forget, I don't mean about her, I just mean help me forget the doubting, forget the mistrust, forget ALL the negativity. Lord you got this, you got this, you got this, you got this, you got this, you got this, you got this... So help me to stop freaking out, and doubting what your going to do and say!!!
Lord , help me to continue on the path that you have placed me on, this wild adventure, this battle, Lord help me to push forward, Constantly Chasing After You! Lord, and if you want her to be apart of my journey with you, and my adventure as a man, well She is more than welcome, but it has to be your desire, and your will, not our own (her's or mine)! Lord, you know all of my heart's desires... I ask that you reveal them to me, in your time, and whomever you desire in my life! Its yours, I'M SURRENDERING THIS TO YOU! Let your will be down, just let no hurt or bitterness come out of your will, by me, help me to understand your will, and trust that you will provide... All smiles right now Lord, keep this peace, until a decision has been handed down, from you to her and me, Lord then we will know whether its what you want, or not! Oh Lord, please let this be what you want for me! (Selfish? I know, my bad)! You Got This, and I believe that....
Until Next Time, Its Just Me and My God! and God You Got Me and This!
Love your humbled, not worthy, child, and servant, Matthew.
It has been a long time since I last blogged here (or anywhere for that matter), I have intended to try and find time to sit down and write, I even intended to do one on my birthday but just never got around to it. Well blogging has been my way of talking with my Heavenly Father, and if I haven't been getting around to it here, I sure haven't been talking with God! I will admit though, things have been going great in my life, I successfully turned 22, I'm passing all classes, I am even ahead of schedule with most homework and big papers. Yet similar to my last blogs there is still something missing in my life, I still haven't filled the void of feeling lonely in my life! I honestly hate the feeling, I try and cope with it but no luck, and when I'm lonely that's when Satan attacks. But the feeling of loneliness has started to shift, I have been blessed with some great friends, and they know my hurts, and sat down with me late one night and let me spill my guts to them. Someone has come into my life, quite unexpectedly (and too be honest, I never thought she would) and we have spent some time together not much, but enough to say that loneliness has subsided. Praise God! My blog today is not to speak of her, (even though I feel like I could talk about her for awhile), no its to talk about how amazing God is, and the power he has to conquer sin!
For all of you who read this, I fasted for a few weeks, (I got away from it, but I plan on returning) but during this fasting stage, I asked God (a similar request of Hart's) to make me the man of God you want me to be, to fill me with your Spirit that I may be desirable to a Godly woman, the woman who you want for me! Now this is where things started to get to me, I wanted so badly to never, ever, ever date another girl from ENC, ever again! Why? Because I did not want to have to worry about physical intimacy, the issue that has gotten me in trouble in the past. Well, a girl came into my life, by surprise (not the same one mentioned above) from the past, we hung a few times, and honestly had some fun times, but as I came to realize that we could never work out! There were a variety of different reasons, but I could honestly sense God saying you didn't want a girl from ENC here you go! But this situation was God telling me yeah there may be quality girls in the world, but you need a Christian girl and do not settle for less. Then another came along, (this one really had no intentions of pursuing any further than friends, still though not the girl mentioned above). This girl was from out of state, and definitely loves God, but still there was something missing. And I have asked her if we can talk no more than friends would, and she accepted.
Now the final girl, God does work in mysterious ways, this individual and myself had lost most communication throughout the past two semesters, (until recently, obviously!) and even though we hung out during new student orientation there seemed to be something that kept us from being friends. Maybe it was God's way of telling me, "Matthew, just take it slow, you've just broken up with someone, and you need to trust in me to fill that void of hurt and loneliness. Well for that last comment, I'm sure God said it, but did I listen, nope! I tried to fill the void, and it came back to bite me in the backside a few times. But back to the story... I was walking through the Mann Center, to check mail, consequently on a Tuesday (the day before I fast, but the day I have lunch with Hart), when a voice, which I hadn't heard since late August, said "Hey Matt Flagg, you should buy a ticket to the play!" Well for those of you who know me, I typically don't go to plays, and I wasn't intending on going, but as I thought of a quick response of "When will you be here next? I don't have five dollars yet!" She came up with a question that totally caught me off guard, "Hey, how come we're not best friends?" I quickly muttered the response of "HUH!" She then reminded me, that back in August, I made a comment to her, of how we were going to be best friends, by Spring Semester! Well that was a complete fairytale, how could you be friends never mind best friends with someone you don't even talk too? The guilt trip set in and that next Thursday I purchased a ticket to go see her in the play!
not my own, but YOURS!
