Life Wide Open by David Jeremiah uses a great line, " We are passion-impaired, though we have surpluses of longing, yearning, hopelessness, loneliness, and purposelessness. We can remember the times when our blood was really pumping, when our heart was skipping beats, and when it seemed there was some purpose we were reaching toward with everything in us."

In the words of Colton Dixon, I believe we are "limitless'. God wants so much more for us, than what we allow ourselves to reach for, to grab hold of, to run at with all our passion. Fear and timidity hold us back and keep us in chains we were never meant to carry. Instead, we should be running free as fast as we can towards the goal set before each one of us...for the purpose He has planned specifically and uniquely for us all.  I believe we were meant for more, more than just surviving. We were meant to soar. May we drop the chains that hold us to the ground and learn to fly!

Colton Dixon - Limitless (Lyric Video)

The Battle is His

You know life is not always easy. Sometimes it is not anything big either that gets you off track. Sometimes you get down and depressed and you begin to focus on all that life is not, instead of all it is. You wonder where God has gone and why He does not seem to be answering your prayers.

A group of friends and I have begun reading the book, "Life Wide Open" by David Jeremiah. It speaks of living this Christian life with abandon; the act of finding what your passion is and going for it with all your heart and soul.

I was reminded today that in this battle of life, it is not my strength that it will be won. It is in His strength that I will be able to accomplish all He has for me and to live out that passionate, victorious life that He has called me to.

I believe the Lord led me to Judges chapter 6 today to remind me that He is in the fight right beside me and that His strength is all I will ever need.

An angel of the Lord was reminding Gideon that the Lord was with him. 

His reply was "But, sir" Gideon replied, "If the Lord is with us, why has all of this happened to us.? Where are all His wonders that our fathers told us about when they said, "Did not the Lord bring us up out of Egypt?' But now the Lord has abandoned us and put us into the hand of Midas."

The Lord turned to him and said, "Go in the strength you have and save Israel out of Midian's hand. Am I not sending you?"

"But Lord, " Gideon asked, "how can I save Israel? My clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my family."

The Lord answered, "I will be with you, and you will strike down all the Midianites together."

We are not in this fight alone. The pressures I feel from a difficult life right now are far less than what the Lord has already seen me through and delivered me from. 

Love & The Outcome - "He Is With Us" (Official Audio)

He is with us, always!

I was reminded of this yesterday:

                                    Christ has no body on earth but yours,
                                                       no hands but yours
                                                       no feet but yours
                                           You are the eyes through which
                                   Christ's compassion for the world is to look out,
                          yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good 
                           and yours are the hands with which He is to bless us now.
                                                               Saint Theresa of Avila



                                                   Preach the gospel always
                                                  When necessary use words
                                                             Saint Francis of Assisi


There is a hole in the gospel I have been living. I read yesterday in the book, The Hole in Our Gospel, a very convicting thought. He said, " Each one of us might as well take our Bibles, a pair of scissors, and begin cutting out all the scripture we pay no attention to, all the biblical texts we just ignore"(Stearns, 2009, p. 24).

"The question for you and for me is this: will Christ find evidence of our genuine concern for his beloved poor when He looks at the fruit of our lives on that day?"(p. 60)

It is so easy to get caught up in our lives and just keep rolling on, but God beckons up to stop and see the world with his eyes, to hear the cries of his children, and have it penetrate our hearts- so much so that we cannot go on with our lives as before.