My First Blog, Post 1#

           I wrestled with whether or not to create a blog for quite a few months now, feeling like I should have some sort of focus for a blog, some reason to make one, and I couldn't find one. However, I have now, and so I have begun, this blog I dedicate to the LORD. In it, I will post the things that He is placing on my heart and revealing to me, the things He teaches me. Each week it seems, there is something new I am faced with, and God constantly is revealing Himself and His truth, if we simply seek Him and look for His hand in our life. All my life I have struggled and wrestled with doubts about my faith, but I have finally come to the point where God has shown me that doubts, questions, fears, they will always come, but that He will always be there, and that in the midst of turmoil and uncertainty, I can trust Him, and I can stand on His truth, and know that even though I may not know the answer to the question, my faith is strong enough to withstand the winds of Satan. I do not say that lightly, for on my own, my faith is feeble, and I know there will yet be days where I feel as though my foundation is shaken, however, God is the provider of faith, and He will hold me tight, no matter what lies ahead. I find peace in that truth, and I find hope, that I don't have to fear the future.

           A while back, last year I think it was, I was going through a really hard time in my walk with Christ, I was filled with uncertainty, doubt, and fear, overwhelming fear, I was scared of the questions Satan threw at me, scared I didn't have the answer, and scared my faith wouldn't survive. During that time, a woman from my church spoke to me words that I have held close since that day. She told me that I didn't have to be afraid to question God, that I didn't have to fear questions and doubts, but that when they come, to pray that God would reveal Himself to me. She encouraged me that He is faithful to do just that if we ask. I have clung to those words and their truth so many days since then. I have learned that there are time when all we can do is cling to God and His truth, when we feel our world is upside down and there is no ground beneath us. And I have seen God's faithfulness in my life, that when I seek and pursue Him, and ask that He would reveal Himself, He does just that.

          I don't know that anything I post on this blog will really interest anyone besides me, perhaps I just enjoy hearing myself talk/think, but there are things God has blown me away with in the last year, truth and revelations that have changed my life, and I want to share them, I want people to know that God wants to be a part of your life every day, and that despite what we may think sometimes, He can and DOES change us when we are willing and surrendered to Him. But you have to take that first step, to trust Him and to lay your life at His feet, because God will not force you to follow Him, its a choice you have to make, but the glorious beauty of Him is that when you make that choice, He works in a supernatural way in your life and changes areas of your heart you thought were beyond hope, and He gives you victory you never thought imaginable. 

Glory and Praise be to the LORD, for His name is Great and Mighty and Awesome and Righteous and Pure; He is Holy.

"Only God is Good. God is Only Good."

"God has a part. You have a part. He won't do yours. And you can't do His."

"Worship in the Spirit of Holiness."

"God's Will lies in Surrender."