"BE STILL AND KNOW THAT I AM GOD" Is the response I was hoping for! This is now in God's hands, Lord if this your desire for me, to trust in you, Lord help me by talking to me with a yes or no when I humble myself in prayer tonight and for the nights to come, until her and I have time after Spring Break to talk about it, since we have no means of talking over break, Lord help me to have a clear mind, and focus my heart and mind on you this week, do not let this situation give me an ounce of trouble or doubt. You are God, and I am Not! You Got this Lord! So I will appreciate any of you who read this to throw up some prayers when you pray, and keep me in them, not that her and I become a couple, but that I may Trust God in this situation, and that I will continue to grow into a spiritually mature man, that one day the woman who God wants me to be with will come my way, and will see God in my life, and see that as my most attractive feature. God you are so Great, and I long to follow after you, and desire to grow closer. Lord I ask that you be ever present in my life this next week, that I may not succumb to the loneliness, and that you will be there when I cry out for help!
Until next time, Lord its just me and you!!!
I love you Lord!
Isn't it amazing how a name can be so powerful, especially just the first part of it? The name Jesus has an amazing power behind it, it can do one thing after another, but most importantly it can save your life. Nothing else has the power to save, like the name of Jesus! We can be broken and miserable crying our eyes out in total misery, a depressed state, an all out sucky feeling, but we can do one thing that will fix the hurt, and the pain and sadness, cry out to Jesus! Yet we take this name for granted, and we don't even mean too, has it ever occurred to you that on each and every breath we say the name of God? Or is that something else we take for granted? Do we take breathing for granted too, that we actually miss what we're actually saying? Personally I have, I have missed on God's voice, or for that matter, His name in general. Is it that we actually breathe the name of God, or that the name of God is actually the sound of breathing? Let me explain, or for that matter Rob Bell will explain. In his NOOMA video Breathe, he talks about how the word breath is the same for the word Spirit.
We cannot only breathe out the name of God, we also need to breathe in Him. When we are born what do we first do? Take a breath, or say the name of God? Or when we die, do we take a breath, or say the name of God before our eyes shut for good on earth? Think of the simplest thing our lives, breathing! We breath everyday, all day, awake and asleep, and roughly say the name of God (YEHWAH) 8640 or so times a day alone. When a person is telling you there is no God, are they actually sounding out the pronunciation of Yehwah? Listen closely to Rob Bell, when he talks about that part (it gave me goosebumps).
I want to be simplistic in my relationship with my Lord, to say nothing, to just listen to my Master's call, and focus on Him alone. In my devotional today (one of them, Max Lucado, Out Live Your Life) I learned the God does not call the qualified, that He in facts calls on the unqualified. The quote was this "God does not call the qualified, He qualifies the called. Even the Devil will try and deter us from this, saying that God only calls on the professionals, the smartest, the most qualified. Well guess what, we are, we all are! God has a mighty plan in store for all of us, whether its missions trips, going into medical missions, being a youth pastor in Texas, Massachusetts, or Virginia, or a police officer working with troubled youth, or just wanting to work with the youth. Whatever your plan is, God has called you to it. Stop ignoring it, stop trying to shape your own destiny, God has it all mapped out, just live it according to His will. How simpler could a life get just by living out an already set life, and breathing. Both ways will be serving my God and worshiping Him, some days without me even knowing what I am doing. I longer wish to take the simplest of things in life for granted, because that I am taking the name of God for granted, and all the power, and love that it bestows on me and all of you!
I have a passage of Scripture that I want to apply to this, James 4: 7-10 (The Message). "So let God work in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he'll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life.Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, real serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it's the only way you'll get on your feet."
This passage has honestly brought me to tears, every time I read it. It is my guilt scripture, when I am at my lowest points in life, I am reminded, God is there by whispering a quiet yes, or maybe even breathing out His name, J.E.S.U.S. Breathing in/out the name of God, and following an already planned out life, sounds pretty ideal to me!
