Living For the First Time!

4 weeks ago today, I began a new journey with God that I wanted to share with all of you!

I was down, in pain, hardly able to move, and so depressed beyond what is normal, I just wanted to die.  There were reasons for it, but the people  that were causing me to feel that way were being controlled by the devil who would love nothing more than to keep me down and useless and unable to be used by God!  His demons were holding me back in my thought process.  The devil was keeping me captive in my fear, dread and agoraphobia to the point where I was refusing to leave my house! 

And then God stepped in!  He began to reveal Himself in a way that I've never known before.  He showed me that I had a choice to make.  I could either continue to just lay there and die, or I could get up and  do something about how I felt and move on with Him instead of this nothingness inside of me that was literally eating me alive!   God reached down, pulled me up out of my pig pen full of mud and whispered in my ear that He isn't finished with me yet and He needed me to come Home so He can accomplish what He has had planned for me all along!  Since the foundation of the World, God has had a plan for me!  (See Ephesians 1:4).

I am a New Creature in Christ Jesus!  Yeah, I know, how many times have I thought/said that, but I've never truly LIVED IT HOW HE SAID TO!  How about you?  Can you identify with that statement as a Christian?  I am a "bond servant" (See Romans 1:1), and I am called by God to live the life He would have lived!  It really isn't that hard to do for me because I have had His hand on me my whole life!  And SO HAVE YOU!  YOU JUST DON'T REALIZE IT YET!  

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.  It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears."  (See 1 Corinthians 13:4-10).

Just never give up.  Never give in, and above all check what you're hearing in your head against what God says about you in His word!  You'll be able to dispel those lies that the devil sends into your head all day long in no time!  Just have the faith of a little mustard seed and watch God grow you!  (See Luke 17:6). 

So stand strong in your faith in God for He loves you very much and so do I!  Lord, please bless those who read this, and if they don't know you Lord, help them to take a leap of faith and ask you to forgive them for their sins and to come into their heart and indwell them with your Holy Spirit so they can live life to the full!  (John 10:10).  In Jesus name, Amen!