Victory Through Christ!

I'm horrible with words and even worse at expressing myself in person.

 

God has been good. He's teaching me a lot and doing something amazing... not sure what it is exactly, all I know is that it's something. God is not an idle God. He is ALWAYS at work. I am seeking, seeking, and seeking God's approval of something before I can share, but I'm not worried about it. If He says no, then I know what my next consistent prayer will be. If He says yes... well... that would be a miracle and I would forever be thankful of that.

 

God is changing me... and I had it confirmed that He wants to change me based on what happened on Sunday...

 

I have been seeking to be changed. Not by family, not by friends (brothers or sisters), not by men, and certainly not by myself... but by God. By God alone do I want to be changed. So I've been praying, praying, praying...

Well, on Sunday I was busy. As soon as I woke up I took a shower, took Peter to the movies, then took him shopping to get some clothes. I wouldn't have thought the shopping part would be hard, but I guess I didn't realize how easily 8-year-olds get distracted by every little thing and wonder off every two minutes. After shopping I went to Jack in the Box to get Peter and Jeremiah dinner (the Jack In The Box on the same intersection corner I got in my car accident... not fun.). Anyway, long story short; I didn't want to go to church on Sunday night. Not only was I tired from lack of rest through the week and taking care of Peter all day Sunday (and every day); but driving and fighting for parking was not in my top interests that day either. I'm driving a temporary car for a little while so I'm not too comfortable with driving it yet. So if I didn't feel like going to Revival on Sunday night; who was going to hold me accountable to going anyway? So as I'm shopping for Peter, this crazy brother texts me asking if I'm going to Revival. I gave him my excuse for not wanting to go... but then he offered to help me... so I had no more excuse not to go. To sum it up: I ended up going to Revival. And the message was about God changing us. It was just what I needed to hear. Not only that, but I realized how much I needed to be reminded of how much God has ALREADY changed me, because I saw Pastor Danny and that's exactly what he did... he reminded me how much God has already done in me.

 

All this to say... God has confirmed that He wants to change me and CAN change me... because He already HAS changed me before. God is good but I'm aware it's only going to get tougher from here. The enemy has already tried tearing down what God has built up (MULTIPLE times... which overall lead to my car accident...). But at this point, it's either stand firm or don't stand at all... there is no in-between. And I figure since I've broken my leg so many times trying to stand firm, I can't just give up now. All that brokenness would be for nothing if I give up now. God is good, and God is most certainly greater than the enemy. Since we already have victory- anything the enemy tries to do between the beginning and the end is just to keep our focus off of the fact that we already won. The only things that can be taken from us are earthly things. Everything else has already been conquered by that Holy blood shed on the cross! Christ is KING and no one can overstep His authority! And we are sons and daughters of the King! No one can overstep what has been given to us through Christ! All GLORY, HONOR AND POWER IS HIS! Amen! : )