Broken Things.....

Here at the altar of the broken things
I'm finally throwing down this mirror of me
When I've done all I can do...
And there's nothing left to prove
and I just need you

I'm totally, completely dependent upon you.

Here at the place of empty vessels
I'm pouring out this heart of selfish ambition
When there's no more options left
And I'm nothing but a mess
Well that's when you're best

I'm totally, completely dependent upon you.

When there's no words left to say
And there's nothing left to pray
I'll just wait...

I wait on you Lord...
Cause your totally, completely faithful to me..
Your totally, completely faithful to me..


"1. O Lord, You have searched me and known me.
2. You know my sitting down and my rising up;
You understand my thought afar off.
3. You comprehend my path and my lying down,
And are acquainted with all my ways.
4.For there is not a word on my tongue,
But behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
5. You have hedged me behind and before,
And laid Your hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
It is high, I cannot attain it.
7. Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence?
8. If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
9. If I take the wings of the morning,
And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
10. Even there Your hand shall lead me,
And Your right hand shall hold me.
11. If I say, “Surely the darkness shall fall[ on me,”
Even the night shall be light about me;
12. Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
But the night shines as the day;
The darkness and the light are both alive to You.
13. For You formed my inward parts;
You covered me in my mother’s womb.
14. I will praise You,
for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.
15. My frame was not hidden from You,
When I was made in secret,
And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
16. Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
And in Your book they all were written,
The days fashioned for me,
When as yet there were none of them.
17. How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
How great is the sum of them!
18. If I should count them,
they would be more in number than the sand;
When I awake, I am still with You.
19. Oh, that You would slay the wicked,
O God! Depart from me,
therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
20. For they speak against You wickedly;
Your enemies take Your name in vain.
21. Do I not hate them,
O Lord, who hate You?
And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
22. I hate them with perfect hatred; I count them my enemies.
23. Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties;
24. And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting." (Psalm 139)

The Gospel in a Nut Shell.....

       ......Learning to See the Glories of Gods Love.


"The more I embrace and experience the gospel,
the more I delight in the worship of God,
the more expressive my joy in Him becomes,
and the more I yearn to glorify Him in all I say and do."
-Milton Vincent



We need the gospel every day!!! To keep us from falling into a performance relationship with God. There is a little book called "The gospel Primer" that has not only helped me to know the gospel, but also to love the gospel and see how it applies to every area of my life. I try to read it often, every morning (if I remember) thereby preaching the gospel to myself on a daily basis. I would like to share with you, a little bit of this "Gospel in-a-nut-shell"


"My God is immense beyond imagination. He measured the entire Universe with merely the span of His hand. (Isaiah 40:12)
He is unimaginably awesome on all of His perfections, absolutely righteous, holy, and just in all of his ways! (Deuteronomy 31:3-4)
He has also been unbelievably good and merciful to me as the creator and sustainer of my life. Every breath, every heartbeat, every function of every organ in my body is a gift from Him. Every legitimate pleasure I experience is a gift from His loving hand to me. (1 Tim. 6:17. Acts 14:1)
Yet I could not have failed this great God more miserably than I have. (Romans 1. Romans 3:23)
Instead of giving thanks to Him and humbly submitting to His rule over my life, I have rebelled against Him and have actually sought to exalt myself above Him.
Going my own way and living according to my own wisdom, I have broken countless times either the letter or spirit of every one of Gods Ten commandments. (Exodus 20. Coloss. 3:5. Matt. 5. 1 John 3:15)
Thinking myself to be wise, I have shown myself to be a fool; and because of my arrogance, God has every right to damn me to the everlasting experience of His terrifying wrath in the Lake of Fire. (Rom. 6:23. Rev. 21:8. Eph. 2:3)
However, what I could not do, God did -- and in doing it, He did it ALL, sending His own Son into the world to die on the cross for my sins, thereby showing me unfathomable love. (Romans 5.)
God loves me SO MUCH that He was willing to suffer the loss of His Son, and even more amazing, He was willing to allow His Son to suffer the loss of Him at the cross. (John 3:16. Rom. 8:32. Mark 15:34)
Jesus loved me so much that He was willing to lay down His life for me. No one could EVER love me more or better than Jesus. (John 15: 12-14)
In saving me, God has also freed me from slavery to any and all sins. (Romans 6 ;6,7,14)
When I sin, God feels no wrath in his heart against me. (1 Thessalonians 5:9,10) (1 John 2:2)
His heart is filled with nothing but love for me, and He longs for me to repent and confess my sins to Him, so that He might show me the gracious and forgiving love that has been in His heart all along. (1 John 1:9)
God does not require my confession before He desires to forgive me. (Luke 15:20-24)
In His heart He already has forgiven me; and when I come to Him to confess my sins to Him, He runs to me and is repeatedly embracing and dissing me even before I get the words of confession out of my mouth! ((Luke 15:20-24)
I don't deserve any of this, even on my best day; but this is my salvation, and herein I stand. THANK YOU JESUS!"
I can not stress how important it is for us as Christians to be in the gospel every day, transforming and renewing our minds, being encouraged and growing, and learning to understand the truth of the gospel.

CJ Mahaney said,
"If there is anything we should be passionate about,
it is the gospel...
passionate about thinking on it,
dwelling on it,
rejoicing in it,
allowing it to color the way we look at the world."

In Gods Hands and Trusting His Plans...

Why is trusting God so difficult?