Then I am consistently reminded of "Be still and know that I am God." Or the way my Pastor gave a paraphrase, which worked just as well (if not better) Shut Up, Stop your worrying, Stop not trusting me, I your God have you, I got you always!!! How reassuring is it that my God loves you so much, that He know matter your faults and failures He is always there. ALWAYS!!! We just need to be more simple, and try to be less of what we are not, extraordinary! Or for that matter be less qualified, and live to be qualified life in the Spirit, by obeying His call and plan for our lives, whether we're fishermen, youth pastors, convenient store clerks, UPS drivers, or out of work, furthering your education. We all have a calling to be something we are, instead we are trying to be more than what we actually should! Let's try to live our lives SIMPLE!
Our Father, who art in Heaven..., Now I lay me down to sleep..., Bless all who can give, and those who cannot..., etc... I am tired of scripted prayer! Prayer with my Lord, should not be something you read out of a book, or are taught as a child. Prayer should be you and God, mano a mano (man to man), where you can be open, vulnerable, real and down to earth with God! I'm not bashing scripted prayers, we were taught them as a foundation, a way to get us started off in life. It is nice to have scripture for when you feel down, or joyful, basically all the Psalm(s).
I admit I struggle praying, I struggle to willingly pray, its not the first thing I do at the beginning of the day, its not the last thing I do at the end! Its not something I do before meals, or when I say, "yeah, I'll pray for you!" Well unfortunately, I don't! I struggle with staying focused in prayer, my mind wanders like CRAZY! I start off good, and then I'll start day dreaming, losing focus, and before you know it my mind is not even focused on praying!
Its not that I do not like praying, I just forget. How can I forget to talk, daily, with my Father, the one who actually wants to hear how my days going, who wants to know what's hurting me! Well, He already knows, I think He just wants to hear us, and have a simple conversation with us! Well I want to have a conversation with Him, I just wish it doesn't always seem like a want list, or to do list for God to finish.
For me praying the way I've learned seems to be more of a task or chore rather than a desire... I guess this blog is definitely the most exciting, and definitely does not contain that much thought, but its something I struggle with, something I need accountability with. Who would of thought you would need accountability to talk more, well I sure do!
I want my life to be a prayer to you, I want to do everything that You want me to do... Lead me wherever, take me down roads I don't want to go! Well how will He tell me if I don't take time out of my day to chit chat with my Savior! I do have one scripted prayer that stood out to me tonight, during church (which was a devotional about prayer) Psalm 63, was when David was in the Desert of Judah!
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you,
my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. On my bed I remember you; I think of you through the watches of the night. Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. I cling to you; your right hand upholds me. Those who want to kill me will be destroyed; they will go down to the depths of the earth.
They will be given over to the sword and become food for jackals.
But the king will rejoice in God; all who swear by God will glory in him,
while the mouths of liars will be silenced.
I want my life to just be complete already, have my relationship with God be perfect, follow His will, trust in Him for everything! Oh, yeah and I want to marry the Love of my life, 2 dogs, have 3 kids, a white picked fence, a job I WILL enjoy, and no school loans to pay! Yet I have none of that, I am learning to be patient, I know these things will come in order! I will fall in Love first with God, He then will provide a wife, then two dogs come first for joy, then 3 children and then the white fence, the job will be enjoyed (I've always wanted to be a Father), and my loans will get paid off by the job I don't like!
It starts with me! I need to get my life straight, my priorities need to be in check! God comes FIRST and foremost!
So yesterday in my post I realized I said something that was supposed to be for today's but it fit appropriately and I just decided to leave it rather than edit it. My post today is about forgiveness, if it is so easy for God to forgive us, why is it so hard to forgive ourselves? Why is it that when we sin and ask for forgiveness, we always end up down the road reliving that same sin? Why do we beat ourselves up when God is in the process of restoration in our lives? Why can't we be more like God and forgive and forget? We have to consistently beat ourselves down, to a point of near depression or full blown for that matter! If God someone who hates sin, can forgive us of our sins, then why can't we forgive us? We know were not perfect, we know were nothing more than screw ups! So why do we continue to worry? Why can't we just surrender all to God? I know for me I've tried to kick habits, yet I am still susceptible to sin and its mind games!
I thought about this song today by Natalie Grant, called "HELD." This song no matter my mood, make me silent in the Spirit, vulnerable to the power of His Mercy, and healing!
For me its hard to show emotion, (clearly if you were here you would think I was full of it) I do not like to let emotions play with me! I like to think level headed, I don't like to let emotions influence a decision. But this song makes me realize that I just want to be Held! I don't care by whom, I want to be Held and cry, rather than hold and wipe the tears streaming down the face of a friend or family member. Whoever said its good to cry, was absolutely right! and whoever said real men do not cry, well they're missing out on some powerful stress relief.
