Fear your not welcome here
The breakup song by Francesca Battistelli is a great anthem for those moments of fear that sneak up on us.
The reminder that we have the power to tell fear to leave.
We don’t have to let it over take us every moment of every day you have the choice to let your self be ruled by fear or to choose your feeling and refuse to let fear control you.
Listen to the song sing along a tell fear to leave.
What do you do when you feel worried and overwhelmed, like the world is spinning faster and faster?
I wonder how Mary felt when she was carrying Jesus. She had all the reason in the world to feel like she wasn’t enough or that she couldn’t do it.
But she didn’t, she surrendered her life to bear Jesus in her womb and raise him.
God has a plan for our lives, he has chosen each of us for a specific task, a calling specific to be who he made us to be.
He knit us together in our mothers womb.
He made us to bear Jesus in us, to shine his light an his love.
Stop rushing around trying to do all that the world expects and take a moment listen to this song and ask God what he has for you.
As the Christmas season begins. Remember the reason for the season. Don’t let yourself become overwhelmed with the shopping, decorating, gift giving and parties.
Instead keep your focus on Jesus, he is the reason for the season. Make him the focus of all you do.
If your shopping for gifts ask him what gift that person really needs and trust him to help you. Ask God to give you opportunities to share about him to the store clerk or the people in line with you. While decorating sing Christmas songs as worship songs.
Make him the focus this season, and ‘Adore Him’.
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The Holy Spirit is an atmosphere changer.
When we yield ourselves to his leading things change. Our perspective changes, our attitude, our mood, all change to that of God.
Yielding to the Holy Spirit is a game changer!
That simple decision in each moment of each day can change our whole day if we stop for a second and listen.
If we take that moment to make him the most important thing in the room. We can change how we speak and act to our friends, our family, our co-workers and the world around us.
Resting in the presence of God is what gives you the trust to walk on water.
How else to would you build that trust.
You wouldn’t do something deemed impossible without some sort of faith in the one who asked you. But where does that faith come from.
It comes from spending time with God, from resting in His presence, from just being content to be with Him. Because you know Him, and you know His character. You can trust Him when He asks you to take those big leaps of faith that to others seem impossible.
Listen to this song and take some time to rest in His presence, and let Him lead you to walk on water.
Everyone has a story to tell, everyone has a moment when they hit their rock bottom and cried out to God “I need you now.”
My moment was in 2008. I was in a 6 year relationship that was going nowhere, when I had a pregnancy scare. This woke me up almost out of a slumber. I realized I didn’t want this man to be the father of my kids, but I knew I wanted to raise my kids in church.
So I decided to go back to church.
I was terrified and convinced that I would be met with glaring stares and rejection but I wasn’t. Instead I was welcomed with open arms. My friends from the church I grew up in, never gave up on me, they were always there for me during the years I intentionally choose to ignore God. But when I choose to come back to church they welcomed me back with open arms and no judgement.
That is how God is, when we choose to say “I need you now” He leaps for joy and runs to embrace us. He throws a party in heaven rejoicing over His child returning home.
Who or what do you turn to when you hit your rock bottom?
Why not, give God a chance to show you how much He loves you.
It’s easy to get bogged down by the responsibilities of life and to feel sad, anxious, worried overwhelmed by the pressures of the holidays or just by the state of the wold.
You can look at the media and think what is there to be thankful for or to rejoice over.
But our joy doesn’t come from the world it comes from Jesus.
Joy by For King and Country reminds us that we can CHOOSE JOY!
Joy because Jesus came to give us a better life that doesn’t always mean our circumstances change, sometime it just means he can be or joy in the storm.
So CHOOSE JOY!
The trust that Mary had in God to say ‘let it be done to me as you have said’ to agree to carry and raise the son of God. The faith that took is inspiring.
So why don’t we trust God when he asks us to do something for him? Do we think that he’s going to hurt us or harm us?
God loves us and knows what’s best for us.
Trust him to guide your every step and take a leap of faith like Mary did. You never know what might happen.
Today I encouraged you to sing a song of thanks to God with your family for Thanksgiving.
Here are a few suggestions
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!
From ours,
Ryan & Rebecca Darga
Thanksgiving is tomorrow!
One of my favorite days of the year.
I love gathering with family and helping prepare a huge meal for us all.
A thought, is to go into this season with thanksgiving to God for the family and friends he’s given you.
Don’t shy away from talking about him tomorrow, in fact I highly encourage trying to make him the focus of your thanksgiving. Maybe even take time out to sing a song of worship to him.
A family I hold dear to sings “O’Come let us adore him” before family meals.
It sounds weird but it brings so much joy and peace into the atmosphere of the room.
Try something different this year, be bold for Jesus and make him the center of the day of thanksgiving.
Here’s a song to start off
The deep intimacy you experience when surrounded by God’s presence can only be called holy. Holy by Jesus Culture perfectly describes how his presence can engulf us, how intoxicating it can be, to the point of never wanting to leave it.
I call it the ‘jello effect’
When his presence is so thick in the room you feel as if you suspended in jello.
Don’t you want to experience that? Don’t you want to know and be with a God that can melt all your cares away, who can give you such peace and joy that it feels as if it will never end.
That’s the God that I worship.
Yes, he is Holy!
And he invites us into his presence, to the place where our whole world changes because he is Holy.
All you have to do is open the door and let him into your life, and believe in Him.
Take a moment to listen to this song and open yourself up to God, take down all the barriers and just focus on him.