The Bible says this about trusting God, "Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding" (Proverbs 3:5) it also tells us that "He who trusts in himself is a fool. . ." (Proverbs 28:26). Yet, most of us have difficulty trusting God at least at one point or another in our walk with Him.


I know there are many reasons why trusting God is so difficult. Gods ways don’t always make sense to us! For instance….God told Noah to build an ark. There may have never been rain there before, there my not have even been any great body of water any where near by! It probably didn't make sense to Noah at that time. We tend to want life to make sense, and we want it set on our own terms and timetables.


God works in his own time, and his time might not make sense in our minds, but......God promised Abraham a son through Him and his wife Sarah’s own body’s. However, it was a long wait! A lot of years pased before Gods promise was fulfilled! In the meantime Abraham and Sarah lost there trust in Him and tried various ways to make this promise come true. “ We want what we want, and we want it …..NOW!” it is really hard to trust in a plan that requires us to surrender all control of time and completion.


In order to trust God we must totally surrender our will, our ideas, our desires, and our future into “Gods hands.” Many of us are “control freaks!” I know I am! We want to be” in the drivers seat” and leave God in to ride in the Passengers seat. We don’t want to let God take the wheel.

“If you don't believe that God loves you fully and really does have your best interests at heart and desires the very best for you, than trusting Him is going to be extremely difficult! It takes a very special relationship to allow that measure of surrender. Most of us have a tendency to claim trust in God. However, at the first sign of any difficulty or trial, we think that God must not love us because He is allowing this difficulty to happen. The trial is exactly what God is using to test the level of trust that we have in Him.” - unknown


In spit of the trials, we always have Gods promises that the trials and tests that we go through in life are only for our good in (Romans 8:28, Hebrews 12:2, 2 Corinthians 4:17, and James 1:2).“We learn that it is through trust that our relationship with God strengthens and our love for Him grows.” - unknown


All of the other things in which we place our trust can fail. God never fails! In the words of King David, ". . .Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, MY God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. . ." (1 Chronicles 28:20).


Blessings <3

You're beautiful....

I see Your face in every sunrise

The colors of the morning are inside Your eyes

The world awakens in the light of the day

I look up to the sky and say 

You’re beautiful

I see Your power in the moonlit night

Where planets are in motion and galaxies are bright

We are amazed in the light of the stars

It’s all proclaiming who You are

You’re beautiful, You're beautiful

I see you there hanging on a tree

You bled and then you died and then you rose again for me

Now you are sitting on Your heavenly throne

Soon we will be coming home

You’re beautiful, you're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity’s shore

Where death is just a memory and tears are no more

We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring 

Your bride will come together and we’ll sing

You’re beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

When we arrive at eternity’s shore

Where death is just a memory and tears are no more

We’ll enter in as the wedding bells ring 

Your bride will come together and we’ll sing

You’re beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

                                

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, You're beautiful, You're beautiful, You're beautiful

I see Your face, I see Your face

I see Your face, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful, You’re beautiful

Cultivating Desire....

On my recent adventure to visit my sisters, I was given many great opportunities to have deep and meaningful conversations with my brother-in-law, Scott. On one occasion we disused cultivating desire.....and even just talking about it for a short time got the wheels in my head turning, and I've been thinking about it a lot over the past 2 weeks.
In order to attract something into our lives, we first need to have a deep desire for it.

Desire is a mental state that we need to cultivate.

The things that we desire most are what consumes our lives...

whatever we most desire become's a priority...

..its something we make time for no matter what!


This thought brought me to examine my life. And I found a lot of things that I really struggle to making time for that SHOULD be at the top of my list! Reading, and spending time in the bible falls into that category, which means that my desire to read the bible must be really low, or, there are other things that I have a higher desire to do than read my bible.


I really do want to be in Gods word every day. But just wanting it, doesn't seem to get me anywhere! I need to cultivate that "want" into an absolute desire!

Something else that can be done, is to check your priorities! Are there some "not so important" things in your life that tend to take over? Are there things that easily help you wast time that you could be using to do things like, read your bible?! I know there are things in my life that I have allowed to become a huge distraction to my spiritual life.

How do you get rid of unhealthy desires? And how do you re-kindle, and build up right desires?

I know that I don't have the best answers for these questions, but I do have some suggestions...


Give it to God first of all. He wants us to be dependent on Him! And in truth we can do very little good on our own! So ask Him for wisdom, and guidance, and perseverance.


I think that just being aware of the unhealthy desires in your life is a huge step in the right direction as well. I don't think that you can totally rid yourself of unhealthy desires, their always going to be there because we are sinful people! But you can definitely lessen those desires, and slowly weed them out and replace them with new desires! You should also avoiding places or things that trigger the unhealthy desire.

And when It comes to cultivating right desires, the most important thing you can do is spend time in prayer! Ask God to help you! Again, He wants us to be dependent on Him.


If the thing you are struggling with is reading the bible on a daily basis (like me) and just spending time learning it.....something that you can do is....just DO IT....don't procrastinate! Make a habit about of it. Maybe even get an accountability partner, someone who will encourage you and check up on you.


Those are just the my thoughts on the subject. And hope they all made sense, and were helpful to you!

Love and blessings <3

He is Good....so good

But I trust in your  Unfailing  love.
I will  Rejoice  because you have rescued me.
I will sing to the Lord because  He is good  to me!

                                                                                                                       -Psalm 13:5-6

^Yours Truly