I want to discuss some parts of the song lyrics wise, I believe this song has meaning to it, I believe Natalie wrote this for some other reason (I'm not positive for why she wrote this, but I thought it had something to do with children in the sex slave trade). "Who told us we'd be rescued? What has changed and why should we be saved from nightmares? We're asking why this happens to us? Who have died to live, its unfair!" Talk about powerful, Our God, hold us through all of this hurt, THROUGH IT ALL! Our nightmares, may all be different, some are with us daily, and know how to attack us at our weakest (hence my struggle with pornography)! Some become repressed and only resurface to really rock and test your faith! God though has the uncanny ability to know what you need, and at the last possible second. When you're at your breaking point, your wits end God is there to Hold you!
"This is what it is to be Loved and to know, that the promise was that when everything fell, WE'D BE HELD." Well that's absolutely the most reassuring and comforting chorus, of how much God Loves us! When we have fallen, cannot seem to move on, that's when God is there, coming to save the day, and you! Listening to this song, has made me feel comfort, I have cried my eyes out while writing this, and I have felt peace, a Father holding His Son! Something I have NEVER felt, EVER! My dad, is a step above dead beat when it comes to caring for his son! I can't begin to express my how much my heart aches for lack of a daddy! My dad came around the most when I had something good going for me, never for a father-son talk, those talks happened, ha ha but consisted of bashing on the BEST woman in my life, my mother! (This is not intended to bash on Bobby Flagg, but it is to show how important MY FATHER (being God) means to me!) My God is not there for the good times, He's there for the bad, the hurt, the depression, the desperation the utter chaos! He's always there, holding me close, even though sometimes I feel Him distant, He is never two steps behind. How could I turn my back on a Companion, a DAD that is always, (too bad God couldn't play catch and teach me certain life lessons that I missed out on).
God is enough for my life! He should be all I'm looking for except there happens to be a song that so clearly depicts what I'm feeling. By Your Side, Tenth Avenue North! God's basically telling me WHY Matt? Do you not trust me? Frankly Lord, its hard, but I really want too! "Why are you striving these days? Why are you trying to earn grace? Why are you crying? Let Me lift up your face, just don't turn away! Why are you looking for LOVE? Why are still searching as if I'm not enough? To where will you go child? Tell me, where will you run? To where will you run? And I'll be by your side whenever you FALL (which happens quite often) In the dead of night. Whenever you call, and please don't fight these hands that are HOLDING you, my hands are HOLDING you!".......
Like His nail pierced hands haven't already done enough, He has to Hold me too!
Well I'm gracious for the Love my Lord has shown me! Now I feel like I'm tired and I don't deserve Him, but He reminds me daily, probably every second if I listened..
BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD!!!
I still am reminded of another song! Toby Mac and Kirk Franklin, I Am God, the song is deep I am almost want to put all the lyrics up, but I will be careful in selecting the one's that speak the loudest!
"I think I'm gonna walk away, you're messing up my life today. This time I refuse to pray, STILL you keep calling me! I don't wanna see your face, the thing I love you erased, nothing but an empty space. Now I don't I know how to be, I know it wasn't right for me. What you liking, what you need, I feel like I'm in SURGERY, still you CUT DEEPER! My secrets within, my blanket of sin! Lord, How much longer 'till ya through with me, PLEASE take what you need, (CAN I GET UP NOW!)." Well how often are we fed up with God's insane plans for us? Basically every minute I question Him, (hence the reason He reminds me of BE STILL AND KNOW I AM GOD). "Lord, you was not me, everything you don't explain, somethings (most things) I don't want to change. So you keep BREAKING ME! It's like I'm fighting for my life, you hit me with another right." Well Toby Mac was lucky, cause sometimes I wish God would HIT me with a BIG ole hay maker!
But doesn't the Lord always seem to win, it's like He has a countless number of cheats and your playing for the first time (no matter how many times you've played the game). God knows your next move, before you do! Well here it is then, YOU WIN, I'm tired of trying to do it all on my own, and I need to SURRENDER my ALL to you. You know what's best for me, and I clearly DON'T!
JUST HOLD ME, please!!!
Until next time God, ITS JUST ME AND YOU!!! Love you, use me to your will!
