faithful encouragement
i am so thankful for girls in my life that so unabashedly challenge and encourage me. i am so jaded and blind sometimes and the Lord brings that person that He is directly speaking to right to me to spur me on. thank You, Lord that i am human and You perfectly orchestrate friends in my life to press me to press in to You. and GOSH, it's not always easy! thank You for speaking to my friends on my behalf. sometimes i really do want to do things my way; i want things to go the way i think they should, the way i expect them to go. but i just have to say that i am so so very thankful for those few close girls that will call me out and point my head towards the Father when i so willingly want to nurse my self-pity and look inward at my own desires.
i am reminded of something heather johnston said one of my first summers out at the ranch. so many people misinterpret psalm 37:4...it says "delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." but today we so constantly misconstrue it to say "delight yourself in your desires." we are missing the entire picture when we put our desires above His. our first priority is to delight ourselves in Him. we are to worship at His feet, not because we can get something from God, but simply because He is worthy. if the Lord never said another word to me, He would have already done more than enough.
forgive me Lord for, again, taking the reigns and getting ahead of you. my plans are surrendered to You and your ultimate plan. do with me what You will and may my heart learn more and more everyday how to lay myself bare before You. i lift my hands as an offering to You, as a surrender to Your will...
renewed...jamie
i am reminded of something heather johnston said one of my first summers out at the ranch. so many people misinterpret psalm 37:4...it says "delight yourself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." but today we so constantly misconstrue it to say "delight yourself in your desires." we are missing the entire picture when we put our desires above His. our first priority is to delight ourselves in Him. we are to worship at His feet, not because we can get something from God, but simply because He is worthy. if the Lord never said another word to me, He would have already done more than enough.
forgive me Lord for, again, taking the reigns and getting ahead of you. my plans are surrendered to You and your ultimate plan. do with me what You will and may my heart learn more and more everyday how to lay myself bare before You. i lift my hands as an offering to You, as a surrender to Your will...
renewed...jamie