Beautifully Broken & Gracefully Redeemed

Surrender: cease resistance to an enemy or opponent and  submit to their authority I’ve been really focused on surrender lately. I have wracked my brain looking for things to get rid of. I carefully bring each one to the throne in reverence and in blind faith. I have given all I know to give. I have begged God to take these vices from me, to deliver me from the trouble I’ve gotten myself into. I have submitted myself to God’s authority, just as the definition above dictates. In worship recently, I was just praying, asking God once again to take the vice. Take addictive behaviors. Change my desires– all I want is You Lord. And in my spirit I heard him ask me, “Do you want to be made whole. Do you want to be well?”. My mind instantly went to Jesus asking the paralyzed man at the pool of Bethesda the same thing. Of course! My response was, yes Lord. Whatever it takes. I then found myself praying for healing. Not deliverance, which is what I had been seeking. It hit me, maybe my deliveranc

 I’d like to speak to the hearts of the abandoned. The ones who always end up on the hurting end of other’s “free will”. The enemy wants you to think you are alone. That there is something wrong with you in an intimate way. He wants to convince you that you are damaged and no good, and that you deserve what you’ve been given. My dear friend, the devil is a liar and the father of all lies. Do not buy into this for even a second. I have been where you are, weary one. He will implant these thoughts into your head and they will spread like wildfire. They will consume you, and attempt destroy every work the Lord has done. Do not give him that power! I know this sounds redundant, I know it sounds cliché and impossible – but stop counting your losses. Get a pen and paper if you have to and write out the victories Jesus has carried you through. Each one. From the small wins to the life altering ones, the ones you cannot deny. When abandonment cries out to you – speak against it in the name of