Good Evening! I am just tired of feeling captive to an evil, the constant feel of bondage, heavy chains just weighing me down! I have been at the mercy of this suffering for far too long, and I cannot take it! Todays little ramble could have, should have been my post for Sunday, yet God works in different ways, and granted me the courage to open up to my friends and whoever else read this! Well once again I had a shower moment, with my iHome and the song that came on was "Set Me Free" by Casting Crowns. Saying this song is fabulous is an understatement, and there is one part in the song that gives me goosebumps, and allows me to be Vulnerable to the Holy Spirit! The part asks "Do You Wanna Be Free?"
Well I know I could give a simple answer... YES!
Yet the solution is so simple, as the God man passes by, He looks straight through my eyes, the darkness cannot hide! Do YOU want to be free? Lift your chains I hold the key. All power of Heaven and Earth belong to Me! Well that is simple, Jesus asks us if we want to be FREE! Well who doesn't? Well, thats that reason for today's little blog! Why is it so easy to be released from bondage, but so hard for me (us) to say; Yes! I want to be FREE! I do not know the answer to this for you all, but for me, the answer is I'm afraid to surrender, I'm in a comfort zone. Even though I'm tormented in this comfy state, I still resort back to what I know, which is unfortunately the evil that has me in chains to begin with.
The only thing that gives me hope and promise for release is the Love, Grace and Mercy of my Lord, Jesus Christ! "But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in MERCY, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions-it is by GRACEyou have been saved! Ephesians 2:4-5. Yet that is not all our Lord has to say to comfort us, in John chapter 8, Jesus, said to a woman who was engulfed in sin and was blunt with His words! "Go NOW and leave your life of Sin!" Let's just say Jesus had a remarkable way for getting straight to the point with most things, and even when He used parables, they reached those they needed too, the ignorant were left laughing, the humbled where left...well humbled!
For me I know that the darkness in my life is easy to hide in, you can become so devoured by the darkness that you do not even realize you in it! Yet be encouraged Matt, Psalm 139:11-12, (my paraphrase) God, there is no such thing as darkness in your presence, the darkest of night, becomes the brightest of day when you are near! What also is assuring (which was also in the song) was "Jesus said to them, all authority in Heaven and on Earth has been given to Me!" Matthew 28:18.
I know that God has the ability to rescue and set me FREE!!! He sets me free daily, whenever I call out to Him, He lifts the chains off and delivers me from the darkness! Yet daily I go back to the chains, I am persuaded to go back into a life of sin, because for me its a way to cope with loneliness, depression, hurt, boredom, basically anything that God has tried to relieve me of, and me resorting back to it!
Well I need to stop! I need to retire, and stay retired! No more Brett Farve "ing" life, my pastor on Sunday gave a great message, and said one thing that really stuck out and has stuck with me... "We live in a world of INCONSISTENCIES, yet we as Christians need to live a CONSISTENTlife!" Well how true is that? How many times does society fail us? and how many times does God fail us? The spectrum the quite lopsided in favor the one Who set the captives FREE! I also learned that when we fail, and ask God for forgiveness, He immediately forgives, but we tend to keep reminding ourselves of that sin! Why you ask? Because we have yet to forgive ourselves!!! You (me) have to forgive ourselves in order to be set FREE!
I know my Lord, is the same yesterday, today and forever, if He saved and rescued then He does the same today! My God has promised us many things, including that He will be with us, forever, but He encourages us by sending His Son Jesus to die for our sins, for all of our imperfections which are HIGH and MIGHTY! My God still Loves me, still cares for me enough to want me, to hold me, to break the chains of sin away! In conclusion I have three pretty powerful verses that God allowed me to find the first being Ephesians 6:10 "Finally, be STRONG in the Lord!" The next verse being Romans 6:18, is good too, "You have been set FREE from sin and have become slaves to one thing, RIGHTEOUSNESS!" Finally this verse is from John 8:36, but for all the people that remember Steven Curtis Chapman this was the bridge in one of his which I will use to concluded this blog! "So, if the Son sets you FREE, you WILL be FREE indeed!"
So with me cast down your chains, drop the bondage they have on your life, give God the chance to set you free, and keep you free! Like me do not fall back and keep needing God for bail, He will not get tired of it cause He loves us! But we need to live consistent in our world full of inconsistencies!
Love you Lord!
God's grace has broken every chain... WE'RE FREE!!!!
